Weekly timeline for 1968: A year of change and tumult
February 12: Eldridge Cleaver, a militant activist and Black Panther party member, publishes “Soul on Ice.â€
February 12: Josh Brolin is born in Los Angeles.
February 16: 20th Century Fox releases Hammer Film’s “Quatermass and the Pit†(aka “Five Million Years to Earth”).
February 18: The State Department announces the highest U.S. casualty toll of the Vietnam War: 543 Americans killed in action, 2547 wounded.
February 18: 10,000 people in West Berlin demonstrate against the Vietnam War.
February 18: David Gilmour joins Pink Floyd, replacing founder Syd Barrett, who checked himself into a psychiatric hospital.
February 18: Molly Ringwald is born in Roseville, California.
Sources:
The Whole World Was Watching: An oral history of 1968. A joint project between South Kingstown High School and Brown University’s Scholarly Technology Group
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