✦ History

Explore May 2, 1968 – June 23, 1968

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Events

Cold War 1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27
Decolonisation of Africa 1951-12-24 - 1975-11-11
Civil rights movement 1954-05-17 - 1968-08-01
Space Race 1955-07-30 - 1969-07-16
Vietnam War 1955-11-01 - 1975-04-30
Cod Wars 1958-09-01 - 1976-06
Laotian Civil War 1959-05-23 - 1975-12-02
Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
Apollo Program 1961-10-27 - 1972-12-19
Cultural Revolution 1966-05-16 - 1976-10-06
South African Border War 1966-08-26 - 1990-03-21
Cambodian Civil War 1967-03-11 - 1975-04-17
Nigerian Civil War 1967-07-06 - 1970-01-15
Prague Spring 1968-01-05 - 1968-08-21
Siege of Khe Sanh 1968-01-21 - 1968-07-09
May 68 1968-05-02 - 1968-06-23
Poor People's Campaign 1968-05-12 - 1968-06-24
Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy 1968-06-06

People

Süleyman Demirel age 43
Prime Minister - Turkey
Pierre Trudeau age 48
Prime Minister - Canada
Mauno Koivisto age 44
Prime Minister - Finland
Tunku Abdul Rahman age 65
Prime Minister - Malaysia
Georgios Papadopoulos age 49
Prime Minister - Greece
Tage Erlander age 66
Prime Minister - Sweden
Piet de Jong age 53
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Dawda Kairaba Jawara age 43
Prime Minister - The Gambia
Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah age 41
Prime Minister - Kuwait
John Gorton age 56
Prime Minister - Australia
Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal age 51
Prime Minister - Mongolia
Mehmet Shehu age 55
Prime Minister - Albania
Bjarni Benediktsson age 60
Prime Minister - Iceland
Thanom Kittikachorn age 56
Prime Minister - Thailand
Pierre Werner age 54
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Ion Gheorghe Maurer age 65
Prime Minister - Romania
Per Borten age 55
Prime Minister - Norway
Seewoosagur Ramgoolam age 67
Prime Minister - Mauritius
Chung Il-kwon age 50
Prime Minister - South Korea
Forbes Burnham age 45
Prime Minister - Guyana
Hilmar Baunsgaard age 48
Prime Minister - Denmark
Paul Vanden Boeynants age 48
Prime Minister - Belgium
Josef Klaus age 57
Chancellor - Austria
Savka Dabčević-Kučar age 44
Prime Minister - Croatia
Jenő Fock age 51
Prime Minister - Hungary
Muhammad Haji Ibrahim Egal age 39
Prime Minister - Somalia
Eric Williams age 56
Prime Minister - Trinidad and Tobago
Keith Holyoake age 64
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Dudley Senanayake age 56
Prime Minister - Sri Lanka
Errol Barrow age 48
Prime Minister - Barbados
Penn Nouth age 62
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Hugh Shearer age 44
Prime Minister - Jamaica
Eric Gairy age 46
Prime Minister - Grenada
George Borg Olivier age 56
Prime Minister - Malta
Mohamed Benhima age 43
Prime Minister - Morocco
Tahir Yahya age 52
Prime Minister - Iraq
Abdul Hamid al-Bakkoush age 34
Prime Minister - Libya
Gerard Batliner age 39
Prime Minister - Liechtenstein
Wanis al-Qaddafi age 43
Prime Minister - Libya
Aklilu Habte-Wold age 56
Prime Minister - Ethiopia
Abdallah El-Yafi age 66
Prime Minister - Lebanon
Tu'i Pelehake age 46
Prime Minister - Tonga
Makhosini Dlamini age 54
Prime Minister - Eswatini
Fiame Mata'afa Faumuina Mulinu'u II age 46
Prime Minister - Samoa
Robert Llewellyn Bradshaw age 51
Prime Minister - Saint Kitts and Nevis
Ksente Bogoev age 48
Prime Minister - North Macedonia
Johan Adolf Pengel age 52
Prime Minister - Suriname
Salomon Tandeng Muna age 56
Prime Minister - Cameroon
Edward Oliver LeBlanc age 44
Premier - Dominica
Vidoje Žarković age 40
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Raúl Ferrero Rebagliati age 56
Prime Minister - Peru
Oswaldo Hercelles García age 59
Prime Minister - Peru
Arthur Porritt, Baron Porritt age 67
Governor-General - New Zealand
Richard Casey, Baron Casey age 77
Governor-General - Australia
Clifford Campbell age 75
Governor-General - Jamaica
Arleigh Winston Scott age 68
Governor-General - Barbados
Jules Marcel de Coppet age 87
Governor-General - Madagascar
Barack Obama age 6
Donald Trump age 21
Michael Jackson age 9
Vladimir Putin age 15
Nelson Mandela age 49
George W. Bush age 21
Joe Biden age 25
Pablo Picasso age 86
Charlie Chaplin age 79
Bill Gates age 12
Pope Francis age 31
Steve Jobs age 13
Bill Clinton age 21
Angela Merkel age 13
Neil Armstrong age 37
François Hollande age 13
Elvis Presley age 33
John Paul II age 47
Gabriel García Márquez age 41
Mikhail Gorbachev age 37
Stephen Hawking age 26
Jean-Paul Sartre age 62
Jimmy Carter age 43
Benedict XVI age 41
Mother Teresa age 57
Harry S. Truman age 84
Hillary Clinton age 20
Kamala Harris age 3
Nicolas Sarkozy age 13
Dwight D. Eisenhower age 77
Richard Nixon age 55
Xi Jinping age 14
Naruhito age 8
Hugo Chávez age 13
Simone de Beauvoir age 60
Muammar Gaddafi age 25
John Lennon age 27
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan age 14
Muhammad Ali age 26
Kofi Annan age 30
Charles III age 19
Osama bin Laden age 11
Lech Wałęsa age 24
Leo XIV age 12
Diego Maradona age 7
Narendra Modi age 17
Rafael Correa age 5
Saddam Hussein age 31
Aung San Suu Kyi age 22
Nikita Khrushchev age 74
Benjamin Netanyahu age 18
Dmitry Medvedev age 2
14th Dalai Lama age 32
Silvio Berlusconi age 31
Shinzo Abe age 13
Bob Marley age 23
Tim Berners-Lee age 12
Mahathir Mohamad age 42
Boris Yeltsin age 37
Ali Khamenei age 29
Jacques Chirac age 35
Guillermo Lasso age 12
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn age 49
Kwame Nkrumah age 58
Alexander Lukashenko age 13
Tony Blair age 15
Yasser Arafat age 38
David Cameron age 1
Ban Ki-moon age 23
Boris Johnson age 3
Diana, Princess of Wales age 6
Bashar al-Assad age 2
Benazir Bhutto age 14
Jair Bolsonaro age 13
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva age 22
Theresa May age 11
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad age 11
Henry Kissinger age 44
Václav Havel age 31
Nicolás Maduro age 5
Robert Mugabe age 44
Hosni Mubarak age 40
Golda Meir age 70
Dilma Rousseff age 20
Al Gore age 20
François Mitterrand age 51
David Ben-Gurion age 81
Milton Friedman age 55
Ruhollah Khomeini age 65
Valentina Tereshkova age 31
Ilham Aliyev age 6
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf age 29
António Guterres age 19
Akihito age 34
Helmut Kohl age 38
Rosa Parks age 55
Gordon Brown age 17
Shimon Peres age 44
Sukarno age 66
John Paul I age 55
Olaf Scholz age 9
Anwar Sadat age 49
Juan Carlos I of Spain age 30
Keir Starmer age 5
Willy Brandt age 54
Gerhard Schröder age 24
Hassan Rouhani age 19
Salvador Allende age 59
Hu Jintao age 25
Evo Morales age 8
Joko Widodo age 6
Petro Poroshenko age 2
Mikheil Saakashvili age 4 months
Augusto Pinochet age 52
Ursula von der Leyen age 9
Mike Pence age 8
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner age 15
Michelle Bachelet age 16
Ariel Sharon age 40
Nicolae Ceaușescu age 50
Felipe VI of Spain age 3 months
Desmond Tutu age 36
Viktor Yanukovych age 17
Mohamed Morsi age 16
Viktor Orbán age 4
Sergio Mattarella age 26
Manmohan Singh age 35
Pervez Musharraf age 24
Yuri Andropov age 53
Julia Gillard age 6
Abdullah Gül age 17
Lech Kaczyński age 18
Frank-Walter Steinmeier age 12
Jeff Bezos age 4
Buzz Aldrin age 38
Mohammad Khatami age 24
Yitzhak Rabin age 46
Tsai Ing-wen age 11
Mariano Rajoy age 13
Andrei Sakharov age 46
Dick Cheney age 27
Condoleezza Rice age 13
Raúl Castro age 36