April 1968
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This article covers current news and events back then - April 1968 .
Reports from the day's events in April 1968
April 2, 1968 (Tuesday)
- Washington DC: Stanley Kubrick's 2001 film : A Space Odyssey has world premiere.
April 3 (Wednesday)
- Memphis: Well-known address by Martin Luther King on the impending strike ( I've Been to the Mountaintop - I've seen the country)
- Frankfurt am Main: A group around Andreas Baader and Gudrun Ensslin committed an arson attack on a department store
- Stockholm : World premiere of the operetta Drottningen av Golconda (The Queen of Golconda) by Franz Berwald at the Royal Theater
Died:
- Charles Lauritsen , nuclear physicist
April 4th (Thursday)
- Memphis (Tennessee) , USA: Fatal assassination attempt on Martin Luther King , civil rights activist , Nobel Peace Prize winner (1964)
- Jozef Lenárt , Czechoslovak Prime Minister since 1963, resigns with his cabinet. Oldřich Černík will be his successor on April 8th.
April 5th (Friday)
- Cape Canaveral (Florida): Successful launch of the Apollo 6 rocket , the last time an attempt was made with an unmanned Saturn rocket to test the technology for a manned flight to the moon .
April 6 (Saturday)
- GDR : In a referendum for a new constitution, around 94 percent of those eligible to vote vote “yes”. The new constitution, in which the GDR is characterized as a “socialist state of the German nation”, comes into force on April 9th.
April 7th (Sunday)
- Munich : World premiere of the play "Katzelmacher" by Rainer Werner Fassbinder . The piece deals with a hunt for a Greek “guest worker” in a Bavarian village.
- The World Health Day is a global day of action, with the WHO (UN World Health Organization) reminded again this year at its founding in 1948th The theme this year is health in tomorrow's world
(Health in the world of tomorrow). Died:
- Werner Bockelmann , Mayor of Ludwigshafen / Rhein, Frankfurt am Main, managing director of the German Association of Cities
April 8 (Monday)
Died:
- Glenn Andreotta , crew member of a US helicopter in Vietnam. (He intervened in the previous month's My Lai massacre and reported it.)
April 9 (Tuesday)
- Bonn: In a note to the USSR, the Federal Republic declares its willingness to negotiate declarations of non-violence with all Warsaw Pact states.
April 10, 1968 (Wednesday)
- Santa Monica : The Oscars were held in the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium.
April 11th (Thursday)
- Berlin: The unemployed J. Bachmann inflicts life-threatening gunshot wounds on the well-known student leader Rudi Dutschke ( Socialist Student Association, SDS )
- April 11–17: The attack on Dutschke led to demonstrations and violent clashes with the police in many parts of Germany, especially in front of the Axel Springer high-rise in what is now Rudi-Dutschke-Strasse in Berlin.
- Washington: In the USA, the Civil Rights Act of 1968 for better protection of citizens of color, through the signature of President Johnson, becomes law.
April 13 (Saturday)
- Federal Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger gives a radio and television address on the occasion of the attack on Dutschke and the subsequent Easter riots.
April 14th (Sunday)
- Federal Justice Minister Gustav Heinemann gives a self-critical radio and television address.
April 21, 1968 (Sunday)
- Grillenburg Castle near Dresden : Government representatives of the ČSSR meet with those of the Soviet Union , Bulgaria , Hungary , Poland and the GDR - the states later known as the "Warsaw Five" which ultimately also carried out the intervention - to decide on the situation in Czechoslovakia speak.
- Munich: For the last time a tram decorated with flowers travels through Neuhauser-, Kaufingerstraße, over Marienplatz and the valley. Due to the construction of the S-Bahn, this connection will be discontinued.
April 26th (Friday)
Died:
- John Heartfield , known as the founder of political photo montage
April 28 (Sunday)
- Stuttgart: In the state elections in Baden-Württemberg , the right-wing extremist party NPD received 9.8 percent of the vote.
April 29 (Monday)
- New York : World premiere of the musical Hair on Broadway (music: Galt MacDermot , script: Gerome Ragni and James Rado , director: Bertrand Castelli)
April 30, 1968 (Tuesday)
- Bonn: The Bundestag is holding a special session due to the student unrest.
Events that have been ongoing for a long time
Events that have been ongoing for a long time and will continue this month:
- Nigeria : The Biafra War, civil war from 1967 to 1970
- Prague: After a change in leadership in the Communist Party last year, the Czechoslovakia was unclear for a few weeks about a new direction, a reform course, the Czechoslovak ruling party under Alexander Dubček , which would lead to the “ Prague Spring ” and its suppression by Warsaw Pact troops. In April 1968 the KSČ made a turn in economic policy with an action program. The decisive economic passages came from Ota Šik .
- Period in the Vietnam War in South Vietnam - the Tet offensive against the South Vietnam and American allies lasted from 29./30. January to September 23, 1968. It had already peaked in January and February.
- Rome: The Club of Rome is founded at a meeting in the city in April to discuss solutions to global problems every year. Approx. 30 European scientists, ex-politicians and industrialists came together at the invitation of Aurelio Peccei and Alexander King . The first meeting was a flop, is their own summary.
See also
- April (for month name)
- Chronology of the Vietnam War, 1968
- Nekrolog April 1968 for deaths that month
- List of annually recurring days of remembrance and action in April
- Category for commemorative days, public holidays or days of action in April
Web links
Commons : April 1968 - Collection of Pictures, Videos and Audio Files
- Chronicle April 1968 at the Living Virtual Museum Online of dhm.de.