* 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 – 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 )

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

In 1968 he joined Sam Gopal and recorded the album Escalator and the single " Horse ".

He had four more children by unidentified women: Stephen Blackehart ( born 1967 ), Michael Gilman ( born 1967 ), who was adopted by Brando's longtime friend Sam Gilman, Dylan Brando ( born 1968 ), and Angelique Brando.

* April 18 – Sam Crawford, Baseball Hall of Famer ( d. 1968 )

Alexander Thomas, Stella Chess, Herbert G. Birch, Margaret Hertzig and Sam Korn began the classic New York Longitudinal study in the early 1950s regarding infant temperament ( Thomas, Chess & Birch, 1968 ).

* Sam Lipsyte ( born 1968 ), author.

Danny Thomas left the 13th Floor Elevators in 1968 and was hired to perform with blues guitarist Sam " Lightnin '" Hopkins.

Other than Aretha Franklin, no soul act during Sam & Dave's Stax years ( 1965 – 1968 ) had more consistent R & B chart success, including 10 consecutive top 20 singles and 3 consecutive top 10 LPs.

The first single for Sam & Dave in 1968 was " I Thank You / Wrap it Up " ( R & B # 4 / Pop # 9 ).

Due to the end of the distribution agreement between Stax and Atlantic Records in May 1968, " I Thank You " was Sam and Dave's final single on Stax.

Sam and Dave's first 1968 single for Atlantic was " You Don't Know What You Mean To Me ", written by Eddie Floyd and Steve Cropper.

Their final single of 1968, " Everybody Got To Believe In Somebody ", charted in the lower levels of the pop charts and ended Sam and Dave's streak at ten straight R & B top 20 singles.

" An October 1968 Time article reads: " Of all the R & B cats, nobody steams up a place like Sam & Dave ... weaving and dancing ( while singing!

After the tour, Sam & Dave worked as headliners in the U. S. and in Europe in during the Fall of 1967, Fall 1968 and January 1970, and in Japan in 1969 and 1970.

Traveling to New York in 1968, Lymon was signed by manager Sam Bray to his Big Apple label, and the singer returned to recording.

He also appeared as Konstantin Treplev in Sidney Lumet's 1968 adaptation of Anton Chekhov's The Sea Gull and starred alongside Jason Robards and Stella Stevens as Reverend Joshua Duncan Sloane in Sam Peckinpah's The Ballad of Cable Hogue.

* Sam Crawford ( 1880 – 1968 ), baseball Hall of Famer

The album also featured a cover of the 1968 Sam & Dave hit " Wrap It Up ", performed as a duet between Lennox and Green Gartside of Scritti Politti.

Sam would go on to manage the Eldorado full-time after the Mint was sold in 1968.

* Sam Gilman in the 1968 Star Trek episode " Spectre of the Gun ".

Samuel Earl Crawford ( April 18, 1880 – June 15, 1968 ), nicknamed " Wahoo Sam ", was a Major League Baseball player who played outfield for the Cincinnati Reds and Detroit Tigers.

Other notable recordings of " Shake, Rattle and Roll " include a version by Arthur Conley which was a hit in 1968, as well as cover versions of Turner's and Haley's arrangements by The Beatles, Sam Cooke, Willy DeVille, Johnny Horton, The Swinging Blue Jeans, Fats Domino, Jerry Lee Lewis, NRBQ, Huey Lewis and the News, Doc Watson.

After World War II the Sam Browne belt saw a decline in use in the Commonwealth ; for example, it was phased out by the Canadian military with the unification of the armed services in 1968.

* The Time Curve ( 1968 ) ( with Sam Moskowitz )