* The Evolution of Character Codes, 1874 – 1968

* 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 )

Fossett was married to Peggy Fossett ( Viehland ), originally from Richmond Heights, Missouri, in 1968.

In 1968 the PFP held a state-wide founding convention in the Richmond, California.

He was elected as a Conservative to the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames in 1968 at the age of only 22 and has served as a councillor continuously since then ( a total of over 40 years ).

Peter Lawler and Chris Baker, both from Richmond Canoe Club, and who had canoed for Britain at international level, took up the challenge, and succeeded in beating Paganelli and Evans, who had won the race for the Paras in 1968, 1969 and 1970.

No. 11 Squadron, which had disbanded in 1946, returned to Richmond in 1954 operating P-2 Neptune maritime reconnaissance aircraft, and remained until transferring to RAAF Base Edinburgh, South Australia in 1968.

Nichols's final trilogy is referred to as " The Sudbrook Trilogy " ( 1963 – 1968 ) and concerns his late 18th-century attached cottage at Ham, ( near Richmond ), Surrey.

Between Myrtle Avenue and the Montauk Line railroad is a former movie theatre, RKO Keith's Richmond Hill Theater, opened in 1929, functioning since 1968 as a bingo hall.

Inverness — Richmond was a federal electoral district in the province of Nova Scotia, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1935 to 1968.

Cape Breton — East Richmond was a federal electoral district in Nova Scotia, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1968 to 1997.

Hunt was recruited from Parkdale by the Richmond Tigers and made his debut in the then Victorian Football League in 1968.

* The Richmond, Indiana explosion, on Saturday, April 6, 1968.

After Richards became the vice president for baseball operations ( in effect, general manager ) of the Atlanta Braves of the National League during 1966, Harris followed as manager of AAA Richmond, and, then, from 1968 to the middle of the 1972 season, as manager of the big-league Braves.

Soviet paratroopers on a light tank head towards Prague Castle, seat of the Czechoslovak government, and downtown Prague in the early morning hours of 21 August 1968

On April 6, 1968, a natural gas explosion and fire destroyed or damaged several downtown blocks and killed 41 people ; more than 150 were injured.

After 57 years in its original downtown location, the bank moved in 1968 to a new facility at Curtis Avenue and Leetown Road, where the new town center was developing.

" The reference here is the trial of the " Chicago 7 ," seven anti-war activists indicted for their role in the demonstrations and police riots in downtown Chicago during the Democratic National Convention of 1968.

Sikeston ’ s downtown area includes Malone Park, the city ’ s oldest park, and the historic First Methodist Church columns, six majestic pillars that remain as a reminder of the 1879 church which was destroyed by fire in 1968.

On 22 March 1968 students occupied the administrative offices, and the closing of the university on 2 May helped move the protests to downtown Paris.

Hampton joined the Party and relocated to downtown Chicago, and in November 1968 he joined the Party's nascent Illinois chapter — founded by Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee ( SNCC ) organizer Bob Brown in late 1967.

When university students in Mexico City protested the government's actions around the time of the 1968 Summer Olympics, Díaz Ordaz oversaw the occupation of the National Autonomous University of Mexico and the arrest of several students, leading to the shooting of hundreds of unarmed protesters during the Tlatelolco massacre in downtown Mexico City, in 2 October 1968.

In addition Amtrak restored service to downtown Schnectady in 1978, a service which Penn Central had discontinued in 1968, for all Empire Service trains that continued beyond Albany.

Robert F. Kennedy's 1968 appearance was marked by his downtown rally attended by a crowd of over 6, 000, his participation in the Dyngus Day parade, and his leading of the crowds at the West Side Democratic Club in the traditional Polish well wishing song Sto Lat ( phonetic: ' sto laht ') which means " 100 years ".

The source of this story has yet to come to light, although it is possibly related to the large seal attached to the Resources Building in downtown Sacramento ( see image ' 1964 '), placed in 1964, just four years before the earliest known reference to the rumor in 1968.

On March 5, 1968, several hundred students and faculty with anti-war sentiments marched to Fort Collins ' downtown War Memorial and wiped blood on a placard tied to the memorial.

In 1968, Bentley moved from downtown Boston to Waltham, Massachusetts, to accommodate an increasing number of students.

In 1968, the Cleveland Transit System line finished its extension through Cleveland's west side to Cleveland Hopkins International Airport and Cleveland became the first North American city with direct rapid transit access from downtown to an airport.

Seattle architect Victor Steinbrueck, who was instrumental in the preservation of Pike Place Market and Pioneer Square, wrote of this location in 1968, " One of the grandest downtown lookout places is at Western Avenue where it meets Pike Place and Virginia Street.

The central plaza became an important new public space in downtown Montreal, hosting an historic election rally for Pierre Elliott Trudeau during the 1968 federal election.

* June 28 – The Chicago Urban Transportation District is created by local referendum in downtown Chicago to finance and build the 1968 Loop and Distributor Subway project as recommended by the Chicago Central Area Transit Planning Study.

This status strengthened with the 1968 opening of the Orlando Naval Training Center east of downtown.

Operated by the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company until 1939 and the Philadelphia Transportation Company until 1968, the SEPTA subway system consists of two rapid transit systems converging in Center City, and five surface level trolley lines operated in a shared subway through downtown Philadelphia.

His historic downtown family home was willed to the City of Hamilton after the death of the last of his five unmarried siblings in 1968.

The planned construction of the Inner Loop ( now part of I-490 ) through the Corn Hill district of downtown Rochester just west of the Genesee River was the driving factor that led the Rochester Institute of Technology ( RIT ) to relocate to its present location in Henrietta in 1968.

RG & G made the Grammer guitar from 1965 until 1968, when a fire consumed the factory in downtown Nashville.

The current campus of Kokomo High School was built in 1968 Previously, the downtown campus was known as Kokomo High School and the south campus was named Haworth High School.