The number dropped to 38 in 1968, but grew to 82 in 1969, the largest number in a single year in the history of civil aviation ; in January 1969 alone, eight airliners were hijacked to Cuba.

The same message was conveyed to US President Johnson's emissary Chester Bowles in January 1968.

Caltech undergraduates have historically been so apathetic to politics that there has been only one organized student protest in January 1968 outside the Burbank studios of NBC, in response to rumors that NBC was to cancel Star Trek.

That song, a cover of Tom Paxton's " The Last Thing on My Mind ", released in late 1967, reached the country top ten in January 1968, launching a six-year streak of virtually uninterrupted top-ten singles for the pair.

In January 1968 he secretly married Linda Haines.

): January 1968 – December 1975.

With McMahon unexpectedly eliminated from the contest, Senator John Gorton was elected Liberal leader on 9 January 1968, and was sworn in as Prime Minister on 10 January, replacing McEwen.

In November 1967, James Brown purchased radio station WGYW in Knoxville, Tennessee for a reported $ 75, 000, according to the January 20, 1968 Record World magazine.

WJBE began on January 15, 1968 and broadcast a Rhythm & Blues format.

* Nauru, formerly part of German New Guinea ( Australia in effective control, formally together with United Kingdom and New Zealand ) from 17 December 1920, 1 November 1947 made into a United Nations trust territory ( same three powers ) until its 31 January 1968 independence as a Republic-all that time under an Administrator

Thunderstorms or heavy rain may cause agricultural damages. Record high: 45. 4C ,( 113F ) ( Jule 2000 ), record low :- 21. 6 C ,(- 6. 88f ), January 1968. Larissa receives only 450mm of rain per year, but Corfu for example receives 1080mm of rain per year, because the mountais of Pindos create a rainshadow for the eastern coast of Greece.

The year of 1968 was mainly dominated by the capture of the USS Pueblo, a reconnaissance ship captured in the Sea of Japan that January.

On 31 January 1968, following a two-year constitutional convention, Nauru became the world's smallest independent republic.

John Gorton became the new Liberal Prime Minister in January 1968.

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.

In January 1968, Porsche also made available a Targa ' Version II ' option (' hard window Targa ') with fixed glass rear window, transforming the Targa into a coupe with removable roof.

As a vintage rally car, on January 29, 2012 Hayden Burvill, Alastair Caldwell, and their # 35 1968 Porsche 912 finished first in class, and 7th overall in the 2012 London to Cape Town World Cup Rally ; a 14 country, three continent, 14, 000 kilometre, 26 driving-days event.

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The Royal National Theatre production of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern had a year-long Broadway run from October 9, 1967, through October 19, 1968, initially at the Alvin Theatre, then transferring to the Eugene O ' Neill Theatre on January 8, 1968.

That same year, Simon and Garfunkel contributed heavily to the soundtrack to Mike Nichols ' film The Graduate, which was released on January 21, 1968, and instantly rose to No. 1 as an album.

* Gordon M. Shrum ( January 1, 1964-May 31, 1968 )

* Patrick McTaggart-Cowan ( January 1, 1964-May 31, 1968 )

John Kingsley (" Joe ") Orton ( 1 January 1933 – 9 August 1967 ), was an English playwright and author.

In January 2009, he directed the premiere of Joe Sutton's Complicit, with Richard Dreyfuss, David Suchet and Elizabeth McGovern.

The game was played on January 29, 1995 at Joe Robbie Stadium in Miami, Florida ( now part of the suburb of Miami Gardens ).

On January 13, 1981, owner Jack Kent Cooke signed the offensive coordinator of the San Diego Chargers, Joe Gibbs, as their head coach.

* January 19 – Joe Weatherly, NASCAR championship driver ( b. 1922 )

* January 30 – The oldest surviving pro wrestling match on film happens, with Joe Stecher defeating Earl Caddock.

* January 5 – Joe Flanigan, American actor

* January 13 – Joe Spinell, American actor ( b. 1936 )

January 14: Marilyn Monroe | Marilyn weds Joe DiMaggio | DiMaggio.

* January 14 – Marilyn Monroe marries baseball player Joe DiMaggio.

On January 19, 2011, Tribune Media Services announced that Locher was retiring from the strip and handing the reins to artist Joe Staton and writer Mike Curtis.

RFD-TV replaced The Big Joe Show with " The RFD-TV Polka Fest " in January, 2011.

During a research trip into the cave on January 15, 2005, Park Ranger Amy Wallace, History Professor Joe Douglas, local historian Billyfrank Morrison, and Geologist Larry E. Matthews, discovered Indian Glyphs on the walls of the cave.

And our educational system has failed to correct that, and I have to say that in recent years our presidents have not done what is needed ,"-The Morning Joe, January 24, 2012.

The Shield predates Joe Simon and Jack Kirby's Captain America by 15 months, and his sidekick Dusty, from Pep Comics # 11, January 1941, predates Cap's sidekick Bucky by three months.

Battling Jim fought former coloured champ Joe Jeanette four times between 19 July 1912 and 21 January 1912 and lost all four fights.

In January 1967, Johnson and Winding were in an all-star line-up ( alongside the likes of Clark Terry, Charlie Shavers and Joe Newman ) backing Sarah Vaughan on her last-ever sessions for Mercury Records, released as the album Sassy Swings Again, with three of the cuts, including Billy Strayhorn's " Take the " A " Train ", being arranged by Johnson himself.

Mayor Joe Wright announced his resignation from the office as of January 14, 2011 ; CIty Councilman John Jennings was named as Interim Mayor, until the appointment of Terry Dilk on January 25, 2011 by the Marion County Republican Committee to fill out Wright's term through the 2011 elections.

* Joe Baksi ( January 14, 1922-August 6, 1977 ) was a top heavyweight boxing contender

As of January 1, 2012, the Sheriff for Sutton County is Joe Fincher, and had been for most of the previous decade.

Joe Talbot ( born January 23, 1933 ) is Politician and former United States Marine.

Mickey Spillane, Ed Robbins and Joe Gill's From the Files of ... Mike Hammer ( January 31, 1954 ).

In January 1880, he reportedly killed a man named Joe Grant in a Fort Sumner saloon.

Yzerman's # 19 jersey was officially retired on January 2, 2007 during a pre-game ceremony at Joe Louis Arena in Detroit.