WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO SEPTEMBER 1968
Find out what all happened January to September 1968

The Memphis Sanitation Strike begins. (11. February 1968)

Vietnam War: Student protesters at Columbia University in New York City take over administration buildings and shut down the university. (23. April 1968)

English politician Enoch Powell makes his controversial Rivers of Blood speech. (20. April 1968)

Pierre Elliot Trudeau wins the Liberal Leadership Election, and becomes Prime Minister of Canada soon after. (6. April 1968)

The first International Special Olympics Summer Games are held at Soldier Field in Chicago, Ill, with about 1,000 athletes with intellectual disabilities. (20. July 1968)

The meeting of the Union Nationale des Étudiants de France (National Union of the Students of France) takes place. 30,000 to 50,000 people gather in the Stade Sebastien Charlety. (27. May 1968)

Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy: Robert F. Kennedy, Democratic Party senator from New York and brother of 35th President John F. Kennedy, dies from gunshot wounds inflicted on June 5. (6. June 1968)

James Anderson, Jr. posthumously receives the first Medal of Honor to be awarded to an African American U.S. Marine. (21. August 1968)

Swaziland becomes independent. (6. September 1968)

Robert F. Kennedy's speech on the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. (4. April 1968)

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

North Korea seizes the USS Pueblo, claiming the ship had violated its territorial waters while spying. (23. January 1968)

Nicolae Ceaușescu, leader of Communist Romania, publicly condemns the Soviet led Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, encouraging the Romanian population to arm itself against possible Soviet reprisals. (21. August 1968)

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

Vietnam War: The United States and South Vietnamese military begin Operation Truong Cong Dinh to root out Viet Cong forces from the area surrounding Mỹ Tho. (7. March 1968)

The only successful hijacking of an El Al aircraft takes place when a Boeing 707 carrying 10 crew and 38 passengers is taken over by three members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The aircraft was en route from Rome, Italy, to Lod, Israel. (23. July 1968)

Pope Paul VI issues the Credo of the People of God. (30. June 1968)

Operation Igloo White, a US electronic surveillance system to stop communist infiltration into South Vietnam begins installation. (22. January 1968)

In Richmond, Indiana's downtown district, a double explosion kills 41 and injures 150. (6. April 1968)