Modern Era · Europe · Culture

1968

Beatles release White Album

November 1968

The Beatles released a sprawling thirty-song double album as Charles Manson was listening in Los Angeles, hearing messages in the tracks that would shortly lead him to order murders. The album documented a band unraveling into four solo careers under one cover. Pop's most famous group was a year away from breaking up.

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In context

Also in 1968 (8 other events on record)

Tet Offensive stuns America · Southeast Asia · War
Martin Luther King assassinated · North America · Politics
Soviet tanks crush Prague Spring · Europe · Politics
My Lai massacre · Southeast Asia · War
Paris erupts in May 1968 · Europe · Politics
RFK assassinated in Los Angeles · North America · Politics

Before and after in Europe

Before: June 1, 1967: Sgt. Pepper released
After: January 30, 1972: Bloody Sunday in Derry

Before and after in Culture

Before: June 1, 1967: Sgt. Pepper released
After: June 28, 1969: Stonewall riots

Era

Modern Era (1901–2000), one of 590 events from that era on Saeculum.