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1966 — Korea: 8월 3일 산림청 발족 / China: Cultural Revolution / Japan: 산리즈카 투쟁 / United States: Heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali (formerly known as Cassius Clay) declared himself a conscientious objector and refused to go to war. In 1967 Ali was sentenced to five years in prison for draft evasion, but his conviction was later overturned on appeal. In addition, he was stripped of his title and b…

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KoreaSouth Korea 1948–	ChinaChina 1949–	JapanShōwa era 1926–1989	United StatesUnited States 1776–
8월 3일 산림청 발족.KO 4월 9일 인천제철공장 기공.KO 1964Vietnam War 196410월 31일 대한민국과 월남 간에 파병 협정 체결 19645월 7일 울산정유공장 준공 19651월 25일 제2한강교 (현 양화대교 구교) 개통. 19651월 5일 정부, 제2차 경제개발 5개년계획안 수립. 19656월 22일 대한민국과 일본 간에 한일기본조약이 조인되어 국교가 정상화 196522 June. The signing of Treaty on Basic Relations between Japan and the Republic of Korea. Earned both much controversy and procurement of budgets for later economic developments. 19675월 3일 제6대 대통령 선거, 박정희 당선. 1967Start of the second five-year plan. 19675월 25일 도서정리사업 (조선민주주의인민공화국) 19674월 1일 구로동 수출공업단지 준공. 19674월 20일 한국비료 준공. 19674월 21일 과학기술처 신설. 1968Battle of Khe Sanh 196812월 5일 국민교육헌장 선포. 196810월 31일 동양최대 쌍용시멘트 동해공장 준공.	文化大革命开始。毛泽东接见红卫兵。红八月（“破四旧”，八二三事件，老舍自杀身亡）北部橫貫公路通車。白崇禧逝。月，中华人民共和国和加纳断交。ZH 月27日，第一颗装有核弹头的地对地导弹在本国国土上飞行爆炸成功，核弹和导弹“两弹”首次结合试验成功（参见：两弹一星）。ZH 붉은 8월 月8日，邢台市发生7.2级大地震，造成了重大的人员伤亡和财产损失，共计死亡8064人，受伤38451人，倒塌房屋508万余间。ZH Three-Self Patriotic Movement Guangxi Massacre Cultural Revolution Group 싱타이 지진 月，“中国杂交水稻之父”袁隆平发表论文《水稻的雄性不孕性》，成为中国杂交水稻研究的奠基之作。ZH Daxing Massacre 月16日，时任内蒙古第一书记的乌兰夫遭撤职、迫害，引发此后文革重大冤假错案“内人党事件”，造成数万人死亡，至少数十万人遭牵连。ZH 1966 Hualien earthquake 月3日，知名翻译家傅雷及夫人受红卫兵迫害，在家中自缢而亡。ZH 月16日，《五·一六通知》发表、文化大革命开始，撤销了原文化革命五人小组以及《二月提纲》，中国大陆进入文革“十年浩劫”或“十年动乱”。月，文化革命五人小组提交《二月提纲》，被作为中央文件下发，但随后不久，这个提纲就为毛泽东所否定和批判。ZH 月，中华人民共和国和中非断交。ZH 月，广东省阳春县爆发流脑疫情，通过红卫兵的全国大串连蔓延至全国，1966-67年间的流脑大流行共造成16万余人死亡。ZH 月1日，中国人民解放军第二炮兵部队成立。ZH 月30日，周恩来起草《一份应予保护的干部名单》。ZH 1964月27日，中华人民共和国与法国建交。 1964October — 596: The Chinese government detonated its first nuclear weapon at Lop Nur. 1964January — Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung was first published. 1964The ROC government outlaws Taiwanese Hokkien language in schools and official settings 19641964 Baihe earthquake 1964月，苏共中央第一书记赫鲁晓夫下台后，周恩来、贺龙率代表团访问苏联，与苏联国防部长马林诺夫斯基发生矛盾，中苏冲突升级（参见：中苏交恶）。 1964月，“文化革命五人小组”成立。 1964The second of two volumes of Simplified Chinese characters ordered by the State Council of China was published. 1964湖口兵变。第一颗原子弹爆炸成功。麥克阿瑟公路通車。6月14日石門水庫峻工典礼。 1964月，中国大陆掀起“工业学大庆、农业学大寨 ”运动。 1964月-8月，中国与苏联在北京就边界问题举行谈判，会谈无果而终。 1964月29日，中国第一枚自主研制的导弹“东风二号”在酒泉发射场成功发射并命中目标（参见：两弹一星）。 1964月16日，中国第一颗原子弹爆炸成功（参见：两弹一星）。 1964月，中国和日本就互派记者达成《中日记者交换协定》。 1964月21日-1965年1月4日，在第三届全国人民代表大会第一次会议上，刘少奇连任中华人民共和国主席，周恩来连任中华人民共和国国务院总理。 1964月，中华人民共和国第二次全国人口普查显示中国总人口达7.23亿，扫盲运动使得中国文盲率（15岁及以上不识字人的比例）下降到了52%，有约1亿人脱盲。 1964月，设立中国中日备忘录贸易办事处驻东京联络处。 1965Vietnam War 1965月6日，中国人民解放军海军与中华民国海军在福建、广东附近爆发“八六海战”。 1965月，苏联部长会议主席柯西金在北京与中方会谈，与毛泽东发生争论（参见：中苏交恶）。 19653月5日陳誠逝世。6月30日美援中止。八六海战。9月1日西藏自治区成立。11月10日姚文元发表评新编历史剧《海瑞罢官》。 1965月10日，姚文元于上海《文汇报》发表《评新编历史剧〈海瑞罢官〉》，被认为是文化大革命的导火索。 1965月1日，中国地质科学院的学者在云南元谋发现元谋人。 1965月1日，中国人民解放军与中华民国国军在福建爆发“东引海战”。 1965月17日，在世界上首次人工合成结晶牛胰岛素，次年4月《中国科学》刊登了有关论文。 1965月13日-14日，中国人民解放军海军与中华民国海军在福建爆发“崇武以东海战”。 1965月1日，西藏自治區正式成立。 1967月23日，研发抗疟疾药物的“523项目”启动。 1967月27日，中华人民共和国与印度尼西亚断交并从印尼撤侨（参见：九·三〇事件）。 1967月6日，中国与坦桑尼亚、赞比亚签署协定，支援两国修建坦赞铁路。 1967二月抗争。6月17日首枚氢弹爆炸。台北市升格為直轄市。10月17日溥仪逝世。 1967月17日，中国最后一位皇帝溥仪因尿毒症抢救无效在北京逝世，享年61岁。 1967Wuhan incident 1967Daoxian massacre 1967月，上海爆发“一月风暴”，成为全国大规模夺权运动的开端，此后各地造反派成立“革命委员会”取代党政机关。 1967月-2月，谭震林、陈毅、叶剑英、李富春、李先念、徐向前、聂荣臻等与江青、陈伯达、康生、姚文元就文化大革命等问题发生争执，即“二月抗争”。 1967月下旬，中国驻缅甸人员不顾缅甸政府的劝阻，强行向华侨和缅甸国民散发《毛主席语录》和毛主席像章，引起缅方的不满和干涉，发生中国驻缅甸使馆遇袭事件、午门抗缅大会等事件，双发爆发大规模冲突、造成人员伤亡，两国濒临断交。 1967月17日，中国第一颗氢弹在罗布泊成功爆炸（参见：两弹一星）。 1967月初，文革期间四川省“泸州武斗”爆发，造成数千人死亡。 1967月，中华人民共和国与印度自1962年后爆发第二次边境冲突，中方从锡金撤离。 1967月22日，北京红卫兵火烧英国代办处，殴打英国驻华代办柯利达，引发国际争端，是中华人民共和国建国以来最严重的涉外事件之一。 1967月-10月，湖南省文革期间爆发“道县大屠杀”，9000余人丧生。 1967月7日，时任国务院副总理、公安部部长谢富治发表讲话，明确提出“砸烂公检法”的主张。 1967Qinghai 223 Incident 1967Yangjiang Massacre 1967月26日，广东省文革期间发生“反彭湃烈士事件”，造成上百人丧生。 1967月9日，北京发生红卫兵“焚毁蒙古驻华大使专车事件”。 1967月，广东省发生“广州吊劳改犯事件”，上百人死亡。 1967月初，文革期间的“重庆大武斗”拉开序幕，造成大量人员伤亡。 1967月底，宁夏“青铜峡事件”造成上百人死亡。 1968月5日，毛泽东将来访的巴基斯坦外交部长赠送的一篮芒果转送给了进驻清华大学的工宣队，引发了此后全国性的“芒果崇拜”。 1968Down to the Countryside Movement 1968Guangdong Cultural Revolution Massacre 1968月，文革期间的重大冤假错案“赵健民云南特务案”爆发，138万7千余人受到牵连，大屠杀导致1万7千余人死亡，另有6万1千多人致残。 1968月30日，南京长江大桥建成、铁路桥率先通车，公路桥于12月29日开通。 1968Shaoyang County Massacre 1968Deng Pufang was thrown from a third-story window at Peking University by Red Guards, crippling him. 1968月，时任广州军区司令员黄永胜内定广西“4·22”阵营为反动组织、开始镇压，广西文革屠杀到达高峰，文革后官方统计显示广西屠杀共造成10万-15万人死亡，期间不少地区还发生了大规模人吃人事件。 1968月8日，“两弹一星”元勋姚桐斌在文革期间被造反派殴打致死。 1968月26日，“两弹一星”元勋赵九章遭文革迫害，自杀身亡。 1968月5日，“两弹一星”元勋郭永怀在空难中丧生。 1968月28日，知名学者翦伯赞及夫人受迫害，自杀身亡。 1968December — The People's Daily published an editorial entitled "We too have two hands, let us not laze about in the city," invigorating the Down to the Countryside Movement under which the sent-down youth, many former Red Guards, were relocated from the cities to the country. 1968月，“香港流感”爆发，是1957-58年亚洲流感的变种，再度造成全球100万-400万人死亡，成为历史上致死人数最多的大瘟疫之一。 1968月13日-31日，中共八届十二中全会召开，时任国家主席刘少奇被“撤销其党内外一切职务和永久开除出中国共产党”。 1968月27日，中共中央、国务院、中央军委、中央文革小组发出通知，对教育部实行军事管制，成立军事管事领导小组，意图停止高校武斗，但遭到一些红卫兵组织的拒绝，即“七·二七事件”。28日，毛泽东等中共高层召见并严厉批评了北京红卫兵造反派“五大领袖”，此后毛泽东思想宣传队开始进驻各学校和机关团体，红卫兵运动则逐渐退出文革舞台。 1968月，毛泽东批准文革“清理阶级队伍”运动展开，据估计约三千万人遭批斗、50万人死亡。 1968月-10月，江西省文革期间爆发“瑞金大屠杀”，上千人死亡。 1968月10日，中华人民共和国国歌《義勇軍進行曲》的作词人田漢在文革中被迫害致死。 1968月，海南（文革期间隶属广东省）爆发“儋县大屠杀”，700余人死亡。 1968七里沁岛事件。10月31日刘少奇被开除中共党籍。12月22日毛泽东发起上山下乡运动。 1968月，中华人民共和国和苏联在边境地区发生冲突，史称“七里沁岛事件”，造成人员伤亡。 1968月23日，北京“清华大学百日大武斗”拉开序幕，成为北京最为严重的武斗事件。	산리즈카 투쟁 19641964 Summer Olympics 1964October — The first Shinkansen high-speed train railway line was opened. 19641964 Niigata earthquake 1964東京五輪（オリンピック景気） 1964October — A largest Japanese land reclamation project thus far was completed in Lake Hachirōgata, creating the village of Ōgata out of 195 km of lakebed reclaimed since 1957. 1965不況（証券不況） 19681968 Okinawa gubernatorial election 19681968 Ebino earthquake 1968도쿄대 투쟁 1968The Ogasawara Islands are returned from American occupation to Japanese sovereignty. Japanese citizens are allowed to return. 1968Japan surpasses West Germany as the second-largest economic power in the world.	Heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali (formerly known as Cassius Clay) declared himself a conscientious objector and refused to go to war. In 1967 Ali was sentenced to five years in prison for draft evasion, but his conviction was later overturned on appeal. In addition, he was stripped of his title and banned from professional boxing for more than three years. Miranda v. Arizona established "Miranda rights" for suspects The three major American television networks—NBC, CBS and ABC—have full color lineups in their prime-time schedules. Feminist group National Organization for Women (NOW) formed Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) established Department of Transportation created National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act 1964The Beatles arrive in the U.S., and subsequent appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show, mark the start of the British Invasion (or, an increased number of rock and pop performers from the United Kingdom who became popular around the world, including the U.S.) 1964Civil Rights Act of 1964 19641964 Alaska earthquake 19641964 United States presidential election 1964The Ford Mustang is introduced 1964Panama Canal Zone riots 1964President Johnson proposes the Great Society, whose social reforms were aimed at the elimination of poverty and racial injustice. New major spending programs that addressed education, medical care, urban problems, and transportation were launched later in the 1960s. 1964In the election, President Johnson won by one of the largest victories in U.S. history, defeating Arizona Republican Senator Barry Goldwater 1964Tonkin Gulf incident; Gulf of Tonkin Resolution 1964Economic Opportunity Act 1964January 20, 1965 – President Johnson begins full term, Humphrey becomes the 38th vice president 196424th Amendment, prohibiting both Congress and the states from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax or other types of tax 1964Ghetto riots 1965The Selma to Montgomery marches bring attention to the civil rights movement's call for voting rights 1965Watts riots 1965Malcolm X, an African-American Muslim minister, public speaker, and human rights activist is assassinated in Harlem, New York 19651965 Rat Islands earthquake 1965Medicaid and Medicare enacted 1965Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), a civil rights activist group, led the first of several anti-war marches in Washington, D.C., with about 25,000 protesters 1965Vietnam War 1965Higher Education Act of 1965 1965Convention on Transit Trade of Land-locked States 19651965 Puget Sound earthquake 1965Immigration Act of 1965 1965President Johnson appoints Thurgood Marshall as the first African-American Supreme Court Justice 1965Voting Rights Act 1967The "Summer of Love" embodies the growing counterculture, with the Monterey Pop Festival and Scott McKenzie's "San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)" among the highlights. 1967Jack Ruby died of a pulmonary embolism, secondary to bronchogenic carcinoma (lung cancer), on January 3, 1967 at Parkland Hospital, where Oswald had died and where President Kennedy had been pronounced dead after his assassination. 1967American Samoa becomes self-governing under a new constitution 1967New Documents 1967Glassboro Summit Conference between U.S. president Lyndon Johnson and Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin 196725th Amendment establishes succession to the presidency and procedures for filling a vacancy in the office of the vice president 1967The Outsiders published by S.E. Hinton 1967The first Super Bowl is played, with the Green Bay Packers defeating the Kansas City Chiefs 35–10. 1967Detroit race riot precipitates the "Long Hot Summer of 1967", when race riots erupt in 159 cities nationwide. 1968The National Front for the Liberation of Vietnam launches the Tet Offensive 19681968 United States presidential election 1968Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. 1968Apollo 8 and its three-astronaut crew orbit the Moon, Earthrise photograph taken 1968Civil Rights Act of 1968 19681968 Illinois earthquake 19681968 Democratic National Convention 1968A New York Senator and a leading 1968 Democratic presidential candidate, Robert F. Kennedy, is assassinated in Los Angeles after winning the California primary for the Democratic Party's nomination for president, by Sirhan Sirhan. 1968U.S. signs Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty 1968On March 31, incumbent President Lyndon B. Johnson announces to the nation on television that he will not seek re-election. Opposition toward him and the Democratic Party was growing. The escalation of Vietnam was one of these issues. 1968President Johnson awards medals of honor to soldiers from Vietnam. 1968Music group Simon and Garfunkel release "Mrs. Robinson" from their album The Graduate. 1968January 20, 1969 – Nixon becomes the 37th president, Agnew becomes the 39th vice president 1968East L.A. walkouts, or Chicano Blowouts

KoreaSouth Korea 1948–

ChinaChina 1949–

JapanShōwa era 1926–1989

United StatesUnited States 1776–

8월 3일 산림청 발족.KO
4월 9일 인천제철공장 기공.KO

1964Vietnam War
196410월 31일 대한민국과 월남 간에 파병 협정 체결
19645월 7일 울산정유공장 준공
19651월 25일 제2한강교 (현 양화대교 구교) 개통.
19651월 5일 정부, 제2차 경제개발 5개년계획안 수립.
19656월 22일 대한민국과 일본 간에 한일기본조약이 조인되어 국교가 정상화
196522 June. The signing of Treaty on Basic Relations between Japan and the Republic of Korea. Earned both much controversy and procurement of budgets for later economic developments.
19675월 3일 제6대 대통령 선거, 박정희 당선.
1967Start of the second five-year plan.
19675월 25일 도서정리사업 (조선민주주의인민공화국)
19674월 1일 구로동 수출공업단지 준공.
19674월 20일 한국비료 준공.
19674월 21일 과학기술처 신설.
1968Battle of Khe Sanh
196812월 5일 국민교육헌장 선포.
196810월 31일 동양최대 쌍용시멘트 동해공장 준공.

文化大革命开始。毛泽东接见红卫兵。红八月（“破四旧”，八二三事件，老舍自杀身亡）北部橫貫公路通車。白崇禧逝。
月，中华人民共和国和加纳断交。ZH
月27日，第一颗装有核弹头的地对地导弹在本国国土上飞行爆炸成功，核弹和导弹“两弹”首次结合试验成功（参见：两弹一星）。ZH
붉은 8월
月8日，邢台市发生7.2级大地震，造成了重大的人员伤亡和财产损失，共计死亡8064人，受伤38451人，倒塌房屋508万余间。ZH
Three-Self Patriotic Movement
Guangxi Massacre
Cultural Revolution Group
싱타이 지진
月，“中国杂交水稻之父”袁隆平发表论文《水稻的雄性不孕性》，成为中国杂交水稻研究的奠基之作。ZH
Daxing Massacre
月16日，时任内蒙古第一书记的乌兰夫遭撤职、迫害，引发此后文革重大冤假错案“内人党事件”，造成数万人死亡，至少数十万人遭牵连。ZH
1966 Hualien earthquake
月3日，知名翻译家傅雷及夫人受红卫兵迫害，在家中自缢而亡。ZH
月16日，《五·一六通知》发表、文化大革命开始，撤销了原文化革命五人小组以及《二月提纲》，中国大陆进入文革“十年浩劫”或“十年动乱”。
月，文化革命五人小组提交《二月提纲》，被作为中央文件下发，但随后不久，这个提纲就为毛泽东所否定和批判。ZH
月，中华人民共和国和中非断交。ZH
月，广东省阳春县爆发流脑疫情，通过红卫兵的全国大串连蔓延至全国，1966-67年间的流脑大流行共造成16万余人死亡。ZH
月1日，中国人民解放军第二炮兵部队成立。ZH
月30日，周恩来起草《一份应予保护的干部名单》。ZH

1964月27日，中华人民共和国与法国建交。
1964October — 596: The Chinese government detonated its first nuclear weapon at Lop Nur.
1964January — Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung was first published.
1964The ROC government outlaws Taiwanese Hokkien language in schools and official settings
19641964 Baihe earthquake
1964月，苏共中央第一书记赫鲁晓夫下台后，周恩来、贺龙率代表团访问苏联，与苏联国防部长马林诺夫斯基发生矛盾，中苏冲突升级（参见：中苏交恶）。
1964月，“文化革命五人小组”成立。
1964The second of two volumes of Simplified Chinese characters ordered by the State Council of China was published.
1964湖口兵变。第一颗原子弹爆炸成功。麥克阿瑟公路通車。6月14日石門水庫峻工典礼。
1964月，中国大陆掀起“工业学大庆、农业学大寨 ”运动。
1964月-8月，中国与苏联在北京就边界问题举行谈判，会谈无果而终。
1964月29日，中国第一枚自主研制的导弹“东风二号”在酒泉发射场成功发射并命中目标（参见：两弹一星）。
1964月16日，中国第一颗原子弹爆炸成功（参见：两弹一星）。
1964月，中国和日本就互派记者达成《中日记者交换协定》。
1964月21日-1965年1月4日，在第三届全国人民代表大会第一次会议上，刘少奇连任中华人民共和国主席，周恩来连任中华人民共和国国务院总理。
1964月，中华人民共和国第二次全国人口普查显示中国总人口达7.23亿，扫盲运动使得中国文盲率（15岁及以上不识字人的比例）下降到了52%，有约1亿人脱盲。
1964月，设立中国中日备忘录贸易办事处驻东京联络处。
1965Vietnam War
1965月6日，中国人民解放军海军与中华民国海军在福建、广东附近爆发“八六海战”。
1965月，苏联部长会议主席柯西金在北京与中方会谈，与毛泽东发生争论（参见：中苏交恶）。
19653月5日陳誠逝世。6月30日美援中止。八六海战。9月1日西藏自治区成立。11月10日姚文元发表评新编历史剧《海瑞罢官》。
1965月10日，姚文元于上海《文汇报》发表《评新编历史剧〈海瑞罢官〉》，被认为是文化大革命的导火索。
1965月1日，中国地质科学院的学者在云南元谋发现元谋人。
1965月1日，中国人民解放军与中华民国国军在福建爆发“东引海战”。
1965月17日，在世界上首次人工合成结晶牛胰岛素，次年4月《中国科学》刊登了有关论文。
1965月13日-14日，中国人民解放军海军与中华民国海军在福建爆发“崇武以东海战”。
1965月1日，西藏自治區正式成立。
1967月23日，研发抗疟疾药物的“523项目”启动。
1967月27日，中华人民共和国与印度尼西亚断交并从印尼撤侨（参见：九·三〇事件）。
1967月6日，中国与坦桑尼亚、赞比亚签署协定，支援两国修建坦赞铁路。
1967二月抗争。6月17日首枚氢弹爆炸。台北市升格為直轄市。10月17日溥仪逝世。
1967月17日，中国最后一位皇帝溥仪因尿毒症抢救无效在北京逝世，享年61岁。
1967Wuhan incident
1967Daoxian massacre
1967月，上海爆发“一月风暴”，成为全国大规模夺权运动的开端，此后各地造反派成立“革命委员会”取代党政机关。
1967月-2月，谭震林、陈毅、叶剑英、李富春、李先念、徐向前、聂荣臻等与江青、陈伯达、康生、姚文元就文化大革命等问题发生争执，即“二月抗争”。
1967月下旬，中国驻缅甸人员不顾缅甸政府的劝阻，强行向华侨和缅甸国民散发《毛主席语录》和毛主席像章，引起缅方的不满和干涉，发生中国驻缅甸使馆遇袭事件、午门抗缅大会等事件，双发爆发大规模冲突、造成人员伤亡，两国濒临断交。
1967月17日，中国第一颗氢弹在罗布泊成功爆炸（参见：两弹一星）。
1967月初，文革期间四川省“泸州武斗”爆发，造成数千人死亡。
1967月，中华人民共和国与印度自1962年后爆发第二次边境冲突，中方从锡金撤离。
1967月22日，北京红卫兵火烧英国代办处，殴打英国驻华代办柯利达，引发国际争端，是中华人民共和国建国以来最严重的涉外事件之一。
1967月-10月，湖南省文革期间爆发“道县大屠杀”，9000余人丧生。
1967月7日，时任国务院副总理、公安部部长谢富治发表讲话，明确提出“砸烂公检法”的主张。
1967Qinghai 223 Incident
1967Yangjiang Massacre
1967月26日，广东省文革期间发生“反彭湃烈士事件”，造成上百人丧生。
1967月9日，北京发生红卫兵“焚毁蒙古驻华大使专车事件”。
1967月，广东省发生“广州吊劳改犯事件”，上百人死亡。
1967月初，文革期间的“重庆大武斗”拉开序幕，造成大量人员伤亡。
1967月底，宁夏“青铜峡事件”造成上百人死亡。
1968月5日，毛泽东将来访的巴基斯坦外交部长赠送的一篮芒果转送给了进驻清华大学的工宣队，引发了此后全国性的“芒果崇拜”。
1968Down to the Countryside Movement
1968Guangdong Cultural Revolution Massacre
1968月，文革期间的重大冤假错案“赵健民云南特务案”爆发，138万7千余人受到牵连，大屠杀导致1万7千余人死亡，另有6万1千多人致残。
1968月30日，南京长江大桥建成、铁路桥率先通车，公路桥于12月29日开通。
1968Shaoyang County Massacre
1968Deng Pufang was thrown from a third-story window at Peking University by Red Guards, crippling him.
1968月，时任广州军区司令员黄永胜内定广西“4·22”阵营为反动组织、开始镇压，广西文革屠杀到达高峰，文革后官方统计显示广西屠杀共造成10万-15万人死亡，期间不少地区还发生了大规模人吃人事件。
1968月8日，“两弹一星”元勋姚桐斌在文革期间被造反派殴打致死。
1968月26日，“两弹一星”元勋赵九章遭文革迫害，自杀身亡。
1968月5日，“两弹一星”元勋郭永怀在空难中丧生。
1968月28日，知名学者翦伯赞及夫人受迫害，自杀身亡。
1968December — The People's Daily published an editorial entitled "We too have two hands, let us not laze about in the city," invigorating the Down to the Countryside Movement under which the sent-down youth, many former Red Guards, were relocated from the cities to the country.
1968月，“香港流感”爆发，是1957-58年亚洲流感的变种，再度造成全球100万-400万人死亡，成为历史上致死人数最多的大瘟疫之一。
1968月13日-31日，中共八届十二中全会召开，时任国家主席刘少奇被“撤销其党内外一切职务和永久开除出中国共产党”。
1968月27日，中共中央、国务院、中央军委、中央文革小组发出通知，对教育部实行军事管制，成立军事管事领导小组，意图停止高校武斗，但遭到一些红卫兵组织的拒绝，即“七·二七事件”。28日，毛泽东等中共高层召见并严厉批评了北京红卫兵造反派“五大领袖”，此后毛泽东思想宣传队开始进驻各学校和机关团体，红卫兵运动则逐渐退出文革舞台。
1968月，毛泽东批准文革“清理阶级队伍”运动展开，据估计约三千万人遭批斗、50万人死亡。
1968月-10月，江西省文革期间爆发“瑞金大屠杀”，上千人死亡。
1968月10日，中华人民共和国国歌《義勇軍進行曲》的作词人田漢在文革中被迫害致死。
1968月，海南（文革期间隶属广东省）爆发“儋县大屠杀”，700余人死亡。
1968七里沁岛事件。10月31日刘少奇被开除中共党籍。12月22日毛泽东发起上山下乡运动。
1968月，中华人民共和国和苏联在边境地区发生冲突，史称“七里沁岛事件”，造成人员伤亡。
1968月23日，北京“清华大学百日大武斗”拉开序幕，成为北京最为严重的武斗事件。

산리즈카 투쟁

19641964 Summer Olympics
1964October — The first Shinkansen high-speed train railway line was opened.
19641964 Niigata earthquake
1964東京五輪（オリンピック景気）
1964October — A largest Japanese land reclamation project thus far was completed in Lake Hachirōgata, creating the village of Ōgata out of 195 km of lakebed reclaimed since 1957.
1965不況（証券不況）
19681968 Okinawa gubernatorial election
19681968 Ebino earthquake
1968도쿄대 투쟁
1968The Ogasawara Islands are returned from American occupation to Japanese sovereignty. Japanese citizens are allowed to return.
1968Japan surpasses West Germany as the second-largest economic power in the world.

Heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali (formerly known as Cassius Clay) declared himself a conscientious objector and refused to go to war. In 1967 Ali was sentenced to five years in prison for draft evasion, but his conviction was later overturned on appeal. In addition, he was stripped of his title and banned from professional boxing for more than three years.
Miranda v. Arizona established "Miranda rights" for suspects
The three major American television networks—NBC, CBS and ABC—have full color lineups in their prime-time schedules.
Feminist group National Organization for Women (NOW) formed
Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) established
Department of Transportation created
National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act

1964The Beatles arrive in the U.S., and subsequent appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show, mark the start of the British Invasion (or, an increased number of rock and pop performers from the United Kingdom who became popular around the world, including the U.S.)
1964Civil Rights Act of 1964
19641964 Alaska earthquake
19641964 United States presidential election
1964The Ford Mustang is introduced
1964Panama Canal Zone riots
1964President Johnson proposes the Great Society, whose social reforms were aimed at the elimination of poverty and racial injustice. New major spending programs that addressed education, medical care, urban problems, and transportation were launched later in the 1960s.
1964In the election, President Johnson won by one of the largest victories in U.S. history, defeating Arizona Republican Senator Barry Goldwater
1964Tonkin Gulf incident; Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
1964Economic Opportunity Act
1964January 20, 1965 – President Johnson begins full term, Humphrey becomes the 38th vice president
196424th Amendment, prohibiting both Congress and the states from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax or other types of tax
1964Ghetto riots
1965The Selma to Montgomery marches bring attention to the civil rights movement's call for voting rights
1965Watts riots
1965Malcolm X, an African-American Muslim minister, public speaker, and human rights activist is assassinated in Harlem, New York
19651965 Rat Islands earthquake
1965Medicaid and Medicare enacted
1965Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), a civil rights activist group, led the first of several anti-war marches in Washington, D.C., with about 25,000 protesters
1965Vietnam War
1965Higher Education Act of 1965
1965Convention on Transit Trade of Land-locked States
19651965 Puget Sound earthquake
1965Immigration Act of 1965
1965President Johnson appoints Thurgood Marshall as the first African-American Supreme Court Justice
1965Voting Rights Act
1967The "Summer of Love" embodies the growing counterculture, with the Monterey Pop Festival and Scott McKenzie's "San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)" among the highlights.
1967Jack Ruby died of a pulmonary embolism, secondary to bronchogenic carcinoma (lung cancer), on January 3, 1967 at Parkland Hospital, where Oswald had died and where President Kennedy had been pronounced dead after his assassination.
1967American Samoa becomes self-governing under a new constitution
1967New Documents
1967Glassboro Summit Conference between U.S. president Lyndon Johnson and Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin
196725th Amendment establishes succession to the presidency and procedures for filling a vacancy in the office of the vice president
1967The Outsiders published by S.E. Hinton
1967The first Super Bowl is played, with the Green Bay Packers defeating the Kansas City Chiefs 35–10.
1967Detroit race riot precipitates the "Long Hot Summer of 1967", when race riots erupt in 159 cities nationwide.
1968The National Front for the Liberation of Vietnam launches the Tet Offensive
19681968 United States presidential election
1968Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
1968Apollo 8 and its three-astronaut crew orbit the Moon, Earthrise photograph taken
1968Civil Rights Act of 1968
19681968 Illinois earthquake
19681968 Democratic National Convention
1968A New York Senator and a leading 1968 Democratic presidential candidate, Robert F. Kennedy, is assassinated in Los Angeles after winning the California primary for the Democratic Party's nomination for president, by Sirhan Sirhan.
1968U.S. signs Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
1968On March 31, incumbent President Lyndon B. Johnson announces to the nation on television that he will not seek re-election. Opposition toward him and the Democratic Party was growing. The escalation of Vietnam was one of these issues.
1968President Johnson awards medals of honor to soldiers from Vietnam.
1968Music group Simon and Garfunkel release "Mrs. Robinson" from their album The Graduate.
1968January 20, 1969 – Nixon becomes the 37th president, Agnew becomes the 39th vice president
1968East L.A. walkouts, or Chicano Blowouts