WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO AUGUST 1968
Find out what all happened January to August 1968

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

In Springfield, Massachusetts, the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame opens. (17. February 1968)

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

Shipwreck of the New Zealand inter-island ferry TEV Wahine at the mouth of Wellington Harbour. (10. April 1968)

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

Vietnam War: The 1st Australian Task Force launches Operation Coburg against the North Vietnamese Army and Viet Cong during wider fighting around Long Bình and Biên Hòa (24. January 1968)

Israeli–Jordanian border clashes rage. (11. February 1968)

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

A B-52 bomber crashes near Thule Air Base, contaminating the area after its nuclear payload ruptures. One of the four bombs remains unaccounted for after the cleanup operation is complete. (21. January 1968)

The New York Central Railroad and the Pennsylvania Railroad are merged to form Penn Central Transportation. (1. February 1968)

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

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

Nauru gains independence from Australia. (31. January 1968)

Canada's three military services, the Royal Canadian Navy, the Canadian Army and the Royal Canadian Air Force, are unified into the Canadian Forces. (1. February 1968)

BOAC Flight 712 catches fire shortly after take off. As a result of her actions in the accident, Barbara Jane Harrison is awarded a posthumous George Cross, the only GC awarded to a woman in peacetime. (8. April 1968)

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

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)

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)