* The Evolution of Character Codes, 1874 – 1968

* 1968 – In Richmond, Indiana's downtown district, a double explosion kills 41 and injures 150.

* 1968 – Pierre Elliot Trudeau wins the Liberal Leadership Election, and becomes Prime Minister of Canada soon after.

* 1968 – Affonso Giaffone, Brazilian race car driver

* 1968 – Vanessa Lann, American composer

* 1968 – Nerve gas accident at Skull Valley, Utah.

* 1968 – Alicia Coppola, American actress

* 1968 – Toby Gad, German-American songwriter and producer

* 1968 – Adam Graves, Canadian hockey player

* 1903 – Ferenc Keserű, Hungarian water polo player ( d. 1968 )

* 1930 – Gholamreza Takhti, Iranian wrestler ( d. 1968 )

* 1968 – Jack de Gier, Dutch footballer

* 1968 – McG, American director, writer, and producer

* 1968 – Gillian Anderson, American actress

* 1968 – Eric Bana, Australian actor

* 1968 – Sam Fogarino, American drummer ( Interpol and Magnetic Morning )

* 1968 – Alexandros Panagoulis attempts to assassinate the Greek dictator Colonel Georgios Papadopoulos in Varkiza, Athens.

The tempo of the play changed over the next four series in the 1960s, held in 1962 – 63, 1964, 1965 – 66 and 1968.

The remaining five series were drawn, with Australia retaining the Ashes four times ( 1938, 1962 – 63, 1965 – 66, 1968 ) and England retaining it once ( 1972 ).

* 1968 – An earthquake hits Casiguran, Aurora, Philippines killing more than 270 people and wounding 261.

* 1968 – Stefan Effenberg, German footballer

* 1968 – John Stanier, American drummer ( Helmet, Tomahawk, The Mark of Cain, and Battles )

* 1968 – Lev Davidovich Landau, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1908 )

* Gerhard Doerfer ( 1963, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1981, 1985, 1988, 1993 ).

* 1981 – Münir Nurettin Selçuk, Turkish tenor and musician ( b. 1968 )

* Top 10 list ( for years 1951, 1955 – 1968, 1981 – 2009 )

Indonesia was until recently Southeast Asia's only member of OPEC, and the 1970s oil price raises provided an export revenue windfall that contributed to sustained high economic growth rates, averaging over 7 % from 1968 to 1981.

Elected in 1967, reelected in 1968, 1973, 1976, 1981, 1986, 1988, 1993.

When other Communist regimes later seemed at risk – in Prague in 1968, in Kabul in 1979, in Warsaw in 1981, he was convinced that, as in Budapest in 1956, only armed force could ensure their survival ".

The Oakland Raiders of the NFL won Super Bowl XI in 1977, Super Bowl XV in 1981, and after the 1983 season ( their second season since the temporary LA move ), they defeated the Washington Redskins in Super Bowl XVIII to capture a third championship, while also appearing in Super Bowl II in 1968 and Super Bowl XXXVII in 2003.

After Expo 67 ended in October 1967, the site and most of the pavilions continued on as an exhibition called Man and His World, open during the summer months from 1968 until 1981.

In the BBC radio dramatizations, Gandalf has been voiced by Norman Shelley in The Lord of the Rings ( 1955 – 1956 ), Heron Carvic in The Hobbit ( 1968 ), Bernard Mayes in The Lord of the Rings ( 1979 ) and Sir Michael Hordern in The Lord of the Rings ( 1981 ).

He was also the regular " centre square " guest on the game show Hollywood Squares from 1968 to 1981 and was the voice of The Hooded Claw in the animated Hanna Barbera series, The Perils of Penelope Pitstop, though never credited.

* The Hollywood Squares ( 1968 – 1981 )

He also appeared in other films such as the Ealing comedy The Lavender Hill Mob ( 1951 ) and the 1981 PBS production of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and he had a small role in the musical Chitty Chitty Bang Bang ( 1968 ) which was itself based on a children's book by Bond author Ian Fleming.

Marjorie Kendig ( 1892 – 1981 ), probably Korzybski's closest co-worker, director of the Institute after his death, and editor of his posthumously published Collected Writings: 1920-1950, wrote in 1968: I would guess that I have known about 30 individuals who have in some degree adequately, by my standards, mastered this highly general, very simple, very difficult system of orientation and method of evaluating — reversing as it must all our cultural conditioning, neurological canalization, etc ....

He also appeared in The Big Knife as an overly aggressive film studio boss who berates film star Jack Palance ; as Al Capone in Al Capone ( 1959 ); as Mr. Joyboy in The Loved One ; as the serial killer in No Way to Treat a Lady ; and as a repressed gay NCO in The Sergeant ( 1968 ); as Rabbi Saunders in The Chosen ( 1981 ).

Caine was averaging two films a year, but these included such failures as the BAFTA Award-nominated The Magus ( 1968 ), the Academy Award-nominated The Swarm ( 1978 ), Ashanti ( 1979 ) ( which he claimed were the worst three films of all the other worst films he ever made ), Beyond the Poseidon Adventure ( 1979 ), The Island ( 1980 ), The Hand ( 1981 ) and a reunion with his Sleuth co-star Laurence Olivier in The Jigsaw Man ( 1982 ).

He was awarded the Wihuri Prize in 1968 and the Wolf Prize in Mathematics in 1981.

In 1913, with his friends Pinchus Kremegne ( 1890 – 1981 ) and Michel Kikoine ( 1892 – 1968 ), he emigrated to Paris, where he studied at the École des Beaux-Arts under Fernand Cormon.

It has been made into one feature film ( in 1962 ), three radio drama series ( in 1957, 1968 and 2008 ), and two TV series ( in 1981 and 2009 ).

She has starred in a variety of other successful films, including The Thomas Crown Affair ( 1968 ), Three Days of the Condor ( 1975 ), and Mommie Dearest ( 1981 ).

There were 13 episodes of this movie series between 1968 and 1981, starting with Olsen-banden.

Following that, he served as President of the World Bank from 1968 to 1981.

McNamara served as head of the World Bank from April 1968 to June 1981, when he turned 65.

Omar Efraín Torrijos Herrera ( February 13, 1929 – July 31, 1981 ) was the Commander of the Panamanian and National Guard and the de facto leader of Panama from 1968 to 1981.

1968 – 1981 Louis R. " Bud " Burgunder ( R ) ( first term )