WHAT ALL HAPPENED SEPTEMBER TO OCTOBER 1968
Find out what all happened September to October 1968

Swaziland becomes independent. (6. September 1968)

60 Minutes debuts on CBS. (24. September 1968)

Apollo program: The first live TV broadcast, by American astronauts in orbit, was performed by the Apollo 7 crew. (14. October 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)

An earthquake rated at 6.8 on the Richter Scale destroys the Australian town of Meckering, Western Australia, and it also ruptures all nearby main highways and railroads. (14. 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)

United States athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos are kicked off the US team for participating in the 1968 Olympics Black Power salute. (16. October 1968)

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

Former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy marries Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis. (20. October 1968)

The Soviet Zond 5 spaceship is launched, becoming the first spacecraft to fly around the Moon and re-enter the Earth's atmosphere. (15. September 1968)

Vietnam War: Operation Sealords – United States and South Vietnamese forces launch a new operation in the Mekong Delta. (8. October 1968)

Albania leaves the Warsaw Pact. (13. September 1968)

The stage musical Hair opens at the Shaftesbury Theatre in London, where it played 1,998 performances until its closure was forced by the roof collapsing in July 1973. (27. September 1968)

Soviet cosmonaut Georgy Beregovoy pilots Soyuz 3 into space for a four-day mission. (26. October 1968)

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

The Guyanese government takes over the British Guiana Broadcasting Service (BGBS). (1. 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)

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)

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

Swaziland joins the United Nations. (24. September 1968)