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Chicago police drag an anti-Vietnam war protester across Michigan Avenue on August 28, 1968, during the Democratic National Convention as the crowd chants "The whole world is watching". " The whole world is watching " was a phrase chanted by anti-Vietnam War demonstrators as they were beaten and arrested by police outside the Conrad Hilton ...
August 20–21 – Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia. Events are televised live across Europe. Events are televised live across Europe. October 13 – Actress Bea Benaderet of the popular CBS-TV sitcom Petticoat Junction dies of lung cancer at the age of 62 shortly after the start of the popular program's sixth season.
During the evening of August 28, 1968, with the police riot occurring on Michigan Avenue in front of the Democratic party's convention headquarters and the Conrad Hilton hotel, television networks broadcast live as the anti-war protesters began the now-iconic chant: "The whole world is watching".
This table displays the top-rated primetime television series of the 1968–69 season as measured by Nielsen Media Research. [1] Rank Program Network Rating 1:
The following is the 1968–69 network television schedule for the three major English language commercial broadcast networks in the United States. The schedule covers primetime hours from September 1968 through August 1969. The schedule is followed by a list per network of returning series, new series, and series cancelled after the 1967–68 ...
The Bugs Bunny Show (August 1962 – September 8, 1968, September 8, 1973 – August 30, 1975, September 7, 1985 – September 2, 2000) Buzz Lightyear of Star Command (October 14, 2000 – September 8, 2001) The Buzz on Maggie (September 17, 2005 – January 21, 2006) The Care Bears Family (September 13, 1986 – October 31, 1987)
[29] In 1990, "Agent 817" would be revealed to have been the first of the USAF's CANYON project of seven spy satellites sent up between 1968 and 1977. [ 30 ] The United Kingdom submitted a comprehensive proposal at the meeting of the Eighteen Nation Committee on Disarmament in Geneva , that would ultimately become the basis of the 1972 ...
2021 – Ed Asner, American actor (b. 1929) [63] 2021 – Lee "Scratch" Perry, Jamaican reggae producer (b. 1936) [64] 2021 – Jacques Rogge, French orthopedic surgeon, Olympic sailor and the 8th President of the International Olympic Committee (b. 1942) [65] 2023 – Mike Enriquez, Filipino broadcaster (b. 1951) [66]