The temperature on November 2, 1967 was between 6.0 °C and 11.3 °C and averaged 8.7 °C. There was 9.1 mm of rain during 2.6 hours. There was 3.8 hours of sunshine (40%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
January 29 » The "ultimate high" of the hippie era, the Mantra-Rock Dance, takes place in San Francisco and features Janis Joplin, Grateful Dead, and Allen Ginsberg.
March 6 » Cold War: Joseph Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva defects to the United States.
May 30 » The Nigerian Eastern Region declares independence as the Republic of Biafra, sparking a civil war.
August 24 » Led by Abbie Hoffman, the Youth International Party temporarily disrupts trading at the New York Stock Exchange by throwing dollar bills from the viewing gallery, causing trading to cease as brokers scramble to grab them.
September 1 » The Khmer–Chinese Friendship Association is banned in Cambodia.
October 21 » The National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam organizes a march of fifty thousand people from the Lincoln Memorial to the Pentagon.
Day of death January 25, 1968
The temperature on January 25, 1968 was between 3.6 °C and 7.1 °C and averaged 5.6 °C. There was 3.6 mm of rain during 7.3 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
August 20 » Cold War: Warsaw Pact troops invade Czechoslovakia, crushing the Prague Spring. East German participation is limited to a few specialists due to memories of the recent war. Only Albania and Romania refuse to participate.
September 6 » Swaziland becomes independent.
October 1 » Guyana nationalizes the British Guiana Broadcasting Service, which would eventually become part of the National Communications Network, Guyana.
October 31 » Vietnam War October surprise: Citing progress with the Paris peace talks, US President Lyndon B. Johnson announces to the nation that he has ordered a complete cessation of "all air, naval, and artillery bombardment of North Vietnam" effective November 1.
December 25 » Kilvenmani massacre: Forty-four Dalits (untouchables) are burnt to death in Kizhavenmani village, Tamil Nadu, a retaliation for a campaign for higher wages by Dalit laborers.
Day of burial January 29, 1968
The temperature on January 29, 1968 was between 0.8 °C and 6.8 °C and averaged 3.7 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 2.7 hours of sunshine (30%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
January 22 » Operation Igloo White, a US electronic surveillance system to stop communist infiltration into South Vietnam begins installation.
March 28 » Brazilian high school student Edson Luís de Lima Souto is killed by military police at a protest for cheaper meals at a restaurant for low-income students.
April 4 » A.E.K. Athens B.C. becomes the first Greek team to win the European Basketball Cup.
August 22 » Pope Paul VI arrives in Bogotá, Colombia. It is the first visit of a pope to Latin America.
October 12 » Equatorial Guinea becomes independent from Spain.
November 23 » 1968 Yale vs. Harvard football game: Harvard Crimson rallies to tie Yale Bulldogs 29–29 at Harvard Stadium in Boston, Massachusetts.
When copying data from this family tree, please include a reference to the origin: Karen M Hughes, "More like a forest than a tree!", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/karens-family-tree/I26500.php : accessed June 13, 2024), "Rodney Maxwell GREGORY (1967-1968)".
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.