* 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 )

A three-act stage play based on the pilot was written by David Rogers in 1968.

* Banda Kanakalingeshwara Rao ( 1907 – 1968 ), Indian stage actor

Essendon did manage to make the 1968 VFL Grand Final, but lost a heartbreaker to Carlton by just three points and would not make it back to the big stage for a decade-and-a-half.

Fritz became popular as a live act from 1968 until 1972, opening for popular musicians Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin-both of whom Nicks credits as inspiring her stage intensity in later years-among others, in the San Francisco Bay Area.

After Charlie Bubbles ( 1968 ), which he also directed, his film appearances became less frequent as he focused more on acting on stage.

On the stage, Nimoy played the lead-role in a short run of Gore Vidal's Visit to a Small Planet in 1968, shortly before the end of the Star Trek series.

After producing a film adaption of his 1968 novel Only When I Larf, Deighton and photographer Brian Duffy bought the film rights to Joan Littlewood and Theatre Workshop's stage musical Oh, What a Lovely War!

Highlights of his career in modern theatre include the roles of Sir Thomas More in Robert Bolt's A Man for All Seasons ( 1960 ), Charles Dyer in Dyer's play Staircase, staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1966, the definitive Laurie in John Osborne's A Hotel in Amsterdam ( 1968 ), and Antonio Salieri in the original stage production of Peter Shaffer's Amadeus ( 1979 ).

Peter Bogdanovich was a 31-year-old stage actor, film essayist and critic with two small films — Targets ( 1968 ) ( also known as Before I Die ) and Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women ( 1968 ) — to his directorial credit.

The programme was initiated by the UK and the first launch was planned for November 1966, but the first two stage launch occurred in August 1967, with three stages ( Europa 1 ) in November 1968.

Due to Britain's withdrawal in 1968, ELDO in June 1969 had other ideas than staying with the Blue Streak launcher for Europa's first stage, to give technical work to countries that were still ( loyally ) part of the organisation.

He gave up academia, and turned to writing full-time, his first stage play Forty Years On being produced in 1968.

Bennett's first stage play Forty Years On directed by Patrick Garland was produced in 1968.

Her father, Walter Augustus de Havilland ( 31 August 1872 – 23 May 1968 ; aged 95 ), was a patent attorney with a practice in Japan, and her mother, Lilian Augusta ( née Ruse ; 11 June 1886 – 20 February 1975 ; aged 88 ) was a stage actress who had left her career after going to Tokyo with her husband – she would return to work after her daughters had already won fame in the 40s, with the stage name of Lillian Fontaine.

In November 1968, Warnes ( as " Jennifer Warren ") portrayed the female lead in the Los Angeles, California production of the stage musical Hair.

* Isabel Withers ( 1896 – 1968 ), stage, motion picture, and television actress.

In 1968, he played alongside Julie Andrews in the musical movie Star !, a biopic of stage actress Gertrude Lawrence.

He notably portrayed Captain Hook in six different stage productions of Peter Pan between 1941 and 1968.

Other stage work in the 1960s included Anouilh's Poor Bitos ( 1967 ) and Robert Shaw's The Man in The Glass Booth ( 1967 ), for which he won the London Variety Award for Stage Actor of the Year in 1968.

He also occasionally used Fender Jazzmasters on stage in 1967 and 1968 and in the studio for Tommy.

The screenplay was adapted from Robert Shaw's 1967 novel and 1968 stage play, both of the same name.

William Edward John ( November 15, 1937-May 26, 1968 ), better known by his stage name Little Willie John, was an American R & B singer who performed in the 1950s and early 1960s.