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February 8, 1968: Orangeburg Massacre
Frank Sinatra releases ‘My Way’
Author of ‘The Grapes of Wrath,’ John Steinbeck passed away at age 66
U.S. Army biological warfare mistakenly kill 6K sheep in Utah, USA ranch
We’re a Winner Album by The Impressions
Dick Gregory for President
Released January 8, 1968 “(Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay”
3.3% National Unemployment Rate
The National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders
1968 Olympics Human Rights Salute
Miami Civil Protest
San Francisco State College Student Strike
Andy Warhol is shot in his New York City
Mod Squad
The Beatles release ‘White Album’ November 22, 1968
The Yippies are Going to Chicago
November 22, 1968 “Star Trek” airs American television’s first interracial kiss
TCB was the First musical TV special of the rock era to air on American broadcast television
Women’s Liberation groups target the Miss America Beauty Contest
68 Sounds Released in 1968, Standing the Test of Time
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar boycotted the Olympics
Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy
Bob Gibson most dominant pitching season in baseball history
McDonald’s Big Mac Makes it’s Debut, 1968
Motion Picture Films Released in 1968
1968 Mens and Womens Fashion Clothes
Soviet Union – Zond 5 Space Mission
United States – Surveyor 7 Lunar Lander
United States — Intel Corporation is created
Alexander Dubcek becomes the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia
Elvis Presley returns to live performances in a special Christmas television programme that would later be dubbed the “’68 Comeback Special”
Japan’s biggest heist, 300 Million Yen Robbery takes place in Tokyo ($817,520 at 1968 exchange rates)
Saddam Hussein part of the military coup in 1968
The ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech, 20th of April 1968
HOTWHEELS INVENTED 5/18/68
British rule ended on 12 March 1968, when Mauritius became independent
Walter Cronkite reports on his recent trip to Vietnam
At Folsom Prison Live album by Johnny Cash
Volatile Civil Unrest in France with Massive General Strikes
Historic Student Uprising at Columbia University
Hong Kong Flu
9-1-1, also written 911, emergency telephone number deputes in 1968 for the North American Numbering Plan (NANP)
Ellsworth “Bumpy” Johnson July 7, 1968
CBS Debuts the Doris Day Show in September 1968
Operation Danube – Joint Invasion of Czechoslovakia
Muhammad Ali’s 1968 ‘Esquire’ cover is one of the greatest of all time
March 13, 1968: Oil discovered on Alaska’s North Slope
Miss Black America Pageant on August 17, 1968
Nixon Elected President: November 5, 1968
Hair: Opened on Broadway in April 1968
Shirley Chisholm, the first Black woman elected to Congress
Berkeley – The Protest Pulse of the World
Washington, D.C. Civil ‘War’ Riots of 1968
Lisa Marie Presley (born February 1, 1968
Apollo 8 Mission
The US national debut of the Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood show occurred on February 19, 1968
South Vietnam Mỹ Lai Massacre – 16 March 1968
60 Minutes the American newsmagazine television program, debuted on September 24, 1968
Robert F. Kennedy Delivers Speech on the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
1968 Belice Earthquake (Sicily Italy)
Democratic National Convention in Chicago – Tense and Violent Protest
1968 movement in Italy or Sessantotto
Mexican Student Movement of 1968
Student Union Building in Stockholm occupation
Polish 1968 political crisis
Pickering v. Board of Education , 391 U.S. 563 (1968)
The Prague Spring of 1968
Apollo 8 begins the first US mission to orbit the Moon
Close Election Results for POTUS
Jacqueline Kennedy is married to Aristotle Onassis
Chief of Staff Curtis E. Lemay — “I don’t believe the world would end if we exploded a nuclear weapon.”
Alice’s Restaurant
2,500 people occupy Resurrection City
Martin Luther King Jr. leads a march in Memphis
The East Los Angeles Walkouts or Chicano Blowouts
December 24: Apollo 8 is the first manned spacecraft to orbit the moon
September 30: Boeing introduces the first 747 “Jumbo Jet”
January 23: North Korea captures the USS Pueblo
Riots Following Martin Luther King, Jr. Assassination Spread to Baltimore
Coretta Scott King Leads Silent Memorial March For Martin Luther King Jr.
Richmond Explosion
A speech on the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. was given by New York Senator Robert F. Kennedy
“The Producers” Is Released
Apollo 5 Mission
Aretha Franklin Releases “Lady Soul”
United States Air Force Launches Operation Igloo White
“2001: A Space Odyssey” Is Published
Shriver Creates the Special Olympics
George Foreman won a gold medal heavyweight bout against Soviet boxer
Bob Beamon set a long-jump world record
Willie Horton lead the Tigers to a Game 7 World Series victory
Bill Russell, first black head coach of a major American pro team to win a championship.
Arthur Ashe – first black man to win a major tennis title
Petula Clark and Harry Belafonte remember a televised moment that inadvertently became a scandal—and a civil-rights cause célèbre.
Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
1968 National Convention of the U.S. Democratic Party
The Poor People’s Campaign
Columbia University protests of 1968
The Mỹ Lai Massacre
Frankie Lymon dies of an overdose
Orangeburg massacre
Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In
Tet Offensive
“Boys in the Band” debuts
‘The Foot Book: Dr. Seuss’s Wacky Book of Opposites’ is Published
Volvo 164 is First Produced
Memphis, Tennessee looting that followed the break-up of a march led by Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
On strike! Shut it down
Social Confrontation: The Battle of Michigan Ave
Hasbro (NASDAQ: HAS) Oct. 10th at $15.00
Super Bowl II
Apollo 8: Christmas at the Moon
Leroy Eldridge Cleaver Black Panther Shoot Out
USS Pueblo Spy Ship Capture
Jan. 29, 1968, Dr. Benjamin Spock plead innocent to charges of counseling young men to avoid the Vietnam draft.
Hank Aaron hits career homer No. 500
Fosbury Flop – Decades TV Network
Diahann Carroll remembers Julia
February 16, 1968: First 911 call
Byodo-In Temple – dedicated in August 1968
Stax Records – Every 1968 Single
Chicago Eight, also Conspiracy Eight/Conspiracy Seven
Linda Ronstadt, The Stone Poneys – Different Drum
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