page_title: March 1968
section_title: March 29, 1968 (Friday)
hierarchical_section_title: March 1968 / March 29, 1968 (Friday)
context_page_description: The following events occurred in March 1968:
context_section_description: A group of 500 black activists, led by Robert F. Williams, assembled at the black-owned Twenty Grand Motel in Detroit to proclaim their intention to create the Republic of New Africa, an independent black nation located in areas of the southeastern United States that had predominantly black populations.
  At the University of Paris, commonly called "the Sorbonne" because of its location, the Dean called on French police to arrest students who had been demonstrating peacefully in their demand of reforms.
  Pope Paul VI announced the end of the centuries-old hereditary papal nobility and a reorganization of the Papal Court (Pontificalis Aula) with the release of Pontificalis Domus, an apostolic letter.
  A partial solar eclipse occurred in the polar regions.
  Born: Lucy Lawless, New Zealand television actress who starred in the title role of Xena: Warrior Princess; as Lucille Ryan in Mount Albert
caption: Robert F. Williams
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