1968: Week Three

Posted on January 13, 2008
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Weekly timeline for 1968: A year of change and tumult

January 16: The U.K. announces that it will end all “East of Suez” presence by 1971.

lbj.jpgJanuary 17: President Lyndon Baines Johnson delivers his State of the Union address.

January 19: Cambodia charges that the U.S. and South Vietnam crossed the border and killed three Cambodians.

January 20: Roman Polanski and Sharon Tate marry.

January 20: “Judy in Disguise (With Glasses)” by John Fred & His Playboy Band hits No. 1.

January 21: A B-52 loaded with hydrogen bombs crashes at North Star Bay, Greenland.

January 21: Simon and Garfunkel release “The Graduate Original Soundtrack.”

January 21: In Vietnam the 77-day Siege of Khe Sanh begins as North Vietnamese units surround U.S. Marines based on the hilltop headquarters. It becomes the longest and bloodiest battle of the Vietnam War.

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

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