Weekly timeline for 1968: A year of change and tumult
October 30: “The Lion in Winter,” starring Peter O’Toole, Katharine Hepburn and Anthony Hopkins, opens.
October 31:Â Citing progress in the Paris peace talks, President Johnson announces that he has ordered a complete cessation of “all air, naval, and artillery bombardment of North Vietnam,” effective November 1.
November 5: Shirley Chisholm (1924-2004) of Brooklyn, New York, becomes the first black woman elected to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives.
November 8: John Lennon and his wife Cynthia divorce.
November 8: Actor Wendell Corey dies at age 54.
November 10: Mel Brooks’ “The Producers,” starring Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder, opens.
November 13: The Beatles’ “Yellow Submarine” opens.
November 14: “National Turn in Your Draft Card Day” features draft card burnings.
November 14: Yale University announces its plan to go co-ed.
November 14: “The Shoes of the Fisherman,” starring Anthony Quinn and Laurence Olivier, opens.
November 17: NBC outrages football fans by cutting away from the final minutes of a New York Jets-Oakland Raiders game to begin a TV special, “Heidi,” on schedule. The jets led 32-29 with one minute remaining. Viewers were deprived of seeing the Raiders come from behind to beat the Jets, 43-to-32.
 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