Weekly timeline for 1968: A year of change and tumult
Week 25: June 17-23:
June 18: The U.S. Supreme Court bans racial discrimination in the sale and rental of housing.
June 19: 50,000 people march on Washington, D.C. to support the Poor People’s Campaign.
June 19: Norman Jewison’s “The Thomas Crown Affair,†starring Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway, opens.
Week 26: June 24-30:
June 28: Daniel Ellsberg is indicted for leaking the Pentagon Papers (the popular name for a 7,000-page top-secret United States government report about the history of the government’s internal planning and policy concerning the Vietnam War).
June 29: “Tip-Toe Thru’ The Tulips With Me” by Tiny Tim (1932-1996) peaks at No. 17 on the record charts.
Week 27: July 1-7
July 1: The United States, Britain, the Soviet Union and 58 other nations signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. India refuses to sign.
July 4: John Wayne’s “The Green Berets†opens.
July 7: The Yardbirds perform for the last time before disbanding.
July 7: Abbie Hoffman’s “The Yippies Are Going to Chicago” is published in Paul Krassner’s “The Realist.†The yippie movement (dubbed Youth International Party for the sake of having a “legitimate†name for the above-ground media), formed by cultural activists Hoffman, Krassner and Jerry Rubin,
Week 28: July 8-14
July 8: Israeli-Egyptian artillery duel along the Suez Canal.
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
Timelines of History
Timeline 1968
Rock Timeline
Wikipedia Music Timeline
Frank Eugene Smitha’s Macrohistory and World Report