1968

1968 was a highly turbulent year. To paraphrase Bob Dylan, the times were indeed changing. Even with the major political turbulence, there were still a few cultural developments that would remain with the world for years.

1968 was the year that the first episode of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood aired, providing a stable, warm cultural icon for generations of children. This was also the year that Planet of the Apes, starring Charlton Heston, was released in theatres. And one of the great bands of the 20th century, Led Zeppelin, performed live for the first time in October of this year. In another more mild development, Yale University announced this year that women would be admitted to the university, making it a coeducational institution.

This year was also an important one for space exploration. 1968 saw the United States launch Apollo 7, the first manned Apollo mission and an important step toward the Moon landing. Apollo 8 followed not long after, when Astronauts Frank Borman, James Lovell, and William A. Anders orbited the Moon. These men were the first human beings to see the far side of the Moon.

1968 will be mostly remembered, though, for the death of two major political figures in the United States: Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy. Martin Luther King, a major civil rights leader in the United States, was murdered at The Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee on April 4th. In addition to mourning across America, King’s murder sparked a great deal of civil unrest in an already tense environment.

Robert F. Kennedy, brother of assassinated president John F. Kennedy, was a U.S. Senator from New York and was a presidential candidate in the Democrat Party. While campaigning for his party’s nomination in Los Angeles, California, Kennedy was shot on the evening of June 5th. He succumbed to his wounds on June 6th.

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Oscar Winners

All Academy Awards Prize winners of the 41st edition of the Oscar ceremony

Best picture

Oliver!

Best director

Carol Reed

Best actor

Cliff Robertson

Best supporting actor

Jack Albertson

Best supporting actress

Ruth Gordon

Time Person of the Year

Who was the person of the year of 1968?

The Apollo 8 astronauts

In 1968, the crew of Apollo 8 (William Anders, Frank Borman and Jim Lovell) became the first humans to travel beyond low Earth orbit, orbiting the Moon and paving the way for the first manned Moon landings in 1969.

Books

Which were the most popular books released in 1968 ?
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Nobel Prizes

All Nobel Prize winners of 1968

Peace Prize

René Cassin

Literature

Yasunari Kawabata

Physics

Luis Walter Alvarez

Chemistry

Lars Onsager

Physiology or Medicine

Robert W. Holley
Har Gobind Khorana
Marshall Warren Nirenberg

Music charts

Which were the top hits of 1968?

Top #1 songs in the USA

The Beatles - Hey Jude
Otis Redding - (Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay
Bobby Goldsboro - Honey
Paul Mauriat and His Orchestra - Love Is Blue (L'Amour Est Bleu)
The Rascals - People Got To Be Free
Diana Ross and the Supremes - Love Child
Archie Bell & The Drells - Tighten Up
The Doors - Hello, I Love You
Jeannie C. Riley - Harper Valley P.T.A.
Union Gap - Young Girl

Top #1 songs in the UK

Mary Hopkin - Those Were The Days
Tom Jones - Delilah
Louis Armstrong - What A Wonderful World / Cabaret
The Beach Boys - Do It Again
Des O'Connor - I Pretend
Engelbert Humperdinck - A Man Without Love
Union Gap - Young Girl
Love Affair - Everlasting Love
Tommy James & The Shondells - Mony Mony
Manfred Mann - The Mighty Quinn

Movies

Which were the most popular Movies released in those months?
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Popular names

Which were the top popular names given to babies born in 1968 in the USA ?

Top #10 male names

Top #10 female names

World Population

Demographic statistics of the year 1968

Population statistics

Total population: 3.6 billion (3,551,599,127 to be precise!)
Urban population: 1.3 billion, that is 36.0% of the total population of 1968 lives in cities
Yearly change: +72.7 million, corresponding to a percentage increase of +2.09%
Average density: 24.0 persons per km²

Historical Events

Which were the important events of 1968?

Events

01 Jan 1968 WDCO TV channel 15 in Cochran, Georgia (PBS) begins broadcasting
02 Jan 1968 Zizi closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 49 performances
04 Jan 1968 Duck hunter accidentally shoots endangered whooping crane in Texas
05 Jan 1968 Alexander Dubcek comes to power: ''Prague Spring'' begins in Czechoslovakia.
06 Jan 1968 Surveyor 7 (last of series) launched by US for soft-landing on Moon.
07 Jan 1968 GE College Bowl quiz show premieres on NBC TV
08 Jan 1968 British Prime Minister Harold Wilson endorses the 'I'm Backing Britain' campaign for working an additional half hour each day without pay.ref name=quotWilson after-dinner speechquotJohn Chartres, quotWilson Joins 'I Back Britain'quot, ''The Times'', 9 January 1968, p. 1.
09 Jan 1968 US Surveyor 7 space probe soft lands on the Moon.
10 Jan 1968 Great Balls of Fire reaches #1
11 Jan 1968 Explorer 36 (GEOS-B) launched into earth orbit
12 Jan 1968 Beatles Film Production Ltd changes name to Apple Film Production Ltd
13 Jan 1968 Hallelujah, Baby! closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 293 performances
14 Jan 1968 Soyuz 4 launched
15 Jan 1968 KDCD TV channel 18 in Midland, TX (IND) begins broadcasting
16 Jan 1968 21st NHL All-Star Game: Toronto Maple Leafs beat All-Stars 4-3 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
17 Jan 1968 Soyuz 4 and 5 completed 1st docking of 2 manned spacecraft
18 Jan 1968 Happy Time opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 286 performances
19 Jan 1968 WKBF TV channel 61 in Cleveland, OH (IND) begins broadcasting
20 Jan 1968 US female Figure Skating championship won by Peggy Fleming.
21 Jan 1968 US B-52 bomber with nuclear bomb crashes in Greenland.
22 Jan 1968 Apollo 5 lifts off carrying the first Lunar module into space.
23 Jan 1968 Spy ship USS Pueblo and 83-man crew seized in Sea of Japan by North Korea.
25 Jan 1968 Risse St. in Bronx named
26 Jan 1968 Israeli submarine Dakar crashes in Mediterranean Sea, 69 die
27 Jan 1968 Darling of the Day opens at George Abbott Theater NYC for 31 performances
28 Jan 1968 Goose Goslin and Kiki Cuyler elected to baseball Hall of Fame.
29 Jan 1968 Nauru adopts constitution.
30 Jan 1968 Bobby Goldsboro records his biggest hit, Honey
31 Jan 1968 Record high barometric pressure (1083.8 mb, 32 inches), at Agata, USSR.
01 Feb 1968 Famous photo: Saigon police chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan executes a Viet Cong officer with a pistol shot to the head.
02 Feb 1968 Springer Publishers in West Berlin bombed.
04 Feb 1968 Golden Rainbow opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 355 performances
05 Feb 1968 KDTV TV channel 39 in Dallas-Fort Worth, TX (IND) begins broadcasting
06 Feb 1968 KESD TV channel 8 in Brookings, SD (PBS) begins broadcasting
07 Feb 1968 WLED TV channel 49 in Littleton, NH (PBS) begins broadcasting
08 Feb 1968 Officers kill three students demonstrating in South Carolina State (Orangeburg).
09 Feb 1968 Rotterdam metro is opened by Princess Beatrix.
10 Feb 1968 Spooky by Classics IV hits #3
11 Feb 1968 Jeffrey Kramer survives 76-metre jump off Washington Bridge into Hudson River, New York.
12 Feb 1968 Phong Nhi and Phong Nhat massacre.
13 Feb 1968 US sends 10,500 additional soldiers to Vietnam.
14 Feb 1968 WHKY TV channel 14 in Hickory, NC (IND) begins broadcasting
15 Feb 1968 WVUT TV channel 22 in Vincennes, IN (PBS) begins broadcasting
16 Feb 1968 America's first 9-1-1 phone system goes into service in Haleyville, Alabama.
17 Feb 1968 In Springfield, Massachusetts, the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame opens.
18 Feb 1968 10th Winter Olympic games close at Grenoble, France
19 Feb 1968 First US teachers strike (Florida).
20 Feb 1968 State troopers used tear gas to stop demonstration at Alcorn A&M
21 Feb 1968 150,000 demonstrate against leftist students in West Berlin.
22 Feb 1968 Rock group Genesis release their first record "The Silent Sun".
23 Feb 1968 Wilt Chamberlain becomes first NBA player to score 25,000 points.
24 Feb 1968 Darling of the Day closes at George Abbott NYC after 31 performances
25 Feb 1968 430 Unification Church couples wed in Korea.
26 Feb 1968 Clandestine Radio Voice of Iraqi People (Communist) final transmission.
27 Feb 1968 Ex-Teenagers singer Frankie Lymon is found dead from a heroin overdose in Harlem.
28 Feb 1968 Pirate Radio Hauraki, off New Zealand, returns to the air
29 Feb 1968 1st pulsar announced
01 Mar 1968 Pirate Radio Atlantis South (England) begins test transmitting
02 Mar 1968 Ice Dance Championship at Geneva won by Towler and Ford
03 Mar 1968 Jean Beliveau (Montreal Canadiens) becomes second NHL player to score 1,000 points.
04 Mar 1968 Orbiting Geophysical Observatory 5 launched
05 Mar 1968 US launches Solar Explorer 2 to study the Sun.
06 Mar 1968 The first of the East L.A. Walkouts take place at several high schools.
07 Mar 1968 Vietnam War: The United States and South Vietnamese military begin Operation Truong Cong Dinh to root out Viet Cong forces from the area surrounding My Tho.
08 Mar 1968 Fillmore East opens
09 Mar 1968 10th Grammy Awards: "Up Up and Away", Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band win.
10 Mar 1968 Ferry boat sinks in harbor of Wellington, New Zealand (200 killed).
11 Mar 1968 Anti-Zionist Clandestine Radio Voice of El Assifa starts transmitting
12 Mar 1968 Mauritius gains independence from Britain
13 Mar 1968 Beatles release Lady Madonna in the UK
14 Mar 1968 CBS TV suspends Radio Free Europe free advertising because RFE doesn't make it clear it is sponsored by the US Central Intelligence Agency.
15 Mar 1968 LIFE Magazine calls Jimi Hendrix most spectacular guitarist in the world
16 Mar 1968 My Lai massacre occurs (Vietnam War); 450 die
17 Mar 1968 Two-tiered gold price negotiated in Washington DC by US and six European nations.
18 Mar 1968 Congress repeals requirement for a gold reserve
19 Mar 1968 Howard University students seize administration building.
20 Mar 1968 Military intervenes in South-Yemen (leftist ministers resign).
21 Mar 1968 Israeli forces cross Jordan River to attack Palestinian Liberation Organization bases.
22 Mar 1968 Lynda Johnson ordered off SF cable car for eating an ice cream cone
23 Mar 1968 Reverend Walter Fauntroy is first non-voting congressional delegate from Washington DC.
24 Mar 1968 Mickey Wright wins Port Malabar Golf Invitational.
25 Mar 1968 KLVX TV channel 10 in Las Vegas, NV (PBS) begins broadcasting
26 Mar 1968 Joan Baez marries activist David Harris in New York.
27 Mar 1968 Japanese Trade and Cultural Center (Japan Center) dedicated in San Francisco
28 Mar 1968 Brazilian high school student Edson Luis de Lima Souto is shot by the police in a protest for cheaper meals at a restaurant for low-income students. The aftermath of his death is one of the first major events against the military dictatorship.
29 Mar 1968 Students seize building at Bowie State College.
30 Mar 1968 General Ludvik Svoboda elected President of Czechoslovakia.
31 Mar 1968 LBJ announces he will not seek re-election
01 Apr 1968 KEMO (now KOFY) TV channel 20 in San Francisco, CA (IND) 1st broadcast
02 Apr 1968 Chad creates Union of Central African States.
03 Apr 1968 North Vietnam agrees to meet US representatives to set up preliminary peace talks.
04 Apr 1968 Education of Hyman Kaplan opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 28 performances
05 Apr 1968 Jack Murphy Stadium in San Diego opens
06 Apr 1968 Firestone World Tournament of Champions won by Dave Davis.
07 Apr 1968 Racing driver Jim Clark is killed in a Formula 2 race at Hockenheim.
08 Apr 1968 40th Academy Awards postponed to April 10th due to death of M L King
09 Apr 1968 German DR adopts constitution
10 Apr 1968 George M! opens at Palace Theater NYC for 435 performances
11 Apr 1968 President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968, prohibiting discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing.
12 Apr 1968 In Schenectady, New York, USA a house is hit by a falling meteorite.
14 Apr 1968 32nd Golf Masters Championship: Bob Goalby wins, shooting a 277.
15 Apr 1968 Houston Astros beat the New York Mets, 1-0, in 24 innings
17 Apr 1968 Fade Out-Fade In closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 72 performances
18 Apr 1968 178,000 employees of US Bell Telephone System go on strike.
19 Apr 1968 72nd Boston Marathon won by Amby Burfoot of Connecticut in 2:22:17 (first American to win since 1957).
20 Apr 1968 South African Airways Boeing 707 crashes at Windhoek, 122 killed.
21 Apr 1968 22nd Tony Awards: Rosencranz and Guilderstern and Hallelujah Baby! win.
23 Apr 1968 United Methodist Church forms.
24 Apr 1968 ABC Masters Bowling Tournament won by Pete Tountas.
25 Apr 1968 Half a Sixpence opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 512 performances
26 Apr 1968 US underground nuclear test, Boxcar, 1 megaton device
27 Apr 1968 Education of Hyman Kaplan closes at Alvin NYC after 28 performances
28 Apr 1968 11 year-old Mary Bell strangles 4 year-old
29 Apr 1968 Hair opens at Biltmore Theater NYC for 1750 performances
01 May 1968 Ben Franklin in Paris closes at Lunt Fontanne NYC after 215 performances
02 May 1968 22nd NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat Los Angeles Lakers, 4 games to 2.
03 May 1968 Holland Pirate Radio Station VRON becomes Radio Veronica International
04 May 1968 94th Kentucky Derby: Ismael Valenzuela aboard Forward Pass wins in 2:02.5.
05 May 1968 Carol Mann wins LPGA Shreveport Kiwanis Club Golf Invitational.
06 May 1968 Spain closes border to Gibraltar except to Spaniards.
08 May 1968 Pulitzer prize awarded to William Styron
10 May 1968 Vietnam peace talks begin in Paris, France, between the US and North Vietnam.
11 May 1968 Richard Harris releases MacArthur Park
12 May 1968 WSKG TV channel 46 in Binghamton, New York (PBS) begins broadcasting
13 May 1968 1,000,000 French demonstrate against Charles de Gaulle and Pompidou.
14 May 1968 RAF-leader Andreas Baader sentenced to three years in West Berlin.
15 May 1968 Wonderwall with George Harrison premieres at Cannes Film Festival
16 May 1968 Earthquake kills 47 in Japan.
17 May 1968 European Space Research Organization launches first satellite.
18 May 1968 Al Kaline hits his 307th homerun, surpassing Hank Greenberg as a Detroit Tiger.
19 May 1968 20th Emmy Awards: Get Smart, Mission Impossible and Barbara Bain
21 May 1968 Nuclear-powered sub Scorpion, with 99 men, reported missing and is later found at the bottom of the ocean off Azores
22 May 1968 Pittsburgh Pirates' player Willie Stargell hits three homeruns, a double and a single.
23 May 1968 Beatles open 2nd Apple Boutique at 161 New Kings Road, London
24 May 1968 Haiti closes down shortwave station 4VEH for 40 days
25 May 1968 Rolling Stones release Jumping Jack Flash
26 May 1968 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open.
27 May 1968 NL awards Montreal and SD major league franchises
28 May 1968 NL grants San Diego Padres a franchise
29 May 1968 US Truth in Lending Act signed into law.
30 May 1968 Beatles begin work on their only double album Beatles
01 Jun 1968 100th Belmont: Gus Gustines aboard Stage Door Johnny wins in 2:27.2
02 Jun 1968 Canadians must get government permission to export silver
03 Jun 1968 Canada announces it will replace silver with nickel in coins
04 Jun 1968 Don Drysdale pitches his 6th straight shutout, en route to 58 innings.
05 Jun 1968 12:16AM PST-Sirhan Sirhan shoots Bobby Kennedy, who dies next day
06 Jun 1968 WKHA TV channel 35 in Hazard, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting
07 Jun 1968 Sirhan Sirhan indicted for Senator Robert F. Kennedy assassination.
08 Jun 1968 1st reduced-gravity golf game is played on the Moon
09 Jun 1968 38th French Womens Tennis: Nancy Richey beats Anne H Jones
10 Jun 1968 Danny Thomas Hour, last airs on NBC-TV
14 Jun 1968 Off duty Dutch military permitted to wear regular clothing
15 Jun 1968 How Now, Dow Jones closes at Lunt Fontanne NYC after 220 performances
16 Jun 1968 68th US Golf Open: Lee Trevino shoots a 275 at Oak Hill Country Club - New York
17 Jun 1968 Belgium government of Eyskens-Merlot forms
18 Jun 1968 US Supreme Court bans racial discrimination in sale and rental of housing.
20 Jun 1968 Jim Hines becomes first person to run 100 metres in under 10 seconds.
21 Jun 1968 Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren resigns
22 Jun 1968 Here Come Da Judge by The Buena Vistas peaks at #88
23 Jun 1968 74 are killed and 150 injured in a football stampede towards a closed exit in a Buenos Aires stadium.
24 Jun 1968 14th LPGA Championship won by Sandra Post
25 Jun 1968 Bobby Bonds hits a grand slam in his first major league game (San Francisco Giants).
26 Jun 1968 Executive Council decides both AL and NL to divide into 2 divisions
27 Jun 1968 Ludvik Vaculik publishes Manifest of 2000 words in Prague
28 Jun 1968 Last day of redeeming US silver certificates for silver, in any form.
30 Jun 1968 E German party leader Ulbricht receives Order of October Revolution
01 Jul 1968 Fortuna Sittard soccer team forms in Sittard
03 Jul 1968 Cleveland Indians' Luis Tiant strikes out 19 Minnesota Twins players.
04 Jul 1968 Yachtsman Alec Rose, 59, receives a hero's welcome as he sails into Portsmouth, England after his 354-day round-the-world trip.
05 Jul 1968 Manifest of 1000 words published in Prague
06 Jul 1968 75th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Billie Jean King beats J Tegart
07 Jul 1968 Rock group "The Yardbirds" disband.
08 Jul 1968 Israeli-Egyptian artillery duel along Suez Canal
09 Jul 1968 15.68 (39.83 cm) of rainfall, Columbus, Miss
10 Jul 1968 NL announces break into 2 divisions for 1969
11 Jul 1968 Earl Weaver replaces Hank Bauer as manager of Orioles
12 Jul 1968 Couve de Murville forms government in France
13 Jul 1968 97th British Golf Open: Gary Player shoots 289 at Carnoustie Scotland
14 Jul 1968 Brave Hank Aaron hits his 500th HR off SF Giant Mike McCormick
15 Jul 1968 One Life to Live premieres on TV
17 Jul 1968 A revolution occurs in Iraq when Abdul Rahman Arif is overthrown and the Ba'ath Party is installed as the governing power in Iraq with Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr as the new Iraqi President.
18 Jul 1968 Intel incorporates.
20 Jul 1968 Jane Asher breaks her engagement with Paul McCartney on live TV.
21 Jul 1968 50th PGA Championship: Julius Boros shoots a 281 at Pecan Valley, Texas
23 Jul 1968 Fred Blasie wins 5th wrestling world championship belt.
25 Jul 1968 Pope Paul VI publishes encyclical on the regulation of birth, reaffirms stand against artificial birth control.
26 Jul 1968 Vietnam War: South Vietnamese opposition leader Truong ?inh Dzu is sentenced to five years hard labor for advocating the formation of a coalition government as a way to move toward an end to the war.
27 Jul 1968 Carol Mann wins LPGA Supertest Canadian Golf Open
29 Jul 1968 Gram Parson refuses to play with the Byrds in South Africa
30 Jul 1968 Thames Television starts transmission in London.
01 Aug 1968 Canada begins replacing silver with nickel in coins
02 Aug 1968 35th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Green Bay 34, All-Stars 17
04 Aug 1968 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Gino Paoli Golf Open
05 Aug 1968 WMCV (now WZTV) TV channel 17 in Nashville, TN (IND) 1st broadcast
08 Aug 1968 Jarry Park is approved by Mayor Jean Drapeau for interim use by Expos
09 Aug 1968 Yugoslav President Tito visits Prague
10 Aug 1968 Race riot in Miami, Chicago and Little Rock
11 Aug 1968 Satchel Paige, 62, and needing 158 days on a major league payroll to qualify for a pension, is signed by Braves
14 Aug 1968 Jimmy Ellis beats Floyd Patterson in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
15 Aug 1968 Pirate Radio Free London, begins transmitting
17 Aug 1968 Dick Beyers (Dr X) beats Verne Gagne, to become NWA champ
18 Aug 1968 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Holiday Inn Golf Classic
20 Aug 1968 650,000 Warsaw Pact troops invade Czechoslovakia
21 Aug 1968 Democratic Convention opens in Chicago
22 Aug 1968 Cynthia Lennon sues John Lennon for divorce on adultery.
23 Aug 1968 Ringo quits Beatles over a disagreement, temporarily
24 Aug 1968 France explodes its first hydrogen bomb, thus becoming the world's fifth nuclear power.
25 Aug 1968 Arthur Ashe becomes 1st black to win US singles championship
28 Aug 1968 1 day marriage of character Murphy Brown
29 Aug 1968 1st US Open tennis match
31 Aug 1968 68th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Bruce Fleisher
01 Sep 1968 Carol Mann wins LPGA Willow Park Ladies Golf Invitational
03 Sep 1968 Chicago White Sox set American League record of 39 losses by one run.
04 Sep 1968 Nigerian troops conquer Aba Biafra
05 Sep 1968 82nd US Womens Tennis: Virginia Wade beats Billie Jean King
06 Sep 1968 Swaziland becomes independent.
08 Sep 1968 Funny Girl with Barbra Striesand premieres
09 Sep 1968 1st US Open, held as an open
11 Sep 1968 Air France Flight 1611 crashes off Nice, France, killing 89 passengers and 6 crew.
12 Sep 1968 Albania announces it is withdrawing from the Warsaw Pact
13 Sep 1968 Albania leaves the Warsaw Pact.
14 Sep 1968 1st broadcast of 60 Minutes on CBS-TV
15 Sep 1968 Barbra Streisand: A Happening in Central Park Show on CBS TV
16 Sep 1968 KLNI (now KADN) TV channel 15 in Lafayette, LA (IND) begins
17 Sep 1968 Zond 5 completes circumnavigation of Moon
18 Sep 1968 Ray Washburn (Saint Louis Cardinals) no-hits San Francisco Giants 2-0.
19 Sep 1968 Cornerstone laying ceremony is held for construction of the fourth Philadelphia Mint building.
20 Sep 1968 Mickey Mantle hits final career homer number 536.
21 Sep 1968 The Soviet's Zond 5 unmanned lunar flyby mission returns to earth, with its first of a kind biological payload intact.
22 Sep 1968 Iraq adopts constitution
23 Sep 1968 WKGB TV channel 53 in Bowling Green, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting
24 Sep 1968 60 Minutes premieres on CBS-TV
26 Sep 1968 1st broadcast of Hawaii Five-O on CBS-TV
27 Sep 1968 Hair opens in London
28 Sep 1968 Happy Time closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 286 performances
29 Sep 1968 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Mickey Wright Golf Invitational
30 Sep 1968 1st Boeing 747 rolls out
01 Oct 1968 Night of the Living Dead premieres in Pittsburgh
02 Oct 1968 1st London performance of Promises Promises presented
03 Oct 1968 Howard Sacklers Great White Hope, premieres in New York City
05 Oct 1968 Battles between Catholic demonstrators and police in Londonderry
07 Oct 1968 Motion Picture Association of America adopts film rating system.
08 Oct 1968 Aircraft carrier Charles Doorman sold to Argentina
09 Oct 1968 WKMU TV channel 21 in Murray, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting
10 Oct 1968 George Harrison forms Singsong Ltd
11 Oct 1968 Apollo 7 (Schirra, Eisele and Cunningham) make 163 orbits of Earth in 260 hours.
12 Oct 1968 19th Olympic games open at Mexico City, Mexico
13 Oct 1968 Tinker Creek Gorge of Cleveland Metroparks is dedicated
14 Oct 1968 Beatles White Album completed
15 Oct 1968 AL expansion draft, Kansas City pick Roger Nelson and Pilots pick Don Mincher 1st
16 Oct 1968 China reports removal of President Li Sjao-tji
17 Oct 1968 Black American athletes make a silent protest against racism at the Olympics
18 Oct 1968 Lee Evans sets world record of 43.8 seconds in 400 metre dash.
19 Oct 1968 Golden Gate Bridge charges tolls only for southbound cars
20 Oct 1968 Her 1st Roman opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC for 17 performances
22 Oct 1968 Apollo 7 returns to Earth.
23 Oct 1968 Maggie Flynn opens at ANTA Theater NYC for 82 performances
25 Oct 1968 Chicago, Illinois, recognizes Jean Baptiste Pointe de Sable as its first settler.
26 Oct 1968 1st European satellite launched, Esro 1, at Cape Kennedy
27 Oct 1968 19th Olympic games close at Mexico City, Mexico
30 Oct 1968 Jaqueline Kennedy marries Aristotle Onassis on the island of Scorpios
31 Oct 1968 Linda Eastman moves to UK permanently
01 Nov 1968 Detroit Tiger Denny McLain unanimously wins AL Cy Young Award
02 Nov 1968 Her First Roman closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC after 17 performances
03 Nov 1968 Bob Packwood is elected senator of Oregon
04 Nov 1968 Battles between Jordan army and Al Fatah-arm forces
05 Nov 1968 1st AL pitcher to win MVP, Denny McLain
06 Nov 1968 Nixon elected 37th President of US, defeating Hubert Humphrey
08 Nov 1968 Cynthia Lennon is granted a divorce from John Lennon.
10 Nov 1968 Judy Rankin wins LPGA Corpus Christi Civitan Golf Open
11 Nov 1968 John Lennon andYoko Ono appear nude on cover of 2 Virgins album
12 Nov 1968 KSEL (now KAMC) TV channel 28 in Lubbock, TX (ABC) begins broadcasting
13 Nov 1968 Bob Gibson edges Pete Rose to win NL MVP
14 Nov 1968 National Turn in Your Draft Card Day features draft card burning
15 Nov 1968 1st date in controversial Jim Bouton baseball diary Ball Four
17 Nov 1968 Zorba opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 305 performances
18 Nov 1968 Military coup in Mali, President Keita ousted
19 Nov 1968 Mali military coup, President Modibo Keita flees
20 Nov 1968 The Farmington Mine Disaster in Farmington, West Virginia, kills seventy-eight men.
21 Nov 1968 Cin trades shortstop Leo Cardenas to Twins for pitcher Jim Merritt
22 Nov 1968 1st interracial TV kiss
23 Nov 1968 Milwaukee Bucks make their first NBA trade, giving Bob Love and Bob Weiss to Chicago Bulls for Flynn Robinson.
24 Nov 1968 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Louise Suggs Golf Invitational
26 Nov 1968 34th Heisman Trophy Award: O J Simpson, Southern California
29 Nov 1968 John andYoko release their 1st album Two Virgins in the UK
30 Nov 1968 56th CFL Grey Cup: Ottawa Rough Riders defeat Calgary Stampeder, 24-21
01 Dec 1968 Promises Promises opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 1281 performances
02 Dec 1968 US President Richard Nixon names Henry Kissinger security advisor.
03 Dec 1968 The '68 Comeback Special marks the concert return of Elvis Presley.
06 Dec 1968 WKID (WSCV) TV channel 51 in Ft Lauderdale, Florida (IND) 1st broadcast
07 Dec 1968 M Dodd returns a library books his Great grandfather took out in 1923
09 Dec 1968 KRNE TV channel 12 in Merriman, NB (PBS) begins broadcasting
10 Dec 1968 Joe Frazier beats Oscar Bonavena in 15 rounds for heavyweight boxing title.
11 Dec 1968 KECC (now KECY) TV channel 9 in El Centro, CA (CBS) 1st broadcast
12 Dec 1968 Arthur Ashe becomes 1st black to be ranked #1 in tennis
13 Dec 1968 Playland at Beach reopens
16 Dec 1968 KFIZ TV channel 34 in Fond du Lac, WI begins broadcasting
19 Dec 1968 WCWB (now WMGT) TV channel 41 in Macon, Georgia (NBC) begins broadcasting
20 Dec 1968 The Zodiac Killer kills Betty Lou Jenson and David Faraday in Vallejo, California.
21 Dec 1968 Apollo 8 (Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders) is launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the first manned Moon voyage.
22 Dec 1968 Julie Nixon weds Dwight David Eisenhower
23 Dec 1968 Borman, Lovell and Anders become 1st men to orbit Moon
24 Dec 1968 Apollo 8 Astronauts read passages from Book of Genesis
25 Dec 1968 Apollo program: Apollo 8 performs the very first successful Trans Earth Injection (TEI) maneouver, sending the crew and spacecraft on a trajectory back to Earth from Lunar orbit.
26 Dec 1968 Jay Allens Forty Carats, premieres in New York City
27 Dec 1968 Apollo 8 returns to Earth.
28 Dec 1968 KVOF (KUDO, now KWBB) TV channel 38 in SF, CA (IND) 1st broadcast
29 Dec 1968 New York Jets beat Oakland Raiders 27-23 in AFL championship game.
31 Dec 1968 1st test flight of Tupolev TU 144

1968

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Oscar Winners

Best picture

Oliver!

Oliver!

Best director

Carol Reed

Oliver!

Best actor

Cliff Robertson

Charly

Best supporting actor

Jack Albertson

The Subject Was Roses

Best supporting actress

Ruth Gordon

Rosemary's Baby

Time Person of the Year

Books

Testimony of Two Men

Between Parent And Child

The Naked Ape

The Double Helix

Nicholas And Alexandra

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Nobel Prizes

Peace Prize

Literature

Physics

Chemistry

Physiology or Medicine

Music charts

Top #1 songs in the USA

Top #1 songs in the UK

Movies

Once Upon a Time in the West

2001: A Space Odyssey

The Lion in Winter

Dad's Army

Planet of the Apes

1968 Chinese Zodiac and Horoscope

Popular names

Top #10 male names

Top #10 female names

World Population

Population statistics

Historical Events

Events