1968 - University of Baltimore

1968

RETROSPECTIVE CALENDAR

January

Sun

Mon

Tue

Wed

1

Thu

Fri

2

3

4

9

10

11

Sat

5

6

12

13

Twentieth Century

Fox Releases Planet

of the Apes

7

8

Government Grant for

Redevelopment of

Inner Harbor

14

15

Baltimore to Preserve

Babe Ruth Birthplace

16

17

Wallace Maryland

Drive Promised

21

B-52 Bomber Crashes

4 Nuclear Weapons

Lost off Coast of

Greenland

28

22

Maj. Harris Applies

for Entry Into White

Police Association

23

24

North Korea Seizes

83 Sailors and USS

Pueblo

29

30

18

Eartha Kitt

Denounces Vietnam

War

25

19

20

African Americans

Picket Bethlehem

Steel

26

Holocaust Survivors

Protest Baltimore¡¯s

Crime Rate

31

Vietnam Tet

Offensive Begins

1968

27

February

Sun

Mon

Tue

Wed

Thu

Fri

1

Sat

2

3

Sanitation Workers

Killed in Memphis

4

5

King & Carmichael

Meet

Dr. King rejects

President Johnson

appeal to abandon

March on Washington

in April

11

Baltimore SNCC

Attacked by Negro

Leaders

7

6

12

13

14

8

Robert F. Kennedy ¡°U.S. cannot Win the

Vietnam War¡±

15

Memphis Sanitation

Workers Strike

18

19

20

21

22

Malcolm X Day

in Detroit

26

27

Dr. King Recruits

Marchers

17

Baltimore Police

Commissioner

Discounts ¡°get-tough¡±

Policy

23

H. Rap Brown

Bond Revoked

28

10

1967 Newark Riot

Report Released

16

911 Emergency

Telephone System

Inaugurated

Anti-Draft Group

Marches at Fort

25

9

H. Rap Brown Calls

for Revenge in South

Carolina

24

Tet Offensive Ends

29

The Kerner

Commission Report

Sent to LBJ

1968

March

Sun

Mon

Tue

Wed

Thu

Fri

Sat

1

Maryland to

Desegregate Somerset

County School

3

4

5

USS Torsk

Decommissioned in

Boston

10

11

6

Montgomery Mall in

Bethesda Opens

12

13

Polish Students

Protest

17

18

19

7

U.S. Files First Suit

Under Clean Air Act

8

9

15

16

Negro and the Cities

14

Maryland Race Unit

Replacement Asked

20

2

Negro in Baltimore

Post

My Lai Massacre

21

22

23

UCLA Wins Title

24

25

26

27

28

King Leads Memphis

March

29

Baltimore Budget

Raised 25%

30

Johnson Will Not

Seek Reelection

31

King Preaches in

Washington Cathedral

1968

April

Sun

Mon

Tue

1

Wed

Thu

3

2

King Delivers

¡°Been to the

Mountaintop¡± speech

7

8

National Day of

Mourning

9

10

Dr. King¡¯s Funeral

14

Rioting in Berlin

15

16

22

23

Whitney Young Call

for a White March On

Washington

28

29

17

Baltimore Disk

Jockey Accuses

Carmichael behind

Rioting

5

Rioting in

Washington D.C.

11

18

Baltimore Merchants

Demand Protection by

Mayor

24

Special Riot Unit

Planned

Sat

4

Assassination of Dr.

Martin Luther King

Agnew Angers Negro

Leaders

Richard Daley orders

Shoot to Kill

21

Fri

25

6

Riots in Baltimore

12

13

19

20

Riots Ebb Across

Nation

FBI Identify King¡¯s

Assassin

26

Britain Advances

Racial Discrimination

Bill

30

1968

27

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