Editing 1968

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== Events ==
* 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 [[murder]]s 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 ==

=== Villain births ===
* 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 ===
*January 20 - [https://real-life-heroes.fandom.com/wiki/Michael_Landsberry 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 - [https://real-life-heroes.fandom.com/wiki/Todd_Beamer Todd Beamer]

== Deaths ==

=== Villain deaths ===
* January 7 - [[Mario Roatta]]
* February 1 - [[Nguyễn Văn Lém]]
* December 9 - [[Nucky Johnson]]

=== Victim deaths ===
*April 4 - Martin Luther King Jr.
*June 6 - Robert F. Kennedy
*December 20 - [[Zodiac Killer|David Arthur Faraday]] & [[Zodiac Killer| Betty Lou Jensen]]