1968 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1968?
- January 16, 1968 – The Youth International Party is founded.
- January 30, 1968 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Monkey in Chinese astrology.
- February 8, 1968 – American civil rights movement: The Orangeburg massacre: An attack on black students from South Carolina State University who are protesting racial segregation at the town’s only bowling alley, leaves three or four dead in Orangeburg, South Carolina.
- February 24, 1968 – Vietnam War: The Tet Offensive is halted; South Vietnam recaptures Hué.
- April 20, 1968 – English politician Enoch Powell makes his controversial Rivers of Blood speech.
- April 23, 1968 – Vietnam War: Student protesters at Columbia University in New York City take over administration buildings and shut down the university.
- April 24, 1968 – Mauritius becomes a member state of the United Nations.
- April 29, 1968 – The controversial musical Hair opens on Broadway.
- 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 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.
- August 2, 1968 – An earthquake hits Casiguran, Aurora, Philippines killing more than 270 people and wounding 261.
- September 24, 1968 – Swaziland joins the United Nations.
- September 30, 1968 – The Boeing 747 is rolled out and shown to the public for the first time at the Boeing Everett Factory.
- October 2, 1968 – A peaceful student demonstration in Mexico City culminates in the Tlatelolco massacre.
- October 22, 1968 – Apollo program: Apollo 7 safely splashes down in the Atlantic Ocean after orbiting the Earth 163 times.
- November 17, 1968 – Viewers of the Raiders–Jets football game in the eastern United States are denied the opportunity to watch its exciting finish when NBC broadcasts Heidi instead, prompting changes to sports broadcasting in the U.S.
- 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.
- December 21, 1968 – Apollo program: Apollo 8 launched from the Kennedy Space Center, placing its crew on a lunar trajectory for the first visit to another celestial body by humans.
- 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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