WHAT HAPPENED IN 1968.
Look what happened the 1968.

Alexander Dubček comes to power: "Prague Spring" begins in Czechoslovakia. (5. January 1968)

Surveyor Program: Surveyor 7, the last spacecraft in the Surveyor series, lifts off from launch complex 36A, Cape Canaveral. (7. January 1968)

Johnny Cash performs live at Folsom State Prison (13. January 1968)

Vietnam War: Battle of Khe Sanh – One of the most publicized and controversial battles of the war begins. (21. January 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)

Apollo 5 lifts off carrying the first Lunar module into space. (22. January 1968)

Operation Igloo White, a US electronic surveillance system to stop communist infiltration into South Vietnam begins installation. (22. January 1968)

North Korea seizes the USS Pueblo, claiming the ship had violated its territorial waters while spying. (23. January 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)

Vietnam War: Tet Offensive launch by forces of the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army against South Vietnam, the United States, and their allies. (30. January 1968)

Viet Cong attack the United States embassy in Saigon, and other attacks, in the early morning hours, later grouped together as the Tet Offensive. (31. January 1968)

Nauru gains independence from Australia. (31. January 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)

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)

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

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

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

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

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