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North Korea conquers USS Pueblo
North Korea captured the American surveillance ship USS Pueblo, it sparked an 11-month crisis that threatened to worsen already high Cold War tensions in the region. -
Great Britain agianst USA involvment in 'nam
A demonstration in London's Grosvenor square against US involvment in the Vietnam war leads to violence- 91 policmen injured, 200 demonstrators arrested -
Martin Luther King is Assassinated
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was standing on the second floor balcony of room 306 at the Lorraine Motel when he was struck by a bullet at 6:01 p.m. -
Conservatives lead in votes in Great Britain
popularity of Harold Wilson's labor government is show to be slumping as opinion polls show the conservative's, lead by Edward Heath, with a lead of more than 20 points. -
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German Student movement
The German student movements enters a climax. Students, schoolchildren and members of workers' unions formed a group of 80,000 people who demonstrated in the capital Bonn against the emergency legislature. -
The grenelle ceeds to give imroved salary
the Grenelle agreements were signed at the Ministry of Social Affairs. They provided for an increase of the minimum wage by 25% and of the average salaries by 10%. These offers were rejected as inadequate by workers and the strike went on. -
Pierre Trudeau enters as Prime minister
ierre Elliot Trudeau succeeded Lester Pearson as Liberal Party Leader and won a majority government in the federal election on June 25. -
Mexican government sents aggresive policemen
On July 22, 1968, two rival groups of male adolescent students fought each other in the Ciudadela neighbourhood of Mexico City; the next day the city government responded by sending policemen to stop the accompanying vandalism and to arrest the perpetrators. These riot police (granaderos) attacked the students so ferociously that protests were lodged -
Tlatelolco Massacre
The Tlatelolco massacre was the killing of an estimated 30 to 300 students and civilians by military and police on October 2, 1968, in the Plaza de las Tres Culturas in the Tlatelolco section of Mexico City. -
French students take over administration building
student radicals and associates invaded an administration building at Nanterre University and held a meeting in the university council room dealing with class discrimination in French society and the political bureaucracy that controlled the school's funding.