What Happened In November 1968 In History

Historical Events for November, 1968

• 8th » The Vienna Convention on Road Traffic is signed to facilitate international road traffic and to increase road safety by standardising the uniform traffic rules among the signatories.
• 11th » Vietnam War: Operation Commando Hunt initiated. The goal is to interdict men and supplies on the Ho Chi Minh Trail, through Laos into South Vietnam.
• 11th » A second republic is declared in the Maldives.
• 12th » Equatorial Guinea joins the United Nations.
• 17th » Alexandros Panagoulis is condemned to death for attempting to assassinate Greece e.g Greek dictator Georgios Papadopoulos.
• 17th » British European Airways introduces the BAC One-Eleven into commercial service.
• 17th » Viewers of the Heidi Game known as Raiders–Jets football game in the eastern United States are denied the opportunity to watch its exciting finish when NBC broadcasts 'Heidi (1968 film) or Heidi' instead, prompting changes to sports broadcasting in the U.
• 26th » Vietnam War: United States Air Force helicopter pilot James P. Fleming rescues an Army Special Forces unit pinned down by Viet Cong fire. He is later awarded the Medal of Honor.
• 27th » Penny Ann Early became the first woman to play major professional basketball, for the Kentucky Colonels in an American Basketball Association known as ABA game against the Los Angeles Stars.

Famous Birthdays on November in 1968

• 1st » Park Shin-yang, South Korean actor
• 2nd » Neal Casal, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and photographer (Ryan Adams and the Cardinals and Chris Robinson Brotherhood)
• 2nd » Ultra Naté, American singer-songwriter and producer
• 3rd » Alberto Iñurrategi, Spanish mountaineer
• 3rd » Paul Quantrill, Canadian baseball player and coach
• 4th » Matthew Tobin Anderson, American author
• 4th » Carlos Baerga, Puerto Rican baseball player and coach
• 4th » Miles Long, American porn actor, director, and producer
• 5th » Ricardo Fort, Argentinian businessman (d. 2013)
• 5th » Sam Rockwell, American actor
• 5th » Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Italian-Spanish actress
• 6th » Caesar Meadows, American cartoonist
• 6th » Kelly Rutherford, American actress
• 6th » Alfred Williams, American football player and radio host
• 6th » Jerry Yang (entrepreneur) named Jerry Yang, Taiwanese-American businessman, co-founded Yahoo!
• 7th » Greg Tribbett, American singer and guitarist (Mudvayne and Hellyeah)
• 7th » Mark Preston, Australian engineer
• 7th » Russ Springer, American baseball player
• 8th » Keith Jones (ice hockey) named Keith Jones, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster
• 8th » José Offerman, Dominican baseball player and manager
• 8th » Sergio Porrini, Italian footballer and manager
• 8th » Parker Posey, American actress and singer
• 8th » Zara Whites, Dutch-French porn actress
• 9th » Nazzareno Carusi, Italian pianist
• 9th » Colin Hay (political scientist) named Colin Hay, British political scientist
• 10th » Steve Brookstein, English singer
• 10th » Tracy Morgan, American comedian, actor, and producer
• 10th » Tom Papa, American comedian, actor, television and radio host
• 11th » David L. Cook, American singer-songwriter and comedian
• 11th » Lavell Crawford, American comedian and actor
• 11th » Muangchai Kittikasem, Thai boxer
• 12th » Kathleen Hanna, American singer-songwriter (Bikini Kill, Le Tigre, and The Julie Ruin)
• 12th » Aya Hisakawa, Japanese voice actress and singer
• 12th » Disco Inferno (wrestler) e.g Disco Inferno, American wrestler
• 12th » Sharon Shannon, Irish accordion player and fiddler
• 12th » Sammy Sosa, Dominican-American baseball player
• 12th » Aaron Stainthorpe, English-German singer-songwriter (My Dying Bride)
• 13th » Pat Hentgen, American baseball player and coach
• 14th » Janine Lindemulder, American porn actress
• 14th » Serge Postigo, French-Canadian actor
• 15th » Fausto Brizzi, Italian director, producer, and screenwriter
• 15th » Jennifer Charles, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Elysian Fields (band) Elysian Fields, Lovage (band) Lovage, and La Mar Enfortuna (band) La Mar Enfortuna)
• 15th » Uwe Rösler, German footballer and manager
• 16th » Shobha Nagi Reddy, Indian politician (d. 2014)
• 16th » Vlado Šola, Croatian handball player
• 16th » Melvin Stewart, American swimmer
• 17th » Sean Miller, American basketball player and coach
• 18th » Barry Hunter (footballer) known as Barry Hunter, Irish footballer and manager
• 18th » Kaido Kaaberma, Estonian fencer
• 18th » George Kotsiopoulos, American television personality, stylist and fashion consultant
• 18th » Romany Malco, American rapper, producer, actor, and screenwriter (College Boyz)
• 18th » Gary Sheffield, American baseball player
• 18th » Owen Wilson, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 20th » Tommy Asinga, Surinamese runner
• 20th » Chew Chor Meng, Singaporean actor
• 21st » Inka Bause, German actress and singer
• 21st » Alex James (musician) Alex James, English singer-songwriter, bass player (Blur (band) Blur, Fat Les, Me Me Me (band) Me Me Me, and WigWam)
• 21st » Christopher Noxon, American journalist and author
• 21st » Sean Schemmel, American voice actor, director, and screenwriter
• 21st » Antonio Tarver, American boxer
• 22nd » Sidse Babett Knudsen, Danish actress
• 22nd » Rasmus Lerdorf, Greenlandic-Canadian computer programmer, created PHP
• 22nd » Sarah MacDonald (musician) e.g Sarah MacDonald, Canadian organist and conductor
• 23rd » Robert Denmark, English runner
• 23rd » Hamid Hassani, Iranian lexicographer, linguist, and academic
• 23rd » Anthony Sullivan, English rugby player
• 23rd » Kirsty Young, Scottish journalist
• 24th » Todd Beamer, American passenger on United Airlines Flight 93 (d. 2001)
• 24th » Bülent Korkmaz, Turkish footballer and manager
• 25th » Jacqueline Hennessy, Canadian actress and journalist
• 25th » Jill Hennessy, Canadian actress and singer
• 25th » Galin Nikov, Bulgarian pole vaulter
• 25th » Erick Sermon, American rapper and producer (EPMD)
• 26th » Edna Campbell, American basketball player, sportscaster, and nurse
• 27th » Michael Vartan, French-American actor
• 28th » Dawn Robinson, American singer (En Vogue)
• 28th » Darren Bett, English television host
• 29th » Jonathan Knight, American singer-songwriter and dancer (New Kids on the Block)
• 30th » Laurent Jalabert, French cyclist

Famous Deaths for November 1968

• 1st » Georgios Papandreou, Greek economist and politician, 134th List of Prime Ministers of Greece named Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1888)
• 6th » Charles B. McVay III, American admiral (b. 1898)
• 6th » Charles Munch (conductor) called Charles Münch, French violinist and conductor (b. 1891)
• 7th » Gordon Coventry, Australian footballer (b. 1901)
• 7th » Alexander Gelfond, Russian mathematician, cryptographer, and academic (b. 1906)
• 8th » Wendell Corey, American actor and politician (b. 1914)
• 8th » Peter Mohr Dam, Faroese educator and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (b. 1898)
• 9th » Jan Johansson (jazz musician) called Jan Johansson, Swedish pianist (b. 1931)
• 10th » Adolf Möller, German rower (b. 1877)
• 17th » Mervyn Peake, English poet, author, and illustrator (b. 1911)
• 24th » D. A. Levy, American poet (b. 1942)
• 25th » Upton Sinclair, American journalist, author, and politician (b. 1878)
• 25th » Paul Siple, American geographer and explorer (b. 1908)
• 28th » Enid Blyton, English author and poet (b. 1897)

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