About the day » Monday June 3, 1968Calender converter

• levenloos geboren dochtertje († 1968)
• levenloos geboren kind († 1968)
• Leendert Pieter Prins, 's-Gravenzande († 2017)
• Danielle Marianne Valkenburg, Amsterdam,1000,Noord-Holland,Nederland
• Doodgeboren kind Reintjes, Venray († 1968)
• Franciscus Hofman, Zevenbergen († 1979)
• Bart Depauw, Brugge († 1968)
• MARISKA MOSTERT, MAASDIJK (GEMEENTE NAALDWIJK) († 2016)
• Theo Bond († 1984)

• Antoine Norbert Johan Marie van Goethem (56), Breda,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Bruin Bosch (65), Delft
• Bertha Art van Houweling (79), Pella, Marion County, Iowa
• Andreas Bernardus Cornelis Joseph de Chene (36), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Bonaventura Willem Joseph Goossens (73), Hasselt
• Anna van der Meer (86), Rijpwetering
• Acie Aaron Holt (55), Opelika, Lee County, Alabama
• Antje Elsina van Bruggen (74), Wildervank
• Arnoldus Petrus Maria Teunissen (81), Alverna
• Aarnout Korstanje (54), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands

• 1964 » André Bellavance, Canadian politician
• 1965 » Hans Kroes, Dutch swimmer
• 1965 » Michael Moore, British accountant and politician, Secretary of State for Scotland
• 1966 » Wasim Akram, Pakistani cricketer, coach, and sportscaster
• 1967 » Anderson Cooper, American journalist and author
• 1967 » Tamás Darnyi, Hungarian swimmer
• 1969 » Dean Pay, Australian rugby league player and coach
• 1969 » Takako Minekawa, Japanese singer-songwriter
• 1971 » Luigi Di Biagio, Italian footballer and manager
• 1971 » Mary Grigson, Australian cross-country mountain biker

• 1963 » Edmond Decottignies, French weightlifter (b. 1893)
• 1963 » Nâzım Hikmet Ran, Turkish poet, author, and playwright (b. 1902)
• 1963 » Pope John XXIII (b. 1881)
• 1964 » Frans Eemil Sillanpää, Finnish author and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
• 1964 » Kâzım Orbay, Turkish general and politician, 9th Turkish Speaker of the Parliament (b. 1887)
• 1969 » George Edwin Cooke, American soccer player (b. 1883)
• 1970 » Hjalmar Schacht, Danish-German economist, banker, and politician (b. 1877)
• 1971 » Heinz Hopf, German-Swiss mathematician and academic (b. 1894)
• 1973 » Jean Batmale, French footballer and manager (b. 1895)
• 1975 » Ozzie Nelson, American actor and bandleader (b. 1906)

• 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 7 » Surveyor Program: Surveyor 7, the last spacecraft in the Surveyor series, lifts off from launch complex 36A, Cape Canaveral.
• January 21 » Vietnam War: Battle of Khe Sanh: One of the most publicized and controversial battles of the war begins.
• July 8 » The Chrysler wildcat strike begins in Detroit, Michigan.
• September 24 » First episode of 60 Minutes airs on television.
• December 24 » Apollo program: The crew of Apollo 8 enters into orbit around the Moon, becoming the first humans to do so. They performed ten lunar orbits and broadcast live TV pictures.
• December 25 » Apollo program: Apollo 8 performs the first successful Trans-Earth injection (TEI) maneuver, sending the crew and spacecraft on a trajectory back to Earth from Lunar orbit.

The temperature on June 3, 1968 was between 10.8 °C and 22.4 °C and averaged 16.7 °C. There was 7.8 mm of rain during 0.7 hours. There was 6.4 hours of sunshine (39%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the ??.