* 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 )

Occasionally, he varied the group's sound with more disparate musical influences, such as raga (" Fancy ", 1966 ), bossa nova (" No Return ", 1967 ) and calypso (" Monica ", 1968 ; " Apeman ", 1970 ; " Supersonic Rocket Ship ", 1972 ).

Yet another perennial Ray Davies theme is the championing of individualistic personalities and lifestyles (" I'm Not Like Everybody Else ", 1966 ; " Johnny Thunder ", 1968 ; " Monica ", 1968 ; " Lola ", 1970 ; " Celluloid Heroes ", 1972 ; " Where Are They Now?

* Monica Crowley ( born 1968 ), conservative radio and TV talk show personality .< ref > Staff.

) ( 1962 ), playing sadistic Lieutenant Scott-Padget, co-starring Sir Alec Guinness ; I Could Go On Singing ( 1963 ), co-starring Judy Garland in her final screen role ; Hot Enough for June, ( aka " Agent 8¾ ") ( 1964 ), a James Bond-type spy spoof co-starring Robert Morley ; Modesty Blaise ( 1966 ), a campy spy send-up playing archvillain Gabriel opposite Monica Vitti and Terence Stamp and directed by Joseph Losey ; The Fixer ( 1968 ), based on Bernard Malamud's novel, co-starring Alan Bates ; Sebastian ( 1968 ), as Sebastian, a mathematician working on code decryption, who falls in love with Susannah York, a decrypter in the all-female decoding office he heads for British Intelligence, also co-starring Sir John Gielgud, and Lilli Palmer, co-produced by Michael Powell ; Oh!

He was arrested before he had the chance to marry Monica and even though she married Ronnie's ex-boyfriend, 59 letters sent to her between May and December 1968 when he was imprisoned, show he still had feelings for her and his love for her is very clear.

A letter to his mother Violet, sent from prison in 1968, also gives references to Monica ; " if they let me see Monica and put me with Reg, I could not ask for more.

In 1968, Caroline Olsen, a 27-year-old elementary school teacher, was murdered by gunshot during a robbery on a Santa Monica tennis court.

Between 1947 and 1968 Bill and Monica Edwards gradually built up the near-derelict farm into a thriving dairy concern stocked exclusively with pedigree Jersey cattle.

Lee Tracy died in Santa Monica, California from liver cancer on October 18, 1968, aged 70.

*" Monica ", a song by The Kinks on their 1968 album The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society

She later appeared with James Garner in the 1968 film The Pink Jungle as " Alison Duquesne ", and in the 1969 film Bird with the Crystal Plumage as " Monica Ranieri ".

The Anderson Platoon has been shown in more than 20 countries and won several prizes including an Oscar on April 10, 1968 at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium.

Additional material includes an audio commentary ; interviews with director Friedkin, playwright / screenwriter Crowley, executive producer Dominick Dunne, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Tony Kushner, and two of the surviving cast members, Peter White and Laurence Luckinbill ; and a retrospective look at both the off Broadway 1968 play and 1970 film.

The AFI Catalog of Feature Films, started in 1968, is an online database that preserves the history of American film in encyclopedic detail.

* 1968 – Stacey Augmon, American basketball player

* 1968 – Dan Donegan, American guitarist ( Disturbed and Vandal )

* 1968 – Rod Beck, American baseball player ( d. 2007 )

* 1968 – Huey Morgan, American singer-songwriter and guitarist ( Fun Lovin ' Criminals )

* 1968 – Vickie Guerrero, American wrestler and manager

* 1968 – Catherine Bell, American actress

* 1885 – Edna Ferber, American novelist ( d. 1968 )

* 1968 – Debra Messing, American actress

* 1883 – Marion Lorne, American actress ( d. 1968 )

* 1968 – Andras Jones, American actor

* 1968 – Mark McGuinn, American singer-songwriter

* 1968 – James Anderson, Jr. posthumously receives the first Medal of Honor to be awarded to an African American U. S. Marine.

* 1968 – Spider One, American singer-songwriter and producer ( Powerman 5000 )

* 1968 – Rachael Ray, American chef, author, and television host

* 1968 – Laura Claycomb, American soprano

* 1968 – Chris DiMarco, American golfer

* 1880 – Sam Crawford, American baseball player ( d. 1968 )

* 1968 – Mary Birdsong, American actress