1968
Pioneer students go 7:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.; Huron students go 1-6 p.m.
Price of Hershey's candy bar doubles from 5 to 10 cents
U.S. Postage moves to 6 cents
Philadelphia Bank installs first ATM
First public demonstration of e-mail, mouse and hypertext
First 911 system begins in New York
Green Bay Packers win Second Super Bowl over Oakland Raiders
Boston Celtics win 1968 NBA Championship
Vietnam War TET Offensive begins crushing U.S. and Vietnam troops; My Lai Massacre
John Sinclair founds the White Panther Party, publishes Fifth Estate; CIA Bombing in Ann Arbor on September 29, 1968, Pun Plamondon, 22, spent 32 months in federal prison until charges were dismissed due to illegal wiretapping
President Lyndon Johnson withdraws from race after defeating Dove Candidate Eugene McCarthy in New Hampshire primary; Hubert Humphrey gains nomination from Democrats
Hubert Humphrey wins Democratic Nomination After Robert Kennedy Assassination by Jordanian Sirhan Sirhan and a tumultuous 1968 Chicago Democratic Convention highlighted by the Chicago 7
60 minutes and Rowan & Martin's Laugh In debut
In the Heat of the Night, The Graduate, Bonny & Clyde, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner and Camelot win big at 1968 Academy Awards
Martin Luther King assassinated in Memphis, TN April 4 by James Earl Ray
More Riots break out in Chicago, Cleveland, Baltimore, Washington, DC, New York and Louisville
Black Power protests culminate at Mexico City Summer Olympics; Winter Olympics in Grenoble, France
Bob Beamon sets world record in long jump of 29 feet 2.5 inches
United States wins 107 medals including 45 gold in the 1968 Summer Olympic games
Detroit Tigers defeat St. Louis Cardinals in the 1968 World Series in 7 games, Mickey Lolich wins 3 games
Mayo Smith changes line-up to insert Mickey Stanley at Shortstop; Jim Northrup to Center Field
World Series momentum shift with St. Louis ahead 3-1 when Lou Brock is thrown out at plate by Willie Horton
Lee Trevino wins the U.S. Open, but Billy Casper is PGA's big money winner with over $200,000
Forward Pass wins Kentucky Derby and Preakness, but falters in the Belmont
Dave Porter is NCAA Heavyweight Champion in Wrestling
Don Canham replaces Fritz Crisler as Michigan Athletic Director on March 16 to be effective July 1
Robben Fleming becomes the 9th President at the University of Michigan replacing Harlan Hatcher
Denny McLain wins 31 games for the Detroit Tigers
Denny McLain and Peggy Fleming are athletes of the year
Nixon-Agnew defeat Humphrey-Muskie and George Wallace-Lemay in 1968 Presidential Election
Beatles begin Apple Records and release White Album
The Yardbirds disband, Led Zepplin begins
The Stooges are signed by Elektra Records
Zodiac Killer in California
Rod Serling's Night Gallery debuts
Don Knotts in The Shakiest Gun in the West
Ironside begins
Jackie Kennedy marries Aristotle Onassis
Apollo 8 orbits the moon
Ohio State is NCAA Football Champion defeating USC in Rose Bowl; O.J. Simpson wins Heisman Trophy

1968 Michigan Football Team finishes 8-2 and ranked #12, but loses to NCAA Football Champion Ohio State 14-50; after the game, Buckeye Head Coach Woody Hayes was asked why with only 1:23 left in the game, he went for 2 on the extra point when the score was 50-14!!! He responded, "because I couldn't go for three!" Michigan Head Football Coach Bump Elliott resigns with a 51-42-2 record; AD Don Canham, who prevailed over Elliott and Forest Evashevski for the AD position, offers him the Associate Athletic Director position; he accepted on December 24 and continued in the position until June 11, 1970. He then becomes AD at Iowa until 1991. Bo Schembechler accepted the Michigan Head Football Coaching position on December 27 after Canham offered it to Joe Paterno.

Michigan finished 9th at NCAA Wrestling Championships with 2 All-Americans, and 2nd at the Big Ten Championships, are 10-2 in dual meets including their 6th victory in a row over Iowa (1963-68), set a record 28 Falls in a dual meet season and most consecutive road wins, 28 (1962-68). Dave Porter is NCAA Champ

Former Michigan Basketball Star, Bill Buntin, dies of a heart attack at age 26 on May 9; he still holds the record for most double-doubles in school history with 58 in 79 games

Ann Arbor Huron plays perennial state power Battle Creek Central to a scoreless tie until the failure to down a punt results in a 40 yard TD return for a 0-6 defeat on September 20

October 18, 1968 Ann Arbor Huron wins its first football game over Lansing Everett, 26-6

Ann Arbor Pioneer finishes 8-1 and ranked #6 in the state after losing a heartbreaker to undefeated Battle Creek Central, 7-9 on October 25

November 1, 1968 Ann Arbor Huron wins its second football game defeating Adrian, 35-3

Funny Girl, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Bullitt, Romeo & Juliet, Rosemary's Baby, Oliver, Planet of the Apes, Yours, Mine and Ours, The Thomas Crown Affair, The Lion in Winter are the biggest at the box office. Other top movies are: Barbarella, Blackbeard's Ghost, The Boston Strangler, Candy, Finian's Rainbow, The Green Berets, Ice Station Zebra, Inspector Clouseau, Never a Dull Moment, No Way to Treat a Lady, The Producers, Night of the Living Dead, Where Eagles Dare, Yellow Submarine, etc.

1968 in Film

1968 in Television (1967-1968 TV Schedule)

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1968 in Music

Grammy Awards of 1968

Tony Awards of 1968

Primetime Emmy Awards

Chart Sweep: #1 Songs

Ann Arbor Old News

June, 1968 Flood spurred by 5.28 inches of rain

MC5 at Gallup Park