Births on August 8

Aldo Calderón van Dyke

Born on August 8, 1968

Aldo Calderón van Dyke, Honduran journalist (d. 2013)

Aldo Mauricio Calderón van Dyke (8 August 1968 – 15 July 2013) was a Honduran journalist and news anchor. He worked during the 1990s for La Prensa and later Diario Tiempo.

He became the anchor of the evening newscast of Canal 11 in 2001. During the government of Manuel Zelaya he was appointed to be speaker of the Secretariat of Natural Resources and Environment.

Calderón died on 15 July 2013 from poison.

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Aldo Calderón van Dyke

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Events on 1968

30 Jan

Tet Offensive
Vietnam War: Tet Offensive launch by forces of the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army against South Vietnam, the United States, and their allies.
31 Jan

Tet Offensive
Vietnam War: Viet Cong guerrillas attack the United States embassy in Saigon, and other attacks, in the early morning hours, later grouped together as the Tet Offensive.
29 Apr

Counterculture of the 1960s
The controversial musical Hair, a product of the hippie counter-culture and sexual revolution of the 1960s, opens at the Biltmore Theatre on Broadway, with some of its songs becoming anthems of the anti-Vietnam War movement.
14 Oct

U.S. Marine Corps
Vietnam War: The United States Department of Defense announces that the U.S. Army and U.S. Marine Corps will send about 24,000 soldiers and Marines back to Vietnam for involuntary second tours of duty in the combat zone there.
20 Oct

Jacqueline Kennedy
Former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy marries Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis.

Births on August 8

Aldo Calderón van Dyke

Born on August 8, 1968

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Events on 1968

Tet Offensive

Tet Offensive

Counterculture of the 1960s

U.S. Marine Corps

Jacqueline Kennedy