* 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 )

The first manned flight of Apollo was in 1968 and it succeeded in landing the first humans on Earth's Moon in 1969 through 1972.

* 1968 – Apollo Program: Apollo 8 splashes down in the Pacific Ocean, ending the first orbital manned mission to the Moon.

* 1968 – Apollo program: Apollo 8 launched from the Kennedy Space Center, placing its crew on a lunar trajectory for the first visit to another celestial body by humans.

* 1968 – Apollo 5 lifts off carrying the first Lunar module into space.

* 1968 – Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 7, the first successful manned Apollo mission, with astronauts Wally Schirra, Donn F. Eisele and Walter Cunningham aboard.

* 1968 – The first live telecast from a manned spacecraft, the Apollo 7, launched by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration of the U. S. A.

* 1968 – Apollo program: Apollo 7 safely splashes down in the Atlantic Ocean after orbiting the Earth 163 times.

The success of Apollo 8 in December 1968, launched on the third flight of a Saturn V, made it likely that one would be available to launch a dry workshop.

Apollo 8's Earthrise, December 24, 1968

During Johnson's administration, NASA conducted the Gemini manned space program and the Apollo program, including Apollo 7 ; and the first human spaceflight to the Moon, Apollo 8, in December 1968.

* 1968 – The Apollo 8 manned lunar mission provides the first image ever taken of the sphere of the Earth.

In 1968 it was taken into lunar orbit by the Apollo 8 astronauts.

In A Man on the Moon, published in 1994, Andrew Chaikin mentions that at the time of Apollo 8's lunar-orbit mission in December 1968, similar conspiracy ideas were already in circulation.

Borman was selected in late 1966 to command the third manned Apollo mission, planned as an elliptical medium Earth orbit test of the second manned Lunar Module ( LM ) on the first manned launch of the Saturn V lunar rocket sometime in 1967 or early 1968.

Borman was then reassigned to his LM test mission, now planned to fly as " Apollo 9 " in early 1969 after a first, low Earth orbit LM flight commanded by McDivitt in December 1968.

* Apollo 8 – 21 December 1968 – First manned lunar orbiter

* 1968 – The CIA's Phoenix Program is officially established.

* 1968 – Surveyor Program: Surveyor 7, the last spacecraft in the Surveyor series, lifts off from launch complex 36A, Cape Canaveral.

* EC McCreary, ' Social Welfare and Business: The Krupp Welfare Program, 1860-1914 ' ( 1968 ) 42 ( 1 ) The Business History Review 24-49.

* 1968: Nominated for an Emmy Award for Musical Variety Program for The Fred Astaire Show

The Surveyor Program was a NASA program that, from 1966 through 1968, sent seven robotic spacecraft to the surface of the Moon.

Clifford continued McNamara's highly publicized Cost Reduction Program, announcing that over $ 1. 2 billion had been saved in fiscal year ( FY ) 1968 as a result of the effort.

* Cover and abstract of the IEDM ( International Electron Devices Meeting ) Program ( October 1968 ).

John Rook was named " Program Director of the Year " in 1968 & 1969 as WLS was estimated attracting 4. 2 million listeners weekly by Pulse research.

Peak of NC Eugenic Program July 1946-June 1968

* The Fulton Sheen Program ( 1961 – 1968 ).

* The Fulton Sheen Program ( 1961 – 1968 ).

* The Fulton Sheen Program ( 1961 – 1968 ).

* The Fulton Sheen Program ( 1961 – 1968 )

* The Fulton Sheen Program ( 1961 – 1968 ).

* The Fulton Sheen Program ( 1961 – 1968 ).

He also attended NYU's Graduate Acting Program, graduating in 1968.

* Bernard C. Nalty, War against Trucks: Aerial Interdiction in Southern Laos, 1968 – 1972, Air Force Museums and History Program, Washington DC 2005.

The University Honors Program was founded in 1968 in order to provide more rigorous course curricula for academically talented students, as well as to facilitate guest lecture series, forums, and distinguished external scholarships.

The missions were planned, as part of the Apollo Applications Program, between 1966 and 1968 and were scheduled for launch in 1974 – 75.

Combat Engineer by Victory V. Reynolds, Vietnam Combat Artists Program, CAT VIII, 1968.

In 1968, a period of political liberalization in Czechoslovakia called the Prague Spring took place that included " Action Program " of liberalizations, which described increasing freedom of the press, freedom of speech and freedom of movement, along with an economic emphasis on consumer goods, the possibility of a multiparty government, limiting the power of the secret police and potentially withdrawing from the Warsaw Pact.

In 1968 the university instituted its Educational Opportunity Program ( EOP ) facilitated the increased minority student enrollment, and offered financial aid to minority students with high potential.

Installed in 1968 for the International Planetary Patrol Program, it was owned and operated by Lowell Observatory.