February 14 » The United States Department of Commerce and Labor is established (later split into the Department of Commerce and the Department of Labor).
March 14 » Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge, the first national wildlife refuge in the US, is established by President Theodore Roosevelt.
April 26 » Atlético Madrid Association football club is founded
June 16 » Roald Amundsen leaves Oslo, Norway, to commence the first east–west navigation of the Northwest Passage.
June 16 » The Ford Motor Company is incorporated.
July 19 » Maurice Garin wins the first Tour de France.
Day of death October 30, 1968
The temperature on October 30, 1968 was between 8.7 °C and 16.5 °C and averaged 12.6 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain during 0.6 hours. There was 0.9 hours of sunshine (9%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
February 8 » American civil rights movement: The Orangeburg massacre: An attack on black students from South Carolina State University who are protesting racial segregation at the town's only bowling alley, leaves three or four dead in Orangeburg, South Carolina.
April 3 » Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "I've Been to the Mountaintop" speech. He was assassinated the next day.
June 30 » Pope Paul VI issues the Credo of the People of God.
July 20 » The first International Special Olympics Summer Games are held at Soldier Field in Chicago, with about 1,000 athletes with intellectual disabilities.
November 20 » A total of 78 miners are killed in an explosion at the Consolidated Coal Company's No. 9 mine in Farmington, West Virginia in the Farmington Mine disaster.
December 13 » Brazilian President Artur da Costa e Silva issues AI-5 (Institutional Act No. 5), enabling government by decree and suspending habeas corpus.
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