May 1968 calendar

May 1968
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Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened in May 1968.
The US president was Lyndon B. Johnson (Democrat), the UK Prime Minister was Harold Wilson (Labour), Pope St Paul VI was leading the Catholic Church.

But much more happened on May 1968: find out below

Historical Events

Which were the important events of May 1968?

Events

01 May 1968 Ben Franklin in Paris closes at Lunt Fontanne NYC after 215 performances
02 May 1968 22nd NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat Los Angeles Lakers, 4 games to 2.
03 May 1968 Holland Pirate Radio Station VRON becomes Radio Veronica International
04 May 1968 94th Kentucky Derby: Ismael Valenzuela aboard Forward Pass wins in 2:02.5.
05 May 1968 Carol Mann wins LPGA Shreveport Kiwanis Club Golf Invitational.
06 May 1968 Spain closes border to Gibraltar except to Spaniards.
08 May 1968 Pulitzer prize awarded to William Styron
10 May 1968 Vietnam peace talks begin in Paris, France, between the US and North Vietnam.
11 May 1968 Richard Harris releases MacArthur Park
12 May 1968 WSKG TV channel 46 in Binghamton, New York (PBS) begins broadcasting
13 May 1968 1,000,000 French demonstrate against Charles de Gaulle and Pompidou.
14 May 1968 RAF-leader Andreas Baader sentenced to three years in West Berlin.
15 May 1968 Wonderwall with George Harrison premieres at Cannes Film Festival
16 May 1968 Earthquake kills 47 in Japan.
17 May 1968 European Space Research Organization launches first satellite.
18 May 1968 Al Kaline hits his 307th homerun, surpassing Hank Greenberg as a Detroit Tiger.
19 May 1968 20th Emmy Awards: Get Smart, Mission Impossible and Barbara Bain
21 May 1968 Nuclear-powered sub Scorpion, with 99 men, reported missing and is later found at the bottom of the ocean off Azores
22 May 1968 Pittsburgh Pirates' player Willie Stargell hits three homeruns, a double and a single.
23 May 1968 Beatles open 2nd Apple Boutique at 161 New Kings Road, London
24 May 1968 Haiti closes down shortwave station 4VEH for 40 days
25 May 1968 Rolling Stones release Jumping Jack Flash
26 May 1968 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open.
27 May 1968 NL awards Montreal and SD major league franchises
28 May 1968 NL grants San Diego Padres a franchise
29 May 1968 US Truth in Lending Act signed into law.
30 May 1968 Beatles begin work on their only double album Beatles

Famous Birthday

Kylie Minogue
Australian singer, songwriter, and actress.
Traci Lords
American noted porno actress who took her name from her idol, Jack Lord in TV's "Hawaii Five-O.
Marie-José Perec
Timothy Olyphant
American actor.
Anne Goscinny
Frederik Crown Prince of Denmark
Mathieu Pigasse
Géraldine Giraud
French actress, Roland Giraud's daughter.
Tony Hawk
American skateboarder.
Jeffrey Donovan
American television, film and stage actor.
Catherine Tate
English comedian, actress and writer.
Ziana Zain
Malaysian singer-songwriter and actress.
Raphaël Dinelli
French sailor and ecologist.
Francesca Bortolozzi
Italian champion fencer, the winner of an Olympic Gold Medal for foil fencing at Barcelona in 1992.
Laurent Khaiat
Israeli-American actor, born of a French mother and Arabic father.
Rebekah Brooks
English journalist.
Kelly Bensimon
American model television personality and author.
Zacarias Moussaoui
French terrorist, implicated in the strike against U.S.
Kyle Eastwood
American actor singer and bass player.
Jeff Bagwell
American athlete and Texas Astro player, Jeff Bagwell led the team into the 1997 playoffs for the first time in 11 years, when he became the...
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Famous Deaths

Scotty Beckett
Oakland, California -- Actor (Listen Darling, Battleground).
Little Willie John
American singer (d. 1968).
James Burke
Actor (Ellery Queen, Army Surgeon), dies at 81.
Charles K Feldman [Gould]
Producer (Casino Royale), dies at 63.
Husband E Kimmel
American admiral (Born 1882).
Georg von Kuchler
German field marshal (Born 1881).
Harold G Nicolson
English author (English sense of humor), dies at age 71.
Lurleen Burns
wife of George Wallace/Governor of Alabama, dies at age 41.
Husband Edward Kimmel
commandant US Ocean fleet WWII, dies at age 86.
Kees van Dongen
Dutch/French painter, dies at age 91.
Merle Kendrick
orchestra leader (Window on the World), dies at age 72.
William E "Little Willie" John
American R&B-singer (Fever), dies at age 30.
Fyodor Matveyevich Okhlopkov
Soviet sniper (Born 1908).
Finlay Currie
Scottish prolific character star of stage, film and TV, portraying kindliness and villainy with equal gusto, 1898 marking his stage debut.
Bernard Rogers
American military, general who served as the Chief of Staff of the U.S.
Harold Gray
US comic strip artist (Little Orphan Annie), dies at age 74.
Mercedes de Acosta
American poet, playwright, costume designer, and socialite (Born 1893).
Doris Lloyd
Actress (Oliver Twist), dies of heart strain at 71.
Phil Arnold
New Jersey, United States -- Actor (Errand Boy, Stud Lonigan, Damn Yankees).
Harold Nicolson
British diplomat, author and politician (Born 1886).
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