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May 1968 is an important reference point in French politics, representing for some the possibility of liberation and for others the dangers of anarchy. [6] For some, May 1968 meant the end of traditional collective action and the beginning of a new era to be dominated mainly by the so-called new social movements. [18]
May 15, 1968: An F5 tornado near Charles City, Iowa. An outbreak of tornadoes killed 70 people in the American Midwest and South. The heaviest damage was in Jonesboro, Arkansas, where 33 people were killed and 350 injured, and 12 people died and 367 were hurt in Charles City, Iowa. [87]
1968 was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1968th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno ... May 19. 1968 Italian general election.
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 22 – The U.S. nuclear-powered submarine Scorpion sinks with 99 men aboard, 400 miles southwest of the Azores.
In mid-May of 1968, a significant and deadly tornado outbreak struck most of the central and southern United States. Producing 46 tornadoes, the outbreak killed at least 72 people, including 45 in Arkansas alone.
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