Martin Luther King Jr. died on 4 April 1968 in St. Joseph's Hospital, aged 39. An American Baptist minister and civil rights leader, King emerged as a national figure through the Montgomery bus boycott of 1955 and 1956 and became president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Inspired by Gandhi and Christian teaching, he led nonviolent campaigns against racial segregation, such as the protests in Birmingham and the March on Washington in 1963, where he gave his I Have a Dream speech. His work helped bring about the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and he received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. Later he spoke against poverty and the Vietnam War. He was assassinated in Memphis in 1968.
Before and after
- 27 March 1968Death of Yuri Gagarin
- 30 March 1968Birth of Céline Dion
- 2 April 1968Release of 2001: A Space Odyssey
- 4 April 1968Launch of Apollo 6
- 4 April 1968Death of Martin Luther King Jr.
- 7 April 1968Founding of Club of Rome
- 29 April 1968Birth of Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović
- from 2 May 1968 to 23 June 1968May 68
- 13 May 1968Birth of Scott Morrison
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