October 1968 calendar

Events

• 01 Oct 1968 Night of the Living Dead premieres in Pittsburgh
• 02 Oct 1968 1st London performance of Promises Promises presented
• 03 Oct 1968 Howard Sacklers Great White Hope, premieres in New York City
• 05 Oct 1968 Battles between Catholic demonstrators and police in Londonderry
• 07 Oct 1968 Motion Picture Association of America adopts film rating system.
• 08 Oct 1968 Aircraft carrier Charles Doorman sold to Argentina
• 09 Oct 1968 WKMU TV channel 21 in Murray, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting
• 10 Oct 1968 George Harrison forms Singsong Ltd
• 11 Oct 1968 Apollo 7 (Schirra, Eisele and Cunningham) make 163 orbits of Earth in 260 hours.
• 12 Oct 1968 19th Olympic games open at Mexico City, Mexico
• 13 Oct 1968 Tinker Creek Gorge of Cleveland Metroparks is dedicated
• 14 Oct 1968 Beatles White Album completed
• 15 Oct 1968 AL expansion draft, Kansas City pick Roger Nelson and Pilots pick Don Mincher 1st
• 16 Oct 1968 China reports removal of President Li Sjao-tji
• 17 Oct 1968 Black American athletes make a silent protest against racism at the Olympics
• 18 Oct 1968 Lee Evans sets world record of 43.8 seconds in 400 metre dash.
• 19 Oct 1968 Golden Gate Bridge charges tolls only for southbound cars
• 20 Oct 1968 Her 1st Roman opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC for 17 performances
• 22 Oct 1968 Apollo 7 returns to Earth.
• 23 Oct 1968 Maggie Flynn opens at ANTA Theater NYC for 82 performances
• 25 Oct 1968 Chicago, Illinois, recognizes Jean Baptiste Pointe de Sable as its first settler.
• 26 Oct 1968 1st European satellite launched, Esro 1, at Cape Kennedy
• 27 Oct 1968 19th Olympic games close at Mexico City, Mexico
• 30 Oct 1968 Jaqueline Kennedy marries Aristotle Onassis on the island of Scorpios
• 31 Oct 1968 Linda Eastman moves to UK permanently

Famous Birthday

• Hugh Jackman

  Australian actor and producer who is involved in film, musical theatre, and television.

• Thom Yorke

  English singer (Radiohead).

• Dileep (actor)
• Marc-Laurent Turpin
• Vanessa Marcil

  TV Actress.

• Didier Deschamps

  French former footballer and current coach.

• Elsa Zylberstein

  French film, TV, and stage actress born to a jewish Polish father (physicist) and to a catholic mother.

• Emily Procter

  TV Actress.

• Emily Procter

  TV Actress.

• Tisha Campbell
• Shaggy (musician)
• Jana Novotná

  Czech tennis player and sportscaster.

• Nantes (France)
• Dominique A (singer)
• Xavier Gravelaine

  French football (soccer) manager and former football player, who played for many clubs in France and Europe and for the French national...

• Orlando (Florida)
• Marc Lièvremont

  French rugby player and coach.

• Irina Kazakova
• Jane Krakowski

  American actress.

• Laurent Hénart

  French politician, who was a member of the National Assembly of France.

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Famous Deaths

• Pierre Mulele

  Congolese revolutionary (Born 1929).

• Wilhelmina J "Willy" Haak

  Dutch actress (Abandoned Child), dies at 71.

• Henricus WJM Keuls

  Lawyer / poet, dies at 85.

• Marius Moaritz Ulfrstad

  Composer, dies at 78.

• Pert Kelton

  Actress (Cavalcade of Stars), dies at 61.

• Marcel Duchamp

  French Painter (Descending an Escalator).

• Franz Reizenstein

  Composer, dies at 57.

• Rose Wilder Lane

  American journalist and author (Born 1886).

• Elder Lightfoot Solomon Michaux

  TV preacher, dies at age 84.

• Bud Flanagan

  British wartime entertainer (Born 1896).

• Marcel Duchamp

  French artist best known for his irreverent work and enigmatic persona.

• Lise Meitner

  Austrian-born physicist who worked on radioactivity and nuclear physics.

• Jean Schlumberger

  French jewellery designer, the most acclaimed of his time.

• Phyllis Nicolson

  English mathematician and academic (d. 1968).

• Marcel Duchamp

  French Painter (Descending an Escalator).

• Lee Tracy

  Actor (Doctor X, Bombshell, Best Man), dies of cancer at 70.

• Conrad Richter

  US writer (Light in the Forest), dies at 78.

• Ramon Novarro

  Mexican-American actor who was the star of silent films and who won wide acclaim for dashing roles in "The Prisoner of Zenda" and "Ben-Hur.

• Bea Benaderet

  Actress (Petticoat Junction), dies of lung cancer at 62.

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. The Beatles - Hey Jude
2. Jeannie C. Riley - Harper Valley P.T.A.
3. The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown - Fire
4. O.C. Smith - Little Green Apples
5. Mary Hopkin - Those Were The Days

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Mary Hopkin - Those Were The Days
2. Hugo Montenegro - The Good, The Bad And The Ugly
3. Joe Cocker - With A Little Help From My Friends
4. Casuals - Jesamine
5. Barry Ryan - Eloise