* 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 )

* 1968 – Mark Vanderloo, Dutch model

* 1968 – Mark Dean Schwab, American rapist and murderer ( d. 2008 )

* 1968 – Mark Tewksbury, Canadian swimmer

* Mark Ptashne and Nancy Hopkins, " The Operators Controlled by the Lambda Phage Repressor ", PNAS, v. 60, n. 4, pp. 1282 – 1287 ( 1968 ).

* 1968 – Mark Clark, American baseball player

* 1968 – Mark Preston, Australian engineer

* 1968 – Mark Walton, American story artist, actor

* 1968 – Mark Lee, Singaporean actor & comedian

* Mark Kac and Stanislaw Ulam, Mathematics and Logic: Retrospect and Prospects, New York, Praeger, 1968.

* Mark Vanderloo ( b. 1968 )-model

* Mark Tulin ( 1965 – 1968 ) ( 1999 – 2011 )

The new model offered a sportier, high performance, somewhat smaller and lower-priced alternative to the other personal luxury cars then on the market such as Ford Thunderbird, Buick Riviera, Lincoln Continental Mark III and Oldsmobile Toronado, The 1969 Grand Prix production ending up at over 112, 000 units, far higher than the 32, 000 1968 Grand Prix built from the full-sized Pontiac body.

* The Devil's Brigade ( 1968 ) – as General Mark Clark

* Mark Donovan ( born 1968 ), screen actor, has lived in the town on-off since 2007

* Mark Clark ( baseball ) ( born 1968 ), Major League Baseball player

By March 1968, this became the " Mark 1 " lineup of " Deep Purple ": Lord, Simper, Blackmore, Paice and Evans.

Although Nicklaus ' performance had declined somewhat during this period, he was still ranked as the # 1 player in the world, for ten straight years, beginning in 1968, on the McCormack's World Golf Rankings, which were introduced that year by sports agent Mark McCormack.

He was CanAm champion in 1968 ( driving the McLaren M8A ) and 917s ( driven by Mark Donohue and George Follmer ).

* 1968 – 1992 Daimler DS420 Limousine, successor to the DR450, a lengthened Jaguar Mark X hull with a completely new body

Introduced in April 1968 as an early 1969 model, the Continental Mark III is the direct spiritual successor of the limited production, ultra-luxurious Continental Mark II produced by a short-lived Continental division of Ford Motor Company between in 1956 and 1957.

Despite some bad reviews by the automotive press, the public took to the car, with some 7, 000 built during the remainder of the 1968 model year, and another 23, 858 cars for the 1969 model year, a respectable showing ; Lincoln had always trailed Cadillac in production numbers, but the Mark III almost equalled the Eldorado, which tallied 23, 333 for 1969.

In its second annual King of the Hill contest Motor Trend ( July, 1971 ) again gave the Continental Mark III the nod by a wider margin than 1970 despite the Lincoln being basically a warmed over 1968 model while the Cadillac was all-new from the ground up.