1968
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1968 was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar).
Events
Undated
January
February
March
April
May
- May - "May of 68" is a symbol of the resistance of that generation. Agitations and strikes in Paris led many young to believe that a revolution was starting. Student and worker strikes sometimes referred to as the French May nearly bring down the French government
- May 22 - The US nuclear-powered submarine the USS Scorpion sinks with 99 men aboard 400 miles southwest of the Azores
June
July
August
. Don't forget that President Richard Nixon resigned on this day!
September
October
- October 2 - A student demonstration ends in a massacre at La Plaza de las Tres Culturas in Tlatelolco, Mexico City, Mexico
- October 5 - A civil rights march in Derry, (of the six counties of northern) Ireland, which included several Stormont and British MPs, is batoned off the streets by the Royal Ulster Constabulary
- October 8 - Vietnam War: Operation Sealords - United States and South Vietnamese forces launched a new operation in the Mekong Delta
- October 11 - Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 7, the first manned Apollo mission, with astronauts Wally Schirra, Donn Eisele and Walter Cunningham aboard. Goals for the mission include the first live television broadcast from orbit and testing the lunar module docking maneuver
- October 14 - Vietnam War: The United States Department of Defense announces that the United States Army and United States Marines will be sending about 24,000 troops back to Vietnam for involuntary second tours
- October 16 - Tommie Smith and John Carlos, two African-Americans competing in the Olympic 200 meter run, raise their arms in a black power salute after winning the gold and bronze medals for first and third place
- October 16 - Kingston, Jamaica is rocked by the Rodney Riots, inspired by the banning of Walter Rodney from the country
- October 20 - Aristotle Onassis and Jacqueline Kennedy marry on the Greek island of Skorpios
- October 31 - Vietnam War: 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
December
Year in topic
Births
January-March
- January 2 - Cuba Gooding Jr., American actor
- January 6 - John Singleton, director and writer
- January 14 - LL Cool J, rapper and actor
- January 24 - Mary Lou Retton, gymnast
- January 27 - Mike Patton, singer
- January 28 - Sarah McLachlan, singer
- January 29 - Edward Burns, actor
- February 1 - Lisa Marie Presley, American actress
- February 5 - Roberto Alomar, baseball player
- February 8 - Gary Coleman, actor
- February 14 - Jules Asner, model and television personality
- February 22 - Brad Nowell, American musician (d. 1996)
- February 22 - Jeri Ryan, actress
- February 27 - Matt Stairs, baseball player
- March 4 - Patsy Kensit, actress
- March 11 - Lisa Loeb, singer
- March 23 - Damon Albarn, musician (Blur, Gorillaz)
- March 26 - James Iha, musician (Smashing Pumpkins)
- March 28 - Iris Chang, author (d. 2004)
- March 29 - Lucy Lawless, actress and singer
- March 30 - Céline Dion, singer
April-June
- April 3 - Sebastian Bach, musician (Skid Row)
- April 8 - Patricia Arquette, actress
- April 15 - Stacey Williams, model
- April 19 - Ashley Judd, actress
- April 23 - Timothy McVeigh, American bomber
- May 1 - D'Arcy Wretzky, musician
- May 7 - Traci Lords, actress
- May 9 - Marie-José Perec, French athlete
- May 12 - Tony Hawk, skateboarder
- May 22 - James Luecke, musician
- May 26 - Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark
- May 27 - Jeff Bagwell, baseball player
- May 27 - Frank Thomas, baseball player
- May 28 - Kylie Minogue, actress and singer
- June 4 - Rachel Griffiths, actress
- June 20 - Peter Paige, actor
- June 26 - Shannon Sharpe, American football player and commentator
- June 28 - Adam Woodyatt, British actor
- June 29 - Theoren Fleury, Canadian hockey player
- June 30 - Philip Anselmo, musician
July-September
- July 10 - Hassiba Boulmerka, Algerian athlete
- July 16 - Barry Sanders, American football player
- August 9 - Eric Bana, actor
- August 17 - Ed McCaffrey, American football player
- August 31 - Todd Carty, British actor
- September 1 - Mohamed Atta al Sayed, Egyptian terrorist
- September 4 - Mike Piazza, baseball star
- September 7 - Marcel Desailly, French footballer
- September 11 - Kay Hanley, musician
- September 18 - Toni Kukoc, Croatian basketball player
- September 20 - Darrell Russell, race car driver (d. 2004)
- September 25 - Will Smith, rapper and actor
- September 26 - James Caviezel, actor
- September 28 - Naomi Watts, actress
October-December
- October 7 - Toni Braxton, singer
- October 11 - Jane Krakowski, actress
- October 12 - Hugh Jackman, actor
- October 31 - Vanilla Ice, rapper
- November 8 - Zara Whites, Dutch actress
- November 12 - Sammy Sosa, baseball player
- November 13 - Pat Hentgen, baseball player
- November 15 - Jennifer Charles, singer
- November 15 - Ol' Dirty Bastard, rapper (d. 2004)
- November 18 - Owen Wilson, actor
- November 27 - Michael Vartan, actor
- December 2 - Lucy Liu, actress
- December 8 - Mike Mussina, baseball player
- December 9 - Kurt Angle, amateur and professional wrestler
- December 17 - Paul Tracy, race car driver
Deaths
- January 11 - Isidor Isaac Rabi, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898)
- January 19 - Ray Harroun, race car driver (b. 1879)
- January 22 - Duke Kahanamoku, American swimmer (b. 1890)
- January 26 - Merrill C. Meigs, newspaper publisher and aviation promoter (b. 1883)
- February 4 - Neal Cassady, writer (b. 1926)
- February 11 - Howard Lindsay, American playwright
- February 20 - Anthony Asquith, British director and writer (b. 1902)
- February 21 - Howard Walter Florey, Australian pharmocologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine (b. 1898)
- February 22 - Peter Arno, cartoonist (b. 1904)
- February 27 - Frankie Lymon, singer (b. 1942)
- February 29 - Tore Ørjasæter, Norwegian poet (b. 1886)
- March 16 - Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Italian composer (b. 1895)
- March 27 - Yuri Gagarin, cosmonaut (b. 1934)
- April 1 - Lev Davidovich Landau, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1908)
- April 4 - Martin Luther King Jr., American civil rights activist and minister (assassinated) (b. 1929)
- April 7 - Jimmy Clark, race car driver (b. 1936)
- April 10 - Gustavs Celmins, politician (b. 1899)
- April 14 - Al Benton, Major League Baseball player (b. 1911)
- April 22 - Stephen H. Sholes, American record executive (b. 1911)
- April 25 - John Tewksbury, American athlete (b. 1876)
- May 9 - Mercedes de Acosta, American poet, playwright, costume designer, and socialite (b. 1893)
- June 1 - Helen Keller, spokeswoman for deaf and blind (b. 1880)
- June 6 - Robert F. Kennedy, U.S. Senator and U.S. Attorney General (assassinated) (b. 1925)
- June 15 - Sam Crawford, Baseball Hall of Famer (b. 1880)
- July 11 - Mervyn Peake, British writer and illustrator (b. 1911)
- July 28 - Otto Hahn, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1879)
- August 27 - Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent (b. 1906)
- September 12 - Tommy Armour, golfer (b. 1894)
- October 2 - Marcel Duchamp, French artist (b. 1887)
- October 13 - Bea Benaderet, actress (b. 1906)
- October 30 - Rose Wilder Lane, author and reporter (b. 1886)
- November 4 - Michel Kikoine, Belarusian painter (b. 1892)
- November 6 - Charles Munch, French conductor and violinist (b. 1891)
- November 26 - Arnold Zweig, German writer (b. 1887)
- December 10 - Thomas Merton, American author (b. 1915)
- December 10 - Karl Barth, Protestant theologian (b. 1888)
- December 12 - Tallulah Bankhead, American actress (b. 1902)
- December 19 - Norman Thomas, American politician (b. 1884)
- December 20 - John Steinbeck, American writer (b. 1902)
- December 30 - Trygve Lie, first United Nations Secretary General (b. 1896)
- December 30 - Vladimir Peter Tytla, American animator (b. 1904)
- Berthold Bartosch, Czech animator (b. 1893).
Further reading
- Mark Kurlansky (2004), 1968: the year that rocked the world, Jonathan Cape
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