About the day » Saturday June 29, 1968Calender converter

• Ludo Kuyken, Wilrijk, België († 1986)
• Adam Kiliszek († 1977)
• Diana Minneboo, Den Helder († 1969)
• Hans Walter Arnold Nelis, Amstelveen
• Jan Koopman, Oosterend (Texel, NH) († 2023)
• Eric Wilhelmus Christoffel Schenck, Steenbergen
• Jon Wesley PEARSON († 1986)
• Cambi Renee Corbin, Blue Earth, Faribault, Minnesota, Verenigde Staten († 1968)
• Franky BLONTIA, Saint-Mard bij Virton († 1987)
• John G Vanden Langenberg († 1992)

• Fernand Jules Herbay (80), Souppes-Sur-Loing, France
• Arjaantje Lanser (77), Sliedrecht
• Annie Foss (82), Vancouver, British Columbia
• Gerrit GROENEVELD
• Chris Norman Kirby (7), Scout Lake, Saskatchewan
• Catharina Theodora Maria de Bruin (89), Breda
• Anna Cornelia Schollee (91), Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Elzo Bulthuis (69), Leiden,Zuid-Holland,Niederlande
• Elbert Versteeg (70), Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Annie Mae Pappas (79)

• 1966 » Yoko Kamio, Japanese author and comic artist
• 1967 » Jeff Burton, American race car driver
• 1967 » Melora Hardin, American actress and singer
• 1967 » Seamus McGarvey, Northern Irish cinematographer
• 1968 » Brian d'Arcy James, American actor and musician
• 1968 » Judith Hoag, American actress and educator
• 1968 » Theoren Fleury, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1969 » Claude Béchard, Canadian politician († 2010)
• 1969 » Pavlos Dermitzakis, Greek footballer and manager
• 1969 » Tōru Hashimoto, Japanese lawyer and politician

• 1960 » Frank Patrick, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1885)
• 1962 » Charles Lyon Chandler, American historian (b. 1883)
• 1964 » Eric Dolphy, American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (b. 1928)
• 1967 » Jayne Mansfield, American actress (b. 1933)
• 1967 » Primo Carnera, Italian boxer and actor (b. 1906)
• 1969 » Moise Tshombe, Congolese accountant and politician, Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (b. 1919)
• 1971 » Nestor Mesta Chayres, Mexican operatic tenor and bolero vocalist (b. 1908)
• 1975 » Tim Buckley, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1947)
• 1978 » Bob Crane, American actor (b. 1928)
• 1979 » Lowell George, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (b. 1945)

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. Jolanda
12. Karin
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.
• February 8 » American civil rights movement: The Orangeburg massacre: An attack on black students from South Carolina State University who are protesting racial segregation at the town's only bowling alley, leaves three or four dead in Orangeburg, South Carolina.
• April 20 » English politician Enoch Powell makes his controversial "Rivers of Blood" speech.
• April 29 » The controversial musical Hair, a product of the hippie counter-culture and sexual revolution of the 1960s, opens at the Biltmore Theatre on Broadway, with some of its songs becoming anthems of the anti-Vietnam War movement.
• December 13 » Brazilian President Artur da Costa e Silva issues AI-5 (Institutional Act No. 5), enabling government by decree and suspending habeas corpus.
• December 16 » Second Vatican Council: Official revocation of the Edict of Expulsion of Jews from Spain.
• December 31 » The first flight of the Tupolev Tu-144, the first civilian supersonic transport in the world.

The temperature on June 29, 1968 was between 11.2 °C and 19.4 °C and averaged 15.3 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 1.9 hours of sunshine (11%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest.