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Surveyor 7, the last of a series of unmanned lunar spacecraft, successfully soft-lands on the moon.
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6,000 U.S. Marines and South Vietnamese troops battle North Vietnamese for 77 days at Khe Sanh.
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North Vietnamese launch the Tet Offensive, a massive military push into South Vietnam.
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This was a strike in memphis because of African Americans wanting better working conditions.
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Mr Rogers the tv show goes public on pbs.
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A big march on protesting the war.
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Robet kenedy was killed in a ballroom kitchen after he gave a speech. He died on June 6th 1968
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Nixon accepts the bid for republican president.
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Prague residents surround Soviet tanks in front of the Czechoslovak Radio station building in central Prague during the first day of a Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia on August 21, 1968. Within a year, Dubček was removed from office, his reforms were undone, and a more Soviet-controlled government was installed.
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Tommie Smith and John Carlos, gold and bronze medalists in the 200-meter run at the 1968 Olympic Games, engage in a victory stand protest against unfair treatment of blacks in the United States. With heads lowered and black-gloved fists raised in the black power salute, they refused to recognize the American flag and national anthem. Australian Peter Norman is the silver medalist.
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The first computer mouse was invented by a British designer.
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Apollo 8 orbits the moon and takes a picture of the earth.
