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1968 Calendar

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•  January 21, 1968 – Vietnam War: Battle of Khe Sanh – One of the most publicized and controversial battles of the war begins.
•  January 22, 1968 – Apollo 5 lifts off carrying the first Lunar module into space.
•  January 23, 1968 – North Korea seizes the USS Pueblo, claiming the ship had violated their territorial waters while spying.
•  January 30, 1968 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Monkey in Chinese astrology.
•  February 17, 1968 – In Springfield, Massachusetts, the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame opens.
•  August 21, 1968 – Soviet Union-dominated Warsaw Pact troops invade Czechoslovakia, crushing the Prague Spring; on the same day, Nicolae Ceauşescu, leader of Communist Romania, publicly condemns the Soviet maneuver, encouraging the Romanian population to arm itself against possible Soviet reprisals.
•  August 28, 1968 – Riots in Chicago, Illinois, during the Democratic National Convention.
•  October 8, 1968 – Vietnam War: Operation Sealords – United States and South Vietnamese forces launch a new operation in the Mekong Delta.
•  October 14, 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.
•  December 13, 1968 – Brazilian president Artur da Costa e Silva decrees the AI-5 (or the fifth Institutional Act), which lasts until 1978 and marks the beginning of the hard times of Brazilian military dictatorship.

•  January 9, 1968 – Catalina Saavedra, Chilean actress
•  January 28, 1968 – Sarah McLachlan, Canadian singer and songwriter
•  February 5, 1968 – Roberto Alomar, Puerto Rican baseball player
•  March 3, 1968 – Brian Leetch, American ice hockey player
•  March 22, 1968 – Euronymous, Norwegian musician (d. 1993)
•  May 8, 1968 – Nathalie Normandeau, Quebec politician
•  May 27, 1968 – Rebekah Brooks, English journalist and newspaper editor
•  June 29, 1968 – Judith Hoag, American actress and acting teacher
•  August 5, 1968 – Colin McRae, Scottish rally driver (d. 2007)
•  August 10, 1968 – Greg Hawgood, Canadian ice hockey player