Two years later, the city hosted the tumultuous 1968 Democratic National Convention, which featured physical confrontations both inside and outside the convention hall, including full-scale riots, or in some cases police riots, in city streets.

In 1968, he was Honorary Chairman of the Las Vegas International Exposition of Flight, a major show that utilized most facets of the city ’ s entertainment industry while presenting a major air show.

Further education colleges in the city include Jewel and Esk College ( incorporating Leith Nautical College founded in 1903 ), Telford College, opened in 1968, and Stevenson College, opened in 1970.

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.

The May 1968 protests in France temporarily shut down the city of Paris, while the German student movement did the same in Bonn.

Snowfall is an extremely rare event ; snowflakes were spotted in 1959, 1968 and 2012 in the city, but the city has never experienced an accumulation in its history.

The Nova Scotia Eastern Institute of Technology ( NSEIT ) opened in 1968 on Grand Lake Road ( Trunk 4 ) several kilometres east of the Sydney city limits.

After having lost its status of royal city, it became the préfecture ( regional capital ) of Seine-et-Oise département in 1790, then of Yvelines in 1968, and a Roman Catholic diocese.

After more than a year and a half of agitation, and a bloody attack during Sukkot ( October 9, 1968 ), in which a grenade was thrown, apparently by a Hebron boy, onto the mosque stairs wounding 47 Israeli and foreign visitors, the government agreed to legitimize Levinger's wildcat settlement by establishing a town on the outskirts of the city in an abandoned military base, which was named Kiryat Arba ,' as if ,' Gershom Gorenberg writes, ' to make the place instantly ancient .'.

On October 12, 1968, the city erected a granite marker at the site believed to be Point du Sable's grave in the third St. Charles Borromeo Cemetery.

* Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons ( 1967 – 1968 ) – The Martians at war with Earth are the Mysterons — an invisible race of superbeings hell-bent on revenge after an unprovoked attack on their Martian city by Captain Black, a Spectrum agent investigating strange alien signals.

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.

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

The Capital Plaza Office Tower opened in 1968 and has become a visual landmark for the center of the city.

* February 8, 1968: Orangeburg, South Carolina In the days leading up to February 8, 1968, about 200 mostly student protesters gathered on the campus of South Carolina State University, located in the city of Orangeburg, to protest the segregation of the All Star Bowling Lane.

It is the county seat of Duval County, with which the city government consolidated in 1968.

On October 1, 1968, the government of Duval County was consolidated with the government of the city of Jacksonville, although the Duval County cities of Atlantic Beach, Baldwin, Jacksonville Beach, and Neptune Beach are not included in the corporate limits of Jacksonville, and maintain their own municipal governments.

Opened on February 11, 1968, it is the longest active major sporting facility in the New York metropolitan area and the fourth incarnation of the arena in the city, following the previous Madison Square Garden, which operated from 1925 to 1968.

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 1968 Mexico City became the first city in the Spanish speaking world to be chosen to host an Olympic Games.

During the months and years that followed the Battle of Huế, which began on January 31, 1968, and lasted a total of 28 days, dozens of mass graves were discovered in and around Huế.

The Viet Cong set up provisional authorities shortly after capturing Huế in the early hours of January 31, 1968, and was charged with removing the existing government administration from power within the city and replacing it with a " revolutionary administration.

Three professors, members of the West German Cultural Mission who taught at the Huế Faculty of Medicine, and the wife of one of the professors, were arrested and executed by the North Vietnamese and National Liberation Front during their recapture of Huế during the Tet Offensive ( Feb. 1968 ).

* The Battle for Huế, 1968 by James H. Willbanks

Burial of 300 unidentified victims from the Massacre of Hue | Huế Massacre, killed by NVA / VC forces and found after the ARVN and U. S. Marines retook the area in March, 1968 Photo from the U. S. Military.

* Battle of Huế – January 31, – February 25, 1968

In 1968, it was closely involved in support of actions in Huế during the Tet Offensive.

The US ASCII 1968 Code Chart was structured with two columns of control characters, a column with special characters, a column with numbers, and four columns of letters

# The Anglican Consultative Council ( first met in 1971 ) was created by a 1968 Lambeth Conference resolution, and meets usually at three year intervals.

Braudel was editor of Annales from 1956 to 1968, followed by the medievalist Jacques Le Goff.

The first manned flight of Apollo was in 1968 and it succeeded in landing the first humans on Earth's Moon in 1969 through 1972.

In 1968, he was cited by William F. Buckley as one of several historical figures whose best qualities would be emulated by the ideal President.

Transmission, Gregory Chaitin also presents this theorem in J. ACM – Chaitin's paper was submitted October 1966 and revised in December 1968, and cites both Solomonoff's and Kolmogorov's papers.

In 1968, UBBTS became a Bible and junior Christian liberal arts college, and in 1970 the name was changed to Atlantic Baptist College ( ABC ).

This was started by Roy Noble, who built the guitar played by Clarence White from 1968 to 1972, and was followed by Bill Collings, Marty Lanham, Dana Bourgeois, Randy Lucas, Lynn Dudenbostel and Wayne Henderson, a few of the luthiers building guitars today inspired by vintage Martins, the pre – World War II models in particular.

Their second Coppa Italia trophy was won in 1968 – 69 when it was competed in a small league like system.

Another was unveiled at St Mildred's Church, Bread St, London, in 1932 ; that church was destroyed in the London Blitz in 1940, but the principal elements of the monument were re-erected in St Mary-le-Bow at the west end of Watling Street, near Saint Paul's Cathedral, in 1968.

* In 1968 Abergavenny was the title of a UK single by Marty Wilde.

After this essay was circulated in samizdat and then published outside the Soviet Union ( initially on July 6, 1968, in the Dutch newspaper Het Parool through intermediary of the Dutch academic and writer Karel van het Reve, followed by The New York Times ), Sakharov was banned from all military-related research and returned to FIAN to study fundamental theoretical physics.

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

On April 22, 1971, syndicated columnist Jack Anderson reported allegations that Capp made indecent advances to four female students when he was invited to speak at the University of Alabama in February 1968.

The town changed very little over the years, until 1968 when the large scale mining of kaolin, bauxitic kaolin, and bauxite was begun by Mulcoa, Mullite Company of America, which turned of scrub oak wilderness into a massive mining and refining operation.

The F-111B was canceled in 1968.

A three-act stage play based on the pilot was written by David Rogers in 1968.

He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1968.

This style was used by other computer vendors, the CDC 7600 System Description ( 1968 ) made extensive use of K as 1024.

He was then in the England team which made it to the semi-finals of the 1968 European Championships where they were knocked out by Yugoslavia in Florence.

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.