June 11 » The Hundred Days' Reform, a planned movement to reform social, political, and educational institutions in China, is started by the Guangxu Emperor, but is suspended by Empress Dowager Cixi after 104 days. (The failed reform led to the abolition of the Imperial examination in 1905.)
August 13 » Carl Gustav Witt discovers 433 Eros, the first near-Earth asteroid to be found.
August 23 » The Southern Cross Expedition, the first British venture of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, departs from London.
September 18 » The Fashoda Incident triggers the last war scare between Britain and France.
September 21 » Empress Dowager Cixi seizes power and ends the Hundred Days' Reform in China.
November 3 » France withdraws its troops from Fashoda (now in Sudan), ending the Fashoda Incident.
Day of death May 14, 1968
The temperature on May 14, 1968 was between 5.8 °C and 14.1 °C and averaged 10.7 °C. There was 2.5 mm of rain during 2.7 hours. There was 11.4 hours of sunshine (73%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
January 5 » Alexander Dubček comes to power in Czechoslovakia, effectively beginning the "Prague Spring".
February 1 » Vietnam War: The execution of Viet Cong officer Nguyễn Văn Lém by South Vietnamese National Police Chief Nguyễn Ngọc Loan is recorded on motion picture film, as well as in an iconic still photograph taken by Eddie Adams.
April 7 » Motor racing world champion Jim Clark is killed in an accident during a Formula Two race at Hockenheim.
July 8 » The Chrysler wildcat strike begins in Detroit, Michigan.
November 11 » Vietnam War: Operation Commando Hunt initiated. The goal is to interdict men and supplies on the Ho Chi Minh trail, through Laos into South Vietnam.
December 21 » Apollo program: Apollo 8 is launched from the Kennedy Space Center, placing its crew on a lunar trajectory for the first visit to another celestial body by humans.
Day of burial May 17, 1968
The temperature on May 17, 1968 was between 2.6 °C and 10.8 °C and averaged 6.5 °C. There was 1.3 mm of rain during 0.4 hours. There was 6.9 hours of sunshine (44%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
February 1 » Canada's three military services, the Royal Canadian Navy, the Canadian Army and the Royal Canadian Air Force, are unified into the Canadian Forces.
July 26 » Vietnam War: South Vietnamese opposition leader Trương Đình Dzu is sentenced to five years hard labor for advocating the formation of a coalition government as a way to move toward an end to the war.
October 2 » Mexican President Gustavo Díaz Ordaz orders soldiers to suppress a demonstration of unarmed students, ten days before the start of the 1968 Summer Olympics.
October 11 » NASA launches Apollo 7, the first successful manned Apollo mission.
November 23 » 1968 Yale vs. Harvard football game: Harvard Crimson rallies to tie Yale Bulldogs 29–29 at Harvard Stadium in Boston, Massachusetts.
December 20 » The Zodiac Killer kills Betty Lou Jenson and David Faraday in Vallejo, California.
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