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The Year that was
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President Lyndon B. Johnson delivers the State Union Adress
The State Union Address fulfills rules in Article II, Section 3 of the U.S. Constitution, requiring the President to periodically give Congress information on the "state of the union" and recommend any measures that he believes are necessary and expedient. -
North Vietnamese launch the Tet offensive
On January 31, 1968, some 70,000 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces launched the Tet Offensive, a coordinated series of fierce attacks on more than 100 cities and towns in South Vietnam. -
Richard Nixon enters the New Hamshire primary and declares his presidential candidacy
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Orangeburg
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Madison Square Garden
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Martin Luther King Jr. Leads march in Memphis that turns violent
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Space Odyssey
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Martin Luthar King Jr. was assassinated
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Riot over MLK death
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Christ Church Picture Gallery in Oxford is opened.
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The US and North Vietnamese begin peace talk in Paris
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Peace talks about Vietnam in France
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Kennedy was assassinated
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A bill adding a 10 percent surcharge to income taxes and reducing government spending is signed by President Johnson
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At their Party convention in Miami Beach the Republicans nominate Richard Milhouse Nixon to be their presidential candidate
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Tigers win world series
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France explodes first nuclear bomb
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First medal of Honor for a black person
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Democratic nominee Hubert Humphrey kicks off his presidential campaign at New York City's Labor Day parade.
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First whole earth catolog
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Black panther salute at olympic games
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Nixon wins presidential election
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First interracial kiss on TV
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First computer word processor
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Apollo 8 orbits the moon
