WHAT ALL HAPPENED AUGUST TO NOVEMBER 1968
Find out what all happened August to November 1968

Swaziland becomes independent. (6. September 1968)

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

Jim Hines of the United States of America becomes the first man ever to break the so-called "ten-second barrier" in the 100-meter sprint in the Summer Olympic Games held in Mexico City with a time of 9.95 seconds. (14. October 1968)

The coronation is held of Hassanal Bolkiah, the 29th Sultan of Brunei. (1. August 1968)

Yasunari Kawabata becomes the first Japanese person to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. (16. October 1968)

Garfield Sobers became the first batsman ever to hit six sixes in a single over of six consecutive balls in first-class cricket. (31. August 1968)

Alexandros Panagoulis attempts to assassinate the Greek dictator Colonel Georgios Papadopoulos in Varkiza, Athens. (13. August 1968)

Equatorial Guinea joins the United Nations. (12. November 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)

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)

Apollo program: Apollo 7 safely splashes down in the Atlantic Ocean after orbiting the Earth 163 times. (22. October 1968)

Equatorial Guinea becomes independent from Spain (12. 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)

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)

A second republic is declared in the Maldives. (11. November 1968)

Albania leaves the Warsaw Pact. (13. September 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)

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

Viewers of the Raiders–Jets football game in the eastern United States are denied the opportunity to watch its exciting finish when NBC broadcasts Heidi instead, prompting changes to sports broadcasting in the U.S. (17. November 1968)