• Anti Vietnam War protests throughout the western world
• North Vietnam and Viet Cong troops launch the Tet offensive
• Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Leader of Negro Civil Rights Movement is killed by James Earl Ray which leads to Violence and Race Riots in US Cities
• Following the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. President Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1968
• RMS Queen Elizabeth - retired from service
• Senator Robert Kennedy is assassinated at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles
• Earthquake in Sicily - 231 dead, 262 injured.
• Enoch Powell's delivers his "Rivers of Blood" anti immigration speech
• The Third Heart transplant is performed in South Africa By Dr Christian N Barnard
• London Bridge sold for 1 million. and later re-erected in Arizona.
• President Johnson announces on nationwide television he would not run for another term of office
• 50,000 people participated in " The Poor Peoples March " on Washington, D.C.
• Population in Europe reaches 455 million ( excluding USSR )
• The Kray twins, arrested for the murders of George Cornell and Jack 'The Hat' McVitie, members of the London underworld.
• Televisions installed increases 25 million US , 20.5 million Japan , 19 million Great Britain
• Alec Rose completes his single-handed 354-day round-the-world trip.
• Pierre Elliott Trudeau becomes the Prime Minister of Canada
• Student Occupation at Columbia University over Universities affiliation with the Institute for Defense Analysis
• Aristotle Onassis and Jacqueline Kennedy are married
• The Ferry "TEV Wahine" capsizes in Wellington Harbour, New Zealand
• Hong Kong Flu pandemic begins in Hong Kong.
• Black power salute is seen on Television worldwide after the gold and bronze medalists in Olympics show salute during medal ceremony in Mexico City, Mexico
• The Prague Spring in Czechoslovakia was to provide political liberalization but was crushed by Warsaw Pact countries
• The Soviet Union invades Czechoslovakia and arrests President Dubcek "Prague Spring"
• The Aswan Dam in Egypt is completed
• The Gateway Arch in St. Louis is dedicated
• Equatorial Gunea Gains Independence From Spain
• The Winter Olympic Games are held in Grenoble, France
• 800,000 teachers, workers and student protesters marched through the French capital during a one day general strike
  

Popular Culture 1968

• The first Big Mac goes on sale in McDonalds

Popular Films

• The Graduate
• Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
• Bonnie and Clyde
• Valley of the Dolls
• Planet of the Apes
• Rosemary's Baby
  

Popular Musicians

• The Rolling Stones
• The Supremes
• The Beatles - with, "Hey Jude"
• Fleetwood Mac
• Aretha Franklin
• Gary Puckett and The Union Gap
• The Grateful Dead
• The Monkees
• Simon and Garfunkel - "Mrs Robinson"
• The Beach Boys
• The Bee Gees
• The Jimi Hendrix Experience
• Cream
• The Doors - "Hello I Love You"
• Pink Floyd
• Moody Blues
• Bobby Goldsboro - "Honey"
• Marvin Gaye - "I heard it through the Grapevine"
• David Bowie
  

Technology 1968

• Boeing 747 made its maiden flight.
• NASA launches Apollo 7, the first manned Apollo mission
• Apollo 8 orbits the Moon, becoming the first manned space mission to achieve the feat.
• Dr. Christian Barnard performs the first successful heart transplant.
• US Explodes experimental hydrogen Bomb.
• The Emergency 911 Telephone service is started in the USA which provides a single number for reporting emergencies and is manned 24 hrs per day 365 days per year
• ATM - First Philadelphia Bank installs the first automated teller machine in the U.S.