The temperature on October 15, 1968 was between 5.8 °C and 15.5 °C and averaged 10.1 °C. There was 1.6 mm of rain during 0.8 hours. There was 4.0 hours of sunshine (37%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 31 » Nauru gains independence from Australia.
March 16 » General Motors produces its 100 millionth automobile, the Oldsmobile Toronado.
July 23 » The only successful hijacking of an El Al aircraft takes place when a Boeing 707 carrying ten crew and 38 passengers is taken over by three members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The aircraft was en route from Rome, to Lod, Israel.
October 1 » Guyana nationalizes the British Guiana Broadcasting Service, which would eventually become part of the National Communications Network, Guyana.
December 22 » Cultural Revolution: People's Daily posted the instructions of Mao Zedong that "The intellectual youth must go to the country, and will be educated from living in rural poverty."
December 31 » The first flight of the Tupolev Tu-144, the first civilian supersonic transport in the world.
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