1968 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1968?
- January 21, 1968 – A B-52 bomber crashes near Thule Air Base, contaminating the area after its nuclear payload ruptures. One of the four bombs remains unaccounted for after the cleanup operation is complete.
- January 23, 1968 – North Korea seizes the USS Pueblo, claiming the ship had violated their territorial waters while spying.
- January 30, 1968 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Monkey in Chinese astrology.
- January 31, 1968 – Viet Cong attack the United States embassy in Saigon, and other attacks, in the early morning hours, later grouped together as the Tet Offensive.
- February 12, 1968 – Phong Nhi and Phong Nhat massacre.
- March 12, 1968 – Mauritius achieves independence.
- April 9, 1968 – Funeral of Martin Luther King, Jr.
- April 20, 1968 – English politician Enoch Powell makes his controversial Rivers of Blood speech.
- 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 – Formal separation of the United Auto Workers from the AFL-CIO.
- September 11, 1968 – Air France Flight 1611 crashes off Nice, France, killing 89 passengers and 6 crew.
- September 24, 1968 – Swaziland joins the United Nations.
- October 2, 1968 – A peaceful student demonstration in Mexico City culminates in the Tlatelolco massacre.
- October 14, 1968 – Vietnam War: 27 soldiers are arrested at the Presidio of San Francisco in California for their peaceful protest of stockade conditions and the Vietnam War.
- October 16, 1968 – Kingston, Jamaica is rocked by the Rodney Riots, inspired by the barring of Walter Rodney from the country.
- October 31, 1968 – Vietnam War October surprise: Citing progress with the Paris peace talks, US President Lyndon B. Johnson announces to the nation that he has ordered a complete cessation of “all air, naval, and artillery bombardment of North Vietnam” effective November 1.
- November 17, 1968 – Alexandros Panagoulis is condemned to death for attempting to assassinate Greek dictator George Papadopoulos.
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