Several team members decamped and set up Data General in May 1968, and rapidly brought the 16-bit NOVA minicomputer to market.

The first American taiko group, San Francisco Taiko Dojo, was formed in 1968 by Seiichi Tanaka, a postwar immigrant who studied taiko in Japan and brought the styles and teachings to America.

From 1964 to 1968, the Carnegie Foundation funded Wedemeyer's Articulated Instructional Media Project ( AIM ) which brought in a variety of communications technologies aimed at providing learning to an off-campus population.

Some of this reputation was founded on the core of talent brought together for the filming of 2001: A Space Odyssey ( 1968 ) who subsequently worked together on series and feature films for Gerry Anderson.

The Portuguese Governor and Commander in Chief from 1968 to 1973, General António de Spínola, returned to Portugal and led the movement which brought democracy to Portugal and independence for its colonies.

A leading member of the revolutionary Arab Socialist Ba ' ath Party, and later, the Baghdad-based Ba ' ath Party and its regional organisation Ba ' ath Party – Iraq Region, which espoused ba ' athism, a mix of Arab nationalism and Arab socialism, Saddam played a key role in the 1968 coup, later referred to as the 17 July Revolution, that brought the party to long-term power of Iraq.

These achievements were mainly brought about by several increases in social welfare benefits, such as supplementary benefit, pensions and family allowances, the latter of which were doubled between 1964 and 1970 ( although most of the increase in family allowances did not come about until 1968 ).

As of 2006, the repertoires of U. S. bands tends to have a great overlap, due to the common source of the Zimbabwean musician Dumisani Maraire, who was the key person who first brought Zimbawean music to the West, coming to the University of Washington in 1968.

It was on one of his return visits to the UK in 1968 that he also brought back the late Tony Hancock's ashes to the UK in an Air France bag-“ My session with the Customs was a Hancock Half Hour in itself.

The war was finally brought to a close with Joe Bonanno, still in hiding, suffering a heart attack and announcing his permanent retirement in 1968.

According to Ervin Polster ( 1968 ), a pre-eminent Gestalt therapist, " Rank brought the human relationship directly into his office.

The time after 1968 brought many adult comic books, something previously not seen before.

* Catherine Tate ( b. 1968 ), actress and comedienne, was brought up in the Brunswick Centre, close to Russell Square.

Internationally, works such as Giuseppe Berto's Il male oscuro ( 1964 ), Albert Cohen's Belle du Seigneur ( 1968 ), and Julio Cortázar's Rayuela ( Hopscotch ) ( 1963 ) brought this narrative technique to new audiences.

New trumpeters Lew Soloff and Chuck Winfield brought the band up to nine total members and the new lineup of the band debuted at the Cafe Au Go Go on June 18, 1968, at the beginning of a two week residency.

Duke Davis was briefly brought in to replace Galindo, before the band's earlier bassist Ronnie Leatherman returned during the Summer of 1968.

He was later part of the 1968 military coup that brought Marien Ngouabi to power and was a founding member of the Congolese Labour Party ( Parti Congolais du Travail, PCT ) in December 1969.

Student unrest and questions of discrimination against ethnic Flemish brought down the Belgian government in February 1968.

Student unrest and questions of discrimination against ethnic Flemish brought down the Belgian government in February 1968.

1968 brought two albums, the Mann-Hugg soundtrack to the film Up the Junction in February and Mighty Garvey!

BMG brought back the lightning bolt logo that was last used in 1968 to make clear that RCA Records was no longer co-owned with the other RCA entities which GE sold or closed.

Stanley Kubrick ’ s 2001: A Space Odyssey ( 1968 ) brought new realism to the genre, with its groundbreaking visual effects and realistic portrayal of space travel and influenced the genre with its epic story and transcendent philosophical scope.

During the September 2008 discussion between the Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek and Bernard-Henri Lévy on the issues surrounding the historical and social significance of May 1968 in France, Žižek brought up Underground and Kusturica to Lévy by saying: " Let me find another point of contact with you.

Von Däniken brought the Nazca Lines to public prominence with his 1968 book Chariots of the Gods ?, attracting so many tourists that researcher Maria Reiche had to spend much of her own time and money preserving them.

# The Anglican Consultative Council ( first met in 1971 ) was created by a 1968 Lambeth Conference resolution, and meets usually at three year intervals.

The first manned flight of Apollo was in 1968 and it succeeded in landing the first humans on Earth's Moon in 1969 through 1972.

* 1968 – James Anderson, Jr. posthumously receives the first Medal of Honor to be awarded to an African American U. S. Marine.

In 1968, he captained the Manchester United team that won the European Cup, scoring two goals in the final to help his team be the first English side to win the competition.

Many changes followed: the first full-time in house designer and publications officer were appointed in 1964, A Friends organization was set up in 1968, an Education Service established in 1970 and publishing house in 1973.

The Brezhnev Doctrine (, ) was a Soviet Union foreign policy, first and most clearly outlined by S. Kovalev in a September 26, 1968 Pravda article, entitled " Sovereignty and the International Obligations of Socialist Countries.

The members of the group met as mostly freshmen at Tuskegee Institute ( now Tuskegee University ) in 1968, and signed with Motown in November 1972, having first caught the public eye opening for The Jackson 5 while on tour.

John Sladek used the concept to humorous ends in his first novel The Reproductive System ( 1968, also titled Mechasm in some markets ), where a U. S. military research project goes out of control.

SLON's first film was about a strike at a Rhodiacéta factory in France, À bientôt, j ' espère ( Rhodiacéta ) in 1968.

The film is divided into two parts: the first half focuses on the hopes and idealism before May 1968, and the second half on the disillusion and disappointments since those events.

In 1968, Sarandon moved to New York, where he landed his first television role as Dr. Tom Halverson on The Guiding Light ( 1969 – 1973 ).

Sorrow ( released in December 1968 ) by British group the Pretty Things is generally considered to be among the first creatively successful rock concept albums-in that each song is part of an overarching unified concept – the life story of the main character, Sebastian Sorrow.

* Shirley Chisholm ( 1946 ), first African-American U. S. Congresswoman, 1968 – 1982.

* Canopus ( nuclear test ) was the name given to the first test of the French hydrogen bomb, in 1968, with a yield of 2. 8 megatons

One of the first prominent countercult apologists was Jan Karel van Baalen ( 1890 – 1968 ), an ordained minister in the Christian Reformed Church in North America.

They were first detected in the June 8, 1968 flare observation during a rocket flight.

When Earnhardt was 17, he married his first wife, Latane Brown, in 1968.

In 1968, just before he published the first volume, Knuth accepted a job working on problems for the National Security Agency ( NSA ) through their FFRDC the Institute for Defense Analyses ( IDA ) Communications Research Division situated at the time on the Princeton campus in the Von Neumann building as stated in his cumulae vitae.

" The first episode of The Doris Day Show aired on September 24, 1968, and, from 1968 to 1973, employed " Que Sera, Sera " as its theme song.

* 1968 – Apollo Program: The crew of Apollo 8 enters into orbit around the Moon, becoming the first humans to do so.

* 1968 – Apollo Program: Apollo 8 splashes down in the Pacific Ocean, ending the first orbital manned mission to the Moon.

Dubnium was reportedly first discovered in 1968 at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research at Dubna ( then in the Soviet Union ).

* 1968: Peugeot introduced the first 204 small cars with a transversally mounted diesel engine and front-wheel drive.