Apollo program: The crew of Apollo 8 enters into orbit around the Moon, becoming the first humans to do so. They performed ten lunar orbits, took the Earthrise photograph, broadcast live TV pictures, and read the first ten verses of Genesis. Date: December 24, 1968 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December…
The 82 sailors from the USS Pueblo are released after eleven months of internment in North Korea. Date: December 23, 1968 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 23 📅 Events on this day in 1968 📅 On This Day (Today)
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)
Apollo program: Apollo 8 is launched from the Kennedy Space Center, placing its crew on a lunar trajectory for the first visit to another celestial body by humans. Date: December 21, 1968 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 21 📅 Events on this day in 1968 📅 On This Day (Today)
The Zodiac Killer murders his first two officially confirmed victims, David Arthur Faraday and Betty Lou Jensen, on Lake Herman Road in Benicia, California, United States. Date: December 20, 1968 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 20 📅 Events on this day in 1968 📅 On This Day (Today)
Second Vatican Council: Official revocation of the Edict of Expulsion of Jews from Spain. Date: December 16, 1968 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 16 📅 Events on this day in 1968 📅 On This Day (Today)
Brazilian President Artur da Costa e Silva issues AI-5 (Institutional Act No. 5), enabling government by decree and suspending habeas corpus. Date: December 13, 1968 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 13 📅 Events on this day in 1968 📅 On This Day (Today)
Japan's biggest heist, the still-unsolved "300 million yen robbery", is carried out in Tokyo. Date: December 10, 1968 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 10 📅 Events on this day in 1968 📅 On This Day (Today)
Douglas Engelbart gave what became known as "The Mother of All Demos", publicly debuting the computer mouse, hypertext, and the bit-mapped graphical user interface using the oN-Line System (NLS). Date: December 9, 1968 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 9 📅 Events on this day in 1968 📅 On This Day…
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)