Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy is assassinated by Sirhan Sirhan.
Tag: 1968
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…
20 December 1968
The Zodiac Killer kills Betty Lou Jenson and David Faraday in Vallejo, California.
20 April 1968
English politician Enoch Powell makes his controversial “Rivers of Blood” speech. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rivers_of_Blood_speech’]
11 December 1968
The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus, featuring the Rolling Stones, Jethro Tull, the Who, Taj Mahal, Marianne Faithfull, and the Dirty Mac with Yoko…
4 April 1968
NASA launches Apollo 6. Following on the heels of the two very successful Apollo 4 and 5 missions, Apollo 6 was the second all-up unmanned…
3 April 1968
Martin Luther King gives his “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop” speech. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered this speech in support of the striking sanitation…
31 January 1968
Nauru gains independence from Australia. Nauru was first settled by Micronesian and Polynesian people at least 3,000 years ago. Nauruans subsisted on coconut and pandanus…
31 January 1968
Nauru gains its independence from Australia. During World War II, Nauru was subject to significant damage from both Axis and Allied forces. On 6 and…