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April 9, 1968: Coretta Scott King at her husband's funeral, comforting their daughter, Bernice. Funeral services were held for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Atlanta, beginning with a private service for family and friends at Ebenezer Baptist Church, where King and his father had both served as senior pastors.
8–19 April. Operation Norfolk Victory was a 1st Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment clear and search operation in Nghĩa Hành District, Quảng Ngãi Province. the operation resulted in 43 PAVN/VC and five U.S. killed. [22] 8 April to 31 May. Operation Toan Thang I was a US and ARVN operation conducted between 8 April 1968 and 31 May 1968 ...
[38] [39] [27] [40] On April 5, Johnson wrote a letter to the United States House of Representatives urging passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1968, which included the Fair Housing Act. [31] The Rules Committee, "jolted by the repeated civil disturbances virtually outside its door," finally ended its hearings on April 8. [41]
BOAC Flight 712 was a British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) service operated by a Boeing 707-465 from London Heathrow Airport bound for Sydney via Zurich and Singapore. . On Monday 8 April 1968, it suffered an engine failure on takeoff that quickly led to a major fire; the engine detached from the aircraft in flig
Garment workers listen to King's funeral service on a portable radio (April 9, 1968) On April 8, King's widow Coretta Scott King and her four young children led a crowd estimated at 40,000 in a silent march through the streets of Memphis to honor King and support the cause of the city's black sanitation workers. [52]
1968 was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1968th ... April 8. Patricia Arquette, American actress; Shawn Fonteno, American actor and rapper;
Glenn Urban Andreotta (October 30, 1947 – April 8, 1968) was an American helicopter crew chief in the Vietnam War noted for being one of three who intervened in the Mỹ Lai massacre, in which 504 unarmed children, women and men were murdered.
The 1968 Borrego Mountain earthquake occurred on April 8, at 18:28 PST in the geologically active Salton Trough of Southern California. The Salton Trough represents a pull-apart basin formed by movements along major faults. This region is dominated by major strike-slip faults one of them being the San Jacinto Fault which produced the 1968 ...