During World II the winter games were canceled but after that time the Winter Games have been held in St. Moritz ( 1948 ), Innsbruck, Austria ( 1964 and 1976 ), Grenoble, France, ( 1968 ), Albertville, France, ( 1992 ), and Torino, Italy, ( 2006 ).

During the period from 1968 until 1980, five different coaches were tried, with none lasting longer than four years.

During that period, ten GM titles were awarded in 1965, but only one in 1966 and in 1968.

During his days in Atlanta, Aaron reached a number of milestones ; he was only the eighth player ever to hit 500 career home runs, with his 500th coming against Mike McCormick of the San Francisco Giants on July 14, 1968 — exactly one year after former teammate Eddie Mathews had hit his 500th.

During a spring training game in 1968, Bench was catching the eight-year veteran right-hander Jim Maloney.

During 1968, Mazda started formal operations in Canada ( MazdaCanada ) although Mazdas were seen in Canada as early as 1959.

During the 1960s, Clemente batted over. 300 in every year except 1968, when, thanks to yet another freak off-season injury ( à la 1965 ), he got off to the worst start of his major league career, hitting just. 245 by the All-Star break, and doing well just to reach. 291 by season's end.

During a tour of the Midlands in England on September 16, 1968, he received the news that his home in Hendersonville, Tennessee, had burned down and his two eldest sons had died.

During the Vietnam War the battles of Dien Bien Phu ( 1954 ) and Khe Sanh ( 1968 ) possessed siege-like characteristics.

During this period, the Redskins went without a single winning season between 1956 and 1968.

During the summer of 1968, The House of Lords in the Middle Ages was published after 20 years ' work.

During a trip to London in December 1967, Tork contributed banjo to George Harrison's soundtrack to the 1968 film Wonderwall.

During the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in summer 1968, he left Europe for the United States.

During Johnson's administration, NASA conducted the Gemini manned space program and the Apollo program, including Apollo 7 ; and the first human spaceflight to the Moon, Apollo 8, in December 1968.

During the years 1953 to 1968, it was the home to 413, 427 and 434 Fighter Squadrons which flew F-86 Sabre jets, and 440 Squadron which flew CF-100 Canuck, then the CF-104 Starfighter.

During 1968, KXYZ and KXYZ-FM in Houston were acquired by ABC, giving the network the maximum seven owned and operated AM and FM stations allowed at the time.

During his first trip to England in January 1968, Captain Beefheart was briefly represented in the UK by mod icon Peter Meaden, an early manager of The Who.

During a major league record 27-year baseball career, he pitched in 1966 and from 1968 to 1993 for four different teams: the New York Mets, California Angels, Houston Astros, and Texas Rangers.

During the 1968 campaign, LeMay became widely associated with the " Stone Age " comment, especially because he had suggested use of nuclear weapons as a strategy to quickly resolve a deeply protracted conventional war which eventually claimed over 50, 000 American and millions of Vietnamese lives.

* During 1968 – The Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968 establishes the Government National Mortgage Association ( Ginnie Mae )

During that last game of the season, Joe Sakic scored a goal and two assists and became the second-oldest player in NHL history to reach 100 points, behind only Gordie Howe, who had 103 points at age 40 in the 1968 – 69 season.

During his career, he pitched for the New York Giants ( 1952 – 1956 ), St. Louis Cardinals ( 1957 ), Cleveland Indians ( 1957 – 1958 ), Baltimore Orioles ( 1958 – 1962 ), Chicago White Sox ( 1963 – 1968 ), California Angels ( 1969 ), Atlanta Braves ( 1969 – 1970 ; 1971 ), Chicago Cubs ( 1970 ), and Los Angeles Dodgers ( 1971 – 1972 ).

During the Lunar New Year of 1968, the communists launched a massive attack on the cities of Vietnam in an attempt to topple Thiệu and reunify the country under their rule.

During this period, in 1943, he married Klavdia Alekseyevna Vikhireva, with whom he raised two daughters and a son before she died in 1969.

During the January 1969 sessions for the Let It Be album, the Beatles played a slow impromptu version of " Mailman, Bring Me No More Blues " — although not written by Holly, it was popularized by him — with Lennon mimicking Holly's vocal style ; the recording was eventually released in the mid-1990s on Anthology 3.

During Lee A. DuBridge's tenure as Caltech's president ( 1946 – 1969 ), Caltech's faculty doubled and the campus tripled in size.

During the first decade of the television series, the name of the Doctor's home planet was not revealed, although it was actually shown for the first time in The War Games ( 1969 ) during the Doctor's trial.

During the 1960s, Spain began imposing restrictions on Gibraltar, culminating in the closure of the border in 1969.

During his career with the NBA ’ s Milwaukee Bucks and Los Angeles Lakers from 1969 to 1989, Abdul-Jabbar won six NBA championships and a record six regular season MVP Awards.

* 1969 – During their honeymoon, John Lennon and Yoko Ono hold their first Bed-In for Peace at the Amsterdam Hilton Hotel ( until March 31 ).

During their history, the Mets have won two World Series titles ( 1969 and 1986 ), four National League pennants ( 1969, 1973, 1986, 2000 ) and five National League East titles ( 1969, 1973, 1986, 1988, 2006 ).

During the 1969 preseason, the Giants lost their first meeting with the New York Jets, 37 – 14, in front of 70, 874 fans at the Yale Bowl in New Haven, Connecticut.

During the period of two-division play ( 1969 to 1993 ), the two National League East division rivals won the two highest numbers of division championships, reigning exclusively as NL East champions in the 1970s and again in the early 1990s, the Pirates 9, the Phillies 6 ; together, the two teams ' 15 championships accounted for more than half of the 25 NL East championships during that span.

During the three decades between Freud's death in 1939 and the Stonewall riots in 1969, conversion therapy received approval from most of the psychiatric establishment in the United States.

During the power vacuum that followed the assassination of Somalia's second president, Abdirashid Ali Shermarke, the military staged a coup d ' état on 21 October 1969 ( the day after Shermarke's funeral ) and took over office.

During 1969 the Sudanese Army consisted of about 26, 500 men, four infantry brigades of four battalions each, three independent infantry battalions, one armoured regiment, a parachute regiment, an armoured regiment and three artillery regiments.

During the Nixon administration ( 1969 – 74 ), First Lady Pat Nixon refurbished the Green Room, Blue Room, and Red Room, working with Clement Conger, the curator appointed by President Richard Nixon.

During the period when the political system was dominated by Accion Democratica ( AD ) and COPEI ( 1958 – 1998 ), after the closure of Accion Democratica's La Republica in 1969, none of the major newspapers or broadcasters were affiliated with a political party.

During the 1960s, the various unaffiliated Mattachine Societies, especially the Mattachine Society in San Francisco and the Mattachine Society of New York, were among the foremost gay rights groups in the United States, but beginning in the middle 1960s and, especially, following the Stonewall riots of 1969, they began increasingly to be seen as too traditional, and not willing enough to be confrontational.

During the six years of the First Wilson Government, spending on social services rose much faster than real personal incomes, and from 1964 to 1969, spending on social services rose from 14. 6 % to 17. 6 % of GNP, an increase of nearly 20 %.

During 1969 Jack Casady and Jorma Kaukonen launched their side project, a return to their blues roots, which they eventually dubbed Hot Tuna.

During late 1969 Casady and Kaukonen recorded an all-acoustic blues album, which was released in the spring of 1970.

During the French-language network SRC's televised coverage of the 1969 Montreal parade, filmmakers Bernard Gosselin and Pierre Perrault were asked to withdraw from the airwaves after nationalist and sarcastic comments.