WHAT ALL HAPPENED JUNE TO NOVEMBER 1968
Find out what all happened June to November 1968

Apollo program: Apollo 7 safely splashes down in the Atlantic Ocean after orbiting the Earth 163 times. (22. October 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)

An earthquake hits Casiguran, Aurora, Philippines killing more than 270 people and wounding 261. (2. August 1968)

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

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

Penny Ann Early became the first woman to play major professional basketball, for the Kentucky Colonels in an ABA game against the Los Angeles Stars. (27. November 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)

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

The Nuclear non-proliferation treaty is signed in Washington, D.C., London and Moscow by sixty-two countries. (1. July 1968)

Robert F. Kennedy's funeral takes place at the Basilica of St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York City. (8. June 1968)

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

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

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

The Guyanese government takes over the British Guiana Broadcasting Service (BGBS). (1. October 1968)

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

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

The last steam hauled train runs on British Rail (11. August 1968)

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