1968

Jan 10 - U.S. Surveyor 7 soft lands on Moon

Jan 23 - North Korea seizes U.S.S. Pueblo

Jan 24 - Operation COBURG started

Jan 31 - VC/N. Vietnamese launch Tet offensive

Feb 27 - Walter Cronkite editorial on Vietnam

Mar 10 - NVA overrun secret U.S. base in Laos

Mar 31 - Johnson announces not seek re-election

Apr 3 - N. Vietnam agrees to meet with U.S. reps

Apr 4 - Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated

Apr 4 - Race riots in over 100 U.S. cities

Apr 11 - President signs 1968 Civil Rights Act

May 10 - Vietnam peace talks begin in Paris

May 16 - My Lai massacre occurs

May 17 - 1st satellite of European Space Agency

Jun 1 - Opertion IGLOO WHITE begins

Jun 5 - Senator Robert Kennedy assassinated

Jul 1 - Nuclear Poliferation Treaty signed

Aug 20 - Soviet forces invade Czechoslovakia.

Aug 24 - France tests 1st hydrogen bomb

Oct 31 - Operation ROLLING THUNDER halted

Nov 5 - Nixon elected President