* 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 )

* Robin Wood, Howard Hawks, Secker & Warburg, 1968

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

* September 24 – Howard Walter Florey, Australian-born pharmacologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ( d. 1968 )

* Howard L. Clark, Jr., MBA 1968, Chairman and CEO of Shearson Lehman Brothers

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, Howard ( Lord ) ( 1898 – 1968 ) National Library of Australia, Trove, People and Organisation record for Howard Walter Florey

In 1968, O ' Brien was appointed by Vice President Hubert Humphrey to serve as the national director of Humphrey's presidential campaign and, separately, by Howard Hughes, to serve as Hughes ' public-policy lobbyist in Washington.

* Howard Donald ( born 1968 ), English singer with Take That

* Howard K. Stern ( born 1968 ), attorney for Anna Nicole Smith

In 1968, Howard Hughes attempted to purchase 2 million ABC shares.

In the same interview, Nicholson also revealed that Towne had conceived Chinatown as a trilogy and that the third film was to be set in 1968 and deal in some way with Howard Hughes.

In 1968, only a year after its schools became fully integrated, Chapel Hill became the first predominantly white municipality in the south to elect an African American mayor, Howard Lee.

Unfortunately, an ill timed trade was made during the 1968 season which sent the popular home grown DeBusschere to the New York Knicks for Howard Komives and Walt Bellamy both who were in the later stages of their career.

* Howard M. Jones ( 1900-1980 ), state senator from Tensas Parish from 1960 to 1968.

* Howard M. Jones, state senator from Tensas, Concordia, East Carroll, and Madison parishes from 1960 – 1968

* Myra Hemmings ( August 30, 1895 – December 8, 1968 ) was a founder and first president of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. in 1913 on the campus of Howard University, Washington D. C ..

* Beetlejuice ( born 1968 ), frequent guest on The Howard Stern Show and a member of Stern's Wack Pack.

ABC News was hosted, in succession, by Bob Young ( October 1967 to May 1968 ), Frank Reynolds ( May 1968 to May 1969 ), and, eventually, Reynolds and Howard K. Smith ( May 1969 to December 1970 ).

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.

* Howard F. Lowry and Ralph Leslie Rusk ( editors ), Emerson-Clough Letters, Hamden: Archon Books, 1968.

* 1968, Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting: Howard James, for his series of articles, Crisis in the Courts.

* The marvellous chance: Thomas Howard, Fourth Duke of Norfolk, and the Ridolphi plot, 1570-1572 by Francis Edwards ( 1968 ) ISBN 0-246-64474-5