September 1968 calendar

Events

• 01 Sep 1968 Carol Mann wins LPGA Willow Park Ladies Golf Invitational
• 03 Sep 1968 Chicago White Sox set American League record of 39 losses by one run.
• 04 Sep 1968 Nigerian troops conquer Aba Biafra
• 05 Sep 1968 82nd US Womens Tennis: Virginia Wade beats Billie Jean King
• 06 Sep 1968 Swaziland becomes independent.
• 08 Sep 1968 Funny Girl with Barbra Striesand premieres
• 09 Sep 1968 1st US Open, held as an open
• 11 Sep 1968 Air France Flight 1611 crashes off Nice, France, killing 89 passengers and 6 crew.
• 12 Sep 1968 Albania announces it is withdrawing from the Warsaw Pact
• 13 Sep 1968 Albania leaves the Warsaw Pact.
• 14 Sep 1968 1st broadcast of 60 Minutes on CBS-TV
• 15 Sep 1968 Barbra Streisand: A Happening in Central Park Show on CBS TV
• 16 Sep 1968 KLNI (now KADN) TV channel 15 in Lafayette, LA (IND) begins
• 17 Sep 1968 Zond 5 completes circumnavigation of Moon
• 18 Sep 1968 Ray Washburn (Saint Louis Cardinals) no-hits San Francisco Giants 2-0.
• 19 Sep 1968 Cornerstone laying ceremony is held for construction of the fourth Philadelphia Mint building.
• 20 Sep 1968 Mickey Mantle hits final career homer number 536.
• 21 Sep 1968 The Soviet's Zond 5 unmanned lunar flyby mission returns to earth, with its first of a kind biological payload intact.
• 22 Sep 1968 Iraq adopts constitution
• 23 Sep 1968 WKGB TV channel 53 in Bowling Green, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting
• 24 Sep 1968 60 Minutes premieres on CBS-TV
• 26 Sep 1968 1st broadcast of Hawaii Five-O on CBS-TV
• 27 Sep 1968 Hair opens in London
• 28 Sep 1968 Happy Time closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 286 performances
• 29 Sep 1968 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Mickey Wright Golf Invitational
• 30 Sep 1968 1st Boeing 747 rolls out

Famous Birthday

• Will Smith

  American actor, producer, rapper, and songwriter.

• Will Smith

  American actor, producer, rapper, and songwriter.

• Naomi Watts

  British actress who came to international attention in David Lynch's psychological thriller "Mulholland Drive" (2001).

• Marc Anthony

  American singer.

• Anastacia

  American singer.

• Jim Caviezel

  American actor, who played Jesus in Mel Gibson's controversial film, "The Passion of the Christ" (2004).

• Guy Ritchie

  British film producer, said to be a risk-taker and a hard worker.

• Chloe Vevrier
• Akhenaton (rapper)
• Emma Sjöberg
• Prince Friso of Orange-Nassau
• Luke Goss

  British musician, immensely popular to screaming fans in 1987.

• Marie-Chantal Crown Princess of Greece
• Carré Otis
• Ricki Lake

  American actress and TV talk show host.

• Matt Goss

  British musician, immensely popular to screaming fans in 1987.

• Malu Bailo

  Brazilian model, strip-tease dancer and porno actress.

• Mika Hakkinen

  Finnish race car driver.

• Patrick Muldoon

  American actor singer and guitarist.

• Camille Grammer

  Reality Star.

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Famous Deaths

• Franchot Tone

  Niagara Falls, New York -- Actor (Dr Freeland-Ben Casey).

• Juan Jose Castro

  Composer, dies at 73.

• Karl Ranki

  Composer, dies at 69.

• Frank Pelleg

  Composer, dies at 57.

• Harry Robert Wilson

  Composer, dies at 67.

• Robert Arthur Ley

  Sci-fi Author (Telepath, Power of X), dies at 47.

• Virginia Valli

  Actress (Flames, Guilty?, Storm), dies of a stroke at 70.

• Francis McDonald in Bowling Green

  Kentucky, USA; actor (Will - Adventures of Champion).

• Willem Kooiman

  Dutch Theologist / church historian, dies at 65.

• Chester F Carlson

  Inventor (photocopying), dies at 62.

• Corry Lievens

  Flemish actress / playwright / director (Blue Bird), dies at 64.

• Isabel Withers

  American actress (Born 1896).

• Lipman Heilprin

  Israeli physician and Israel Prize recipient (Born 1902).

• Daniel Johnson

  Canadian lawyer and politiican, the Premier of Quebec and member of a noted family.

• Rene Cogny

  French general (Born 1904).

• Ernest Claes

  Belgium -- Author (The White), dies at 82.

• Red Foley

  Blue Lick, Kentucky -- Country singer (Mr Smith Goes to Washington).

• Granville English

  Composer, dies at 69.

• Tommy Armour

  Scottish-American golfer and sportscaster (d. 1968).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. The Rascals - People Got To Be Free
2. Jeannie C. Riley - Harper Valley P.T.A.
3. The Beatles - Hey Jude
4. Steppenwolf - Born To Be Wild
5. Jose Feliciano - Light My Fire

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. The Beatles - Hey Jude
2. Mary Hopkin - Those Were The Days
3. The Bee Gees - I've Gotta Get A Message To You
4. Aretha Franklin - I Say A Little Prayer
5. The Beach Boys - Do It Again