1968yr.com – Oh What A Year!

Posts

0 345

Kareem’s bold protest in 1968

0 289

Arthur Robert Ashe Jr.

0 679

Poor People’s March on Washington

0 1319

HAIR, the musical

0 1042

First successful bone marrow transplant

0 1122

Big Mac first introduced in the Pittsburgh area

0 1150

Shirley Chisholm – 1st black woman elected to the U.S. Congress

0 929

POTUS, Lyndon B. Johnson — “I shall not seek, and I will not accept”…

0 1360

O. J. Simpson Heisman Trophy winner

0 926

Kansas City Riots – Six Blacks Killed

0 991

The Civil Rights Act of 1968

0 900

Apollo 7 is launched from Florida for an eleven day journey

0 930

Amazing Water landing

0 1060

Airlines Flight Fatalities

0 1334

1968 World’s Fair (or International Exposition) held in San Antonio, Texas

0 1006

Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike

0 766

La La Means I Love You

0 879

San Francisco State University Strike

0 789

Haight Ashbury – Grateful Dead FREE Concert

0 878

Raw Footage – San Francisco

0 971

Super Bowl II

0 879

Motor Trend Car of the Year

0 800

Yellow Submarine

0 770

Planet of the Apes – Original

0 763

Chicago police beat marchers unconscious at Democratic Convention

0 936

Night of the Living Dead

0 1006

Jacqueline Kennedy is married to Aristotle Onassis

0 738

Calvin Klein, Inc.

0 982

Intel Corporation

0 753

Summer Olympic Games, Mexico City – Tommie Smith and John Carlos

0 743

Tlatelolco Square, Mexico City – Hundreds Killed

0 926

National Organization of Women (NOW) – freedom ashcan

0 786

Hubert Humphrey kicks off his presidential campaign

0 746

The Thomas Crown Affair

0 710

The Odd Couple

0 755

Mayor Richard Daley opens the Democratic National Convention in Chicago

0 746

Soviet Union invades Czechoslovakia

0 691

Richard Milhouse Nixon t- Spiro Agnew of Maryland as his running mate

0 697

Alice’s Restaurant

0 1073

Muhammad Ali’s Iconic ‘Esquire’ Cover

0 766

Abbie Hoffman’s “The Yippies are Going to Chicago

0 950

Tallulah Bankhead (January 31, 1902 – December 12, 1968)

0 808

Czechoslovakia Ludvik Vaculik releases his manifesto “Two Thousand Words

0 944

Robert Kennedy’s funeral is held at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York

0 895

Robert Kennedy shot by Sirhan Sirhan [pro Palestinian]

0 769

Andy Warhol is shot in his New York City

0 950

Assassination of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

0 825

Address to the Nation Announcing Steps To Limit the War in Vietnam

0 932

Martin Luther King Jr. leads a march in Memphis

0 761

Antonin Novotny resigns the Czech presidency

0 893

My Lai killing more than 500 Vietnamese civilians

0 800

Senator Robert Kennedy enters 1968 Presidential race

0 798

Eugene McCarthy campaign – 2,000 full-time student volunteers

0 936

Walter Cronkite reports on his recent trip to Vietnam to view the aftermath of the Tet Offensive

0 774

Embattled city of Ben Tre in South Vietnam.

0 1073

“I was a drum major for peace… for righteousness.”

0 719

Executing a Viet Cong prisoner

0 1120

1968 presidential campaign of Richard Nixon

0 946

Pueblo Incident, capture of the USS “Pueblo,” a Navy intelligence ship

0 827

President Johnson’s 1968 State of the Union Address

0 987

Prague Spring

0 914

Violations of the Military Draft Laws

0 817

Tet Offensive Documentary

0 991

Birth of Lisa Marie Presley (February 1, 1968 – January 12, 2023)

0 1105

Helen Keller (June 27, 1880 – June 1, 1968)

0 952

Intro of the bean bag chair, beanbag chair

0 845

Intro of Hot Wheels

0 989

Ziploc

0 877

Robert and Ethel Kennedy’s daughter, Rory is born.

0 1043

Nixon beats Humphrey and Wallace

0 1081

Yuri Gagarin – died in MiG-15 jet fighter crash

0 959

George Wallace – nuclear weapons

0 1226

Pringles

0 937

Apollo 8 begins the first US mission to orbit the Moon

0 885

Rosemary’s Baby

Copyright © 2026 1968yr.com

Design by ThemesDNA.com