April 11 - Joseph Bachmann tries to assassinate Rudi Dutschke, leader of a left-wing movement APO in Germany and tries to commit suicide afterwards - failing in both
April 11 - German left-wing students blockade the Springer Press HQ in Berlin and many are arrested - one of them Ulrike Meinhof
April 23 - Surgeons at the Hopital de la Pitie , Paris, perform Europe's first heart transplant on Clovis Roblain
April 29 - Official opening of the musical Hair on Broadway.
May
May - "May of 68" is a symbol of the resistance of that generation. Agitations and strikes in Paris led many young to believe that a revolution was starting. Student and worker strikes sometimes referred to as the French May nearly bring down the French government
June 20 - Austin Currie, Member of Parliament (MP) at Stormont in the six counties of northern Ireland, along with others, squats a house in Caledon to protest discrimination in housing allocations.
July 26 - Vietnam War: South Vietnamese opposition leader Truong Dinh Dzu is sentenced to five years hard labor for advocating the formation of a coalition government as a way to move toward an end to the war
August
July 17 - Saddam Hussein becomes the Vice Chairman of the Revolutionary Council in Iraq after a coup
September 17 - the D'Oliviera Affair - MCC tour of South Africa is cancelled when the South Africans refuse to accept the presence of a Cape Coloured in the side
October 2 - A student demonstration ends in a massacre at the La Plaza de las Tres Culturas in Tlatelolco, Mexico City, Mexico.
October 5 - A civil rights march in Derry, (of the six counties of northern) Ireland, which included several Stormont and British MPs, is batoned off the streets by the Royal Ulster Constabulary
October 16 - Tommie Smith and John Carlos, two African-Americans competing in the Olympic 200 meter run, raise their arms in a black powersalute after winning the gold and bronze medals for first and third place.
November 11 - Vietnam War: Operation Commando Hunt initiated - The goal of the operation is to interdict men and supplies on the Ho Chi Minh Trail, through Laos into South Vietnam (by the end of the operation, 3 million tons of bombs were dropped on Laos, which slowed but did not seriously disrupt trail operations).
October 14 - First live network transmission of video from inside a manned U.S. space capsule in orbit ("Apollo 7") There were six such broadcasts during their eleven-day mission.
CBS uses a portable minicam for political convention coverage.
Nearly 200 million households now own television sets, (78 million of which are in the U.S.).
((October 13)) - Bea Benaderet, Actress, Played Kate Bradley on Petticoat JUnction (b. April 4, 1906) * October 30 - Rose Wilder Lane, author, reporter (b. 1886)
