Editing 1968 (section)

=== November&ndash;December ===
{{Main|November 1968}}
{{Main|December 1968}}
[[File:NIXONcampaigns.jpg|thumb|150px|right|November 5: Richard Nixon elected United States President]]
* [[November 5]]
** [[1968 United States presidential election]]: [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] candidate [[Richard Nixon]] defeats the [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] candidate, Vice President [[Hubert Humphrey]], and [[American Independent Party]] candidate [[George Wallace]].
** [[Luis A. Ferré]] of the newly formed [[New Progressive Party (Puerto Rico)|New Progressive Party]] is elected [[Governor of Puerto Rico]] by beating incumbent governor [[Roberto Sánchez Vilella]] of the [[People's Party (Puerto Rico)|People's Party]], [[Luis Negrón López]] of the [[Popular Democratic Party (Puerto Rico)|Popular Democratic Party]] and Antonio J. Gonzalez of the [[Puerto Rican Independence Party]]; he also becomes the first "statehooder" governor of the Island.
* [[November 7]] – Start of the [[1968 movement in Pakistan]], which leads to the resignation of General [[Ayub Khan]], and ultimately the split of the country and formation of [[Bangladesh]].
* [[November 8]] – The [[Vienna Convention on Road Signs and Signals]] is signed and ratified. 
* [[November 11]] – A second [[republic]] is declared in the [[Maldives]].
* [[November 15]] – [[Vietnam War]]: [[Operation Commando Hunt]] is initiated to interdict men and supplies on the [[Ho Chi Minh trail]], through [[Laos]] into [[South Vietnam]]. By the end of the operation, 3&nbsp;million tons of bombs are dropped on Laos, slowing but not seriously disrupting trail operations.<ref>"Commando Hunt, Operation", in ''Historical Dictionary of the War in Vietnam'', by Ronald B. Frankum Jr. (Scarecrow Press, 2011) p123-124</ref><ref>"Ho Chi Minh Trail", by William M. Leary, in ''The Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War: A Political, Social, and Military History'' (ABC-CLIO, 2010) p506</ref>
* [[November 17]]
** [[British European Airways]] introduces the [[BAC One-Eleven]] into commercial service.
** The "[[Heidi Game|''Heidi'' Game]]": [[NBC]] cuts off the final 1:05 of an [[Oakland Raiders]]–[[New York Jets]] football game to broadcast the pre-scheduled ''[[Heidi (1968 film)|Heidi]]''. Fans are unable to see Oakland (which had been trailing 32–29) score 2 late touchdowns to win 43–32; as a result, thousands of outraged football fans flood the NBC switchboards to protest.
* [[November 19]] – In [[Mali]], President [[Modibo Keïta]]'s regime is overthrown in a bloodless [[military coup]] led by [[Moussa Traoré]].<ref>{{citation|url=http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/profiles/Mali.pdf|title=Mali country profile|publisher=[[Library of Congress]] [[Federal Research Division]]|location=Washington, D.C. |page=3 |date=January 2005}}</ref>
* [[November 20]] – The [[Farmington Mine disaster]] in Farmington, West Virginia, kills seventy-eight men.
* [[November 22]]
** ''[[The Beatles (album)|The Beatles]]'' ("The White Album") and ''[[The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society]]'' are released.<ref>{{cite book|first=Andrew|author-link=Andrew Marr|last=Marr|title=A History of Modern Britain|location=London|publisher=Macmillan|year=2007|isbn=978-1-4050-0538-8|page=281}}</ref>
** [[Japan Air Lines Flight 2]], flying from [[Tokyo Haneda Airport|Tokyo]] to [[San Francisco International Airport]] ditches in [[San Francisco Bay]] due to pilot error; all 107 on board survive without injury.
* [[November 24]] – 4 men [[Aircraft hijacking|hijack]] [[Pan Am Flight 281]] from [[JFK International Airport]], New York to [[Havana]], [[Cuba]].
* [[December 9]] – [[Douglas Engelbart]] publicly demonstrates his pioneering [[hypertext]] system, [[NLS (computer system)|NLS]], in [[San Francisco]], together with the [[computer mouse]], at what becomes retrospectively known as "[[The Mother of All Demos]]".
* [[December 10]] – Japan's biggest heist, the never-solved "[[300 million yen robbery]]", occurs in Tokyo.
* [[December 11]] – The film ''[[Oliver! (film)|Oliver!]]'' based on the hit London and [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] musical, opens in the U.S. after being released first in the UK. It goes on to win the [[Academy Award]] for [[Academy Award for Best Picture|Best Picture]].
* [[December 13]] – Prompted by growing unrest and a perceived proliferation of "pro-communist" violent actions, [[Brazil]]ian [[President of Brazil|president]] [[Artur da Costa e Silva]] enacts the so-called [[AI-5]], the fifth of a series of non-constitutional emergency decrees allegedly to help "stabilize" the country after the turmoils of the early 1960s.
* [[December 22]] – [[Mao Zedong]] advocates that educated urban youth in China be sent for re-education in the [[Rural area|countryside]]. It marks the start of the [[Down to the Countryside Movement|"Up to the mountains and down to the villages" movement]].
* [[December 24]] – [[Apollo program]]: The crewed U.S. spacecraft [[Apollo 8]] enters orbit around the [[Moon]]. Astronauts [[Frank Borman]], [[Jim Lovell]] and [[William Anders]] become the first humans to see the [[Far side (Moon)|far side]] of the [[Moon]] and planet [[Earth]] as a whole, as well as having traveled further away from Earth than any people in history. Anders photographs ''[[Earthrise]]''. The crew also give a [[Apollo 8 Genesis reading|reading from the Book of Genesis]].
* [[December 28]] – [[1968 Israeli raid on Lebanon]]: Israeli forces fly into [[Lebanon|Lebanese]] airspace, launching an attack on the airport in [[Beirut]] and destroying more than a dozen aircraft.<!--Some references say 13, others 14.-->