Timeline Friday 20 December 1968

Events on Friday 20 December 1968 2

• 1902 – 1968 John Steinbeck (1902-1968) Died 20 December 1968, aged 66 The American novelist, author of "The Grapes of Wrath" and "Of Mice and Men," died of heart disease at his home in New York City. He had won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962. His writing chronicled the struggles of working-class Americans during the Great Depression.
• 1968 Zodiac Killer's first confirmed murders Unidentified serial killer begins attacks in Northern California An unidentified assailant later dubbed the Zodiac Killer shot and killed two teenagers, David Faraday and Betty Lou Jensen, near Vallejo, California. The killer would claim further victims and taunt police and newspapers with coded letters over the following years. The case remains officially unsolved.