* 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 )

* Adrian Lester ( born 1968 ), British actor

* Adrian Scarborough ( born 1968 ), English character actor

* Adrian Ursu ( born 1968 ), Romanian journalist

Tricky ( born Adrian Nicholas Matthews Thaws, 27 January 1968 ) is an English musician and actor.

Ruel Adrian Fox ( born 14 January 1968 in Ipswich ) is an English former professional football player of Montserratian and Antiguan descent who played for Norwich City, Newcastle United, Tottenham Hotspur, and West Bromwich Albion from 1986 to 2002.

Vocalist and rhythm guitarist, Ade Blackburn ( born Adrian Everett Blackburn, Liverpool, 1968 ), and lead guitarist, Hartley ( born Jonathan Christopher Hartley, Liverpool, 1968 ), formed the earliest incarnation of the band around 1984, initially known as Sunny Rainy Afterlife and offering home-made demo cassettes through a local free circulation magazine.

* A Laugh, a Song and a Hand Grenade ( with Adrian Mitchell ) ( 1968 )

He appeared in over fifty films, including Village of the Damned ( 1960 ), The List of Adrian Messenger ( 1963 ), Play Dirty ( 1968 ), The File of the Golden Goose ( 1969 ), Run a Crooked Mile ( 1969 ), The Horror of Frankenstein ( 1970 ), Roman Polanski's Macbeth ( 1971 ), Dad's Army ( 1971 ), The Day of the Jackal ( 1973 ), The Sea Wolves ( 1980 ), Krull ( 1983 ), and King Solomon's Mines ( 1985 ).

On September 18, 1974, courts awarded Day $ 22, 835, 646 for fraud and malpractice in an hour-long oral decision by Superior Judge Lester E. Olson, ending a 99-day trial that involved 18 consolidated lawsuits and countersuits filed by Day and Rosenthal that involved Rosenthal's handling of her finances after she terminated him in July 1968.

* Julius Lester, To Be a Slave ( New York, 1968 ), pp. 39-58, Newberry Honor Medal, ages 10 and up.

* Lester Piggott – Never Say Die ( 1954 ), Crepello ( 1957 ), St. Paddy ( 1960 ), Sir Ivor ( 1968 ), Nijinsky ( 1970 ), Roberto ( 1972 ), Empery ( 1976 ), The Minstrel ( 1977 ), Teenoso ( 1983 )

Paul's most-recognizable recordings from then through the mid-1970s were an album for London Records / Phase 4 Stereo, Les Paul Now ( 1968 ), on which he updated some of his earlier hits ; and, backed by some of Nashville's celebrated studio musicians, a meld of jazz and country improvisation with fellow guitar virtuoso Chet Atkins, Chester and Lester ( 1976 ), for RCA Victor.

Lester Melrose ( December 14, 1891 – April 12, 1968 ) was one of the first American producers of blues records.

By 1968, Léger had returned to Canada's capital and was appointed as under-secretary of state, providing the administrative basis for Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson's foreign policy, and the policies on bilingualism and multiculturalism developed by the Cabinet chaired by Pearson's successor, Pierre Trudeau.

* Bruce Galphin, The Riddle of Lester Maddox ( Atlanta: Camelot, 1968 ).

It was named in honour of Lester B. Pearson, who was Prime Minister of Canada from 1963 to 1968, the recipient of the 1957 Nobel Peace Prize, and a former player and coach for the University of Toronto Varsity Blues men's ice hockey team.

From then until he died twenty years later Hines recorded endlessly both solo and with jazz notables like Cat Anderson, Harold Ashby, Barney Bigard, Lawrence Brown, Dave Brubeck ( they recorded duets in 1975 ), Jaki Byard ( duets in 1972 ), Benny Carter, Buck Clayton, Cozy Cole, Wallace Davenport, Eddie " Lockjaw " Davis, Vic Dickenson, Roy Eldridge, Duke Ellington ( duets in 1966 ), Ella Fitzgerald, Panama Francis, Bud Freeman, Stan Getz, Dizzy Gillespie, Paul Gonsalves, Stephane Grappelli, Sonny Greer, Lionel Hampton, Coleman Hawkins, Johnny Hodges, Peanuts Hucko, Helen Humes, Budd Johnson, Jonah Jones, Max Kaminsky, Gene Krupa, Ellis Larkins, Marian McPartland ( duets in 1970 ), Gerry Mulligan, Ray Nance, Oscar Peterson ( duets in 1968 ), Russell Procope, Pee Wee Russell, Jimmy Rushing, Stuff Smith, Rex Stewart, Maxine Sullivan, Buddy Tate, Jack Teagarden, Clark Terry, Sarah Vaughan, Joe Venuti, Earle Warren, Ben Webster, Teddy Wilson ( duets in 1965 & 1970 ), Jimmy Witherspoon, Jimmy Woode and Lester Young.

Governor General Roland Michener, on the advice of Lester Pearson, appointed Macdonald to serve as Lieutenant Governor from 1968 to 1974.

He ran for the Liberal leadership three times, in 1948, in 1958 and 1968, but was defeated at all three Liberal leadership conventions, first by Louis St. Laurent, then by Lester B. Pearson, then by Pierre Trudeau.

Canada's foreign policy was also committed to multilateralism and the United Nations, perhaps most noticeably under Lester B. Pearson from 1963 to 1968.

* Lester B. Pearson 1963 – 1968

The Runnymede Trust is a leading think tank founded in 1968 by Jim Rose and Anthony Lester, with aim of acting as an independent race equality think tank by generating intelligence for a multi-ethnic Britain through research, network building, leading debate, and policy engagement.

In 1968 Sherman Fairchild brought a new management team into Fairchild Semiconductor, led by C. Lester Hogan, then vice president of Motorola Semiconductor.

He was Minister of Finance from 1963 to 1965, and President of the Privy Council from 1967 to 1968 in the government of Prime Minister Lester Pearson.

* Lester Piggott – Right Boy ( 1958, 1959 ), Tin Whistle ( 1960 ), El Gallo ( 1963 ), Mountain Call ( 1968 ), Welsh Saint ( 1970 ), Saritamer ( 1974 ), Thatching ( 1979 ), College Chapel ( 1993 )

* Lester Piggott – Crepello ( 1956 ), Follow Suit ( 1962 ), Ribofilio ( 1968 ), Nijinsky ( 1969 ), Crowned Prince ( 1971 ), Cellini ( 1973 ), The Minstrel ( 1976 ), Try My Best ( 1977 ), Monteverdi ( 1979 ), Diesis ( 1982 )

* Lester Piggott – Princely Gift ( 1954 ), Forlorn River ( 1967 ), Mountain Call ( 1968 ), Abergwaun ( 1972 ), Moorestyle ( 1980, 1981 ), Salieri ( 1983 )

* Lester B. Pearson was the Liberal Prime Minister of Canada from 1963 to 1968.

Liberal leader and Prime Minister Lester Pearson announced on December 14, 1967 that he would be retiring in April 1968.

JuJu ( born Jerry Tineo on December 4, 1968 ) is Dominican American from Corona and Psycho Les ( born Lester Fernandez on April 10, 1972 ) is a Colombian American from Jackson Heights.

In August 1968 Robert S. McNamara, then President of the World Bank, formed the commission, asking former Canadian Prime Minister and Nobel Peace Prize winner Lester Bowles Pearson to head the commission.