March 1968 calendar

Events

• 01 Mar 1968 Pirate Radio Atlantis South (England) begins test transmitting
• 02 Mar 1968 Ice Dance Championship at Geneva won by Towler and Ford
• 03 Mar 1968 Jean Beliveau (Montreal Canadiens) becomes second NHL player to score 1,000 points.
• 04 Mar 1968 Orbiting Geophysical Observatory 5 launched
• 05 Mar 1968 US launches Solar Explorer 2 to study the Sun.
• 06 Mar 1968 The first of the East L.A. Walkouts take place at several high schools.
• 07 Mar 1968 Vietnam War: The United States and South Vietnamese military begin Operation Truong Cong Dinh to root out Viet Cong forces from the area surrounding My Tho.
• 08 Mar 1968 Fillmore East opens
• 09 Mar 1968 10th Grammy Awards: "Up Up and Away", Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band win.
• 10 Mar 1968 Ferry boat sinks in harbor of Wellington, New Zealand (200 killed).
• 11 Mar 1968 Anti-Zionist Clandestine Radio Voice of El Assifa starts transmitting
• 12 Mar 1968 Mauritius gains independence from Britain
• 13 Mar 1968 Beatles release Lady Madonna in the UK
• 14 Mar 1968 CBS TV suspends Radio Free Europe free advertising because RFE doesn't make it clear it is sponsored by the US Central Intelligence Agency.
• 15 Mar 1968 LIFE Magazine calls Jimi Hendrix most spectacular guitarist in the world
• 16 Mar 1968 My Lai massacre occurs (Vietnam War); 450 die
• 17 Mar 1968 Two-tiered gold price negotiated in Washington DC by US and six European nations.
• 18 Mar 1968 Congress repeals requirement for a gold reserve
• 19 Mar 1968 Howard University students seize administration building.
• 20 Mar 1968 Military intervenes in South-Yemen (leftist ministers resign).
• 21 Mar 1968 Israeli forces cross Jordan River to attack Palestinian Liberation Organization bases.
• 22 Mar 1968 Lynda Johnson ordered off SF cable car for eating an ice cream cone
• 23 Mar 1968 Reverend Walter Fauntroy is first non-voting congressional delegate from Washington DC.
• 24 Mar 1968 Mickey Wright wins Port Malabar Golf Invitational.
• 25 Mar 1968 KLVX TV channel 10 in Las Vegas, NV (PBS) begins broadcasting
• 26 Mar 1968 Joan Baez marries activist David Harris in New York.
• 27 Mar 1968 Japanese Trade and Cultural Center (Japan Center) dedicated in San Francisco
• 28 Mar 1968 Brazilian high school student Edson Luis de Lima Souto is shot by the police in a protest for cheaper meals at a restaurant for low-income students. The aftermath of his death is one of the first major events against the military dictatorship.
• 29 Mar 1968 Students seize building at Bowie State College.
• 30 Mar 1968 General Ludvik Svoboda elected President of Czechoslovakia.
• 31 Mar 1968 LBJ announces he will not seek re-election

Famous Birthday

• Céline Dion
• Lucy Lawless

  New Zealand actress, singer and activist, the star of a TV series, "Xena: Warrior Princess," in which she plays a beautiful and gloriously...

• Daniel Craig

  English actor.

• Damon Albarn

  English musician, singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and record producer.

• Kenny Chesney

  American singer and musician, country and western style, married to Renee Zellweger on May 9, 2005, but the much-publicized merger ended in...

• Pierre Palmade

  French humorist, actor, and comedian, known for playing unpleasant characters in his sketches.

• Aaron Eckhart

  Movie Actor.

• Yann Moix

  French writer and film director born in a Jewish family (Moix comes from "Moïse").

• Patsy Kensit

  English actress.

• Marine Delterme

  French actress, painter and sculptor.

• Sabrina Salerno

  Italian singer actress and producer.

• Christophe Pinna

  French athlete, seven times the French Karate Champion, five times European Champion and winner of the World Cup and World Championship in...

• Mikaël Ollivier
• Brian Cox (physicist)
• Moira Kelly

  American actress.

• James Iha

  American guitarist songwriter and producer (The Smashing Pumpkins A Perfect Circle Whiskeytown and Tinted Windows).

• Mark McGrath

  American singer-songwriter and television host (Sugar Ray and The Wondergirls).

• Megan Follows

  Actress (Chase, Anne of Green Gables).

• Tyrone Hill

  American basketball player in the forward position with the Bucks.

• Jean-Vincent Placé
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Famous Deaths

• Yuri Gagarin

  Russian cosmonaut, the first man in space 04/12/1961 when he orbited the earth in Vostok spaceship.

• June Collyer

  Actress (June-Stu Erwin Show), dies at 60.

• Isa Krejci

  Composer, dies at 63.

• Yuri Aleksayevich Gagarin

  USSR Cosmonaut (Vostok I), dies at 31.

• Howard Petrie

  Actor (Border River, Bounty Hunter), dies at 61.

• Alexandre Cellier

  Composer, dies at 84.

• Douglas Evans

  actor (South Pacific Trail), dies in Hollywood.

• Manuel Gomez Carillo

  Composer, dies at 85.

• Joseph Martin Jr

  Speaker of the House, dies at age 83.

• Lauwrens Voorthuyzen

  Dutch sect leader, dies at age 70.

• Gunnar Ekelof

  Swedish poet and writer (Born 1907).

• Alice Guy-Blache

  American film director (Born 1873).

• Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

  Italian-American musician, a composer and teacher.

• Grover Lowdermilk

  American baseball player (Born 1885).

• Erwin Panofsky

  German/US art historian/iconologist, dies.

• Edwin O'Connor

  American novelist and Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner (Born 1918).

• G v d Vring

  Writer.

• Bobby Driscoll

  American actor (Born 1937).

• Georg von der Vring

  German Painter (Camp Lafayette), dies at 78.

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Paul Mauriat and His Orchestra - Love Is Blue (L'Amour Est Bleu)
2. Otis Redding - (Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay
3. Dionne Warwick - (Theme From) Valley Of The Dolls
4. The Monkees - Valleri
5. The Temptations - I Wish It Would Rain

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Esther & Abi Ofarim - Cinderella Rockefella
2. Cliff Richard - Congratulations
3. Dave Dee Dozy Beaky Mick & Tich - Legend Of Xanadu
4. Tom Jones - Delilah
5. Louis Armstrong - What A Wonderful World / Cabaret