1968

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1968

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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1968 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1968
MCMLXVIII
Ab urbe condita2721
Armenian calendar1417
ԹՎ ՌՆԺԷ
Assyrian calendar6718
Baháʼí calendar124–125
Balinese saka calendar1889–1890
Bengali calendar1374–1375
Berber calendar2918
British Regnal year16 Eliz. 2  17 Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar2512
Burmese calendar1330
Byzantine calendar7476–7477
Chinese calendar丁未年 (Fire Goat)
4665 or 4458
     to 
戊申年 (Earth Monkey)
4666 or 4459
Coptic calendar1684–1685
Discordian calendar3134
Ethiopian calendar1960–1961
Hebrew calendar5728–5729
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat2024–2025
 - Shaka Samvat1889–1890
 - Kali Yuga5068–5069
Holocene calendar11968
Igbo calendar968–969
Iranian calendar1346–1347
Islamic calendar1387–1388
Japanese calendarShōwa 43
(昭和43年)
Javanese calendar1899–1900
Juche calendar57
Julian calendarGregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar4301
Minguo calendarROC 57
民國57年
Nanakshahi calendar500
Thai solar calendar2511
Tibetan calendar阴火羊年
(female Fire-Goat)
2094 or 1713 or 941
     to 
阳土猴年
(male Earth-Monkey)
2095 or 1714 or 942
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Events

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January 23: North Korea seizes USS Pueblo (AGER-2)
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January 30: Tet Offensive begins

MarchApril

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April 4: Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated in Memphis

MayJune

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

JulyAugust

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August 20–21: Warsaw Pact invades Czechoslovakia

SeptemberOctober

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

NovemberDecember

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November 5: Richard Nixon elected United States President

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Births

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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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Deaths

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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

November

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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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