* 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 )

Kim was raised to the rank of Cardinal-Priest of San Felice da Cantalice a Centocelle by Pope Paul VI in the consistory of April 28, 1969, having become the Archbishop of Seoul in 1968 after being the Bishop of Masan since 1966.

Opened to the public in February 1968, the current Madison Square Garden is the oldest arena in the National Hockey League and is the second oldest arena in the National Basketball Association, after the Oracle Arena in Oakland, California.

The final 20th century concert appearance was at the Long Beach Arena on May 5, 1968.

The play was first produced by Arena Stage in Washington, D. C. and debuted on Broadway at the Alvin Theatre on October 3, 1968 for a run of 546 performances, directed by Edwin Sherin with James Earl Jones and Jane Alexander in the lead roles.

The initial production at Arena Stage, paid for, at least in part, by two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, was so well received that the entire original cast, including Jones and Alexander, moved to Broadway with the production in 1968.

Alexander's major break in acting came in 1967 when she played Eleanor Backman in the original production of Howard Sackler's The Great White Hope at Arena Stage in Washington, D. C. Like her co-star, James Earl Jones, she went on to play the part both on Broadway ( 1968 ), winning a Tony Award for her performance, and in the film version ( 1970 ), which earned her an Oscar nomination.

The Anaheim Amigos became the Los Angeles Stars in 1968 and played at the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena in Los Angeles, until 1970, at which point the team moved to Salt Lake City, Utah, to become the Utah Stars.

* Malton Arena opened in October 19, 1968.

During the late 1960s / early 1970s, numerous buildings were constructed as part of a major urban renewal project, such as the Pullen Library ( 1966 ), Classroom South ( 1968 ), the expansion of the Pullen Library in 1968, the Arts and Humanities Building ( 1970 ), the ten-story General Classroom Building ( 1971 ), the Sports Arena ( 1973 ), and the twelve-story Urban Life Building ( 1974 ).

The Pipers, led by future Hall of Famer Connie Hawkins, would win the ABA's first ever championship over the New Orleans Buccaneers before a sold out crowd for Game 7 in the Civic Arena on May 4, 1968.

The Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena became a companion facility to the adjacent Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum and home court to the Los Angeles Lakers of the NBA from October 1960 to December 1967, the Los Angeles Clippers also of the NBA from 1984 – 1999, the Los Angeles Kings of the NHL from October to December 1967 during their inaugural 1967-68 season, the USC Trojans basketball team of the NCAA from 1959 – 2006, the UCLA Bruins Basketball team of the NCAA from 1959 – 1965 and again as a temporary home in 2011-2012, the Los Angeles Blades of the Western Hockey League from 1961 to 1967, the Los Angeles Sharks of the WHA from 1972 – 1974, the Los Angeles Cobras of the AFL in 1988, and the original Los Angeles Stars of the ABA from 1968 – 1970.

In 1968, the Americans were forced to forfeit a playoff game against the Kentucky Colonels because a circus group had rented the space that week and the alternate location selected for the game, Commack Arena, had a playing floor in such poor condition that it was ruled to be was unplayable.

The " Man in the Arena " passage was quoted by another US president, Richard Nixon, during both in his victory speech on November 6, 1968, and in his resignation address to the nation on August 8, 1974:

Sherdrick Bonner ( born October 19, 1968 in Azusa, California ) is a former Arena football quarterback who is currently the offensive coordinator of the Chicago Rush in the Arena Football League.

It was the largest indoor arena in San Antonio until HemisFair Arena opened in 1968.

Andy Kelly ( born June 6, 1968 ) is a former American football quarterback in the Arena Football League.

President David Molson of the Canadian Arena Company announced that the Montreal Forum would undergo major alterations done in a $ 5 million work program commencing in April 1968.

* 1968 – Duncan Armstrong, Australian swimmer

* 1968 – Frank Woodley, Australian comedian

Like many large Australian cities, Hobart once operated passenger tram services, a trolleybus network consisting of six routes which operated until 1968.

* 1968 – Jason Donovan, Australian actor and singer

* 1968 – Julian McMahon, Australian actor

* 1910 – Stan McCabe, Australian cricketer ( d. 1968 )

* 1968 – Grant Bowler, Australian actor

* 1968 – Vietnam War: North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces attack Australian troops defending Fire Support Base Coral, east of Lai Khe in South Vietnam on the night of 12 / 13 May, resulting in heavy casualties on both sides and beginning the Battle of Coral-Balmoral.

* 1968 – Kylie Minogue, Australian singer-songwriter, producer, and actress

* 1884 – Bernard Cronin, Australian author and journalist ( d. 1968 )

* 1968 – Cameron Clyne, Australian businessman

* 1968 – Mark Preston, Australian engineer

* 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.

Research and professional organizations include the Parapsychological Association ; the Society for Psychical Research, publisher of the Journal of Society for Psychical Research ; the American Society for Psychical Research, publisher of the Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research ( last published in 2004 ); the Rhine Research Center and Institute for Parapsychology, publisher of the Journal of Parapsychology ; the Parapsychology Foundation, which published the International Journal of Parapsychology ( between 1959 to 1968 and 2000 – 2001 ) and the Australian Institute of Parapsychological Research, publisher of the Australian Journal of Parapsychology.

* 1898 – Howard Florey, Australian pharmacologist and pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1968 )

In October 2010, The Best of the Seekers ( 1968 ), was listed in the book, 100 Best Australian Albums.

* September 25 – Gordon Coventry, Australian rules footballer ( died 1968 )

The band finished a Far East tour in December 1968 ( where his copy of Naked Lunch was confiscated by Australian Customs ) and then filmed an NBC television special, 33⅓ Revolutions Per Monkee, which rehashed many of the ideas from Head, only with the Monkees playing a strangely second-string role.

Howard Walter Florey, Baron Florey, OM, FRS ( 24 September 1898 – 21 February 1968 ) was an Australian pharmacologist and pathologist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 with Sir Ernst Boris Chain and Sir Alexander Fleming for his role in the making of penicillin.

Florey was Chancellor of the Australian National University from 1965 until his death in 1968.

Rare footage includes a nine year old Jamie Redfern ( pre-Young Talent Time ) appearing with ' Happy ' Hammond on a Channel Seven test broadcast of colour television in 1968, seven years before Australian television actually began broadcasting in colour.

An Australian stamp issue of state floral emblems was issued in 1968, including the Pink Heath which was featured on the 13c stamp.