WHAT ALL HAPPENED AUGUST TO OCTOBER 1968
Find out what all happened August to October 1968

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

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

The U.S. Olympic Committee suspends Tommie Smith and John Carlos for giving a "black power" salute during a victory ceremony at the Mexico City games. (18. October 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)

The Boeing 747 is rolled out and shown to the public for the first time at the Boeing Everett Factory. (30. September 1968)

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

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

The stage musical Hair opens at the Shaftesbury Theatre in London, where it played 1,998 performances until its closure was forced by the roof collapsing in July 1973. (27. September 1968)

Pope Paul VI arrives in Bogotá, Colombia. It is the first visit of a pope to Latin America. (22. August 1968)

An earthquake rated at 6.8 on the Richter Scale destroys the Australian town of Meckering, Western Australia, and it also ruptures all nearby main highways and railroads. (14. October 1968)

The Soviet Zond 5 spaceship is launched, becoming the first spacecraft to fly around the Moon and re-enter the Earth's atmosphere. (15. September 1968)

Police baton civil rights demonstrators in Derry, Northern Ireland – considered to mark the beginning of The Troubles. (5. 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)

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)

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)

Vietnam War: The United States Department of Defense announces that the U.S. Army and U.S. Marine Corps will send about 24,000 soldiers and Marines back to Vietnam for involuntary second tours of duty in the combat zone there. (14. October 1968)

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

Soviet Union-dominated Warsaw Pact troops invade Czechoslovakia, crushing the Prague Spring. (20. August 1968)

Soviet cosmonaut Georgy Beregovoy pilots Soyuz 3 into space for a four-day mission. (26. October 1968)

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