January 10 » The first great Texas oil gusher is discovered at Spindletop in Beaumont, Texas.
February 15 » The association football club Alianza Lima is founded in Lima, Peru, under the name Sport Alianza.
August 21 » Six hundred American school teachers, Thomasites, arrived in Manila on the USAT Thomas.
September 28 » Philippine–American War: Filipino guerrillas kill more than forty American soldiers while losing 28 of their own.
October 29 » In Amherst, Massachusetts, nurse Jane Toppan is arrested for murdering the Davis family of Boston with an overdose of morphine.
December 10 » The first Nobel Prize ceremony is held in Stockholm on the fifth anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death.
Day of death June 6, 1968
The temperature on June 6, 1968 was between 8.8 °C and 15.9 °C and averaged 12.3 °C. There was 12.7 mm of rain during 5.3 hours. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (2%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
March 6 » Three rebels are executed by Rhodesia, the first executions since UDI, prompting international condemnation.
March 18 » Gold standard: The U.S. Congress repeals the requirement for a gold reserve to back US currency.
July 17 » Abdul Rahman Arif is overthrown and the Ba'ath Party is installed as the governing power in Iraq with Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr as the new Iraqi President.
September 6 » Swaziland becomes independent.
October 14 » The first live TV broadcast by American astronauts in orbit is performed by the Apollo 7 crew.
December 9 » Douglas Engelbart gave what became known as "The Mother of All Demos", publicly debuting the computer mouse, hypertext, and the bit-mapped graphical user interface using the oN-Line System (NLS).
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