* 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 – The only successful hijacking of an El Al aircraft takes place when a Boeing 707 carrying 10 crew and 38 passengers is taken over by three members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.

Jet airliners were added in 1960, with the introduction of the Douglas DC-8 and four years laters Eastern beacme the launch customer of the Boeing 727 and the shuttle became all-jet in 1968 with a fleet of dedicated Boeing 727s and DC – 9s.

* On 23 July 1968, El Al Flight 426 operated by a Boeing 707-358C on route from London to Tel Aviv via Rome, was hijacked by three members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine shortly after take-off from Rome-Fiumicino airport and forcibly diverted to Algiers.

An exception to Soviet-built planes was made in 1968, when TAROM bought the BAC One Eleven for European and Middle East destinations, and in 1974 when it acquired Boeing 707 aircraft to share its long-haul operations with the Il-62.

* On February 7, 1968, a Canadian Pacific Airlines Boeing 707 overran a runway, and hit a building, while landing in heavy fog, killing one crew member.

The first scheduled flight was a United Airlines Boeing 737-200 on April 28, 1968 which arrived from Chicago O ' Hare.

He wrote much background and theme music for motion pictures, including the films Sex and the Single Girl, How to Murder Your Wife ( 1965 ), Synanon, Boeing Boeing ( 1965 ), Lord Love a Duck ( 1966 ), Duel at Diablo ( 1966 ), The Odd Couple ( 1968 ), Barefoot in the Park ( 1967 ) and Harlow ( 1965 ), for which he received two Grammy nominations for the song " Girl Talk ".

The first lifting Panel Code ( A230 ) was described in a paper written by Paul Rubbert and Gary Saaris of Boeing Aircraft in 1968.

The first jet was a Boeing 727 ( Canada's first Boeing ) in 1966, the first Boeing 707 ( allowing non-stop flights to Europe ) in 1968, and the first Boeing 747 Jumbo Jet in 1973.

* Boeing 707-138B ( leased ca 1968 )

* February 7, 1968: ( CP322 ) Boeing 707-138B leased from Standard Airways ( of Seattle ) crashed into aircraft and buildings at Vancouver while attempting to land in low visibility after a flight from Honolulu ; 60 crew and passengers survived, but one flight attendant died, as did one person on the ground.

To keep pace with fast-moving aviation needs, three Boeing 707s were delivered in 1968.

Commercial Airplane Group, by far the largest unit of Boeing, went from 83, 700 employees in 1968 to 20, 750 in 1971.

From 1968, the Britannias were gradually replaced with state-of-the-art Boeing 707 jet equipment on long-haul routes.

The first aircraft — Boeing 707-399C G-AVKA (" Kilo Alpha ") — joined the second at Gatwick on 1 June 1968, following the end of the Flying Tigers lease.

In November 1968, the Company introduced “ jet service ” on its scheduled route system with the delivery of its first Boeing 737.

Although operations were interrupted by the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, and by the Israeli raid on Beirut Airport in 1968 in-which, the airline lost three Comet 4C's, two Caravelles, a Boeing 707, the Vickers VC10, and the Vickers Viscount, MEA restarted by acquiring a Convair 990A from American Airlines, which entered service on 24 June 1969.

The aircraft, a Boeing 727 – 200, construction number 19457 / 518, built in 1967, was delivered to National Airlines on January 31, 1968.