* 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 – 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 )

* 1968 – Brazilian president Artur da Costa e Silva decrees the AI-5 ( or the fifth Institutional Act ), which lasts until 1978 and marks the beginning of the hard times of Brazilian military dictatorship.

* 1968 – Ricardo Rosset, Brazilian race car driver

Rubem Alves, a Brazilian theologian working at Princeton, wrote Towards a Theology of Liberation ( 1968 ).

* Fernando Guidicelli ( 1906 – 1968 ), Brazilian footballer

In 1968 Botafogo won the Taça Brasil, precursor today's Brazilian Championship and officially recognised as national championship since 2010.

Between 1959 and 1963, and in 1968, Bahia was the team representing Bahia state at the Taça Brasil ( the precursor of the Brazilian Championship ), winning the title in 1959 and finishing as runner-up in 1961 and 1963.

From 1968 to 1973, the Brazilian economy grew at a rate of much more than 10 % per year, the fastest in the world.

* João Augusto de Araújo Castro ( 1919 – 1975 ): Diplomat, former Minister of International Relations, former Brazilian Ambassor in the United Nations ( 1968 ) and Brazilian Ambassor in the USA ( 1971 ),

After a transition to the Brazilian left, marked by his fight against the military dictatorship that came to power in 1964, Carpeaux abandoned his literary writings by 1968, although he participated in an encyclopedia called Mirador.

Two-time champion Besides being National elite, the Sport has a title Brazilian Series B 1990, Champion is North-Northeast, 1968, Two times champion of the Northeast in 1994 and 2000, three times champion Pernambuco Cup and 39 times Champion Pernambucano Championship, being the biggest winner of the competition in XX and XXI centuries, and largest foreign holder of state.

It is well known for its headquarters, a 1968 concrete and glass structure designed by Lina Bo Bardi, whose main body is supported by two lateral beams over a 74 meters freestanding space, considered a landmark of the city and a main symbol of modern Brazilian architecture.

Francisco de Assis Chateaubriand Bandeira de Melo ( pronounced ), best known as Assis Chateaubriand and also nicknamed Chatô ( October 4, 1892 – April 4, 1968 ), was a Brazilian lawyer, journalist, politician and diplomat.

He was also a lawyer and Professor of Law, writer and member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters, occupying its 37th chair from 1954 until his death in 1968.

The first year of production of the Brazilian Ford Corcel was 1968, when it debuted as a four-door sedan at São Paulo.

Carlos Latuff ( born November 30, 1968 ) is a Brazilian freelance political cartoonist.

Marshal João Baptista Mascarenhas de Morais ( November 13, 1883 – September 17, 1968 ) was a Brazilian Army Officer and commander of the Brazilian Expeditionary Force in the Second World War.

Indeed, the hard-liners in the Brazilian military pressured Costa e Silva into promulgating the Fifth Institutional Act on December 13, 1968.

The two most successful managers in the club history are Conrado Miranda ( 1959, 1975, 1976 ) and Argentinian Hugo Coria ( Apertura 1999, Apertura 2000, Clausura 2001 ) with three titles each, Juan Francisco Barraza ( 1972, 1983 ) and Victor Manuel Ochoa ( 1963, 1964 ) with two titles each, while Honduran Carlos Padilla ( 1960 ), Brazilian Zózimo Alves Calazáns ( 1968 ), Chilean Hernán Carrasco Vivanco ( 1986 ) and Serbian-Salvadoran Vladan Vićević ( Clausura 2006 ) won one title each.

Schenken's lower formula results included winning the 1968 British Lombank Formula Three Championship, winning the 1968 Grovewood Award, winning the 1968 British Formula Ford Championship, winning the 1968 ER Hall Formula Three Trophy, winning the 1969 French Craven A Formula Three Championship, winning the 1969 Greater London Formula Three Trophy, finishing fourth in the 1971 European Formula Two Championship and finishing third in the 1972 Brazilian Formula Two International Tournament.