Events in 1968
HISTORIC EVENTS FOR 1968:
OUR GRADUATING YEAR AT ATKINS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
| DATES | EVENTS |
| 01/01/68 | Evel Knievel fails in his attempt to jump Caesar's Palace Fountain |
| 01/14/68 | Super Bowl II: Green Bay Packers defeated Oakland Raiders, 33-14 in Miami Super Bowl MVP: Bart Starr, Green Bay, QB |
| 01/22/68 | "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In" premieres on NBC |
| 01/31/68 | Viet Cong Tet offensive begins |
| 02/08/68 | In Orangeburg, South Carolina, on the campus of South Carolina State College, local police backed by the National Guard fire on a crowd of unarmed students; 33 black activists are shot, and 3 die |
| 02/16/68 | US 1st 911 phone system went into service in Haleyville, Ala |
| 02/08/68 | US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 02/20/68 | State troopers used tear gas to stop demonstration at Alcorn A & M |
| 02/23/68 | Wilt Chamberlain becomes 1st NBAer to score 25,000 points |
| 02/29/68 | National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (Kerner Comm) reports against racism & demands aid given to blacks |
| 03/04/68 | Joe Frazier TKOs Buster Mathis in 11 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 03/04/68 |
Martin Luther King Jr announces plans for Poor People's Campaign |
| 03/11/68 | Otis Redding posthumously receives gold record for " Dock of the Bay" |
| 03/16/68 | General Motors produces its 100 millionth automobile, the Oldsmobile Toronado. |
| 03/20/68 | LBJ signs a bill removing gold backing from US paper money |
| 03/23/68 | 30th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA beats NC 78-55 |
| 03/29/68 | Students seize building at Bowie State College |
| 04/04/68 | Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee |
| 04/05/68 | Legendary singer James Brown performed in front of a televised audience in Boston the day after Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. Brown is often given credit for preventing further riots with the erformance. |
| 04/23/68 | United Methodist Church forms |
| 05/02/68 | Gold reaches then record high ($39.35 per ounce) in London |
| 05/12/68 | "March of Poor" under Rev Abernathy reach Washington, DC |
| 05/22/68 | Pitts Pirate Willie Stargell hits 3 HRs, a double & a single |
| 06/05/68 | 12:16AM PST-Sirhan Sirhan shoots Bobby Kennedy, who dies next day |
| 06/18/68 | Supreme Court bans racial discrimination in sale & rental of housing |