1968

1968 was a year:

Events

 * 5 January – Alexander Dubček is appointed First Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, beginning an era of liberalization.
 * 6–18 February – The Olympic Winter Games are held in Grenoble, France.
 * 10 June: Italy wins the UEFA European Championship by defeating Yugoslavia, 2–0 in the final game replay at the Olympic Stadium in Rome, Italy.
 * 21 August – A joint Warsaw Pact invasion led by the Soviet Union strikes down the Prague Spring movement in Czechoslovakia.
 * 12–27 October – The Olympic Sumer Games are held in Mexico City, Mexico.
 * 5 November – Richard Nixon is elected President of the USA.
 * December – American spacecraft Apollo 8, carrying Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and William Anders inside, rounds the Moon.

Deaths

 * 27 March – Yuri Gagarin, 34, Soviet cosmonaut.