* 1968 – A revolution occurs in Iraq when Abdul Rahman Arif is overthrown and the Ba ' ath Party is installed as the governing power in Iraq with Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr as the new Iraqi President.

* 1968 – Glenville Shootout: in Cleveland, Ohio, a violent shootout between a Black Militant organization led by Ahmed Evans and the Cleveland Police Department occurs.

In 1968, Saddam participated in a bloodless coup led by Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr that overthrew Abdul Rahman Arif.

* Ahmed Zaki ( 11 November 1968 – 6 March 1975 ).

Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr ( Arabic أحمد حسن البكر ; 1 July 1914 – 4 October 1982 ) was the fourth President of Iraq, serving in this capacity from 17 July 1968 until 16 July 1979.

On July 17, 1968, while Arif was sleeping, his own assistants along with members of the Ba ' ath Party, Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr, overthrew him in a bloodless coup.

** Ahmed bin Zayed Al Nahyan ( 1968 – 2010 )

Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr, President and Prime Minister of Iraq from 1968 to 1979, also held the position of Chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council.

* After the coup by Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr on July 17, 1968

In July 1968 the Ba ' ath Party, supported by the army, overthrew the Arif government and assumed control of Iraq, returning Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr back to power.

Ijaz Ahmed ( Urdu: اعجاز احمد ) ( born 20 September 1968 in Sialkot ) was a Pakistani cricketer who played 60 Tests and 250 One Day Internationals for Pakistan over a period from 1986 to 2001.

Between 1965 and 1968, Ahmed also served as Somalia's military attaché to Moscow.

* Shafie Ahmed el Sheikh ( b. 1924 – d. 1971 ) ( 1968 – 69 )

On July 16, 1979, Ahmed Hassan al Bakr, who had ruled Iraq following a coup in 1968, stepped down from power and appointed his cousin Saddam Hussein, a strongly anti-Shiite Sunni, to be his successor and the Syrian government officially closed it's embassy in Baghdad soon afterwards.

Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi (, ; born 1968 ), known by the Central Intelligence Agency cryptonym " Curveball ", is an Iraqi citizen who defected from Iraq in 1999, claiming that he had worked as a chemical engineer at a plant that manufactured mobile biological weapon laboratories as part of an Iraqi weapons of mass destruction program.

Samira Ahmed ( born 1968, London ) is a British freelance journalist, writer and broadcaster at the BBC, where she has presented Radio 4's PM, The World Tonight and Sunday.

The PFLP was led by former ANM-leader George Habash, but in April 1968 Jibril split from this group to form the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command ( PFLP-GC ), which returned to the strongly pro-Syrian position of the former PLF.

Playing acoustic guitar, she formed a group with Bowie and bassist John Hutchinson ; between September 1968 and early 1969, when Bowie and Farthingale broke up, the trio gave a small number of concerts combining folk, Merseybeat, poetry and mime.

Both the Jaguars and the Panthers ( 7 – 9 ) broke the previous record for most wins by an expansion team ( 3 ) set by the Cincinnati Bengals in 1968.

In February 1968, Ensslin broke up with Vesper by phone, informing him that the relationship was already finished before Felix was born.

They were engaged when she left him in 1968 for actor Marcello Mastroianni, her co-star in A Place for Lovers ; she and Mastroianni broke up in 1970.

Jim Hines officially broke 10 seconds at altitude in 1968 with a wind legal 9. 95 which stood as the world record for almost 15 years.

In 1968, Larry intentionally broke his own hands due to pressure over his musical studies.

* Held record for most goals in one NHL season by a defenceman from 1968 to 1986 ( 21, in 1967 – 68, 37 in 1970 – 71, broke own record in 1974 – 75 with 46 ; broken in 1985 – 86 by Paul Coffey with 48 )

Because of Hoxha's dogmatic Stalinist adherence, Albania broke with the Soviet Union in 1960 and formally left the Warsaw Pact in 1968 following the Soviet de-stalinization.

After the assassination of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., on April 4, 1968, riots broke out in the District, primarily in the U Street, 14th Street, 7th Street, and H Street corridors, centers of black residential and commercial areas.

Bexley Hall remained affiliated with Kenyon College until 1968, when it broke ties with Kenyon and relocated to Rochester, New York, forming a new association with the Baptist seminary Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School.

In May 1968 Oklahoma Gas and Electric Corporation broke ground for the Seminole Power Plant, creating the 1, 350-acre Konawa Lake at a cost of $ 45 million.

On February 8, 1968, after days of protests against a segregated bowling alley, violence broke out near the bowling alley between police and Black students from South Carolina State.

The state and party apparatus broke down and in 1968, Chairman Liu Shaoqi was arrested and humiliated by the Red Guards.

The psychedelic rock band Cream played two farewell concerts at the Hall on 26 November 1968 before they broke up.

Then, in 1968, Rand publicly broke with Branden and published an article denouncing him and accusing him of a variety of perceived offenses, such as philosophic irrationality and unresolved psychological problems.

A novel by Cherkaoui, serialised in 1952, formed the basis of The Earth ( 1968 ), noted particularly for its image of the peasant farmer – " eternal ‘ damned of the earth ’" – which broke with " the ridiculous image the cinema had ( hitherto ) given him " ( Khaled Osman ).

The Viet Cong, or National Liberation Front ( NLF ) broke the agreement and launched an attack campaign that began during the early morning hours of 30 January 1968, on Tết Nguyên Đán.

In addition to Thames ' departure from the network as franchise owners, it could also be argued that an equally significant part of the changeover was the fact that its replacement, Carlton Communications, broke away from the traditions of the 1968 and 1982 franchise rounds, in not acquiring and taking-over the bulk of its predecessors ' studios, facilities, work-force and infrastructure.

In April 1968, one month after the release of the Kerner report, rioting broke out in more than 100 cities following the assassination of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.

That year he also tied a post-1900 record by leading the league in double plays ( 134 ) for the fourth time, equaling McCormick and Kluszewski ; Clendenon eventually broke the record in 1968.

On November 12, 1969, Hersh broke the story of the My Lai Massacre, in which hundreds of unarmed Vietnamese civilians were murdered by US soldiers in March 1968.

In May 1968 widespread student riots and strikes broke out in France.

Rice ’ s 20 points in the period broke Philadelphia guard Hal Greer ’ s record ( 19 ), set in 1968.

In December 1965, Smith became the pastor of a 25-person congregation and in 1968 broke away from the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel in Santa Ana, California.