In 1968, Bob Beamon jumped at the 1968 Summer Olympics at an altitude of, a jump not exceeded for a further 23 years, in 1991.

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* 1968 – Jim Hines of the United States of America becomes the first man ever to break the so-called " ten-second barrier " in the 100-meter sprint in the Summer Olympic Games held in Mexico City with a time of 9. 95 seconds.

By the 1960s, tracks of 333. 3m length were commonly used for international competitions ( eg: the Agustín Melgar Olympic Velodrome used for track cycling events at the 1968 Summer Olympics, and Leicester's Saffron Lane velodrome used at the 1970 and 1982 Track Cycling World Championships ).

* 1968 Summer Olympics October 12 to 27, 1968, in Mexico City, Mexico

* October 2 – Tlatelolco massacre: A student demonstration ends in bloodbath at La Plaza de las Tres Culturas in Tlatelolco, Mexico City, Mexico, 10 days before the inauguration of the 1968 Summer Olympics.

The most famous example was Stroller, who only stood but was nonetheless an Individual silver medal winner and part the Great Britain show jumping team in the 1968 Summer Olympics, jumping one of the few clean rounds in the competition.

One of the most famous is the Senj Summer Carnival – the first was 1968. and the tradition stayed.

The first International Special Olympics Summer Games were held at Soldier Field in Chicago in 1968.

Davenport is the daughter of Wink Davenport, who was a member of the U. S. volleyball team at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, and Ann Davenport.

He was also the winner of the marathon at the 1968 Summer Olympics.

After Abebe Bikila had won the 1964 Olympic marathon, four years later at the 1968 Summer Olympics, Wolde became the second Ethiopian to win the title in the marathon.

Category: Athletes ( track and field ) at the 1968 Summer Olympics

He also was co-captain of the U. S. gold medal team at the 1968 Summer Olympics.

Category: Basketball players at the 1968 Summer Olympics

After her athletic career, Blankers-Koen served as the team leader of the Dutch athletics team, from the 1958 European Championships to the 1968 Summer Olympics.

* Brent Musburger, night sports editor of the American who became a prominent television sports personality ; while writing for the paper he penned his infamous column describing Tommie Smith and John Carlos as " black-skinned storm troopers " for their protest of racial injustice in the United States during the 1968 Summer Olympics.

Category: Athletes ( track and field ) at the 1968 Summer Olympics

Category: Gymnasts at the 1968 Summer Olympics

Category: Gymnasts at the 1968 Summer Olympics

The 1968 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XIX Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event held in Mexico City, Mexico, in October 1968.

Opening of the 1968 Summer Olympic Games at the Estadio Olímpico Universitario in Mexico City

After the success of his 1968 breakthrough, De Palma and his producing partner ( Charles Hirsch ) were given the opportunity by Sigma 3 to make an unofficial sequel of sorts, initially entitled Son of Greetings, and subsequently released as Hi, Mom !.

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.

#* recorded live in concert on November 10, 1968 at the Canterbury House, Ann Arbor, Michigan ; released as the b-side to " The Loner ," 1968

Her final feature, the comedy film With Six You Get Eggroll, was released in 1968.

That song, a cover of Tom Paxton's " The Last Thing on My Mind ", released in late 1967, reached the country top ten in January 1968, launching a six-year streak of virtually uninterrupted top-ten singles for the pair.

Parton's first solo single for RCA, " Just Because I'm a Woman ", was released in the summer of 1968 and was a moderate chart hit, reaching number seventeen.

He first appears in the story 2001: A Space Odyssey by Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke, released as both a novel and a film in 1968.

Destroy All Monsters, ( released in Japan as, is a 1968 Japanese Science fiction Kaiju film produced by Toho.

He founded the International Submarine Band in 1966, and after several months of delay their debut, Safe at Home, was released in 1968, by which time the group had disbanded.

The psychedelic rock band H. P. Lovecraft ( who shortened their name to Lovecraft and then Love Craft in the 1970s ) who released the H. P. Lovecraft and H. P. Lovecraft II albums in 1967 and 1968 respectively.

As a popular psychedelic act of the late 1960s, many of Joplin's live concerts with Big Brother were professionally recorded and have been released on albums like Live at Winterland ' 68 and Live at the Carousel Ballroom 1968.

In 1968 she and her step-father Tommy Leonetti, then working in Australia, recorded the single " Let's Take A Walk ", released under the name of " Tommy Leonetti and his daughter Kim ".

Sorrow, released in December 1968, featured both heavy psychedelic songs such as " Old Man Going " and " I See You " and poppy numbers like " S. F. Sorrow Is Born " and " Baron Saturday ".

Two of the earliest recordings which have a funk beat and lyrics which are rhymed in rhythm over this type of beat were released by comedian Pigmeat Markham, " Here Come the Judge " which was released in 1968 by the Chess label and in 1969 another song about running numbers called " Who Got The Number?

That same year, Simon and Garfunkel contributed heavily to the soundtrack to Mike Nichols ' film The Graduate, which was released on January 21, 1968, and instantly rose to No. 1 as an album.

In November 2008, recording group 400 Lonely Things released the album Tonight of the Living Dead, " an instrumental album composed entirely of ambient music and sound effects sampled from Romero's 1968 horror classic ".

Following the 1968 film, Romero released Dawn of the Dead, Day of the Dead, Land of the Dead, Diary of the Dead and Survival of the Dead.

The same year Day of the Dead premiered, Night of the Living Dead co-writer John Russo released a film titled Return of the Living Dead that offers an alternate continuity to the original film than Dawn of the Dead, but acted more as a parody or satire and is not considered a sequel to the original 1968 film.

* Manon 70, directed by Jean Aurel, released in 1968 and starring Catherine Deneuve.

His playing featured in the movie, but not on the official Wonderwall Music soundtrack album released in November 1968.

Pierpont and Makley received the death penalty, while Clark received a life sentence ( he ultimately was released in 1968, and died of cancer a few months later ).

The company's first model, the Cortina, was released in cooperation with Ford Motor Company in 1968.

Another notable album release entitled Rock Around the Clock was the 1970 Hallmark Records UK release Rock Around the Clock ( SHM 668 ) which was the first British release of a 1968 album entitled Bill Haley's Biggest Hits which had been released in Sweden by Sonet Records.