WHAT ALL HAPPENED MARCH TO AUGUST 1968
Find out what all happened March to August 1968

The only successful hijacking of an El Al aircraft takes place when a Boeing 707 carrying 10 crew and 38 passengers is taken over by three members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The aircraft was en route from Rome, Italy, to Lod, Israel. (23. July 1968)

Charles de Gaulle reappears publicly after his flight to Baden-Baden, Germany, and dissolves the French National Assembly by a radio appeal. Immediately after, less than one million of his supporters march on the Champs-Élysées in Paris. This is the turning point of May 1968 events in France. (30. May 1968)

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

Riots in Chicago, Illinois, during the Democratic National Convention. (28. August 1968)

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

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

Robert F. Kennedy's funeral takes place at the Basilica of St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York City. (8. June 1968)

Martin Luther King, Jr. is assassinated by James Earl Ray at a motel in Memphis, Tennessee. (4. April 1968)

The Chrysler wildcat strike begins in Detroit, Michigan. (8. July 1968)

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

Vietnam War: Battle of Lima Site 85, concluding the 11th with largest single ground combat loss of United States Air Force members (12) during that war. (10. March 1968)

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

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

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

In Richmond, Indiana's downtown district, a double explosion kills 41 and injures 150. (6. April 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)

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 CIA's Phoenix Program is officially established. (1. July 1968)

The first International Special Olympics Summer Games are held at Soldier Field in Chicago, Ill, with about 1,000 athletes with intellectual disabilities. (20. July 1968)

Valerie Solanas, the author of SCUM Manifesto, attempts to assassinate Andy Warhol by shooting him three times. (3. June 1968)