* 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 )

Grammer's personal life has been affected by several tragedies: in 1968, his estranged father, whom he had seen only twice since his parents ' divorce, was shot dead ; in 1975, his younger sister, Karen, was abducted, raped, and murdered by spree killer Freddie Glenn ; in 1980, his twin half-brothers died in a scuba diving accident ; and David Angell, close friend and producer of Frasier, died in the 9 / 11 attacks.

Castor's second daughter, Karen, was born in 1968 and her son, Frank, who currently serves as judge in Palm Beach County, Florida, in 1970.

From 1965 to 1968, Karen, her brother Richard, and his college friend Wes Jacobs, a bassist and tuba player, formed The Richard Carpenter Trio.

Soul then married actress Karen Carlson in 1968, after they had met on the set of the television series Here Comes The Brides.

Hollingshead ( born September 22, 1968 in New York, New York ) also known as Karen Thompson or Kelli Kassidi is an American theatre and voice actress.

* Karen Joy Fowler ( 1968 ), author ( The Jane Austen Book Club )

He was married to Karen Kelly from 1966 to 1968.

In 1968, Cargill starred in Father, Dear Father on ITV ( written specifically for him ) as Patrick Glover, a thriller writer and an inept father of two teenage daughters, played by Natasha Pyne ( Anna ) and Ann Holloway ( Karen ).

*" Afro Twist " / " Cool Jerk ' 68 " ( Karen 1537 ) ( 1968 )

*" Ain't That Terrible " / " Soul Sister, Soul Brother " ( Karen 1543 ) ( 1968 )

According to Mickey Jones ' book " That Would Be Me ", Thelma was fired from the group in late 1968 ( soon after the release of " But You Know I Love You " but before it would chart on the Hot 100 ) after missing too many gigs and rehearsals and replaced by her roommate, Mary Arnold, an Iowa born singer who beat out newcomer Karen Carpenter for the job.

In 1969, Karen Valentine starred as Gidget in the telemovie Gidget Grows Up, freely adapted from the 1968 novel Gidget Goes New York, but also functioning as a sequel to the 1965 sitcom series.

* 1968 – Medy van der Laan, Dutch politician

* 1968 – Peter van Vossen, Dutch footballer and coach

* 1968 – Mark Vanderloo, Dutch model

After this essay was circulated in samizdat and then published outside the Soviet Union ( initially on July 6, 1968, in the Dutch newspaper Het Parool through intermediary of the Dutch academic and writer Karel van het Reve, followed by The New York Times ), Sakharov was banned from all military-related research and returned to FIAN to study fundamental theoretical physics.

* 1886 – Pieter Oud, Dutch politician ( d. 1968 )

* 1968 – Anky van Grunsven, Dutch dressage champion

* 1968 – Eric Orie, Dutch football manager

* 1968 – Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer, Dutch writer

Mauritius was successively colonized by the Dutch, the French and the British, and became independent in 1968.

* 1968 – Zara Whites, Dutch actress

* 1968 – Bart Brentjens, Dutch mountain biker

The Bee Gees, one of the most commercially successful survivors of the psychedelic era, performing on Dutch television in 1968

1968 Porsche 912 Targa, used by the Korps landelijke politiediensten | Dutch police

A major advance came in 1968 when Fokker developed the first Dutch satellite ( the ANS ) together with Philips and Dutch universities.

In 1968, she left her job as the secretary of the Dutch consulate in Manhattan to become a call girl, where she made $ 1, 000 a night.

The tree succumbed to Dutch Elm Disease and was felled in 1968.

After her athletic career, Blankers-Koen served as the team leader of the Dutch athletics team, from the 1958 European Championships to the 1968 Summer Olympics.

A prime example of the species was the Sauble Elm, which grew beside the banks of the Sauble River in Ontario, Canada, to a height of 43 m ( 140 ft ), with a d. b. h of 196 cm ( 6. 43 ft ) before succumbing to Dutch elm disease ; when it was felled in 1968, a tree-ring count established that it had germinated in 1701.

Cornelis Theodorus Maria van Dongen ( 26 January 1877 – 28 May 1968 ), usually known as Kees van Dongen or just Van Dongen, was a Dutch painter and one of the Fauves.

Between 1968 and 1970, Cals was in charge of the Dutch entry to the Expo ' 70 in Japan.

* Marco Roelofsen ( 1968 ), Dutch football ( soccer ) midfielder