On this day 57 years ago, on May 30, 1968 (May 4, 1968 in the lunar calendar), there was a nationwide protest against de Gaulle in France. Students took to the streets to spontaneously oppose the government. On May 30, 1968, French trains stopped working and airports were closed. Millions of workers shut themselves in factories or offices. Mail stopped being delivered, telephones were not working and universities were closed. Thousands of students said classes could not resume until their demands were met. The functions of the government and the state were weakened due to the strike. France was on the brink of civil war, a prominent politician warned. President Charles de Gaulle was so angry with the striking workers and students that today he dissolved the National Assembly, postponed a national referendum and vowed to use force if necessary to stop what he called a communist dictatorship. "A wrong thing was done that led to civil war." De Gaulle's speech was broadcast on the radio and on television, but people could not see the image. Because the "TV station" was on strike, when the president spoke, a still image of him was broadcast on the screen. Students, led by Daniel Cohen-Bendy, occupied the Sorbonne earlier this month, igniting the flames of the strike. Riot police stormed the campus on the 3rd, and thousands of students and students were arrested and many injured. The Sorbonne was shut down for the first time in its 700-year history. The Nunterre school on the outskirts of Paris was also closed after students agitated to break free from too much control of the school and advocated the overthrow of the "capitalist system". On the 13th, thousands of students flooded the streets of Paris, shouting that De Gaulle was an "assassin". Anti-colonialists marched in the streets of New Left leader Cohen Bendit Revolution France showed support for De Gaulle