✦ History

Explore January 5, 1968 – August 21, 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
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
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
Battle of Huế 1968-01-31 - 1968-03-02
Orangeburg massacre 1968-02-08
Mỹ Lai massacre 1968-03-16
Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. 1968-04-04
Fair Housing Act 1968-04-11
Poor People's Campaign 1968-05-12 - 1968-06-24
Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy 1968-06-06

People

Elizabeth II age 41
Queen - United Kingdom
Mao Zedong age 74
Chairman of the Communist Party of China - Communist Party of China
Charles de Gaulle age 77
President - France
Lyndon B. Johnson age 59
President - United States
Hirohito age 66
Emperor - Japan
Ho Chi Minh age 77
President - Vietnam
Leonid Brezhnev age 61
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Chiang Kai-shek age 80
President - Republic of China
Josip Broz Tito age 75
President - Yugoslavia
Gamal Abdel Nasser age 50
President - Egypt
Haile Selassie age 75
Emperor - Ethiopia
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi age 48
Shah - Iran
Walter Ulbricht age 74
First Secretary - East Germany
Baudouin of Belgium age 37
Monarch - Belgium
Heinrich Lübke age 73
President - Germany
Liu Shaoqi age 69
Chairman - People's Republic of China
Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr age 53
President - Iraq
Abdul Rahman Arif age 51
President - Iraq
Lê Duẩn age 60
General Secretary - Communist Party of Vietnam
Gustavo Díaz-Ordaz age 56
President - Mexico
Osvaldo Dorticós age 48
President - Cuba
Artur da Costa e Silva age 68
President - Brazil
Nureddin al-Atassi age 39
President - Syria
Julio César Méndez Montenegro age 52
President - Guatemala
Kim Il-sung age 55
General Secretary Of The Workers' Party Of Korea - North Korea
Pol Pot age 42
General Secretary Of The Communist Party Of Kampuchea - Cambodia
U Thant age 58
Secretary-General - United Nations
Fidel Castro age 41
Prime Minister - Cuba
Indira Gandhi age 50
Prime Minister - India
Georges Pompidou age 56
Prime Minister - France
Zhou Enlai age 69
Premier - People's Republic of China
Harold Wilson age 51
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Aldo Moro age 51
Prime Minister - Italy
Eisaku Satō age 66
Prime Minister - Japan
Giovanni Leone age 59
Prime Minister - Italy
Alexei Kosygin age 63
Chairman - Soviet Union
Levi Eshkol age 72
Prime Minister - Israel
Robert McNamara age 51
President - World Bank
Avery Brundage age 80
President - International Olympic Committee
Maurice Couve de Murville age 60
Prime Minister - France
B. J. Vorster age 52
Prime Minister - South Africa
Souvanna Phouma age 66
Prime Minister - Laos
Phạm Văn Đồng age 61
Prime Minister - Vietnam
Józef Cyrankiewicz age 56
Prime Minister - Poland
Jean Rey age 65
President - European Commission
Yen Chia-kan age 62
Premier - Republic of China
Jack Lynch age 50
Taoiseach - Ireland
Manlio Brosio age 70
Secretary General - NATO
Yusuf Zuayyin age 36
Prime Minister - Syria
Marcolino Gomes Candau age 56
Director-General - World Health Organization
George David Woods age 66
President - World Bank
Kurt Georg Kiesinger age 63
Chancellor - Germany
Earl Warren age 76
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Saddam Hussein age 30
Vice President - Iraq
Hubert Humphrey age 56
Vice President - United States
Soong Ching-ling age 74
Vice Chairman - People's Republic of China
Dong Biwu age 81
Vice Chairman - People's Republic of China
Earle Wheeler age 60
Chairman Of The Joint Chiefs Of Staff - United States
James Callaghan age 55
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
William Westmoreland age 53
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Dean Rusk age 58
Secretary Of State - United States
Roy Jenkins age 47
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Ramsey Clark age 40
Attorney General - United States
Clark Clifford age 61
Secretary Of Defense - United States
Henry H. Fowler age 59
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
Harold Keith Johnson age 55
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
J. Edgar Hoover age 73
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Edward Heath age 51
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
Warren Christopher age 42
Deputy Attorney General - Department of Justice
Thurgood Marshall age 59
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
William J. Brennan Jr. age 61
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Potter Stewart age 52
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Byron White age 50
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
John Marshall Harlan II age 68
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Abe Fortas age 57
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Jeremy Thorpe age 38
Leader - Liberal Party (UK)
Oliver Tambo age 50
President - African National Congress
Tomás Mac Giolla age 43
President - Sinn Féin
Robert F. Kennedy age 42
Senate - United States
Walter Mondale age 40
Senate - United States
Daniel Inouye age 43
Senate - United States
Margaret Thatcher age 42
Member Of Parliament - United Kingdom
George H. W. Bush age 43
House of Representatives - United States
Gerald Ford age 54
House of Representatives - United States
Melvin Laird age 45
House of Representatives - United States
Ronald Reagan age 56
Governor of California - United States
Nelson Rockefeller age 59
Governor of New York - United States
Spiro Agnew age 49
Governor Of Maryland - United States
John Connally age 50
Governor of Texas - United States
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 40
King - Thailand
Ferdinand Marcos age 50
President - Philippines
Francisco Franco age 75
Caudillo - Spain
Paul VI age 70
Pope - Vatican City
Suharto age 46
President - Indonesia
Park Chung-hee age 50
President - South Korea
Léopold Sédar Senghor age 61
President - Senegal
Mobutu Sese Seko age 37
President - Democratic Republic of the Congo
Jomo Kenyatta age 74
President - Kenya
Julius Nyerere age 45
President - Tanzania
Jean-Bedel Bokassa age 46
President - Central African Republic
King Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 62
- Saudi Arabia
Hussein I of Jordan age 32
King - Jordan
Habib Bourguiba age 64
President - Tunisia
Hastings Banda age 78
President - Malawi
Urho Kekkonen age 67
President - Finland
Éamon de Valera age 85
President - Ireland
Hassan II age 38
King - Morocco
Kenneth Kaunda age 43
President - Zambia
Olav V of Norway age 64
Monarch - Norway
Alfredo Stroessner age 55
President - Paraguay
Ahmed Sékou Touré age 46
President - Guinea
Ayub Khan age 60
President - Pakistan
Zakir Husain age 70
President - India
Juliana of the Netherlands age 58
King - Netherlands
Milton Obote age 42
President - Uganda
Frederik IX of Denmark age 68
Monarch - Denmark
Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden age 85
Monarch - Sweden
Cevdet Sunay age 68
President - Turkey
Félix Houphouët-Boigny age 62
President - Ivory Coast
Rainier III, Prince of Monaco age 44
Prince - Monaco
Houari Boumédiène age 35
President - Algeria
François Duvalier age 60
President - Haiti
Makarios III age 54
President - Cyprus
Giuseppe Saragat age 69
President - Italy
Seretse Khama age 46
President - Botswana
Ahmadou Ahidjo age 43
President - Cameroon
Étienne Gnassingbé Eyadéma age 32
President - Togo
Modibo Keïta age 52
President - Mali
Anastasio Somoza Debayle age 42
President - Nicaragua
Jigme Dorji Wangchuck age 38
King - Bhutan
Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 47
Monarch - Luxembourg
Franz Jonas age 68
President - Austria
Sobhuza II age 68
King - Eswatini
Ásgeir Ásgeirsson age 73
President - Iceland
Eduardo Frei Montalva age 57
President - Chile
Fernando Belaúnde age 55
President - Peru
Zalman Shazar age 78
President - Israel
Philibert Tsiranana age 55
President - Madagascar
François Tombalbaye age 49
President - Chad
Kristján Eldjárn age 51
President - Iceland
Yakubu Gowon age 33
President - Nigeria
Diori Hamani age 51
President - Niger
William Tubman age 72
President - Liberia
Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV of Tonga age 49
Monarch - Tonga
Joaquín Balaguer age 61
President - Dominican Republic
Yusof bin Ishak age 57
President - Singapore
Moktar Ould Daddah age 43
President - Mauritania
Michel Micombero age 27
President - Burundi
Said bin Taimur Al Said age 57
Sultan - Oman
Isa II of Bahrain age 34
Monarch - Bahrain
René Emilio Barrientos Ortuño age 48
President - Bolivia
Joseph Arthur Ankrah age 52
President - Ghana
Juan Carlos Onganía age 53
President - Argentina
Aboubacar Sangoulé Lamizana age 51
President - Burkina Faso
Américo Tomás age 73
President - Portugal
Jorge Pacheco Areco age 47
President - Uruguay
Haxhi Lleshi age 54
President - Albania
Oswaldo López Arellano age 46
President - Honduras
Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho age 29
King - Lesotho
Grégoire Kayibanda age 43
President - Rwanda
Abdirashid Ali Shermarke age 48
President - Somalia
Ismail al-Azhari age 67
President - Sudan
Hammer DeRoburt age 45
President - Nauru
Alphonse Massamba-Débat age 46
President - Republic of the Congo
Carlos Lleras Restrepo age 59
President - Colombia
Raúl Leoni age 62
President - Venezuela
Fidel Sánchez Hernández age 50
President - El Salvador
Ahmad bin Ali Al Thani age 48
Emir - Qatar
Sabah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 54
Emir - Kuwait
Charles Helou age 54
President - Lebanon
Otto Arosemena age 42
President - Ecuador
Willy Spühler age 65
President - Switzerland
Jamsrangiin Sambuu age 72
President - Mongolia
Augustin Poignet age 39
President - Republic of the Congo
Punch Coomaraswamy age 43
President - Singapore
José Joaquín Trejos Fernández age 51
President - Costa Rica
Dante Rossi age 37
Captain Regent - San Marino
Jim Fouché age 69
State President - South Africa
Kuan Yew Lee age 44
Prime Minister - Singapore
António de Oliveira Salazar age 78
Prime Minister - Portugal
Süleyman Demirel age 43
Prime Minister - Turkey
Pierre Trudeau age 48
Prime Minister - Canada
Lester B. Pearson age 70
Prime Minister - Canada
Mauno Koivisto age 44
Prime Minister - Finland
Tunku Abdul Rahman age 64
Prime Minister - Malaysia
Georgios Papadopoulos age 48
Prime Minister - Greece
Tage Erlander age 66
Prime Minister - Sweden
Piet de Jong age 52
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 59
Prime Minister - Iceland
Jens Otto Krag age 53
Prime Minister - Denmark
Thanom Kittikachorn age 56
Prime Minister - Thailand
Gaston Eyskens age 62
Prime Minister - Belgium
Pierre Werner age 54
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Ion Gheorghe Maurer age 65
Prime Minister - Romania
John McEwen age 67
Prime Minister - Australia