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A LOOK
AT THE WORLD IN 1968 |
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In The News In 1968
North Koreans seize USS Pueblo and 83-man crew in Sea of Japan.
Communist troops attack Saigon and 30 province capitals and suffer
heavy casualties in "Tet Offensive."
Martin Luther King is felled by an assassin's bullet in Memphis,
TN.
Senator Robert F. Kennedy is shot in California after celebrating
presidential primary victories.
American troops destroy a town in South Vietnam in the "My
Lai Massacre." |
Entertainment
in 1968
* Nobel Prize Winner (Literature) -Ysunari Kawabata - Japan
* Best Selling Fiction - Airport, Arthur Hailey
* Best Selling Non-Fiction - Better Homes and Gardens New Cook
Book
* Best Picture - Oliver!, Columbia
* Best Director - Sir Carol Reed, Oliver!
* Best Actress - Katharine Hepburn, The Lion in Winter and Barbra
Streisand,
* Best Actor - Cliff Robertson, Charly |
Sport
champions in 1968
* MLB - Detroit Tigers
* NFL - Green Bay Packers
* NBA - Boston Celtics
* NHL - Montreal Canadiens
* NCAA-Basketball - UCLA
* KY Derby - Dancer's Image
* U.S. Open Golf - Lee Trevino
* U.S. Open Tennis (Men) - Arthur Ashe
* U.S. Open Tennis (Women) - Virginia Wad |
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