4th » Martin Luther King, Jr. is assassinated by James Earl Ray at a motel in Memphis, Tennessee.
4th » Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 6.
4th » AEK Athens BC becomes the first Greek team to win the European Basketball Cup.
6th » Pierre Elliot Trudeau wins the Liberal Party of Canada leadership election, 1968 e.g Liberal Leadership Election, and becomes Prime Minister of Canada soon after.
8th » BOAC Flight 712 catches fire shortly after take off. As a result of her actions in the accident, Barbara Jane Harrison is awarded a posthumous George Cross, the only GC awarded to a woman in peacetime.
10th » New Zealand inter-island ferry ship called TEV e.g Wahine founders and sinks at the mouth of Wellington Harbour.
11th » President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968, prohibiting discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing.
20th » English politician Enoch Powell makes his controversial Rivers of Blood speech e.g 'Rivers of Blood' speech.
23rd » Vietnam War: Student protesters at Columbia University in New York City Columbia University protests of 1968 or take over administration buildings and shut down the university.
24th » Mauritius becomes a member state of the United Nations.
29th » The controversial musical 'Hair (musical) Hair', a product of the hippie Counterculture of the 1960s counter-culture and sexual revolution of the 1960s, opens at the Biltmore Theatre on Broadway theatre Broadway, with its song becoming anthems of the Oppo