1968



=**1968**= (**[|MCMLXVIII]**) was a [|leap year starting on Monday] (link will display full calendar) of the [|Gregorian calendar]. In the west, the year is associated with the [|protests of 1968].The **Protests of 1968** consisted of a worldwide series of protests, largely led by students and workers. Some observers saw them as a [|revolutionary wave], similar to the [|wave that swept the world 120 years previously].

(February 12)

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 * [|February 1] – [|Vietnam War]: A [|Viet Cong] officer named [|Nguyễn Văn Lém] is executed by [|Nguyễn Ngọc Loan], a [|South Vietnamese] National Police Chief. The event is photographed by [|Eddie Adams]. The photo makes headlines around the world, eventually winning the 1969 [|Pulitzer Prize], and sways U.S. public opinion against the war.
 * [|February 1] – The [|Pennsylvania Railroad] and the [|New York Central Railroad] merge to form [|Penn Central], the largest ever corporate [|merger] up to this date.
 * [|February 6] –[|18] – The [|1968 Winter Olympics] are held in [|Grenoble], [|France].
 * [|February 8] – [|American civil rights movement]: A [|civil rights] protest staged at a white-only [|bowling alley] in [|Orangeburg, South Carolina] is broken up by highway patrolmen; 3 college students are killed.
 * [|February 11] – Border clashes take place between [|Israel] and [|Jordan].
 * [|February 13] – Civil rights disturbances occur at the [|University of Wisconsin–Madison] and the [|University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill].
 * [|February 17] – Administrative reforms in [|Romania] divide the country into 39 [|counties].
 * [|February 19] – The Florida Education Association (FEA) initiates a mass resignation of teachers to protest state funding of education. This is, in effect, the first statewide teachers' strike in the United States.
 * [|February 19] – [|NET] televises the very first episode of [|Mister Rogers' Neighborhood].
 * [|February 24] – [|Vietnam War]: The [|Tet Offensive] is halted; [|South Vietnam] recaptures [|Hué].
 * [|February 27] – Ex-[|Teenagers] singer [|Frankie Lymon] is found dead from a [|heroin] [|overdose] in [|Harlem].

Nobel Prizes

 * [|Physics] – [|Luis Walter Alvarez]
 * [|Chemistry] – [|Lars Onsager]
 * [|Physiology or Medicine] – [|Robert W. Holley], [|Har Gobind Khorana], [|Marshall W. Nirenberg]
 * [|Literature] – [|Yasunari Kawabata]
 * [|Peace] – [|René Cassin]

Academy Awards

 * Best Picture: //[|In the Heat of the Night]//, [|Walter Mirisch]
 * Best Foreign Language Film: //[|Closely Watched Trains]//, [|Czechoslovakia]
 * Best Documentary Feature: //[|The Anderson Platoon]//, [|Pierre Schoendoerffer]
 * Best Director: [|Mike Nichols], //[|The Graduate]//
 * Best Actor: [|Rod Steiger], //[|In the Heat of the Night]//
 * Best Actress: [|Katharine Hepburn], //[|Guess Who's Coming to Dinner]//
 * Best Supporting Actor: [|George Kennedy], //[|Cool Hand Luke]//
 * Best Supporting Actress: [|Estelle Parsons], //[|Bonnie and Clyde]//
 * Best Original Screenplay: [|William Rose], //[|Guess Who's Coming to Dinner]//
 * Best Adapted Screenplay: [|Stirling Silliphant], //[|In the Heat of the Night]//

=What were the food prices in 1968= 4 pack toilet paper .69cents 10 lb potatoes 69 cents chicken whole $1 to 2 hamburger 59 cent lb steak/fish 1.99 lb pork chops 1.99 ;b to sum it up i could take $20. a week and buy food for 2 to eat breakfast and dinner for the whole week and buy supplies, tp. laundry soap, cleaning supplies another $5.00 and cigs were $4.00 a carton oh how i wish the prices would roll back to back then
 * Gas** per Gallon 34 cents; Average Cost of a new car $2,822.00; Movie Ticket$1.50; The Federal Hourly Minimum Wage is $1.60 an hour.

**Chynna Gilliam Phillips** (born February 12, 1968)


known for being a member of [|Wilson Phillips] and for being the daughter of [|The Mamas & the Papas]' band members [|John] and [|Michelle Phillips] and the half-sister of actress [|Mackenzie Phillips], [|Bijou Phillips], Jeffrey Phillips, Tamerlane Phillips, and Austin Hines. She also has a former stepbrother Gray Hines, and an adopted brother Aron Wilson. [|February 12, 1968]
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 * Josh James Brolin** (born [|February 12], 1968)

An [|Academy Award] nominated [|American] [|actor]. He has acted in theater, film and television roles since 1985, and won acting awards for his roles in the films //[|No Country for Old Men]// and //[|Milk]//. [|February 12, 1968]
 * **date of birth **

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=Top 10 Hits of 1968/Top 10 Songs of 1968= 1. Hey Jude, The Beatles 2. [|Honey], Bobby Goldsboro 3. Love Is Blue, Paul Mauriat 4. [|(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay], Otis Redding 5. [|People Got to Be Free], Rascals 6. [|Sunshine of Your Love], Cream 7. This Guy's In Love With You, Herb Alpert 8. [|Stoned Soul Picnic], Fifth Dimension 9. [|Mrs. Robinson], Simon and Garfunkel 10. Tighten Up, Archie Bell and The Drells