The temperature on December 25, 1968 was between -1.2 °C and 4.5 °C and averaged 2.5 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.4 hours. The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
February 1 » Canada's three military services, the Royal Canadian Navy, the Canadian Army and the Royal Canadian Air Force, are unified into the Canadian Forces.
April 3 » Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "I've Been to the Mountaintop" speech. He was assassinated the next day.
August 13 » Alexandros Panagoulis attempts to assassinate the Greek dictator Colonel Georgios Papadopoulos in Varkiza, Athens.
August 21 » Cold War: Nicolae Ceaușescu, leader of Communist Romania, publicly condemns the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, encouraging the Romanian population to arm itself against possible Soviet reprisals.
October 11 » NASA launches Apollo 7, the first successful manned Apollo mission.
December 31 » The first flight of the Tupolev Tu-144, the first civilian supersonic transport in the world.
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