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Pres Johnson creates orgn, to be headed by H Ford 2d, to spearhead program of inducing business to recruit and train hard-core jobless, special message to Cong
US Cong members score seizure; Sen Russell and Repr B Wilson call for strong US response; Sen Thurmond urges US ultimatum to N Korea, wire to Pres Johnson; Sens Mansfield, Fulbright and Symington comments
USAF search teams reptdly detect small amts of radiation from some or all of bombs; do not find bombs; radiation detection seen sign bombs are scattered across surface and did not plunge through ice with parts of plane into 800 ft of water; search hampered by Arctic winter
NJ sues NYS in US Sup Ct, charging that NY Appeals Ct violated pact between the 2 states when it ruled that NY Port Auth should pay $30-million for H&M RR's Hudson tubes, which auth took over in '62 condemnation proceedings
to resign after his Soc Dem party suffers defeat in Danish election
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 24, 1968, covering January 24, 1968.
The Beatles
The Rolling Stones
The Monkees
Diana Ross & The Supremes
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
1968Fernando Escartín, Spanish cyclist[†]
Fernando Escartín Coti is a Spanish former road racing cyclist. Between 1995 and 2000 he came in the top 10 of the Tour de France five times and in that same time period finished on the podium in 2nd place at the Vuelta a España, twice.
1968Tymerlan Huseynov, Ukrainian footballer[†]
Tymerlan Rustamovych Huseynov is a former Ukrainian footballer of Kumyk origin who is now sporting director of FC Dniester Ovidiopol. He was the Ukrainian Premier League's top goalscorer in the 1993–94 and 1995–96 seasons scoring 18 and 20 goals respectively, and scored 8 goals in 14 internationals.
1968Antony Garrett Lisi, American theoretical physicist[†]
Antony Garrett Lisi, known as Garrett Lisi, is an American theoretical physicist. Lisi works as an independent researcher without an academic position.
1968Mary Lou Retton, American gymnast[†]
Mary Lou Retton is an American retired gymnast. At the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, she won a gold medal in the individual all-around competition, as well as two silver medals and two bronze medals.
1968Vietnam War: The 1st Australian Task Force launches Operation Coburg against the North Vietnamese Army and Viet Cong during wider fighting around Long Bình and Biên Hòa.[†]
The Vietnam War was an armed conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia fought between North Vietnam and South Vietnam and their allies. North Vietnam was supported by the Soviet Union and China, while South Vietnam was supported by the United States and other anti-communist nations. The conflict was the second of the Indochina wars and a proxy war of the Cold War between the Soviet Union and US. The Vietnam War was one of the postcolonial wars of national liberation, a theater in the Cold War, and a civil war, with civil warfare a defining feature from the outset. Direct US military involvement escalated from 1965 until its withdrawal in 1973. The fighting spilled into the Laotian and Cambodian Civil Wars, which ended with all three countries becoming communist in 1975.
In 1968, the world population was approximately 3,545,187,251 people[†]