About the day » Sunday October 20, 1968Calender converter

• Joanne Maree Wilts, Australië († 1969)
• Remi Ricciarelli, Bondy, Seine-Saint- Denis, Frankrijk
• Willem H Overbeek, markelo
• Annelies Knoester, Den Haag († 1979)

• Aaltje Muis (38)
• Cecilia Dorsemagen (49)
• Catharina Geertruida Anna GEUZE (78), Bergen Op Zoom (N. Br. Nl)
• Aaltje Steenge (86), Hoogezand-Sappemeer,Groningen,Niederlande
• Aleida Hendrika Hinnen (68), Almelo
• Anna Hendrika van den Berg (61), Wageningen
• Aleida Hendrika Hinnen (68), Almelo, Overijssel, Nederland
• Antoinette ROSBAK (68), Valkenburg
• Abraham Coronel (72), Amsterdam
• Cornelis Pothoff (55), Groningen,, Groningen, Nederland

• 1966 » Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Jordanian militant Islamist († 2006)
• 1966 » Allan Donald, South African cricketer and coach
• 1966 » Patrick Volkerding, American computer scientist and engineer, founded Slackware
• 1967 » Elizabeth Carling, English actress and singer
• 1967 » Kerrod Walters, Australian rugby league player
• 1967 » Kevin Walters, Australian rugby league player and coach
• 1968 » Susan Tully, English actress, director, and producer
• 1969 » Juan González, Puerto Rican-American baseball player
• 1969 » Labros Papakostas, Greek high jumper
• 1969 » Laurie Daley, Australian rugby league player and coach

• 1953 » Werner Baumbach, German colonel and pilot (b. 1916)
• 1956 » Lawrence Dale Bell, American industrialist and founder of Bell Aircraft Corporation (b. 1894)
• 1957 » Michalis Dorizas, Greek-American javelin thrower and football player (b. 1890)
• 1964 » Herbert Hoover, American engineer and politician, 31st President of the United States (b. 1874)
• 1967 » Shigeru Yoshida, Japanese politician and diplomat, 32nd Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1878)
• 1968 » Bud Flanagan, English actor and screenwriter (b. 1896)
• 1972 » Harlow Shapley, American astronomer and academic (b. 1885)
• 1977 » Ronnie Van Zant, American singer-songwriter (b. 1948)
• 1977 » Steve Gaines, American guitarist (b. 1949)
• 1978 » Gunnar Nilsson, Swedish race car driver (b. 1948)

• 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.
• March 12 » Mauritius achieves independence from the United Kingdom.
• March 16 » General Motors produces its 100 millionth automobile, the Oldsmobile Toronado.
• July 1 » The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons is signed in Washington, D.C., London and Moscow by sixty-two countries.
• October 2 » Mexican President Gustavo Díaz Ordaz orders soldiers to suppress a demonstration of unarmed students, ten days before the start of the 1968 Summer Olympics.
• October 14 » The 6.5 M_w  Meckering earthquake shook the southwest portion of Western Australia with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), causing $2.2 million in damage and leaving 20–28 people injured.
• November 15 » The Cleveland Transit System becomes the first transit system in the western hemisphere to provide direct rapid transit service from a city's downtown to its major airport.

The temperature on October 20, 1968 was between 5.2 °C and 16.1 °C and averaged 9.7 °C. There was 6.2 hours of sunshine (60%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south.