February 1968 calendar

Events

• 01 Feb 1968 Famous photo: Saigon police chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan executes a Viet Cong officer with a pistol shot to the head.
• 02 Feb 1968 Springer Publishers in West Berlin bombed.
• 04 Feb 1968 Golden Rainbow opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 355 performances
• 05 Feb 1968 KDTV TV channel 39 in Dallas-Fort Worth, TX (IND) begins broadcasting
• 06 Feb 1968 KESD TV channel 8 in Brookings, SD (PBS) begins broadcasting
• 07 Feb 1968 WLED TV channel 49 in Littleton, NH (PBS) begins broadcasting
• 08 Feb 1968 Officers kill three students demonstrating in South Carolina State (Orangeburg).
• 09 Feb 1968 Rotterdam metro is opened by Princess Beatrix.
• 10 Feb 1968 Spooky by Classics IV hits #3
• 11 Feb 1968 Jeffrey Kramer survives 76-metre jump off Washington Bridge into Hudson River, New York.
• 12 Feb 1968 Phong Nhi and Phong Nhat massacre.
• 13 Feb 1968 US sends 10,500 additional soldiers to Vietnam.
• 14 Feb 1968 WHKY TV channel 14 in Hickory, NC (IND) begins broadcasting
• 15 Feb 1968 WVUT TV channel 22 in Vincennes, IN (PBS) begins broadcasting
• 16 Feb 1968 America's first 9-1-1 phone system goes into service in Haleyville, Alabama.
• 17 Feb 1968 In Springfield, Massachusetts, the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame opens.
• 18 Feb 1968 10th Winter Olympic games close at Grenoble, France
• 19 Feb 1968 First US teachers strike (Florida).
• 20 Feb 1968 State troopers used tear gas to stop demonstration at Alcorn A&M
• 21 Feb 1968 150,000 demonstrate against leftist students in West Berlin.
• 22 Feb 1968 Rock group Genesis release their first record "The Silent Sun".
• 23 Feb 1968 Wilt Chamberlain becomes first NBA player to score 25,000 points.
• 24 Feb 1968 Darling of the Day closes at George Abbott NYC after 31 performances
• 25 Feb 1968 430 Unification Church couples wed in Korea.
• 26 Feb 1968 Clandestine Radio Voice of Iraqi People (Communist) final transmission.
• 27 Feb 1968 Ex-Teenagers singer Frankie Lymon is found dead from a heroin overdose in Harlem.
• 28 Feb 1968 Pirate Radio Hauraki, off New Zealand, returns to the air
• 29 Feb 1968 1st pulsar announced

Famous Birthday

• Axelle Red

  Belgian singer and songwriter, daughter of solicitor Roland Demal.

• Lisa Marie Presley
• Sandrine Kiberlain

  French actress-singer, daughter of an accountant, her four grandparents were Polish Jews.

• Alejandra Guzman

  Mexican singer.

• Daphné Roulier

  French journalist and television and radio presenter.

• Molly Ringwald

  American actress and singer.

• Laure Guibert
• Josh Brolin

  American actor and noted family member, he is the dark and handsome son of actor James Brolin and former casting agent Jane Agee.

• Carole Gaessler

  French television journalist.

• Kelly Hu

  American actress.

• Gary Coleman

  American actor (d. 2010).

• Jeri Ryan

  American actress.

• Christopher McCandless

  American nomad, subject of biography Into the Wild (d. 1992).

• Cheb Hasni

  Algerian singer, murdered at 26.

• Céline Géraud

  French judo champion who became a TV host.

• Katica Illényi
• Bari (Italy)
• Chynna Phillips

  American singer and noted family, the daughter of John and Michelle Phillips of "The Mamas and the Papas.

• Vlade Divac

  Serbian-American basketball player: center, Hornets.

• Mitch Hedberg

  American comedian (Born 1968).

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Famous Deaths

• Neal Cassady

  American writer with a staccato style, a beatnik and forerunner of the hippie movement.

• Donald Wolfit

  British distinguished thespian and manager who, having brought Shakespeare to the provinces, gave both enjoyable and hammy performances in...

• Frankie Lymon

  American singer (Born 1942).

• Peter Arno

  American cartoonist (Born 1904).

• Anthony Asquith

  British director (Carrington V C (Court martial)).

• Luckey Roberts

  Composer, dies at 80.

• C Montague Shaw

  Actor (Buck Rogers, Planet Outlaws), dies at 85.

• Omer CFL Tulippe

  Belgian geographer, dies at 71.

• Eric Feldary

  Actor (16 Fathoms Deep), dies of burns at 55.

• Johannes Tralow

  Writer, dies at 85.

• Ludvik Podest

  Composer, dies at 46.

• Juanita Hall

  Actress (Captain Billy), dies at 66.

• Barbara Everest

  Actress (Inquest, Madeleine), dies at 77.

• Howard Walter Florey

  Australian-born pharmacologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (Born 1898).

• Lawson Little

  amateur golfer (US/British Opens 1934, 1935), dies at age 57.

• Gerard den Brabander [Jan G Jofriet]

  poet (Nothing New), dies at age 67.

• Stuart Foster

  singer (Galen Drake Show), dies at age 49.

• J Borremans

  Belgian politician (Communist), dies at age 56.

• Frederik M baron van Asbeck

  lawyer (League of Nations), dies at age 78.

• Pitirim A Sorokin

  Russian/US sociologist, dies at age 79.

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. The Lemon Pipers - Green Tambourine
2. Paul Mauriat and His Orchestra - Love Is Blue (L'Amour Est Bleu)
3. John Fred & His Playboy Band - Judy In Disguise (With Glasses)
4. Dionne Warwick - (Theme From) Valley Of The Dolls
5. Aretha Franklin - Chain Of Fools

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Manfred Mann - The Mighty Quinn
2. Esther & Abi Ofarim - Cinderella Rockefella
3. Love Affair - Everlasting Love
4. Dave Dee Dozy Beaky Mick & Tich - Legend Of Xanadu
5. Amen Corner - Bend Me Shape Me