1968

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Years: 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 - 1968 - 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973

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Births

• November 12 - Sammy Sosa, baseball player

Deaths

• February 11 - Howard Lindsay, US playwright.

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

• January 14 - Super Bowl II Green Bay Packers (33) def. Oakland Raiders (14)

Nobel Prizes

• Physics - Luis Walter Alvarez
• Chemistry - Lars Onsager
• Medicine - Robert W Holley, Har Gobind Khorana, Marshall W Nirenberg
• Literature - Yasunari Kawabata
• Peace - René Cassin