1968

1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1968th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 968th year of the 2nd millennium, the 68th year of the 20th century, and the 9th year of the 1960s decade.

January 23: North Korea seizes USS Pueblo (AGER-2)
January 30: Tet Offensive begins
April 4: Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated in Memphis
May 2–June 23: Protests in France grow and demonstrators barricade the streets
August 20–21: Warsaw Pact invades Czechoslovakia
October 12–27: 1968 Summer Olympics held in Mexico City
November 5: Richard Nixon elected United States President