WHAT ALL HAPPENED OCTOBER TO DECEMBER 1968
Find out what all happened October to December 1968

Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 7, the first successful manned Apollo mission, with astronauts Wally Schirra, Donn F. Eisele and Walter Cunningham aboard. (11. October 1968)

Douglas Engelbart gave what became known as "The Mother of All Demos", publicly debuting the computer mouse, hypertext, and the bit-mapped graphical user interface using the oN-Line System (NLS). (9. December 1968)

Apollo program: Apollo 8 splashes down in the Pacific Ocean, ending the first orbital manned mission to the Moon. (27. December 1968)

Equatorial Guinea becomes independent from Spain (12. October 1968)

Brazilian President Artur da Costa e Silva issues AI-5 (Institutional Act No. 5), enabling government by decree and suspending habeas corpus. (13. December 1968)

The Zodiac Killer kills Betty Lou Jenson and David Faraday in Vallejo, California. (20. December 1968)

42 Dalits are burned alive in Kilavenmani village, Tamil Nadu, India, a retaliation for a campaign for higher wages by Dalit laborers. (25. December 1968)

Vietnam War: United States Air Force helicopter pilot James P. Fleming rescues an Army Special Forces unit pinned down by Viet Cong fire. He is later awarded the Medal of Honor. (26. November 1968)

Vietnam War: Operation Commando Hunt initiated. The goal is to interdict men and supplies on the Ho Chi Minh Trail, through Laos into South Vietnam. (11. November 1968)

Yasunari Kawabata becomes the first Japanese person to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. (16. October 1968)

Former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy marries Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis. (20. October 1968)

Apollo program: Apollo 8 performs the very first successful Trans-Earth injection (TEI) maneuver, sending the crew and spacecraft on a trajectory back to Earth from Lunar orbit. (25. December 1968)

The Motion Picture Association of America's film rating system is officially introduced, originating with the ratings G, M, R, and X. (1. November 1968)

Alexandros Panagoulis is condemned to death for attempting to assassinate Greek dictator Georgios Papadopoulos. (17. November 1968)

Vietnam War October surprise: Citing progress with the Paris peace talks, US President Lyndon B. Johnson announces to the nation that he has ordered a complete cessation of "all air, naval, and artillery bombardment of North Vietnam" effective November 1. (31. October 1968)

A peaceful student demonstration in Mexico City culminates in the Tlatelolco massacre by the order of the president, Gustavo Díaz Ordaz, to the soldiers of killing unarmed students, hiding the event from the public eye. The 1968 Summer Olympics hosted in Mexico City, started 10 days after the massacre. (2. October 1968)

Apollo program: The crew of Apollo 8 enters into orbit around the Moon, becoming the first humans to do so. They performed 10 lunar orbits and broadcast live TV pictures that became the famous Christmas Eve Broadcast, one of the most watched programs in history. (24. December 1968)

Apollo program: The first live TV broadcast, by American astronauts in orbit, was performed by the Apollo 7 crew. (14. October 1968)

The Vienna Convention on Road Traffic is signed to facilitate international road traffic and to increase road safety by standardising the uniform traffic rules among the signatories. (8. November 1968)

Vietnam War: 27 soldiers are arrested at the Presidio of San Francisco in California for their peaceful protest of stockade conditions and the Vietnam War. (14. October 1968)