53 years ago today, the Grenoble 1968 Olympic Winter Games opened 🇫🇷! #OnThisDay | Olympics

Figure Skating icon Peggy Fleming making history. ⭐ In fact, she was the only American to take home a gold medal at the Grenoble 1968 Olympic Winter Games. Relive this iconic moment from 54 years ago! ISU Figure Skating | Olympics

6 February 1968 - Hue, Vietnam On this day in 1968, Marines recapture the provincial headquarters building in Hue, pull down the Communist flag, and run up the "Stars and Stripes." Photo: Happy Marines from Company H, 2d Battalion, 5th Marines display the Viet Cong banner that flew from a flagpole in the courtyard of the provincial building. The Marines raised the American flag in its stead, ignoring for a time a MACV directive that forbade the display of the U.S. flag without the South Vietname

129K views · 621 reactions | From MLK's assassination to the Apollo 8 mission, the events of 1968 changed the course of the nation. CNN's new series, "1968: The Year That Changed America" airs Sunday, May 27, at 9pm ET https://cnn.it/2KV840V | CNN | Facebook