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Significant Events and Figures of 1968

This quiz tests your knowledge of significant events and notable figures from the year 1968, covering topics such as music, civil rights, and influential personalities.

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1 ________ – La, la, la by Massiel (music and text by Manuel de la Calva and Ramón Arcusa) wins the Eurovision Song Contest 1968 for Spain, at the Royal Albert Hall in London.

2 July 18 – The semiconductor company ________ gets founded.

3 ________, and as he attempts to deliver an address, shout him down with cries of "America is the Black man's battleground!"

4 President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the ________.

5 ________ – Wendell Corey, American actor (b.

6 ________, African-American civil rights activist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (assassinated) (b.

7 ________ – Doris Lloyd, English actress (b.

8 ________ – Sonique, British singer

9 July 1 – The ________'s Phoenix Program is officially established.

10 ________ – Neal Cassady, American writer (b.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the Florida Education Association led the first statewide teachers' strike in American history in 1968.
  • the largest earthquake ever recorded in the U.S. state of Illinois took place at approximately 11:02 a.m. on November 9, 1968.
  • the National Black Law Students Association was formed to serve the needs and goals of black law students in 1968 and is one of the the largest student organizations in the United States.
  • the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, founded in 1968, is one of the three inaugural satellite launch sites of the People's Republic of China.
  • the bronze L'Âme de la France (pictured) lay face-down on the ground from 1948 to 1968 after it fell from its pedestal during a tropical cyclone.
  • on 28 November 1968 the Finnish ferries MS Ilmatar and MS Botnia collided in the Åland archipelago, resulting in the death of six people.
  • on September 29, 1968 a global horizontal sounding technique superpressure balloon became the first balloon to fly for a full year.
  • labor leader Victor Kamber created playing cards with public figures in 1968 and the "Rappin' Ronnie" music video depicting a rapping Ronald Reagan in 1984.
  • John Brown's Fort in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, was built there in 1848, moved to Chicago in 1891, and then returned to its original site in 1968.
  • Pat "Gravy" Patterson, the head coach of the Louisiana Tech University from 1968 to 1990, was the winningest baseball coach in the state's history.
  • a Jacksnipe is a two-man racing sailing dinghy created in 1968 by prolific boat designer Jack Holt.
  • Robert L. Howard received his Congressional Medal of Honor while part of a Hatchet Force operating near the Laos–Cambodia border during the Vietnam War in 1968.
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