Modern Era · North America · Politics
1968
Tlatelolco massacre in Mexico
October 2, 1968
Ten days before the Olympic Games were to open in Mexico City, government troops opened fire on a student protest in the Plaza of the Three Cultures, killing perhaps three hundred. The authorities suppressed the story for decades. The Olympics proceeded on schedule. Mexican politics carried the wound for the rest of the century.
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Also in 1968 (8 other events on record)
- Tet Offensive stuns America · Southeast Asia · War
- Martin Luther King assassinated · North America · Politics
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- My Lai massacre · Southeast Asia · War
- Paris erupts in May 1968 · Europe · Politics
- RFK assassinated in Los Angeles · North America · Politics
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