* 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 )

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 – Alexandros Panagoulis is condemned to death for attempting to assassinate Greek dictator George Papadopoulos.

In 1968, Georkadtzis offered assistance to Alekos Panagoulis, a Greek political activist ( and later politician ), who opposed the rise of the military junta in Greece, in his attempted assassination of dictator George Papadopoulos on 13 August 1968.

* 1968 – Valerie Solanas, author of SCUM Manifesto, attempts to assassinate Andy Warhol by shooting him three times.

Both attempts ( in 1948 and 1968 ) failed, but not by much — in both cases a shift in the result of two close states would have forced the respective elections into the House.

* In the 1968 novel 2001: A Space Odyssey ( and the corresponding 1968 film ), a spaceship's onboard computer, HAL 9000, attempts to kill all its crew members.

Allegedly he also played a central role in covert attempts to sabotage the 1968 Paris Peace Accords which could have ended the Vietnam War.

Two failed attempts — 1959 and 1968 — have been made to change to the United Kingdom's Plurality voting system (' First-past-the-post ') electoral system.

Following a 1968 report that beta-carotene was synthesized in laboratory conditions in slices of corpus luteum from cows, an organ known to concentrates beta-carotene ( hence its color and name ), attempts have been made to replicate these findings, but have not succeeded.

Most subsequent attempts to bring projects to the big screen were aborted, until Yours, Mine and Ours ( with Ball and Henry Fonda ) in 1968.

At the time of his announcement, Crane expressed doubts that Reagan would run again ( after two failed attempts for the nomination in 1968 and 1976 ), and intimated that, should Reagan run, he would likely drop out.

Brus and Mühl participated in the " Kunst und Revolution " ( Art and Revolution ) event in Vienna, June 1968, issuing the following proclamation: ... our assimilatory democracy maintains art as a safety valve for enemies of the state ... the consumer state drives a wave of " art " before itself ; it attempts to bribe the " artist " and thus to rehabilitate his revolutionising " art " as an art that supports the state.

The Civil Rights Act of 1968 also enacted ( b )( 2 ), which permits federal prosecution of anyone who " willingly injures, intimidates or interferes with another person, or attempts to do so, by force because of the other person's race, color, religion or national origin " because of the victim's attempt to engage in one of six types of federally protected activities, such as attending school, patronizing a public place / facility, applying for employment, acting as a juror in a state court or voting.

Evans appeared memorably in two 1968 films: as the evolved orangutan, Dr. Zaius in Planet of the Apes ( and the 1970 sequel Beneath the Planet of the Apes ) and as the doomed " Hutch ", who attempts to warn his friend, the title character, Rosemary Woodhouse, in the thriller Rosemary's Baby, of the true Satanic nature of her neighbours, Roman and Minnie Castavet ( played by Sidney Blackmer and Ruth Gordon ).

" He made several comeback attempts, and died of a heroin overdose in February 1968 at age 25.

Born in Toronto, Ontario of a Ukrainian-Polish father and a Scottish-Irish mother, Cafik was unsuccessful in his attempts to win a seat in the Canadian House of Commons in the 1962 and 1963 elections, but was elected as the Liberal Member of Parliament ( MP ) for the riding of Ontario in the 1968 election.

Serious attempts began in 1968 when Andrei Makarevich heard songs by The Beatles.

After two more attempts and repeated repairs, and using two of the largest cranes in Europe, the project became a reality on 3 August 1968.

There are not a great many differences ; although Margaret Thatcher did make attempts to curtail immigration, it was not to the extent that Powell had proposed in 1968.

He made two attempts at Formula One, firstly at the 1968 Spanish Grand Prix with a Lola, but his entry was refused.

The Biblical scholar Paul Maier, in Pontius Pilate: A Biographical Novel ( 1968 ), attempts to take what is known from the documented record and from there construct a fictional narrative as connective material.

Following this, there were two more attempts to make high-end protographic equipment, namely the Zenit-7 ( 1968 ) and Zenit-D ( 1969 ).

There were attempts in 1964 to 1968 in formation of political parties.

Their surfing lives are traced from the summer of 1962 to their attempts of dodging the Vietnam War draft in 1965 ( including faking insanity, homosexuality, and all manner of medical ailments ), and to the end of their innocence in 1968 when one of their friends is killed in Vietnam.

In the third installment, Stolen Kisses ( 1968 ), a more mature Doinel attempts to return to civilian life after a dishonourable discharge from the military.

Reversing orthodoxy, the philosopher Nelson Goodman ( 1968 ) starts from reference and attempts to assimilate resemblance.