March 22 » Before the Société pour L'Encouragement à l'Industrie, brothers Auguste and Louis Lumière demonstrate movie film technology publicly for the first time.
April 8 » In Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. the Supreme Court of the United States declares unapportioned income tax to be unconstitutional.
April 17 » The Treaty of Shimonoseki between China and Japan is signed. This marks the end of the First Sino-Japanese War, and the defeated Qing Empire is forced to renounce its claims on Korea and to concede the southern portion of the Fengtien province, Taiwan and the Pescadores Islands to Japan.
June 11 » Paris–Bordeaux–Paris, sometimes called the first automobile race in history or the "first motor race", takes place.
October 21 » The Republic of Formosa collapses as Japanese forces invade.
November 27 » At the Swedish–Norwegian Club in Paris, Alfred Nobel signs his last will and testament, setting aside his estate to establish the Nobel Prize after he dies.
Day of death June 28, 1968
The temperature on June 28, 1968 was between 11.1 °C and 21.8 °C and averaged 15.8 °C. There was 12.1 mm of rain during 4.6 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
July 17 » Abdul Rahman Arif is overthrown and the Ba'ath Party is installed as the governing power in Iraq with Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr as the new Iraqi President.
July 18 » Intel is founded in Mountain View, California.
October 12 » Equatorial Guinea becomes independent from Spain.
October 14 » The first live TV broadcast by American astronauts in orbit is performed by the Apollo 7 crew.
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 21 » Apollo program: Apollo 8 is launched from the Kennedy Space Center, placing its crew on a lunar trajectory for the first visit to another celestial body by humans.
Day of burial July 3, 1968
The temperature on July 3, 1968 was between 8.3 °C and 19.5 °C and averaged 15.7 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 11.6 hours of sunshine (70%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
February 24 » Vietnam War: The Tet Offensive is halted; South Vietnam recaptures Hué.
April 4 » A.E.K. Athens B.C. becomes the first Greek team to win the European Basketball Cup.
April 4 » Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 6.
August 1 » The coronation is held of Hassanal Bolkiah, the 29th Sultan of Brunei.
September 15 » The Soviet Zond 5 spaceship is launched, becoming the first spacecraft to fly around the Moon and re-enter the Earth's atmosphere.
December 25 » Apollo program: Apollo 8 performs the first successful Trans-Earth injection (TEI) maneuver, sending the crew and spacecraft on a trajectory back to Earth from Lunar orbit.
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