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.

When third husband Marty Melcher died April 20, 1968, a shocked Day discovered that her husband of 17 years and his business partner Jerome Bernard Rosenthal had squandered her earnings, leaving her deeply in debt.

Upon her husband's death on April 20, 1968, Day learned that he had committed her to a television series, which became The Doris Day Show.

In April 1968 he was proposed for a Minister of State position by Roy Jenkins but nothing came of it.

April 15, 1968 saw a pitching duel for the ages.

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.

It was therefore the site of protests and major demonstrations of the German student movement, while on April 11, 1968 spokesman Rudi Dutschke leaving the office of the Sozialistischer Deutscher Studentenbund on Kurfürstendamm No. 140 was shot in the head.

A major change in the structure of Zambia's economy came with the Mulungushi Reforms of April 1968: Kaunda declared his intention to acquire an equity holding ( usually 51 % or more ) in a number of key foreign-owned firms, to be controlled by his Industrial Development Corporation ( INDECO ).

Sorrow ( December 1968 ), The Who's Tommy ( April 1969 ) and The Kinks ' Arthur ( September 1969 ).

One of these passenger ferries, the Wahine, was lost in a storm as it entered Wellington Harbour on 10 April 1968, with the loss of 51 passengers and crew.

Setting aside Peary's claim, the first confirmed surface conquest of the North Pole was that of Ralph Plaisted, Walt Pederson, Gerry Pitzl and Jean Luc Bombardier, who traveled over the ice by snowmobile and arrived on April 19, 1968.

The Writer ’ s Union also formed a committee in April 1968, headed by the poet Jaroslav Seifert, to investigate the persecution of writers after the Communist takeover in February 1948 and rehabilitate the literary figures into the Union, bookstores and libraries, and the literary world .< ref > Golan, Galia.

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Control Committee of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, " Action Plan of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia ( Prague, April 1968 )" in Dubcek ’ s Blueprint for Freedom: His original documents leading to the invasion of Czechoslovakia.

Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau (; ; October 18, 1919 – September 28, 2000 ), usually known as Pierre Trudeau or Pierre Elliott Trudeau, was the 15th Prime Minister of Canada from April 20, 1968 to June 4, 1979, and again from March 3, 1980 to June 30, 1984.

Nevertheless, at the April 1968 Liberal leadership convention, Trudeau was elected as the leader on the fourth ballot, with the support of 51 % of the delegates.

The most recent premier to die was Joh Bjelke-Petersen ( 1968 – 1987 ), on 23 April 2005.

In the spring of 1968 Gudrun Ensslin and Andreas Baader, joined by Thorwald Proll and Horst Söhnlein, set fire to two department stores in Frankfurt on 2 April as a protest against the Vietnam war.

On 11 April 1968 Rudi Dutschke, a leading spokesman for protesting students, was shot in the head in an assassination attempt by the right-wing extremist Josef Bachmann.

The APC, with its leader Siaka Stevens, narrowly won a small majority seats in Parliament over the SLPP in a closely contested 1967 Sierra Leone general election and Stevens was sworn in as Prime Minister of April 26, 1968.

From 1968 to 2009 the date has never left the 21-day range of April 13 to May 3.

Timothy James " Tim " McVeigh ( April 23, 1968 – June 11, 2001 ) was an American domestic terrorist who detonated a truck bomb in front of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995.

In April 2006, the Chadian rebel group United Front for Democratic Change, which is based in Darfur used C. A. R.

On April 13, 2007 ( Friday the 13th ), a group of students from The California Tech, Caltech's campus newspaper, arrived and distributed fake copies of The Tech, MIT's campus newspaper, while prospective students were visiting for their Campus Preview Weekend.

By 1974, another challenge to the state's authority and legitimacy had come from 19 April Movement ( M-19 ), a mostly urban guerrilla group founded allegedly in response to an electoral fraud during the final National Front election of Misael Pastrana ( 1970 – 1974 ) and the defeat of former dictator Gustavo Rojas.

Dayton was founded on April 1, 1796, seven years before the admission of Ohio to the Union in early 1803, by a group of 12 settlers known as " The Thompson Party.

According to the project's Facebook group, the English-language DVD has been released in Denmark on April 16, 2011 and is available internationally through the website forlaget-afart. dk /.

The group toured extensively from 3 February till 13 April 1976 promoting the album in the US, playing 68 shows in 76 days ( see Face the Music ).

Fianna Fáil joined the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party on 16 April 2009, and has sat in its associated Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe group in the European Parliament since the 2009 European elections.

* Cushman, John H. " Industrial group plans to battle climate treaty ", The New York Times, April 26, 1998.

On 16 April 2012 Military leaders and a group of political parties in Guinea-Bissau have announced the formation of a Transitional National Council.

Guy Fawkes ( 13 April 1570 – 31 January 1606 ), also known as Guido Fawkes, the name he adopted while fighting for the Spanish in the Low Countries, was a member of a group of provincial English Catholics who planned the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605.

On April 26, 2010, Hefner donated the last $ 900, 000 sought by a conservation group for a land purchase needed to stop the development of the famed vista of the Hollywood Sign.

A group of seventeen authors headed by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology reported the discovery of at least one Ivory-billed Woodpecker, a male, in the Big Woods area of Arkansas in 2004 and 2005, publishing the report in the journal Science on 28 April 2005 ( Fitzpatrick et al., 2005 ).

After the Liberal Party left the coalition in April 2000, Prime Minister Mori welcomed a Liberal Party splinter group, the New Conservative Party, into the ruling coalition.

On April 10, 2010, during the annual ( non-university sanctioned ) block party, police equipped with riot gear used force to disperse a group of 8, 000 college-aged individuals were gathered in the townhouse development on Village Lane, just off campus.

Concurrently, tension between Syria and Phalange increased Israeli support for the Maronite group and led to direct Israeli-Syrian exchanges in April 1981, leading to American diplomatic intervention.

In April 2011 an urban exploration group called the " Consolidation Crew " published accounts of illicit access to the tunnels.

Ham remained musically active and played sax with the Melbourne-based group The Nudist Funk Orchestra until his death in April 2012.

In April 1861, the group published the first sample pages ; later that month, the thirty year old Coleridge died of tuberculosis.

Occidental College was founded on April 20, 1887, by a group of Presbyterian clergy and laymen, including James George Bell.

The phonograph cylinder recordings of Handel's choral music made on June 29, 1888 at The Crystal Palace in London were thought to be the oldest known surviving musical recordings, until the recent playback by a group of American historians of a waveform of " Au Clair de la Lune ", recorded on a phonautograph on April 9, 1860.

On 20 April 1998, an eight-page typewritten letter in German was faxed to the Reuters news agency, signed " RAF " with the submachine-gun red star, declaring that the group had dissolved.

On 20 April 1998, an eight-page typewritten letter in German was faxed to the Reuters news agency, signed " RAF " with the machine-gun red star, declaring the group dissolved:

In April 2003, the ROM hacking group Demiforce released a fan translation rendering Radical Dreamers in English.

Railtrack was a group of companies that owned the track, signalling, tunnels, bridges, level crossings and all but a handful of the stations of the British railway system from its formation in April 1994 until 2002.