January 5 » Dreyfus affair: French army officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his rank and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island.
February 9 » William G. Morgan creates a game called Mintonette, which soon comes to be referred to as volleyball.
February 24 » Revolution breaks out in Baire, a town near Santiago de Cuba, beginning the Cuban War of Independence, that ends with the Spanish–American War in 1898.
April 6 » Oscar Wilde is arrested in the Cadogan Hotel, London, after losing a libel case against the Marquess of Queensberry.
August 31 » German Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin patents his navigable balloon.
December 28 » The Lumière brothers perform for their first paying audience at the Grand Cafe in Boulevard des Capucines.
Day of death January 18, 1968
The temperature on January 18, 1968 was between 4.9 °C and 7.5 °C and averaged 6.0 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain during 1.5 hours. There was 2.7 hours of sunshine (32%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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.
January 24 » Vietnam War: The 1st Australian Task Force launches Operation Coburg against the North Vietnamese Army and Viet Cong during wider fighting around Long Bình and Biên Hòa.
April 11 » Assassination attempt on Rudi Dutschke, leader of the German student movement.
April 20 » English politician Enoch Powell makes his controversial "Rivers of Blood" speech.
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.
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