Paris erupts in May 1968
May 1968
Student protests at Nanterre spread to the Sorbonne and then to factories across France. Ten million workers struck. De Gaulle briefly fled to a French army base in Germany to make sure the troops would still obey him. The uprising collapsed, but something had broken in Western European assumptions about authority and the good life.
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
- RFK assassinated in Los Angeles · North America · Politics
- Tlatelolco massacre in Mexico · North America · Politics
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Era
Modern Era (1901–2000), one of 590 events from that era on Saeculum.