1968
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Events edit
- January 17 - The Khmer Rouge launches their first major offensive in the Cambodian Civil War.
- January 17 to 29 - North Korean commandos raid the Blue House in Seoul, South Korea in an attempt to assassinate South Korean President Park Chung-hee. The raid fails and Park is unharmed.
- January 30 - The Tet Offensive is launched by the Viet Cong.
- March 16 - The My Lai Massacre takes place when American soldiers under command of General Samuel Koster massacre between 347 and 504 unarmed people in Sơn Tịnh District, South Vietnam.
- April 4 - Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated by James Earl Ray at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. Riots erupt in major American cities, lasting for several days afterwards.
- May 24 - The Jewish Defense League is founded by Rabbi Meir Kahane.
- June 3 - Valerie Solanas attempts to kill Andy Warhol at his studio in New York City by shooting him three times.
- June 6 - Robert F. Kennedy is mortally wounded by Sirhan B. Sirhan shortly after midnight at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. He is pronounced dead at 1:44 A.M. the following morning.
- June 23 - Beginning of Operation Condor.
- August 20 to 21 - Five Warsaw Pact countries (the Soviet Union, Poland, Bulgaria, East Germany and Hungary) invade Czechoslovakia to suppress the reform process in the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. First Secretary Alexander Dubček is forced to resign and Gustáv Husák is appointed as his successor.
- September 23 - The Tet Offensive comes to an end.
- October 5 - Beginning of the Troubles.
- October 12 - Francisco Macías Nguema is elected the first President of Equatorial Guinea.
- November 5 - Richard Nixon wins the 1968 Presidential Election, defeating Hubert Humphrey and George Wallace.
- November 19 - Moussa Traoré takes power in Mali following a successful coup d'état.
- December 20 - The first murders attributed to the Zodiac Killer take place when 17-year old David Faraday and 16-year old Betty Jensen are killed on Lake Herman Road in Benicia, California.
- December 26 - The Communist Party of the Philippines is founded.
Births edit
Villain births edit
- January 31 - Hank Earl Carr
- March 22 - Odell Barnes, Jr.
- April 19 - Mswati III
- April 23 - Timothy McVeigh
- April 27 - Ramzi Yousef
- April 30 - Vincent Weiguang Li
- May 17 - Levi Bellfield
- July 5 - Gabriel Wortman
- July 10 - Ashin Wirathu
- July 29 - Yang Xinhai
- August 21 - Theodore Beale
- August 26 - Benjamin Atkins
- September 1 - Mohamed Atta
- September 13 - Anthony Kirkland
- September 20 - Bernadette Protti
- October 4 - Beverly Alitt
- November 5 - Derrick Todd Lee
- November 10 - Charles Graner
- November 18 - One L. Goh
- November 30 - Kaoru Kobayashi
- December 14 - Brian Steckel
- December 16 - Mark Dean Schwab
- December 20 - Karen McCarron
- Unknown - Martin Ssempa
- Unknown - Omaima Nelson
- Unknown - Elisa Baker
- Unknown - Allan Schoenborn
Victim births edit
- January 20 - Michael Landsberry
- February 8 - Michele Avila
- February 25 - Chris Hixon
- March 5 - Mark Kilroy
- April 30 - Ron Gamboa
- May 13 - Miguel Ángel Blanco
- May 25 - Martin Brown
- June 18 - Lori Farmer
- June 26 - Jovenel Moise
- July 1 - Allison Baden-Clay
- July 2 - Ron Goldman
- July 23 - Kirsten Costas
- July 31 - Brian Howe
- September 23 - Alexandra Schriefl
- November 23 - Rachel Nickell
- November 24 - Todd Beamer
Deaths edit
Villain deaths edit
- January 7 - Mario Roatta
- February 1 - Nguyễn Văn Lém
- December 9 - Nucky Johnson
Victim deaths edit
- April 4 - Martin Luther King Jr.
- June 6 - Robert F. Kennedy
- December 20 - David Arthur Faraday & Betty Lou Jensen