* 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 Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical / Comedy, The Taming of the Shrew

* 1968 – Won – Best Motion Picture Actor – Musical / Comedy – Camelot

The Motion Picture Production Code was the set of industry moral censorship guidelines that governed the production of most United States motion pictures released by major studios from 1930 to 1968.

The Motion Pictures Producers and Distributors Association ( MPPDA ), which later became the Motion Picture Association of America ( MPAA ), adopted the code in 1930, began enforcing it in 1934, and abandoned it in 1968, in favor of the subsequent MPAA film rating system.

* From 1964 to 1968 it was awarded as Best Original Score from a Motion Picture or Television Show

During this period, she joined three film production companies: Great Wall Film Production Limited ( 1953 – 1958 ), The Shaw Brothers ( Hong Kong ) Limited ( 1958 – 1964 ), and Motion Picture and General Investments Limited ( 1964 – 1968 ).

* Sax in Motion ( 1968 )

Starting in 1968 with 1 + 1, Philip Glass wrote a series of works that incorporated additive process ( form based on sequences such as 1, 1 2, 1 2 3, 1 2 3 4 ) into the repertoire of minimalist techniques ; these works included Two Pages, Music in Fifths, Music in Contrary Motion, and others.

* Motion Picture Production Code or Hays Code, the voluntary US films censorship guidelines from 1930 to 1968

* 1968 Golden Globe Award Nomination for Best Motion Picture Actress ( Audrey Hepburn )

On the eve of releasing their debut single, Slow Motion, in July 1968, the band shortened their name to The Sweet.

By 1968, the Hays Office had been eliminated, and the former guidelines were replaced by the Motion Picture Association of America film rating system.

* " Declaration of Independence " / " Revelation in Slow Motion " ( 1968 )

In 1968, the disclaimer " A Paramount Picture / Release " was shortened to " Paramount ", and the byline " A Gulf + Western Company " appeared on the bottom.

", 1968 ; " Picture Book ", 1968 ; " Young and Innocent Days ", 1969 ; " Moments ", 1971 ; " Schooldays ", 1975 ).

The 1968 motion picture won six Academy Awards including Best Picture, and received nominations for both Moody and Wild.

* 1968: " Picture On The Wall / Jenny " ( Decca F12732 )

* 1968: " Picture On The Wall / Jenny " ( Decca F12732 )

Curtis was producer and / or director of a number of television adaptations of horror-related productions including The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Dracula, Frankenstein, The Picture of Dorian Gray, and Turn of the Screw, all made between 1968 and 1975.

In Finian's Rainbow ( 1968 ), she starred opposite Fred Astaire and she was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress-Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for her performance.

Noteworthy police detective dramas of the period include The French film The Sleeping Car Murders ( 1965 ), In the Heat of the Night ( winner of five Academy Awards, including Best Picture in 1967 ), Bullitt, Madigan ( both 1968 ), Klute ( 1971 ), Electra Glide in Blue ( 1973 ), and two non-mysteries: Dirty Harry, and The French Connection ( both from 1971 ).

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In 1968, Walter received an Academy Award for In The Heat Of The Night, which won the Best Picture Award, as well as four other Academy Awards.

* The film itself was a candidate for the Golden Globe Award for Best Musical or Comedy Picture of 1968.

Before joining Blue Mink in late 1969 she sang solo, and her cover version of " Picture Me Gone " is still a Northern Soul favourite today, as is " What Am I Supposed To Do ", from 1968, a two-minute B-side tune co-written with future Led Zeppelin member John Paul Jones, then working as one of London's most in-demand session bassists ( Bell also sang backup on Joe Cocker's " Bye Bye Blackbird " in 1969, which featured a guitar solo from another Led Zeppelin member, Jimmy Page ) Jones later arranged, produced and recorded Bell's 1973 RCA album Comin ' Atcha.

* Picture Miss Seeton ( 1968 )

* 1968 Robert Russell Bennett: The Sound of Music-Symphonic Picture, My Fair Lady-Symphonic Picture