| That was the year when...
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Martin Luther
King (39) was assassinated in Memphis |
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Yuri Gagarin (35), first
man in space, died in a plane crash |
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Prague Spring brings
with it the hope of new political freedon in Czechoslovakia |
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National strikes and
large scaling rioting caused French President Charles De
Gaulle to dissolve the National Assembley |
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The Viet Cong Launched
the Tet offensive across many S. Vietnam cities |
| 1968 was a year of uprising all over the
world with race riots and Vietnam protests in the US, National
strikes and student demonstations in France and the Soviet
invasion of Czechoslovakia after the Prague Spring. |
| You Have been Watching... |
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Rowan & Martin's Laugh-in |
