Weekly timeline for 1968: A year of change and tumult
April 23: The Methodist Church and the Evangelical United Brethren Church merge to form the United Methodist Church.
April 24: Comedy performer Tommy Noonan (he was Marilyn Monroe’s boyfriend in “Gentlemen Prefer Blondesâ€) dies in Woodland Hills, Calif., at age 45.
Sources:
The Whole World Was Watching: An oral history of 1968. A joint project between South Kingstown High School and Brown University’s Scholarly Technology Group
Timelines of History
Timeline 1968
Rock Timeline
Wikipedia Music Timeline
Frank Eugene Smitha’s Macrohistory and World Report