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This is a list of aviation-related events from 1968:

1 Events

January

• January 21 - a US Air Force B-52 StratofortressB-52 Stratofortress Description RoleHeavy bomber, missile platform Crew5aircraft commander, pilot, radar navigator, navigator and electronic warfare officer Dimensions Length159 ft 4 in48. 5 m Wingspan185 ft56. 4 m Height40 ft 8 in12. 4 m Wing area4,000 f crashes in the sea near Thule AFB GreenlandThis article is about Greenland, the island dependency of Denmark. For information about the town of Greenland, see Greenland, New Hampshire. Greenland ( Greenlandic: Kalaallit Nunaat "The Land of the Greenlanders (Kalaallit)"; Danish: Gronland , an Arcti, carrying four nuclear weapons.

March

• March 28March 28 is the 87th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (88th in Leap years). There are 278 days remaining. Events 800-1899 845 Paris is sacked by Viking raiders, probably under Ragnar Lodbrok, who collects a huge ransom in exchange for leaving. - Yuri GagarinYuri Alekseyevich Gagarin ( Russian: YOO-ree ah-lek-SEH-yeh-veech gah-GAH-reen March 9, 1934 March 27, 1968), was a Soviet cosmonaut who in 1961 became the first man to travel into space. Early Life Gagarin was born near Gzhatsk, and his parents worked on is killed in the crash of a Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 ( NATO reporting name "Fagot") was a jet fighter developed for the USSR. History Design began under the bureau designation I-310 which first flew in 1947. Previous Soviet efforts like the MiG-9 had been hampered by the poor qua

May

• May 5May 5 is the 125th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (126th in leap years). There are 240 days remaining. There are usually 92 days in Spring. We are considered halfway through Spring on May 5. Events 1640 King Charles I of England disbands the Sh - a Grumman Gulfstream II becomes the first executive jet to cross the Atlantic

August

• August 13August 13 is the 225th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (226th in leap years), with 140 days remaining. Events 1500-1899 1521 Tenochtitlan (present day Mexico City) falls to conquistador Hernan Cortes 1704 War of the Spanish Succession: Battle of - Swedish Count Gustav von Rosen defies Nigerian air defences to fly in supplies to the Biafran rebels
• August 31 - the Rolls-Royce RB.211 is successfully ground-tested

September

• September 11 - Air New Zeland flies T. H. Williams, Sir Charles Kingsford Smith's navigator to Sydney to commemmorate the 40th anniversary of their first trans-Tasman flight
• September 30 - the first Boeing 747 is rolled out

December

• December 24 - Apollo 8 orbits the moon carrying Frank Borman, James Lovell, and William Anders.