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1968 Free History Poster Makes An Ideal Birthday or Christmas Gift
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This Printable 8 1/2 inch X 11 inch poster is suitable for placing in a picture frame or to hand out during Birthday Celebrations or as a Christmas Gift. The new Graphics also resize to Birthday / Christmas Card size and still look pretty good, so ideal to use as an unusual card idea.
Featured In This 1968 Swinging Sixties Poster / Print
A Range of What Things Cost , Popular Movies and Music, Born This Year
Important Events From The Year including the following The Philadelphia Bank installs the first automated teller
machine (ATM) in the US
The Emergency 911 Telephone service is started in the US
Apollo 8 orbits the Moon, becoming the first manned space
mission to achieve the feat
The Big Mac goes on sale at McDonalds
Senator Robert Kennedy is assassinated at the Ambassador
Hotel in Los Angeles
Lyndon Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968
The Black Power salute is seen on television worldwide
after the gold and bronze medalists in the Olympics show
the salute during a medal ceremony in Mexico City, Mexico
Martin Luther King Jr., the leader of the civil rights
movement, is assassinated by James Earl Ray which leads to
violence and riots in US cities
North Vietnam and Viet Cong troops launch the Tet
Offensive
The Prague Spring in Czechoslovakia takes places trying to
get political liberalization, but it was crushed by Warsaw
Pact countries
50,000 people participated in the Poor Peoples March on
Washington DC
This free print is available for all to use is created by The People History and is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License ( I.E. Just include an Attribute to The People History When Using Online and Leave Our Copy write Notice Thanks ) The graphic includes news, pop culture, prices and more is also ideal for use when making a 1968 scrapbook for family, friends birthday, Christmas or Wedding Anniversary celebrations or for use with school reunion
