1968

From Wikipedia

Births

Deaths

Events 1968 is known as the year of the Prague Spring and also the year of the Paris riots.

February 11 - Peggy Fleming wins Olympics figure skating gold medal, Grenoble, France.
February 11 - Israeli-Jordan border clashes.
February 11 - Madison Square Garden III closes, Madison Square Garden IV opens in New York.
March 31 - American President Lyndon Johnson announces he will not seek re-election.
April 23-April 30 - Student protesters at Columbia University in New York City take over administration buildings and shut down the university.
April 4 - Martin Luther King, Jr. is assassinated by James Earl Ray in Memphis, Tennessee.
May - Uprising in Paris nearly brings down the government
June 5 - Robert F. Kennedy is assassinated by Sirhan Sirhan in Los Angeles, California.
August 21 - Warsaw Pact nations invade Czechoslovakia
August 22-August 30 - Police attack antiwar protesters in Chicago outside the Democratic Party convention
Summer Olympic Games Mexico City Mexico

Sport

This page was last modified on 7 December 2001, at 00:04. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License; additional terms may apply. See Terms of Use for details.