1968-2

The Inner Mystique

The Chocolate Watch Band

昭和43年

2/6 火

倉石農相が、現行憲法は他力本願であり軍艦や大砲が必要と発言し、野党の批判を浴びる。

2/6 火

グルノーブルオリンピック大会が開幕。2月17日までの12日間開催。

2/15 木

1967年のアメリカ国際収支赤字が35億7000万円で戦後2番目となることが明らかになる。

2/15 木

1967年の米国際収支赤字35億7000万円で戦後2番目。

2/16 金

中大連合自治会のストで、中大理事会が授業料値上げ案を撤回し、全理事が辞職する。

2/16 金

ソ連が大陸棚主権宣言。

2/20 火

清水市で2人を射殺した金嬉老が、寸又峡温泉の旅館「ふじみや」に泊客ら20人を人質にしてスコープ付ライフル銃やダイナマイトを多量に持って篭城する。

2/21 水

えびの地震。霧島山北麓の地震。マグニチュード6.1、死者3、負傷者42、建物全壊386、半壊636。

2/21 水

前日に静岡県清水市で暴力団2人を殺害した金嬉老が人質を取り、寸又峡温泉の旅館に88時間に亘り立て籠もる（金嬉老事件）。

2/23 金

倉石農相が、2月6日の憲法他力本願の発言の責任を取って辞任する。

1968

2/1 Thu

Vince Lombardi resigns as coach of Green Bay Packers

2/1 Thu

World trade conference Unctad 2 opens in New Delhi

2/1 Thu

Famous photo: Saigon police chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan executes a Viet Cong officer with a pistol shot to head

2/2 Fri

Springer Publishers in West Berlinp~ bombed

2/4 Sun

Golden Rainbow opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 355 performances

2/4 Sun

Bowie Kuhn replaces William Eckert as 5th commissioner of baseball

2/5 Mon

KDTV TV channel 39 in Dallas-Fort Worthp~ TX (IND) begins broadcasting

2/5 Mon

Skater Kees Verkerk wins olympic gold in the 1500m

2/5 Mon

Vietnam War: Battle of Khe Sanh begins.

2/6 Tue

10th Winter Olympic games opens in Grenoblep~ France

1968

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.

3/1 Fri

"Johnny Cash and June Carter are married in Franklin, Kentucky, with Merle Kilgore as best man."

3/8 Fri

Bill Graham opens the Fillmore East in an abandoned movie theater in New York City.

3/25 Mon

The 58th and final new episode of The Monkees airs on NBC.

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