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Billboard Top Country Hits: 1968

Billboard Top Country Hits: 1968 is a compilation album released by Rhino Records in 1990, featuring 10 hit country music recordings from 1968.


1969 Rose Bowl

A number of celebrities were present, including 1968 President-elect Richard Nixon, Bob Hope, and Oklahoma football coach Bud Wilkinson.

Anne Clark Martindell

Her brother Blair Clark was the national campaign director for Eugene McCarthy in the 1968 presidential campaign.

Billboard Top Country Hits: 1960

Billboard Top Country Hits: 1960 is a compilation album released by Rhino Records in 1990, featuring 10 hit country music recordings from 1960.

Billboard Top Country Hits: 1961

Billboard Top Country Hits: 1961 is a compilation album released by Rhino Records in 1990, featuring 10 hit country music recordings from 1961.

Billboard Top Country Hits: 1962

Billboard Top Country Hits: 1962 is a compilation album released by Rhino Records in 1990, featuring 10 hit country music recordings from 1962.

Billboard Top Country Hits: 1964

Billboard Top Country Hits: 1964 is a compilation album released by Rhino Records in 1990, featuring 10 hit country music recordings from 1964.

Billboard Top Country Hits: 1965

Billboard Top Country Hits: 1965 is a compilation album released by Rhino Records in 1990, featuring 10 hit country music recordings from 1965.

Billboard Top Country Hits: 1966

Billboard Top Country Hits: 1966 is a compilation album released by Rhino Records in 1990, featuring 10 hit country music recordings from 1966.

Billboard Top Country Hits: 1967

Billboard Top Country Hits: 1967 is a compilation album released by Rhino Records in 1990, featuring 10 hit country music recordings from 1967.

Billboard Top Country Hits: 1986

Billboard Top Country Hits: 1986 is a compilation album released by Rhino Records in 1994, featuring 10 hit country music recordings from 1986.

Canadian federal election, 1968

Stanfield paid tribute to Robert F. Kennedy, who had been assassinated only three days earlier.

Chesterfield Smith

While serving as President of the American Bar Association he became an outspoken critic of the Richard Nixon and advocated for the congressional reappointment of a special prosecutor to investigate the Watergate affair, although Smith had earlier supported Nixon's 1968 and 1972 presidential campaigns.

Day of Affirmation speech

Kennedy, who was then a U.S. Senator from New York, gave the speech two years before his 1968 presidential campaign, which came to an end when Kennedy was assassinated on June 5, 1968 in Los Angeles.

Electoral district of Maylands

Another redistribution in 1966 changed the seat's status from marginal Liberal to safe Labor, and since John Harman's win at the 1968 election, it has been held by the Labor Party.

Elias P. Demetracopoulos

In 1968 Demetracopoulos uncovered illegal campaign donations of $549,000 given by the Greek military dictatorship to the Richard Nixon/Spiro Agnew 1968 presidential campaign.

French legislative election, 1968

On 30 May 1968, in a radio speech, President Charles de Gaulle, who had vanished for three days (he was in Baden-Baden, Germany), announced the dissolution of the National Assembly, and a new legislative election, by way of restoring order.

The Gaullist Union for the Defence of the Republic became the first party in the French Republic's history to obtain an absolute parliamentary majority.

Higgins by-election, 1968

The Australian Labor Party nominated David Bennett, a research officer with the Australian Council for Educational Research, whilst the Democratic Labor Party, who had received 11.56% of the vote at the November 1966 election in the seat, opted not to contest the election.

Jerris Leonard

He ran against United States Senator Gaylord Nelson in the 1968 United States Senate election and was defeated.

John Glenn Beall, Jr.

He served as minority floor leader beginning in 1963, until his 1968 election as a Republican to the 91st Congress.

Kensington South by-election, 1968

The Liberal candidate Thomas Kellock, a QC who had fought the seat at the previous general election, came in a distant second, with Labour candidate Clive Bradley, a barrister and journalist, forced into third place and losing his deposit.

The Conservative Sir Brandon Rhys-Williams, a management consultant, won the seat with 75.5 percent of the vote and a slightly reduced majority (13,747) on a much reduced turnout.

The election was to fill a vacancy in the seat formerly held by Conservative MP William Roots, who resigned from Parliament in 1968 due to ill health.

Kogutud teosed. 1968–1980. Esimene osa.

# "Piiblite kustunud lõhnad" (Doused smells of the Bibles) (Urmas Alender/Viivi Luik) – 2:00 (1974)

# "Jaanipäevaks" (For St. John's Day) (Urmas Alender/Hando Runnel) – 1:59 (1979)

Lebanese general election, 1968 in Akkar District

Voting to elect four members of the Lebanese parliament took place in the Akkar District (a rural area in northern Lebanon) in 1968, part of the national general election of that year.

Lebanese general election, 1968 in Batroun District

Voting to elect two members of the Lebanese parliament took place in the Batroun District in northern Lebanon in 1968, part of the national general election of that year.

Lebanese general election, 1968 in Bsharri District

Voting to elect two members of the Lebanese parliament took place in the Bsharri District (a rural area in northern Lebanon) in 1968, part of the national general election of that year.

Lebanese general election, 1968 in Koura District

Voting to elect two members of the Lebanese parliament took place in the Koura District (a rural area in northern Lebanon) in 1968, part of the national general election of that year.

Lebanese general election, 1968 in Tripoli City

Voting to elect five members of the Lebanese parliament took place in Tripoli City in 1968, part of the national general election of that year (the rural areas of Tripoli District had a separate constituency).

Lebanese general election, 1968 in Zgharta District

Voting to elect three members of the Lebanese parliament took place in the Zgharta District in northern Lebanon in 1968, part of the national general election of that year.

Leonard Garment

He assisted with Nixon's 1968 presidential campaign.

London local elections, 1968

The result followed the Conservative gain of the Greater London Council in the elections the previous year.

Oldham West by-election, 1968

He was joined on the campaign trail by the well-known actor Robert Beatty, and made effective use of local newspapers to promote his campaign.

Powell v. McCormack

While the suit was making its way through the court system, Powell was re-elected in the 1968 election, and was ultimately re-seated in the 91st Congress.

Ruth Eisemann-Schier

Schier was added to the list in 1968, for participating in the kidnapping-for-ransom of land heiress Barbara Jane Mackle in a plan concocted by her boyfriend, Gary Stephen Krist.

Sheffield Brightside by-election, 1968

Colin Renfrew, for the Conservatives, was lecturer in the Department of Prehistory and Archaeology at the University of Sheffield

Siegfried Enns

With riding boundary changes, Enns sought re-election at the Portage riding for the 1968 election but was defeated by Gerald Cobbe of the Liberal party.

Swedish general election, 1968

This was due to the Social Democrats' absolute majority in the First chamber and a steady majority for them in general elections and also at large in municipality and county council elections, of which the latter gave them the majority in the First chamber.

Tage Erlander

Resigning after the Swedish general election, 1968, his seventh and most successful election in which the Social Democrats surpassed all four opposition parties in terms of seats, Erlander was succeeded, in the midst of constitutional reforms, by his long-time protégé and friend Olof Palme.

Tasmanian casino referendum, 1968

The Tasmanian casino referendum was a one-question referendum held on 14 December 1968, which concerned the granting of Australia's first casino licence to the Federal Group to operate the Wrest Point Hotel Casino in Sandy Bay.

United States elections, 1968

Republican former U.S. Senator and Vice-President Richard Nixon was elected to serve as the 37th President of the United States, defeating the Democratic nominee Hubert Humphrey.

United States presidential election in California, 1968

This is the last presidential election where the Republican candidate carried Santa Cruz County by a majority of the popular vote, although Republicans in the elections of 1972 and 1980 carried the county by plurality.

United States presidential election in Vermont, 1968

In 1968, the GOP sought to recover from their crippling defeat with Goldwater, and the party looked to former Vice President and the party's narrowly defeated 1960 presidential nominee, Richard Nixon.

United States Senate election in North Carolina, 1968

The North Carolina United States Senate election of 1968 was held on 5 November 1968 as part of the nation-wide elections to the Senate.

Walloon Rally

Founded on 7 March 1968, the party contested the Belgian general election of 1968 in a cartel with the FDF, a Brussels-based francophone political party, receiving 5.9% of the vote nationally.


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