TimeDb - What happend in 1968

Events

Date	Event
April 14 1968	Bjarne Amdahl Died
1968	Louis Aubert Died
1968	Jocelyne Binet Died
1968	Karl-Birger Blomdahl Died
1968	Peter Bruun Was Born
1968	Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco Died
1968	Juan José Castro Died
1968	Jeanne Demessieux Died
1968	Jörg Duda Was Born
1968	Richard Harris Was Born
1968	Matthew Hindson Was Born
1968	Jens Joneleit Was Born
1968	Rohan Kriwaczek Was Born
1968	Marcel Labey Died
1968	Guillaume Landré Died
1968	Hans Lang German composer Died
1968	Jón Leifs Died
April 15 1968	Boris Lyatoshinsky Died
June 02 1968	André Mathieu Died
September 17 1968	Alex Otterlei Was Born
1968	Roxanna Panufnik Was Born
1968	Ildebrando Pizzetti Died
1968	Ludvík Podéšť Died
1968	Hans Redlich Died
1968	Leo Sowerby Died
1968	Healey Willan Died
1968	Laura Andel Was Born
1968	Joe Cutler Was Born
January 05 1968	Dubček Accession Starts Czechoslovakia Prague Spring
January 07 1968	Surveyor 7 Launched From Cape Canaveral
January 13 1968	Johnny Cash Performs At Folsom Prison
January 21 1968	Battle Of Khe Sanh, Vietnam War, Begins
January 21 1968	Bomber Crash Near Thule Leaves Bomb Unfound
January 22 1968	Apollo 5 Carries First Lunar Module
January 22 1968	Installation Of Operation Igloo White Begins
January 23 1968	N. Korea Seizes USS Pueblo
January 24 1968	Vietnam War: Australia Launches Operation Coburg
January 30 1968	Tet Offensive Launched Against South Vietnam
January 31 1968	Nauru Gains Independence From Australia
January 31 1968	Viet Cong Attack U.S. Saigon Embassy
February 01 1968	Taped Execution Sours Americans On Vietnam
February 01 1968	Canadian Forces Are Composed Of Three Branches
February 01 1968	Penn Central Connects PA To NY
February 08 1968	Three Die In South Carolina Protest
February 11 1968	Israeli–Jordanian Border Clashes Rage
February 11 1968	The Memphis Sanitation Strike Begins
February 12 1968	Phong Nhị And Phong Nhất Massacre
February 16 1968	First 911 Emergency System Enters Service
February 17 1968	Basketball Hall Of Fame Opens, Springfield, MA
February 24 1968	Tet Offensive Halted As South Capture Hue
February 25 1968	135 Citizens Slaughtered, Ha My Massacre
March 06 1968	First L.A. Walkout Happens At High Schools
March 06 1968	Rhodesia Executes Rebels, Prompts International Condemnation
March 07 1968	Vietnam War: Start Of Operation Truong Cong Dinh
March 10 1968	USAF Loses 12 Members In Vietnam
March 12 1968	Mauritus Achieves Indepenence
March 16 1968	Over 347 Vietnamese Villagers Massacred
March 16 1968	General Motors' 100 Millionth Automobile Produced
March 17 1968	6000 Sheep Dead Due To Nerve Gas
March 18 1968	Congress Repeals The Gold Standard
March 21 1968	Karameh, Jordan: Israel And Fatah Battle
March 28 1968	Edson Luis De Lima Souto Shot By Brazilian Police
April 03 1968	Martin Luther King Jr. Gives 'Mountaintop' Speech
April 04 1968	NASA Launches Apollo 6
April 04 1968	Martin Luther King, Jr Assissinated In Tennessee
April 04 1968	AEK Greek Team Wins European Basketball Cup
April 06 1968	Richmond, Indiana Explosions Kill 41
April 06 1968	Trudeau Wins, Becomes Canada PM
April 08 1968	First Woman Awarded George Cross
April 10 1968	Wellington Harbour: New Zealand Ferry Sinks
April 11 1968	President Johnson Signs Civil Rights Act 1968
April 20 1968	Powell Makes Rivers Of Blood Speech
April 23 1968	Student Protesters Take Over Administration Buildings
April 24 1968	Mauritius Becomes Member Of United Nations
April 29 1968	Hippie Counter-culture Musical ""Hair"" Opens On Broadway
May 11 1968	Expansion Of Bloor-Danforth Line Now Open
May 12 1968	Vietnamese Forces Attack Austrians Resulting In Casualties
May 20 1968	Operation OAU Begins In Nigeria
May 22 1968	USS Scorpion Submarine Sinks
May 24 1968	Separatists Bomb Consolate In Quebec City
May 25 1968	Saint Louis Gateway Arch Is Dedicated
May 27 1968	A Meeting Of France's Union Of Students Occurs
May 27 1968	Montreal Expos First Canadian Baseball Franchise
May 30 1968	De Gaulle Dissolves French National Assembly 1968
June 03 1968	Solanas Fails In Warhol Assassination Attempt
June 05 1968	Kennedy Shot In Los Angeles, Dies
June 06 1968	Robert F. Kennedy Assassinated
June 08 1968	RFK Funeral Held At St. Patrick's
June 09 1968	Johnson Declares Mourning Following RFK Assassination
June 30 1968	Paul VI Issues People Of God Credo
July 01 1968	Identify And Neutralize NFL
July 01 1968	Nuclear Treaty Signed By Sixty Two Countries
July 01 1968	United Auto Workers Split From AFL-CIO
July 08 1968	Chrysler Wildcat Strike Begins In Detroit, Michigan
July 17 1968	Abdul Rahman Arif Is Overthrown
July 18 1968	Intel Is Founded In Mountain View, California
July 20 1968	Summer Olympics At Soldier Field, Chicago
July 23 1968	Riot Begins In Ohio After Police Violence
July 23 1968	El Al Aircraft Carrying 745 Hijacked By Liberation Of Palestine
July 26 1968	Truong Dzu- Five Years For Coalition Government
August 01 1968	Sultan Bolkiah Coronation Held
August 02 1968	Phillipines Earthquake Kills 270, Wounds 261
August 11 1968	Last Train On British Rail
August 13 1968	Alexandros Attempts To Assassinate Dictator Georgios
August 20 1968	Warsaw Pact Troops Invade Czechoslovakia
August 21 1968	Nicolae Ceausescu Starts The Romanian Revolution
August 21 1968	James Anderson, Jr. Receives First Medal Of Honor After Death
August 22 1968	Pope Paul VI Arrives In Bogotá
August 28 1968	Riots In Chicago During Democratic National Convention
August 31 1968	Sobers Hits Six Sixes In Six Balls
September 06 1968	Swaziland Becomes Independent
September 11 1968	Airliner Crash Off Nice Kills 95
September 11 1968	IACS Founded
September 13 1968	Albania Leaves The Warsaw Pact
September 15 1968	Xond 5 First Spacecraft Fly Around Moon
September 24 1968	60 Minutes Debuts On CBS
September 24 1968	Swaziland Joins The United Nations
September 27 1968	Hair Had 1,998 Performances In London
September 30 1968	Public Saw First Boeing-747 At Everett
October 01 1968	Guyanese Government Takes Over British Guiana Broadcasting
October 02 1968	Mexican President Orders Massacre On Demonstration
October 05 1968	Derry Demonstrators Beaten By Police
October 08 1968	Vietnam War U.S. Vietnamese Operation Mekong Delta
October 11 1968	First Successful Manned Apollo Mission Launched
October 12 1968	Equatorial Guinea Becomes Independent
October 14 1968	Soldiers Arrested For Vietnam War Protest
October 14 1968	U.S. Sends 24,000 Soldiers To Vietnam
October 14 1968	Apollo 7 Crew First Televised In Orbit
October 14 1968	Earthquake Detroys Meckering, Australia
October 14 1968	Hines Breaks ""Ten-second Barrier"
October 16 1968	Olympians Kicked Off For Black Power Salute
October 16 1968	Rodney Banning Sparks Rioting In Kingston
October 16 1968	Nobel Prize Awarded To First Japanese Author
October 18 1968	U.S. Olympic Committee Suspends 2 For Salute
October 20 1968	Jackie Kennedy Marries Aristotle Onassis
October 22 1968	Apollo 7 Safely Lands In Atlantic
October 26 1968	Georgy Beregovoy Pilots Soyuz Four-day Soyuz Mission
October 31 1968	Johnson Orders Vietnam Bombing Halt
November 01 1968	The Motion Picture Association Of America Started Rating System
November 08 1968	Vienna Convention Standardizes Road Traffic Rules
November 11 1968	Operation Commando Initiated To Interdict Men
November 11 1968	Second Republic Declared In Maldives
November 12 1968	United Nations To Add Equitorial Guinea
November 17 1968	Alexandros Panagoulis Receives Death Sentence
November 17 1968	BAC One-Eleven Introduced By British European Airways
November 17 1968	NBC Chooses Heidi Over Jets
November 20 1968	Seventy-eight Die In West Virginia Mine Explosion
November 22 1968	Beatles Release The White Album
November 26 1968	Pilot Awarded After Rescuing Special Forces Unit
November 27 1968	Penny Early First Woman In MLB
December 09 1968	'The Mother Of All Demos' - Douglas
December 10 1968	300 Million Yen Robbery In Tokyo
December 11 1968	Rock'nRoll Circus: Filmed Wembley London
December 13 1968	Brazilian President Suspends Habeas Corpus
December 16 1968	Vatican Revokes Edict Of Epulsion
December 20 1968	Betty Jensen And David Faraday Were Murdered
December 21 1968	Apollo 8 Launched For Lunar Flyby
December 23 1968	USS Pueblo Sailors Released
December 24 1968	First Humans Orbit Moon, Televising Mission
December 25 1968	Apollo Eight Perfoms First TEI Maneuver
December 25 1968	Dalits Burned To Death In Massacre
December 27 1968	Apollo 8 Returns Ending First Moon Mission