WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO DECEMBER 1968
Find out what all happened January to December 1968

Nauru gains independence from Australia. (31. January 1968)

Vietnam War: South Vietnamese opposition leader Truong Dinh Dzu is sentenced to five years hard labor for advocating the formation of a coalition government as a way to move toward an end to the war. (26. July 1968)

General Motors produces its 100 millionth automobile, the Oldsmobile Toronado. (16. March 1968)

Vietnam War: The Tet Offensive is halted; South Vietnam recaptures Hué. (24. February 1968)

The nuclear-powered submarine the USS Scorpion sinks with 99 men aboard 400 miles southwest of the Azores. (22. May 1968)

A revolution occurs in Iraq when Abdul Rahman Arif is overthrown and the Ba'ath Party is installed as the governing power in Iraq with Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr as the new Iraqi President. (17. July 1968)

Operation OAU begins during the Nigerian Civil War (20. May 1968)

Glenville Shootout: in Cleveland, Ohio, a violent shootout between a Black Militant organization led by Ahmed Evans and the Cleveland Police Department occurs. During the shootout, a riot begins and lasts for five days. (23. July 1968)

FLQ separatists bomb the U.S. consulate in Quebec City. (24. May 1968)

Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers his "I've Been to the Mountaintop" speech. (3. April 1968)

Johnny Cash performs live at Folsom State Prison (13. January 1968)

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

Riots in Chicago, Illinois, during the Democratic National Convention. (28. August 1968)

The first of the East L.A. walkouts take place at several high schools. (6. March 1968)

BOAC Flight 712 catches fire shortly after take off. As a result of her actions in the accident, Barbara Jane Harrison is awarded a posthumous George Cross, the only GC awarded to a woman in peacetime. (8. April 1968)

The U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson declares a national day of mourning following the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy. (9. June 1968)

The International Association of Classification Societies (IACS) was found. (11. September 1968)

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

Vietnam War: Operation Sealords – United States and South Vietnamese forces launch a new operation in the Mekong Delta. (8. October 1968)