Events of this year in the Illustrated London News

• February - The US airbase at Khe Sanh in South Vietnam came under heavy attack
• March - Yuri Gagarin died in a plane crash
• April - Enoch Powell was censured by British MPs for his "rivers foaming with blood" speech relating to the influx of coloured people into the UK. Kenya was forcing Asians out . Even the Queen asked for racial tolerance in her Christmas message
• April 4th - Martin Luther King, 39, was shot and killed in Memphis, Tennessee
• June 5th - Senator Robert Kennedy was assassinated by Sirhan Sirhan, a Palestinian Arab who was claiming to act for his country, in Los Angeles
• June - Student riots in France took war into the streets of Paris and occupied the Sorbonne, starting from the closure of the faculty of letters at Nanterre (The Red University)
• August 20th - Soviet and Warsaw pact troops invaded Czechoslovakia. The liberal regime of Alexander Dubcek
• November 5th - Richard Nixon was elected 37th US President
• December 27th - Three US astronauts orbited the moon in Apollo 8
• The National Front adopted the Union Jack flag as part of their insignia
• Britain restricts immigration from India, Pakistan and West Indies
• Pope Paul VI's encyclical Humanae Vitae against contraception

Also contains

RAF - 50 YEARS

MOON ROCKETS

TENNIS

JULIE ANDREWS

BIAFRA STARVES

FOOTBALL FEVER

FACES OF THE THAMES

CRUFTS

LORD CHAMBERLAIN

TOP PHOTOS OF 1968

BOOM IN THE EAST

PANDA POWER

QUEEN'S GALLERY (VAN DYCKS)

COMPREHENSIVE SCHOOLS

1968 MOTOR SHOW

RAILWAYS

RHODESIA

AIR TRAVEL

WILL IT BE NIXON?

THE PORTUGESE

ROYAL ACADEMY EXHIBITION

QUEEN VISITS OXFORD

THE ROYAL ACADEMY

CARTOON MASTERS

MAN OF LA MANCHA - PREVIEWED

SPACE PROJECTS

THE ROYAL TOUR IN SOUTH AMERICA

DE GAULLE

THE LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

KATHERINE HEPBURN

PETER O'TOOLE

PRESIDENT NIXON

JAPAN'S SUN RISES AGAIN

WHERE ARE THE BRITISH GOING?

OPERA INDUSTRY

500 YEARS OF SILVER

THE NEW ITV

THE AIR BUS

April 20th

• This issue features a Chelsea football crowd cover.
• Inside: behind-the-scenes at Chelsea, where you can earn 140 Pounds playing football a week "if you're worth it"- a look at the lives of some players.

October 19th

• Special Report on the 1968 Motor Show
• Status and Speed in your motoring

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