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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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: […]