* 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 )

* Thomas Crown of The Thomas Crown Affair ( 1968 )

* 1968 – Thomas Merton, American monk and author ( b. 1915 )

By 1968 Thomas had increased sales in the four fried chicken restaurants so much that he sold his share in them back to Sanders for more than $ 1. 5 million.

* Hobbes, Thomas, 1968, Leviathan, C. B. Macpherson ( ed.

* 1884 – Norman Thomas, American political figure ( d. 1968 )

They include " Indiscreet ( 1958 ), John Frankenheimer's Grand Prix ( 1966 ), Richard Fleischer's The Boston Strangler ( 1968 ), Norman Jewison's The Thomas Crown Affair ( 1968 ), Airport ( 1970 ), Woodstock ( 1970 ), Carrie ( 1976 ) and More American Graffiti ( 1979 ).

* Norman Jewison's The Thomas Crown Affair ( 1968 )

His son, Thomas Jr., later served as National president of the Boy Scouts of America from 1964 to 1968.

* 1968 Glass Cathedral, Thomas Glassworks, Amberg

** Thomas Merton, American monk and author ( d. 1968 )

* November 20 – Norman Thomas, American social reformer ( d. 1968 )

UPI reporters and photographers have won ten Pulitzer Prizes: Russell Jones ( International Reporting, 1957 ), Andrew Lopez ( News Photography, 1960 ), Yasushi Nagao ( News Photography, 1961 ), Merriman Smith ( National Reporting, 1964 ), Kyoichi Sawada ( News Photography, 1966 ), Toshio Sakai ( Feature Photography, 1968 ), Lucinda Franks and Thomas Powers ( National Reporting, 1971 ), and David Hume Kennerly ( Feature Photography, 1972 ).

Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas, 1968 ) and by Mazur ( 1984 ): ice formation begins in the intercellular spaces.

Wildlife of Australia, published by Thomas Nelson ( Australia ) Ltd., Melbourne, 1968 ( revised edition 1977 ), ISBN 0-17-005168-4

Moving to California, he was approached by conservatives to challenge moderate Republican Thomas Kuchel for his seat in the United States Senate in 1968, but he declined.

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 ).

She has starred in a variety of other successful films, including The Thomas Crown Affair ( 1968 ), Three Days of the Condor ( 1975 ), and Mommie Dearest ( 1981 ).

She also starred in 1968 with Steve McQueen in the caper film The Thomas Crown Affair ( and had a small role in the 1999 remake with the same title with Pierce Brosnan ).

Many earlier predictions of resource depletion, such as Thomas Malthus ' 1798 predictions about approaching famines in Europe, The Population Bomb ( 1968 ), Limits to Growth ( 1972 ), and the Simon – Ehrlich wager ( 1980 ) did not materialize, nor has diminished production of most resources occurred so far, one reason being that advancements in technology and science have allowed some previously unavailable resources to be produced.

For example, the 1968 film The Thomas Crown Affair is centered on a bank robbery, while its 1999 remake involves the theft of a valuable piece of artwork.

He was not seen on film again until two movies of 1968, The Thomas Crown Affair and Bullitt ( which included his fellow The Sand Pebbles actor Simon Oakland as Bullitt's boss ).

Alexander Thomas, Stella Chess, Herbert G. Birch, Margaret Hertzig and Sam Korn began the classic New York Longitudinal study in the early 1950s regarding infant temperament ( Thomas, Chess & Birch, 1968 ).