Manager Conrad Vernon

Events in 1968 and 11-7

Events in US in the birth year of Conrad Vernon

• President Johnson announces he will not seek or accept presidential renomination (March 31).
• Martin Luther King, Jr., civil rights leader, is slain in Memphis (April 4).
• James Earl Ray, indicted in King murder, is sentenced to 99 years.
• Sen. Robert F. Kennedy is shot and critically wounded in Los Angeles hotel after winning California primary (June 5)—dies June 6. Background: Timeline of Kennedy tragedies

Birthday Conrad Vernon (11-7) in history

• Day 11-7 year 1533: Pope Clement VII announced an annulment of the marriage of King Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn.
• Day 11-7 year 1804: Former U.S. Treasury secretary Alexander Hamilton was fatally stabbed by his colleague Aaron Burr and died the following afternoon.
• Day 11-7 year 1864: Confederate general Jubal A. Early and his troops attacked Washington, DC. They retreated the next day, ending the Confederate threat to occupy the capital.
• Day 11-7 year 1914: Babe Ruth made his major league baseball debut as a pitcher for the Boston Red Sox.
• Day 11-7 year 1977: The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his work to advance civil rights.
• Day 11-7 year 1989: Actor Laurence Olivier died.
• Day 11-7 year 1995: The United States and Vietnam established full diplomatic relations.
• Day 11-7 year 2011: The News of the World, a British newspaper owned by Rupert Murdoch, closes after several allegations that the paper's journalists hacked into voicemail accounts belonging to not only a 13-year-old murder victim, but also the relatives of soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan.