April is the fourth month of the year in the Gregorian calendar, the fifth in the early Julian and one of four months with a length of 30 days. April is commonly associated with the season of spring in parts of the Northern hemisphere and autumn in parts of the Southern hemisphere, where it is the seasonal equivalent to October in the Northern hemisphere and vice versa.
April symbols: The birthstone for April is the diamond. The birth flower is typically listed as either the Daisy (Bellis perennis) or the Sweet Pea. The zodiac signs for the month of April are Aries (until April 20) and Taurus (April 21 onwards).
Historical Events for April, 1968
Day of Week 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.
Day of Week 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.
Day of Week 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.
Day of Week 10th » New Zealand inter-island ferry ship called TEV e.g Wahine founders and sinks at the mouth of Wellington Harbour.
Day of Week 11th » President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968, prohibiting discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing.
Day of Week 20th » English politician Enoch Powell makes his controversial Rivers of Blood speech e.g 'Rivers of Blood' speech.
Day of Week 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.
Day of Week 24th » Mauritius becomes a member state of the United Nations.
Day of Week 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