About the day » Wednesday February 14, 1968Calender converter

• Anna Klasina Kranenburg, Geervliet
• Ronald Boxem, Pinetown, Natal, South Africa
• Jeffrey Scott Rogers, Maine, United States of America
• Eduard de Beurs
• Lilian Kok († 1998)

• Catharina Lendrts Keus (41), unbekannt
• Aaltje Engel (70), Amsterdam
• Cornelis Zwaans (83)
• Bernardus Leuvenink (90), Leidschendam
• Anthonij Pladdet (73), Zuidzande, Nederland
• Daniel Joseph Wolgast (20), Saginaw, Michigan, Verenigde Staten
• Aaltje van de Wal (92), Drachten, gem. Smallingerland, Friesland, Nederland
• Charles E Walker, Vancouver, Washington
• Carolina Jacoba van Amerongen (65), Utrecht
• Cornelis Leemhuis (89), Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland

• 1966 » Petr Svoboda, Czech ice hockey player and agent
• 1967 » Manuela Maleeva, Bulgarian-Swiss tennis player
• 1967 » Mark Rutte, Dutch businessman and politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands
• 1967 » Stelios Haji-Ioannou, Greek-English businessman, founded easyJet
• 1968 » Chris Lewis, Guyanese-English cricketer
• 1968 » Jules Asner, American model and television host
• 1968 » Scott McClellan, American civil servant and author, 25th White House Press Secretary
• 1969 » Meg Hillier, English journalist and politician, Shadow Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change
• 1970 » Giuseppe Guerini, Italian cyclist
• 1970 » Sean Hill, American ice hockey player

• 1958 » Abdur Rab Nishtar, Pakistani politician, 2nd Governor of Punjab (b. 1899)
• 1959 » Baby Dodds, American drummer (b. 1898)
• 1967 » Sig Ruman, German-American actor (b. 1884)
• 1969 » Vito Genovese, Italian-American mob boss (b. 1897)
• 1970 » Herbert Strudwick, English cricketer and coach (b. 1880)
• 1974 » Stewie Dempster, New Zealand cricketer and coach (b. 1903)
• 1975 » Julian Huxley, English biologist and eugenicist, co-founded the World Wide Fund for Nature (b. 1887)
• 1975 » P. G. Wodehouse, English novelist and playwright (b. 1881)
• 1979 » Adolph Dubs, American lieutenant and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Afghanistan (b. 1920)
• 1983 » Lina Radke, German runner and coach (b. 1903)

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.
• February 1 » The New York Central Railroad and the Pennsylvania Railroad are merged to form Penn Central Transportation.
• March 16 » Vietnam War: My Lai Massacre occurs; between 347 and 500 Vietnamese villagers (men, women, and children) are killed by American troops.
• June 9 » U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson declares a national day of mourning following the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy.
• October 11 » NASA launches Apollo 7, the first successful manned Apollo mission.
• October 16 » Tommie Smith and John Carlos are ejected from the US Olympic team for participating in the Olympics Black Power salute.
• December 21 » Apollo program: Apollo 8 is launched from the Kennedy Space Center, placing its crew on a lunar trajectory for the first visit to another celestial body by humans.

The temperature on February 14, 1968 was between 0.9 °C and 5.0 °C and averaged 2.4 °C. There was 1.2 mm of rain during 3.3 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast.