1968: Week 18
Weekly timeline for 1968: A year of change and tumult
April 29: The rock musical Hair opens on Broadway at the Biltmore Theatre and continues for 1,750 performances.
May 2: “The Odd Couple,” starring Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau, opens.
May 3-17: Student riots and strikes hit France. Ten million workers go on strike. Workers strike the Renault […]
1968: Week 17
Weekly timeline for 1968: A year of change and tumult
April 23: Students at Columbia University take over administration buildings and shut down the university to protest the war in Vietnam, university ties to the Defense Dept., and plans to build a gym over neighborhood objections. The sit-in lasts for a week.
April 23: The Methodist Church […]
1968: Week 16
Weekly timeline for 1968: A year of change and tumult
April 18: 178,000 employees of the U.S. Bell Telephone System go on strike.
April 18: The London Bridge is sold to U.S. oil company McCulloch Oil. The bridge was disassembled and then rebuilt at Lake Havasu, Arizona.
April 19: Ashley Judd is born in Granada Hills, California,
April 20: […]
1968: Week 15
Weekly timeline for 1968: A year of change and tumult
April 8: Baseball’s opening day is postponed because of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
April 10: President Johnson replaces General Westmoreland with General Creighton Abrams in Vietnam.
April 10: “Heat of the Night” wins best picture, Rod Steiger and Katherine Hepburn named best actor and […]
1968: Week 14
Weekly timeline for 1968: A year of change and tumult
April 2: Senator Eugene McCarthy wins the Democratic primaries in Wisconsin.
April 2: Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey” opens.
April 3: “Planet of the Apes” opens.
April 3: North Vietnam agrees to meet with U.S. representatives to set up preliminary peace talks.
April 3: Simon and Garfunkel release the […]
