1968: Week 24

Posted on June 8, 2008
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Weekly timeline for 1968: A year of change and tumult

June 12: The UN General Assembly adopts a Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons to take effect March 5, 1970.

johnnycash.jpgJune 12: Roman Polanski’s “Rosemary’s Baby,” starring Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon and Ralph Bellamy, opens.

June 13: Johnny Cash performs a live concert at California’s Folsom Prison.

June 14: Yasmine Bleeth is born in New York City.

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

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