1968
 
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  • Student & worker revolts almost topple the French government of Charles de Gaulle
  • Viet Cong launch the Tet Offensive
  • US troops massacre civilians in Vietnamese My Lai
  • Warsaw Pact forces provide "friendly help" (tanks & troops) to  Czechoslovakia to counter the "Prague Spring" of liberalism
  • Martin Luther King Jr assassinated 
  • Robert Kennedy assassinated
  • John Gorton becomes Prime Minister of Australia
  • Pierre Trudeau becomes Prime Minister of Canada
  • 109 civilians killed by US soldiers at My Lai in Vietnam 
  • Olympic Games in Mexico City
  • First supersonic airliner, the Russian TU-144, flies
  • Apollo 7 sends first TV from a manned spacecraft
  • Apollo 8 reaches lunar orbit
  • Minerals boom begins in Australian stock market
  • Jacqui Kennedy marries Aristotle Onassis
  • Flouridation of Sydney's water supply begins
  • Australia's population passes 12,000,000
  • First waterbed
  • "Spirograph" drawing toy introduced

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Warsaw Pact's "friendly help" in Prague

   

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