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The Long Island Rail Road citing a "critical financial problem," has requested fare increases ranging from 7 to 10 cents a ride, effective March 22.
POINTE - A - PURE, Guadeloupe, Wednesday, March 6--An Air France jetliner with 62 persons aboard crashed into the side of a mountain near the village of Saint Claude last...
ALBANY, March 5 -- The Legislature, in one of the most emotional debates of the session, voted tonight to broaden the powers of policemen and householders to...
WASHINGTON, March 5-- Two of the nation's key medical organizations joined today in a call for large increases in the number of doctors trained in the United States.
PRAGUE, March 5--The new Communist leadership of Czechoslovakia announced tonight the dismissal of Jiri Hendrych from his influential post as secretary for ideological...
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 6, 1968, covering March 6, 1968.
Paul Mauriat And His Orchestra
Bob Dylan
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
The Beatles
Aretha Franklin
1968Moira Kelly, American actress and director[†]
Moira Kelly is an American actress. She is known for portraying Kate Moseley in the 1992 film The Cutting Edge as well as single mother Karen Roe on the teen drama One Tree Hill. She is also known for playing the role of Donna Hayward in Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, replacing Lara Flynn Boyle in the prequel to the 1990 TV series Twin Peaks. Other roles include Dorothy Day in Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story, White House media consultant Mandy Hampton in the first season of The West Wing, and the adult voice of Simba's love interest Nala in The Lion King and its direct-to-video sequels The Lion King II: Simba's Pride and The Lion King 1½. She also played Hetty Kelly and Oona O'Neill in Chaplin.
1968Carla McGhee, American basketball player and coach[†]
Carla Renee McGhee is an American former basketball player most notable for her career at the University of Tennessee. She was injured in a car crash in October 1987 and was in a coma for 47 hours, suffering brain injuries and breaking nearly every bone in her face. She was told she'd never play again. She was a member of the gold medal-winning 1996 Olympic Team.
1968Three rebels are executed by Rhodesia, the first executions since UDI, prompting international condemnation.[†]
Rhodesia, officially the Republic of Rhodesia from 1970, was an unrecognised state in Southern Africa that existed from 1965 to 1979. Rhodesia served as the de facto successor state to the British colony of Southern Rhodesia following a unilateral declaration of independence issued by the ruling white-minority government. Throughout this fourteen-year period, Rhodesia faced internal conflict and political unrest. Following the Lancaster House Agreement in 1979, the territory returned to British political control and then subsequently gained internationally recognised independence as Zimbabwe in 1980.
In 1968, the world population was approximately 3,545,187,251 people[†]