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1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1968th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 968th year of the 2nd millennium, the 68th year of the 20th century, and the 9th year of the 1960s decade.

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From top to bottom, left to right: Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, prompting national mourning and widespread civil unrest, and becoming a turning point in the American civil rights movement; Robert F. Kennedy is assassinated in Los Angeles by a pro-Palestinian nationalist shortly after winning the California Democratic primary, shocking the nation and ending another hope for progressive leadership; the 1968 Summer Olympics are held in Mexico City under the shadow of the Tlatelolco massacre; the 1968 Democratic National Convention protests erupt in Chicago as demonstrators clash with police, exposing deep political divisions and symbolizing the turmoil of a nation in crisis; the Prague Spring begins in Czechoslovakia as reformist leader Alexander Dubček attempts to liberalize communist rule, only to be crushed by a Warsaw Pact invasion in August; the May 1968 protests explode across France as millions of students and workers strike, occupying universities and factories in one of the most significant social upheavals in modern European history; Apollo 8 becomes the first crewed spacecraft to orbit the Moon, capturing the famous “Earthrise” photo and paving the way for future lunar landings; the Tet Offensive erupts in South Vietnam as North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces launch a massive surprise attack, dramatically shifting U.S. public opinion on the Vietnam War; the My Lai massacre is carried out by U.S. Army soldiers in South Vietnam, resulting in the deaths of hundreds of unarmed civilians and later becoming a symbol of the war’s moral and political failures.
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January 23: North Korea seizes USS Pueblo (AGER-2)
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January 30: Tet Offensive begins

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April 4: Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated in Memphis

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May 2–June 23: Protests in France grow and demonstrators barricade the streets

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August 20–21: Warsaw Pact invades Czechoslovakia

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October 12–27: 1968 Summer Olympics held in Mexico City

October 10, Detroit Tigers win World Series in seven games.

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November 5: Richard Nixon elected United States President

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Cuba Gooding Jr.
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Silver King
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Rachael Harris
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Mary Lou Retton
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Felipe VI
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Gary Coleman
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Josh Brolin
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Kelly Hu
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Gloria Trevi
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Molly Ringwald
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Daniel Craig
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Gordon Bajnai
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Aaron Eckhart
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Damon Albarn
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Celine Dion
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Patricia Arquette
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Anthony Michael Hall
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Vickie Guerrero
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Ashley Judd
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Traci Lords
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Tony Hawk
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Scott Morrison
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John Ortiz
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King Frederik X of Denmark
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Kylie Minogue
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Jovenel Moïse
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Chayanne
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Ramush Haradinaj
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Billy Crudup
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Kristin Chenoweth
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Cliff Curtis
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Robert Korzeniowski
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Terry Crews
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Gillian Anderson
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Eric Bana
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Anna Gunn
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Darren Clarke
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Helen McCrory
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Rachael Ray
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Billy Boyd
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John DiMaggio
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Big Daddy Kane
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Marc Anthony
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Marie-Chantal, Crown Princess of Greece
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Ricki Lake
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Prince Friso of Orange-Nassau
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Will Smith
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Naomi Watts
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Thom Yorke
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Hugh Jackman
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Didier Deschamps
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Ziggy Marley
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Juan Orlando Hernández
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Sam Rockwell
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Tracy Morgan
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Owen Wilson
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Sean Schemmel
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Jill Hennessy
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Lucy Liu
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Brendan Fraser
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Rachel Griffiths
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Kurt Angle
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Casper Van Dien
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Dina Meyer

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Karl Kobelt
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Leopold Infeld

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Mae Marsh
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Howard Florey

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Yuri Gagarin

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Lev Landau
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Martin Luther King Jr.
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Jim Clark

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Helen Keller
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Robert F. Kennedy

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Corneille Heymans
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Otto Hahn

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Konstantin Rokossovsky

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Saint Pio of Pietrelcina

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Bea Benaderet
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Lise Meitner

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Charles Bacon
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Upton Sinclair

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Tallulah Bankhead
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John Steinbeck

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