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 ).

* 1968 – Pierre Elliot Trudeau wins the Liberal Leadership Election, and becomes Prime Minister of Canada soon after.

* 1968 – BOAC Flight 712 catches fire shortly after take off.

In 1968, Manchester United reached the European Cup final, ten seasons after Munich.

The prize was originally known as the Booker-McConnell Prize, after the company Booker-McConnell began sponsoring the event in 1968 ; it became commonly known as the " Booker Prize " or simply " the Booker.

In 1961 it was granted autonomous rule and, seven years after the general unrest and left-wing riots of 1968.

When the team debuted in 1968, the Bengals ' uniforms were modeled after the Cleveland Browns.

The metaphor compares the promise of the global socialist movement before May 1968 ( the grin ) with its actual presence in the world after May 1968 ( the cat ).

Sagan lectured and did research at Harvard University until 1968, when he moved to Cornell University in Ithaca, New York after being denied tenure at Harvard.

Full enfranchisement of citizens was not secured until after the African-American Civil Rights Movement ( 1955 – 1968 ) gained passage by the United States Congress of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

David, after whom Camp David is named, married Richard Nixon's daughter Julie in 1968.

On September 18, 1974, courts awarded Day $ 22, 835, 646 for fraud and malpractice in an hour-long oral decision by Superior Judge Lester E. Olson, ending a 99-day trial that involved 18 consolidated lawsuits and countersuits filed by Day and Rosenthal that involved Rosenthal's handling of her finances after she terminated him in July 1968.

Rosenthal claimed that millions of dollars Day lost were in real estate sold after Melcher died in 1968, in which Rosenthal asserted that the attorneys gave Day bad advice, telling her to sell, at a loss, three hotels, in Palo Alto, Dallas and Atlanta and some oil leases in Kentucky and Ohio.

" The attempt by some twentieth-century Catholic theologians to present the Eucharistic change as an alteration of significance ( transignification rather than transubstantiation ) was rejected by Pope Paul VI in his 1965 encyclical letter Mysterium fidei In his 1968 Credo of the People of God, he reiterated that any theological explanation of the doctrine must hold to the twofold claim that, after the consecration, 1 ) Christ's body and blood are really present ; and 2 ) bread and wine are really absent ; and this presence and absence is real and not merely something in the mind of the believer.

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 ).

Switzerland built an extensive network of fallout shelters, not only through extra hardening of government buildings such as schools, but also through a building regulation that ensured that all residential building built after 1968 contained a nuclear shelter able to withstand a blast from a 50 megaton explosion at a distance of 700 metres.

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.

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.

Soon after the book was published in the US, Kosiński was accused by the then-Communist Polish government of being anti-Polish, especially following the regime's 1968 anti-Semitic campaign.

" Their relationship lasted from 1963 to sometime after 1968.

* 1969 – Student Jan Palach dies after setting himself on fire 3 days earlier in Prague's Wenceslas Square to protest the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Soviet Union in 1968.

The city hosted the American Football League All Star Game in 1967 and 1968, but after the AFL-NFL merger in 1970, Jacksonville was shut out.

* 1968 – Funeral of Martin Luther King, Jr.

* 1968 – Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers his " I've Been to the Mountaintop " speech.

An American Civil rights activist, Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968 at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.

Those dates were chosen because in 1954 the U. S. Supreme Court ruled that racial segregation in schools was unlawful and 1968 is the year of Martin Luther King's assassination.

* Martin Hotine, 1898 – 1968, ( England )

* 1929 – Martin Luther King, Jr., American civil rights leader, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize ( d. 1968 )

The assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. was a catalyst for the 1968 Kansas City riot.

In the aftermath of the 1968 assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Brando made one of the strongest commitments to furthering King's work.

* Martin Luther King, Jr. ( 1929 – 1968 ), American clergyman, activist, and prominent leader in the African American civil rights movement

Martin Luther King, Jr. ( 1929 – 1968 ) was a minister and Civil Rights activist.

Lorraine Motel, Martin Luther King, Jr .'s 1968 assassination site, as part of a National Civil Rights Museum | civil rights museum

* 1884 – Joseph W. Martin, Jr., American politician, 51st Speaker of the United States House of Representatives ( d. 1968 )

* unrest in African-American communities, such as the 1968 riots following the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr ..

* January 15 – Martin Luther King Jr., American civil rights leader, Nobel laureate ( d. 1968 )

However, during the riots that followed the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., in the spring of 1968, Agnew angered many African American leaders when he stated in reference to their constituents, " I call on you to publicly repudiate all black racists.

The classic " use of unnecessary violence in the apprehension of the Blues Brothers has been approved " line delivered by a police dispatcher is an obvious homage to Daley's 1968 order during the riots following Martin Luther King's assassination.

In the summer of 1968, Tate began her next film, The Wrecking Crew ( 1969 ), a comedy in which she played Freya Carlson, an accident-prone spy, who was also a romantic interest for star Dean Martin, playing Matt Helm.

Despair after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in April 1968 contributed to riots in North Omaha, including one at the Logan Fontenelle Housing Project.

In the June 1968 edition of Scientific American, Martin Gardner described in his " Mathematical Games " column a game by C. L. Baker that is similar to FreeCell, except that cards on the tableau are built by suit rather than by alternate colors.

The Lorraine Motel in the city was also the venue of the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. on April 4, 1968, the day after giving his prophetic I've Been to the Mountaintop speech at the Mason Temple.

He was promoted to reader in 1965, and in 1968 was offered a professorship in mathematical physics, a position he held until 1979, his students including Brian Josephson and Martin Rees.

In 1968, the university was relocated to a campus outside of the city in Saint Martin d ' Hères ( with some parts in Gières ).

" Martin, Ed., Contemporary Reform Jewish Thought, Quadrangle Books 1968.

The biggest wave came in April 1968, when riots occurred in over a hundred cities in the wake of the assassination of Martin Luther King.