* 1968 – Glenville Shootout: in Cleveland, Ohio, a violent shootout between a Black Militant organization led by Ahmed Evans and the Cleveland Police Department occurs.

Professor D. Gordon Tucker, chairman of the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at the University of Birmingham, England, volunteered his services as a sonar developer and expert at Loch Ness in 1968.

* 1968 – Vietnam War: The United States Department of Defense announces that the U. S. Army and U. S. Marine Corps will send about 24, 000 soldiers and Marines back to Vietnam for involuntary second tours of duty in the combat zone there.

In 1964 – 1968, he served as Chief of the Department of Staff in the Israeli General Staff.

He became the Professor of Computing Science at the Queen's University of Belfast in 1968, and in 1977 returned to Oxford as the Professor of Computing to lead the Programming Research Group in the Oxford University Computing Laboratory ( now Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford ), following the death of Christopher Strachey.

At the end of 1968, according to US Department of Commerce data, U. S. corporate holdings in Chile amounted to $ 964 million.

In 1968, the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Social Security were amalgamated into the Department of Health and Social Security, the purpose of which was to coordinate benefits in cash with benefits in kind since “ the services needed to deal with social insecurity are not cash benefits only, but health and welfare as well .” An Act was passed which replaced National Assistance with Supplementary Benefits.

From 1966 to 1968, Brzezinski served as a member of the Policy Planning Council of the U. S. Department of State ( President Johnson's October 7, 1966, " Bridge Building " speech was a product of Brzezinski's influence ).

The position of Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs came into existence in 1968 with the merger of the functions of Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and Secretary of State for Commonwealth Affairs into a single Department of State.

The new Department was set up by Prime Minister Harold Wilson's Labour Government in 1968 and named the Civil Service Department, known as CSD.

In 1967 Eugene Nagle, MD and Jim Hirschmann, MD helped pioneer America's first EKG telemetry transmission to a hospital and then in 1968, a functional paramedic program in conjunction with the City of Miami Fire Department.

1968 ), in which the State of South Dakota had to obtain permission from the Department of Interior in order to fix roads or condem property in Bennett County, consistent with the property's reservation status.

He was promoted to full professor in 1968 and served as the Chair of the Department of Mechanical Engineering from 1974-81.

It was replaced by the Staatliche Luftfahrt-Inspektion der DDR ( Public Department of Aviation of the GDR ) on 1 Jan 1968, from which Luftfahrt-Bundesamt took over all operations and most of the staff on 4 October 1990, the day after German re-unification.

" Neutrino Experiments at Reactors ", University of California-Irvine, Case Western Reserve University, United States Department of Energy ( through predecessor agency the Atomic Energy Commission ), ( September 9, 1968 ).

* Federal Military Department ( 1968 )

* Federal Department of Transport, Communications and Energy ( 1968 )

* Military Department ( 1967 – 1968 )

* Department of Finance ( 1968 – 1973 )

* McMillan, E. M ." Some Thoughts on Stability in Nonlinear Periodic Focusing Systems &# 91 ; Addendum &# 93 ;", University of California Radiation Laboratory, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, United States Department of Energy ( through predecessor agency the Atomic Energy Commission ), ( March 29, 1968 ).

Between 1966 and 1968, during the peak of the Vietnam War, Kahn served as a consultant to the Department of Defense and opposed the growing pressure to negotiate directly with North Vietnam, arguing that the only military solution was sharp escalation.

Although the Justice Department under President Clinton had treated Miranda as valid, the Supreme Court was forced to grant certiorari to prevent a circuit split after the 4th Circuit ( on its own initiative ) took up Professor Cassell's suggestion and ruled that Congress had overruled Miranda with the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968.

He is a graduate of the Amphibious Warfare School ( 1968 ); the Army Command and General Staff College ( 1976 ); and the National War College ( 1982 ).

* 1968 – Canada's three military services, the Royal Canadian Navy, the Canadian Army and the Royal Canadian Air Force, are unified into the Canadian Forces.

It was formed in 1968 as an offshoot of the Vietnam People's Army from North Vietnam.

The ' number of weapons ' joke echoes a similar joke in the first episode " The Man and The Hour " of the BBC sitcom Dad's Army, broadcast in July 1968.

In the Philippines, the Maoist-oriented Communist Party of the Philippines and its armed wing, the New Peoples Army has been waging armed revolution against the Philippine government since 1968.

* 1968 – Vietnam War: United States Air Force helicopter pilot James P. Fleming rescues an Army Special Forces unit pinned down by Viet Cong fire and is later awarded the Medal of Honor.

He served two tours in Vietnam ( from 1968 to 1970 ) with the United States Army as a helicopter gunner.

The cable car in the castle is based on the 1968 movie Where Eagles Dare, where a U. S. Army Brigadier General is captured and taken prisoner to the Schloß Adler, a fortress high in the Alps above the town of Werfen, only reachable by cable car, and the headquarters of the German Secret Service in southern Bavaria.

On March 23, 1968, A group of senior military officers in the Sierra Leone Army led by Brigadier Anrew Juxon-Smith overrode this action by seizing control of the government, arresting Brigadier Lansana, and suspending the constitution.

CBC live television coverage of the event noted that, when Prince Charles saluted, he performed the Canadian form of the salute with a cupped hand ( the British " naval salute "— appropriate, as he did his military service as an officer in the Royal Navy ), adopted by all elements of the Canadian Forces after unification in 1968, rather than the British ( Army ) form with the palm facing forward.

* 53rd ( Welsh ) Infantry Division, a Territorial Army division from 1908 to 1968

In explaining his refusal to be conscripted to fight the Vietnam War ( 1965 – 75 ), professional boxer Muhammed Ali said, " No Vietcong ever called me nigger "; later, his modified answer was the title No Vietnamese Ever Called Me Nigger ( 1968 ) of a documentary about the front-line lot of the US Army Black soldier in combat in Vietnam.

The 2 Battalion 138th Field Artillery of the Kentucky Army National Guard was ordered to service in Vietnam in late 1968.

" Wallace's Army: The Coalition Of Frustration ," Time Oct 18, 1968

A gentle mockery of Britain's ' finest hour ' occurred with the home guard comedy Dad's Army ( 1968 – 77 ) and the church with All Gas and Gaiters ( 1966 – 71 ).

In the Philippines, the Communist Party of the Philippines ( CPP ) and its New People's Army ( NPA ) has been waging a revolutionary war since 1968.

The Army Museum in Białystok () was established in September 1968 as a branch of the Podlaskie Museum to house the research and collections of many people connected with military history of north-eastern Poland.

This was interrupted in 1968 when Gusmão was recruited by the Portuguese Army for national service.

Kennett's life in the regular workforce was cut short when, in 1968, he was conscripted into the Australian Army.

Willis was slated to play U. S. Army general William R. Peers in director Oliver Stone's Pinkville, a drama about the investigation of the 1968 My Lai Massacre.

The My Lai Massacre (, ;,, or ) was the Vietnam War mass murder of between 347 and 504 unarmed civilians in South Vietnam on March 16, 1968, by United States Army soldiers of " Charlie " Company of 1st Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 11th Brigade of the Americal Division.

He served in the U. S. Army from 1966 to 1968.