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| 1968 |
| | | Antonio de Salazar, the Portuguese dictator, suffers a stroke and is replaced by Marcelo Caetano | |
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| 1968 |
| | | Alexander Solzhenitsyn's novel Cancer Ward is smuggled to New York for publication | |
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| 1968 |
| | | Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke create the film 2001: A Space Odyssey, based on Clarke's 1951 short story The Sentinel | |
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| 1968 |
| | | Soviet and Warsaw Pact troops invade Czechoslovakia to end the Prague Spring | |
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| 1968 |
| | | Reformist Czech leader Alexander Dubcek is arrested and flown to Moscow | |
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| 1968 |
| | | The first civil rights march in northern Ireland, in Derry, is halted by the police with batons and water cannon | |
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| 1968 |
| | | Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis marries Jacqueline Kennedy, widow of the assassinated president | |
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| 1968 |
| | | Republican candidate Richard Nixon defeats Hubert Humphrey in the US presidential election | |
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| 1968 |
| | | Harvard academic Henry Kissinger is selected by President Nixon as his national security adviser | |
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| 1968 |
| | | Three US astronauts become the first humans to leave the earth's orbit, reaching the moon and going into its orbit in Apollo 8 | |
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