* 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 )

* Frank Parkin, Middle class radicalism: The Social Bases of the British Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament ( Manchester University Press: Manchester, 1968 )

Dubnium was reportedly first discovered in 1968 at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research at Dubna ( then in the Soviet Union ).

* Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, an international treaty, opened for signature on July 1, 1968 to limit the spread of nuclear weapons

* Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty ( NPT )— signed 1968, came into force 1970: An international treaty ( currently with 189 member states ) to limit the spread of nuclear weapons.

The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty of 1968 was seen as a valid alternative, however, and the bomb was never built.

In 1968, at the third IAEA International Conference on Plasma Physics and Controlled Nuclear Fusion Research at Novosibirsk, Soviet scientists announced that they had achieved electron temperatures of over 1000 eV in a tokamak device.

The 1968 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty was signed to prevent further spread of nuclear weapons technology to countries outside the five that already possessed them: the United States, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, France and China.

* Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, signed 1968, entered into force 1970

Iraq was required to turn over all biological and chemical weapons to UNSCOM for destruction, and ordered to respect the 1968 Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons Treaty.

Aiken was also a champion of nuclear non-proliferation and he received the honour of being the first minister to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in 1968 in Moscow.

By 1968 he had founded Golem Press, which published most of his books, including The Health Hazards of Not Going Nuclear ( 1976 ), which argued in favor of nuclear power during the height of the anti-nuclear movement by contrasting the cost, in human terms, with the equivalent costs of the alternatives available.

The title refers to the 1968 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, which ( at least in the world of the novel ) contained four secret protocols.

He identifies that the General Secretary is responsible, and blackmails Krilov into revealing the plan ; in contravention of the Fourth Protocol to the 1968 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty a small atomic device is to be smuggled ( via its component parts ) into England, and be exploded near Bentwaters Air Force Base a week before the general election.

The latter three became non-nuclear weapons states under the Treaty on the non-proliferation of Nuclear Weapons of 1 July 1968 ( NPT ) as they committed to do under the " Lisbon Protocol " ( Protocol to the Treaty Between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms ) after becoming independent nations in the wake of the break up of the Soviet Union.

There were also strategic questions such as the legality of the practice of nuclear deterrence or the meaning of Article VI of the 1968 Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.

The United States is one of the five " Nuclear Weapons States " under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, which the US ratified in 1968.

The United Kingdom is one of the five " Nuclear Weapons States " ( NWS ) under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, which the UK ratified in 1968.

The agreement under which this partnership operates was updated in 2004 ; anti-nuclear activists claimed renewal may breach the 1968 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

Iranian newspaper clip from 1968 reads: " A quarter of Iran's Nuclear Energy scientists are women.

Iran signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty ( NPT ) in 1968 and ratified it in 1970, making Iran's nuclear program subject to IAEA verification.

R. Sebastian ' Bas ' Pease ( 1922 – 2004 ), physicist, Director of Culham Laboratory for Plasma Physics and Nuclear Fusion ( 1968 – 1981 ), head of the British chapter of Pugwash, grandson of the fourth Josiah Wedgwood ( see above ).

Unable to get favorable prices from American steel manufacturers, and unhappy with the imported steel available at the time, Iverson ( a metallurgist by training ) decided to integrate Nuclear backwards into steel making by building its first steel bar mill in Darlington, South Carolina in 1968.