December 1968 calendar

Events

• 01 Dec 1968 Promises Promises opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 1281 performances
• 02 Dec 1968 US President Richard Nixon names Henry Kissinger security advisor.
• 03 Dec 1968 The '68 Comeback Special marks the concert return of Elvis Presley.
• 06 Dec 1968 WKID (WSCV) TV channel 51 in Ft Lauderdale, Florida (IND) 1st broadcast
• 07 Dec 1968 M Dodd returns a library books his Great grandfather took out in 1923
• 09 Dec 1968 KRNE TV channel 12 in Merriman, NB (PBS) begins broadcasting
• 10 Dec 1968 Joe Frazier beats Oscar Bonavena in 15 rounds for heavyweight boxing title.
• 11 Dec 1968 KECC (now KECY) TV channel 9 in El Centro, CA (CBS) 1st broadcast
• 12 Dec 1968 Arthur Ashe becomes 1st black to be ranked #1 in tennis
• 13 Dec 1968 Playland at Beach reopens
• 16 Dec 1968 KFIZ TV channel 34 in Fond du Lac, WI begins broadcasting
• 19 Dec 1968 WCWB (now WMGT) TV channel 41 in Macon, Georgia (NBC) begins broadcasting
• 20 Dec 1968 The Zodiac Killer kills Betty Lou Jenson and David Faraday in Vallejo, California.
• 21 Dec 1968 Apollo 8 (Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders) is launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the first manned Moon voyage.
• 22 Dec 1968 Julie Nixon weds Dwight David Eisenhower
• 23 Dec 1968 Borman, Lovell and Anders become 1st men to orbit Moon
• 24 Dec 1968 Apollo 8 Astronauts read passages from Book of Genesis
• 25 Dec 1968 Apollo program: Apollo 8 performs the very first successful Trans Earth Injection (TEI) maneouver, sending the crew and spacecraft on a trajectory back to Earth from Lunar orbit.
• 26 Dec 1968 Jay Allens Forty Carats, premieres in New York City
• 27 Dec 1968 Apollo 8 returns to Earth.
• 28 Dec 1968 KVOF (KUDO, now KWBB) TV channel 38 in SF, CA (IND) 1st broadcast
• 29 Dec 1968 New York Jets beat Oakland Raiders 27-23 in AFL championship game.
• 31 Dec 1968 1st test flight of Tupolev TU 144

Famous Birthday

• Helena Christensen

  Danish Model, Miss Denmark 1986 , who was featured in Chris Isaac's video 'Wicked Game'.

• Lucy Liu

  American actress.

• Brendan Fraser

  Canadian-American actor who, although he easily shifts between the genres of comedy, drama and adventure, is best known for his comedic...

• Doyle Bramhall II

  American guitarist.

• Alejandro Sanz

  World Music Singer.

• Fabrizio Ravanelli

  Italian footballer and manager.

• Casper van Dien
• Lauralee Bell

  American actress, the daughter of TV producer Bill Bell who created and produced "The Young and the Restless" with his wife.

• Philippe Katerine

  French singer, who began his career in 1991.

• Margaret Cho

  American comedienne of Korean descent, she grew up in San Francisco.

• Luciano Szafir

  Brazilian representative of Fossil Watches and a minor actor.

• Arnelle Simpson

  American noted family, the daughter of O.J.

• Kurt Angle

  Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania -- 220 lbs freestyle wrestler (1996 Olympics - Gold Medalist).

• Jamie Hince

  Musician.

• Carlo Jr Ponti
• Dina Meyer

  American actress.

• Holly Witt
• Isabelle Charles
• Yannick Alléno

  French chef, who has been awarded three Michelin stars since 2007.

• Rachel Griffiths

  Australian actress director and screenwriter.

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Famous Deaths

• John Steinbeck

  American famed writer of best-selling novels that were made into films.

• Thomas Merton

  French-American writer, poet, monk, mystic and social critic who inspired and touched many 20th century minds and hearts.

• Tallulah Bankhead

  American actress on stage and film who was celebrated from the '20s for her electric and throaty performances, as well as a lusty life-style...

• Dario Moreno

  Turkish-Jewish singer and songwriter (d. 1968).

• George Louis Francis Lewis

  Composer, dies at 16.

• Sabin V Dragoi

  Composer, dies at 74.

• Louise Granville

  Entertainer, dies of influenza at 73.

• Adamson-Eric (Eric Adamson)

  Estonian painter (Born 1902).

• Nadine Riga

  dies of cerebral hemorrhage at age 59.

• Carl Oscar Ahues

  German International Chess Master (1950), dies at age 85.

• Nicolae Bretan

  Transylvania-born Romanian opera singer (Born 1887).

• George Forrest

  Northern Irish politician (Born 1921).

• Richard Sagrits

  Estonian painter (Born1910).

• General Muhammad Suheimat

  Jordanian military commander and statesman (Born1916).

• Hugo Haas

  Actor / director (Bait, Pick Up), dies of asthma at 66.

• Austin Farrer

  English theologian and philosopher (Born 1904).

• Karl Barth

  Swiss theologian, the assistant pastor in Geneva in 1909.

• Trygve Lie

  Norwegian lawyer and government official.

• Futabayama Sadaji

  Japanese sumo wrestler, the 35th Yokozuna (Born 1912).

• Fred Clark

  Actor (Zotz, Auntie Mame), dies of liver ailment at 54.

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Diana Ross and the Supremes - Love Child
2. Marvin Gaye - I Heard It Through The Grapevine
3. The Beatles - Hey Jude
4. Stevie Wonder - For Once In My Life
5. Steppenwolf - Magic Carpet Ride

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. The Scaffold - Lily The Pink
2. Nina Simone - Ain't Got No / I Got Life / Do What You Gotta Do
3. Hugo Montenegro - The Good, The Bad And The Ugly
4. The Foundations - Build Me Up Buttercup
5. Des O'Connor - 1-2-3 O'Leary