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| 1968 |
| | | Lyndon Johnson announces that he will not stand for re-election as US president | |
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| 1968 |
| | | New Czech leader Alexander Dubcek facilitates the Prague Spring, aiming in his words to provide 'socialism with a human face' | |
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| 1968 |
| | | British actor Richard Attenborough makes his first film as a director, Oh! What a Lovely War | |
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| 1968 |
| | | Spanish Guinea becomes an independent republic as Equatorial Guinea, with Francisco Macias Nguema as president | |
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| 1968 |
| | | US soldiers massacre hundreds of unarmed civilians in the Vietnamese village of My Lai | |
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| 1968 |
| | | Robert Kennedy enters the race for the Democratic presidential nomination | |
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| 1968 |
| | | Ezra Pound publishes his last collection of cantos, Drafts and Fragments of Cantos CX - CXVII | |
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| 1968 |
| | | Karlheinz Stockhausen's Stimmung ('Tuning') employs six unaccompanied voices for 75 minutes | |
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| 1968 |
| | | US civil rights leader Martin Luther King is assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, by escaped convict James Earl Ray | |
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| 1968 |
| | | British racing driver Jim Clark is killed in an accident on the Hockenheim circuit, while leading in the world championship | |
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