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1968 ( MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1968th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 968th year of the 2nd millennium, the 68th year of the 20th century, and the 9th year of the 1960s decade.
The protests that raged throughout 1968 included a large number of workers, students, and poor people facing increasingly violent state repression all around the world. Liberation from state repression itself was the most common current in all protests listed below.
The 1968 torch relay recreated the route taken by Christopher Columbus to the New World, journeying from Greece through Italy and Spain to San Salvador Island, Bahamas, and then on to Mexico. [5] American sculptor James Metcalf , an expatriate in Mexico, won the commission to forge the Olympic torch for the 1968 Summer Games.
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 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.
October 11–22, 1968: Apollo 7 launched with Eisele, Schirra and Cunningham October 12, 1968: Equatorial Guinea becomes world's newest nation October 12, 1968: Summer Olympics open in Mexico City, 10 days after protesters massacred October 16, 1968: U.S. Olympians Carlos and Smith protest during U.S. anthem October 18, 1968: Bob Beamon shatters long jump record
Apollo 8 (December 21–27, 1968) was the first crewed spacecraft to leave Earth's gravitational sphere of influence, and the first human spaceflight to reach the Moon. The crew orbited the Moon ten times without landing and then departed safely back to Earth. [1] [2] [3] These three astronauts — Frank Borman, James Lovell, and William Anders ...
500+ protestors 100+ other civilians 152 police officers. The 1968 Democratic National Convention protests were a series of protests against the United States' involvement in the Vietnam War that took place prior to and during the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois. The protests lasted approximately seven days, from August ...
July 1, 1968 (Monday) An American airplane and its crew of 214 U.S. Army soldiers was forced to land at an airfield in the Soviet Union after being intercepted in Soviet airspace by two MiG-17 jet fighters. [1] Seaboard World Airlines Flight 253A, a Douglas DC-8 chartered by the Army had been en route to South Vietnam when it was ordered to ...