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 December 4, 1968, covering December 10, 1968.
Big Brother And The Holding Company
Jose Feliciano
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Steppenwolf
The Rascals
Cream
Iron Butterfly
The Chambers Brothers
Jimi Hendrix
Glen Campbell
1968Yōko Oginome, Japanese singer, actress, and voice actress[†]
Yōko Oginome , married name Yōko Tsujino , is a former pop idol, actress and voice actress, who gained popularity in the mid-1980s. Her fans often call her Oginome-chan. Her husband is Ryuso Tsujino.
1968Karl Barth, Swiss theologian and author (born 1886)[†]
Karl Barth was a Swiss Reformed theologian. Barth is best known for his commentary The Epistle to the Romans, his involvement in the Confessing Church, including his authorship of the Barmen Declaration, and especially his unfinished multi-volume theological summa the Church Dogmatics. Barth's influence expanded well beyond the academic realm to mainstream culture, leading him to be featured on the cover of Time on 20 April 1962.
1968George Forrest, Northern Irish lawyer and politician (born 1921)[†]
George Forrest was a Northern Irish unionist politician from Tullyhogue Cookstown who served as MP for Mid Ulster in the House of Commons from 1956 until his death. One of twelve children of Joseph and Sarah-Jane Forrest, George Forrest was an auctioneer and publican prior to his election to parliament.
1968Thomas Merton, American monk and author (born 1915)[†]
Thomas Merton, religious name M. Louis, was an American Trappist monk, writer, theologian, mystic, poet, social activist and scholar of comparative religion. He was a monk in the Trappist Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani, near Bardstown, Kentucky, living there from 1941 to his death.
1968Japan's biggest heist, the still-unsolved "300 million yen robbery", is carried out in Tokyo.[†]
The 300 million yen robbery , also known as the 300 million yen affair or 300 million yen incident, was an armed robbery that took place in Tokyo, Japan, on December 10, 1968. A man posing as a police officer on a motorcycle stopped bank employees transferring money and stole 294 million yen. It is the single largest heist in Japanese history to date, and remains unsolved.
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Sec Rusk to make taped comment on past events at planned L B Johnson Library
PO Dept's NY Region and Natl Assn of Letter Carriers seek means to halt assaults and robberies of lr carriers delivering welfare checks in NYC
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comes to Washington to inform Kennedy family of his intention of becoming chief US repr at UN in Nixon Adm
police escort 8 union teachers into PS 39 as demonstrators again try to bar teachers; illus; 4 persons arrested; parent boycott keeps all 500 pupils out of school; Wilson invites demonstrators into school in bid to de-escalate situation; demonstrators later stage march to police hq, W 126th St, scoring police; J Bond, Negro Ga legislator, calls situation 'frightening'; 29 PS 39 teachers visit Educ Bd to protest presence of police at school and union teachers; Firman orders McCoy to submit plan for reopening JHS 271 or face possible removal as dist admr; says he may impose his own plan if McCoy fails to act
Carnegie Corp pres Pifer warns tax-free foundations to 'put their house in better order' or risk restrictive legis from Cong, rept; holds such legis might curb private donations to foundations and put Cong in position of judging effectiveness of foundations; says present rate of establishment of 2,000 foundations a yr makes many observers query whether foundations serve philanthropic purposes; rejects Repr Patman proposal to limit life of foundations to 25 yrs
Rockefeller, announcing he will seek 4th term, stresses need to carry through urban aid programs of Urban Development Corp, int; sees breakthrough near in efforts to aid cities
Apptd special asst to Pres-elect Nixon; is Nixon's 1st Negro appointee
proposed '69-70 school budget provides $1,744,000 for decentralization operations by proposed 33 local school dist bds; details
Natl Urban League exec dir Young announces action program in 21 Negro communities in 16 states and Dist of Columbia designed to give ghetto residents control over their destinies and spur inst changes held prerequisite for solving US racial problems; league hopes to fund programs in 93 communities with orgn affiliates; areas covered in programs noted; Ford and Rockefeller Foundations are major backers of program