Events in History in 1968 (Part 3)

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• Nov 11 Maldives (in Indian Ocean) becomes a republic
• Nov 11 Ron Hill sets record 10-mile run (46:44) at Leicester England

• Nov 12 US Supreme Court: Epperson v. Arkansas, court declares unconstitutional Arkansas law banning teaching evolution in public schools
• Nov 13 William Craig, Home Affairs Minister, bans all marches, with the exception of 'customary' parades, in Derry, Northern Ireland; the exception of 'customary' parades meant that Loyalist institutions could parade but civil rights marches could not
• Nov 14 "National Turn in Your Draft Card Day" features draft card burning
• Nov 14 First European lung transplant
• Nov 14 Yale University announces it is going co-educational
• Nov 16 The Derry Citizens Action Committee defies a ban on marches in Derry, Northern Ireland, by marching with an estimated 15,000 people
• Nov 17 Alexandros Panagoulis is condemned to death for attempting to assassinate Greek dictator George Papadopoulos
• Nov 18 Soviets recover the Zond 6 spacecraft after a flight around the moon
• Nov 19 Military coup in Mali, president Modibo Keita flees
• Nov 20 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• Nov 22 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

• Dec 1 Gonzalo Barrios, Venezuelan presidential candidate

• Dec 4 Following a civil rights march in Dungannon, Northern Ireland, there is a violent clash between Loyalists and those who are taking part in the march
• Dec 6 PBA National Championship won by Wayne Zahn
• Dec 7 Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 2 launched into Earth orbit
• Dec 7 Richard Dodd returns a library book his great grandfather took out in 1823 from the University of Cincinnati
• Dec 9 NLS (a system for which hypertext and the computer mouse were developed) is publicly demonstrated for the first time in San Francisco.
• Dec 9 The Derry Citizen's Action Committee (DCAC) calls for a halt to all marches and protests for a period of one month
• Dec 10 Japan's biggest heist, the still-unsolved "300 million yen robbery", occurs in Tokyo.
• Dec 11 US Soccer Football Association refuses to let NASL disband
• Dec 11 Northern Ireland Prime Minister Terence O'Neill sacks Home Affairs Minister, William Craig
• Dec 12 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• Dec 12 Northern Ireland Prime Minister Terence O'Neill receives overwhelming support from Unionist Members of Parliament (MPs) at Stormont
• Dec 13 Brazilian President Da Costa e Silva issues Ato Institucional Número Cinco degree
• Dec 16 Official revocation of the Edict of Expulsion of Jews from Spain at Second Vatican Council
• Dec 18 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh, Semipalitinsk USSR
• Dec 20 The Zodiac Killer kills Betty Lou Jenson and David Faraday in Vallejo, California.
• Dec 20 The People's Democracy (PD) announce that its members will undertake a protest march from Belfast to Derry beginning 1 January 1969

• Dec 21 David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Graham Nash (Crosby, Stills & Nash) premiere together in California
• Dec 23 1st US case of space motion sickness
• Dec 23 82 members of US intelligence ship Pueblo released by North Korea
• Dec 23 Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and William Anders become the 1st men to orbit the Moon
• Dec 24 Apollo 8 astronauts read passages from Book of Genesis
• Dec 25 Frank Borman's Christmas reading while orbiting the Moon
• Dec 25 42 Dalits are burned alive in Kilavenmani village, Tamil Nadu, India, a retaliation for a campaign for higher wages by Dalit labourers
• Dec 26 Arab terrorists in Athens fire on El Al plane, kills 1
• Dec 26 Jay Allens "Forty Carats" premieres in NYC
• Dec 27 Apollo 8 returns to Earth
• Dec 27 China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC
• Dec 28 Israeli assault on Beirut Airport
• Dec 29 Israeli commandos destroy 13 Lebanese airplanes
• Dec 30 -48°F (-44°C), Mazama & Winthrop, Washington (state record)
• Dec 31 1st supersonic airliner flown (Russian TU-144)

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