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1968 Dasht-E-Bayaz earthquake

The 1968 Dasht-e-Bayaz earthquake was a magnitude 7.1 strike-slip earthquake that struck Khorassan province in northeastern Iran on August 31, 1968, killing an estimated 7,000 to 12,000 people.

1968 Democratic National Convention

The 1968 Democratic National Convention, held August 26–29 in Chicago's International Amphitheatre, nominated Hubert Humphrey on the first ballot while police and anti-war protesters clashed violently outside; the Walker Report called it a police riot and the McGovern-Fraser reforms followed.

1968 Democratic National Convention protests

1968 Democratic National Convention protests: week of anti-Vietnam War demonstrations in Chicago, August 1968, led by Yippies and MOBE, ending in the Conrad Hilton police riot, 668 arrests, and the Chicago Eight trial.

1968 Democratic Party presidential primaries

1968 Democratic presidential primaries: Johnson, Eugene McCarthy, Robert Kennedy, and Hubert Humphrey; McCarthy's near-win in New Hampshire, Kennedy's assassination, Humphrey nominated without primaries, and the McGovern-Fraser reforms.

1968 Ferdow earthquake

The 1968 Ferdow earthquake was a pair of earthquakes, magnitude 6.3 and 5.5, that struck near Ferdows in eastern Iran on 1 and 4 September 1968, killing about 900 people.

1968 Formula One season

1968 Formula One season: 12-race FIA World Championship won by Graham Hill (Lotus Ford, 48 points); Lotus took the constructors' standings with 62. Marked by the arrival of aerofoil wings and Jim Clark's death at Hockenheim in April.

1968 Malian coup d'état

The 1968 Malian coup d'état was the military overthrow of Mali's first president, Modibo Keïta, on 19 November 1968 by junior officers, beginning Moussa Traoré's 22-year rule.

1968 Manila earthquake

The 1968 Manila earthquake, known in the Philippines as the Casiguran earthquake, was a magnitude 7.3 quake that killed about 270 people, 268 of them in the Ruby Tower collapse.

1968 Olympics Black Power salute

1968 Olympics Black Power salute: Tommie Smith and John Carlos raised black-gloved fists on the Mexico City 200m podium on October 16, 1968, joined by silver medalist Peter Norman wearing an Olympic Project for Human Rights badge; both Americans were expelled from the Games.

1968 Panamanian coup d'état

The 1968 Panamanian coup d'état saw the National Guard overthrow President Arnulfo Arias Madrid on October 11, 1968, eleven days into his term, beginning two decades of military rule.

1968 Peruvian coup d'état

The 1968 Peruvian coup d'état was a bloodless seizure of power on 3 October 1968, when General Juan Velasco Alvarado deposed the elected president Fernando Belaúnde Terry over an oil dispute.

1968 Polish political crisis

The 1968 Polish political crisis, called March 1968 (Marzec 1968), began with student protests at the University of Warsaw and brought a purge and antisemitic campaign that drove thousands of Jews from Poland.

1968 Senegalese student protests

The 1968 Senegalese student protests began at the University of Dakar over scholarship cuts, spread to schools and unions, and challenged President Senghor's government from May to September 1968.

1968 Sicily earthquake

The 1968 Sicily earthquake, also called the Belice earthquake, struck the Belice river valley in western Sicily in January 1968, killing about 370 people and destroying fourteen towns.

1968 Summer Olympics

1968 Summer Olympics (Games of the XIX Olympiad), Mexico City, 12–27 October 1968: first Latin American Games at 2,240 m altitude; Beamon's 8.90 m record, Tlatelolco massacre, Smith–Carlos salute, first doping and gender tests.

1968 Summer Paralympics

1968 Summer Paralympics (Tel Aviv 1968), third Paralympic Games, held 4-13 November 1968 in Israel after Mexico City withdrew; 774 athletes from 28 countries, 10 sports, lawn bowls debut, Israel won men's wheelchair basketball gold.

1968 Summer Paralympics medal table

1968 Summer Paralympics medal table, Tel Aviv 1968 Paralympic Games standings: USA led with 33 golds, ahead of Great Britain and host Israel; 22 NPCs won medals, 576 total.

1968 Tambu earthquake

The 1968 Tambu earthquake was a magnitude 7.4 earthquake and tsunami that struck the coast of Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, on August 14, 1968, killing about 200 people.

1968 Thule Air Base B-52 crash

The 1968 Thule Air Base B-52 crash was a nuclear weapons accident in which a US B-52 carrying four hydrogen bombs crashed onto sea ice near Thule, Greenland, on 21 January 1968.

1968 Tour de France

The 1968 Tour de France, the 55th edition, was won by Dutch rider Jan Janssen on the final time trial, the last Tour run by national teams.

1968 United States presidential election

1968 US presidential election: Republican Richard Nixon beat Democrat Hubert Humphrey and third-party candidate George Wallace, 301-191-46 electoral votes, amid Vietnam War turmoil, the Chicago convention violence, and Wallace's five-state American Independent sweep.