About the day » Tuesday September 10, 1968Calender converter

• Maren Peterson, Detroit († 1968)
• Piroska Treber, Bornem († 1989)
• Nestor Kirchner, Santa Catarina, Brasil († 1991)
• Aletta Antonia Helena Vermeulen, Dirksland († 1982)
• Richard van Oevelen, Oudenbosch, Halderberge, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands († 1968)
• Yvonne Theodora Reiniera van den Berg, Hengelo

• Alfred d'Auersperg (68), Hambourg (Hamburg), 02000, Allemagne
• "Alfred" Johann Maria Anton Rupert von Auersperg (68), Hamburg, Allemagne
• Auguste Emile POLYN (60), Faches-Thumesnil,59155,Nord,Hauts-de-France,FRANCE
• Aaltje Veneberg (64), Vroomshoop
• Alène Josephine Cathérine Ceulemants (60), Hasselt, België
• Albertus Beekhuizen (87), Schoonhoven
• Anna Maria Reyers (91), Berlicum,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Bate jellema (58), Groningen
• Cornelis Neeleman (57), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Daisy Todd (80), Tampa, Hillsborough, Florida

• 1966 » Joe Nieuwendyk, Canadian ice hockey player and manager
• 1966 » Yuki Saito, Japanese singer and actress
• 1968 » Andreas Herzog, Austrian footballer and manager
• 1968 » Big Daddy Kane, American rapper, producer, and actor
• 1968 » Guy Ritchie, English director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1969 » Craig Innes, New Zealand rugby player
• 1969 » Johnathon Schaech, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1970 » Dean Gorré, Surinamese footballer and manager
• 1970 » Ménélik, Cameroonian-French rapper
• 1970 » Paula Kelley, American singer-songwriter

• 1961 » Leo Carrillo, American actor and singer (b. 1880)
• 1961 » Wolfgang von Trips, German race car driver (b. 1928)
• 1965 » Father Divine, American spiritual leader (b. 1880)
• 1966 » Emil Julius Gumbel, German mathematician and statistician (b. 1891)
• 1968 » Erna Mohr, German zoologist (b. 1894)
• 1971 » Pier Angeli, Italian-American actress and singer (b. 1932)
• 1973 » Cornelia Meigs, American author and playwright (b. 1884)
• 1975 » George Paget Thomson, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)
• 1975 » Hans Swarowsky, Hungarian-Austrian conductor and educator (b. 1899)
• 1976 » Dalton Trumbo, American screenwriter and novelist (b. 1905)

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. Patrick
14. John
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.
• January 22 » Operation Igloo White, a US electronic surveillance system to stop communist infiltration into South Vietnam begins installation.
• March 12 » Mauritius achieves independence from the United Kingdom.
• April 10 » The TEV Wahine, a New Zealand ferry sinks in Wellington harbour due to a fierce storm – the strongest winds ever in Wellington. Out of the 734 people on board, fifty-three died.
• May 30 » Charles de Gaulle reappears publicly after his flight to Baden-Baden, Germany, and dissolves the French National Assembly by a radio appeal. Immediately after, less than one million of his supporters march on the Champs-Élysées in Paris. This is the turning point of May 1968 events in France.
• 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.
• 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).

The temperature on September 10, 1968 was between 14.8 °C and 25.2 °C and averaged 19.5 °C. There was 10.4 hours of sunshine (80%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast.