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| 02 - Actress Sharon Tate
marries Roman Polanski |
| 04 - Number of US troops in Vietnam
reaches 486,000 |
| 04 - The search for
Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt's body at Portsea in Victoria
is called off |
| 05 - Dr Benjamin Spock is
indicted for his anti-draft activities |
| 10 - John Grey Gorton takes
over as Australian Prime Minister |
| 14 - Rap artist
LL Cool J
(James Todd Smith) is born |
| 17 -
The Seekers are named
Australians of the Year |
| 19 - Australian artist Judy
Cassab wins her second Archibald prize |
| 21 - North Korean raiders
invade Seoul and attempt to kill South Korean president Pak Chung Hee |
| 23 - North Korean forces seize
the US
Navy intelligence ship Pueblo and holds the crew of 83 on
board as spies |
| 24 - US Olympic Gymnast,
Mary Lou Retton, is born |
| 25 - Escaped Great Train
Robber Charles Wilson arrested in Canada |
| 26 - In Britain, the
National Provincial and Westminster banks merge to form the National
Westminster bank |
| 30 - The Viet Cong's Tet
Offensive begins, surprising US forces in South Vietnam
and hitting
at the heart of Saigon |
| 31 - Martial law is
proclaimed throughout Vietnam |
| 01 - South Vietnamese
National Police Chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan executes a Viet Cong officer
with a single pistol shot to the head in a street in Saigon. The
photograph of the execution by Eddie Adams won a Pulitzer Prize and
became a memorable image of the Vietnam
War |
| 01 - Lisa Marie Presley
(daughter of Elvis and Priscilla Presley) is born |
| 04 - The world's largest
hovercraft (165 tonnes) is launched at Cowes, England |
| 06 - The Fillmore East auditorium opens in
San Francisco |
| 24 - US forces recapture
the Vietnamese port of Hue. General Westmoreland is calling for
206,000 reinforcements |
| 29 - The first Pulsar
(pulsating radio source) is discovered by Cambridge boffins |
| 04 - British actress and
singer Patsy Kensit is born |
| 06 - Singer
Sandie Shaw
marries fashion designer Jeff Banks |
| 12 - Mauritius becomes
independent |
| 16 - US troops massacre the
hamlet of My Lai, South Vietnam |
| 17 - 80,000 demonstrators
against the Vietnam War attempt to storm the American embassy in
London. 300 arrests are made and 90 policemen are hurt |
| 22 - Antonin Novotny,
president of Czechoslovakia, is succeeded by General Ludvik Svoboda |
| 23 - Blur/Gorillaz vocalist
Damon Albarn is born |
| 28 - Yuri Gagarin (34), the
first man in space, is killed when a MiG-15 jet trainer he is flying
loses height and crashes into the ground 40 miles north of Moscow |
| 28 - Violence mars a Martin Luther King-led march in support of striking Memphis sanitation
workers. Dr King promises to return for another march in April |
| 31 - President Johnson
announces he will not seek or accept presidential re-nomination |
| 01 - Evangelist Billy
Graham tours Australia |
| 03 - TV and Radio Licenses
are combined in New Zealand. The fee is $16 |
| 04 - US Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King is
assassinated in Memphis |
| 05 - Riots in 167 cities,
and on various campuses, follow the slaying of Martin Luther King |
| 05 - Czech premier
Alexander Dubcek begins the process of liberalization known as the
"Prague Spring" |
| 05 - Dr Ralph Abernathy
takes over as leader of Martin Luther King's Southern Christian
Leadership Conference |
| 05 - The Cunard liner
Queen Elizabeth is sold to an American syndicate for
£3,230,000 ($4,200,000) |
| 06 - Apple Corps, the company launched by The
Beatles, opens its offices in London's Savile Row |
| 06 - Pierre Elliott Trudeau
becomes prime minister of Canada on the retirement of Lester Pearson |
| 09 - Publication of the US
Race Relations Bill which aims to protect non-whites |
| 11 - President Johnson signs the
Civil Rights Bill which makes it illegal to refuse housing
on the grounds of race |
| 11 - Attempted
assassination of student leader, Rudi Dutschke, in West Berlin
triggers student riots across Europe |
| 15 - Chicago Mayor Richard
J Daley issues a 'shoot to kill' order to the city's police force for
anyone involved in cases of arson, looting or rioting |
| 18 - US oil tycoon Robert
McCullough buys London Bridge from the British for £1 million US |
| 19 - The FBI says it is
seeking James Earl Ray (alias Eric Galt) for the murder of Martin Luther King |
| 20 - 122 die in South
Africa when a London-bound Boeing 707 crashes |
| 23 - The first two
decimal coins come into circulation in Britain, but will be used as shilling
and two shilling pieces until decimalization in 1971 |
| 26 - Police seize LSD worth
£1.5 million in Britain's biggest drug haul to date |
| 26 - Jim Cairns says he
will challenge Gough Whitlam for leadership of the Australian Labor
party |
| 27 - Hubert Humphrey says
he will run for US President |
| 29 - The hippie musical Hair
opens on Broadway and causes a sensation as several of the cast
remove all their clothes during each performance |
| 02 - Britain's first liver
transplant is performed at Cambridge |
| 02 - 1,000 set out on a
Poor People's March from Memphis to Washington |
| 05 - 500 are arrested and
the Sorbonne is closed as French students riot |
| 05 - Three Australian
journalists are killed by the Viet Cong in Saigon. A fourth escapes |
| 06 - Spain closes the
border between Spain and Gibraltar to all but Spaniards |
| 06 - A poll result shows
that 74% of Britons support Enoch Powell on immigration issues |
| 07 - Up to 30,000 students
fight with police in the streets of Paris. The rioting students are
supported by workers throughout the country who strike and occupy
factories |
| 07 - Robert Kennedy wins
his first primary in Indiana |
| 10 - Violent clashes
between students and police in Paris |
| 13 - US talks begin in
Paris about peace in Vietnam |
| 16 - Alex Smith, aged 15,
becomes Britain's first lung transplant patient |
| 18 - West Bromwich Albion
beat Everton 1-0 in the British FA Cup Final |
| 19 - More than 2,000,000
workers are on strike in France |
| 21 - Pete Townshend of
The Who marries dress designer Karen Astley |
| 21 - Indian PM Indira
Gandhi visits Australia |
| 22 - French strikers are
estimated to total 9,000,000 |
| 22 - In Britain, Bobby
Charlton score a record 45th goal for England in his 85th cap |
| 22 - French Premier Georges
Pompidou survives a vote of censure by 11 votes |
| 28 - British lung
transplant patient, Alex Smith, dies |
| 28 - Eugene McCarthy beats
Robert Kennedy in the Oregon primary |
| 28 - Australian singing
goddess Kylie Minogue is born |
| 29 - In the UK, Sir Ivor
wins the Derby |
| 29 - Manchester United wins
football's European Cup, beating Benfica 4-1 |
| 29 - The Australian
National Service Act is passed increasing penalties for evasion of
military training |
| 03 - Artist
Andy Warhol is
shot and seriously hurt by radical feminist Valeria Solanis, an
actress in one of his films |
| 05 - Senator Robert
Kennedy (b. 1925) is shot in the head in Los Angeles after winning
California primary. His killer is a 24 year old Palestinian, Sirhan
Sirhan, who claims "I did it for my country". It is the first
anniversary of the Arab-Israeli six-day war |
| 07 - In the UK, Matt Busby
receives a knighthood |
| 08 - James Earl Ray, Dr Martin Luther King's murderer,
is arrested in London |
| 08 - Robert Kennedy is
buried in Arlington Cemetery |
| 11 - West Germans now need
to apply for visas to cross into East Germany |
| 12 - de Gaulle bans
open-air demonstrations in France |
| 14 - Dr Spock and three
others are found guilty of encouraging draft evasion |
| 14 - Australian journalist
Simon Townsend (later to become a famous children's TV presenter) is
granted exemption from National Service |
| 17 - Frederick West,
Britain's first heart transplant patient, dies |
| 18 - Warringah Expressway
opens in Sydney |
| 23 - Vietnam
War officially
becomes the longest war in US history. The death toll passes 30,000
by the end of the year |
| 24 - Comedian Tony Hancock
(b. 1924) commits suicide in Sydney, Australia |
| 25 - Pierre Trudeau's
Liberal Party celebrates its biggest general election victory in ten
years |
| 27 - Czech National
Assembly abolishes censorship and Czech intellectuals produce "2,000
words" - an appeal to speed democracy |
| 02 - 50 students are
arrested during an anti-Vietnam demonstration in Martin Place,
Sydney, Australia |
| 04 - 45 people are arrested
during a 2,000 strong anti-war demonstration outside the American
Consulate in Melbourne, Australia |
| 04 - General Westmoreland
is sworn in as US Army Chief of Staff |
| 10 - Maurice Couve de
Murville becomes Premier in succession to Pompidou |
| 10 - Dr Benjamin Spock
jailed for two years for encouraging draft-dodging |
| 15 - Soviet, East German,
Hungarian, Polish and Bulgarian leaders declare Czechoslovakian
reforms unacceptable |
| 17 -
The Beatles'
full-length animated movie Yellow Submarine premieres at the
London Pavilion |
| 18 - James Earl Ray (alias
Ramon George Sneyd) is extradited to the US from Britain for
complicity in the murder of Martin Luther King |
| 23 - An Israeli Boeing 707
enroute from Rome to Tel Aviv is hijacked in Algeria |
| 29 - Pope Paul VI issues
the Humanae Vitae denouncing the use of any form of artificial
contraception |
| 30 - Dubcek, Brezhnev and
other Eastern Bloc leaders meet to discuss the Czechoslovakian
reforms |
| 31 - The cross-Channel
Hovercraft service is inaugurated |
| 08 - Richard M Nixon
nominated for US Presidency by Republican National Convention |
| 15 - Nigeria refuses to
allow International Red Cross supplies to be flown in to starving
Biafrans |
| 20 - USSR invades
Czechoslovakia to restore strict communism. Government leaders are
arrested |
| 22 - Soviet tanks roll into
Prague to crush the "Prague Spring" |
| 24 - France explodes its
first atom bomb in the South Pacific |
| 26 - Hubert H Humphrey
nominated for US Presidency by Democratic National Convention |
| 27 - Princess Marina,
Duchess of Kent, dies aged 61 |
| 29 - Police behave like
"Gestapo", using truncheons, mace and tear gas on demonstrators
marching to oppose the Vietnam War outside the Democratic Party
convention in Chicago. National television records police brutally
beating demonstrators and others outside the Hilton Hotel |
| 02 - Earthquake kills
11,000 in Iran |
| 06 - Former British colony
of Swaziland becomes independent |
| 12 - Albania abandons the
Warsaw Pact |
| 24 - The musical Hair
opens in London |
| 03 - George Wallace
announces third party candidacy for US elections |
| 04 - Czech leaders accede
to Soviet demands to dismantle liberal reforms |
| 11 - America launches first
manned Apollo mission |
| 12 - XIXth Olympic Games open in
Mexico City |
| 18 - John Lennon
and Yoko
Ono are arrested for possession of marijuana during a raid on Ringo
Starr's London apartment |
| 19 - Jackie Kennedy marries
Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis |
| 27 - The black gloves and
clenched-fist salutes of the American "Black Power" athletes severely
embarrass the US Olympic Association and lead to some athletes being
summarily expelled from the Mexico games |
| 28 - Australian suburban
postal deliveries reduced from twice to once a day |
| 31 - US President LBJ orders an end to
Vietnam bombing |
| 31 - Australian troops
admit they have tortured Vietcong prisoners |
| 03 - Severe storms and
floods in Northern Italy result in more than 100 deaths |
| 05 - Republican Richard Nixon is
narrowly elected 37th US President |
| 05 - First black woman
elected to House of Representatives |
| 14 - National "Turn In Your
Draft Card Day" inspires draft-card burning at college campuses
across the USA |
| 19 - The Cunard Liner
QE2 makes her first voyage |
| 21 - First Saturn V
rocket launches Apollo 8 into space |
| 23 - In North Korea, the 82
crew members of US Naval Intelligence ship Pueblo, seized in
January, are released |
| 27 - Apollo 8
splashes down in the Pacific after Frank Borman, James Lovell and
William Anders orbited the Moon 10 times in six days |
| 31 - Maiden flight by first
supersonic airliner, the Soviet Tupolev Tu-144 |
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Jan 31 - VC Tet Offensive
Mar 16 - My Lai massacre
Mar 27 - Yuri Gagarin dead
Apr 04 - Dr Martin Luther King assassinated
May 06 - Enoch Powell
May 07 - Riots in Paris, France
Jun 06 - Bobby Kennedy shot
Aug 29 - Chicago "Gestapo"
Oct 27 - Olympic 'Black Power'
 Calvin Klein
starts his own fashion business in USA
Abortion
becomes legal in Britain if the pregnancy is harmful to the physical or mental
health of the woman or child
'Rain Lover'
wins Melbourne Cup
Quote of the Year
"Longevity has it's place. But I'm not concerned about that
right now. I want to do God's will and he's allowed me to go up to the mountain,
and I've looked over and I've seen the Promised Land"
Martin Luther King speaking on April 3rd 1968, the night before his
assassination |
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