Memories

--	Best Picture: Oliver!.
--	Best Record: *Mrs. Robinson, Simon & Garfunkel; Best Album: By the Time I Get to Phoenix, Glen Campbell; Best Song: Little Green Apples*, Bobby Russell, songwriter.
7 Jan	*GE College Bowl* quiz show premieres on NBC-TV.
7 Jan	Postage rates increased a penny; taking the cost of sending an ounce of mail up to 6 cents.
23 Jan	USS Pueblo & 83-man crew seized in Sea of Japan by North Koreans, 82 men released Dec. 22.
30 Jan	Bobby Goldsboro records his biggest hit, *Honey*.
27 Jan	Bee Gees played their first American concert, as a group. They earned $50,000 to entertain at the Anaheim Convention Center in California. This is identical to what the Beatles were paid to perform at the Hollywood Bowl a few years earlier.
27 Jan	Otis Redding's (Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay released, seven weeks after the singer's death. Became #1 on Mar. 16 and remained at the top spot for a month. Redding began his recording career in 1960 with The Pinetoppers. Redding was killed in a plane crash at Lake Monona near Madison, Wisconsin. Four members of the Bar-Kays were also killed in the crash. The Dock of the Bay, his only number one song, was recorded just three days before his death.
30 Jan	Tet Offensive, Communist troops attacked Saigon, 30 province capitals, suffer heavy casualties.
1 Feb	Vince Lombardi resigns as coach of Green Bay Packers.
3 Feb	Lemon Pipers' *Green Tambourine* reached #1 in an unsuspecting psychedelic world.
11 Feb	Peggy Fleming wins Olympic figure skating gold medal, Grenoble, France.
31 Mar	LBJ announces he will not seek re-election.
31 Mar	Pres. Johnson curbs bombing in North Vietnam.
4 Apr	Martin Luther King Jr., 39, assassinated in Memphis, Tenn. James Earl Ray, escaped convict, pleaded guilty to slaying & sentenced to 99 years.
6 Apr	**HemisFair 1968** opens in San Antonio, Texas.
10 May	Vietnam peace talks began in Paris.
27 May	Nuclear submarine Scorpion lost .
1 Jun	Author-lecturer Helen Keller, who earned a college degree despite being blind and deaf almost all of her life, died in Westport, Connecticut.
1 Jun	Simon & Garfunkel's *Mrs Robinson* hits #1.
1 Jun	Following previous day shooting in Hotel Ambassador, Los Angeles during presidential primary victory celebration, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy (D. N.Y.), 42, dies. Sirhan Bishara Sirhan, Jordanian, convicted of murder.
3 Jun	Pop artist Andy Warhol was shot and critically wounded in his New York film studio, known as The Factory, by Valerie Solanas, an actress and self-styled feminist.
8 Jun	Gary Puckett & The Union Gap release *Lady Will Power*.
21 Jun	Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren resigns.
22 Jun	Herb Alpert used his voice and trumpet to run to the top of pop music charts with *This Guy's in Love with You*. It was the only vocal by Alpert to make the charts, though his solo instrumentals with The Tijuana Brass scored lots of hits. Alpert performed on 19 charted hits through 1987.
26 Jun	Iwo Jima & Bonin Islands returned to Japan by U.S.
28 Jun	Daniel Ellsberg indicted for leaking *Pentagon Papers*.
1 Jul	United States, Britain, Soviet Union and 58 other nations signed Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.
15 Jul	One Life to Live premieres on TV.
17 Jul	Revolt in Iraq.
11 Aug	Beatles launch the *Apple Records* label.
16 Sep	Richard Nixon appears on *Laugh-In*.
24 Sep	*60 Minutes* premiers.
26 Sep	*Hawaii Five-O* debuts as hourly program on CBS-TV.
30 Sep	Supremes release *Love Child*.
1 Oct	Night of the Living Dead premieres in Pittsburgh.
7 Oct	Motion Picture Association of America adopts film rating system.
16 Oct	During Olympics Tommie Smith & John Carlos give black power salute.
18 Oct	Circus Circus opens in Las Vegas.
20 Oct	Jacqueline Kennedy marries Aristotle Onassis.
1 Nov	Movie rating system of G, M, R, X followed by PG-13 and now NC-17, went into effect.
1 Nov	George Harrison's soundtrack LP, Wonderwall, was released. First solo album by one of The Beatles. Album was also the first on the new Apple label.
5 Nov	Nixon (R) beats VP Humphrey (D) & George C Wallace for Presidency.
21 Nov	Supremes & Temptations release *I'm Gonna Make You Love Me*.
20 Dec	John Steinbeck author dies in New York at age 66.
21 Dec	Apollo 8 (Frank Borman Jim Lovell Bill Anders) 1st manned Moon voyage.