* 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 )

* Harald Zimmermann, Papstabsetzungen des Mittelalters ( Graz, Vienna, Cologne, 1968 ).

In September 1968 Adorno went to Vienna for the publication of Alban Berg: Master of the Smallest Link.

* Vienna Convention on Road Traffic ( 1968 )

* Vienna Convention on Road Signs and Signals ( 1968 )

The basic traffic rules are defined by an international treaty under the authority of the United Nations, the 1968 Vienna Convention on Road Traffic.

His lecture " Loose from Loos, A Law Permitting Individual Buildings Alterations or Architecture-Boycott Manifesto ", was given at the Concordia Press Club in Vienna in 1968.

* Vienna: The Years Remembered ( 1968 ) ( short subject )

After Sandie Shaw won the 1967 Eurovision Song Contest in Vienna, the BBC hosted the 1968 Eurovision Song Contest at the Hall.

* Reinhard, Johan ( 1968 ) “ The Kusunda: Ethnographic Notes on a Hunting Tribe of Nepal .” Bulletin of the International Committee on Urgent Anthropological Ethnological Research 10: 95-110, Vienna.

This is typically used for cars crossing international borders, and is overseen by the United Nations as the Distinguishing Signs of Vehicles in International Traffic, being authorized by the UN's Geneva Convention on Road Traffic ( 1949 ) and Vienna Convention on Road Traffic ( 1968 ).

He went on to study at the University of Vienna, receiving a Doctorate in Law in 1968.

Nearly every larger city in Germany is a consolidated city – county, like Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Munich or Dresden ; Austria, where the capital of Vienna is both a city and state ; France, where the capital city of Paris has been coterminous with the département of Paris since 1968 ; and South Korea, where Seoul is a special city, while six other cities ( Busan, Daegu, Daejeon, Gwangju, Incheon, and Ulsan ) are metropolitan cities.

* Omar Kháyyám for solo voices chorus and orchestra-Part I ( Birmingham Festival, 1906 ), Part II ( Cardiff Festival 1907 ), Part III ( Birmingham Festival 1909, BBCSO / Del Mar, 27 November 1968, first broadcast performance ); complete ( based on the third version of Fitzgerald's adaptation, London Choral Society / Arthur Fagge, Queen's Hall, February 1910 ; Vienna, February, 1912, BBC Symphony Orchestra under Norman Del Mar, 5 – 6 January 1979 )

Over two sessions in 1968 and 1969, the Vienna Conference completed the Convention, which was adopted on 22 May 1969 and opened for signature the following day.

Hans Ferdinand Redlich ( Vienna, 11 February 1903 – Manchester, 27 November 1968 ) was an Austrian classical composer, conductor, musicologist and writer.

Tess Jaray RA ( December 31, 1937, Vienna ) is a British painter and printmaker who taught at The Slade School of Fine Art, UCL from 1968 until 1999.

Brus and Mühl participated in the " Kunst und Revolution " ( Art and Revolution ) event in Vienna, June 1968, issuing the following proclamation: ... our assimilatory democracy maintains art as a safety valve for enemies of the state ... the consumer state drives a wave of " art " before itself ; it attempts to bribe the " artist " and thus to rehabilitate his revolutionising " art " as an art that supports the state.

Tysons Corner Center, located in the Tysons Corner unincorporated area in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States ( between McLean and Vienna, Virginia ), opened to the public in 1968, becoming one of the first fully enclosed, climate-controlled shopping centers in the Washington Metropolitan Area.

In 1968, this sign was adopted by the Vienna Convention on Road Signs and Signals as part of United Nations Economic Commission for Europe's effort to standardize road travel across borders.

On March 1, 1968, WMATA approved its Adopted Regional System ( ARS ) plan that included suburban mass transit lines that followed the median of the proposed Interstate 66 through Virginia to Vienna and the CSX / Amtrak railroad right-of-way in Prince George's County, Maryland.

Although originally identified as the western terminus of the Orange Line in the 1968 plan, by 1978 Fairfax County was debating whether or not the initial terminus should be at the Vienna location or at an alternate location in Tysons Corner.

In 1968 he returned to Vienna, where he engaged in the gradual transformation of the inner city into a pedestrian zone, of which only some parts have been implemented, including Kärntner Straße and Graben.

He studied Journalism, Philosophy, Germanistics, and Sociology at the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich and the University of Vienna, and became a doctor of philosophy in 1968.

Stewart wrote the musical Barbarella, based on the 1968 film, which premiered in Vienna on 11 March 2004.