* 1898 – Peter Mohr Dam, Faroese politician, 3rd Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands ( d. 1968 )

Members of the 3rd Marine Division ( United States ) | 3rd Marine Division complete construction of M101 105 mm howitzer positions at a mountain-top fire support base, Vietnam, 1968

His command positions included: commanding officer of a platoon and two rifle companies during two tours of duty in Vietnam ; commanding officer of Special Training Branch and Recruit Series at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego, California ( 1966 – 1968 ); commanding officer of Counter-Guerilla Warfare School, Northern Training Area on Okinawa ( 1970 ), Company officer at the United States Naval Academy ( 1970 – 1973 ); commanding officer of the Marine Barracks at Naval Air Station North Island, California ( 1973 – 1976 ), and commanding officer, 3rd Battalion 3rd Marines ( 1983 – 1985 ).

* 1968 – Peter Mohr Dam, Faroese politician, 3rd Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands ( b. 1898 )

* Schiff, L. I., Quantum Mechanics, 3rd edition ( McGraw-Hill, 1968 )

* 1968 Mr America-AAU, Most Muscular, 3rd

* 1968 Mr America-AAU, 3rd

* 1968 Junior Mr America-AAU, 3rd

Barthold " Turkestan Down to the Mongol Invasion " ( London ) 1968 ( 3rd Edition )

* 1968: 17th International Stoke Mandeville Games, Tel Aviv, Israel – later known as the 3rd Paralympic Games

* James Alexander Smith VC ( 1881 – 1968 )-Workington born soldier of the 3rd Battalion, Border Regiment during World War I.

Larsen shared 2nd – 3rd places at Palma de Mallorca 1968 with 13 / 17, along with Spassky ; Viktor Korchnoi won.

* Sky Blue Pink ( 3rd January 1968 )

Probably it's most notable home-bred footballers are definitely Dragan Džajić ( retired ), officially the best player in the history of Serbia ( the choice of the Football Association on the 50th anniversary of UEFA, known as the Golden Player ), who achieved the 3rd place at the election for the European Footballer of the Year in 1968, and is part, next to players like Zidane, Van Basten and Beckenbauer, of " the greatest European Championship XI of all time ", elected by Goal. com.

More damaging was the impact of the 1961 abolition of the maximum wage ; nonetheless they managed to retain their First Division place throughout the decade finishing 3rd in 1966 and reaching the semi-final of the League Cup in 1968 – 69.

The 24th remained in Germany, specifically Augsburg, Munich until September 1968, when it redeployed its 1st and 2nd Brigades to Fort Riley, Kansas, as part of Exercise REFORGER while the division's 3rd Brigade was maintained in Germany.

* Robert Wood Johnson II ( 1893 – 1968 ), 3rd president of Johnson & Johnson

* Robert Arthur Lytton Balfour, 3rd Earl of Balfour ( 1902 – 1968 )

Knowing he could reach the last rounds of the French tournament and then be too tired to play well at Wimbledon ( as had happened in 1968 and 1969, when he lost in the 4th and 3rd rounds respectively ), Rosewall decided not to play Roland Garros any more in the seventies in order to be in optimal condition for Wimbledon.

* European Championship: 3rd place 1968

* Jonathan David Morris, 3rd Baron Morris of Kenwood ( b. 1968 )

* The memorial complex " The Flower of Life " (« Цветок жизни »), at the 3rd km of the Road of Life, consists of a monument, erected in 1968, by the architects A. D. Levyenkov and P. I. Melnikov, and eight tablets ( representing pages from the diary of the Leningrad schoolgirl Tanya Savicheva ), erected in 1975 by the architects A. D. Levyenkov and G. G. Fetisov, and the engineer M. V. Koman.

During World II the winter games were canceled but after that time the Winter Games have been held in St. Moritz ( 1948 ), Innsbruck, Austria ( 1964 and 1976 ), Grenoble, France, ( 1968 ), Albertville, France, ( 1992 ), and Torino, Italy, ( 2006 ).

An arcology is also depicted in the 1968 futuristic novel " The World Inside ", by Robert Silverberg, where in the year 2381 the human race lives in 1000-storey-high towers, providing everything necessary to the society ( nutrition, energy, entertainment, jobs, etc .).

This was started by Roy Noble, who built the guitar played by Clarence White from 1968 to 1972, and was followed by Bill Collings, Marty Lanham, Dana Bourgeois, Randy Lucas, Lynn Dudenbostel and Wayne Henderson, a few of the luthiers building guitars today inspired by vintage Martins, the pre – World War II models in particular.

In 1968, after Martin Luther King Jr .' s death, Alston was asked to create another mural for the hospital to be placed in a pavilion named after the assassinated civil rights leader titled Man Emerging from the Darkness of Poverty and Ignorance into the Light of a Better World ".

In The Eternal Adam and the New World Garden, written in 1968, David Noble argued that the Adam figure had been " the central myth in the American novel since 1830 ".

The Tigers have won four World Series championships ( 1935, 1945, 1968, and 1984 ) and have won the American League pennant 10 times ( 1907, 1908, 1909, 1934, 1935, 1940, 1945, 1968, 1984, and 2006 ).

The only other known case of triple Leap Day babies is a family in Norway, which logged Feb. 29 births in 1960, 1964 and 1968, according to the Guinness World Records press office.

As World Bank President Robert McNamara declared at the 1968 Annual Meeting of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank Group that countries permitting birth control practices will get preferential access to resources, doctors in La Paz, Bolivia, called it insulting that money should be exchanged for the conscience of a Catholic nation.

In November 1967, James Brown purchased radio station WGYW in Knoxville, Tennessee for a reported $ 75, 000, according to the January 20, 1968 Record World magazine.

Keynesian economics advocates a mixed economy — predominantly private sector, but with a significant role of government and public sector – and served as the economic model during the later part of the Great Depression, World War II, and the post-war economic expansion ( 1945 – 1973 ), though it lost some influence following the tax surcharge in 1968 and the stagflation of the 1970s.

In 1968, Marvin also appeared in another Boorman film, the critically acclaimed but commercially unsuccessful World War II character study Hell in the Pacific, also starring famed Japanese actor Toshirō Mifune.

Mohamed Mohamed el-Amir Awad el-Sayed Atta (, ) < span dir =" ltr ">( September 1, 1968 – September 11, 2001 )</ span > was an Egyptian hijacker and one of the ringleaders of the September 11 attacks who served as the hijacker-pilot of American Airlines Flight 11, crashing the plane into the North Tower of the World Trade Center as part of the coordinated attacks.

From 1936 to 1968, Mobil sponsored an economy run each year ( except during World War II ) in which domestic automobiles of various manufacturers in several price and size classes were driven by light-footed drivers on cross-country runs.

In 1968, the World Health Organization found that polluted water led to 17 % of all Nicaraguan deaths.

The Jets advanced to the playoffs for the first time in 1968 and went on to compete in Super Bowl III where they defeated the Baltimore Colts, becoming the first AFL team to defeat an NFL club in an AFL-NFL World Championship Game.

As a vintage rally car, on January 29, 2012 Hayden Burvill, Alastair Caldwell, and their # 35 1968 Porsche 912 finished first in class, and 7th overall in the 2012 London to Cape Town World Cup Rally ; a 14 country, three continent, 14, 000 kilometre, 26 driving-days event.

Milligan's next major TV venture was the sketch comedy series The World of Beachcomber ( 1968 ), made in colour for BBC 2 ; however, it is believed all 19 episodes are now lost.

* The World Of Beachcomber ( 1968 )

The Second AFL-NFL World Championship Game in professional American football, later known as Super Bowl II, was played on January 14, 1968 at the Orange Bowl in Miami, Florida.

* How to Steal the World ( 1968 )

Guinness Book of World Records ( 1968 ) listed it as the greatest attendance at a concert in the Southern Hemisphere.

By the 1960s, tracks of 333. 3m length were commonly used for international competitions ( eg: the Agustín Melgar Olympic Velodrome used for track cycling events at the 1968 Summer Olympics, and Leicester's Saffron Lane velodrome used at the 1970 and 1982 Track Cycling World Championships ).

* October 10 – the Detroit Tigers win the 1968 World Series, defeating the St. Louis Cardinals 4 games to 3.