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  1. 2nd July 1968

    Yorkshire County Cricket club beat the touring Australians by an innings and 69 runs.

  2. 1st July 1968

    Red rain falls over much of Britain.

  3. 30th June 1968

    A victory for President de Gaulle's party in the second round of the French elections.

  4. 29th June 1968

    Missing round-the-world yachtsman Alec Rose comes back into radio contact.

  5. 28th June 1968

    John Tusa looks back at the news 40 years ago. Welsh extremists strike again.

  6. 24th June 1968

    Labour loses the Nelson and Colne by-election.

  7. 26th June 1968

    Civil service reforms are announced.

  8. 25th June 1968

    Foot and mouth restrictions are lifted in the UK. Violence erupts on Glasgow's streets.

  9. 24th June 1968

    A work-to-rule by unions brings chaos to Britain's railways.

  10. 23rd June 1968

    The first round of elections takes place in France.

  11. 22nd June 1968

    Barbara Cartland proposes a novel solution to the UK's productivity crisis.

  12. 21st June 1968

    French election campaigns draw to a close. Yehudi Menuhin bows out of the Bath festival.

  13. 20th June 1968

    Vice President Hubert Humphrey launches his campaign for the US presidency.

  14. 19th June 1968

    Nelson Rockefeller joins the Republican race for the US Presidency.

  15. 18th June 1968

    Three British protestors are released from a Moscow jail.

  16. 17th June 1968

    Fred West, Britain's first heart transplant patient, is critical.

  17. 16th June 1968

    French police retake the Sorbonne from the students. Edward Kennedy speaks to the nation.

  18. 15th June 1968

    Roy Jenkins warns the House of Lords not to oppose the Commons.

  19. 14th June 1968

    Women at Ford's Dagenham plant go on strike.

  20. 13th June 1968

    The 大象传媒 airs its controversial Students In Revolt programme.

  21. 12th June 1968

    Daniel Cohn-Bendit arrives in London. The UN approves the nuclear non-proliferation treaty

  22. 11th June 1968

    Henry Cooper is involved in controversy at Eton. The Beatles show tensions in the studio.

  23. 10th June 1968

    General Westmoreland leaves Vietnam with a bleak prediction for the war's future.

  24. 9th June 1968

    President Tito concedes to angry students. Jimmy Savile improves Anglo-French relations.

  25. 8th June 1968

    Martin Luther King's killer is caught at Heathrow. Edward Kennedy delivers Bobby's eulogy.

  26. 7th June 1968

    ETA carry out their first assassination.

  27. 6th June 1968

    Robert Kennedy dies. Chay Blyth embarks upon a circumnavigation of the world.

  28. 5th June 1968

    Robert Kennedy is shot. Police hold gunman Sirhan Sirhan.

  29. 4th June 1968

    Scientologists are turned away from the UK. De Gaulle borrows millions from the IMF.

  30. 3rd June 1968

    Andy Warhol is shot. Peter Sellers and Britt Ekland split up.

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