59 events found for 1968
John Eliot Gardiner conducts Monteverdi's Vespro della Beata Vergine with the Monteverdi Choir at the Proms.
The Soviet Zond 5 spaceship is launched, becoming the first spacecraft to fly around the Moon and re-enter the Earth's…
The Boeing 747 is rolled out and shown to the public for the first time.
Guyana nationalizes the British Guiana Broadcasting Service, which would eventually become part of the National…
Mexican President Gustavo Díaz Ordaz orders soldiers to suppress a demonstration of unarmed students, ten days before…
A Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association march in Derry is violently suppressed by police.
NASA launches Apollo 7, the first successful crewed Apollo mission.
Equatorial Guinea becomes independent from Spain.
Apollo program: The first live television broadcast by American astronauts in orbit is performed by the Apollo 7 crew.
The 6.5 Mw Meckering earthquake shakes the southwest portion of Western Australia with a maximum Mercalli intensity of…
Jim Hines becomes the first man ever to break the so-called "ten-second barrier" in the 100-meter sprint with a time…
Tommie Smith and John Carlos are ejected from the US Olympic team for participating in the Olympics Black Power salute.
Kingston, Jamaica is rocked by the Rodney riots, inspired by the barring of Walter Rodney from the country.
Yasunari Kawabata becomes the first Japanese person to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
A Fairchild F-27 crashes into Moose Mountain while on approach to Lebanon Municipal Airport in Lebanon, New Hampshire,…
Space Race: The Soyuz 3 mission achieves the first Soviet space rendezvous.
A squad of 120 North Korean Army commandos land in boats along a 25-mile long section of the eastern coast of South…