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 ( Parti Démocratique Gabonais ) ( PDG ).

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.

The use of the term censorware in editorials criticizing makers of such software is widespread and covers many different varieties and applications: Xeni Jardin used the term in a 9 March 2006 editorial in the New York Times when discussing the use of American-made filtering software to suppress content in China ; in the same month a high school student used the term to discuss the deployment of such software in his school district.

Between June 1942 and March 1943, student protests were calling for an end to the Nazi regime.

Jan Berglin ( born March 24, 1960 ) is a Swedish cartoonist who made his debut in the Uppsala student newspaper Ergo in 1985.

After weeks of practice, Berry, Ginsburg, and Torrence planned to record a demo recording in Berry's garage, but Torrance was conscripted into the United States Army Reserve forcing Berry and Ginsburg to record " Jennie Lee " without Torrence, with Berry's friend and fellow University High student Donald J. Altfeld ( born March 18, 1940 in Los Angeles, California ) " belting out the rhythm on a children's metal high chair ".

Beria was educated at a technical school in Sukhumi and joined the Bolsheviks in March 1917 while a student in the Baku Polytechnicum ( now known as the Azerbaijan State Oil Academy ).

In late 1960s and early 1970s, student and faculty activists protested against the Vietnam War and MIT's defense research .< ref > The Union of Concerned Scientists was founded on March 4, 1969 during a meeting of faculty members and students seeking to shift the emphasis on military research towards environmental and social problems.

The March 26 murder of eight student anti-government demonstrators, widely believed to have been carried out by Oviedo supporters, made it clear that the Senate would vote to remove Cubas on March 29, and Cubas resigned on March 28.

* March 8 – The first student protests spark the 1968 Polish political crisis.

* March 19 – March 23 – Afrocentrism, Black power, Vietnam War: Students at Howard University in Washington, D. C., signal a new era of militant student activism on college campuses in the U. S. Students stage rallies, protests and a 5-day sit-in, laying siege to the administration building, shutting down the university in protest over its ROTC program and the Vietnam War, and demanding a more Afrocentric curriculum.

* March 28 – Brazilian high school student Edson Luís de Lima Souto is shot by the police in a protest for cheaper meals at a restaurant for low-income students.

* March 7 – Rudi Dutschke, German radical student leader ( d. 1979 )

* March 3 – The first student association in the Netherlands, Vindicat atque Polit, has its first fraternity, Mutua Fides, opened.

This student group, known as the Committee on the Appeal for Human Rights ( COAHR ), initiated the Atlanta Student Movement and began to lead in Atlanta with sit-ins starting on March 15, 1960.

* March 11, 1949: New York City A 16-year-old student at Stuyvesant High School was accidentally shot in the arm by a fellow student who was ‘ showing off ’ with a pistol in a classroom.

* March 4, 1958: New York City, New York “ A 17-year-old student shot a boy in the Manual Training High School .”

* March 2, 1987: Missouri Honours student Nathan Ferris, 12, killed a classmate and then himself.

The title " les Automatistes " came from journalist Tancrède Marcil Jr., in a review of their second exhibit in Montreal ( February 15 to March 1, 1947 ), which appeared in Le Quartier Latin ( the Université de Montréal's student journal ).

In March 1968, Presidential candidates Robert F. Kennedy and Eugene McCarthy drew a crowd of 12, 000 with student demonstrators burning draft cards.

Anders ( Andreas ) Dahl ( March 17, 1751, Varnhem, Västergötland – May 25, 1789 ) was a Swedish botanist and student of Carolus Linnaeus.

The victims were: Stephen McCann ( 21 ), a Queen's University student murdered on 30 October 1976 ; Joseph Morrissey ( 52 ), killed on 3 February 1977 ; and Francis Cassidy ( 43 ), a dock-worker who died on 30 March 1977.

Spears played the role of the promiscuous high school student Mandy Fener in the episode " Hot Sub " which aired on March 20, 2008.