On this day
Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
In 1968, the world population was approximately 3,545,187,251 people[†]
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 3, 1968, covering January 7, 1968.
The Beatles
The Rolling Stones
The Monkees
Diana Ross & The Supremes
The Beatles
Soundtrack
Soundtrack
The Mamas & The Papas
The Doors
Andy Williams
1968J. L. B. Smith, South African chemist and academic (born 1897)[†]
James Leonard Brierley Smith was a South African ichthyologist, organic chemist, and university professor. He was the first to identify a taxidermied fish as a coelacanth, at the time thought to be long extinct.
1968Surveyor program: Surveyor 7, the last spacecraft in the Surveyor series, lifts off from Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 36A.[†]
The Surveyor program was a NASA program that, from June 1966 through January 1968, sent seven robotic spacecraft to the surface of the Moon. Its primary goal was to demonstrate the feasibility of soft landings on the Moon. The Surveyor craft were the first American spacecraft to achieve soft landing on an extraterrestrial body. The missions called for the craft to travel directly to the Moon on an impact trajectory, a journey that lasted 63 to 65 hours, and ended with a deceleration of just over three minutes to a soft landing.
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Int on auto indus '68 outlook; excerpts; illus
HONOLULU, Jan. 6. -- The North, using a crunching running attack plus a strong defense, outclassed the South, 50-6, today in the 22d annual Hula Bowl game.
Gallup poll finds Sen McCarthy would draw 12% of vote if 4-way Pres contest were held today
N Vietnamese troops sweep out of hills overlooking Queson Valley, killing 20 Amers, wounding 64; 24 enemy bodies found; fighting in other areas reptd; enemy kills 2 villagers in what US calls apparent execution; details on recent battles and casualties; illus
D Halberstam book One Very Hot Day, on mission of single unit, revd; illus
Delegates to Natl Retail Merchants Assn conv, NYC, to discuss changing indus trends and efforts to attract consumers; merchandising pres Kohn sees price maintenance as major '68 challenge to stores; other execs comment on outlook
recd by Haile Selassie, Jubilee Palace; illus; 300 Addis Ababa U students awaiting Humphrey arrival at univ burn Pres Johnson in effigy to protest Vietnam war
US corps plan to seek Eur investment funds by selling Eurobonds (Amer corp bonds sold in Eur) in fine with dollar-defense program; effects of plan on Eur bond mkts discussed; price changes on 12 issues tabulated
PRINCETON, N. J., Jan. 6 -- Princeton University opened its defense of the Ivy League basketball championship today by routing Pennsylvania, 73-47.