Oh What A Year!
Japan Air Lines Flight 2 was a scheduled passenger flight on November 22, 1968. The plane was a new Douglas DC-8-62 named Shiga (志賀), flying from Tokyo International Airport (Haneda) to San Francisco International Airport (SFO). Due to heavy fog and other factors, Captain Kohei Asoh mistakenly ditched the plane near Coyote Point in the shallow waters of San Francisco Bay, two and a half miles short of the runway. All 107 people on board survived the accident without any injuries.
August 20, The Soviet Union invades Czechoslovakia with over 200,000 Warsaw pact troops, putting an…
March 16, Senator Robert Kennedy, former Attorney General and brother of former president John F….
December 12, Robert and Ethel Kennedy’s daughter, Rory, their eleventh child is born.
July 24, At the Newport (Rhode Island) Folk Festival singer Arlo Guthrie performs his 20…