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1968 was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1968th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 968th year of the 2nd millennium, the 68th year of the 20th century, and the 9th year of the 1960s decade.
- Television
The year 1968 in television involved some significant...
- 1968 Thule Air Base B-52 Crash
On 21 January 1968, an aircraft accident, sometimes known as...
- Film
The year 1968 in film involved some significant events, with...
- Television
1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1968th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 968th year of the 2nd millennium, the 68th year of the 20th century, and the 9th year of the 1960s decade.
AD 68 was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Silius Italicus and Trachalus, or the start of the Year of the Four Emperors (or, less frequently, year 821 Ab urbe condita).
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Federal government
1. President: Lyndon B. Johnson (D-Texas) 2. Vice President: Hubert Humphrey (D-Minnesota) 3. Chief Justice: Earl Warren (California) 4. Speaker of the House of Representatives: John William McCormack (D-Massachusetts) 5. Senate Majority Leader: Mike Mansfield (D-Montana) 6. Congress: 90th
January
1. January 2 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average is 906.4. 2. January 5 – The United States indicts Benjamin Spock, famous pediatricianand author, for conspiracy to violate the draft laws. Spock's indictment is set aside in 1969. 3. January 6 3.1. N. E. Shumway performs the first adult cardiac transplant operation in the U.S. 3.2. Surveyor 7, the last of the series of uncrewed probes, is launched by the U.S. for soft-landing on the Moon. 4. January 7 – First-class US postage is raised from 5 c...
February
1. February 1 1.1. Vietnam War: A Viet Cong officer named Nguyễn Văn Lém is executed by Nguyễn Ngọc Loan, a South Vietnamese National Police Chief. The event is photographed by Eddie Adams. The photo makes headlines around the world, eventually winning the 1969 Pulitzer Prize, and sways U.S. public opinion against the war. 1.2. The Pennsylvania Railroad and the New York Central Railroad merge to form Penn Central, the largest ever corporate mergerup to this date. 2. February 8 – Civil rights...
March
1. March 11 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson mandates that all computers purchased by the federal government support ASCII character encoding. 2. March 12 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson edges out antiwar candidate Eugene J. McCarthy in the New Hampshire Democratic primary, a vote which highlights the deep divisions in the country, as well as the party, over Vietnam. 3. March 14 – Nerve gas leaks from the U.S. Army Dugway Proving Ground near Skull Valley, Utah. 4. March 16 4.1. Vietnam W...
January – February
1. January 2 – Cuba Gooding Jr., actor 2. January 4 – Mike Wilpolt, American football player and coach 3. January 5 – Carrie Ann Inaba, American choreographer, game show host and singer 4. January 6 – John Singleton, African American film director (died 2019) 5. January 9 – Joey Lauren Adams, American actress 6. January 12 6.1. Farrah Forke, American actress (died 2022) 6.2. Rachael Harris, actress 7. January 14 – LL Cool J, rapper and songwriter 8. January 15 – Chad Lowe, actor 9. January 21...
March – May
1. March 1 – Tim Steele, racing driver (d. 2024) 2. March 3 – Brian Leetch, American ice hockey player 3. March 6 – Moira Kelly, actress 4. March 7 – Jeff Kent, baseball player 5. March 11 – Lisa Loeb, singer 6. March 12 – Aaron Eckhart, actor 7. March 15 – Mark McGrath, singer 8. March 23 – Mitch Cullin, author 9. March 26 9.1. Kenny Chesney, country musicsinger 9.2. James Iha, alternative rock musician and co-founder of The Smashing Pumpkins 10. March 28 – Iris Chang, author (d. 2004) 11. A...
June – July
1. June 2 1.1. Jason Falkner, singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer (Jellyfish, The Grays and The Three O'Clock) 1.2. Andy Cohen, radio and television talk show host 1.3. Beetlejuice, actor 2. June 4 2.1. Joey Mazzarino, actor, puppeteer, writer and director 2.2. Scott Wolf, American actor 3. June 8 – Black Rob, rapper (died 2021) 4. June 10 – Bill Burr, American comedian 5. June 14 5.1. Campbell Brown, journalist 5.2. Yasmine Bleeth, American actress 6. June 27 – Kelly Ayotte, U.S. Senat...
January 16 – Bob Jones Sr., evangelist, religious broadcaster and founder of Bob Jones University (born 1883)January 19 – Ray Harroun, race car driver (born 1879)January 26 – Merrill C. Meigs, newspaper publisher and aviation promoter (born 1883)Despite the overwhelming victory of the Gaullists in the legislative elections of June 1968, the force of May 1968 dealt a mortal blow to the authority of the president of the republic, who resigned after the failure of a referendum in 1969.
A Timeline of 1968: The Year That Shattered America | History | Smithsonian Magazine. History | January 2018. A Timeline of 1968: The Year That Shattered America. The nation is still reckoning...
1968: The Year That Changed America. A look into the events that were to shape the nation forever. 1968 in America is often considered to be one of the most turbulent years of the 20th century,...
