About the day » Friday May 17, 1968Calender converter

• David Leroy TORRENGA, Muskegon County Michigan U.S.A († 2016)
• Mirjam Jeanette Luppen († 2013)
• Wilfried Meeusen († 2009)
• Albertus van Rietschoten, Dordrecht († 1971)
• Judith Esther Pol, Zaandam († 2022)

• Arentje Gerrits Henstra (77), Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland
• CLEMENTINA ELVIRA DUA (68), GENT,OOST-VLAANDEREN,BELGIE
• Arie Leendert Schutte (89), Den Helder
• Achiel Delheye (73), Houthulst
• Charlotte Luise Anne Helene van Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg (88), Tegernsee, Duitsland
• Adolf Hubertus Verhoeven (79), Maastricht
• Catharina Johanna Reijngoudt (80), Goes
• Anna Cornelia GOMMERS (61), Kalmthout, Antwerpen België
• Anthonie Aarnoudse (3)
• Catharina Johanna Reijngoudt (80), Goes

• 1966 » Danny Manning, American basketball player and coach
• 1966 » Gilles Quénéhervé, French sprinter
• 1966 » Mark Kratzmann, Australian tennis player and coach
• 1966 » Qusay Hussein, Iraqi soldier and politician († 2003)
• 1967 » Mohamed Nasheed, Maldivian lawyer and politician 4th President of the Maldives
• 1967 » Nancy Benoit, American professional wrestling valet and model († 2007)
• 1967 » Patrick Ortlieb, Austrian skier
• 1968 » Dave Abbruzzese, American rock drummer and songwriter
• 1969 » Keith Hill, English footballer and manager
• 1970 » Hubert Davis, American basketball player and coach

• 1947 » George Forbes, New Zealand farmer and politician, 22nd Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1869)
• 1951 » William Birdwood, Anglo-Indian field marshal (b. 1865)
• 1960 » Jules Supervielle, Uruguayan-French poet and author (b. 1884)
• 1963 » John Wilce, American football player, coach, and physician (b. 1888)
• 1964 » Nandor Fodor, Hungarian-American psychologist and parapsychologist (b. 1895)
• 1974 » Ernest Nash, German-American photographer and scholar (b. 1898)
• 1977 » Charles E. Rosendahl, American admiral and pilot (b. 1892)
• 1980 » Gündüz Kılıç, Turkish football player and coach (b. 1918)
• 1985 » Abe Burrows, American director, composer, and author (b. 1910)
• 1987 » Gunnar Myrdal, Swedish economist, sociologist, and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898)

1. Jan
2. Johannes
3. Robert
4. Peter
5. Johan
6. Hendrik
7. Richard
8. Michael
9. Marcel
10. Willem
11. Cornelis
12. Mark
13. John
14. Patrick
15. Eric
16. Ronald

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Monique
4. Ingrid
5. Sandra
6. Petra
7. Anna
8. Esther
9. Elisabeth
10. Yvonne
11. Karin
12. Jolanda
13. Jacqueline
14. Cornelia
15. Linda
16. Sylvia

• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from April 5, 1967 to Tuesday, July 6, 1971 the cabinet De Jong, with P.J.S. de Jong (KVP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 12.7 million citizens.
• January 22 » Operation Igloo White, a US electronic surveillance system to stop communist infiltration into South Vietnam begins installation.
• April 8 » BOAC Flight 712 catches fire shortly after takeoff. As a result of her actions in the accident, Barbara Jane Harrison is awarded a posthumous George Cross, the only GC awarded to a woman in peacetime.
• October 16 » Yasunari Kawabata becomes the first Japanese person to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
• December 9 » Douglas Engelbart gave what became known as "The Mother of All Demos", publicly debuting the computer mouse, hypertext, and the bit-mapped graphical user interface using the oN-Line System (NLS).
• December 20 » The Zodiac Killer kills Betty Lou Jenson and David Faraday in Vallejo, California.
• December 31 » The first flight of the Tupolev Tu-144, the first civilian supersonic transport in the world.

The temperature on May 17, 1968 was between 2.6 °C and 10.8 °C and averaged 6.5 °C. There was 1.3 mm of rain during 0.4 hours. There was 6.9 hours of sunshine (44%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest.