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* 1968 – Affonso Giaffone, Brazilian race car driver
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* 1903 – Ferenc Keserű, Hungarian water polo player ( d. 1968 )
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* 1968 – Jack de Gier, Dutch footballer
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* 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 )
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* 1911 – Mervyn Peake, English writer and illustrator ( d. 1968 )
Mervyn Laurence Peake ( 9 July 1911 – 17 November 1968 ) was a British writer, artist, poet and illustrator.
** Mervyn Peake, British writer and illustrator ( d. 1968 )
* 1968 – 1970 Lieutenant-General Sir Mervyn Butler
* Ivor Mervyn Vigors Guest, 4th Viscount Wimborne ( born 1968 )
Hayman moved to London, with her husband, Mervyn Lazar, in 1968, and was a pioneer in the field of teaching English as a second language.
1968 and British
* Adrian Lester ( born 1968 ), British actor
* 1968 – The last steam hauled train runs on British railways
On television, the actor Freddie Jones portrayed Claudius in the 1968 British television series The Caesars while the 1985 made-for-television miniseries A. D. features actor Richard Kiley as Claudius.
* Frank Parkin, Middle class radicalism: The Social Bases of the British Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament ( Manchester University Press: Manchester, 1968 )
Sorrow ( released in December 1968 ) by British group the Pretty Things is generally considered to be among the first creatively successful rock concept albums-in that each song is part of an overarching unified concept – the life story of the main character, Sebastian Sorrow.
* 1968 – Justin Chadwick, British actor and director
Between 1968 and 1973, the Chagossians, then numbering about 2, 000 people, were expelled by the British government to Mauritius and Seychelles to allow the United States to establish a military base on the island.
* 1968 – Joe Cornish, British comedian
Enid Mary Blyton ( 11 August 1897 – 28 November 1968 ) was a British children's writer also known as Mary Pollock.
Fitted with tapered conical hubs, special motocross forks and large alloy fuel tanks, a Cheney Triumph was first used in the 1968 British Trophy Team.
* 1968 – Wendi Peters, British actress
* 1968 – Justin Bell, British racing driver
* 1968 – Simon Wickham-Smith, British musician
* 1968 – Warren Ellis, British comic writer
* British Home Championship ( 8, 2 shared ): 1964 ( shared ), 1965, 1966, 1968, 1969, 1970 ( shared ), 1971 and 1972
In the Queen's Birthday Honours of June 1968, Holt's widow Zara Holt was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire, becoming Dame Zara Holt DBE.
Until 1968, British law required scripts to be approved by the Lord Chamberlain's Office.
* 1968 – Tony Maudsley, British film actor
On 14 October 1968, the band announced the new name and played their first show at the University of Surrey ( at its original Battersea Park location, not at Guildford ) on 25 October ; this was followed by a short British tour.
Mauritius was successively colonized by the Dutch, the French and the British, and became independent in 1968.
In 1968, Manchester United became the first English ( and second British ) club to win the European Cup, beating Benfica 4 – 1 in the final with a team that contained three European Footballers of the Year: Bobby Charlton, Denis Law and George Best.
* 1968 – Paul Marsden, British politician
* 1902 – Anthony Asquith, British film director ( d. 1968 )
* 1968 – Aaron Stainthorpe, British singer ( My Dying Bride )
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