On this day
Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
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hundreds of thousands of students and workers stage demonstrations throughout country in protest against 'police repression' and de Gaulle regime; map of route of march, Paris; illus; Govt meets with delegation of students and teachers
Abernathy dedicates Resurrection City; pledges to 'plague the Pharaohs of this nation with plague after plague until they agree to give us meaningful jobs and guaranteed annual income'; pledges nonviolent protest but says he cannot guarantee that city will not be disrupted by massive acts of civil disobedience; in apparent ref to Dem and Repub Natl Convs, says 'we're going to go where Cong goes'; illus
Allied gens say main thrust of Vietcong attacks on Saigon has been crushed; enemy forces withdraw from city limits; Amer troops evacuate camp at Khamduc to avoid encirclement by enemy; details on fighting in Saigon; casualty figures noted; 104,000 more S Vietnamese made homeless by Saigon attacks, 10,700 houses destroyed; civilian casualty figures noted; fighting reptd in other areas; N Vietnam claims victory in latest offensive against Saigon; says new fighting is continuation of Jan offensive; map
Radio station attacked during pres election violence
Substantive talks open; Harriman speaks of N Vietnam's long-continued aggression; Xuan Thuy accuses US of monstrous crimes; there is no shift from established positions on bombing halt; both sides deal at large with issues facing Vietnam and SE Asia; N Vietnam seems to treat demand for bombing cessation as position, and not ultimatum; Xuan Thuy speaks 1st; says US and Ngo Dinh Diem sabotaged 54 Geneva agreements; accuses US of upsetting '62 accord; says US is caught in quagmire; says US must stop bombing and other acts of war; Harriman says limited bombing could end if US restraint is matched by N Vietnamese restraint; says N Vietnam continues to cross buffer zone; says zone should be restored to its original function; reiterates US peace offers; illus
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 8, 1968, covering May 14, 1968.
Soundtrack
Simon & Garfunkel
Paul Mauriat And His Orchestra
Soundtrack
Aretha Franklin
1968Greg Davies Welsh actor, comedian, writer and presenter[†]
Gregory Daniel Davies is a Welsh comedian, actor, presenter, and writer. He is best known for his roles as Mr Gilbert in The Inbetweeners (2008–2010), Ken Thompson in Cuckoo (2012–2019), Dan Davies in Man Down (2013–2017) and Paul "Wicky" Wickstead in The Cleaner. Since 2015, he has hosted the comedy panel game show Taskmaster and he has also appeared on Mock the Week, Fast and Loose, Live at the Apollo and Would I Lie to You?
1968Husband E. Kimmel, American admiral (born 1882)[†]
Husband Edward Kimmel was a United States Navy four-star admiral who was the commander in chief of the United States Pacific Fleet (CINCPACFLT) during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. He was removed from that command after the attack, in December 1941, and was reverted to his permanent two-star rank of rear admiral due to no longer holding a four-star assignment. He retired from the Navy in early 1942. The United States Senate voted to restore Kimmel's permanent rank to four stars in 1999, but President Clinton did not act on the resolution, and neither have any of his successors.
In 1968, the world population was approximately 3,545,187,251 people[†]