Think 2024 has been crazy? Here's why it still doesn't compare to 1940, 1968, and 1973
While 2024’s fast pace of events is rare in American history, it’s not unique.
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Take a look at when RFK entered the race in ‘68. Another tough year was 1970, when National Guardsman opened fire on students at Kent State….
- Jan. 23, 1968: North Korea captures the Navy ship USS Pueblo.
- Jan. 30: North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces launch the Tet Offensive, undermining claims that the U.S. is winning the Vietnam War.
- Feb. 8: Alabama Gov. George Wallace, a segregationist, announces his third-party presidential bid.
- March 10: U.S. commander in Vietnam, Gen. William Westmoreland, requests 200,000 more troops.
- March 12: Minnesota U.S. Sen. Eugene McCarthy nearly upsets President Lyndon Johnson in the New Hampshire primary.
- March 16: New York U.S. Sen. Robert F. Kennedy announces his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination.
- March 31: Johnson agrees to a partial halt in the bombing of North Vietnam in order to negotiate an end to the war. He also announces that he will not seek reelection.
- April 4: Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. Major riots break out in several American cities.
- May 10: Vietnam War peace talks begin in Paris.
- June 5: Kennedy is shot in Los Angeles after winning the California primary. He dies the next day.
- Aug. 8: The Republican National Convention nominates Richard Nixonfor president.
- Aug. 20: Soviet and Warsaw Pact forces move into Czechoslovakia, crushing the Prague Spring liberalization movement.
- Aug. 26-29: A bitterly divided Democratic convention nominates Vice President Hubert Humphrey for president. Outside the convention, Chicago police unleash a wave of violence against peaceful protesters.
- Sept. 30: Humphrey announces support for halting bombing in Vietnam and negotiating peace.
- Nov. 5: Nixon wins a narrow victory in the presidential election.
