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The Parti Québécois is formed in Canada by René Lévesque
Robert Kennedy is assassinated by Sirhan Sirhan, a Palestinian, in the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles
Norman Mailer publishes The Armies of the Night, based on his experiences on an anti-Vietnam demonstration in Washington in October 1967
English biographer Michael Holroyd completes his two-volume life of Lytton Strachey
Pope Paul VI issues the encyclical Humanae Vitae, condemning all methods of artificial birth control
Raden Suharto is elected president, formalizing his already de facto succession to Sukarno as the Indonesian dictator
A military coup in Iraq brings to power a government composed mainly of Ba'thists
Barbara Streisand repeats her Broadway performance in the film of Funny Girl
US athlete Bob Beamon sets a world long-jump record of 8.9 metres that will stand for 23 years
Catholic bishops in Latin America, plagued by oppressive regimes, develop the concept of liberation theology
Gore Vidal publishes Myra Breckenridge, featuring a lively transsexual as the central character
Antonio de Salazar, the Portuguese dictator, suffers a stroke and is replaced by Marcelo Caetano
Alexander Solzhenitsyn's novel Cancer Ward is smuggled to New York for publication
Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke create the film 2001: A Space Odyssey, based on Clarke's 1951 short story The Sentinel
Soviet and Warsaw Pact troops invade Czechoslovakia to end the Prague Spring
Reformist Czech leader Alexander Dubcek is arrested and flown to Moscow
The first civil rights march in northern Ireland, in Derry, is halted by the police with batons and water cannon
Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis marries Jacqueline Kennedy, widow of the assassinated president
Republican candidate Richard Nixon defeats Hubert Humphrey in the US presidential election
Harvard academic Henry Kissinger is selected by President Nixon as his national security adviser
Three US astronauts become the first humans to leave the earth's orbit, reaching the moon and going into its orbit in Apollo 8
The US astronauts in Apollo 8 are the first humans to see (and photograph) the sight of the earth rising above the moon's horizon
Motoo Kimura proposes the neutral theory of molecular evolution, arguing that molecular changes are caused not by natural selection but by random genetic drift
The Beatles study Transcendental Meditation at the ashram in India of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, prompting an increased interest in Hinduism in the West
At a congress in Cairo, Yasser Arafat is appointed leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)
