* 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 )

In 1968, June Whitfield and Terry Scott began their long television partnership which peaked with roles as husband and wife in Happy Ever After ( 1974 – 78 ) and Terry and June ( 1979 – 87 ).

The year after Beggar My Neighbour finished in 1968, Whitfield appeared on Scott On ... for six years until 1974.

Some musicians changed their sound completely to co-opt that of Sly and the Family Stone, most notably Motown in-house producer Norman Whitfield, who took his main act The Temptations into " psychedelic soul " territory starting with the Grammy-winning " Cloud Nine " in 1968 .< ref name = temptations >

In 1968, Ballantine published the first non-fiction book related to Star Trek, The Making of Star Trek by Stephen E. Whitfield and Gene Roddenberry.

He shares lead vocal duty on other records, including " You're My Everything " ( 1967 ) ( shared with David Ruffin ), and a long string of Norman Whitfield produced psychedelic soul records where all five Temptations sang lead, such as the Grammy winner " Cloud Nine " ( 1968 ), " I Can't Get Next to You " ( 1969 ), and " Ball of Confusion " ( 1970 ).

" I Heard It Through the Grapevine " is a song written by Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong for Motown Records in 1966, and made famous in a version by Marvin Gaye released as a single in October 1968 on Motown's Tamla label.

In September 1968, Whitfield added " Grapevine " to Gaye's new album In the Groove.

After Temptations lead singer David Ruffin was replaced with Dennis Edwards in 1968, Whitfield moved the group into a harder, darker sound that featured a blend of psychedelic rock and funk heavily inspired by the work of Sly & the Family Stone and Funkadelic and also began changing the subject matter of the songs, moving away from love songs to the social issues of the time, such as war, poverty and politics.

Also important were the Temptations and their producer Norman Whitfield, who moved from a relatively light vocal group into much more serious material with " Cloud Nine " ( 1968 ), " Runaway Child, Running Wild " ( 1969 ) and " Psychedelic Shack " ( 1969 ).

Three years later, Motown artist Marvin Gaye recorded a cover version of " Too Busy Thinking About My Baby " as a follow-up single to his 1968 hit " I Heard It Through the Grapevine ", another Whitfield / Strong composition.

Terry Scott and June Whitfield began their television partnership in Scott On in 1968.

Designed by William Whitfield, the present library was constructed in 1968, and extended in the 1980s and 1990s.

* Crane Brinton ( 1898 – 1968 ), American historian

In 1968, during the run of Hogan's Heroes, Crane and series costars Werner Klemperer, Leon Askin, and John Banner appeared, with Elke Sommer, in a feature film called The Wicked Dreams of Paula Schultz.

The duo split in 1968, with Crane and Kinsley both going on to front a number of other bands.

Obstetric ultrasonography was first practiced in the 1960s ; the first home test kit for hCG was invented in 1968 by Margaret ( Meg ) Crane in New York.

He played a bumbling East German official in the 1968 American comedy film The Wicked Dreams of Paula Schultz, directed by George Marshall and starring Elke Sommer and several of his costars from Hogan's Heroes, including Bob Crane.

At the time of his announcement, Crane expressed doubts that Reagan would run again ( after two failed attempts for the nomination in 1968 and 1976 ), and intimated that, should Reagan run, he would likely drop out.

As with the 1968 pilot, the wheels had celebrities on them, each one representing a category ( Bob Crane, Jaye P. Morgan, former California governor Edmund G. Brown, Marc Copage, and Don Drysdale ).

The church had three divinity schools: Theological School of St. Lawrence University ( 1856 – 1965 ), the Ryder Divinity School ( c. 1885 – 1913 ) at Lombard College, and the Crane Theological School of Tufts University ( 1869 – 1968 ).

* Legend for soprano, piano and orchestra ( T: Hart Crane ) op. 82 ( 1968 )