February 6 » Spanish–American War: The Treaty of Paris, a peace treaty between the United States and Spain, is ratified by the United States Senate.
March 4 » Cyclone Mahina sweeps in north of Cooktown, Queensland, with a 12 metres (39ft) wave that reaches up to 5 kilometres (3.1mi) inland, killing over 300.
May 30 » Pearl Hart, a female outlaw of the Old West, robs a stage coach 30 miles southeast of Globe, Arizona.
July 11 » Fiat founded by Giovanni Agnelli in Turin, Italy.
September 13 » Henry Bliss is the first person in the United States to be killed in an automobile accident.
December 2 » Philippine–American War: The Battle of Tirad Pass, termed "The Filipino Thermopylae", is fought.
Day of death October 9, 1968
The temperature on October 9, 1968 was between 9.9 °C and 15.8 °C and averaged 12.8 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 0.4 hours. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (3%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
March 12 » Mauritius achieves independence from the United Kingdom.
April 20 » English politician Enoch Powell makes his controversial "Rivers of Blood" speech.
July 1 » The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons is signed in Washington, D.C., London and Moscow by sixty-two countries.
August 22 » Pope Paul VI arrives in Bogotá, Colombia. It is the first visit of a pope to Latin America.
September 11 » Air France Flight 1611 crashes off Nice, France, killing 89 passengers and six crew.
December 22 » Cultural Revolution: People's Daily posted the instructions of Mao Zedong that "The intellectual youth must go to the country, and will be educated from living in rural poverty."
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