1968

Events

Dated Events

• Real World: January 30. The Tet Offensive begins in Vietnam.

• Real World: February 16. The first 9-1-1 emergency telephone system begins service in Haleyville, Alabama.

• Real World: February 24. The Tet Offensive is finally stopped.

• Real World: March 16. The My Lai Massacre occurs in Vietnam.

• Real World: April 4. Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated by James Earl Ray.

• Real World: April 20. Pierre Trudeau elected Prime Minister of Canada.

• Real World: June 5. Robert F. Kennedy is shot by Sirhan Sirhan; he dies the next day.

• Real World: August 20. Warsaw Pact forces invade Czechoslovakia to stop their process of political reform.

• Real World: November 5. Richard Nixon is elected President of the United States.

• Real World: December 24. Apollo 8 enters orbit around the Moon.

Undated Events

• DC (Post-Crisis), DC (Post-Zero Hour), DC (Post-Infinite Crisis): The original Secret Six is formed. Captain Nathaniel Adam is apparently disintegrated in a nuclear experiment involving the metal of the Silver Shield, but he is actually flung into the Quantum Field. (Action Comics Weekly #601, Captain Atom #1)

• DC (Vertigo): John Constantine runs away from home and lives on the streets of London for a time. (Hellblazer Secret Files)

• Gargoyles, Gargoyles: The Goliath Chronicles: Elisa Maza is born. (Ask Greg)

• Resident Evil: Edward Ashford and Ozwell Spencer found Umbrella, Inc. after creating the T-Virus. (Source unknown)

New Fictional Works

Notable Books

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick, Star Quest by Dean Koontz.

Notable Films

Against All Odds, Bamboo Saucer, Barbarella, Black Lizard, Blackbeard's Ghost, Brides of the Beast, Cauldron of Blood, Charly, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Dr. Faustus, Dracula Has Risen from the Grave, Island of the Lost, Macabre Serenade, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Mission Mars, Night of the Living Dead, Planet of the Apes, Quatermass and the Pit, Romeo and Juliet, Rosemary's Baby, Sinister Invasion, Snake People, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (TV movie), 2001: A Space Odyssey, Torture Garden, The Vengeance of She, Wild in the Streets.

Notable Television Series

• Beginning: The Adventures of Gulliver, The Batman/Superman Hour, Fantastic Voyage, Land of the Giants, The Prisoner.

• Continuing: The Avengers (Season 7), Dark Shadows (Season 3), Doctor Who (Season 6), Fantastic Four (Season 2), The Invaders (Season 2 ends), Spider-Man (Season 2), Star Trek (Season 3), The Wild Wild West (Season 4).

• Ending: The Amazing Three (U.S.), Batman, Birdman and the Galaxy Trio, Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, The Herculoids, Journey to the Centre of the Earth, Lost in Space, The Man from UNCLE, Mighty Mightor, Samson and Goliath becomes Young Samson (then ends), The Superman/Aquaman Hour of Adventure, Super President and Spy Shadow.

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