* 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 )

A key text is Jeff Nuttall's book Bomb Culture ( 1968 ), which traced this pervasive theme in popular culture back to Hiroshima.

* 1968 – Jeff VanderMeer, American writer

* 1968 – Jeff Agoos, American soccer player

* Jeff Jones — bass guitar, lead vocals ( August – September 1968 )

Meanwhile, working independently, a team led by Douglas Engelbart ( with Jeff Rulifson as chief programmer ) was the first to implement the hyperlink concept for scrolling within a single document ( 1966 ), and soon after for connecting between paragraphs within separate documents ( 1968 ), with NLS.

Former professional football player Jeff Kinney is a 1968 graduate of McCook High School.

* Eleven Major League Baseball players were born in Poughkeepsie: Frank Bahret ( 1858 ), Frank Beck ( 1860 ), Bill Daley ( 1868 ), Buttons Briggs ( 1875 ), Elmer Steele ( 1886 ), Mickey McDermott ( 1929 ), Fred Lasher ( 1941 ), Tommy Boggs ( 1955 ), Ricky Horton ( 1959 ), Frank Cimorelli ( 1968 ), Jeff Pierce ( 1969 ), and Dan Gallagher ( 1982 ).

Notable former players of West Bromwich Albion include Ronnie Allen ( who later had a relatively unsuccessful spell as the club's manager ), Bryan Robson ( who was later the club's manager ), Laurie Cunningham ( one of the first black players to play for the England national football team, but who died in a car crash in 1989 aged only 33 ), Tony Brown ( the club's all time leading goalscorer ) and Jeff Astle ( who scored the club's winning goal in the 1968 FA Cup final and remained a cult figure among Albion fans ).

* " Beck's Bolero ," from the 1968 album Truth by Jeff Beck.

* Jeff Bingaman ( 1968 ), U. S. Senator ( 1983 – present )

Jeff Christie had initially worked with several bands including The Outer Limits, who released " Just One More Chance " / " Help Me Please " ( 1967 ) and " Great Train Robbery " / " Sweet Freedom " ( 1968 ), and Acid Gallery, whose single " Dance Around The Maypole " ( 1969 ) was written by Roy Wood.

Beck with the Jeff Beck Group, 1968

Jeffrey Alan " Jeff " Agoos ( born May 2, 1968 ) is a retired Swiss-born American soccer defender, and one of the all-time appearance leaders for the United States national team.

* While Jerry Jeff Walker's 1968 folk song " Mr. Bojangles " is often thought to be about Robinson, it was actually inspired by Walker's encounter with a street performer in the New Orleans first precinct jail.

At the Fall 1968 Joint Computer Conference in San Francisco, Engelbart, Bill English, Jeff Rulifson and the rest of the Human Augmentation Research Center team at SRI showed on a big screen how he could manipulate a computer remotely located in Menlo Park, while sitting on a San Francisco stage, using his mouse.

Jeff Fager ( born December 10, 1954 ) is the Chairman of CBS News and the Executive Producer of 60 Minutes, the hour-long CBS news magazine created in 1968.

It will feature the 1968 version's director, Jack Hill, as executive producer, and Jeff Broadstreet as director

The band was founded in Cardiff in 1968 by Rob Ingram on guitar and Jeff Harrad on bass.

Truth is the debut album by The Jeff Beck Group, released in 1968 in the United Kingdom on Columbia Records and in the United States on Epic Records.

After leaving The Yardbirds in late 1966, Jeff Beck had released three commercial singles, two in 1967 featuring Beck on lead vocals, and one without vocals in 1968.

Jeff D. Daniels ( born June 24, 1968 ) is a Canadian retired professional ice hockey player and the current head coach and general manager of the Charlotte Checkers of the American Hockey League.

The song has been recorded by various rock musicians, including Jeff Beck on his album Truth ( 1968 ), and most famously by English rock band Led Zeppelin on its debut album Led Zeppelin ( 1969 ).

* 1968: Jeff Beck ( Truth )

* Mr. Bojangles – Jerry Jeff Walker ( 1968 )