1968-1

Mass in F Minor

The Electric Prunes

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昭和43年

1/1 月

公明党が、安保条約解消後、非武装中立路線をとると発表する。

1/3 水

ジョンソン大統領特使のロストウ国務次官が佐藤首相と会談し、ドル防衛に協力を要請する。

1/3 水

ゲゲゲの鬼太郎放映開始

1/5 金

公定歩合が1銭7厘引き上げられる。

1/5 金

チェコでアレクサンデル・ドゥプチェクがチェコスロヴァキア共産党第一書記に就任、プラハの春始まる。

1/5 金

公定歩合引き上げ1銭7厘。

1/7 日

ＮＨＫ大河ドラマ「竜馬がゆく」（原作司馬遼太郎、脚本水木洋子、主演北大路欣也）の放送が始まる。

1/9 火

円谷幸吉が自衛隊宿舎で右頚動脈を切って自殺する。27歳（誕生:昭和15(1940)/05/13）。マラソン選手。

1/9 火

円谷幸吉が自殺をする。

1/10 水

日本育英会が、羽田事件関係の学生への奨学金打ち切りの方針を決定する。

1968

1/1 Mon

ABC radio splits into 4 networks (Infop~ Entertainmentp~ Contemp & FM)

1/1 Mon

Evel Knievel fails in his attempt to jump Caesar's Palace Fountain

1/1 Mon

Netherlands gets color TV

1/1 Mon

WDCO TV channel 15 in Cochranp~ GA (PBS) begins broadcasting

1/2 Tue

Zizi closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 49 performances

1/2 Tue

Christian Barnard performs 2nd heart transplant

1/2 Tue

KBHK TV channel 44 in San Franciscop~ CA (IND) begins broadcasting

1/4 Thu

Duck hunter accidentally shoots endangered whooping crane in Texas

1/4 Thu

Leo Fender sells Fender Guitars for $13 million

1/5 Fri

Dr Benjamin Spock indicted for conspiring to violate draft law

1968

1/4 Thu

"Guitarist Jimi Hendrix is jailed by Stockholm police, after trashing a hotel room during a drunken fist fight with bassist Noel Redding."

1/6 Sat

The Gibson Guitar Corporation patents its Gibson Flying V electric guitar design.

1/13 Sat

Johnny Cash performs his famous concert at Folsom State Prison in California.

2/1 Thu

"Universal Studios offers the Doors $500,000 to star in a feature film, which is never made."

2/4 Sun

The Bee Gees make their American television debut on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour.

2/12 Mon

"Jimi Hendrix is given an honorary high school diploma from Garfield High School in Seattle, Washington. Hendrix is also given the key to the city."

2/16 Fri

"The Beatles, Mike Love, Mia Farrow, Donovan and others travel to India to visit Maharishi Mahesh Yogi at Rishikesh."

2/18 Sun

"David Gilmour joins Pink Floyd, replacing founder Syd Barrett, who had checked himself into a psychiatric hospital."

2/21 Wed

"McGraw-Hill, Inc., outbids eight other publishers and pays $150,000 for the U.S. rights to Hunter Davies' authorized biography of the Beatles."

2/22 Thu

Florence Ballard of the Supremes is released from her contract with Motown.

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