1968 Significant Events
• The Green Bay Packers win Super Bowl II
• The 1968 Winter Olympics are held in Grenoble, France
• Madison Square Garden in New York City opens
• The movie “Planet of the Apes” is released in theaters
• The musical “Hair” officially opens on Broadway
• The soap opera “One Life to Live” premieres on ABC
• Mattel’s “Hot Wheels” toy cars are introduced
• “60 Minutes” debuts on CBS
• The Detroit Tigers win the 1968 World Series, defeating the St. Louis Cardinals 4 games to 3
• NASA launches “Apollo 7, the first manned Apollo mission
• Former U.S. First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy marries Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis
• Lyndon B. Johnson was the U.S. President
• Boeing officially rolls out its new 747 for the media and the public
• Yale University announces it is going to admit women
• U. S. spacecraft Apollo 8 enters orbit around the Moon.
• Bob Brown opened the first Armando restaurant