Johnson Named AP Newsmaker Of The Year For 1968
Lyndon B. Johnson, 60, is named AP Newsmaker Of The Year for 1968. The president’s decision not to run again dominates headlines, with peace talks and Vietnam war events shaping his final year. Alexander Dubcek is named foreign newsmaker for the Prague reforms followed by Soviet invasion.
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Asia
South Vietnam
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Honolulu
Vietnam
North Vietnam
National Liberation Front
Alexander Dubcek
Czechoslovakia
Dubcek
Czech Communist Party
Dubeek
Cierna
Bratislava
Today in History highlights from Jan 5 1969 AP
The roundup lists events on January 5 across centuries. Notable items include Roentgen’s X-ray discovery in 1896, battles at Nancy in 1477, Capt John Smith’s capture in 1608, Richmond burning in 1781, and Nellie Ross becoming Wyoming governor in 1925. Also notes Coolidge’s death and Pope Paul VI encyclicals, plus later items about Barnard, Ford, Shanker, McLain, Styron, and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
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Wilhelm Roentgen
Charles the Bold of Burgundy
Nancy
Virginia
John Smith
Benedict Arnold
Richmond
Great Northern
Cascade Mountains
Nellie Taylor Ross
Wyoming
Ormer
Calvin Coolidge
Northampton
Mass
White House
Paul VI
Athenagoras
Constantinople
Jerusalem
Antonin Novotny
Czechoslovakia
Communist Party
Woop Windrawal
Associated Press
Christiaan Barnard
Henry Ford II
Albert Shanker
Pope Paul VI
Denny McLain
Rowan and Martin
William Styron
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Cape Town
South Africa
Philip Blaiberg
Ford Motor Co
National Alliance of Businessmen
Ford
New York City
United Federation of Teachers
Heart Surgery Not In Time To Save Dog
Kal a four month old German Shepherd died during preliminary tests at New York Hospital Cornell Medical Center before open heart surgery could be performed. Dr C Walton Lillehei who supervised a triple transplant promised to try and save the dog as thanks to dogs used in heart research after reading a letter from the Fogel brothers urging the procedure.
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Kal
New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center
C. Walton Lillehei
Brooklyn
New York Daily News
Allan
Kevin Fogel
David
Villehei
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Styron
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