The temperature on February 5, 1968 was between -0.6 °C and 2.3 °C and averaged 0.7 °C. There was 5.1 mm of rain during 8.1 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
March 12 » Mauritius achieves independence from the United Kingdom.
May 12 » Vietnam War: North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces attack Australian troops defending Fire Support Base Coral.
September 30 » The Boeing 747 is rolled out and shown to the public for the first time.
October 14 » Jim Hines becomes the first man ever to break the so-called "ten-second barrier" in the 100-meter sprint with a time of 9.95 seconds.
November 17 » British European Airways introduces the BAC One-Eleven into commercial service.
December 25 » Apollo program: Apollo 8 performs the first successful Trans-Earth injection (TEI) maneuver, sending the crew and spacecraft on a trajectory back to Earth from Lunar orbit.
When copying data from this family tree, please include a reference to the origin: Anthony Willis, "Anthony Willis family tree", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/anthony-willis-family-tree/I310134014935.php : accessed May 23, 2024), "Leslie Hale Warry (1882-1968)".
Copy warning
Genealogical publications are copyright protected. Although data is often retrieved from public archives, the searching, interpreting, collecting, selecting and sorting of the data results in a unique product. Copyright protected work may not simply be copied or republished.
Please stick to the following rules
Request permission to copy data or at least inform the author, chances are that the author gives permission, often the contact also leads to more exchange of data.
Do not use this data until you have checked it, preferably at the source (the archives).
State from whom you have copied the data and ideally also his/her original source.