WHAT ALL HAPPENED MARCH TO MAY 1968
Find out what all happened March to May 1968

Vietnam War: North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces attack Australian troops defending Fire Support Base Coral, east of Lai Khe in South Vietnam on the night of 12/13 May, resulting in heavy casualties on both sides and beginning the Battle of Coral–Balmoral. (12. May 1968)

AEK Athens BC becomes the first Greek team to win the European Basketball Cup. (4. April 1968)

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

The controversial musical Hair opens on Broadway. (29. April 1968)

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

Brazilian high school student Edson Luís de Lima Souto is shot by the police in a protest for cheaper meals at a restaurant for low-income students. The aftermath of his death is one of the first major events against the military dictatorship. (28. March 1968)

The Toronto Transit Commission opens the largest expansion of its Bloor–Danforth line, going to Scarborough in the East, and Etobicoke in the West. (11. May 1968)

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

Mauritius becomes a member state of the United Nations. (24. April 1968)

Mauritius achieves independence from the United Kingdom. (12. March 1968)

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

Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers his "I've Been to the Mountaintop" speech. (3. April 1968)

Gateway Arch Saint Louis Gateway Arch is dedicated. (25. May 1968)

Vietnam War: In the My Lai massacre, between 347 and 500 Vietnamese villagers (men, women, and children) are killed by American troops. (16. March 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)

English politician Enoch Powell makes his controversial Rivers of Blood speech. (20. April 1968)

Martin Luther King, Jr. is assassinated by James Earl Ray at a motel in Memphis, Tennessee. (4. April 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)

Gold standard: The U.S. Congress repealed the requirement for a gold reserve to back US currency. (18. March 1968)