* 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 – Nicolae Bretan, Romanian opera singer ( b. 1887 )

Nicolae Ceauşescu condemning the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968

After the negotiated retreat of Soviet troops, Romania, under the new leadership of Nicolae Ceauşescu, started to pursue independent policies, including the condemnation of the Soviet-led 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia ( Romania being the only Warsaw Pact country not to take part in the invasion ), the continuation of diplomatic relations with Israel after the Six-Day War of 1967 ( again, the only Warsaw Pact country to do so ), and the establishment of economic ( 1963 ) and diplomatic ( 1967 ) relations with the Federal Republic of Germany.

The 1968 invasion by Warsaw Pact troops of Czechoslovakia and the suppression of the Prague Spring were also applauded by Ulbricht – East German soldiers were among those massed on the border but did not cross over, probably due to Czech sensitivities about German troops on their soil – and earned him a reputation as a staunch Soviet ally in contrast to Romanian leader Nicolae Ceauşescu, who condemned the invasion.

Yugoslavia backed Czechoslovakia's leader Alexander Dubček during the 1968 Prague Spring, and then cultivated a special ( albeit incidental ) relation with the maverick Romanian President Nicolae Ceauşescu.

Nicolae Ceauşescu and other PCR leaders in August 1968, addressing the Romanian public at a rally to oppose the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia | invasion of Czechoslovakia

He was posthumously rehabilitated in April 1968 by Nicolae Ceauşescu, in the latter's attempt to discredit his predecessors and establish his own legitimacy.

One found from conversations with former Academician Nicolae Popescu that he shared many moral, ethical and religious values with another famous mathematician French-German-Jewish Alexander Grothendieck who visited the School of Mathematics in Bucharest in 1968.

Sulzberger interviews Romania n dictator Nicolae Ceauşescu in 1968.

In 1968, after Martin Luther King Jr .' s death, Alston was asked to create another mural for the hospital to be placed in a pavilion named after the assassinated civil rights leader titled Man Emerging from the Darkness of Poverty and Ignorance into the Light of a Better World ".

With McMahon unexpectedly eliminated from the contest, Senator John Gorton was elected Liberal leader on 9 January 1968, and was sworn in as Prime Minister on 10 January, replacing McEwen.

* John Baptiste Ford ( 1811 – 1903 ), American business leader who, in 1883, founded the industrial concern Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company ( renamed PPG Industries in 1968 )

* 1929 – Martin Luther King, Jr., American civil rights leader, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize ( d. 1968 )

* 1968 – Vietnam War: South Vietnamese opposition leader Truong Dinh Dzu is sentenced to five years hard labor for advocating the formation of a coalition government as a way to move toward an end to the war.

Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam, MLP leader and chief minister in the colonial government, became the first prime minister after independence, on 12 March 1968.

* Martin Luther King, Jr. ( 1929 – 1968 ), American clergyman, activist, and prominent leader in the African American civil rights movement

Nevertheless, at the April 1968 Liberal leadership convention, Trudeau was elected as the leader on the fourth ballot, with the support of 51 % of the delegates.

In 1968 he also became the only party leader to command an absolute majority in the Knesset, after Mapam and Rafi merged into the Alignment, giving it 63 seats in the 120-seat Knesset.

The APC, with its leader Siaka Stevens, narrowly won a small majority seats in Parliament over the SLPP in a closely contested 1967 Sierra Leone general election and Stevens was sworn in as Prime Minister of April 26, 1968.

* January 15 – Martin Luther King Jr., American civil rights leader, Nobel laureate ( d. 1968 )

* December 31 – Istvan Dobi, former Hungarian leader ( d. 1968 )

In his autobiography White Niggers of America: The Precocious Autobiography of a Quebec " Terrorist " ( 1968 ), Pierre Vallières, a Front de libération du Québec leader refers to the oppression of the Québécois people in North America.

However, after 1968, it was revived as a stronger body and became responsible for implementing political repression, most notably in the case of the Solidarity movement, the leader of which, Lech Wałęsa, was under constant SB surveillance, until its replacement by the Urząd Ochrony Państwa in 1990 after the fall of communism.

Surrounded by reporters on August 23, 1968, Jerry Rubin, a Yippie leader, folk singer Phil Ochs, and other activists held their own presidential nominating convention with their candidate Pigasus, an actual pig.

Alexander Dubček (; 27 November 1921 – 7 November 1992 ) was a Slovak politician and, briefly, leader of Czechoslovakia ( 1968 – 1969 ), famous for his attempt to reform the communist regime during the Prague Spring.

Daniel Cohn-Bendit ( or “ Danny the Red ”), a leader of the 1968 student uprising, spearheaded the party ’ s 1999 European campaign, obtaining 9. 7 % of votes cast, enough to return seven deputies to Strasbourg.

He was elected party leader on 9 January 1968, and appointed Prime Minister on 10 January, replacing McEwen.

In 1968, Milton Friedman, leader of the monetarist school of economics, and Edmund Phelps posited a unique full employment rate of unemployment, what they called the " natural " rate of unemployment.

With many veteran Tories having been defeated in the 1968 election, the party effectively skipped a generation by selecting Clark as its new leader.

* In 1968, the son of China's future paramount leader Deng Xiaoping, Deng Pufang, was thrown from a window by Red Guards during the Cultural Revolution.

In 1968 Pierre Mulele, Lumumba's Minister of Education and later a rebel leader during the 1964 Simba rebellion, was lured out of exile in Brazzaville on the assumption that he would be amnestied, but was tortured and killed by Mobutu's forces.

* Sargon, disembodied leader of a race of powerful aliens in the 1968 Star Trek episode " Return to Tomorrow "