North Korea seizes U.S. Navy ship Pueblo; holds 83 on board as spies (Jan. 23).

Tet offensive, turning point in Vietnam war (Jan.–Feb.).

My Lai massacre (March 16).

President Johnson announces he will not seek or accept presidential re-nomination (March 31).

Martin Luther King, Jr., civil rights leader, is slain in Memphis (April 4) - James Earl Ray, indicted in murder, captured in London on June 8. In 1969 Ray pleads guilty and is sentenced to 99 years.

Sen. Robert F. Kennedy is shot and critically wounded in Los Angeles hotel after winning California primary (June 5) - dies June 6. Sirhan B. Sirhan convicted 1969.

Czechoslovakia is invaded by Russians and Warsaw Pact forces to crush liberal regime (Aug. 20).

The Leyland Motor Corporation and British Motor Holdings merged to form British Leyland Motor Corporation (UK)