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the Florida Education Association led the first statewide teachers' strike in American history in 1968?
the largest earthquake ever recorded in the U.S. state of Illinois took place at approximately 11:02 a.m. on November 9, 1968?
the National Black Law Students Association was formed to serve the needs and goals of black law students in 1968 and is one of the the largest student organizations in the United States?
the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, founded in 1968, is one of the three inaugural satellite launch sites of the People's Republic of China?
the bronze L'Âme de la France (pictured) lay face-down on the ground from 1948 to 1968 after it fell from its pedestal during a tropical cyclone?
on 28 November 1968 the Finnish ferries MS Ilmatar and MS Botnia collided in the Åland archipelago, resulting in the death of six people?
on September 29, 1968 a global horizontal sounding technique superpressure balloon became the first balloon to fly for a full year?
labor leader Victor Kamber created playing cards with public figures in 1968 and the "Rappin' Ronnie" music video depicting a rapping Ronald Reagan in 1984?
John Brown's Fort in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, was built there in 1848, moved to Chicago in 1891, and then returned to its original site in 1968?
Pat "Gravy" Patterson, the head coach of the Louisiana Tech University from 1968 to 1990, was the winningest baseball coach in the state's history?
a Jacksnipe is a two-man racing sailing dinghy created in 1968 by prolific boat designer Jack Holt?
Robert L. Howard received his Congressional Medal of Honor while part of a Hatchet Force operating near the Laos–Cambodia border during the Vietnam War in 1968?

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1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar) in the Gregorian calendar. In the west, the year is associated with the protests of 1968.

Events of 1968
Jan. · Feb. · March · April ·
May · June · July · Aug. ·
Sept. · Oct. · Nov. · Dec. ·
Undated · Ongoing
Births
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Nobel Prizes
See also · Notes · External links

Events of 1968

January

Jan.30: Tet begins.

January 5 – Prague Spring: Alexander Dubček is elected leader of the Communist Party in Czechoslovakia.
January 8 – British Prime Minister Harold Wilson endorses the 'I'm Backing Britain' campaign for working an additional half hour each day without pay.
January 14 – The Green Bay Packers win Super Bowl II.
January 15 – An earthquake in Sicily kills 231 and injures 262.
January 17 – Lyndon B. Johnson calls for the non-conversion of the U.S. dollar.
January 19 – At a White House conference on crime, singer and actress Eartha Kitt denounces the Vietnam War to Lady Bird Johnson while attending a "ladies' lunch".
January 21
- Vietnam War – Battle of Khe Sanh: One of the most publicized and controversial battles of the war begins, ending on April 8.
- A U.S. B-52 Stratofortress crashes in Greenland, discharging 4 nuclear bombs.
January 22 – Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In debuts on NBC.
January 23 – North Korea seizes the USS Pueblo, claiming the ship violated its territorial waters while spying.
January 25 – The Israeli submarine INS Dakar sinks in the Mediterranean Sea, killing 69.

Jan.23 USS Pueblo

January 27
- A French submarine sinks in the Mediterranean Sea with 52 men.
January 30 – Vietnam War: The Tet Offensive begins, as Viet Cong forces launch a series of surprise attacks across South Vietnam.
January 31
- Viet Cong soldiers attack the US Embassy, Saigon.
- Nauru president Hammer DeRoburt declares independence from Australia.

February

February 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.
February 1 – The Pennsylvania Railroad and the New York Central Railroad merge to form Penn Central, the largest ever corporate merger up to this date.
February 6–18 – The 1968 Winter Olympics are held in Grenoble, France.
February 8 – American civil rights movement: A civil rights protest staged at a white-only bowling alley in Orangeburg, South Carolina is broken up by highway patrolmen; 3 college students are killed.
February 11 – Border clashes take place between Israel and Jordan.
February 13 – Civil rights disturbances occur at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
February 17 – Administrative reforms in Romania divide the country into 39 counties.
February 19 – The Florida Education Association (FEA) initiates a mass resignation of teachers to protest state funding of education. This is, in effect, the first statewide teachers' strike in the United States.
February 19 – NET televises the very first episode of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood.
February 24 – Vietnam War: The Tet Offensive is halted; South Vietnam recaptures Hué.
February 27 – Ex-Teenagers singer Frankie Lymon is found dead from a heroin overdose in Harlem.

March

March 1 – The "Valle Giulia" student protest in Rome leads to a long period of violent disputes.
March 7 – Vietnam War: The First Battle of Saigon ends.
March 8 – The first student protests spark the 1968 Polish political crisis.
March 11 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson mandates that all computers purchased by the federal government support the ASCII character encoding.^[1]
March 12 – Mauritius achieves independence from British rule.
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.
March 13 – The first Rotaract club is chartered in North Charlotte, North Carolina.
March 14 – Nerve gas leaks from the U.S. Army Dugway Proving Ground near Skull Valley, Utah.
March 15 – British Foreign Secretary George Brown resigns.
March 16 – Vietnam War – My Lai massacre: American troops kill scores of civilians. The story will first become public in November 1969 and will help undermine public support for the U.S. efforts in Vietnam.
March 16 – U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy enters the race for the Democratic Party presidential nomination.
March 17 – A demonstration in London's Grosvenor Square against U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War leads to violence; 91 people are injured, 200 demonstrators arrested.
March 18 – Gold standard: The Congress of the United States repeals the requirement for a gold reserve to back U.S. currency.
March 19–23 – Afrocentrism, Black power, Vietnam War: Students at Howard University in Washington, D.C., signal a new era of militant student activism on college campuses in the U.S. Students stage rallies, protests and a 5-day sit-in, laying siege to the administration building, shutting down the university in protest over its ROTC program and the Vietnam War, and demanding a more Afrocentric curriculum.
March 21 – Vietnam War: In ongoing campus unrest, Howard University students protesting the Vietnam War, the ROTC program on campus and the draft, confront Gen. Lewis Hershey, then head of the U.S. Selective Service System, and as he attempts to deliver an address, shout him down with cries of "America is the Black man's battleground!"
March 22 – Daniel Cohn-Bendit ("Danny The Red") and 7 other students occupy the administrative offices of the University of Nanterre, setting in motion a chain of events that lead France to the brink of revolution in May.
March 24 – Aer Lingus Flight 712 crashed en route from Cork to London near Tuskar Rock, Wexford, killing 61 passengers and crew.
March 26 – Joan Baez marries activist David Harris in New York.
March 28 – Brazilian high school student Edson Luís 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 was one of the first major events against the military dictatorship.
March 31 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson announces he will not seek re-election.

April

April 2 – Bombs placed by Andreas Baader and Gudrun Ensslin explode at midnight in 2 department stores in Frankfurt-am-Main; they are later arrested and sentenced for arson.
April 2 – The film version of 2001: A Space Odyssey premieres in Washington, D.C.
April 4 – Martin Luther King, Jr. is shot dead at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. Riots erupt in major American cities for several days afterward.
April 4 – Apollo Program: Apollo-Saturn mission 502 (Apollo 6) is launched, as the second and last unmanned test-flight of the Saturn V launch vehicle.
April 6 – La, la, la by Massiel (music and text by Manuel de la Calva and Ramón Arcusa) wins the Eurovision Song Contest 1968 for Spain, at the Royal Albert Hall in London.
April 6 – A shootout between Black Panthers and Oakland police results in several arrests and deaths, including 16-year-old Panther Bobby Hutton.
April 6 – A double explosion in downtown Richmond, Indiana kills 41 and injures 150.
April 7 – Racing driver Jim Clark is killed in a Formula 2 race at Hockenheim.
April 8 – Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs (under Department of Justice) (BNDD).
April 10 – The ferry Wahine strikes a reef at the entrance to Wellington Harbour, New Zealand, with the loss of 53 lives, during Cyclone Giselle, which provides the windiest conditions ever recorded in New Zealand.
April 11 – Josef Bachmann tries to assassinate Rudi Dutschke, leader of the left-wing movement (APO) in Germany, and tries to commit suicide afterwards, failing in both, although Dutschke dies of his brain injuries 11 years later.
April 11 – German left-wing students blockade the Springer Press HQ in Berlin and many are arrested (one of them Ulrike Meinhof).
April 11 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968.
April 20 – Pierre Elliott Trudeau becomes Canada's 15th Prime Minister.
April 20 – English politician Enoch Powell makes his controversial Rivers of Blood Speech.
April 23 – President Mobutu releases captured mercenaries in the Congo.
April 23 – Surgeons at the Hôpital de la Pitié, Paris, perform Europe's first heart transplant, on Clovis Roblain.
April 23 – The United Methodist Church is created by the union of the former Methodist and Evangelical United Brethren churches.
April 23–30 – Vietnam War: Student protesters at Columbia University in New York City take over administration buildings and shut down the university (see main article Columbia University protests of 1968).
April 29 – The musical Hair officially opens on Broadway.

May

May – May of '68 is a symbol of the political movement of that generation. Agitations and strikes in Paris lead many youth to believe that a revolution is starting. Student and worker strikes, sometimes referred to as the French May, nearly bring down the French government.
May 2 – The Israel Broadcasting Authority commences television broadcasts.
May 3 – Patrick Wall's MP speech to the Conservative Association at Leeds University is stopped by a large crowd, and his wife Sheila Wall is knocked to the ground and kicked in ensuing scuffles. Leeds Students President Jack Straw says "this manhandling is deplorable."
May 14 – The Beatles announce the creation of Apple Records in a New York press conference.
May 15 – An outbreak of severe thunderstorms produces tornadoes causing massive damage and heavy casualties in Charles City, Iowa, Oelwein, Iowa, and Jonesboro, Arkansas.
May 17 – The Catonsville Nine enter the Selective Service offices in Catonsville, Maryland, take dozens of selective service draft records, and burn them with napalm as a protest against the Vietnam War.
May 19 – General elections are held in Italy.
May 19 – Nigerian forces capture Port Harcourt and form a ring around the Biafrans. This contributes to a humanitarian disaster as the surrounded population already suffers from hunger and starvation.
May 22 – The U.S. nuclear-powered submarine Scorpion sinks with 99 men aboard, 400 miles southwest of the Azores.
May 29 – Football: Manchester United wins the European Cup Final, becoming the first English team to do so.

June

June 1 – Helen Keller, who overcame deafness and blindness, dies at the age of 87.
June 3 – Radical feminist Valerie Solanas shoots Andy Warhol as he enters his studio, wounding him.
June 4 – The Standard & Poor's 500 index closes above 100 for the first time, at 100.38.
June 5 – U.S. presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy is shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California by Sirhan Sirhan. Kennedy dies from his injuries the next day.
June 8 – James Earl Ray is arrested for the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
June 10 – Soccer: Italy beats Yugoslavia 2–0 in a replay to win the 1968 European Championship. The original final on June 8 ended 1–1.

June 20 – Austin Currie, Member of Parliament (MP) at Stormont in Northern Ireland, along with others, squats a house in Caledon to protest discrimination in housing allocations.
June 23 – A football stampede in Buenos Aires leaves 74 dead and 150 injured.
June 24 – Giorgio Rosa declares the independence of his Republic of Rose Island, an artificial island off Rimini, Italy. Italian troops demolish it not long after.
June 26 – Bonin Islands are returned to Japan after 23 years of occupation by the United States Navy.

July

July 1 – The Central Intelligence Agency's Phoenix Program is officially established.
July 1 – The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty opens for signature.
July 4 – Yachtsman Alec Rose, 59, receives a hero's welcome as he sails into Portsmouth, England after his 354-day round-the-world trip.
July 15 – The soap opera One Life to Live premieres on ABC.
July 17 – Saddam Hussein becomes Vice Chairman of the Revolutionary Council in Iraq after a coup d'état.
July 18 – The semiconductor company Intel gets founded.
July 23–28 – Black militants led by Fred (Ahmed) Evans engage in a fierce gunfight with police in the Glenville Shootout of Cleveland, Ohio.
July 25 – Pope Paul VI publishes the encyclical entitled Humanae Vitae, condemning birth control. Many Catholics defy it.
July 26 – Vietnam War: South Vietnamese opposition leader Truong Dinh Dzu is sentenced to 5 years hard labor, for advocating the formation of a coalition government as a way to move toward an end to the war.
July 29 – Arenal Volcano erupts in Costa Rica for the first time in centuries.
July 30 – Thames Television starts transmission in London.

August

August 5–8 – The Republican National Convention in Miami Beach, Florida nominates Richard Nixon for U.S. President and Spiro Agnew for Vice President.
August 11 – The last steam passenger train service runs in Britain. A selection of British Rail steam locomotives make the 120-mile journey from Liverpool to Carlisle and return to Liverpool, before having their fires dropped for the last time (a working known as the Fifteen Guinea Special).
August 18 – Two charter buses push into the Hida River on National Highway Route 41 in Japan, in an accident caused by heavy rain; 104 are killed.
August 20 – The Prague Spring of political liberalization ends, as 200,000 Warsaw Pact troops and 5,000 tanks invade Czechoslovakia.
August 21 – The Medal of Honor is posthumously awarded to James Anderson, Jr. — he is the first black U.S. Marine to be awarded the Medal of Honor.
August 24 – France explodes its first hydrogen bomb.
August 22–30 – Police clash with anti-war protesters in Chicago, Illinois, outside the 1968 Democratic National Convention, which nominates Hubert Humphrey for U.S. President, and Edmund Muskie for Vice President.
August 29 – Crown Prince Harald of Norway marries Sonja Haraldsen, the commoner he has dated for 9 years, in Oslo.

September

September 6 – Swaziland becomes independent.
September 7 – Mattel's Hot Wheels toy cars are introduced.
September 7 – 150 women (members of New York Radical Women) arrive in Atlantic City, New Jersey to protest against the Miss America Pageant, as exploitative of women. Led by activist and author Robin Morgan, it is one of the first large demonstrations of Second Wave Feminism as Women's Liberation begins to gather much media attention.
September 11 – French General René Cogny and 94 others die in an Air France Caravelle jetliner crash near Nice in the Mediterranean.
September 13 – Albania officially retreats from the Warsaw Pact upon the Soviet Union-led Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, having already ceased to participate actively in Pact activity since 1962.
September 13 – US Army Maj. Gen. Keith L. Ware, WWII Medal of Honor recipient, is killed when his helicopter is shot down in Vietnam. He is posthumously awarded the Distinguished Service Cross.
September 13 – Agreement for merger between the General Electric Company and English Electric, the largest industrial merger in the UK up to this date.

Sep.20-21: Invasion of Czechoslovakia.

September 17 – The D'Oliveira Affair: The Marylebone Cricket Club tour of South Africa is cancelled when the South Africans refuse to accept the presence of Basil D'Oliveira, a Cape Coloured, in the side.
September 20–21 – Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia: Several member states of the Warsaw Pact invade Czechoslovakia in response to political liberalization that had taken place during the 'Prague Spring'.
September 24 – 60 Minutes debuts on CBS
September 27 – Marcelo Caetano becomes prime minister of Portugal.
September 29 – A referendum in Greece gives more power to the military junta.
September 30 – At Paine Field, near Everett Washington in the United States, Boeing officially rolls out it's new 747 for the media and the public.

October

October 2 – Tlatelolco massacre: A student demonstration ends in a bloodbath at La Plaza de las Tres Culturas in Tlatelolco, Mexico City, Mexico, 10 days before the inauguration of the 1968 Summer Olympics.
October 3 – In Peru, Juan Velasco Alvarado takes power in a revolution.
October 5 – Police baton civil rights demonstrators in Derry, Northern Ireland, marking the beginning of The Troubles.
October 8 – Vietnam War – Operation Sealords: United States and South Vietnamese forces launch a new operation in the Mekong Delta.
October 10 – the Detroit Tigers win the 1968 World Series, defeating the St. Louis Cardinals 4 games to 3.
October 11 – Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 7, the first manned Apollo mission (Wally Schirra, Donn Eisele, Walter Cunningham). Mission goals include the first live television broadcast from orbit and testing the lunar module docking maneuver.
October 11 – In Panama, a military coup d'état, led by Col. Boris Martinez and Col. Omar Torrijos, overthrows the democratically elected (but highly controversial) government of President Arnulfo Arias. Within a year, Torrijos ousts Martinez and takes charge as de facto Head of Government in Panama.
October 12–27 – The Games of the XIX Olympiad are held in Mexico City, Mexico.
October 12 – Equatorial Guinea receives its independence from Spain.
October 14 – Vietnam War: The United States Department of Defense announces that the United States Army and United States Marines will send about 24,000 troops back to Vietnam for involuntary second tours.
October 15 – Led Zeppelin makes their first live performance, at Surrey University in England^[2]
October 16 – In Mexico City, Tommie Smith and John Carlos, 2 black Americans competing in the Olympic 200-meter run, raise their arms in a black power salute after winning, respectively, the gold and bronze medals for 1st and 3rd place.
October 16 – Kingston, Jamaica is rocked by the Rodney Riots, provoked by the banning of Walter Rodney from the country.
October 20 – Former U.S. First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy marries Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis on the Greek island of Skorpios.
October 31 – Vietnam War: Citing progress in the Paris peace talks, U.S. 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

November 5 – U.S. presidential election, 1968: Republican challenger Richard M. Nixon defeats the Democratic candidate, Vice President Hubert Humphrey, and American Independent Party candidate George C. Wallace.
November 5 – Luis A. Ferre is elected Governor of Puerto Rico.
November 11 – Vietnam War: Operation Commando Hunt is initiated to interdict men and supplies on the Ho Chi Minh Trail, through Laos into South Vietnam. By the end of the operation, 3 million tons of bombs are dropped on Laos, slowing but not seriously disrupting trail operations.
November 11 – A second republic is declared in the Maldives.
November 14 – Yale University announces it is going to admit women.
November 17 – The Heidi game: NBC cuts off the final 1:05 of an Oakland Raiders–New York Jets football game to broadcast the pre-scheduled Heidi. Fans are unable to see Oakland (which had been trailing 32–29) score 2 late touchdowns to win 43–32; as a result, thousands of outraged football fans flood the NBC switchboards to protest.
November 20 – The Farmington Mine Disaster in Farmington, West Virginia, kills seventy-eight men.
November 22 – The Beatles release their self-titled album popularly known as the White Album.
November 24 – 4 men hijack Pan Am Flight 281 from JFK International Airport, New York to Havana, Cuba.
November 26 – Vietnam War: United States Air Force First Lieutenant and Bell UH-1F helicopter pilot James P. Fleming rescues an Army Special Forces unit pinned down by Viet Cong fire, earning a Medal of Honor for his bravery.

December

December 3 – The '68 Comeback Special marks the concert return of Elvis Presley.
December 9 – Douglas Engelbart publicly demonstrates his pioneering hypertext system, NLS, in San Francisco.
December 10 – Japan's biggest heist, the still-unsolved "300 million yen robbery", occurs in Tokyo.
December 11 – The film Oliver!, based on the hit London and Broadway musical, opens in the U.S. after being released first in England. It goes on to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus is also filmed on this date, but not released until 1996.
December 13 – Brazilian president Artur da Costa e Silva decrees the AI-5 (or the Fifth Institutional Act), which lasts until 1978 and marks the beginning of the hard times of Brazilian military dictatorship.
December 20 – The Zodiac Killer is believed to have shot Betty Lou Jensen and David Faraday on Lake Herman Road, Benicia, San Francisco Bay, California.
December 22 – David Eisenhower marries Julie Nixon, the daughter of U.S. President-elect Richard Nixon.
December 22 – Mao Zedong advocates that educated youth in urban China be re-educated in the country. It marks the start of the "Up to the mountains and down to the villages" movement.
December 24 – Apollo Program: U.S. spacecraft Apollo 8 enters orbit around the Moon. Astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and William A. Anders become the first humans to see the far side of the Moon and planet Earth as a whole. The crew also reads from Genesis.

Undated

The Cincinnati Bengals American football team is founded.
Tasmania abolishes capital punishment.
Cañada College opens in Redwood City, California.
Lyndon B. Johnson calls for negotiations with North Vietnam.
The English rock band Led Zeppelin is formed.

Ongoing

Namibian War of Independence (1966–1978)
North Yemen Civil War (1962–1970)
Rhodesian Bush War (1964–1979)
Cultural Revolution (1966–1969)

Births

**1968 in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	1968 MCMLXVIII
Ab urbe condita	2721
Armenian calendar	1417 ԹՎ ՌՆԺԷ
Bahá'í calendar	124 – 125
Bengali calendar	1375
Berber calendar	2918
Buddhist calendar	2512
Burmese calendar	1330
Byzantine calendar	7476 – 7477
Chinese calendar	丁未年十二月初二日 (4604/4664-12-2) — to — 戊申年十一月十二日 (4605/4665-11-12)
Coptic calendar	1684 – 1685
Ethiopian calendar	1960 – 1961
Hebrew calendar	5728 – 5729
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	2023 – 2024
- Shaka Samvat	1890 – 1891
- Kali Yuga	5069 – 5070
Holocene calendar	11968
Iranian calendar	1346 – 1347
Islamic calendar	1387 – 1388
Japanese calendar	Shōwa 43 (昭和43年)
Korean calendar	4301
Thai solar calendar	2511

January–February

January 1 – Davor Suker, Croatian soccer player (footballer)
January 2 – Cuba Gooding Jr., American actor (Jerry Maguire)
January 5 – Andrzej Gołota, Polish boxer
January 6 – John Singleton, African-American film director and writer
January 9 – Joey Lauren Adams, American actress
January 9 – Al Schnier, American rock guitarist
January 12 – Keith Anderson, American country music singer-songwriter
January 13 – Pat Onstad, Canadian footballer
January 14 – LL Cool J, African-American rapper and actor
January 15 – Chad Lowe, American actor
January 19 – Matt Hill, Canadian Voice Actor
January 21 – Charlotte Ross, American actress NYPD Blue
January 24 – Mary Lou Retton, American gymnast
January 24 – Michael Kiske, German musician
January 26 – Novala Takemoto, Japanese author and fashion designer
January 27 – Mike Patton, American singer
January 28 – Sarah McLachlan, Canadian singer
January 29 – Edward Burns, American actor
January 29 – Sora Jung, Korean actress
February 1 – Lisa Marie Presley, American singer
February 1 – Mark Recchi, Canadian hockey player
February 3 – Vlade Divac, Serbian basketball player
February 5 – Roberto Alomar, American baseball player
February 5 – Marcus Gronholm, Finnish rally driver
February 7 – Peter Bondra, Slovakian ice hockey player in the NHL
February 7 – Porntip Nakhirunkanok, Miss Universe 1988
February 8 – Gary Coleman, African-American actor (Different Strokes)
February 10 – Atika Suri, Indonesian television newscaster
February 10 – Laurie Foell, New Zealand/Australian actress
February 12 – Chynna Phillips, American singer/actress
February 13 – Kelly Hu, Asian-American actress and former fashion model
February 14 – Jules Asner, American model and television personality
February 14 – Nelson "Viscera" Frazier, Jr., American professional wrestler
February 15 – Gloria Trevi, Mexican singer and actress
February 18 – Dennis Satin, German film director
February 18 – Molly Ringwald, American actress, singer and dancer
February 22 – Brad Nowell, American musician (d. 1996)
February 22 – Jeri Ryan, American actress (Star Trek: Voyager)
February 22 – Delphine Boel, out-of-wedlock daughter of King Albert II of Belgium
February 25 – Sandrine Kiberlain, French actress
February 25 – Evridiki, Cypriot singer
February 27 – Matt Stairs, Canadian baseball player

March–April

March 1 – Kunjarani Devi, Indian weightlifter
March 1 – Kathryn Cressida, American actress
March 1 – Muho Noelke, German Zen master
March 2 – Daniel Craig, British actor
March 4 – Patsy Kensit, British actress
March 4 – Giovanni Carrara, Venezuelan Major League Baseball player
March 5 – Gordon Bajnai, Hungarian Prime Minister
March 6 – Moira Kelly, American actress
March 10 – Thio Li-ann, Singaporean law academic and Nominated Member of Parliament
March 11 – Lisa Loeb, American singer
March 13 – Akira Nogami, Japanese professional wrestler
March 14 – James Frain, British actor
March 15 – Kahimi Karie, Japanese singer
March 15 – Mark McGrath, American musician (Sugar Ray)
March 15 – Terje Riis-Johansen, Norwegian politician
March 16 – Trevor Wilson, American basketball player
March 18 – Shinichiro Miki, Japanese seiyu (voice actor)
March 19 – Mots'eoa Senyane, Lesotho diplomat
March 22 – Øystein Aarseth, Norwegian musician (d. 1993)
March 23 – Mike Atherton, English cricketer
March 23 – Damon Albarn, English rock musician (Blur, Gorillaz)
March 23 – Mitch Cullin, American novelist
March 26 – Kenny Chesney, American musician
March 26 – James Iha, American rock musician (The Smashing Pumpkins)
March 28 – Iris Chang, American author (d. 2004)
March 28 – Nasser Hussain, English cricketer
March 29 – Lucy Lawless, New Zealand actress and singer
March 30 – Céline Dion, Canadian singer (My Heart Will Go On)
April 1 – Andreas Schnaas, German director
April 1 – Julia Boutros, Lebanese singer
April 3 – Sebastian Bach, West Indian-born rock musician (Skid Row)
April 8 – Patricia Arquette, American actress
April 14 – Anthony Michael Hall, American actor and singer
April 15 – Stacey Williams, American model
April 18 – David Hewlett, English born Canadian actor
April 19 – Ashley Judd, American actress
April 20 – J. D. Roth, American television host
April 20 – Yelena Valbe, Russian cross-country skier
April 23 – Timothy McVeigh, American terrorist (d. 2001)
April 24 – Stacy Haiduk, American actress
April 24 – Yuji Nagata, Japanese professional wrestler
April 28 – Howard Donald, British singer (Take That)

May–June

May 1 – Oliver Bierhoff, German footballer
May 1 – D'Arcy Wretzky, American musician
May 4 – Julian Barratt, British comedian
May 7 – Traci Lords, American actress/porn star
May 8 – Jamie Summers, American porn star
May 9 – Marie-José Perec, French athlete
May 10 – Darren Matthews, English professional wrestler
May 12 – Tony Hawk, American skateboarder
May 16 – Chingmy Yau, Hong Kong actress
May 17 – Constance Menard, French professional dressage rider
May 20 – Waisale Serevi, Fijian rugby player
May 21 – Julie Vega, Filipino child actress and singer (d. 1985)
May 26 – Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark
May 27 – Jeff Bagwell, American baseball player
May 27 – Frank Thomas, American baseball player
May 28 – Kylie Minogue, Australian actress and singer
June 1 – Jason Donovan, Australian actor and singer
June 2 – Beetlejuice, African-American member of the Wack Pack (The Howard Stern Show)
June 2 – Jon Culshaw, English comedian and impressionist
June 9 – Alexandr Konovalov, Russian lawyer and politician
June 10 – Bill Burr, American comedian
June 10 – The D.O.C., African-American rapper
June 13 – Denise Pearson, British singer (Five Star)
June 14 – Yasmine Bleeth, American actress
June 20 – Peter Paige, American actor
June 21 – Sonique, British singer
June 25 – Oleg Taktarov, Russian mixed martial artist
June 26 – Iwan Roberts, Welsh footballer
June 26 – Paolo Maldini, Italian football player
June 26 – Shannon Sharpe, American football player and commentator
June 28 – Adam Woodyatt, British actor
June 29 – Theoren Fleury, Canadian hockey player
June 29 – Charlie Charters, British author
June 30 – Philip Anselmo, American musician

July–August

July 5 – Ken Akamatsu, Japanese mangaka
July 7 – Jorja Fox, American actress
July 7 – Jeff VanderMeer, American writer
July 8 – Akio Suyama, Japanese seiyu (voice actor)
July 8 – Michael Weatherly, American actor
July 10 – Hassiba Boulmerka, Algerian athlete
July 15 – Stan Kirsch, American actor
July 16 – Robin Nixon, American music producer
July 16 – Dhanraj Pillay, Indian field hockey player
July 16 – Barry Sanders, African-American football player
July 17 – Darren Day, British actor and TV presenter
July 19 – Robert Flynn, American musician
July 19 – Jim Norton, American comedian
July 21 – Johnnie Barnes, American football player
July 22 – Rhys Ifans, Welsh actor
July 23 – Gary Payton, African-American basketball player
July 24 – Kristin Chenoweth, American soprano and actress
July 27 – Julian McMahon, Australian actor
July 30 – Robert Korzeniowski, Polish racewalker
August 1 – Dan Donegan, American rock musician (Disturbed)
August 3 – Rod Beck, American baseball player (d. 2007)
August 5 – Colin McRae, Scottish rally car driver (d. 2007)
August 9 – Gillian Anderson, American actress (The X-Files)
August 9 – James Roy, Australian author
August 9 – Eric Bana, Australian actor
August 10 – Greg Hawgood, Canadian ice hockey player
August 11 – Noordin Mohammad Top, Malaysian Islamist terrorist (d. 2009)
August 11 – Charlie Sexton, American guitarist, singer and songwriter
August 12 – Andras Jones, American actor
August 14 – Jason Leonard, English rugby player
August 14 – Darren Clarke, Northern Irish professional golfer
August 14 – Catherine Bell, American actress (J.A.G.)
August 15 – Debra Messing, American actress (Will And Grace)
August 17 – Ed McCaffrey, American football player
August 17 – Bruno van Pottelsberghe, Belgian economist
August 21 – Dina Carroll, British singer
August 24 – Tim Salmon, American baseball player
August 24 – Shoichi Funaki, Japanese professional wrestler
August 25 – Stuart Murdoch, Scottish singer, songwriter and guitarist (Belle and Sebastian)
August 25 – Rachael Ray, American television chef and host
August 28 – Billy Boyd, Scottish actor
August 31 – Hideo Nomo, Japanese baseball player
August 31 – Valdon Dowiyogo, Nauruan politician and Australian football player

September–October

September 1 – Mohamed Atta al Sayed, Egyptian terrorist (d. 2001)
September 4 – Phill Lewis, American actor
September 4 – Mike Piazza, American baseball player
September 4 – Gavin Smith (poker player), Canadian poker player
September 5 – Thomas Levet, French golfer
September 7 – Marcel Desailly, French footballer
September 8 – Bob Bellerue, noise artist
September 10 – Big Daddy Kane, African-American hip-hop artist
September 10 – Guy Ritchie, British film director
September 11 – Kay Hanley, American musician
September 11 – Tetsuo Kurata, Japanese actor
September 17 – Anastacia, American singer-songwriter
September 18 – Toni Kukoč, Croatian basketball player
September 20 – Darrell Russell, American race car driver (d. 2004)
September 20 – Phillipa Forrester, British TV presenter
September 20 – Leah Pinsent, Canadian actress
September 23 – Yvette Fielding, English television presenter
September 25 – Will Smith, African-American rapper and actor (Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air)
September 26 – James Caviezel, American actor (The Passion Of The Christ)
September 26 – Michelle Meldrum American guitarist (d. 2008)
September 28 – Naomi Watts, English-born Australian actress
September 29 – Patrick Burns, American paranormal investigator and television personality
September 29 – Samir Soni, Indian film and TV actor
October 1 – Mark Durden-Smith, English television presenter
October 1 – Jay Underwood, American actor
October 1 – Sagol 59, Israeli Rapper
October 2 – Victoria Derbyshire, British radio presenter
October 3 – Paul Crichton, English footballer
October 7 – Thom Yorke, British singer/songwriter
October 8 – CL Smooth, African-American rapper
October 10 – Feridun Düzağaç, Turkish rock music artist, singer and songwriter
October 10 – Bart Brentjens, Dutch mountainbiker
October 11 – Jane Krakowski, American actress
October 12 – Hugh Jackman, Australian actor (X-Men)
October 14 – Johnny Goudie, American musician
October 14 – Matthew Le Tissier, English footballer
October 15 – Didier Deschamps, French footballer
October 15 – Jyrki 69, Finnish singer
October 15 – Vanessa Marcil, American Actress
October 17 – Ziggy Marley, Jamaican musician and oldest son of Bob Marley
October 19 – Rodney Carrington, American stand-up comic and country musician
October 22 – Shaggy, Jamaican singer
October 24 – Sal the Stockbroker, American comedian and radio writer (The Howard Stern Show)
October 29 – Tsunku, Japanese singer, music producer, and song composer
October 31 – Vanilla Ice, American rapper (Ice Ice Baby)

November–December

November 1 – Silvio Fauner, Italian cross-country skier
November 3 – Debbie Rochon, Canadian actress
November 4 – Council Nedd II, American Anglican bishop
November 4 – Daniel Landa, Czech composer, singer, actor and rallye racer.
November 4 – Lee Germon, New Zealand cricketer
November 8 – Parker Posey, American actress
November 8 – Zara Whites, Dutch actress
November 9 – Nazzareno Carusi, Italian pianist
November 10 – Steve Brookstein, British singer
November 10 – Petra Liebetanz, German-American photographer
November 11 – David L Cook, Christian music singer and comedian
November 12 – Sammy Sosa, Dominican Major League Baseball player
November 13 – Pat Hentgen, baseball player
November 14 – Serge Postigo, Canadian actor
November 14 – Janine Lindemulder, American adult film actress
November 15 – Jennifer Charles, American singer
November 15 – Ol' Dirty Bastard, African-American rapper (d. 2004)
November 15 – Fausto Brizzi, Italian screenwriter and film director
November 18 – Barry Hunter, Northern Irish footballer and football manager
November 18 – Owen Wilson, American actor
November 18 – Gary Sheffield, baseball player
November 20 – John Trobaugh, American artist and photographer
November 21 – Qiao Hong, Chinese table tennis player
November 22 – Rasmus Lerdorf, Danish-Greenlandic creator of PHP
November 23 – Hamid Hassani, Iranian scholar
November 25 – Jill Hennessy, Canadian actress
November 25 – Jacqueline Hennessy, Canadian actress and talk show host
November 27 – Michael Vartan, French actor
November 29 – Jonathan Knight, American singer
December 2 – Nate Mendel, American rock musician (Foo Fighters)
December 2 – Lucy Liu, American actress
December 3 – Brendan Fraser, Canadian-American actor
December 5 – Margaret Cho, American actress and comedian
December 7 – Mark Geyer, Australian rugby league player
December 7 – Filip Naudts, Belgian photographer
December 8 – Mike Mussina, American baseball player
December 8 – Michael Cole, American TV commentator (World Wrestling Entertainment)
December 9 – Kurt Angle, American amateur and professional wrestler, 1996 Olympic Gold Medalist
December 11 – Monique Garbrecht, German speed skater
December 16 – Lalah Hathaway, American singer and daughter of (Donny Hathaway)
December 17 – Paul Tracy, Canadian race car driver
December 18 – Rachel Griffiths, Australian actress
December 24 – Choi Jin-sil, South Korean actress and model
December 26 – Dennis Knight, American professional wrestler

Unknown dates

George Henry Smyth, Irish artist
Andrei Ivanovitch, Russian classical pianist

Deaths

January–March

January 7 – Hugo Butler, Canadian screenwriter (b. 1914)
January 7 – Gholamreza Takhti, Iranian wrestler (b. 1930)
January 11 – Moshe Zvi Segal, Israeli linguist and Talmudic scholar, and Israel Prize recipient (b. 1876)
January 15 – Bill Masterton, Canadian hockey player (b. 1938)
January 18 – Bert Wheeler, American actor and comedian (b. 1895)
January 19 – Ray Harroun, American race car driver (b. 1879)
January 21 – Will Lang Jr., American journalist (b. 1914)
January 22 – Duke Kahanamoku, American swimmer (b. 1890)
January 26 – Merrill C. Meigs, American newspaper publisher and aviation promoter (b. 1883)
January 30 – Robert Wood Johnson, American business leader and philanthropist (b. 1893)
February 1 – Lawson Little, American golfer (b. 1910)
February 4 – Neal Cassady, American writer (b. 1926)
February 7 – Nick Adams, American actor (b. 1931)
February 11 – Howard Lindsay, American playwright (b. 1888)
February 13 – Mae Marsh, American actress (b. 1894)
February 19 – Georg Hackenschmidt, Estonian strongman and professional wrestler (b. 1878)
February 20 – Anthony Asquith, British director and writer (b. 1902)
February 21 – Howard Walter Florey, Australian-born pharmacologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine (b. 1898)
February 22 – Peter Arno, American cartoonist (b. 1904)
February 23 – Fannie Hurst, American novelist (b. 1885)
February 27 – Frankie Lymon, American singer (b. 1942)
February 29 – Tore Ørjasæter, Norwegian poet (b. 1886)
March 6 – Léon Mathot, French actor (b. 1886)
March 10 – Helen Walker, American actress (b. 1920)
March 16 – Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Italian composer (b. 1895)
March 16 – Leon Cadore, American baseball pitcher (b. 1890)
March 16 – June Collyer, American actress (b. 1906)
March 20 – Charles Chaplin Jr., American actor (b. 1925)
March 20 – Carl Theodor Dreyer, Danish film director (b. 1889)
March 23 – Edwin O'Connor, American novelist and Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner (b. 1918)
March 24 – Alice Guy-Blaché, French film director (b. 1873)
March 27 – Yuri Gagarin, Soviet cosmonaut, first human in space (b. 1934)
March 30 – Bobby Driscoll, American child actor (b. 1937)

April–June

April 1 – Lev Davidovich Landau, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1908)
April 4 – Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., African-American civil rights activist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (assassinated) (b. 1929)
April 7 – Jimmy Clark, Scottish race car driver (b. 1936)
April 10 – Gustavs Celmins, Latvian politician (b. 1899)
April 14 – Al Benton, American baseball player (b. 1911)
April 16 – Fay Bainter, American actress (b. 1893)
April 16 – Edna Ferber, American writer (b. 1885)
April 22 – Stephen H. Sholes, American record executive (b. 1911)
April 24 – Tommy Noonan, American actor (b. 1921)
April 25 – John Tewksbury, American athlete (b. 1876)
May 5 – Albert Dekker, American actor (b. 1905)
May 7 – Mike Spence, British race car driver (b. 1936)
May 7 – Craig Wood, American golfer (b. 1901)
May 9 – Finlay Currie, Scottish actor (b. 1878)
May 9 – Mercedes de Acosta, American poet, playwright, costume designer, and socialite (b. 1893)
May 9 – Marion Lorne, American actress (b. 1883)
May 10 – Scotty Beckett, American actor (b. 1929)
May 14 – Husband E. Kimmel, American admiral (b. 1882)
May 21 – Doris Lloyd, English actress (b. 1896)
May 23 – James Burke, American actor (b. 1886)
May 29 – Arnold Susi, Estonian lawyer and politician (b. 1896)
June 1 – Helen Keller, American spokeswoman for the deaf and blind (b. 1880)
June 2 – Jouett Shouse, American politician (b. 1879)
June 2 – Dick Williams, American tennis champion (b. 1891)
June 4 – Dorothy Gish, American actress (b. 1898)
June 6 – Robert F. Kennedy, U.S. Senator and U.S. Attorney General (assassinated) (b. 1925)
June 6 – Randolph Churchill, British politician, son of Winston Churchill (b. 1911)
June 7 – Dan Duryea, American actor (b. 1907)
June 14 – Salvatore Quasimodo, Italian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1901)
June 15 – Sam Crawford, American baseball player (b. 1880)
June 15 – Wes Montgomery, American jazz guitarist (b. 1925)
June 18 – Sally O'Neil, American actress (b. 1908)
June 24 – Tony Hancock, British comedian (b. 1924)

July–September

July 1 – Virginia Weidler, American actress (b. 1926)
July 6 – Johnny Indrisano, American boxer and actor (b. 1906)
July 7 – Ellsworth Johnson, American gangster (b. 1906)
July 18 – Corneille Heymans, Belgian physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)
July 21 – Ruth St. Denis, American dancer (b. 1878)
July 23 – Henry Hallett Dale, English scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1875)
July 27 – Lilian Harvey, German actress (b. 1906)
July 28 – Otto Hahn, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1879)
July 30 – Alexander Hall, American actor (b. 1894)
July 31 – Jack Pizzey, Premier of Queensland, Australia (b. 1911)
August 19 – George Gamow, Ukrainian-born physicist (b. 1904)
August 26 – Kay Francis, American actress (b. 1899)
August 27 – Robert Z. Leonard, American film director (b. 1889)
August 27 – Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent (b. 1906)
August 29 – Ulysses S. Grant III, American soldier and planner (b. 1881)
August 31 – Dennis O'Keefe, American actor (b. 1908)
September 8 – Luther Perkins, American guitarist (b. 1928)
September 12 – Tommy Armour, Scottish golfer (b. 1894)
September 18 – Francis McDonald, American actor (b. 1891)
September 18 – Franchot Tone, American actor (b. 1905)
September 19 – Red Foley, American singer (b. 1910)
September 24 – Virginia Valli, American actress (b. 1898)
September 26 – Lipman Heilprin, Israeli physician and Israel Prize recipient (b. 1902)
September 28 – Norman Brookes, Australian tennis champion (b. 1877)

October–December

October 2 – Marcel Duchamp, French artist (b. 1887)
October 9 – Pierre Mulele, Congolese revolutionary
October 13 – Bea Benaderet, American actress (The Flintstones) (b. 1906)
October 18 – Lee Tracy, American actor (b. 1898)
October 27 – Lise Meitner, German-Austrian physicist, discoverer of nuclear fission (b. 1878)
October 30 – Pert Kelton, American actress (b. 1907)
October 30 – Rose Wilder Lane, American author and reporter (b. 1886)
October 30 – Ramón Novarro, Mexican actor (b. 1899)
October 30 – Conrad Richter, American writer (b. 1890)
November 4 – Michel Kikoine, Belarusian painter (b. 1892)
November 6 – Charles Munch, French conductor and violinist (b. 1891)
November 7 – Gordon Coventry, Australian rules footballer (b. 1901)
November 8 – Wendell Corey, American actor (b. 1914)
November 9 – Gerald Mohr, American actor (b. 1914)
November 13 – Berthold Bartosch, Czech animator (b. 1893)
November 18 – Walter Wanger, American film producer (b. 1894)
November 20 – Helen Gardner, American actress (b. 1884)
November 25 – Upton Sinclair, American writer (b. 1878)
November 26 – Arnold Zweig, German writer (b. 1887)
November 28 – Enid Blyton, British children's writer (b. 1897)
December 2 – Adamson-Eric, Estonian artist (b. 1902)
December 4 – Archie Mayo, American actor and director (b. 1891)
December 5 – Fred Clark, American actor (b. 1914)
December 10 – Karl Barth, German Protestant theologian (b. 1888)
December 10 – Thomas Merton, American author (b. 1915)
December 12 – Tallulah Bankhead, American actress (b. 1902)
December 14 – Margarete Klose, German soprano (b. 1902)
December 15 – Jess Willard, American boxer (b. 1881)
December 19 – Norman Thomas, American politician (b. 1884)
December 20 – John Steinbeck, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
December 30 – Trygve Lie, Norwegian United Nations Secretary General (the first) (b. 1896)
December 30 – Vladimir Peter Tytla, American animator (b. 1904)
December 31 – George Lewis, American musician (b. 1900)

Nobel Prizes

Physics – Luis Walter Alvarez
Chemistry – Lars Onsager
Physiology or Medicine – Robert W. Holley, Har Gobind Khorana, Marshall W. Nirenberg
Literature – Yasunari Kawabata
Peace – René Cassin

Academy Awards

Best Picture: In the Heat of the Night, Walter Mirisch
Best Foreign Language Film: Closely Watched Trains, Czechoslovakia
Best Documentary Feature: The Anderson Platoon, Pierre Schoendoerffer
Best Director: Mike Nichols, The Graduate
Best Actor: Rod Steiger, In the Heat of the Night
Best Actress: Katharine Hepburn, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Best Supporting Actor: George Kennedy, Cool Hand Luke
Best Supporting Actress: Estelle Parsons, Bonnie and Clyde
Best Original Screenplay: William Rose, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Best Adapted Screenplay: Stirling Silliphant, In the Heat of the Night

Notes

1968 was the only year of the twentieth century during which no British serviceman or servicewoman was killed in action.^[3]

^ Lyndon B. Johnson (March 11, 1968). Memorandum Approving the Adoption by the Federal Government of a Standard Code for Information Interchange. The American Presidency Project. Accessed 2008-04-14.
^ http://www.rockhall.com/inductee/led-zeppelin
^ Commentary at the Royal Tournament, 1999

References

TIME Magazine, 40th Anniversary Special (2008). "1968: The Year That Changed the World."
NEWSWEEK Magazine. "1968: The Year That Made Us Who We Are." November 19, 2007.
TIME Magazine. "1968: The Year That Shaped a Generation." January 11, 1988.
Kurlansky, Mark. (2004). 1968: The Year that Rocked the World. London: Jonathan Cape. ISBN 978-0-224-06251-0
NPR "Echoes of 1968" report series.

External links

1968 – The Year in Sound An Audiofile produced by Lou Zambrana of WCBS Newsradio 880 (WCBS-AM New York) Part of WCBS 880's celebration of 40 years of newsradio.
1968 Coin Pictures
Magnum Photos, Historic photos from 1968
BBC Radio 4 – 1968 Myth or Reality? – six months of 'news on this day' programmes and documentaries
Reflections on 1968 Read people's memories of the year 1968. Minnesota Historical Society

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Centuries:	19th century - 20th century - 21st century
Decades:	1930s 1940s 1950s - 1960s - 1970s 1980s 1990s
Years:	1965 1966 1967 - 1968 - 1969 1970 1971

1968 by topic:
Subject: Archaeology - Architecture - Art
Aviation - Film - Literature (Poetry) Meteorology - Music (Country) Rail transport - Radio - Science
Sports - Television
Countries: Australia - Canada - India - Ireland - Malaysia - New Zealand - Norway - Pakistan - Singapore - South Africa - Soviet Union - UK - Zimbabwe
Leaders: Sovereign states - State leaders
Religious leaders - Law
Categories: Births - Marriages - Deaths - Introductions
Establishments - Disestablishments - Awards

Year 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar.

Contents (full)

1 Events of 1968

- Jan. ^. Feb. ^. March ^. April

- May ^. June ^. July ^. Aug.

- Sept. ^. Oct. ^. Nov. ^. Dec.

- Undated ^. Ongoing ^.

2 Births

3 Deaths

4 Nobel Prizes

5 See also - Notes - External links