WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO SEPTEMBER 1968
Find out what all happened February to September 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)

Robert F. Kennedy's speech on the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. (4. 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 Memphis Sanitation Strike begins. (11. February 1968)

Formal separation of the United Auto Workers from the AFL–CIO. (1. July 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 New York Central Railroad and the Pennsylvania Railroad are merged to form Penn Central Transportation. (1. February 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)

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

The CIA's Phoenix Program is officially established. (1. July 1968)

Martin Luther King, Jr. is assassinated by James Earl Ray at a motel in Memphis, Tennessee. (4. April 1968)

American civil rights movement: The Orangeburg massacre: An attack on black students from South Carolina State University who are protesting racial segregation at the town's only bowling alley, leaves three or four dead in Orangeburg, South Carolina. (8. February 1968)

Swaziland joins the United Nations. (24. September 1968)

Albania leaves the Warsaw Pact. (13. September 1968)

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

Robert F. Kennedy, a U.S. presidential candidate, is shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, by Sirhan Sirhan, a Palestinian. Kennedy dies the next day. (5. June 1968)

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

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

Intel is founded in Santa Clara, California. (18. July 1968)

In Haleyville, Alabama, the first 9-1-1 emergency telephone system goes into service. (16. February 1968)