By 1968, the new, or soon to be, US commander in South Vietnam, General Creighton Abrams had been notified that the 152mm shells were now available for the Sheridan.

Students initiated a major demonstration in 1968 over two main issues.

Sorrow ( released in December 1968 ) by British group the Pretty Things is generally considered to be among the first creatively successful rock concept albums-in that each song is part of an overarching unified concept – the life story of the main character, Sebastian Sorrow.

This situation changed after 1974 when the Film-Fernseh-Abkommen ( Film and Television Accord ) was agreed between the Federal Republic's main broadcasters, ARD and ZDF, and the German Federal Film Board ( a government body created in 1968 to support film-making in Germany ).

In 1882 Pope Leo XIII had a Mass and an Office composed for his feast day, which he set at 14 April, the day after the day indicated as that of his death in the Martyrology of Florus ; but since this date quite often falls within the main Paschal celebrations, the feast was moved in 1968 to 1 June, the date on which he has been celebrated in the Byzantine Rite since at least the 9th century.

* 1968 – An earthquake rated at 6. 8 on the Richter Scale destroys the Australian town of Meckering, Western Australia, and it also ruptures all nearby main highways and railroads.

This print logo was featured onscreen during the main titles, and featured in advertising, until 1968.

Following the sale of 50 % of the car division Saab Automobile AB to General Motors, the main reason behind the merger with lorry manufacturer Scania-Vabis in 1968 had disappeared.

The main theme was a hit in 1968 with the soundtrack album on the charts for more than a year, reaching No. 4 on the Billboard pop album chart and No. 10 on the black album chart.

The main theme was also a hit for Hugo Montenegro, whose rendition was a No. 2 Billboard pop single in 1968.

* April 23 – April 30 – Vietnam War: Student protesters at Columbia University in New York City take over administration buildings and shut down the university ( see main article Columbia University protests of 1968 ).

Failing to obtain a green light from the government, though with Allon's consent, on Passover in 1968, a group led by Rabbi Moshe Levinger rented the main hotel in Hebron as Swiss tourists, with Haim Drukman presiding over seder, and then refused to leave.

In April 1968, The New York Times — using Telfer as a main source — introduced the XYY genetic condition to the general public in a three-part series on consecutive days that began with a Sunday front-page story about the planned use of the condition as a mitigating factor in two murder trials in Paris and Melbourne — and falsely reported that Richard Speck was an XYY male and that the condition would be used in an appeal of his murder conviction.

Further highlights include his presence in the Estádio Nacional in Lisbon as Celtic overcame Internazionale in the 1967 European Cup Final, at Wembley as Manchester United defeated Benfica to capture the 1968 European Cup and also the BBC's main man at the 1970 World Cup, commentating on the final between Brazil and Italy.

( 1968 film ; main character Gertrude Lawrence, dressed as Pierrot, sings Noël Coward's " Parisian Pierrot "— as Lawrence herself did in Coward's review London Calling!

Finished in 1968, The Gulag Archipelago was microfilmed and smuggled out to Solzhenitsyn's main legal representative, Dr Kurt Heeb of Zürich, to await publication ( a later paper copy, also smuggled out, was signed by Heinrich Böll at the foot of each page to prove against possible accusations of a falsified work ).

In 1968 he returned to the series with a role in Carry On Up the Khyber ( 1968 ), playing main roles in six of the films.

" Graceland was Lisa Marie Presley's first home after her birth on February 1, 1968 and her childhood home, although her main state of residence was California where she lived with her mother after she divorced Elvis when Lisa was in elementary school.

In September 1968, Olean, New York was the first city in the United States to install video cameras along its main business street in an effort to fight crime.

In the season premiere, CBS deleted the entire segment of Belafonte singing " Lord, Don't Stop the Carnival " against a backdrop of the havoc during the 1968 Democratic National Convention, along with two lines from a satire of their main competitor, Bonanza.

Alnwick was once connected to the main line by the Alnwick branch line, but this was closed in January 1968 during the time of the Beeching Axe.

By 1968, a handful of nightclubs existed in the area, and Patpong found some use as a R & R ( Rest and Recuperation ) location for U. S. troops serving in the Vietnam War, although the main R & R area was actually along New Petchburi Road.

Until the introduction of the Countryside Bill in 1968, the main purpose of the Forestry Commission was to maximise timber sales.

During August 1968, protests formed on the main campus against the police actions on the main campus and in the center of the city.

Convinced that Girodias and Warhol were conspiring to steal her work, Solanas purchased a gun in the spring of 1968.

On October 22, 1968, Lyndon Johnson signed the Gun Control Act of 1968, one of the largest and farthest-reaching federal gun control laws in American history.

In Mexico City in 1968, he reached the final and won: " From the first step, the gun, I knew I had won the race.

From 1816 to 1968, the U. S. Army operated a gun and ammunition storage and later production facility known as the Watertown Arsenal.

The British Vickers machine gun was an improved and redesigned Maxim, introduced into the British Army in 1912 and remaining in service until 1968.

The 1968 Gun Control Act added a " sporting purpose " test which barred imports of military surplus rifles ( a goal of many domestic gun makers ) and a " points system " for imported handguns which barred from importation handguns based on penalizing features ( short barrels, small caliber, short overall length or height, non-adjustable sights, etc.

The resulting legislation raised the minimum age for buying a firearm or airgun from 14 to 17, extended controls to shotguns and other smooth-bore weapons with barrels shorter than ( later raised by the Firearms Act 1968 to ), transferred certificates for machine guns to military oversight, regulated gun dealers, and granted chief constables the power to add conditions to individual firearms certificates.

This legislation was soon followed by the Gun Control Act of 1968, which set forth additional gun control restrictions.

Pusser shot and killed Charles Russell Hamilton on December 25, 1968, after responding to a complaint that Hamilton had threatened his landlord with a gun.

Even gun control advocate Robert Sherrill claimed: " The Gun Control Act of 1968 was passed not to control guns but to control blacks.

Under the Gun Control Act of 1968 ( GCA ), firearm dealers with a Federal Firearms License ( FFL ) were prohibited from doing business at gun shows ( they were only permitted to do business at the address listed on their license ).

* 1912-The Vickers machine gun is introduced into the Army ; it remains in service until 1968.

Project Exile shifted the prosecution of illegal technical gun possession offenses to federal court, where they carried a mandatory minimum sentence of five years in federal prison under the federal Gun Control Act of 1968, rather than in state court.

The story hinges upon the enactment and subsequent unintended consequences of several important pieces of U. S. gun control legislation and regulation: the National Firearms Act of 1934, the Gun Control Act of 1968, the Firearm Owners Protection Act of 1986, the Assault Weapons Importation Ban enacted by Presidential executive order in 1989 and the Federal Assault Weapons Ban of 1994.

During one such mission in March 1968 Captain Paul W. Bucha, commander of D Company, received the Congressional Medal of Honor when he crawled through a hail of fire to single-handedly destroy a machine gun bunker with grenades near Phuoc Vinh, Vietnam.

Subsequently Germany and UK started discussions and design studies and in 1968 established agreed operational characteristics for a towed 155 mm close support gun.

Rather than concede that Mexico's gun prohibitions were a policy failure, the VPC suggested that the US government should again expand its interpretation of a provision of the 1968 Gun Control Act so as to restrict the importation of firearms to the United States.