January 1968
The following events occurred in January 1968: January 1, 1968 (Monday) *Ranked as the number one college football team in the United States, the USC Trojans (9-1-0) faced the #4 ranked Indiana Hoosiers (9-1-0) in the Rose Bowl in Pasadena; that evening, the Orange Bowl in Miami pitted the #2 and #3 teams against each other, as the second-ranked Tennessee Volunteers (9-1-0) met the Oklahoma Sooners (9-1-0). The format of #1 vs. #4 and #2 vs. #3 would be used half a century later as the semi-finals for the NCAA Division I football championship game, but there were no playoffs in 1968, and USC, Indiana, Tennessee and Oklahoma were champions of their respective conferences. At the time, the Rose Bowl matched the Pac-8 and Big Ten, while the Orange Bowl featured the SEC and Big Eight. USC defeated Indiana, 14-3, on the strength of two touchdown runs by O. J. Simpson, and would retain its #1 ranking. Oklahoma blew a 19-0 halftime lead over Tennessee, but held off a furious Tennesse ...
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Donagh MacDonagh
Donagh MacDonagh (22 November 1912 – 1 January 1968) was an Irish writer, judge, presenter, broadcaster, and playwright. Personal life MacDonagh was born in Dublin on St Cecilia's Day in 1912. He was still a young child when his father Thomas MacDonagh, an Irish nationalist and poet, was executed in 1916. Tragedy struck again when his mother, Muriel Gifford, died of a heart attack a year afterwards while swimming at Skerries to Lambay, County Dublin on 9 July 1917. The two children were then taken care of by their maternal aunts, in particular Catherine Wilson. His parents' families then engaged in a series of custody lawsuits, as the MacDonaghs were Roman Catholic and the Giffords were Protestant; in the climate of '' Ne Temere'', the MacDonaghs were successful. He and his sister Barbara (who later married actor Liam Redmond) lived bri