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Shaxx of planet Sh@xx was born.

MISC was established and becomes Malaysia's largest shipping company.

MARA bus services was launched in Malaysia.

Muppets creator Jim Henson first created Kermit in 1955 - as a lizard. He was made from Henson's mother's coat and two halfs of a Ping-Pong ball (no flipper feet or eleven-point collar). He didn't become a frog until 1968.

The Austrian conductor and composer Johann Strauss (1825-1899), son of the famous conductor and composer Johann Strauss (1804-1849), penned more than 400 waltzes. Some are popular to this day, such as "The Beautiful Blue Danube" of 1866, which was used brilliantly in the 1968 movie 2001: A Space Odyssey and "Tales From the Vienna Woods" of 1868. He pursued his career against the wishes of his father.

William Shatner and Nichelle Nichols, as Capt. James T. Kirk and Communications Officer Lt. Uhura, shared network television's first interracial kiss in the episode "Plato's Stepchildren" on the popular sci-fi series Star Trek. The revolutionary episode aired in 1968.

On January 31, 1968, North Vietnam attacked U.S. and South Vietnamese troops and reached the American Embassy in Saigon. It was a surprise to U.S. troops because January 31 was the Vietnamese New Year's Day, traditionally a day of celebration -- not war. This attack was called the "Tet Offensive".

Mann's Chinese Theater is Hollywood's most celebrated and visited landmark, and was declared a historic-cultural monument by the city of Los Angeles in 1968. Prestigious for actors and film industry members to be chosen to immortalize their hand and footprints in cement in front of the palatial theater; thousands of tourists visit the site annually.

The famed London Bridge spanned the River Thames for almost 140 years. In 1968, the city of London decided to sell its sinking bridge for $2.6 million to Robert P. McCulloch, founder of Lake Havasu City, Arizona, who needed a bridge to connect the city to an island in the lake. The island was created in order to remove an obstruction that blocked water flow from the Colorado River into Thompson Bay. It took three years to carefully dismantle, pack, ship, and reconstruct the landmark bridge in the desert state. It cost more than $7 million to rebuild it in Lake Havasu City. But on October 10, 1971, London Bridge was officially dedicated in Arizona before a crowd of 100,000 in a lavish ceremony.