1968

Tet offensive, turning point in Vietnam war
My Lai massacre
Soviet troops invade Czechoslovakia to crush liberal regime
General strike of workers and students in France
Lyndon Johnson withdraws from Presidential race
Martin Luther King, Jr. is assassinated
Sen. Robert F. Kennedy is assassinated
Anti-war protesters and Chicago police clash at Democratic Convention
Richard M. Nixon elected President

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James Lovell, William Anders and Frank Borman, aboard Apollo 8, 1st to orbit the moon
Indiana University goes to the Rose Bowl
Arthur Ashe wins United States Open tennis championship
Placido Domingo makes his Metropolitan Opera debut
Jacqueline Kennedy and Aristotle Onasis married
1st Black woman, Shirley Chisholm, elected to US House of Representatives
Jimi Hendrix plays at New York's Philharmonic Hall
Gateway Arch in St. Louis opens
Corporation for Public Broadcasting established
Haight-Ashbury is "hippie heaven"
Arthur Hailey's Airport
Eldridge Cleaver's Soul on Ice
Tom Wolf's Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
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1st computer with integrated circuits
Songs - "Hey Jude", "I Heard It Through the Grapevine", "The Dock of the Bay", "Mrs. Robinson", "The Beatles" (white album)
Films - "The Odd Couple", "Funny Girl", "The Lion in Winter", "2001: A Space Odyssey"
TV - "Hawaii Five-0", "Adam-12", "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In"
Mika Hakkinen, Sammy Sosa, Gary Coleman, Harry Connick, Jr., Will Smith, and Barry Sanders born
John Steinbeck, Upton Sinclair, Helen Keller, and Yuri Gagarin die