African-American Civil Rights Movement ( 1955 – 1968 ) | Civil rights activists at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, 1963

** Series one: an introductory special on boxing day 1967, followed by 13 regular episodes of 30 minutes broadcast between 26 December 1967 to 28 March 1968, Thursdays at 17: 25.

In March 1968, under pressure from Equatoguinean nationalists and the United Nations, Spain announced that it would grant independence to Equatorial Guinea.

He was involved in the large-scale French protests of 1968, starting from the Movement of March 22.

In March 1968, Bongo declared Gabon a one-party state by dissolving the BDG and establishing a new party — the Gabonese Democratic Party.

Recording sessions for Sweetheart of the Rodeo commenced at Columbia Records ' recording studios in the Music Row area of Nashville on March 9, 1968.

General Suharto politically outmanoeuvred President Sukarno, and was formally appointed president in March 1968.

In a national referendum in March 1968, Maldivians abolished the sultanate and established a republic.

Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam, MLP leader and chief minister in the colonial government, became the first prime minister after independence, on 12 March 1968.

Mauritius became an independent state on 12 March 1968, with Elizabeth II as Queen of Mauritius, represented as head of state the Governor-General.

The Soviet Union and Mauritius established diplomatic relations on 17 March 1968.

Ten years later, the Grey Smith Stand and the open concrete stand next to it were replaced by the Western Stand ; the Duke of Edinburgh laid a foundation stone for the Western Stand on 3 March 1967, and it was completed in 1968.

On March 7, 1967, quarterback Fran Tarkenton was traded to the New York Giants for a first-round and second-round draft choice in 1967, a first-round choice in 1968 and a second-round choice in 1969.

*" Rainbow Chaser " ( March 1968 )-UK Singles Chart No. 34

On 22 March 1968, Novotný resigned his presidency and was replaced by Ludvík Svoboda, who later gave consent to the reforms.

This was also helped by the Journalists Union, which by March 1968 had already convinced the Central Publication Board, the government censor, to allow editors to receive uncensored subscriptions for foreign papers, allowing for a more international dialogue around the news.

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.

When the U. K. announced a policy in 1968 ( reaffirmed in March 1971 ) of ending the treaty relationships with the Persian Gulf sheikdoms, Qatar joined the other eight states then under British protection ( the seven trucial sheikdoms — the present United Arab Emirates -- and Bahrain ) in a plan to form a union of Arab emirates.

As their albums became progressively more adventurous, The Graduate soundtrack album was immediately followed in March 1968 at the top of the charts by Bookends, which dealt with increasingly complex themes of old age and loss.

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.

In 1968, the United Kingdom announced its decision, reaffirmed in March 1971, to end the treaty relationships with the seven Trucial Sheikhdoms which had been, together with Bahrain and Qatar, under British protection.

Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin (; 9 March 1934 – 27 March 1968 ) was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut.

Yuri Gagarin was born in the village of Klushino near Gzhatsk ( renamed Gagarin in 1968 after his death ), ( now in Smolensk Oblast, Russia ), on 9 March 1934.

In March 1967, Leon M ' Ba and Omar Bongo were elected President and Vice President.

In March 1967, Leon M ' Ba and Omar Bongo ( then known as Albert Bongo ) were elected President and Vice President, with the BDG winning all 47 seats in the National Assembly.

Former President Omar Bongo OndimbaIn March 1991 a new constitution was adopted.

In March 1967, Leon M ' Ba and Omar Bongo ( then Albert Bongo ) were elected president and vice president.

They were soon joined by Bob " Bongo " Starkie on guitar and backing vocals, and Red Symons on guitar, vocals and keyboards ; Graeme " Shirley " Strachan became lead vocalist in March 1974.

Bongo worked at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for a time, and he was named Assistant Director of the Presidential Cabinet in March 1962 ; he was named Director seven months later.

In the presidential election held on 19 March 1967, M ' ba was re-elected as President with Bongo was elected alongside him as Vice-President.

In March 1968 Bongo decreed Gabon to be a one-party state and changed the name of the Gabonese Independence Party, the Bloc Democratique Gabonais ( BDG ), to the Parti Democratique Gabonais ( PDG ).

Bongo then married Edith Lucie Sassou-Nguesso ( born 10 March 1964 – died 14 March 2009 ) in 1990.

Edith Lucie Bongo died on 14 March 2009, four days after her 45th birthday in Rabat, Morocco, where she had been undergoing treatment for several months.

M ' ba was reelected in March 1967, but died of cancer in November 1967 and was succeeded by his vice president, Albert-Bernard Bongo.

Starting from Khartoum in January 1869, he went up the White Nile to Bahr-el-Ghazal, and then, with a party of ivory dealers, through the regions inhabited by the Diur ( Dyoor ), Dinka, Bongo and Niam-Niam ; crossing the Nile watershed he entered the country of the Mangbetu ( Monbuttu ) and discovered the river Uele ( March 19, 1870 ), which by its westward flow he knew was independent of the Nile.

Ali Bongo ( 8 December 1929 – 8 March 2009 ) was a British comedy magician, and president of The Magic Circle who performed an act in which he was known as the " Shriek of Araby ".

Bongo was subsequently returned to the United Kingdom and cared for in St Thomas's Hospital, London, where he later died from complications arising from pneumonia on March 8 .< ref >

This will be the last generation of in-house designed Bongo vans and trucks with Mazda's March 2012 announcement that it will be withdrawing from commercial vehicle production and will focus on fuel efficient cars.

Bongo offered to appoint Mba Abessole as Minister of Justice after the March – April 1990 National Conference, but Mba Abessole refused to participate in the government.

The Bongo bass guitar was introduced on March 21, 2003 at the Winter NAMM Show in Anaheim, CA by Music Man, a division of Ernie Ball.

He declared on March 25 that the United States had erred a year and a half ago by `` encouraging the removal '' of Prince Souvanna.

After a Republican victory, but before the new administration took office on March 4, 1861, seven cotton states declared their secession and joined to form the Confederate States of America.

The campaign by the name ' Tree Day-Plant Your Future ' was first organized on 12 March 2008, when an official non-working day was declared and more than 150, 000 Macedonians planted 2 million trees in one day ( symbolically, one for each citizen ).

On 22 March 1798 Aarau was declared the capital of the Helvetic Republic.

In March 1807, Britain, which largely controlled the Atlantic, declared the trans-atlantic slave trade illegal, as did the United States.

Theodore Roosevelt delivered an address at Throop Institute on March 21, 1911, and he declared:

In a 31 March 302 rescript from Alexandria, he declared that low-status Manicheans must be executed by the blade, and high-status Manicheans must be sent to work in the quarries of Proconnesus ( Marmara Island, Turkey ) or the mines of Phaeno in southern Palestine.

On 26 February 1815, Napoleon abandoned Elba for France, reviving the French Empire for a Hundred Days ; the Allies declared an end to Napoleon's sovereignty over Elba on 25 March 1815, and on 31 March 1815 Elba was ceded to the restored Grand Duchy of Tuscany by the Congress of Vienna.

Japan took Vietnam from France and the Axis-occupied Vietnam was declared an empire by the Japanese in March 1945.

On 26 March 1971, the day after the military crackdown on civilians in East Pakistan, Mujibur Rahman declared the independence of Bangladesh.

On March 25, 1889, the Shewa ruler Menelik II — having conquered Tigray and Amhara, declared himself Emperor of Ethiopia ( Abyssinia in the European parlance of the time ).

On March 13, 1979, the New Jewel Movement launched an armed revolution which removed Gairy, suspended the constitution, and established a People's Revolutionary Government ( PRG ), headed by Maurice Bishop who declared himself prime minister.

In late March 2009, the Guinean ambassador to Serbia faced expulsion for personal involvement in cigarette smuggling ( 1, 000 packs of cigarettes were found in his BMW ) but avoided arrest due to diplomatic immunity ( although he was declared as persona non grata ).

On March 1, 1939, Hitler declared November 9 as the " Memorial Day for the movement " as the national holiday.

When Russia ignored an Anglo-French ultimatum to abandon the Danubian provinces, England and France declared war on Russia on 28 March 1854.

On March 25, 1821 ( also the same day as the Greek Orthodox day of the Annunciation of the Theotokos ), the Greeks rebelled and declared their independence, led by Theodore Kolokotronis, but did not achieve it until 1829.

Tadeusz Kościuszko was chosen as its leader ; the popular general came from abroad and on March 24, 1794 in Cracow ( Kraków ) declared a national uprising under his supreme command.

On 10 October 1935, a few months after he suppressed the second attempt in March 1935, Georgios Kondylis, the former Venizelist stalwart, abolished the Republic in another coup, and declared the monarchy restored.

On 22 March, Rory O ' Connor held what was to become an infamous press conference and declared that the IRA would no longer obey the Dáil as ( he said ) it had violated its Oath to uphold the Irish Republic.

In March 1982, the US Department of Defense declared TCP / IP as the standard for all military computer networking.

In March 1940 Jinnah passed what would come to be known as the “ Pakistan Resolution ,” declaring “ Muslims are a nation according to any definition of a nation, and they must have their homelands, their territory and their State .” This state was to be known as Pakistan, meaning “ Land of the Pure .” Nehru angrily declared that “ all the old problems ... pale into insignificance before the latest stand taken by the Muslim League leader in Lahore .” Linlithgow made Nehru an offer on 8 October 1940.

In March 1937, Ribbentrop attracted much adverse comment in the British press when he gave a speech at the Leipzig Trade Fair in Leipzig, where he declared that German economic prosperity would be satisfied either " through the restoration of the former German colonial possessions, or by means of the German people's own strength ".