Apollo Program: Apollo 5 lifts off carrying the first Lunar module into space. Apollo 5 was an uncrewed mission launched on January 22, 1968, and…
Tag: 1968
7 March 1968
The United States and South Vietnamese military begin Operation Truong Cong Dinh to root out Viet Cong forces from the area surrounding M? Tho.
5 November 1968
Richard Nixon is elected as 37th President of the United States. Richard Nixon (1913-1994) was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969…
30 September 1968
The Boeing 747 is rolled out and shown to the public for the first time. The Boeing 747, often referred to as the “Jumbo Jet,”…
16 October 1968
Tommie Smith and John Carlos are ejected from the US Olympic team for participating in the Olympics Black Power salute.
29 April 1968
The controversial musical Hair, a product of the hippie counter-culture and sexual revolution of the 1960s, opens at the Biltmore Theatre on Broadway, with some…