* 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 )

In 1968, aged 18, she became a rock journalist-just like Lily Brett herself-and in this capacity also visited New York.

In the 2007 film Chicago 10, Oscar-nominated director Brett Morgen intercuts archival footage from the period, including the events of August 1968, with animated scenes from the trial drawn from the court transcript.

The variation of this instrument called the ‘ Zob Stick ’ was constructed and named in 1968 by percussionist and songwriter Keef Trouble of the band Brett Marvin and the Thunderbolts and Terry Dactyl and the Dinosaurs.

* Brett Angell ( born 1968 ), English association football coach

* Deanna Favre ( b. 1968 ), wife of Brett Favre and American activist

Shortly after the 1967 World Series, Brett spent six months in the Army Reserve and missed spring training in 1968 and, in his first Triple-A outing back, was left in the game for nine innings.

Ackerman and his wife, Linda, who married in 1968, have three children, Lauren, Marc, and Brett, and two granddaughters, Caitlin and Elizabeth.

In May 1967, the Salisbury Daily Times referred to Twiggy as a supermodel ; the February 1968 article of Glamour magazine listed all 19 " supermodels "; the Chicago Daily Defender wrote " New York Designer Turns Super Model " in January 1970 ; The Washington Post and Mansfield News Journal used the term in 1971 ; and in 1974 both the Chicago Tribune and The Advocate also used the term " supermodel " in their articles.

* Pinecrest Bible Training Center, an international Bible school in Salisbury, established 1968

It initially developed a route structure serving Washington DC, Philadelphia and Baltimore while establishing a new headquarters for Allegheny Commuter at Salisbury, Maryland in 1968.

His son, the second Baron, served in the Conservative administrations of Lord Salisbury and Arthur Balfour as a government whip from 1895 to 1905. the titles are held by his great-grandson, the fifth Baron, who succeeded his father in 1968.

Concert pianist Manuel Bagorro ( born Salisbury, 1968 ) is the founder and artistic director of The Harare International Festival of the Arts ( HIFA ).

The former Salisbury Milford station was used as a goods station until it was closed in 1967 and demolished in 1968.

The prototype Mosquito became the first aircraft to be displayed at Salisbury Hall, and was followed by examples of the de Havilland Vampire and Venom in 1968.

The AFI Catalog of Feature Films, started in 1968, is an online database that preserves the history of American film in encyclopedic detail.

* 1968 – Stacey Augmon, American basketball player

* 1968 – Dan Donegan, American guitarist ( Disturbed and Vandal )

* 1968 – Rod Beck, American baseball player ( d. 2007 )

* 1968 – Huey Morgan, American singer-songwriter and guitarist ( Fun Lovin ' Criminals )

* 1968 – Vickie Guerrero, American wrestler and manager

* 1968 – Catherine Bell, American actress

* 1885 – Edna Ferber, American novelist ( d. 1968 )

* 1968 – Debra Messing, American actress

* 1883 – Marion Lorne, American actress ( d. 1968 )

* 1968 – Andras Jones, American actor

* 1968 – Mark McGuinn, American singer-songwriter

* 1968 – James Anderson, Jr. posthumously receives the first Medal of Honor to be awarded to an African American U. S. Marine.

* 1968 – Spider One, American singer-songwriter and producer ( Powerman 5000 )

* 1968 – Rachael Ray, American chef, author, and television host

* 1968 – Laura Claycomb, American soprano

* 1968 – Chris DiMarco, American golfer

* 1880 – Sam Crawford, American baseball player ( d. 1968 )

* 1968 – Mary Birdsong, American actress