Timeline September 1968

Events in September 1968 10

• 1905 – 1968 Franchot Tone (1905-1968) American actor from the Group Theatre, known for Mutiny on the Bounty.
• 1968 The Velvet Underground fire John Cale Line-up change Reed forces Cale out.
• 1968 George Harrison records While My Guitar Gently Weeps With Eric Clapton Clapton plays the solo on the White Album.
• 1968 Led Zeppelin play their first concert Gladsaxe, Denmark Their first show, still billed as the New Yardbirds.
• 1968 Roy Orbison's sons killed in a house fire Hendersonville Two of his sons die in a fire at his home.
• 1968 Franchot Tone dies in New York Franchot Tone dies aged 63.
• 1968 Star Trek: The Original Series — Season 3 The third and final season of 24 episodes suffers from reduced budget and network interference. Despite containing classics like "The Enterprise Incident" and "All Our Yesterdays," the show is cancelled in June 1969. Fan letter campaigns are credited with extending the run by one season. The series ends, but its cultural legacy is just beginning.
• 1968 Blood, Sweat & Tears — self-titled album Blood, Sweat & Tears' self-titled second album, featuring Clayton-Thomas as lead vocalist, is released in December 1968. It enters the Billboard 200 and climbs — slowly at first — to Number 1, where it remains for an extraordinary seven weeks. The album contains three Top 5 singles: 'You've Made Me So Very Happy,' 'Spinning Wheel' and 'And When I Die.' All three reach Number 2. The album wins the Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 1970 — beating the Beatles' Abbey Road and the Rolling Stones' Let It Bleed. It goes on to sell over four million copies in the United States alone.
• 1968 – present Mika Häkkinen The Flying Finn Two-time World Champion and Michael Schumacher’s greatest rival in the late 1990s.
• 1968 Boeing 747 rolled out First jumbo jet unveiled to the public Boeing publicly rolled out the first 747 at its new Everett, Washington factory, the largest building by volume in the world at the time. The aircraft would go on to transform long-haul air travel by dramatically increasing passenger capacity. It entered commercial service with Pan Am the following year.