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Jul 1, 2024 · Hurricane Beryl’s Unprecedented Intensification Is an ‘Omen’ for the Rest of the Season. Hurricane Beryl, the earliest Category 5 storm in the Atlantic, exploded in strength unusually early ...
Jun 24, 2024 · This essay reflects upon historian and dissident Adam Michnik’s commentary on the 1968 Polish political crisis in which he participated. Instigated by the banning of the play Dziady by the ruling communist party, student protests erupted across the country.
Jun 30, 2024 · President Lyndon Johnson, 1968. On the final night of March 1968, President Lyndon B. Johnson, known universally as “LBJ,” spoke to the nation from the Oval Office to say that the United ...
5 days ago · Tet Offensive, attacks staged by North Vietnamese forces beginning in the early hours of January 31, 1968, during the Vietnam War. The attacks were carried out by some 85,000 troops against five major South Vietnamese cities, dozens of military installations, and scores of towns and villages throughout South Vietnam.
3 days ago · It began on 5 January 1968, when reformist Alexander Dubček was elected First Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ), and continued until 21 August 1968, when the Soviet Union and most Warsaw Pact members invaded the country to suppress the reforms.
Jun 12, 2024 · Poor People’s Campaign, political campaign that culminated in a demonstration held in Washington, D.C., in 1968, in which participants demanded that the government formulate a plan to help redress the employment and housing problems of the poor throughout the United States.
4 days ago · From March to July 1968, Democratic Party voters elected delegates to the 1968 Democratic National Convention for the purpose of selecting the party's nominee for president in the upcoming election.
