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 )

* 474th Fighter-Bomber Wing, 8 October 1957-20 January 1968

On 20 January 1968 the 474th Tactical Fighter Wing was reassigned to Nellis AFB, giving the base an operational Tactical Fighter Wing, assigned to Twelfth Air Force.

* 474th Tactical Fighter Wing, 20 January 1968 – 15 October 1989

Its second press release was on January 15, 1958, and it recommended that the secret papers be destroyed.

This conference was held despite Stavropoulos' assurance to Adolf Berle, who was leaving the same day for Puerto Rico, that nothing would be done until his return on January 22, except that the Secretary General would probably order the list destroyed.

On January 24 Paul Bang-Jensen, accompanied by Adolf Berle, was met by Dragoslav Protitch and Colonel Frank Begley, former Police Chief of Farmington, Conn., and now head of U.N. special police.

The queen agreed on December 17, a warrant was signed on January 27, and the Exchequer paid Quiney his expenses on February 27, 1598/9.

On January 4, with the boys back at school and college, Mrs. Lewis wrote Harcourt to say that she was `` through, quite through ''.

Lewis was spending his mornings, with the help of two secretaries, on the galleys of that long novel, making considerable revisions, and the combination of hard work and hard frivolity exhausted him once more, so that he was compelled to spend three days in the Harbor Sanatorium in the last week of January.

During the period from 1 July 1960 through 31 January 1961, the Medical Museum was required to move to Temporary Building `` S '' on the Mall from Chase Hall.

In January, 1960, the first issue of The Carleton Miscellany, a quarterly literary magazine, was published by the College.

The matter was considered and reconsidered, and finally opposed, but in spite of many objections, the Court granted a charter on January 9, 1792.

In January, 1958, the Minister of the Interior announced that an election law was ready to be submitted to the King, the rumors of election dates appeared once again, first for spring of 1958 and later for the summer.

The latter now furnishes the area with electricity distributed from a modern sub-station at Manchester Depot which was put into operation February 19, 1930 and was improved in January 1942 by the installation of larger transformers.

The dissolved oxygen in the aeration unit was consistently high until January 29, 1961.

The infamous Wansee Conference called by Heydrich in January 1942, to organize the material and technical means to put to death the eleven million Jews spread throughout the nations of Europe, was attended by representatives of major organs of the German state, including the Reich Minister of the Interior, the State Secretary in charge of the Four Year Plan, the Reich Minister of Justice, the Under Secretary of Foreign Affairs.

The plantation was sold in January, 1845, and Palfrey thought the new owner ought to pay his people two months' wages.

A bond issue which would have provided some $3.5 million for construction of the two 900-student schools was defeated by district voters in January.

One of the initial questions put to President Kennedy at his first news conference last January was about his attitude toward a meeting with Premier Khrushchev.

When the winter tour began at Los Angeles last January there was no one in sight to challenge Palmer's towering prestige.

The Church Unity Octave, January 18-25, was enthusiastically devoted to prayer and discussion by the various churches.

Then one day, early in January, 1960, I sat down at my desk, and suddenly I was aware of the crucifix.

A wedding set for January 1, 1841, was canceled when the two broke off their engagement at Lincoln's initiative.

The ensuing Union victory was among the bloodiest in American history, but it enabled Lincoln to announce that he would issue an Emancipation Proclamation in January.

After a long debate in the House, a second attempt passed Congress on January 13, 1865, and was sent to the state legislatures for ratification.