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Famous Births
- Jan. 02: Cuba Gooding Jr. - Boyz n the Hood
- Feb. 12: Josh Brolin - No Country for Old Men
- Feb. 18: Molly Ringwald - The Breakfast Club
- Feb. 22: Jeri Ryan - Voyager
- Mar. 02: Daniel Craig - James Bond
- Mar. 12: Aaron Eckhart - The Dark Knight
- Mar. 30: Celine Dion - Musician
- Apr. 08: Patricia Arquette - Medium
- Apr. 19: Ashley Judd - Actress
- May 07: Traci Lords - Actress
- May 11: Jeffrey Donovan - Burn Notice
- May 12: Tony Hawk - Skateboarder
- May 28: Kylie Minogue - Musician
- Jun. 14: Yasmine Bleeth - Baywatch
- Dec. 02: Lucy Liu - Kill Bill
- Dec. 22: Dina Meyer - Starship Troopers
Famous Deaths
- Apr. 04: Martin Luther King Jr. - Civil Rights Activist
- Jun. 01: Helen Keller - Spokeswoman
- Jun. 06: Robert F. Kennedy - Fmr. Attorney General
Chart Toppers
- Jan 01: The Beatles - Hello Goodbye
- Jan. 20: John Fred - Judy in Disguise
- Feb. 03: The Lemon Pipers - Green Tambourine
- Feb. 10: Paul Mauria - Love is Blue
- Mar. 16: Otis Redding - The Dock of the Bay
- Apr. 13: Bobby Goldsboro - Honey
- May. 18: Archie Bell - Tighten Up
- Jun. 01: Simon and Garfunkel - Mrs. Robinson
- Jun. 22: Herb Alpert - This Guy's in Love with You
- Jul. 20: Hugh Masekela - Grazing in the Grass
- Aug. 03: The Doors - Hello, I Love You
- Aug. 17: The Rascals - People Got to be Free
- Sep. 21: Jeannie C. Riley - Harper Valley PTA
- Sep. 28: The Beatles - Hey Jude
- Nov. 30: The Supremes - Love Child
- Dec. 21: Marvin Gaye - I Heard It Through the Grapevine Billboard: Historical Billboard Charts
41st Academy Awards
- Presented on: April 14, 1969
- Best Picture: Oliver!
- Lead Actor: Cliff Robertson in Charly
- Lead Actress: Katharine Hepburn in The Lion in Winter
- Lead Acrtess (Tie): Barbra Streisand in Funny Girl
- Best Director: Sir Carol Reed in Oliver!
Top Athletes
Nobel Laureates
- Peace: Rene Cassin
- Physics: Luis Alvarez
- Chemistry: Lars Onsager
- Medicine: Robert Holly, Gorbind Khorana, Marshall Nirenberg
- Literature: Yasunari Kawabata NoblePrize.org: 1968 Noble Winners
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January 1968
- January 9: Surveyor 7 landed on the Moon as the last non-manned American craft.
- January 23: North Korea seizes the USS Pueblo within their waters and hold the crew for 11 months on charges of spying.
February 1 1968
February 1: Vietnam War: Saigon Police chief, Nguyen Ngoc Loan executes a Viet Cong officer with a pistol shot to the head.
February 1968
- February 16: The 911 Emergency Response system was debuted on the telephone system in Haleyville, Alabama.
March 16 1968
March 16: Vietnam War: America troops are involved in the My Lai Massacre, where they swept through a small village and killed over 500 unarmed civilians.
April 4 1968
April 4: Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated by James Earl Ray in Memphis, Tennessee.
April 6 1968
April 6: Provoked by the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. race violence erupts in major American cities.
April 1968
- April 2: The Stanley Kubrick sci-fi film A Space Odyssey premiers.
- April 20: Pierre Trudeau leader of the Liberal Party of Canada was sworn in as Prime Minister of Canada.
- April 23: Students at Columbia University protest the Vietnam War by taking over campus buildings.
September 1968
- September 6: Swaziland becomes independent.
- September 24: 60 Minutes premiered on CBS, the show has featured journalists including Walter Cronkite, Mike Wallace, Dan Rather, Ed Bradley and Charlie Rose
October 1968
- October 7: The Motion Picture Association adopts a new system that would rate each film.
- October 11: The first manned flight aboard an Apollo Spacecraft sends three America astronauts into orbit.
- October 18: The United States Olympic Committee suspend medalists Tommie Smith and John Carlos because they gave a Black Salute at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City.
- October 25: Jimi Hendrix releases Electric Ladyland
November 1968
- November 5: Richard Nixon barely is re-elected by defeating Hubert Humphrey with 287 electoral votes.
- November 20: 78 people die in a methane gas explosion in a West Virginia Coal Mine
December 1968
- December 24: Apollo 8 becomes the first manned craft to orbit the Moon.
1968 Questions
What is one photo that defines the year 1968? 7 AnswersRobert F. Kennedy is assassinated during his presidential campaign at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles on June 5, 1968. http://www.flickr.com/photos/33749589... read more
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The exhib chronicles the Civil Rights movement 1956-1968 in fabulous b/w photography. The art is mostly gelatin silver. http://bit.ly/1Bz6AB
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Found an old contest winners scrapbook at CFRB from 1968. Stenciled letters, written letters and promo ideas. #historyrules
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@adamlambert i have been open about my sexuality since 1968. I am 6' 4" and easily "pass". It wasn't an easy path. See next>
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Check this video out -- Sandy Shaw - Those were the days my friend 1968 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NQppa348eA
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quiere ver Night of the Living Dead. 1968 http://plurk.com/p/2owlls
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