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| 1968 |
| | | Robert Kennedy is assassinated by Sirhan Sirhan, a Palestinian, in the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles | |
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| 1968 |
| | | Norman Mailer publishes The Armies of the Night, based on his experiences on an anti-Vietnam demonstration in Washington in October 1967 | |
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| 1968 |
| | | English biographer Michael Holroyd completes his two-volume life of Lytton Strachey | |
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| 1968 |
| | | Pope Paul VI issues the encyclical Humanae Vitae, condemning all methods of artificial birth control | |
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| 1968 |
| | | Raden Suharto is elected president, formalizing his already de facto succession to Sukarno as the Indonesian dictator | |
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| 1968 |
| | | A military coup in Iraq brings to power a government composed mainly of Ba'thists | |
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| 1968 |
| | | Barbara Streisand repeats her Broadway performance in the film of Funny Girl | |
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| 1968 |
| | | US athlete Bob Beamon sets a world long-jump record of 8.9 metres that will stand for 23 years | |
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| 1968 |
| | | Catholic bishops in Latin America, plagued by oppressive regimes, develop the concept of liberation theology | |
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| 1968 |
| | | Gore Vidal publishes Myra Breckenridge, featuring a lively transsexual as the central character | |
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