1968 Day by Day Episodes Episode guide
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3rd April 1968
Dr Martin Luther King delivers a speech in Memphis, Tennessee.
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2nd April 1968
Snow covers Britain and two bombs placed by the Baader-Meinhof group explode in Frankfurt.
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1st April 1968
Robert Kennedy reacts to Lyndon Johnson's decision not to seek another term as president.
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31/03/2008
Lyndon Johnson signals the end to his presidency and riots break out in Japan.
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30/03/2008
Yuri Gagarin is buried and Czechoslovakia's new president is sworn in.
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29/03/2008
The UK sees a landslide Tory victory in the by-elections.
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28/03/2008
Martin Luther King leads a protest in Memphis that ends in disaster.
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27th March 1968
Celebrations and protests mark 50 years of female suffrage in the UK.
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26th March 1968
Paul McCartney returns from meditating in the Himalayas.
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25th March 1968
Aer Lingus flight 712 crashes in the Irish Sea killing 61 people.
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24th March 1968
Harlem senator Adam Clayton Powell warns of racial civil war in the US.
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23rd March 1968
Yippies take over Grand Central Station in New York.
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22nd March 1968
Prime Minister Harold Wilson faces student protests and heavy fighting continues in Biafra
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21st March 1968
Trouble flares in the Middle East and troop numbers in Vietnam are dramatically increased.
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20th March 1968
The Duke of Edinburgh allows himself to be interviewed live on television.
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19th March 1968
The Chancellor raises taxes by almost a billion pounds.
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18th March 1968
Central London cleans up after Sunday's anti-Vietnam riots.
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17th March 1968
Robert Kennedy announces his candidacy for President of the United States.