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1968 |
| January 30th |
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The
TET Offensive. During the Tet holidays the Viet Cong mounted
a surprise attack that stunned both the US and South Vietnamese
forces. The offensive failed, but the propaganda value was immense. |
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| March 27th |
|
Soviet
cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin was killed when his plane crashed
in mysterious circumstances. Gagarin became the first man to
go into space in Vostok 1, 12th April 1961. |
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| March 31st |
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President
Lyndon Johnson announced that he would not seek re-election
as President of the United States. |
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| April 4th |
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US
Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated
in Memphis, Tennessee. |
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| April 4th |
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Robert
Kennedy, campaigning for President, spoke on the death of Martin
Luther King, Jr., Indianapolis, IN, USA. |
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| June 5th |
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Senator
Robert Kennedy was shot and killed by an assassin. Kennedy's
killer was Jordanian Sirhan Bassara Sirhan. |
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| June 8th |
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Edward
M. Kennedy delivered the eulogy for his brother Bobby, at St.
Patrick's Cathedral. |
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| August 20th |
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Revolution
in Czechoslovakia was crushed by the Soviet military. |
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| November. |
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Republican
Shirley Chisholm (D-NY) became the first black woman elected
to Congress. |
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| November. |
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Republican
Richard Nixon won the presidency by 515,777 votes in the 1968
election. |
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| December
21st |
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The
first manned lunar orbit. Frank Borman, James Lovell
and Bill Anders crew of NASA's Apollo-Saturn 8
mission, which completed 10 orbits of the Moon on Christmas
Eve. |
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