* 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 )

La Hora de los hornos ( The Hour of the Furnaces, from 1968 ), directed by Octavio Getino and Fernando E. Solanas, influenced a whole generation of filmmakers.

There is a minimal agricultural railway system near San Fernando, but the Trinidad Government Railway that was built while Trinidad and Tobago was a colony of the United Kingdom was gradually scaled back until it was discontinued in 1968.

* Fernando Guidicelli ( 1906 – 1968 ), Brazilian footballer

* Fernando Horcasitas, De Porfirio Díaz a Zapata, memoria náhuatl de Milpa Alta, UNAM, México DF., 1968 ( eye and ear-witness account of Zapata speaking Nahuatl )

Argentine film-makers and founders of ' Grupo Cine Liberacion ', Fernando Solanas and Octavio Getino, were influenced by Fanon's theories and used quotations from his work in their film La Hora de los hornos ( 1968 ).

In the autumn of 1968, at the invitation of his friend Oliver Evans, Bowles spent one semester at the English Department of the San Fernando Valley State College, ( now California State University, Northridge ), teaching " Advanced Narrative Writing and the Modern European Novel.

* 4 Fernando Belaúnde Terry, 89, democratic president of Peru, 1963 – 1968 and 1980 – 1985.

Apart from Ginsberg's seven collections, a number of the early Pocket Poets volumes brought out by Ferlinghetti have attained the status of classics, including True Minds by Marie Ponsot ( 1957 ), Here and Now by Denise Levertov ( 1958 ), Gasoline ( 1958 ) by Gregory Corso, Selected Poems by Robert Duncan ( 1959 ), Lunch Poems ( 1964 ) by Frank O ' Hara, Selected Poems ( 1967 ) by Philip Lamantia, Poems to Fernando ( 1968 ) by Janine Pommy Vega, Golden Sardine ( 1969 ) by Bob Kaufman, and Revolutionary Letters ( 1971 ) by Diane di Prima.

Her first book, Poems to Fernando, was published by City Lights in 1968 as part of their City Lights Pocket Poets Series.

* Janine Pommy-Vega ( 1942-2010 ) this cyber tombeau by poet Pierre Joris includes the opening poem of her first book, Poems to Fernando ( City Lights Books, 1968 ) and a homage-poem by Valery Oişteanu called " The Drum Circle for Janine Pommy Vega ".

The party was founded on October 20, 1946 by Gilberto Concepción de Gracia ( 1909 – 1968 ) and his colleague Fernando Milan Suarez.

The growing " Manson Family " settled at the Spahn Ranch in the San Fernando Valley in Southern California, where, on October 7, 1968, she bore a son by Bruce White, whom Manson named Zezozose Zadfrack Glutz.

* Miguel Artola Gallego, La España de Fernando VII ( Madrid, 1968 )

Anson-Roa began acting in 1968, appearing opposite prestigious names of her generation like Dante Rivero, Joseph Estrada and the late Fernando Poe, Jr. under Sampaguita Pictures and also with the legendary caviteño Ramon Revilla Sr .. She was also given Lifetime Achievement Awards by FAMAS and Star Awards, for all her contributions to the media industry.

Fernando Belaúnde Terry ( October 7, 1912 – June 4, 2002 ) was President of Peru for two non-consecutive terms ( 1963 – 1968 and 1980 – 1985 ).

General Velasco seized power on October 3, 1968 in a bloodless military coup, deposing the democratically-elected administration of Fernando Belaúnde, under which he served as Commander of the Armed Forces.

Fernando Ruiz Hierro (; born 23 March 1968 ) is a Spanish retired footballer.

In 1968 State Route 118, the " Simi Valley-San Fernando Valley Freeway " opened, north of the old auto road as the latest route across the Pass.

Under Article 17 of the New York Agreement, the plebiscite was not to occur until one year after the arrival of U. N. representative Fernando Ortiz-Sanz in the territory on 22 August 1968.

* Fernando Riera ( 1968 )

In 1968, Juan Velasco Alvarado overthrew president Fernando Belaúnde by a Coup d ' état, closing again the Congress.

* Benítez, Fernando ( 1968 & 1971 ) " Los Huicholes.

* Benítez, Fernando ( 1968 & 1971 ) " En la tierra mágica del peyote.

He achieved the rank of Brigadier General and was appointed to his first political post in 1968 as minister of finance in the administration of Fernando Belaúnde.