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1968

January 7
  • GE College Bowl quiz show premieres on NBC TV. [1]
January 9
  • First ABA All-Star Game: East 126 beats West 120 at Indiana. [1]
January 13
  • Minnesota North Stars' center Bill Masterton fatally injured (dies on 15th). [1]
January 14
  • Super Bowl II: Green Bay Packers beat Oakland Raiders, 33-14 in Miami, Florida; Most Valuable Player: Bart Starr, quarterback. [1]
January 16
  • 21st NHL All-Star Game: Toronto Maple Leafs beat All-Stars 4-3 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. [1]
January 20
  • Houston ends UCLA's 47-game basketball winning streak, 71-69. [1]
  • US female Figure Skating championship won by Peggy Fleming. [1]
  • US male Figure Skating championship won by Tim Wood. [1]
January 21
  • AFL Pro Bowl: East beats West 25-24. [1]
  • NFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 38-20. [1]
January 22
  • NBA announces it will expand to Milwaukee and Phoenix. [1]
January 23
  • Joe Medwick elected to Baseball Hall of Fame. [1]
January 28
  • 29th PGA Seniors Golf Championship: Chandler Harper. [1]
  • Goose Goslin and Kiki Cuyler elected to baseball Hall of Fame. [1]
January 31
  • Bobby Simpson takes 5-59 versus India in his last Test for ten years. [1]
February 1
  • Vince Lombardi resigns as coach of the Green Bay Packers. [1]

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February 4
  • Bowie Kuhn replaces William Eckert as 5th commissioner of baseball. [1]
February 6
  • (to February 18) The X Olympic Winter Games are held in Grenoble, France. [7]
  • Former US President Dwight Eisenhower shoots a hole-in-one in golf. [1]
February 11
  • Peggy Fleming wins Olympics figure skating gold medal, Grenoble, France. [1]
February 15
  • Anaheim Amigos' Les Salvage scores ten three-point baskets in ABA game versus Denver Nuggets. [1]
February 17
  • Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame opens in Springfield, Massachusetts, USA. [1]
February 18
  • X Olympic Winter Games close at Grenoble, France. [1]
February 21
  • American Major League Baseball announces a minimum annual salary of $10,000. [1]
February 23
  • Wilt Chamberlain becomes first NBA player to score 25,000 points. [1]
March 2
  • World Ice Dance Championship in Geneva, Switzerland won by Diane Towler and Bernard Ford (Great Britain). [1]
  • World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Geneva, Switzerland won by Lyudmila Belousova and Oleg Protopopov (USSR). [1]
  • World Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Geneva, Switzerland won by Peggy Fleming (USA). [1]
  • World Men's Figure Skating Championship in Geneva, Switzerland won by Emmerich Danzer (Austria). [1]
March 3
  • Jean Beliveau (Montreal Canadiens) becomes second NHL player to score 1,000 points. [1]
March 4
  • Joe Frazier TKOs Buster Mathis in 11 rounds for heavyweight boxing title. [1]
March 8
  • Six-year-old Tommy Moore scores hole-in-one in golf (Hagerstown, Maryland). [1]
March 15
  • Bob Beamon sets indoor long jump record (27 feet 2.75 inches). [1]
March 17
  • Kathie Whitworth wins LPGA Saint Petersburg Orange Blossom Golf Open. [1]
March 21
  • "Royals" chosen as the name of new Kansas City American League Baseball franchise. [1]
March 23
  • 30th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA beats North Carolina 78-55. [1]
March 24
  • Mickey Wright wins Port Malabar Golf Invitational. [1]
March 31
  • Mickey Wright wins LPGA Palm Beach County Golf Open. [1]
  • Seattle's American League club is named Pilots. [1]

End of 1968 January-March. Next: 1968 April.

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