On this day
Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
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2 youths seized after terrorizing riders on Lexington Av IRT train by swinging heavy bicycle chains and brandishing knives; illus
3 human skeletons found on Cummins grounds; scores of inmates have disappeared, classified as escapees, over past 60 yrs; search for more bodies set
Uniformed Sanitationmen's Assn sets strike deadline; negotiators spur efforts to reach settlement, move talks to Gracie Mansion; union pres DeLury repts key issue demand for sharp wage rise; also notes question of pension payments
Johnson calls for tax rise, stresses that it is Vietnam war, not increase in regular budget outlays, that requires rise and that whole of rite will be used to cut budget deficit, Budget Message; surcharge would cut $20-billion fiscal '69 deficit by $12.93-billion
Lindsay urges abolition of marshal system, says city could save $750,000 yrly if marshals duties were transferred to Sheriff's office, s, NYC Bar Assn; cites Investigation Dept study and complaints recd against marshals; challenges McCloskey estimate that it would cost city $2.45-million to collect fees marshals are expected to collect in '68
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 24, 1968, covering January 30, 1968.
The Beatles
The Rolling Stones
The Monkees
Diana Ross & The Supremes
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
1968Felipe VI of Spain[†]
Felipe VI is King of Spain. In accordance with the Spanish Constitution, as monarch, he is head of state and commander-in-chief of the Spanish Armed Forces, holding the military rank of captain general, and also plays the role of the supreme representation of Spain in international relations.
1968Makhanlal Chaturvedi, Indian poet, playwright, and journalist (born 1889)[†]
Pandit Makhanlal Chaturvedi, also called Pandit ji, was an Indian poet, writer, essayist, playwright and who is particularly remembered for his participation in India's national struggle for independence and his contribution to Chhayavaad, the Neo-romanticism movement of Hindi literature. He was awarded the first Sahitya Akademi Award in Hindi for his work Him Tarangini in 1955. The Government of India awarded him the civilian honour of the Padma Bhushan in 1963. For his works reinforcing Indian nationalism during the British Raj, he is referred to as the Yug Charan.
1968Vietnam War: Tet Offensive launch by forces of the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army against South Vietnam, the United States, and their allies.[†]
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[†]