* 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 – 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 – An earthquake rated at 6. 8 on the Richter Scale destroys the Australian town of Meckering, Western Australia, and it also ruptures all nearby main highways and railroads.

It was destroyed by the 1968 Belice earthquake.

* 15 January 1968 – Belice earthquake which in Marsala reached 7 ° Mercalli scale.

Moreve was fired from the group in 1968 for missing gigs after he became afraid to return to Los Angeles, convinced that it was going to be leveled by an earthquake and fall into the sea.

The middle section of the Belice valley was hit by a severe earthquake in January 1968 which completely destroyed numerous centres of population, including Gibellina, Montevago and Salaparuta.

* 1968: On 14 October, the town of Meckering was almost destroyed in Australia's second worst earthquake with a magnitude of 6. 9 on the Richter Scale.

In May 1968 the Inangahua earthquake caused much damage to the incline, making the closure irreversible.

Inangahua Junction bridge after the 1968 earthquake

The town was substantially affected by an earthquake on Friday, 24 May 1968.

The largest earthquake to have been recorded along the Ryukyu Trench, the 1968 Hyūga-nada earthquake,

* 1968 Hyūga-nada earthquake

Later in 1968 he went to Princeton where he found that he and Morgan had solved two or three problems using identical mathematics in exactly the same way – plate tectonics was one, another was the thermal structure of the oceans and another was looking at earthquake mechanisms in a different way to seismologists.

* 1968 Casiguran earthquake

With Senator Ludovico Corrao, he helped created an open-air museum in the new town of Gibellina, after the older town had been destroyed in the earthquake of 1968.

Her missions included aiding earthquake victims in Volos Greece in 1955 ; supporting Eastern Mediterranean US coastal operations during the 1956 War between Israel and Egypt, and during the Lebanese crisis in 1958 ; participation in the Cuban Quarantine-Blockade in 1962 ; the pursuit of the hijacked Venezuelan freighter SS Anzoategui in 1963 ; coastal operations off the Dominican Republic and evacuation of American citizens during that county's revolution in 1965 ; participation in the search for the USS Scorpion in 1968 ; shadowing the Soviet Mediterranean Fleet during 1970-71, including intelligence gathering on the new Moskva class Soviet Helo-Guided Missile Cruiser-Carriers, and special operations in the Black Sea ; coastal support operations off Crete during the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974 ; additional Black Sea operations during her extended 1972-75 deployment ; and continuous escort and defense operations with US carrier task forces in the Atlantic, Caribbean, and Mediterranean.

It was thought to be related to the Meckering earthquake ( October 1968 ), but a direct connection was not made at the time.

In 1968, the courthouse was condemned as an earthquake risk, but the city bought the structure and spent $ 3. 4 million to renovate it as Ventura's City Hall.

At 10: 59 am on 14 October 1968, a 40-second earthquake measuring 6. 9 on the Richter Scale destroyed the town, and had effect on a considerable area in the south western region of Western Australia.

It was destroyed by the Belice Valley earthquake in 1968, and eventually rebuilt in a safer place a few kilometers away, causing the entire population to be moved there.

Following severe damage in the 1968 Belice Valley earthquake, a new section of town, Sasi, was built on former farmlands about 3 kilometers from the old town center.