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* 1968 – Apollo 5 lifts off carrying the first Lunar module into space.
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* The Evolution of Character Codes, 1874 – 1968
* 1968 – In Richmond, Indiana's downtown district, a double explosion kills 41 and injures 150.
* 1968 – Pierre Elliot Trudeau wins the Liberal Leadership Election, and becomes Prime Minister of Canada soon after.
* 1968 – Affonso Giaffone, Brazilian race car driver
* 1968 – Vanessa Lann, American composer
* 1968 – Nerve gas accident at Skull Valley, Utah.
* 1968 – Alicia Coppola, American actress
* 1968 – Toby Gad, German-American songwriter and producer
* 1968 – Adam Graves, Canadian hockey player
* 1903 – Ferenc Keserű, Hungarian water polo player ( d. 1968 )
* 1930 – Gholamreza Takhti, Iranian wrestler ( d. 1968 )
* 1968 – Jack de Gier, Dutch footballer
* 1968 – McG, American director, writer, and producer
* 1968 – Gillian Anderson, American actress
* 1968 – Eric Bana, Australian actor
* 1968 – Sam Fogarino, American drummer ( Interpol and Magnetic Morning )
* 1968 – Alexandros Panagoulis attempts to assassinate the Greek dictator Colonel Georgios Papadopoulos in Varkiza, Athens.
The tempo of the play changed over the next four series in the 1960s, held in 1962 – 63, 1964, 1965 – 66 and 1968.
The remaining five series were drawn, with Australia retaining the Ashes four times ( 1938, 1962 – 63, 1965 – 66, 1968 ) and England retaining it once ( 1972 ).
* 1968 – An earthquake hits Casiguran, Aurora, Philippines killing more than 270 people and wounding 261.
* 1968 – Stefan Effenberg, German footballer
* 1968 – John Stanier, American drummer ( Helmet, Tomahawk, The Mark of Cain, and Battles )
* 1968 – Lev Davidovich Landau, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1908 )
1968 and Apollo
The first manned flight of Apollo was in 1968 and it succeeded in landing the first humans on Earth's Moon in 1969 through 1972.
* 1968 – Apollo Program: The crew of Apollo 8 enters into orbit around the Moon, becoming the first humans to do so.
* 1968 – Apollo Program: Apollo 8 splashes down in the Pacific Ocean, ending the first orbital manned mission to the Moon.
* 1968 – Apollo program: Apollo 8 launched from the Kennedy Space Center, placing its crew on a lunar trajectory for the first visit to another celestial body by humans.
* 1968 – Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 7, the first successful manned Apollo mission, with astronauts Wally Schirra, Donn F. Eisele and Walter Cunningham aboard.
* 1968 – The first live telecast from a manned spacecraft, the Apollo 7, launched by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration of the U. S. A.
* 1968 – Apollo program: Apollo 7 safely splashes down in the Atlantic Ocean after orbiting the Earth 163 times.
The success of Apollo 8 in December 1968, launched on the third flight of a Saturn V, made it likely that one would be available to launch a dry workshop.
Apollo 8's Earthrise, December 24, 1968
During Johnson's administration, NASA conducted the Gemini manned space program and the Apollo program, including Apollo 7 ; and the first human spaceflight to the Moon, Apollo 8, in December 1968.
* 1968 – The Apollo 8 manned lunar mission provides the first image ever taken of the sphere of the Earth.
In 1968 it was taken into lunar orbit by the Apollo 8 astronauts.
In A Man on the Moon, published in 1994, Andrew Chaikin mentions that at the time of Apollo 8's lunar-orbit mission in December 1968, similar conspiracy ideas were already in circulation.
Borman was selected in late 1966 to command the third manned Apollo mission, planned as an elliptical medium Earth orbit test of the second manned Lunar Module ( LM ) on the first manned launch of the Saturn V lunar rocket sometime in 1967 or early 1968.
Borman was then reassigned to his LM test mission, now planned to fly as " Apollo 9 " in early 1969 after a first, low Earth orbit LM flight commanded by McDivitt in December 1968.
* Apollo 8 – 21 December 1968 – First manned lunar orbiter
1968 and 5
He is perhaps best known for his role as Will Robinson on the CBS science fiction television series Lost in Space ( 1965 – 1968 ), as well as for his role as ambassadorial aide Lennier in the syndicated series Babylon 5 ( 1994 – 1998 ).
The members of the group met as mostly freshmen at Tuskegee Institute ( now Tuskegee University ) in 1968, and signed with Motown in November 1972, having first caught the public eye opening for The Jackson 5 while on tour.
The last new comic book story drawn by Carl Barks was a Daisy Duck tale (" The Dainty Daredevil ") published in Walt Disney Comics Digest issue 5 ( Nov. 1968 ).
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By 1968 Thomas had increased sales in the four fried chicken restaurants so much that he sold his share in them back to Sanders for more than $ 1. 5 million.
# ( 5 ) Encyclopedia Brown Solves Them All ( 1968, ISBN 0-525-67212-5 )
Forth is so named because in 1968 " the file holding the interpreter was labeled FOURTH, for 4th ( next ) generation software — but the IBM 1130 operating system restricted file names to 5 characters.
According to Herbert Weinstock's 1968 biography ( see below ), the composer's estate was valued at 2. 5 million francs upon his death in 1868, the equivalent of about 1. 4 million US dollars.
Michael Moorcock's fantasy novel The War Hound and the World's Pain depicts a supernatural Grail quest set in the era of the Thirty Years ' War, and science fiction has taken the Quest into interstellar space, figuratively in Samuel R. Delany's 1968 novel Nova, and literally on the television shows Babylon 5 and Stargate SG-1 ( as the " Sangraal ").
With average growth rates of 10 % in the 1960s, 5 % in the 1970s, and 4 % in the 1980s, Japan was able to establish and maintain itself as the world's second largest economy from 1968 until 2010, when it was supplanted by the People's Republic of China.
Karlheinz Stockhausen (; 22 August 1928 – 5 December 2007 ) was a German composer, widely acknowledged by critics as one of the most important ( Barrett 1988, 45 ; Harvey 1975b, 705 ; Hopkins 1972, 33 ; Klein 1968, 117 ) but also controversial ( Power 1990, 30 ) composers of the 20th and early 21st centuries.
1972 saw the introduction of a deluxe version of the sedan, VAZ-2103, which was based on Fiat 124 Special 1968 and featured a new 1. 5 L engine and twin headlights.
It began on 5 January 1968, when reformist Alexander Dubček was elected the First Secretary of Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, and continued until 21 August when the Soviet Union and all members of the Warsaw Pact, with the notable exception of Romania, invaded the country to halt the reforms.
Dubček replaced Novotný as First Secretary on 5 January 1968.
* 1968 – The Soviet Zond 5 spaceship is launched, becoming the first spacecraft to fly around the Moon and re-enter the Earth's atmosphere.
* September 5 – Lieutenant William Calley is charged with 6 counts of premeditated murder, for the 1968 My Lai Massacre deaths of 109 Vietnamese civilians in My Lai, Vietnam.
* December 5 – Rose Wilder Lane, American author ( d. 1968 )
* May 5 – Charles Chaplin Jr., American actor ( d. 1968 )
Lars Onsager ( November 27, 1903 – October 5, 1976 ) was a Norwegian-born American physical chemist and theoretical physicist, winner of the 1968 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Between April and November 1968 NASA tried to reacquire Mariner 5 to continue probing interplanetary conditions.
Attempts to reacquire Mariner 5 during June, July, and early August 1968 yielded no spacecraft signal.
Operations were terminated at the end of the track from DSS 61 at 07: 46 GMT on November 5, 1968.
* Martha B. Gilbreth ( November 5, 1909 – November 15, 1968 ) ( age 59 ); married Richard E. Tallman ; four children ( Janet, Blair, Mary, Stephanie ).
On June 5, 1968, Smith was anchoring coverage of the California presidential primary that had stretched to 3 a. m. New York time.
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