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1968
Charlie Rose
married
Mary Rose
in
1968
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Ralph Baer
invented
Video game console
in
1968
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Sharon Tate
married
Roman Polanski
in
1968
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Johnny Cash
in
1968
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Coretta Scott King
with
Harry Belafonte
in
1968
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Jimi Hendrix
in
1968
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Elizabeth Bowen
wrote
Eva Trout
in
1968
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Morowitz, Harold
wrote
ENERGY FLOW IN BIOLOGY
in
1968
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VonBertalanffy, Ludwig
wrote
GENERAL SYSTEMS THEORY
in
1968
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Giovanni Becatti
wrote
The Art of Ancient Greece and Rome
in
1968
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Henry Bamford Parkes
wrote
The Divine Order
in
1968
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Etzioni, Amitai
wrote
The Active Society
in
1968
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Notre Dame Paris
in
1968
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Clint Eastwood
in
1968
at: (
51.5,-0.133333333
)
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Arthur C. Clarke
wrote
2001
in
1968
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Richard Brautigan
wrote
In Watermelon Sugar
in
1968
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Debbie Harry
in
1968
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Tom Woolfe
wrote
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
in
1968
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Gore Vidal
wrote
Myra Breckinridge
in
1968
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Hillary Clinton
in
1968
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Joan Didion
wrote
Slouching Towards Bethlehem
in
1968
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Roger Moore
divorced
Dorothy Squires
in
1968
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Christa Wolf
wrote
The Quest for Christa T.
in
1968
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World Trade Center
in
1968
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Robert F. Kennedy
in
1968
at: (
39.8647,-86.2604
)
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Alexander Solzhenitsyn
wrote
The First Circle
in
1968
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Charles Bukowski
wrote
Poems Written Before Jumping Out of an 8 story Window
in
1968
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Charles Bukowski
wrote
At Terror Street and Agony Way
in
1968
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Robert F. Kennedy
with
Ted Kennedy
in
1968
at: (
38.893728,-77.042827
)
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Siegfried Lenz
wrote
The German Lesson
in
1968
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Jane Fonda
in
1968
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Alexander Solzhenitsyn
wrote
The Cancer Ward
in
1968
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Oles Honchar
wrote
The Cathedral
in
1968
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Philip K. Dick
wrote
Do Androids Dream of Electronic Sheep?
in
1968
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Barry Hines
wrote
A Kestrel for a Knave
in
1968
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Albert Cohen
wrote
Belle du Seigneur
in
1968
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Sharon Tate
in
1968
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IRA (provisional and official)
entered
The Troubles
in
1968
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Roman Polanski
in
1968
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Lyndon B. Johnson
in
1968
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Vladimir Vysotsky
in
1968
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Malayan Communist Party
entered
Communist Insurgency War
in
1968
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Jimi Hendrix
in
1968
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Peoples Republic of Bulgaria
entered
Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia
in
1968
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Jimi Hendrix
in
1968
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Peoples Republic of Hungary
entered
Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia
in
1968
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Simon
in
1968
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Peoples Republic of Poland
entered
Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia
in
1968
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Susannah York
in
1968
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Oscar de la Renta
in
1968
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Marlon Brando
with
Ewa Aulin
in
1968
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Jane Fonda
in
1968
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Empire State Building
in
1968
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Orson Welles
in
1968
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Jane Fonda
in
1968
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Roger Vadim
in
1968
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Oscar de la Renta
in
1968
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Roger Vadim
in
1968
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John Hancock Tower Chicago
in
1968
at: (
41.883,-87.633
)
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Jane Fonda
in
1968
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Mia Farrow
with
Vidal Sassoon
in
1968
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Alain Delon
with
Romy Schneider
in
1968
at: (
43.7,7.266666667
)
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Jane Fonda
in
1968
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Palace of Westminster
in
1968
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Jane Fonda
in
1968
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Olof Palme
in
1968
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Bill Gates
with
Paul Allen
in
1968
at: (
47.3917,-121.5708
)
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Monica Vitti
in
1968
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Eiffel Tower
in
1968
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Anita Pallenberg
in
1968
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Paul McCartney
in
1968
at: (
51.5,-0.133333333
)
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Arc de Triomphe Paris
in
1968
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Paul McCartney
in
1968
at: (
51.5,-0.133333333
)
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Anita Pallenberg
in
1968
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Elvis Presley
in
1968
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Paul McCartney
in
1968
at: (
34.05,-118.25
)
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Paul McCartney
in
1968
at: (
40.66666667,-73.93333333
)
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Anita Pallenberg
in
1968
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Josip Broz Tito
in
1968
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Anita Pallenberg
in
1968
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The Who
in
1968
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Anita Pallenberg
in
1968
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Jane Fonda
in
1968
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Leonid Brezhnev
in
1968
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Mia Farrow
in
1968
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Anita Pallenberg
in
1968
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Joan Rivers
in
1968
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Anita Pallenberg
in
1968
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Diana Ross
in
1968
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Hillary Clinton
in
1968
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0
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Anita Pallenberg
in
1968
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Arnold Schwarzenegger
in
1968
at: (
51.05,-114.0666667
)
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1
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1
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Jim Morrison
in
1968
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Claudia Cardinale
in
1968
at: (
45.43333333,12.33333333
)
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3
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1
-1734099
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-1734099
Brigitte Bardot
in
1968
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Brigitte Bardot
in
1968
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Arnold Schwarzenegger
in
1968
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Peter Sellers
with
Ursula Andress
in
1968
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Brigitte Bardot
in
1968
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Keith Moon
with
Pete Townshend
in
1968
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