January 4 » Topsy, an elephant, is electrocuted by the owners of Luna Park, Coney Island. The Edison film company records the film Electrocuting an Elephant of Topsy's death.
January 9 » Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson, son of the poet Alfred Tennyson, becomes the second Governor-General of Australia.
February 11 » Anton Bruckner's 9th Symphony receives its first performance in Vienna, Austria.
June 16 » The Ford Motor Company is incorporated.
June 19 » Benito Mussolini, at the time a radical Socialist, is arrested by Bern police for advocating a violent general strike.
October 1 » Baseball: The Boston Americans play the Pittsburgh Pirates in the first game of the modern World Series.
Day of death May 8, 1968
The temperature on May 8, 1968 was between 3.9 °C and 13.7 °C and averaged 9.1 °C. There was 3.8 hours of sunshine (25%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
May 26 » H-dagurinn in Iceland: Traffic changes from driving on the left to driving on the right overnight
July 17 » Abdul Rahman Arif is overthrown and the Ba'ath Party is installed as the governing power in Iraq with Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr as the new Iraqi President.
September 30 » The Boeing 747 is rolled out and shown to the public for the first time.
October 5 » A Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association march in Derry is violently suppressed by police.
November 17 » British European Airways introduces the BAC One-Eleven into commercial service.
December 16 » Second Vatican Council: Official revocation of the Edict of Expulsion of Jews from Spain.
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