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| 1968 |
| | | Lyndon Johnson announces that he will not stand for re-election as US president | |
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| 1968 |
| | | New Czech leader Alexander Dubcek facilitates the Prague Spring, aiming in his words to provide 'socialism with a human face' | |
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| 1968 |
| | | British actor Richard Attenborough makes his first film as a director, Oh! What a Lovely War | |
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| 1968 |
| | | Spanish Guinea becomes an independent republic as Equatorial Guinea, with Francisco Macias Nguema as president | |
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| 1968 |
| | | US soldiers massacre hundreds of unarmed civilians in the Vietnamese village of My Lai | |
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| 1968 |
| | | Robert Kennedy enters the race for the Democratic presidential nomination | |
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| 1968 |
| | | Ezra Pound publishes his last collection of cantos, Drafts and Fragments of Cantos CX - CXVII | |
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| 1968 |
| | | Karlheinz Stockhausen's Stimmung ('Tuning') employs six unaccompanied voices for 75 minutes | |
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| 1968 |
| | | US civil rights leader Martin Luther King is assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, by escaped convict James Earl Ray | |
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| 1968 |
| | | British racing driver Jim Clark is killed in an accident on the Hockenheim circuit, while leading in the world championship | |
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| 1968 |
| | | AIM (American Indian Movement) is founded to improve the status of native Americans, or American Indians | |
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| 1968 |
| | | Pierre Trudeau begins sixteen almost unbroken years as Liberal leader and prime minister of Canada | |
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| 1968 |
| | | The United Nations, with the approval of Britain as the colonial power, imposes economic sanctions on Rhodesia | |
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| 1968 |
| | | US artist Sol LeWitt buries a metal cube in the Netherlands to create Box in a Hole | |
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| 1968 |
| | | A student revolt begins in Paris and sweeps through France, shaking de Gaulle's government | |
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| 1968 |
| | | The Parti Québécois is formed in Canada by René Lévesque | |
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| 1968 |
| | | Robert Kennedy is assassinated by Sirhan Sirhan, a Palestinian, in the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles | |
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| 1968 |
| | | Norman Mailer publishes The Armies of the Night, based on his experiences on an anti-Vietnam demonstration in Washington in October 1967 | |
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| 1968 |
| | | English biographer Michael Holroyd completes his two-volume life of Lytton Strachey | |
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| 1968 |
| | | Pope Paul VI issues the encyclical Humanae Vitae, condemning all methods of artificial birth control | |
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| 1968 |
| | | Raden Suharto is elected president, formalizing his already de facto succession to Sukarno as the Indonesian dictator | |
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| 1968 |
| | | A military coup in Iraq brings to power a government composed mainly of Ba'thists | |
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| 1968 |
| | | Barbara Streisand repeats her Broadway performance in the film of Funny Girl | |
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| 1968 |
| | | US athlete Bob Beamon sets a world long-jump record of 8.9 metres that will stand for 23 years | |
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| 1968 |
| | | Catholic bishops in Latin America, plagued by oppressive regimes, develop the concept of liberation theology | |
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| 1968 |
| | | Gore Vidal publishes Myra Breckenridge, featuring a lively transsexual as the central character | |
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| 1968 |
| | | Antonio de Salazar, the Portuguese dictator, suffers a stroke and is replaced by Marcelo Caetano | |
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| 1968 |
| | | Alexander Solzhenitsyn's novel Cancer Ward is smuggled to New York for publication | |
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| 1968 |
| | | Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke create the film 2001: A Space Odyssey, based on Clarke's 1951 short story The Sentinel | |
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| 1968 |
| | | Soviet and Warsaw Pact troops invade Czechoslovakia to end the Prague Spring | |
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| 1968 |
| | | Reformist Czech leader Alexander Dubcek is arrested and flown to Moscow | |
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| 1968 |
| | | The first civil rights march in northern Ireland, in Derry, is halted by the police with batons and water cannon | |
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| 1968 |
| | | Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis marries Jacqueline Kennedy, widow of the assassinated president | |
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| 1968 |
| | | Republican candidate Richard Nixon defeats Hubert Humphrey in the US presidential election | |
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| 1968 |
| | | Harvard academic Henry Kissinger is selected by President Nixon as his national security adviser | |
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| 1968 |
| | | Three US astronauts become the first humans to leave the earth's orbit, reaching the moon and going into its orbit in Apollo 8 | |
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