1968 Day by Day
A look back at the events making the news 40 years ago
1968 Day by Day - 10th April 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. The TUC ignores the government pay ceilings and accusations of racism are levelled at London Transport.
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1968 Day by Day - 10th August 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. A stand collapses at the National Jazz and Blues Festival in Kempton Park, injuring dozens of teenagers.
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1968 Day by Day - 10th July 1968
With John Tusa. Guitarist and vocalist Eric Clapton announces the break-up of Cream because of a loss of direction.
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1968 Day by Day - 10th June 1968
John Tusa looks at the events making the news 40 years ago. General Westmoreland leaves Vietnam. Italy win the European Championships. Controversy erupts over Rhodesian sanctions.
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1968 Day by Day - 10th May 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. Press baron Cecil King attacks Harold Wilson. 2001: A Space Odyssey is released in the UK.
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1968 Day by Day - 11th April 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. America's Civil Rights Bill is signed by President Lyndon B Johnson, and the leader of Biafra speaks out.
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1968 Day by Day - 11th August 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. Leonard Cohen appears on the BBC's Top Gear radio programme.
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1968 Day by Day - 11th July 1968
With John Tusa. Singer Frankie Vaughan becomes an unlikely mediator between violent Glasgow youth gangs.
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1968 Day by Day - 11th June 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. A drowned boy becomes a martyr for Paris students. Henry Cooper is involved in controversy at Eton.
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1968 Day by Day - 11th May 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. The Sorbonne is reopened in Paris. Students riot in Bonn. The Rolling Stones film their Jumpin' Jack Flash promo.
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1968 Day by Day - 12th April 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. A human rights pilgrimage to Canterbury Cathedral continues and Blackpool holidays are under threat.
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1968 Day by Day - 12th August 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. Riots in Los Angeles leave three dead.
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1968 Day by Day - 12th July 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. Southampton busmen protest against pay freezes with a go-slow campaign.
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1968 Day by Day - 12th June 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. Daniel Cohn-Bendit arrives in London. The UN approves the nuclear non-proliferation treaty.
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1968 Day by Day - 12th May 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. The Poor People's March reaches Washington. Noele Gordon quits Crossroads. The TV show The Railway Children begins.
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1968 Day by Day - 13th April 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. The first of a series of Mafia trials begins in Sicily, German students riot and Julie Felix sings at the CND march.
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1968 Day by Day - 13th August 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. Georgios Papadopoulos, leader of the ruling military junta in Greece, survives an assassination attempt.
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1968 Day by Day - 13th July 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. Seatbelt laws come into effect, leaving 100,000 car owners driving illegally.
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1968 Day by Day - 13th June 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. Dr Spock is tried for helping evade conscription. The BBC airs its controversial Students In Revolt programme.
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1968 Day by Day - 13th May 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. A general strike brings Paris to a halt. American football coaches come to England looking for kickers.
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1968 Day by Day - 14th April 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. Further rioting in Germany follows the shooting of Rudi Dutschke and the Pope condemns the war in Vietnam.
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1968 Day by Day - 14th August 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. Two deputy editors of the Czech Communist party newspaper are suspended.
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1968 Day by Day - 14th July 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. Bastille Day sees protestors returning to the streets of Paris.
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1968 Day by Day - 14th June 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. Women at Ford's Dagenham plant go on strike. Greek Communist leader Tony Ambatielos is granted asylum in the UK.
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1968 Day by Day - 14th May 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. US presidential candidates try to woo farmers. Bob Hope tries to work out how much he is worth.
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1968 Day by Day - 15th April 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. Aldermaston marchers reach London, conflict in Israel escalates and the FBI close in on Martin Luther King's killer.
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1968 Day by Day - 15th August 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. Record producer Mickie Most explains the secret of his success.
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1968 Day by Day - 15th July 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. Sir Hugh Greene announces his retirement as the BBC's Director General.
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1968 Day by Day - 15th June 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. Roy Jenkins warns the Lords not to oppose the Commons. John Arlott becomes president of the Cricketers' Association.
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1968 Day by Day - 15th May 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. Reporters witness the devastating aftermath of the Battle of Saigon. Trouble continues in Paris.
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1968 Day by Day - 16th April 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. America announces the beginning of the slow process of returning Vietnam to the Vietnamese.
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1968 Day by Day - 16th August 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. Sixty Roman Catholic Priests join a revolt against the Pope's ban on the pill.
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1968 Day by Day - 16th July 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. Americans reinvent football.
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1968 Day by Day - 16th June 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. French police retake the Sorbonne from the students. Planes are grounded as a pilots' strike begins at Heathrow.
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1968 Day by Day - 16th May 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. Four die as part of a high-rise block collapses at Ronan Point. Prince Philip apologises for offending Australians.
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1968 Day by Day - 17th April 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. Decimalisation of the UK's currency begins and conductor Sir John Barbirolli retires.
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1968 Day by Day - 17th August 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. A BBC programme examines democracy in America.
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1968 Day by Day - 17th July 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. President Abdel-Rahman Aref of Iraq is overthrown in a coup that brings Saddam Hussein's Ba'ath Party to power.
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1968 Day by Day - 17th June 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. Fred West, Britain's first heart transplant patient, is critical. Louis Armstrong begins a residency in Yorkshire.
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1968 Day by Day - 17th March 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. Robert Kennedy announces his candidacy for President of the US and London witnesses anti-Vietnam protests.
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1968 Day by Day - 17th May 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. The clear-up begins after the Ronan Point disaster.
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1968 Day by Day - 18th April 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. Greeks around the world protest at the ruling junta as the first anniversary of their coup approaches.
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1968 Day by Day - 18th August 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. Opposition to the Pope's ruling against artificial birth control mounts.
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1968 Day by Day - 18th July 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. Labour hold off a strong challenge from Plaid Cymru's Phil Williams in the Caerphilly by-election.
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1968 Day by Day - 18th June 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. Three British protestors are released from a Moscow jail. France counts the cost of months of unrest.
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1968 Day by Day - 18th March 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. London cleans up after Sunday's anti-Vietnam riots and the London stock market opens amidst a financial crisis.
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1968 Day by Day - 18th May 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. Forged tickets cause havoc at the FA Cup Final.
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1968 Day by Day - 19th April 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. PM Harold Wilson takes a tough line with the unions and London Bridge is sold to an American company.
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1968 Day by Day - 19th August 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. Two planes collide over the Norfolk town of Holt.
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1968 Day by Day - 19th July 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. Vietnam peace talks take place in Honolulu.
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1968 Day by Day - 19th June 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. Nelson Rockefeller joins the Republican race for the US Presidency. Enoch Powell faces more student protests.
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1968 Day by Day - 19th March 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. The Chancellor raises taxes by almost a billion pounds and Andy Warhol's first UK exhibition opens in London.
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1968 Day by Day - 19th May 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. The Cannes Film Festival is abandoned due to protests.
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1968 Day by Day - 1st April 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. Robert Kennedy reacts to Lyndon Johnson's decision not to seek another term as president.
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1968 Day by Day - 1st August 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. Republican presidential candidate Ronald Reagan calls for an honourable peace in Vietnam.
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1968 Day by Day - 1st June 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. One of the last public executioners shows his sensitive side. Biafran peace talks collapse.
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1968 Day by Day - 1st May 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. On its fortieth anniversary, the Flying Scotsman runs non-stop from London to Edinburgh.
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1968 Day by Day - 20th April 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. Enoch Powell delivers his Rivers of Blood speech and Chicago's Mayor Daley defends his shoot-to-kill policy.
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1968 Day by Day - 20th August 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. Soviet troops begin their invasion of Czechoslovakia.
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1968 Day by Day - 20th July 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. Jane Asher announces that she has split from Paul McCartney.
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1968 Day by Day - 20th June 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. Hubert Humphrey launches his campaign for the US presidency. James Earl Ray's defence lawyer arrives in London.
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1968 Day by Day - 20th March 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. The Duke of Edinburgh becomes the first member of the royal family to allow himself to be interviewed live on TV.
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1968 Day by Day - 20th May 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. Strikes spread across France. No public transport is running and tourists are heading home.
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1968 Day by Day - 21st April 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. In Trafalgar Square, 5,000 protest against the military junta in Greece. It is the hottest April day since 1949.
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1968 Day by Day - 21st August 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. Czechoslovakia wakes to the news that Soviet troops are occupying its major cities.
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1968 Day by Day - 21st July 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. A protest against the Vietnam war erupts into violence in London's Grosvenor Square.
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1968 Day by Day - 21st June 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. French election campaigns draw to a close. Wimbledon allows professionals onto the courts for the first time.
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1968 Day by Day - 21st March 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. Trouble flares in the Middle East and troop numbers in Vietnam are dramatically increased.
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1968 Day by Day - 21st May 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. Reporters witness bitter fighting as the Nigerian army captures the Biafran stronghold of Port Harcourt.
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1968 Day by Day - 22nd April 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. Steel workers strike in support of Enoch Powell.
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1968 Day by Day - 22nd August 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. Demonstrations take place in London as opposition to the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia mounts.
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1968 Day by Day - 22nd July 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. An inquiry by Sir John Newsome into the education system publishes its recommendations.
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1968 Day by Day - 22nd June 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. Women from Ford's Dagenham plant, currently striking, hold emergency talks with Employment Secretary Barbara Castle.
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1968 Day by Day - 22nd March 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. Prime Minister Harold Wilson faces student protests and heavy fighting continues in Biafra.
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1968 Day by Day - 22nd May 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. Half of all French workers are on strike, with violence erupting between Nationalists and Communists.
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1968 Day by Day - 23rd April 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. Dockers march on Parliament in support of Enoch Powell. Decimal coins are introduced.
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1968 Day by Day - 23rd August 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. Czechoslovak workers strike in protest against the Soviet invasion.
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1968 Day by Day - 23rd July 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. An El Al flight en route to Tel Aviv is hijacked by three Palestinian militants.
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1968 Day by Day - 23rd June 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. The first round of elections takes place in France.
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1968 Day by Day - 23rd March 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. Yippies take over Grand Central Station, Leeds United beat Manchester City and France win Rugby's Grand Slam.
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1968 Day by Day - 23rd May 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. French student leader Daniel Cohn-Bendit is sent back to his native Germany.
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1968 Day by Day - 24th April 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. The International Olympic Committee withdraws South Africa's invitation to the forthcoming Mexico City games.
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1968 Day by Day - 24th August 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. Concern grows over the whereabouts of Czechoslovak leader Alexander Dubcek.
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1968 Day by Day - 24th July 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. Widespread rioting erupts in Cleveland, Ohio, after two unarmed police officers are shot.
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1968 Day by Day - 24th June 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. A work-to-rule by unions brings chaos to the railways. In Washington, Resurrection City is shut down by police.
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1968 Day by Day - 24th June 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. Labour loses the Nelson and Colne by-election.
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1968 Day by Day - 24th March 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. Alistair Cooke broadcasts his 1,000th Letter from America and London sees a fresh wave of anti-war protests.
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1968 Day by Day - 24th May 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. Turmoil in France continues. The Kray brothers are charged with conspiracy to murder. The Liverpool bus strike ends.
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1968 Day by Day - 25th April 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. Ethnic minorities speak out against Enoch Powell.
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1968 Day by Day - 25th August 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. Thousands attend a rally for Czechoslovakian freedom in London's Hyde Park.
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1968 Day by Day - 25th July 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. A man is found crucified on a seven-foot cross on Hampstead Heath. Strangely, there is no bleeding.
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1968 Day by Day - 25th June 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. Foot and mouth restrictions are lifted in the UK. Violence erupts on the streets of Glasgow.
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1968 Day by Day - 25th March 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. Aer Lingus flight 712 crashes in the Irish Sea killing 61 people and bubonic plague breaks out in Vietnam.
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1968 Day by Day - 25th May 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. Reporters witness the aftermath of street battles across France. Welsh nationalists detonate a bomb in Cardiff.
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1968 Day by Day - 26th April 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. The American base at Khe Sanh in Vietnam is shown not to be as safe as previously thought.
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1968 Day by Day - 26th August 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. The Democratic Party convention opens in Chicago.
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1968 Day by Day - 26th July 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. Mick Jagger celebrates his 25th birthday with a preview of the new Rolling Stones album Beggars Banquet.
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1968 Day by Day - 26th June 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. Civil service reforms are announced.
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1968 Day by Day - 26th March 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. Paul McCartney returns from meditating in the Himalayas and Czechoslovakia reveals new democratic reforms.
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1968 Day by Day - 26th May 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. Anarchists in London try to storm the French embassy.
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1968 Day by Day - 27th April 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. The Abortion Act comes into force and Martin Luther King's widow delivers his 10 Commandments on Vietnam.
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1968 Day by Day - 27th August 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. Czechoslovak leader Alexander Dubcek returns from Moscow and broadcasts an emotional plea to the nation.
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1968 Day by Day - 27th July 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. Preliminary peace talks between Nigeria and breakaway Biafra end inconclusively.
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1968 Day by Day - 27th March 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. Celebrations and protests mark 50 years of female suffrage in the UK and Yuri Gagarin dies.
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1968 Day by Day - 27th May 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. There is student unrest in Germany, but French protest leader Daniel Cohn-Bendit is the star attraction.
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1968 Day by Day - 28/03/2008
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. Martin Luther King leads a protest in Memphis that ends in disaster and an F111 plane goes missing in Vietnam.
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1968 Day by Day - 28th April 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. Thousands march in protest against Enoch Powell. New York students continue their occupation of Columbia University.
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1968 Day by Day - 28th August 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. The Democrats choose Hubert Humphrey as their candidate for the White House.
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1968 Day by Day - 28th July 1968
With John Tusa. Eldridge Cleaver, civil rights activist, Black Panther and US presidential candidate, makes a speech.
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1968 Day by Day - 28th June 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. Welsh extremists strike again.
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1968 Day by Day - 28th May 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. Douglas Bader returns to Bomber Command. Students take over Hornsey College of Art.
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1968 Day by Day - 29/03/2008
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. The UK sees a landslide Tory victory in the by-elections and a take-over bid for Aintree is unveiled.
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1968 Day by Day - 29th April 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. Ralph Abernathy makes his first speech since replacing Martin Luther King. The show Hair makes its Broadway debut.
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1968 Day by Day - 29th August 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. The former ambassador to Czechoslovakia tells of his lucky escape from a Russian tank.
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1968 Day by Day - 29th July 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. The BBC screens the futuristic drama The Year of the Sex Olympics, which predicts the advent of reality TV.
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1968 Day by Day - 29th June 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. Missing round-the-world yachtsman Alec Rose comes back into radio contact.
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1968 Day by Day - 29th May 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. A Kennedy loses for the first time. Daniel Cohn-Bendit sneaks back into France.
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1968 Day by Day - 2nd April 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. Snow covers much of Britain and two bombs placed by the Baader-Meinhof group explode in Frankfurt.
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1968 Day by Day - 2nd August 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. As talks continue between Czech and Soviet leaders, demonstrators in Prague call for greater Czech sovereignty.
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1968 Day by Day - 2nd July 1968
With John Tusa. Yorkshire County Cricket club beat the touring Australians by an innings and 69 runs.
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1968 Day by Day - 2nd June 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. Anti-Vietnam War protests erupt in Delhi. Andy Williams performs in the UK for the first time.
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1968 Day by Day - 2nd May 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. The Duke of Edinburgh has a close encounter with an orang-utan. Israel celebrates its 20th anniversary.
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1968 Day by Day - 30/03/2008
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. Yuri Gagarin is buried, the Yardbirds record a legendary gig and Czechoslovakia's new president is sworn in.
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1968 Day by Day - 30th April 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. Police break up the student uprising at Columbia University. The first European heart transplant patient dies.
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1968 Day by Day - 30th August 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. Several of Eugene McCarthy's staff are beaten after Chicago police raid their headquarters.
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1968 Day by Day - 30th July 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. The Archbishop of Canterbury disagrees with the Pope's recent ruling against artificial means of contraception.
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1968 Day by Day - 30th June 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. A landmark victory for President de Gaulle's party in the second round of the French elections.
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1968 Day by Day - 30th May 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. General De Gaulle is in a defiant mood. Manchester United win the European Cup.
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1968 Day by Day - 31/03/2008
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. Lyndon Johnson signals the end to his presidency and riots break out in Japan.
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1968 Day by Day - 31st August 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. Nigerian leader Yakubu Gowon signals that the Biafran conflict could soon be over.
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1968 Day by Day - 31st July 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. The first ever episode of Dad's Army is aired on BBC TV.
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1968 Day by Day - 31st May 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. Liberal leader Jeremy Thorpe gets married. Thirty-four men, one woman and a dog get ready to set sail from Plymouth.
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1968 Day by Day - 3rd April 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. Clyde the elephant flies into Vietnam. Dr Martin Luther King delivers a speech in Memphis, Tennessee.
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1968 Day by Day - 3rd August 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. Sirhan Sirhan appears in court, accused of the murder of Senator Bobby Kennedy.
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1968 Day by Day - 3rd June 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. Andy Warhol is shot. Peter Sellers and Britt Ekland split up.
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1968 Day by Day - 3rd May 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. Students protest in Paris and the US and North Vietnam finally agree where to hold peace talks.
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1968 Day by Day - 4th April 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. The assassination of civil rights leader Dr Martin Luther King in Memphis marks a dark day in American history.
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1968 Day by Day - 4th August 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. US sprinter Tommy Smith backs a proposed boycott of the Mexico Olympics by black American athletes.
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1968 Day by Day - 4th July 1968
With John Tusa. The round-the-world yachtsman Alec Rose returns from his 354-day journey.
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1968 Day by Day - 4th June 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. Scientologists are turned away from the UK. De Gaulle is forced to borrow 310 million dollars from the IMF.
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1968 Day by Day - 4th May 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. Britain's first heart transplant patient comes round and people in Beirut take to the streets.
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1968 Day by Day - 5th April 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. Riots rage in America following the death of Martin Luther King. Barbara Castle becomes Minister of Labour.
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1968 Day by Day - 5th August 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. Peace talks commence in Addis Ababa between Nigeria and breakaway Biafra.
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1968 Day by Day - 5th July 1968
With John Tusa. Rod Laver beats Tony Roche to win Wimbledon in straight sets.
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1968 Day by Day - 5th June 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. Robert Kennedy is shot. Police hold gunman Sirhan Sirhan.
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1968 Day by Day - 5th May 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. Parisian students take to the streets. Harold Wilson talks about race relations in Birmingham.
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1968 Day by Day - 6th April 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. Cliff Richard aims for the top spot in the Eurovision Song Contest. Sammy Davis Jnr pleads for the rioting to stop.
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1968 Day by Day - 6th August 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. Canning Town Residents Associations fight attempts to rehouse victims of the Ronan Point disaster in tower blocks.
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1968 Day by Day - 6th July 1968
With John Tusa. As 150,000 face starvation, ten tons of relief supplies are airlifted into Biafra.
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1968 Day by Day - 6th June 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. Robert Kennedy dies. The Rolling Stones rewrite a line in Sympathy for the Devil to reflect the assassination.
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1968 Day by Day - 6th May 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. Spain closes its border with Gibraltar. The Virgin Mary is seen by thousands in Cairo. The Viet Cong attack Saigon.
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1968 Day by Day - 7th April 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. Palm Sunday is declared a day of mourning for Martin Luther King as rioting continues in America.
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1968 Day by Day - 7th August 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. Ukranian students demonstrate against political arrests in the USSR outside the Soviet embassy in London.
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1968 Day by Day - 7th July 1968
With John Tusa. Anti-racism marchers clash with Enoch Powell supporters in Whitehall, leading to 23 arrests. In London's Hyde Park, 5,000 protest in favour of legalising cannabis.
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1968 Day by Day - 7th June 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. ETA carry out their first assassination.
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1968 Day by Day - 7th May 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. Sikh candidates from both Labour and Conservative parties canvass in local elections for the first time.
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1968 Day by Day - 8th April 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. Hanoi and Washington enter into talks. A Boeing 707 plane crashes at Heathrow.
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1968 Day by Day - 8th August 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. Richard Nixon wins the Republican Party's nomination for the presidential election.
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1968 Day by Day - 8th July 1968
With John Tusa. The Bank of England announces a large international loan to stave off financial problems.
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1968 Day by Day - 8th June 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. Martin Luther King's killer is caught at Heathrow. Convicted driver Philip Dobson is pardoned by President Tito.
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1968 Day by Day - 8th May 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. The Krays are arrested. SNP trounce Labour in Scottish council elections.
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1968 Day by Day - 9th April 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. Martin Luther King's funeral takes place. Dubcek's Czechoslovakian government publish their statement of intent.
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1968 Day by Day - 9th August 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. 48 passengers die as a British airliner carrying holiday-makers to Austria crashes near Munich.
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1968 Day by Day - 9th July 1968
With John Tusa. Australian police continue to lay siege to Sydney gunman Wally Mellish who, among other demands, insists on marrying his hostage girlfriend.
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1968 Day by Day - 9th June 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. President Tito concedes to protesting students. Jimmy Savile improves Anglo-French relations.
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1968 Day by Day - 9th May 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. Labour suffers heavy losses in local elections. Sir John Barbirolli announces his last performance.
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