On this day
Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
Portrait 1080 × 1920 PNG · created on your device
PARIS, Nov. 16 -- President de Gaulle, amid growing concern over the stability of the franc, called Premier Maurice Couve de Murville and Finance Minister Francois-Xavier Ortoli today to an unusual Saturday-morning conference at Elysee Palace.
PITTSBURGH, Nov. 16 -- Army, which had scored 58 points in its previous game, and Pittsburgh, which had yielded 56, met in the rain this afternoon and nobody found out if the Pitt scoreboard has roam for three figures in the visitors' scoring totals.
S Klaw book The New Brahmins, on scientific life in America, revd; illus
Yellow Submarine: Rev
Daytop Village, NYC addict rehabilitation center, split by charges brought by majority of dirs, that exec dir D Deitch has been transforming community into 'New Left commune'; Deitch critics, led by dirs bd pres Msgr O'Brien, call on govt agencies to withhold all funds until dispute is settled; rival casts of ex-addicts vie for stage at Sheridan Sq Playhouse to present drama, the profits from which have been donated to Daytop by producers; Dr D Casriel, O'Brien ally, says both sides overemphasize ideological issue; holds real issue is that Deitch loaded paid staff with his relatives and friends and refused to carry out bd directives
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 13, 1968, covering November 17, 1968.
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Big Brother And The Holding Company
The Rascals
Jose Feliciano
Steppenwolf
1968Sean Miller, American basketball player and coach[†]
Sean Edward Miller is an American college basketball coach who currently serves as head coach at the University of Texas at Austin. He previously served as head coach at the University of Arizona from 2009 to 2021 and Xavier University from 2004 to 2009 and then again from 2022 to 2025.
1968Mervyn Peake, English poet, author, and illustrator (born 1911)[†]
Mervyn Laurence Peake was a British writer, artist, poet, and illustrator. He is best known for what are usually referred to as the Gormenghast books. The four works were part of what Peake conceived as a lengthy cycle, the completion of which was prevented by his death. They are sometimes compared to the work of his older contemporary J. R. R. Tolkien, but Peake's surreal fiction was influenced by his early love for Charles Dickens and Robert Louis Stevenson rather than Tolkien's studies of mythology and philology.
1968Abdul Wahed Bokainagari, Bengali politician (born 1876)[†]
Abdul Wahed Bokainagari was a Bengali politician.
1968British European Airways introduces the BAC One-Eleven into commercial service.[†]
The BAC One-Eleven is a retired early jet airliner produced by the British Aircraft Corporation (BAC). Conceived by Hunting Aircraft as a 30-seat jet, before its merger into BAC in 1960, it was launched as an 80-seat airliner with a British United Airways (BUA) order on 9 May 1961. The prototype conducted its maiden flight on 20 August 1963, and it was first delivered to BUA on 22 January 1965. The 119-seat, stretched 500 series was introduced in 1967. Total production amounted to 244 until 1982 in the United Kingdom including 1982 to 1989 in Romania where nine Rombac One-Elevens were licence-built by Romaero.
1968Viewers of the Raiders–Jets football game in the eastern United States are denied the opportunity to watch its exciting finish when NBC broadcasts Heidi instead, prompting changes to sports broadcasting in the U.S.[†]
The Heidi Game or Heidi Bowl was a 1968 American Football League (AFL) game between the Oakland Raiders and the visiting New York Jets. The contest, held on November 17, 1968, was notable for its exciting finish, in which Oakland scored two touchdowns in the final minute to win the game 43–32. However, NBC, the game's television broadcaster, decided to break away from its coverage on the East Coast to broadcast the television film Heidi, which caused many viewers to miss the Raiders' comeback.
In 1968, the world population was approximately 3,545,187,251 people[†]