* 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 )

* Rob Moore ( born 1968 ; native ), NFL football player

* Rob Carpenter ( wide receiver ) ( born 1968 ), American football wide receiver

* Rob Lanier ( born 1968 ), basketball coach

The original band fell apart between 1966 and 1968, with members leaving to go to university or to join other bands ; Saxophonist Rob Lind became a fighter pilot in the Vietnam War.

* They Came to Rob Las Vegas ( 1968 )

* Rob Morrison ( born 1968 ), American television journalist

Rob Herzet ( AVRO ), a Dutch counterpart to Robert Reed, discovered rallycross during a visit to Great Britain in 1968 and immediately understood its potential for the television viewers.

The band was founded in Cardiff in 1968 by Rob Ingram on guitar and Jeff Harrad on bass.

Timecode, real name Rob Playford, ( born 25 March 1968 ) is a UK drum and bass DJ, producer and record label owner.

* They Came to Rob Las Vegas ( 1968 )

Brown formed Pete Brown and His Battered Ornaments in 1968, and in 1969 the band recorded two albums ; A Meal You Can Shake Hands With In The Dark and Mantlepiece, with a line-up including Pete Bailey ( percussion ), Charlie Hart ( keyboards ), Dick Heckstall Smith ( sax ), George Kahn ( sax ), Roger Potter ( bass ), Chris Spedding ( guitar ) and Rob Tait ( drums ).

* Rob Brown ( ice hockey ) ( born 1968 ), National Hockey League player

Rob Morrison ( born May 17, 1968 ) is an American television journalist.

* Rob Ray ( born 1968 ), retired Canadian ice hockey player

* They Came to Rob Las Vegas ( 1968 )

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

* 1968 – Ray Wilson, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist ( Genesis and Stiltskin )

** Ray Harroun, American race car driver ( d. 1968 )

American Ray Heppenstall joined Howmet Corporation and McKee Engineering together to develop their own gas turbine sports car in 1968, the Howmet TX, which ran several American and European events, including two wins, and also participated in the 1968 24 Hours of Le Mans.

Ray Galton and Alan Simpson wrote for him from 1964 to 1966 when he worked for the BBC and also for a one-off show for Thames, Frankie Howerd meets the Bee Gees, shown on 20 August 1968.

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?

Nearly a decade later he recorded At Shelly's Manne-Hole ( 1968 ), an exciting live trio session with bassist Ray Brown and drummer Shelly Manne, in which four of the compositions were improvised on the spot.

The 1968 follow-up LP, In Search of the Lost Chord included " Legend of a Mind ", a song written by Ray Thomas in tribute to LSD guru Timothy Leary which encompassed a flute solo performed by Thomas – four members of the group had taken LSD together at the start of 1967.

The 1968 to 1972 album sleeves, plus several solo sets up to Ray Thomas's " Hopes, Wishes & Dreams " in 1976, were characterised by striking surreal scenic sleeve artwork ( mostly gatefold sleeves ) by artist Phil Travers.

* 1968 – 1983: Ray Noah

" A Ray of Hope ", " Heaven ", " See ", and " Carry Me Back " were all modest U. S. hits for the band during late 1968 and 1969 ; all entered the top 40, but none higher than # 24.

* Ray Coulthard ( born 1968 )

After losing the First Test against Australia in 1968 he won 1 and drew 6 of the next 7 Tests, which Ray Illingworth extended to a record run of 27 Tests without defeat between 1968-69.

* Ray Perrault May 1959-May 1968

The book has been reprinted many times: in 1953 by Galaxy, in 1957 and 1964 by Bantam, in 1958 and 1982 by Corgi as the first British edition, in 1968 by Sidgwick & Jackson in hardcover, in 1969, 1972, 1974 ( both paper and hard cover editions ) and 1981 by Sphere Science Fiction, in 1971 and 1975 by Fawcett Books, in 1983 by Del Ray Books, in 1986 in hardcover by Grafton and in 1990 again by Doubleday in hardcover ; in addition, it was reprinted as part of the Empire series, in 1986 by Ballantine Books, in 1992 by Spectra and in 2010 by Orb Books, in both print and Kindle editions.

" Ray Johnson Interview ”, Detroit Artists Monthly, February, 1968

Ray Harroun ( January 12, 1879-January 19, 1968 ) was an American racecar driver, born in Spartansburg, Pennsylvania.

Ray ( Raymond ) Wilson ( born 8 September 1968, Dumfries, Scotland ) is a Scottish musician, best known as vocalist in the post-grunge band Stiltskin, and in Genesis between 1996 and 1998.

The Vietnam War brought new controversies to the church when in 1968, the secretary of the national Evangelism and Social Service Committee, the Reverend Ray Hord, offered emergency aid to American Vietnam draft dodgers ; the General Council Executive disassociated itself from the decision but within two years it became church policy.

# Lyman Ray Patterson, Copyright in Historical Perspective, Vanderbilt University Press, 1968.

From then until he died twenty years later Hines recorded endlessly both solo and with jazz notables like Cat Anderson, Harold Ashby, Barney Bigard, Lawrence Brown, Dave Brubeck ( they recorded duets in 1975 ), Jaki Byard ( duets in 1972 ), Benny Carter, Buck Clayton, Cozy Cole, Wallace Davenport, Eddie " Lockjaw " Davis, Vic Dickenson, Roy Eldridge, Duke Ellington ( duets in 1966 ), Ella Fitzgerald, Panama Francis, Bud Freeman, Stan Getz, Dizzy Gillespie, Paul Gonsalves, Stephane Grappelli, Sonny Greer, Lionel Hampton, Coleman Hawkins, Johnny Hodges, Peanuts Hucko, Helen Humes, Budd Johnson, Jonah Jones, Max Kaminsky, Gene Krupa, Ellis Larkins, Marian McPartland ( duets in 1970 ), Gerry Mulligan, Ray Nance, Oscar Peterson ( duets in 1968 ), Russell Procope, Pee Wee Russell, Jimmy Rushing, Stuff Smith, Rex Stewart, Maxine Sullivan, Buddy Tate, Jack Teagarden, Clark Terry, Sarah Vaughan, Joe Venuti, Earle Warren, Ben Webster, Teddy Wilson ( duets in 1965 & 1970 ), Jimmy Witherspoon, Jimmy Woode and Lester Young.

Cast members throughout the program's 40-year run included Bob Bell as Bozo ( 1960 – 1984 ), Ned Locke as Ringmaster Ned ( 1961 – 1976 ), Don Sandburg as Sandy the Tramp ( 1961 – 1969 ), Ray Rayner as Oliver O. Oliver ( 1961 – 1971 ), Roy Brown as Cooky the Cook ( 1968 – 1994 ), Marshall Brodien as Wizzo the Wizard ( 1968 – 1994 ), Frazier Thomas as the circus manager ( 1976 – 1985 ), Joey D ' Auria as Bozo ( 1984 – 2001 ), Andy Mitran as Professor Andy ( 1987 – 2001 ) and Robin Eurich as Rusty the Handyman ( 1994 – 2001 ).