WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO OCTOBER 1968
Find out what all happened February to October 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)

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

Police baton civil rights demonstrators in Derry, Northern Ireland – considered to mark the beginning of The Troubles. (5. October 1968)

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

Kingston, Jamaica is rocked by the Rodney Riots, inspired by the barring of Walter Rodney from the country. (16. 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 Tet Offensive is halted; South Vietnam recaptures Hué. (24. February 1968)

President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968, prohibiting discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing. (11. April 1968)

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

The nuclear-powered submarine the USS Scorpion sinks with 99 men aboard 400 miles southwest of the Azores. (22. May 1968)

Phong Nhị and Phong Nhất massacre. (12. February 1968)

Major League Baseball's National League awards Montreal the first franchise in Canada and the first franchise outside the United States. (the Montreal Expos) (27. May 1968)

Vietnam War: The execution of Viet Cong officer Nguyen Van Lem by South Vietnamese National Police Chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan is videotaped and photographed by Eddie Adams. This image helped build opposition to the Vietnam War. (1. February 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)

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)

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)

Pierre Elliot Trudeau wins the Liberal Leadership Election, and becomes Prime Minister of Canada soon after. (6. April 1968)

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

Three black males are executed by Rhodesia, the first executions since UDI, prompting international condemnation. (6. March 1968)