Saigon Bans Newsweek
Date: 03 March 1968
S Vietnamese Govt bans Newsweek (pub) for 3d wk in row for articles critical of it
Daniel Craig Birthday, Date of Birth
Daniel Wroughton Craig ( CRAYG; born 2 March 1968) is an English actor. He gained international fame by playing the fictional secret agent James Bond in the films Casino Royale (2006), Quantum of Solace (2008), Skyfall (2012), Spectre (2015) and No Time to Die (2021).
After training at the National Youth Theatre in London and graduating from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in 1991, Craig began his career on stage. He began acting with the drama The Power of One (1992), and had his breakthrough role in the drama serial Our Friends in the North (1996). He gained prominence for his supporting roles in films such as Elizabeth (1998), Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001), Road to Perdition (2002), Layer Cake (2004) and Munich (2005).
In 2006, Craig played Bond in Casino Royale, a reboot of the Bond franchise that was favourably received by critics and for which Craig was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role. Since then he has acted in many films, including the fantasy The Golden Compass (2007), the drama Defiance (2008), the science fiction Western Cowboys & Aliens (2011), the mystery thriller The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011) and the heist film Logan Lucky (2017). He has also played Benoit Blanc in the Knives Out film series since 2019. He starred in the romantic drama Queer (2024), for which he was nominated for Best Actor at the Golden Globe Awards, Critics' Choice Movie Awards and Screen Actors Guild Awards.
On stage, Craig starred in the Royal National Theatre's production of Angels in America (1993) on the West End. He made his Broadway debut in the play A Steady Rain (2009) and returned to Broadway in the revivals of Harold Pinter's Betrayal (2011) and William Shakespeare's Macbeth (2022). He starred as Iago in the New York Theatre Workshop production of Othello (2016).
Read more...- Birthday, Date of Birth
- Saturday, March 2, 1968
- Place of Birth
- Chester
- Age
- 58
- Star Sign
- ♓
The March 2, 1968 was a Saturday under the star sign of ♓. It was the 61 day of the year. President of the United States was Lyndon B. Johnson.
If you were born on this day, you are 58 years old. Your last birthday was on the Monday, March 2, 2026, 90 days ago. Your next birthday is on Tuesday, March 2, 2027, in 274 days. You have lived for 21,274 days, or about 510,577 hours, or about 30,634,650 minutes, or about 1,838,079,000 seconds.
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2nd of March 1968 News
News as it appeared on the front page of the New York Times on March 2, 1968
Tanzania Weighs News Bill
Date: 02 March 1968
Govt announces draft legis empowering Pres Nyerere to ban any pub in interest of peace and good order
Guild Strike at Post Averted As Agreement Is Reached
Date: 02 March 1968
ANG and NY Post reach tentative agreement
ARGENTINE EDITOR FREED UNTIL TRIAL; Held on Rape Charge After Banning of Publications
Date: 02 March 1968
Special to The New York Times
J A Vago, dir and ed of 2 pubs closed by Govt in '67, freed after 3 mos in jail pending trial for attempted rape; atty claims rape charge is aimed at silencing him; case revd; some newspaper eds sorry press freedom issue is involved because they regard Vago's pubs as 'scandal sheets'
NEWSPAPER LACK WORRIES DETROIT; Absence of Dailies Is Linked by Aides to Racial Rumors
Date: 03 March 1968
Special to The New York Times
Detroit strike in 4th mo; city execs concerned over inability of newspapers, because of strike, to rebut continuing rumors of portending racial violence; Mayor Cavanagh intervention in strike noted
TRANSPORT NEWS: CITY GETS TANKER; $3.8-Million Ship to Carry Sewage Sludge to Sea
Date: 02 March 1968
NYC Pub Works Dept takes delivery of motor ship Newtown Creek, for sewage disposal, built at Wiley Mfg, Port Deposit, Md, yd
News Media Found Lacking In Understanding of the Negro; Less Fault Seen in Riot Coverage Than in a 'White World Through White Eyes' -- An Urban Press Institute Is Urged
Date: 03 March 1968
By JOSEPH A. LOFTUS
Joseph LOFTUS
comm rept on news media calls for professional orgn to elevate standards of reptg about and to Negro in Amer; holds its major criticism of media is failure to rept adequately on race relations and ghetto problems and not bringing enough Negroes into journalism; discusses media's role in covering '67 race riots
Negro in Baltimore Post
Date: 03 March 1968
C W Mackay named Pub Works Dept 1st Negro bur chief