The temperature on September 10, 1968 was between 14.8 °C and 25.2 °C and averaged 19.5 °C. There was 10.4 hours of sunshine (80%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. Source: KNMI
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 6 » In Richmond, Indiana's downtown district, a double explosion kills 41 and injures 150.
April 7 » Motor racing world champion Jim Clark is killed in an accident during a Formula Two race at Hockenheim.
April 29 » The controversial musical Hair, a product of the hippie counter-culture and sexual revolution of the 1960s, opens at the Biltmore Theatre on Broadway, with some of its songs becoming anthems of the anti-Vietnam War movement.
September 24 » First episode of 60 Minutes airs on television.
December 16 » Second Vatican Council: Official revocation of the Edict of Expulsion of Jews from Spain.
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