* 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 )

Sumner, Peter the Great and the Emergence of Russia ( London: English UP, 1968 ).

* 1898 – Peter Mohr Dam, Faroese politician, 3rd Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands ( d. 1968 )

* 1968 – Peter van Vossen, Dutch footballer and coach

* Schmidt, Hanns Peter: The Origin of Ahimsa, in: Mélanges d ' Indianisme à la mémoire de Louis Renou, Paris 1968

* 1968 – Peter Dante, American actor

* Deism: An Anthology by Peter Gay ( Van Nostrand, 1968 )

In 1966 she also starred in Roger Corman's The Wild Angels with Peter Fonda and Bruce Dern, and in 1968 she shared the screen with Elvis Presley in Speedway — her final film.

* 1968 – Peter Mohr Dam, Faroese politician, 3rd Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands ( b. 1898 )

The life of Pope Celestine V is dramatised in the plays L ' avventura di un povero cristiano ( The Story of a Humble Christian ) by Ignazio Silone in 1968 and Sunsets and Glories by Peter Barnes in 1990.

Other examples are the Peter Marlow series, beginning with The Private Sector ( 1971 ) by Joseph Hone, which is set during Israel's Six Day War ( 1967 ) against Egypt, Jordan, and Syria, and William Garner's secret agents, the fantastic Michael Jagger, in Overkill ( 1966 ), The Deep, Deep Freeze ( 1968 ), The Us or Them War ( 1969 ) and A Big Enough Wreath ( 1974 ) and the realistic John Morpurgo in Think Big, Think Dirty ( 1983 ), Rats ' Alley ( 1984 ), and Zones of Silence ( 1986 ).

The fantasy novel The Folk of the Air by Peter S. Beagle was written after the author attended a few early SCA events circa 1968 ; but he has repeatedly stated that he then studiously avoided any contact with the actual SCA itself for almost two decades, so that his description of a fictitious " League for Archaic Pleasures " would not be " contaminated " by contact with the actual real-life organization.

SYSTRAN, founded by Dr. Peter Toma in 1968, is one of the oldest machine translation companies.

* October 25 – Vladimir Peter Tytla, American animator ( d. 1968 )

McGurk was replaced, after eight years in the trio, by Peter Morgan, after he committed suicide in June 1968.

" Peter Ustinov described her during a student demonstration at the University of Dundee in 1968, " As we arrived in a solemn procession the students pelted us with toilet rolls.

Deciding to experiment after having exhausted the folksinger-with-guitar format, Baez turned to Peter Schickele, a classical music composer, who provided classical orchestration for her next three albums: Noël ( 1966 ), Joan ( 1967 ) and Baptism: A Journey Through Our Time ( 1968 ).

Humphrey Barclay was the producer of ISIRTA until 1968 ; from April that year the task was shared by David Hatch and Peter Titherage.

Due to H-B action-adventure series as Johnny Quest, Space Ghost and Herculoids, the action style incidental tracks were created and adopted between 1964 and 1968, also eventually used in cartoons like The Atom Ant / Secret Squirrel Show and Space Kidettes or also some Peter Potamus episodes.

Other German dramatic treatments include Georg Kaiser's posthumously published Double Amphitryon ( Zweimal Amphitryon, 1943 ) and Peter Hacks's Amphitryon ( 1968 ).

It was adapted by Goldman into an Academy Award-winning 1968 film of the same name, starring Peter O ' Toole and Katharine Hepburn.

The play was adapted into a 1968 film, with Peter O ' Toole as Henry and Katharine Hepburn as Eleanor, and a 2003 television movie, with Patrick Stewart and Glenn Close.

During his first trip to England in January 1968, Captain Beefheart was briefly represented in the UK by mod icon Peter Meaden, an early manager of The Who.

In 1968, Karloff starred in Targets, a film directed by Peter Bogdanovich about a young man who embarks on a spree of killings carried out with handguns and high powered rifles.

Highlights of his career in modern theatre include the roles of Sir Thomas More in Robert Bolt's A Man for All Seasons ( 1960 ), Charles Dyer in Dyer's play Staircase, staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1966, the definitive Laurie in John Osborne's A Hotel in Amsterdam ( 1968 ), and Antonio Salieri in the original stage production of Peter Shaffer's Amadeus ( 1979 ).