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Question: Top ten stories of 1968!?
Obviously the Vietnam War was the biggest story!. What inventions, mathematical discoveries/industrial events happened during this time that was really big!?Www@QuestionHome@Com


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A couple of biggies that didn't involve anythong you mentioned were the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr!., and Bobby Kennedy!. also, Nixon was elected!. Muscle cars were getting faster!. The Tet Offensive in Vietnam!. The Congress of the United States repeals the requirement for a gold reserve to back U!.S!. currency!. President Lyndon B!. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968!. The U!.S!. nuclear-powered submarine Scorpion sinks with 99 men aboard, 400 miles southwest of the Azores!. Police clash with anti-war protesters in Chicago, Illinois, outside the 1968 Democratic National Convention!. The '68 Comeback Special marks the concert return of Elvis Presley!. Douglas Engelbart publicly demonstrates his pioneering hypertext system, NLS, in San Francisco!. Apollo Program: U!.S!. spacecraft Apollo 8 enters orbit around the Moon!. Astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and William A!. Anders become the first humans to see the far side of the Moon and planet Earth as a whole!. The crew also reads from Genesis!.Www@QuestionHome@Com