This doctrine was announced to retroactively justify the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in August 1968 that ended the Prague Spring, along with earlier Soviet military interventions, such as the invasion of Hungary in 1956.

In the presence of a UN observer team, a referendum was held on August 11, 1968, and 63 % of the electorate voted in favor of the constitution, which provided for a government with a General Assembly and a Supreme Court with judges appointed by the president.

Enid Mary Blyton ( 11 August 1897 – 28 November 1968 ) was a British children's writer also known as Mary Pollock.

Rediffusion did not use the play ; instead, it was made as one of the first productions of the new ITV company Yorkshire Television, and broadcast posthumously on 26 August 1968.

* Carter, Harvey Lewis " Dear Old Kit ": The Historical Christopher Carson, University of Oklahoma Press, hardcover ( 1968 ), 250 pages ; trade paperback reprint, University of Oklahoma Press ( August 1990 ), 250 pages, ISBN 978-0-8061-2253-3 Pages 38 to 150 of " Dear Old Kit " consist of an annotated edition of " The Kit Carson Memoirs, 1809-1856 ", an original manuscript dictated by Kit Carson with 322 annotations by Carter.

Karlheinz Stockhausen (; 22 August 1928 – 5 December 2007 ) was a German composer, widely acknowledged by critics as one of the most important ( Barrett 1988, 45 ; Harvey 1975b, 705 ; Hopkins 1972, 33 ; Klein 1968, 117 ) but also controversial ( Power 1990, 30 ) composers of the 20th and early 21st centuries.

The last Governor, Sir John Shaw Rennie served as the first Governor-General until 27 August 1968.

However, in 1924, Czech physicist August Žáček ( 1886 – 1961 ) and German physicist Erich Habann ( 1892 – 1968 ) independently discovered that the magnetron could generate waves of 100 megahertz to 1 gigahertz.

Tremblay's first professionally produced play, Les Belles-Sœurs, was written in 1965 and premiered at the Théâtre du Rideau Vert on August 28, 1968.

Several key events occurred, which raised public awareness of the New Age subculture: the production of the musical Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical ( 1967 ) with its opening song " Aquarius " and its memorable line " This is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius "; publication of Linda Goodman's best-selling astrology books Sun Signs ( 1968 ) and Love Signs ( 1978 ); the release of Shirley MacLaine's book Out on a Limb ( 1983 ), later adapted into a television mini-series with the same name ( 1987 ); and the " Harmonic Convergence " planetary alignment on August 16 and 17, 1987, organized by José Argüelles at Sedona in the U. S. state of Arizona.

The New Progressive Party ( PNP ) was founded in August, 1967 by Luis A. Ferré, a month after the July 23, 1967 local plebiscite and the year before the PNP won the 1968 elections.

It began on 5 January 1968, when reformist Alexander Dubček was elected the First Secretary of Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, and continued until 21 August when the Soviet Union and all members of the Warsaw Pact, with the notable exception of Romania, invaded the country to halt the reforms.

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Soviet paratroopers on a light tank head towards Prague Castle, seat of the Czechoslovak government, and downtown Prague in the early morning hours of 21 August 1968

On the night of 20 – 21 August 1968, Eastern Bloc armies from four Warsaw Pact countries – the Soviet Union, Bulgaria, Poland and Hungary — invaded the ČSSR.

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The first test launch took place on 16 August 1968, the first successful at-sea launch was from a surface ship, the historic ( from July 1 to December 16, 1969 ), earning the ship the Meritorious Unit Commendation, and the first test launch from a submarine took place on the on 3 August 1970.

Rush is a Canadian rock band formed in August 1968, in the Willowdale neighbourhood of Toronto, Ontario.

* Alex Lifeson — acoustic and electric guitars, backing vocals ( August 1968 – present )

* Jeff Jones — bass guitar, lead vocals ( August – September 1968 )

* John Rutsey — drums, percussion, backing vocals ( August 1968 – July 1974 ; died 2008 )

President Massamba-Débat's term ended in August 1968 when Captain Marien Ngouabi and other army officers toppled the government in a coup.

The Seekers featured on " Episode 2: Ten Pound Rocker 1963 – 1968 " broadcast on 22 August, in which Durham and Woodley discussed their early work on a cruise ship, meeting Tom Springfield and their success in Britain.

British Rail ended this service prior to Snow Hill closing in 1968.

In the mid to late 1960s British Railways ( subsequently rebranded British Rail ) was searching around for ways to increase efficiency, and came across the TOPS system in a 1968 presentation by an IBM US Transportation Industry Representative who shortly after formed IBM World Trade Corp's Transportation Industry Centre in Brussels ( E. Wrathall ).

He was an apprentice engineer with Rolls-Royce in Glasgow for two years from 1966, before joining British Rail as a clerk for a year in 1968.

From 1968 to 1982 Via Rail operated a gas turbine powered passenger service between Toronto and Montreal.

Judge Wisdom was a member of the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation ( MDL ) from its creation in 1968 and was then the Panel ’ s chairman from 1975 until 1978., and he served on the Special Court created under the Regional Rail Reorganization Act starting in 1975, becoming presiding judge from 1986, when Judge Henry Friendly retired, until 1996 when the Special Court was dissolved.

The Class 47 history begins in the early 1960s with the stated aim of the British Transport Commission ( BTC ) to completely remove steam locomotives from British Rail by a target date of 1968.

The 4 Bep fleet were classified as Class 410 by British Rail under the new computer numbering system introduced in 1968.

In 1968, British Rail closed the line beyond Meldon as part of the Beeching cuts.

The 4Big fleet were initially classified as Class 420 by British Rail under the new computer numbering system introduced in 1968.

British Rail Class 21 No. D6122 was the last of its class to survive, arriving in August 1968 and cut up by Woodhams in 1980 because no one wanted to buy it.

TOPS Class 98 has been used to cover all steam locomotives used on the mainline in Britain, but also has a particular usage for the three Vale of Rheidol Railway-design 2-6-2T locomotives that remained in the ownership of British Rail ( BR ) after the end of mainline steam traction in August 1968.

As the last steam locomotives were being withdrawn ( completed in 1968 ) under the 1955 Modernisation Plan, the corporation's public name was re-branded in 1965 as British Rail, which introduced the double-arrow symbol, a standard typeface ( named " Rail Alphabet ") and the BR blue livery, applied to nearly all locomotives and rolling stock.

Until privatisation, it was the sole steam-operated line on the nationalised British Rail network, steam traction having ceased in 1968 on all other parts of the system.

On 3 August 1968, the last British Rail scheduled passenger train to be hauled by a standard gauge steam locomotive, ended its journey at Liverpool Exchange, Stanier ' Black 5 ' no.

They also built the New York City Subway R32 ( 1964 – 1965 ), the first PATCO Speedline cars ( 1968 ), Long Island Rail Road / Metro-North Railroad M-1 / M-3 ( 1968 – 1973, 1984 – 1986 ) and M-2 ( 1972 – 1977 ), NJ Transit Arrow II ( 1974 – 1975 ), and NJ Transit Arrow III ( 1977 – 1978 ).

When British Rail stopped using steam locomotives in 1968 none of the Grange Class locomotives were preserved, so the 6880 Society was formed in 1998 with the purpose of eventually completing an operational Grange Class steam locomotive for Heritage Railway work and Mainline Operation.

The part of the line between Swindon and Kemble is single track, the second track having been lifted in the summer of 1968 by British Rail.

In 1968 Huffy added a steering wheel to its Rail and called it the Huffy Wheel.

British Rail reduced the line to single track in 1968.

The station has been owned by several different parties since the PRR era: Penn Central ( 1968 – 1971 ), New Jersey Department of Transportation ( to 1983 ), New Jersey Transit Rail Operations ( to 1984 ), and Princeton University.

In consequence Drury bought LNER Peppercorn Class A2 60532 Blue Peter from British Rail in 1968, and this loco is still owned by the Drury family.

The station building, of a mock Tudor design, survived until 1968 when it was demolished owing to the effects of dry rot and replaced by British Rail with the small brick building that stands today.