* 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 )

On February 16, 1968 the first 9-1-1 emergency telephone system in the nation went into service in Haleyville.

The first 911 system was installed in Haleyville, Alabama, in February 1968 as a way to quickly connect a subscriber to the local police station.

On April 22, 1971, syndicated columnist Jack Anderson reported allegations that Capp made indecent advances to four female students when he was invited to speak at the University of Alabama in February 1968.

In the 1968 election, the South once again abandoned its traditional support for the Democrats by supporting Republican Richard Nixon and segregationist third-party candidate George C. Wallace, the Democratic governor of Alabama at the time.

* Lurleen Wallace ( 1926 – 1968 )-Governor of Alabama 1926-1968

It was the worst mining disaster in the US since a 2001 disaster in Alabama killed 13 people, and the worst disaster in West Virginia since a 1968 incident that killed 78 people.

The first 911 emergency phone systems went into use in Alabama and Alaska in 1968.

At first the A's did not know whether to make him a pitcher or outfielder, but after deciding on pitcher, he was sent to Leesburg, Florida ( Florida Southern League ) for the 1965 season, then Modesto, California ( California Athletic League ) in 1966, and finally to Birmingham, Alabama ( Southern League ) for two seasons, 1967 and 1968.

* * Holland, James W. " Andrew Jackson and the Creek War: Victory at the Horseshoe Bend ," Alabama Review, Oct 1968, Vol.

Wallace's first wife, the former Lurleen Brigham Burns, died in 1968, was the first ( and, as of 2012, only ) woman to be elected governor of Alabama.

The YMCA Youth Conference on National Affairs ( CONA ), established in 1968 under the leadership of the Alabama Youth In Government program, is held every July in Black Mountain, North Carolina at the YMCA Blue Ridge Assembly.

It is most notable for its nomination of Alabama Governor George C. Wallace, who carried five states in the 1968 presidential election running on a segregationist platform.

In 1968, the American Independent Party nominated Alabama Governor George C. Wallace as its presidential candidate and retired Air Force General Curtis E. LeMay as the vice-presidential candidate.

He lost races for governor in Republican primaries in 1968 and 1970, running again in the 1970 General Election on the third-party American Independent line of Alabama Governor George Wallace.

* Holland, James W. " Andrew Jackson and the Creek War: Victory at the Horseshoe Bend ," Alabama Review, 1968 21 ( 4 ): 243-275.

Brennan thereafter supported American Independent Party candidate ( and former governor of Alabama ) George C. Wallace, Jr., over GOP nominee and former Vice President Richard M. Nixon in the 1968 presidential campaign because he felt Nixon was too liberal.

In 1961, Blount was elected President of the Alabama Chamber of Commerce ; in 1968, President of the United States Chamber of Commerce.

Lurleen Brigham Burns Wallace ( September 19, 1926 – May 7, 1968 ), born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, was the 46th governor of Alabama from 1967 until her death in 1968.

Albert Preston Brewer ( born October 26, 1928 ) is an American politician who was the 47th governor of Alabama from May 7, 1968, until January 18, 1971.

He earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Alabama, where he was a brother of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity ( Psi chapter ), in 1968, and a law degree from Georgetown University Law Center in 1972.

He practiced law in Gadsden from 1935 to 1968 and was a member of the Alabama House of Representatives from 1938 to 1942.

George Chauncey Sparks ( October 8, 1884 – November 6, 1968 ), known as Chauncey Sparks, was a Democratic American politician who was 41st Governor of Alabama from 1943 to 1947.