1968 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1968?
- January 30, 1968 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Monkey in Chinese astrology.
- February 25, 1968 – Vietnam War: 135 unarmed citizens of Ha My village in South Vietnam’s Quảng Nam Province are killed and buried en masse by South Korean troops in what would come to be known as the Ha My massacre.
- March 6, 1968 – The first of the East L.A. Walkouts take place at several high schools.
- March 10, 1968 – Vietnam War: Battle of Lima Site 85, concluding the 11th with largest single ground combat loss of United States Air Force members (12) during that war.
- March 12, 1968 – Mauritius achieves independence.
- March 18, 1968 – Gold standard: The U.S. Congress repeals the requirement for a gold reserve to back US currency.
- March 21, 1968 – Battle of Karameh in Jordan between Israeli Defense Forces and Fatah.
- April 10, 1968 – Shipwreck of the New Zealand inter-island ferry TEV Wahine outside Wellington harbour.
- May 11, 1968 – The Toronto Transit Commission opens the largest expansion of its Bloor–Danforth line, going to Scarborough in the East, and Etobicoke in the West.
- May 12, 1968 – Vietnam War: North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces attack Australian troops defending Fire Support Base Coral, east of Lai Khe in South Vietnam on the night of 12/13 May, resulting in heavy casualties on both sides and beginning the Battle of Coral-Balmoral.
- May 22, 1968 – The nuclear-powered submarine the USS Scorpion sinks with 99 men aboard 400 miles southwest of the Azores.
- May 27, 1968 – The meeting of the Union Nationale des Étudiants de France (National Union of the Students of France) takes place. 30,000 to 50,000 people gather in the Stade Sebastien Charlety.
- July 1, 1968 – The CIA’s Phoenix Program is officially established.
- July 18, 1968 – The Intel Corporation is founded in Santa Clara, California.
- October 2, 1968 – A peaceful student demonstration in Mexico City culminates in the Tlatelolco massacre.
- October 8, 1968 – Vietnam War: Operation Sealords – United States and South Vietnamese forces launch a new operation in the Mekong Delta.
- October 12, 1968 – Equatorial Guinea becomes independent from Spain
- October 16, 1968 – Kingston, Jamaica is rocked by the Rodney Riots, inspired by the barring of Walter Rodney from the country.
- October 22, 1968 – Apollo program: Apollo 7 safely splashes down in the Atlantic Ocean after orbiting the Earth 163 times.
- December 25, 1968 – 42 Dalits are burned alive in Kilavenmani village, Tamil Nadu, India, a retaliation for a campaign for higher wages by Dalit labourers.
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