Enoch Powell’s “Rivers of Blood” Speech April 20, 1968

Space Race: The Soyuz 3 mission achieves the first Soviet space rendezvous. Date: October 26, 1968 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on October 26 📅 Events on this day in 1968 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1968First International Special Olympics Summer Games Begin in Chicago July 20, 1968Nicolae Ceaușescu…

Civil Air Transport Flight 010 crashes near Shongshan Airport in Taiwan, killing 21 of the 63 people on board and one more on the ground. Date: February 16, 1968 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on February 16 📅 Events on this day in 1968 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from…

Cultural Revolution: People's Daily posted the instructions of Mao Zedong that "The intellectual youth must go to the country, and will be educated from living in rural poverty." Date: December 22, 1968 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 22 📅 Events on this day in 1968 📅 On This Day (Today)…

South African Airways Flight 228 crashes near J.G. Strijdom Airport in South West Africa (now Hosea Kutako International Airport in Namibia), killing 123 people. Date: April 20, 1968 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on April 20 📅 Events on this day in 1968 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1968Vietnam…

Wien Consolidated Airlines Flight 55 crashes into Pedro Bay, Alaska, killing all 39 people on board. Date: December 2, 1968 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 2 📅 Events on this day in 1968 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1968Apollo 8 First Successful Trans-Earth Injection from Lunar Orbit…

James Anderson Jr. posthumously receives the first Medal of Honor to be awarded to an African American U.S. Marine. Date: August 21, 1968 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on August 21 📅 Events on this day in 1968 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1968Ba’ath Party Overthrows Abdul Rahman Arif…