Date | Event |
October
01
1968 |
Guyanese Government Takes Over British Guiana Broadcasting |
October
02
1968 |
Mexican President Orders Massacre On Demonstration |
October
05
1968 |
Derry Demonstrators Beaten By Police |
October
08
1968 |
Vietnam War U.S. Vietnamese Operation Mekong Delta |
October
11
1968 |
First Successful Manned Apollo Mission Launched |
October
12
1968 |
Equatorial Guinea Becomes Independent |
October
14
1968 |
Soldiers Arrested For Vietnam War Protest |
October
14
1968 |
U.S. Sends 24,000 Soldiers To Vietnam |
October
14
1968 |
Apollo 7 Crew First Televised In Orbit |
October
14
1968 |
Earthquake Detroys Meckering, Australia |
October
14
1968 |
Hines Breaks ""Ten-second Barrier" |
October
16
1968 |
Olympians Kicked Off For Black Power Salute |
October
16
1968 |
Rodney Banning Sparks Rioting In Kingston |
October
16
1968 |
Nobel Prize Awarded To First Japanese Author |
October
18
1968 |
U.S. Olympic Committee Suspends 2 For Salute |
October
20
1968 |
Jackie Kennedy Marries Aristotle Onassis |
October
22
1968 |
Apollo 7 Safely Lands In Atlantic |
October
26
1968 |
Georgy Beregovoy Pilots Soyuz Four-day Soyuz Mission |
October
31
1968 |
Johnson Orders Vietnam Bombing Halt |