Date in year · 1968 · The 1960s
On April 4, 1968, martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated by James Earl Ray at a motel in Memphis, Tennessee. The year's #1 song was "Hey Jude" by The Beatles. Ashley Judd, Mswati III, Julia Morris would arrive in the same year.
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m. , an American civil rights activist, was fatally shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. He was rushed to St.
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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.
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1968 murder in Memphis, Tennessee, U.S.
m. , an American civil rights activist, was fatally shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. He was rushed to St.
1961–1972 American crewed lunar exploration program
The Apollo program, also known as Project Apollo, was the United States human spaceflight program led by NASA, which landed the first humans on the Moon in 1969. Apollo was conceived in 1960 in the Dwight D. Eisenhower presidency during Project Mercury and executed after Project Gemini.
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