About the day » Sunday September 8, 1968Calender converter

• Gerardus Wilhelmus Alewijn (Gerard) DE VROOME († 1992)
• Pascal TURPAIN
• Corrie van den Brenk
• Sylvia Van Der Marel, abcoude
• Guy Ludovicus Joanna Vermeiren, Beerse (B) († 2006)
• Gerardus Wilhelmus Alewijn de Vroome († 1992)
• Guy Ludovicus Joanna Vermeiren, Beerse († 2006)
• Kitty Wilhelmina Martha Westdijk, Den Haag († 1968)

• Abraham Adriaan van Zetten (81), Apeldoorn
• Adriana Cornelia de Maaker (85), Goes, Zeeland, Nederland
• Anna-Maria Antens (63), Oudenbosch
• Albert Owen REILLY (81)
• Christina Margaretha Dillen (76), Kampen
• Agnes Adams (84), Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
• Arij de Zeeuw (82), Vlaardingen
• Arent Harold (Edward) MEDENDORP (76), El Monte California U.S.A
• Clarence W Smith (83), Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio, United States of America
• Bets Reimers (69), Utrecht

• 1966 » Peter Furler, Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1967 » Eerik-Niiles Kross, Estonian politician and diplomat
• 1967 » James Packer, Australian businessman
• 1967 » Kimberly Peirce, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1968 » Ray Wilson, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1968 » Wolfram Klein, German footballer
• 1969 » Chris Powell, English footballer and manager
• 1969 » Gary Speed, Welsh footballer and manager († 2011)
• 1969 » Lars Bohinen, Norwegian footballer and manager
• 1969 » Oswaldo Ibarra, Ecuadorian footballer

• 1963 » Maurice Wilks, English engineer and businessman († 1904)
• 1965 » Dorothy Dandridge, American actress and singer (b. 1922)
• 1965 » Hermann Staudinger, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881)
• 1969 » Alexandra David-Néel, Belgian-French explorer and activist (b. 1868)
• 1969 » Bud Collyer, American game show host (b. 1908)
• 1970 » Percy Spencer, American engineer, invented the microwave oven (b. 1894)
• 1974 » Wolfgang Windgassen, French-German tenor (b. 1914)
• 1977 » Zero Mostel, American actor and comedian (b. 1915)
• 1980 » Willard Libby, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1908)
• 1981 » Nisargadatta Maharaj, Indian guru, philosopher, and educator (b. 1897)

• 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 13 » Johnny Cash performs live at Folsom State Prison.
• March 28 » Brazilian high school student Edson Luís de Lima Souto is killed by military police at a protest for cheaper meals at a restaurant for low-income students.
• April 23 » Vietnam War: Student protesters at Columbia University in New York City take over administration buildings and shut down the university.
• 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.
• July 23 » The only successful hijacking of an El Al aircraft takes place when a Boeing 707 carrying ten crew and 38 passengers is taken over by three members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The aircraft was en route from Rome, to Lod, Israel.
• December 25 » Kilvenmani massacre: Forty-four Dalits (untouchables) are burnt to death in Kizhavenmani village, Tamil Nadu, a retaliation for a campaign for higher wages by Dalit laborers.

The temperature on September 8, 1968 was between 10.5 °C and 20.7 °C and averaged 15.6 °C. There was 4.5 hours of sunshine (34%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west.