During a spring training game in 1968, Bench was catching the eight-year veteran right-hander Jim Maloney.

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.

In the spring of 1968, Terry Luttrell became lead singer, and Bob Crownover and Gregg Philbin replaced Matt and Blair.

In spring 1968, a prominent SDS spokesman, Rudi Dutschke, was gunned down in the streets ; in response, massive demonstrations took place, directed in particular against the Springer Press, which had led a campaign to vilify the students.

However, during the riots that followed the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., in the spring of 1968, Agnew angered many African American leaders when he stated in reference to their constituents, " I call on you to publicly repudiate all black racists.

In the spring of 1968, a massive campaign began, aimed at promoting the already-adored Mao Zedong to god-like status.

The Yippies, who were seen as an offshoot of the hippie movements parodying as a political party, came to national attention during their celebration of the 1968 spring equinox, when some 3, 000 of them took over Grand Central Terminal in New York — eventually resulting in 61 arrests.

Convinced that Girodias and Warhol were conspiring to steal her work, Solanas purchased a gun in the spring of 1968.

Karloff's scenes were directed by Jack Hill and shot back to back in Los Angeles in the spring of 1968.

Warren presided over the Court's October 1968 term and retired in spring 1969 ; Nixon named Warren E. Burger to succeed him.

Most of the songs were conceived during a transcendental meditation course with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in Rishikesh, India in the spring of 1968.

He married a second time on 7 January 1964, to Françoise-Antoinette " Béatrice " Pancrazzi ( b. 28 July 1931 ), with whom he had two children: a daughter named Natacha ( b. 8 August 1964 ) and a son, Paul ( born in spring 1968 ).

Having completely recovered from mononucleosis in the spring of 1968, he won a silver medal in the 1500 meters that autumn in the high altitude of Mexico City, losing to Kip Keino from Kenya, whose remarkable race remained the Olympic 1, 500-meter record for 16 years.

In the spring of 1968, Rothko was diagnosed with a mild aortic aneurysm ( defect in the arterial wall, that gradually leads to outpouching of the vessel and at times frank rupture ).

In the spring of 1968, the Adkins and Bailey Warehouse burned down.

Until 1968, every color television sold used the RCA shadow mask concept, in the spring of that year Sony introduced their first Trinitron sets.

The seriousness with which US intelligence agencies planned the murder of Martin Luther King, Jr. speaks eloquently of the threat King and nonviolence represented to the powers that be in the spring of 1968.

The Poor People ’ s Campaign reflected Abernathy ’ s deep conviction that “ the key to the salvation and redemption of this nation lay in its moral and humane response to the needs of its most oppressed and poverty-stricken citizens .” His aim in the spring of 1968 was to raise the nation ’ s consciousness on hunger and poverty, which he achieved.

The 428th TFS of the 474th TFW reached an initial operational capability in the spring of 1968.

The ban has been upheld by UA and the successive owners of the pre-August 1948 Looney Tunes / Merrie Melodies catalog to this day, and these shorts have not been officially broadcast on television since 1968, and have only been exhibited once by Warner Bros., since then, theatrically in one theater in spring 2010 ( see below for more details ).

After the Tuesday night visits were ended, the Met returned to Philadelphia on its spring tour in 1967, 1968, 1978, and 1979.

Throughout the fall of 1967 and the spring of 1968, the U. S. was struggling with " one of the most severe monetary crises " of the period.

In the spring of 1968, Koop's son David was killed in a rock climbing accident on Cannon Mountain in New Hampshire during his junior year at Dartmouth College.

In spring 1968, the SG was loaned to Jackie Lomax, an associate of George Harrison.

Scat analysis collected near Claremont, California revealed that coyotes relied heavily on pets as a food source in winter and spring.

Most precipitation occurs in winter and spring, with summer and fall being fairly dry, drier than neighboring California.

* Fremontodendron californicum, California flannel bush ( lobed leaves with fine coating of hair, covered with yellow blossoms in spring )

* The California Alumni Association of the University of California, Berkeley now annually awards the outstanding achievement of a young alumnus or alumna with the Mark Bingham Award for Excellence in Achievement at its Charter Gala each spring.

In December 2009, the Los Angeles Times reported that the owners of Rolling Stone magazine planned to open a Rolling Stone restaurant in the Hollywood & Highland Center in Hollywood, California in the spring of 2010.

The Tcl programming language was created in the spring of 1988 by John Ousterhout while working at the University of California, Berkeley.

In 1938, the nineteen-year-old Williams was ten days late to spring training camp in Sarasota, Florida, because of a flood in California blocking the railroads.

Williams came to spring training three days late in, thanks to Williams driving from California to Florida and respiratory problems, the latter of which would plague Williams for the rest of his career.

Although the California Zephyr ran at full capacity and turned a modest profit from its 1949 inception through the late 1950s, by the mid-1960s the train was profitable only during the late spring, summer, and fall.

Southern California has also a weather phenomenon called " June Gloom or May Grey ", which sometimes gives overcast or foggy skies in the morning at the coast, but usually gives sunny skies by noon, during late spring and early summer.

California black oak forest types are heavily used for spring, summer, and fall cover by black bear.

The first people to rush to the gold fields, beginning in the spring of 1848, were the residents of California themselves — primarily agriculturally oriented Americans and Europeans living in Northern California, along with Native Americans and some Californios ( Spanish-speaking Californians ).

On May 3, 1535, Cortés claimed " Santa Cruz Island " ( now known as the peninsula of Baja California ), and laid out and founded the city that was to become La Paz later that spring.

In the spring of 1989, Sheen was named honorary mayor of Malibu, California.

This is in large part due to the fact that, as throughout California, the prevailing weather systems and wind come normally from the Pacific Ocean, blowing in from the west and southwest so that places closer to the ocean and on the windward side of higher elevations tend to receive more rain from autumn through spring and more summer wind and fog.

Tiki-themed events and conventions have begun to spring up across America — with the majority happening in Southern California.

In the summer of 1962, he was promoted to the position of territorial manager for California, Nevada, and Arizona, and moved to San Francisco ; and in the spring of 1963 to Los Angeles.

Carson, like much of the Southern California coastal areas, is subject to a late spring / early summer weather phenomenon called " June Gloom.

Marcy marked the spring as a campsite on the Overland Trail to California.

The first undergraduate course in the United States on LGBTQ studies was taught at the University of California, Berkeley in the spring of 1970.

Located in Yosemite National Park in the Sierra Nevada of California, it is a major attraction in the park, especially in late spring when the water flow is at its peak.

The reduced available winter forage in northern California means that bees must be fed for early spring buildup.