* 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 )

Storylines throughout the decade included: a mystery poison-pen letter received by Elsie Tanner, the 1962 marriage of Ken Barlow and Valerie Tatlock, the death of Martha Longhurst in 1964, the birth of the Barlow twins in 1965, Elsie Tanner's wedding to Steve Tanner as well as a train crashing from the viaduct ( both in 1967 ), the murder of Steve Tanner in 1968, and a coach crash in 1969.

Academic Alice Echols, in her 1989 book Daring To Be Bad: Radical Feminism in America, 1967 – 1975, argued that radical feminist Valerie Solanas, best known for her attempted murder of Andy Warhol in 1968, displayed an extreme level of misandry compared to other radical feminists of the time in her tract, The SCUM Manifesto.

* The SCUM Manifesto ( 1968 ), by Valerie Solanas

Two of Stroheim's sons eventually joined the film business: Erich Jr. ( 1916 – 1968 )( with Mae Jones ) as an assistant director and Josef ( 1922 – 2002 )( with Valerie Germonprez ) as a sound editor.

This caused a certain cooling of relations between the two former allies, although in 2009-by which point both were deceased-Tyndall's widow Valerie was reported to have claimed that Tyndall and Jordan were eventually reconciled, an assertion which is supported by Jordan's account of a meeting between Tyndall and Jordan himself, in 1968, as reported in Martin Walker's book The National Front ( p 77 ).

One flyer in particular celebrated Valerie Solanas ' 1968 shooting of Andy Warhol and included a hit-list of: Yoko Ono, Mick Jagger, Bob Dylan, Richard Hamilton, Mario Amaya ( who was also shot by Solanas ), David Hockney, Mary Quant, Twiggy, Marianne Faithfull, and IT editor Barry Miles.

Warhol significantly reduced his public accessibility after being shot by Valerie Solanas in 1968.

******* Valerie Gfin Stauffenberg ( born 04. Jun. 1968 ) ∞ Marcus v. Mauchenheim gen. Bechtolsheim ( born 31. Oct. 1958 )

He was married again in 1966 to actress Valerie Allen, but they divorced in 1968.

In 1968, Fugate-Wilcox and his wife Valerie Shakespeare moved to New York City, when Conceptual Art was at its peak.

La Hora de los hornos ( The Hour of the Furnaces, from 1968 ), directed by Octavio Getino and Fernando E. Solanas, influenced a whole generation of filmmakers.

Convinced that Girodias and Warhol were conspiring to steal her work, Solanas purchased a gun in the spring of 1968.

Argentine film-makers and founders of ' Grupo Cine Liberacion ', Fernando Solanas and Octavio Getino, were influenced by Fanon's theories and used quotations from his work in their film La Hora de los hornos ( 1968 ).

According to Sharon Jansen, there are subtle differences between the 1968 Olympia Press edition and Solanas ' original mimeographed version.

He quotes, in his essay " Death of the Author " ( 1968 ), that " it is language which speaks, not the author ".

* 1968 – Rachael Ray, American chef, author, and television host

* 1897 – Enid Blyton, English author ( d. 1968 )

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

* 1968 – Howard Tayler, American cartoonist & author

Helen Adams Keller ( June 27, 1880 – June 1, 1968 ) was an American author, political activist, and lecturer.

* 1968 – Helen Keller, American author, activist, and lecturer ( b. 1880 )

* 1968 – Jim Norton, American comedian, actor, and author

* Katariina Souri ( born 1968 ), Finnish author, artist, columnist, and a Playboy Playmate of the Month

* 1968 – Kelley Armstrong, Canadian author

* 1968 – Felice Arena, Australian author

* 1884 – Bernard Cronin, Australian author and journalist ( d. 1968 )

* 1895 – Vardis Fisher, American author ( d. 1968 )

* 1968 – Brett Salisbury, American football player and author

* 1907 – Gunnar Ekelöf, Swedish poet and author ( d. 1968 )

* 1968 – Monica Crowley, American talk show host and author

The fantasy novel The Folk of the Air by Peter S. Beagle was written after the author attended a few early SCA events circa 1968 ; but he has repeatedly stated that he then studiously avoided any contact with the actual SCA itself for almost two decades, so that his description of a fictitious " League for Archaic Pleasures " would not be " contaminated " by contact with the actual real-life organization.

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

* May 27 – Max Brod, Austrian author ( d. 1968 )

* December 5 – Rose Wilder Lane, American author ( d. 1968 )

Charles R. Jackson, author of The Lost Weekend, committed suicide in his room on September 21, 1968.

He also appeared in other films such as the Ealing comedy The Lavender Hill Mob ( 1951 ) and the 1981 PBS production of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and he had a small role in the musical Chitty Chitty Bang Bang ( 1968 ) which was itself based on a children's book by Bond author Ian Fleming.

Even Lennon's seemingly direct engagement with the tumultuous political issues of 1968 in " Revolution 1 " carried a nuanced obliqueness, and ended up sending messages the author may not have intended.

The report's author, Lord Robbins, was later appointed the University's first Chancellor in 1968.