January 28 » Walter Arnold of East Peckham, Kent, becomes the first person to be convicted of speeding. He was fined one shilling, plus costs, for speeding at 8mph (13km/h), thereby exceeding the contemporary speed limit of 2mph (3.2km/h).
March 1 » Battle of Adwa: An Ethiopian army defeats an outnumbered Italian force, ending the First Italo-Ethiopian War.
March 2 » The Battle of Adwa: The Italian Army defeated by the Ethiopian Army in Adwa, Tigray, Ethiopia.
July 28 » The city of Miami, Florida is incorporated.
December 14 » The Glasgow Underground Railway is opened by the Glasgow District Subway Company.
December 30 » Filipino patriot and reform advocate José Rizal is executed by a Spanish firing squad in Manila.
Day of death June 22, 1968
The temperature on June 22, 1968 was between 11.2 °C and 17.5 °C and averaged 14.8 °C. There was 0.9 hours of sunshine (5%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
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.
July 20 » The first International Special Olympics Summer Games are held at Soldier Field in Chicago, with about 1,000 athletes with intellectual disabilities.
August 2 » An earthquake hits Casiguran, Aurora, Philippines killing more than 270 people and wounding 261.
September 6 » Swaziland becomes independent.
December 16 » Second Vatican Council: Official revocation of the Edict of Expulsion of Jews from Spain.
December 25 » Kilvenmani massacre: Forty-four Dalits (untouchables) are burnt to death in Kizhavenmani village, Tamil Nadu, a retaliation for a campaign for higher wages by Dalit laborers.
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