About the day » Monday December 2, 1968Calender converter

• Marc Alan Mills, Lincoln Park, Michigan
• Heidi G J P Zomers, Veghel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Marian Lamers, Heteren,, Gelderland, Nederland († 2002)
• Jan-Willem van Egmond│Vermae, Rijnsburg († 1974)
• Ronald Emanuel vd Hoeven, Rotterdam († 1995)
• Steven Stclair, Long Beach, Los Angeles County, California, United States of America († 1994)
• Mark Evert Jan Kousman, borculo
• Piet Gerritsen, Raalte († 2014)
• Gerrit Dirk Manders, Wadenoijen, Gelderland, Netherlands († 2008)

• Aaltje Holtman (78), Foxhol (gem. Midden-Groningen)
• Alphons Cornelis Sanders (56), Eindhoven
• Catharina van Stipriaan (87)
• Angèle MONTÉGU (79), Angers, Maine-et-Loire, Pays de la Loire, France
• Adriaan Bras (73), dordrecht
• Adriana Jacoba Gijzenij (53)
• Antonia Maria Theresia Deckers (29), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• * Cornelis Veenbrink (78), Utrecht
• Ate Bloemhoff (67), Renkum
• Ada May Massey (69), Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, Verenigde Staten

• 1967 » Mary Creagh, English scholar and politician, Shadow Secretary of State for Transport
• 1968 » Darryl Kile, American baseball player († 2002)
• 1968 » David Batty, English footballer
• 1968 » Lucy Liu, American actress and producer
• 1968 » Nate Mendel, American singer-songwriter and bass player
• 1968 » Rena Sofer, American actress
• 1969 » Pavel Loskutov, Estonian runner
• 1969 » Tanya Plibersek, Australian journalist and politician, 45th Australian Minister of Health
• 1969 » Ulrika Bergquist, Swedish journalist
• 1969 » Yang Hyun-suk, South Korean singer-songwriter and producer

• 1957 » Harrison Ford, American actor (b. 1884)
• 1957 » Manfred Sakel, Ukrainian-American neurophysiologist and psychiatrist (b. 1902)
• 1966 » Giles Cooper, Irish author, playwright, and screenwriter (b. 1918)
• 1966 » L. E. J. Brouwer, Dutch mathematician and philosopher (b. 1881)
• 1969 » José María Arguedas, Peruvian anthropologist, author, and poet (b. 1911)
• 1969 » Kliment Voroshilov, Ukrainian-Russian marshal and politician, 3rd Head of State of The Soviet Union (b. 1881)
• 1974 » Max Weber, Swiss lawyer and politician (b. 1897)
• 1976 » Danny Murtaugh, American baseball player and manager (b. 1917)
• 1980 » Chaudhry Muhammad Ali, Indian-Pakistani lawyer and politician, 4th Prime Minister of Pakistan (b. 1905)
• 1980 » Romain Gary, Lithuanian-French author, director, and screenwriter (b. 1914)

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. Elisabeth
9. Esther
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.
• March 21 » Battle of Karameh in Jordan between the Israel Defense Forces and the combined forces of the Jordanian Armed Forces and PLO.
• April 11 » President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968, prohibiting discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing.
• August 28 » The police rioted during the Democratic National Convention, beating up anti-war protesters, peaceful demonstrators, innocent bystanders, and members of the press.
• September 13 » Cold War: Albania leaves the Warsaw Pact.
• 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 20 » A total of 78 miners are killed in an explosion at the Consolidated Coal Company's No. 9 mine in Farmington, West Virginia in the Farmington Mine disaster.

The temperature on December 2, 1968 was between 1.0 °C and 5.7 °C and averaged 2.0 °C. The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast.