1968 Senior Moments
- Evel Knievel fails in his attempt to jump Caesar's Palace Fountain
- Beatles' "Magical Mystery Tour," album goes #1 and stays #1 for 8 weeks
- 1st class postage raised from 5 cents to 6 cents
- Beginning of Tet-offensive in Vietnam
- "Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In" premieres on NBC
- U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Former President Dwight Eisenhower shot a hole-in-one
- Peggy Fleming wins Olympic figure skating gold medal, Grenoble, France
- Country's 1st 911 phone system went into service in Haleyville, Ala
- Elvis Presley receives gold record for "How Great Thou Art"
- Baseball announces a minimum annual salary of $10,000
- NBC's unprecedented on-air announcement, Star Trek will return
- Singers Johnny Cash (36) and June Carter (38) wed
- U.S.S.R. launches space probe Zond 4; fails to leave Earth orbit
- Joe Frazier TKOs Buster Mathis in 11 for heavyweight boxing title
- Robert F. Kennedy announces presidential campaign
- “Royals" chosen as the name of new Kansas City AL franchise
- Martin Luther King assassination
- Beatles announce formation of Apple Corp
- AL Kaline hits his 307th HR, surpassing Hank Greenberg as a Tiger
- Robert Kennedy assassinated by Sirhan Sirhan
- 75th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Billie Jean King beats J Tegart (97 75)
- Race Riot in Gary, Indiana
- "Funny Girl" with Barbra Striesand premieres
- Launch of Zond 5, 1st lunar fly-around with Earth reentry
- Richard Nixon appears on "Laugh-in"
- "60 Minutes" premieres on CBS-TV
- 1st Boeing 747 rolls out
- Jacqueline Kennedy marries Aristotle Onassis
- Nixon elected 37th President of U.S., defeating Hubert Humphrey
- 34th Heisman Trophy Award: O J Simpson, Southern California (RB)
- “The Sound of Music” and “Thoroughly Modern Millie” were hit movies, both starring Julie Andrews.
- “Hello Dolly” and “Fiddler on the Roof” were on Broadway.
- Ladies nylons at Gimbel’s were 88 cents a pair, and men’s dress shirts at Bloomingdale’s were three for $14.75.