November 1968 calendar

Events

• 01 Nov 1968 Detroit Tiger Denny McLain unanimously wins AL Cy Young Award
• 02 Nov 1968 Her First Roman closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC after 17 performances
• 03 Nov 1968 Bob Packwood is elected senator of Oregon
• 04 Nov 1968 Battles between Jordan army and Al Fatah-arm forces
• 05 Nov 1968 1st AL pitcher to win MVP, Denny McLain
• 06 Nov 1968 Nixon elected 37th President of US, defeating Hubert Humphrey
• 08 Nov 1968 Cynthia Lennon is granted a divorce from John Lennon.
• 10 Nov 1968 Judy Rankin wins LPGA Corpus Christi Civitan Golf Open
• 11 Nov 1968 John Lennon andYoko Ono appear nude on cover of 2 Virgins album
• 12 Nov 1968 KSEL (now KAMC) TV channel 28 in Lubbock, TX (ABC) begins broadcasting
• 13 Nov 1968 Bob Gibson edges Pete Rose to win NL MVP
• 14 Nov 1968 National Turn in Your Draft Card Day features draft card burning
• 15 Nov 1968 1st date in controversial Jim Bouton baseball diary Ball Four
• 17 Nov 1968 Zorba opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 305 performances
• 18 Nov 1968 Military coup in Mali, President Keita ousted
• 19 Nov 1968 Mali military coup, President Modibo Keita flees
• 20 Nov 1968 The Farmington Mine Disaster in Farmington, West Virginia, kills seventy-eight men.
• 21 Nov 1968 Cin trades shortstop Leo Cardenas to Twins for pitcher Jim Merritt
• 22 Nov 1968 1st interracial TV kiss
• 23 Nov 1968 Milwaukee Bucks make their first NBA trade, giving Bob Love and Bob Weiss to Chicago Bulls for Flynn Robinson.
• 24 Nov 1968 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Louise Suggs Golf Invitational
• 26 Nov 1968 34th Heisman Trophy Award: O J Simpson, Southern California
• 29 Nov 1968 John andYoko release their 1st album Two Virgins in the UK
• 30 Nov 1968 56th CFL Grey Cup: Ottawa Rough Riders defeat Calgary Stampeder, 24-21

Famous Birthday

• Owen Wilson

  American actor, writer, producer and screenwriter.

• Zara Whites

  Dutch-French porn actress.

• Charlotte Valandrey
• Tampa (Florida)
• Sam Rockwell

  American film actor.

• Michael Vartan

  French-American actor whose good looks brought him acclaim from US audiences beginning in 2001 for his role in "Alias," a five-season...

• Ishtar (singer)
• Kirsty Young
• Tracy Morgan

  American actor/comedian.

• Parker Posey

  Movie Actress.

• Jonathan Knight

  American musician and member of "New Kids on the Block," a manufactured group of young superstars.

• Jill Hennessy

  Canadian actress and singer.

• Worcester (Massachusetts)
• Erin Ellington
• Géraldine Danon

  French actress, singer and writer.

• Jérôme Anthony
• Kelly Rutherford

  TV Actress.

• Laurent Jalabert

  French cyclist who started his career in 1989 with the Toshiba team.

• Janine Lindemulder

  American porn actress.

• Sidse Babett Knudsen
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Famous Deaths

• George Papandreou

  Greek sociologist and politician 182nd Prime Minister of Greece.

• Ernst Hess

  Composer, dies at 56.

• Paul JM Lindemans

  Flemish agricultural engineer / author, dies at 78.

• Estelle Hemsley

  Actress (Leech Woman, Take aGiant Step), dies at 81.

• Guillaume Landre

  Composer, dies at 63.

• Willem A Wagenaar

  Dutch journalist / Author (3, 000 meter).

• Jan Johansson

  Swedish jazz pianist (Born 1931).

• Wilhelm Lehmann

  Writer, dies at 86.

• Robert Ayres

  Actor (Battle Beneath the Earth), dies at 54.

• Cathy Lewis

  Actress (Deidre-Hazel), dies of cancer at 50.

• Upton B Sinclair

  US Author (Jungle), dies at 90.

• Gino Roncaglia

  Composer, dies at 85.

• Walter Wanger

  US producer (Cleopatria), dies at 74.

• Helen Gardner

  Silent film actress (Sandra).

• Charles B McVay III

  Ex-U.

• da levy

  Cleveland poet (Born 1942).

• Enid Blyton

  English children's writer whose books have been among the world's best-sellers since the 1930s, selling more than 600 million copies.

• Greet Hofmans

  Dutch mystic, healer and psychic.

• Marcel Labey

  French composer, musician, conductor and teacher.

• Charles Munch

  French conductor, best known for his interpretations of Brahms, Debussy and Ravel.

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. The Beatles - Hey Jude
2. Diana Ross and the Supremes - Love Child
3. Mary Hopkin - Those Were The Days
4. O.C. Smith - Little Green Apples
5. Steppenwolf - Magic Carpet Ride

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Hugo Montenegro - The Good, The Bad And The Ugly
2. The Scaffold - Lily The Pink
3. Joe Cocker - With A Little Help From My Friends
4. Nina Simone - Ain't Got No / I Got Life / Do What You Gotta Do
5. Barry Ryan - Eloise