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1968

1968 was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar).

Events

Undated

  • Booker Prize for Fiction is established by Booker plc.
  • 1968 is known as the year of the Prague Spring and also the year of the Paris riots.
  • The ASCII character code is standardized as ANSI Standard X3.4.
  • Nauru adopt its national anthem of the Nauru Bwiema
  • The Hong Kong Flu pandemic begins in Hong Kong
  • The International Baccalaureate Organisation was founded in 1968.

    January

  • January 5 - Alexander Dubček elected as leader of the Czechoslovakian Communist Party - the "Prague Spring" begins in Czechoslovakia
  • January 15 - An earthquake in Sicily - 231 dead, 262 injured
  • January 21 - US B-52 bomber crashes in Greenland and in the process discharges four nuclear bombs
  • January 23 - North Korea seizes the USS Pueblo, claiming the ship violated its territorial waters while spying.
  • January 25 - The Israeli Submarine Dakar sinks in the Mediterranean Sea - 69 dead
  • January 27 - French submarine sinks in the Mediterranean with 52 men
  • January 30 - Vietnam War: The Tet Offensive begin when Viet Cong forces launch series of a surprise attacks in South Vietnam.
  • January 31 - Viet Cong attack the United States embassy in Saigon
  • January 31 - Nauru's president Hammer DeRoburt declares independence from Australia

    February

  • February 1 - Vietnam War: A Viet Cong officer is executed by Nguyen Ngoc Loan a South Vietnamese National Police Chief. The execution was videotaped and photographed and helped sway public opinion against the war.
  • February 8 - Boeing 747 in its maiden flight
  • February 8 - American civil rights movement: A civil rights protest staged at a white-only bowling alley in Orangeburg, South Carolina is broken-up by highway patrolmen leading to the deaths of three college students
  • February 11 - Israeli-Jordan border clashes.
  • February 11 - Madison Square Garden III closes, Madison Square Garden IV opens in New York.
  • February 13 - Civil rights disturbances at the University of Wisconsin and University of North Carolina
  • February 16 - In Haleyville, Alabama the first 9-1-1 emergency telephone system goes into service
  • February 18 - British Standard Time introduced
  • February 24 - Vietnam War: The Tet Offensive is halted - South Vietnam recaptures Hué

    March

  • March 7 - Vietnam War: The First Battle of Saigon begins.
  • March 12 - Mauritius achieves independence from British Rule
  • March 15 - George Brown, British Minister of Foreign affairs, resigns
  • March 16 - Vietnam War: My Lai massacre American troops kills scores of women and children
  • March 17 - A demonstration in London's Grosvenor Square against US involvement in the Vietnam War leads to violence - 91 police injured, 200 demonstrators arrested
  • March 18 - Gold standard: The U.S. Congress repeals the requirement for a gold reserve to back US currency
  • March 27 - Russian space pioneer Yuri Gagarin killed in a crash during a training flight.
  • March 31 - American President Lyndon Johnson announces he will not seek re-election.

    April

  • April - Carl Brashear, the first African American United States Navy diver, becomes the first amputee certified to make diving missions, after a long battle which started with the accident which amputated his leg in 1966.
  • April 2 - Bombs placed by Andreas Baader and Gudrun Ensslin explode at midnight in two department stores in Frankfurt-am-Main - 3 dead. Culprits are later arrested and sentenced for arson
  • April 4 - In the morning after delivering his "mountaintop" speech, Martin Luther King, Jr is assassinated by James Earl Ray in Memphis, Tennessee.
  • April 11 - Premiere of the musical Hair on Broadway.
  • April 11 - London Bridge sold to Robert McCullough for £1 million. It is later re-erected in Arizona
  • April 11 - Joseph Bachmann tries to assassinate Rudi Dutschke, leader of a left-wing movement APO in Germany and tries to commit suicide afterwards - failing in both
  • April 11 - German left-wing students blockade the Springer Press HQ in Berlin and many are arrested - one of them Ulrike Meinhof
  • April 20 - Pierre Elliott Trudeau becomes Canada's fifteenth prime minister.
  • April 20 - English politician Enoch Powell makes controversial Rivers of Blood Speech
  • April 23-April 30 - Student protesters at Columbia University in New York City take over administration buildings and shut down the university.
  • April 23 - Surgeons at the Hopital de la Pitie, Paris, perform Europe's first heart transplant on Clovis Roblain
  • April 29 - Official opening of the musical Hair on Broadway.

    May

  • May - "May of 68" is a symbol of the resistance of that generation. Agitations and strikes in Paris led many young to believe that a revolution was starting. Student and worker strikes sometimes referred to as the French May nearly bring down the French government
  • May 22 - The nuclear-powered submarine the USS Scorpion sinks with 99 men aboard 400 miles southwest of the Azores

    June

  • June 1 - Helen Keller dies in her sleep in Connecticut.
  • June 3 – Valerie Solanas shoots at Andy Warhol in his studio
  • June 5 - U.S. presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy is shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California by Sirhan Sirhan (He died on June 6)
  • June 8 - James Earl Ray is arrested for the murder of Doctor Martin Luther King Jr
  • June 20 - Austin Currie, Member of Parliament (MP) at Stormont in the six counties of northern Ireland, along with others, squats a house in Caledon to protest discrimination in housing allocations.
  • June 29 - Pope Paul VI announces an encyclical entitled "Humanae Vitae", condemning birth control

    July

  • July 15 - The soap opera One Life To Live premieres on the ABC network.


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