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year	1968
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event	Netherlands gets color TV
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1/1 - ABC radio splits into 4 networks (Infop~ Entertainmentp~ Contemp & FM)

1/1 - Evel Knievel fails in his attempt to jump Caesar's Palace Fountain

1/1 - Netherlands gets color TV

1/1 - WDCO TV channel 15 in Cochranp~ GA (PBS) begins broadcasting

1/2 - Zizi closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 49 performances

1/2 - Christian Barnard performs 2nd heart transplant

1/2 - KBHK TV channel 44 in San Franciscop~ CA (IND) begins broadcasting

1/4 - Leo Fender sells Fender Guitars for $13 million

1/4 - Duck hunter accidentally shoots endangered whooping crane in Texas

1/5 - Dr Benjamin Spock indicted for conspiring to violate draft law

1/5 - Dubcek succeeds pres Novotny as party leader of Czechoslovakia

1/6 - "Beatles' ""Magical Mystery Tourp~"" album goes #1 & stays #1 for 8 weeks"

1/6 - Dr N E Shumway performs 1st US adult cardiac transplant operation

1/6 - Surveyor 7 (last of series) launched by US for soft-landing on Moon

1/7 - 1st class postage raised from 5 cents to 6 cents

1/7 - GE College Bowl quiz show premieres on NBC TV

1/8 - Jacques Cousteau's 1st undersea special on US network TV

1/9 - 1st ABA All-Star Game: East 126 beats West 120 at Indiana

1/9 - Surveyor 7 space probe soft lands on Moon

1/11 - Explorer 36 (GEOS-B) launched into earth orbit (1080/1570 km)

1/12 - Beatles Film Production Ltd changes name to Apple Film Production Ltd

1/12 - "Nighttime version of ""Hollywood Squares"" premieres on NBC TV"

1/13 - Minn North Stars center Bill Masterton fatally injured (dies on 15th)

1/13 - Illya Darling closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 320 perfs

1/13 - Hallelujahp~ Baby! closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 293 perfs

1/14 - Super Bowl II: Green Bay Packers beat Oakland Raidersp~ 33-14 in Miami Super Bowl MVP: Bart Starrp~ Green Bayp~ QB

1/15 - KDCD TV channel 18 in Midlandp~ TX (IND) begins broadcasting

1/16 - 21st NHL All-Star Game: Toronto beat All-Stars 4-3 at Toronto

1/16 - "Jay Allen's ""Prime of Miss Jean Brodiep~"" premieres in NYC"

1/16 - The Youth International Party is founded.

1/18 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR

1/18 - "Hester & Appolinar's musical ""Your Own Thingp~"" premieres in NYC"

1/18 - Happy Time opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 286 performances

1/19 - WKBF TV channel 61 in Clevelandp~ OH (IND) begins broadcasting

1/20 - Houston ends UCLA's 47-game basketball winning streakp~ 71-69

1/20 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Peggy Fleming

1/20 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Tim Wood

1/20 - The Houston Cougars defeat the UCLA Bruins 71-69 to win the Game of the Century.

1/21 - Vietnam War: Battle of Khe Sanh -One of the most publicized and controversial battles of the war begins.

1/21 - US B-52 bomber with nuclear bomb on board crashes in Greenland

1/21 - NFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 38-20

1/21 - AFL Pro Bowl: East beats West 25-24

1/22 - Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In premieres on NBC

1/22 - Apollo 5 launched to Moon: unmanned lunar module tests made

1/22 - NBA announces it will expand to Milwaukee & Phoenix

1/23 - Spy ship USS Pueblo & 83-man crew seized in Sea of Japan by N Korea

1/23 - Joe Medwick elected to Baseball Hall of Fame

1/25 - Risse St in Bronx named

1/25 - "Robert Anderson's ""I Never Sang for My Fatherp~"" premieres in NYC"

1/26 - Israeli submarine Dakar sinks in Mediterranean Seap~ 69 die

1/27 - Darling of the Day opens at George Abbott Theater NYC for 31 perfs

1/28 - 29th PGA Seniors Golf Championship: Chandler Harper

1/28 - Goose Goslin & Kiki Cuyler elected to baseball Hall of Fame

1/29 - Nauru (formerly Pleasant Island) adopts constitution

1/30 - "Bobby Goldsboro records his biggest hitp~ ""Honey"""

1/30 - Vietcong launches Tet offensive on US embassy in Saigon

1/31 - Bobby Simpson takes 5-59 v India in his last Test for ten years

1/31 - Nauru (formerly Pleasant Island) declares independence from Australia

1/31 - "Record high barometric pressure (1083.8 mbp~ 32"")p~ at Agatap~ USSR"

1/31 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1/31 - Viet Cong Tet offensive begins

1968-1-1

Netherlands gets color TV