1968 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1968?
- January 21, 1968 – Vietnam War: Battle of Khe Sanh – One of the most publicized and controversial battles of the war begins.
- January 30, 1968 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Monkey in Chinese astrology.
- February 12, 1968 – Phong Nhi and Phong Nhat massacre.
- February 24, 1968 – Vietnam War: The Tet Offensive is halted; South Vietnam recaptures Hué.
- March 6, 1968 – Three black males are executed by Rhodesia, the first executions since UDI, prompting international condemnation.
- April 9, 1968 – Funeral of Martin Luther King, Jr.
- April 10, 1968 – Shipwreck of the New Zealand inter-island ferry TEV Wahine outside Wellington harbour.
- April 11, 1968 – President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968, prohibiting discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing.
- May 24, 1968 – FLQ separatists bomb the U.S. consulate in Quebec City.
- June 3, 1968 – Valerie Solanas, author of SCUM Manifesto, attempts to assassinate Andy Warhol by shooting him three times.
- June 5, 1968 – U.S. presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy is shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California by Palestinian Sirhan Sirhan. Kennedy dies the next day.
- June 30, 1968 – Pope Paul VI issues the Credo of the People of God.
- September 11, 1968 – Air France Flight 1611 crashes off Nice, France, killing 89 passengers and 6 crew.
- September 15, 1968 – The Soviet Zond 5 spaceship is launched, becoming the first spacecraft to fly around the Moon and re-enter the Earth’s atmosphere.
- September 24, 1968 – Swaziland joins the United Nations.
- October 14, 1968 – The first live telecast from a manned spacecraft, the Apollo 7, launched by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration of the U.S.A.
- November 11, 1968 – Vietnam War: Operation Commando Hunt initiated. The goal is to interdict men and supplies on the Ho Chi Minh Trail, through Laos into South Vietnam.
- November 12, 1968 – Equatorial Guinea joins the United Nations.
- November 26, 1968 – Vietnam War: United States Air Force helicopter pilot James P. Fleming rescues an Army Special Forces unit pinned down by Viet Cong fire and is later awarded the Medal of Honor.
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