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…

13 January 1968

Johnny Cash performs live at Folsom State Prison to record an album. At Folsom Prison is a live album and 27th overall album by Johnny…

5 January 1968

The “Prague Spring” begins in Czechoslovakia. On the 5th January 1968, the Prague Spring began when Alexander Dub?ek became the new First Secretary of the…