The temperature on July 9, 1968 was between 12.8 °C and 22.3 °C and averaged 17.0 °C. There was 6.2 hours of sunshine (38%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
March 6 » Three rebels are executed by Rhodesia, the first executions since UDI, prompting international condemnation.
March 7 » Vietnam War: The United States and South Vietnamese military begin Operation Truong Cong Dinh to root out Viet Cong forces from the area surrounding Mỹ Tho.
April 8 » BOAC Flight 712 catches fire shortly after takeoff. As a result of her actions in the accident, Barbara Jane Harrison is awarded a posthumous George Cross, the only GC awarded to a woman in peacetime.
August 1 » The coronation is held of Hassanal Bolkiah, the 29th Sultan of Brunei.
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.
December 31 » The first flight of the Tupolev Tu-144, the first civilian supersonic transport in the world.
Day of burial July 15, 1968
The temperature on July 15, 1968 was between 12.4 °C and 19.1 °C and averaged 15.3 °C. There was 4.2 mm of rain during 2.5 hours. There was 4.5 hours of sunshine (28%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 23 » USS Pueblo (AGER-2) is attacked and seized by naval forces of North Korea.
March 12 » Mauritius achieves independence from the United Kingdom.
March 28 » Brazilian high school student Edson Luís de Lima Souto is killed by military police at a protest for cheaper meals at a restaurant for low-income students.
May 25 » The Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri, is dedicated.
September 13 » Cold War: Albania leaves the Warsaw Pact.
October 26 » Soviet cosmonaut Georgy Beregovoy pilots Soyuz 3 into space for a four-day mission.
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