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January 20, 1969 The inauguration of President Hubert Humphrey On a cold day in Washington, D.C., a new President was inaugurated into office. The inauguration of Hubert Humphrey as the 37th President of the United States was accompanied by the usual fanfare. Many thousands of Humphrey’s...

January 12, 1969 Humphrey assembles his cabinet With just a week before his inauguration, President-elect Hubert Humphrey announced his selections to head important cabinet posts. About half of Johnson’s appointees will be retiring at the end of his term, which will cause some vacancies that...

January 9, 1969 Congress declares Humphrey President, Muskie Vice-President Today, the House and Senate voted to choose Hubert Humphrey and Edmund Muskie as President and Vice President, respectively. In the House, 27 state delegations supported Humphrey [1][2], one more than the majority...

Maybe. But I tend to think otherwise, as explained in my next post.

Or prevent the Ming Dynasty from turning inwards.

December 19, 1968 Humphrey's Cancer Is Terminal Vice President Hubert Humphrey has been diagnosed with an inoperable tumor in his pelvis that his surgeon believes is “terminal.” The extent of the tumor was discovered after Vice President underwent surgery to remove his bladder. During the...

December 16, 1968 Electors meet to vote for the President, VP Across the country, electors met yesterday to select the next President and Vice President of the United States. The process went as expected: electors voted for their ordained candidates, with no “faithless” electors. [1] However...

November 15, 1968 Humphrey announces he has cancer Hubert Humphrey, the Democratic candidate for President, announced today that he has bladder cancer. [1][2] Humphrey’s cancer announcement came as a shock to many, as he seemed to be in excellent health, though rumors about his health have...

November 6, 1968 Presidential Race Uncertain; No Candidate Reaches 270 Electoral Votes One day after the election, the name of the next President of the United States is still unknown. For the first time since 1824, no Presidential candidate has attained a majority of electoral votes. Although...

October 30, 1968 Cobo Brawl: Wallace Rally Descends into Chaos There was a fight at Cobo Arena last night, and it wasn’t a boxing match. Nine thousand Wallace supporters came to Cobo Arena in Downtown Detroit to see presidential candidate George Wallace and were greeted by a thousand hecklers...

October 11, 1968 Cardinals win World Series The St. Louis Cardinals have won the World Series for the second year in a row. Playing in front of a packed house at Busch Memorial Stadium, the Cardinals defeated the Detroit Tigers, 1-0. Yesterday’s Game 7 was do-or-die for both teams, as each had...

October 9, 1968 Molten Salt Reactor Experiment Achieves Criticality Two years after the Fermi nuclear disaster, research is ongoing to find a safer, yet economically practical, atomic reactor. Scientists at the Oak Ridge Laboratory in Tennessee have announced that an experimental new reactor...

September 27, 1968 Humphrey declared winner of three-man debate Viewers expected a fight, and yesterday’s much-awaited presidential debate did not disappoint. Humphrey seemed a little off his game, but still managed to come out on top, say pundits. Vice President Hubert Humphrey, who said he...

September 22, 1968 GM Headquarters to relocate to Flint General Motors announced today that the company has decided to move its World Headquarters from Detroit to its Buick offices in Flint. [1] The recently-built Buick World Headquarters building houses the second-largest executive office in...

September 17, 1968 Humphrey goes AWOL from the campaign trail Where has Mr. Humphrey gone? Nobody in Washington seems to know. Three weeks after accepting the Democratic nomination for President, Mr. Humphrey is missing in action. He has vanished from the Senate floor. He’s absent from the...

September 3, 1968 Flu Sidelines Humphrey, Doctor orders Bedrest In addition to his battles with his political opponents, Vice President Hubert Humphrey is fighting a new foe: influenza. After celebrating the 32nd anniversary of his marriage to his wife Muriel at his home in Minnesota, Humphrey...

Those vast tracts of land in Canada remain mostly uninhabited to this day for a reason. Roughly 90% of the country is practically uninhabitable, due to extreme cold. And the habitable parts of Canada that were controlled at the time by the British were already settled. Sending convicts to remote...

I think they would sail up the coast to Nova Scotia and land on a small island in Mahone Bay. They would proceed to dig a 200 foot deep hole for their treasure (gotta bury it real deep). Then, they would construct an elaborate system of "flood tunnels" beneath the island that would protect the...

August 28, 1968 Humphrey, Muskie nominated on the second ballot The Democrats have chosen Vice President Hubert Humphrey and Maine Senator Edmund Muskie as their nominees in the 1968 Presidential election. At the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, the delegates voted for their pledged...

August 7, 1968 Romney, Reagan nominated at RNC convention At last night’s Republican National Convention in Miami, Florida, Michigan Governor George Romney was nominated to be the Republican Party’s Presidential candidate in the 1968 election. California Governor Ronald Reagan was named as the...