Hot Wheels is a brand of 1: 64 scale ( and later 1: 43 scale ) die cast toy car, introduced by American toymaker Mattel in 1968.

In 1968, Hot Wheels were introduced in the United States by Mattel, to address the complaint that they had no line of toys for boys to balance their line of Barbie dolls for girls.

Tog ' l was a construction set produced by Mattel from 1968 through 1970, similar in concept to Lego.

Lennon and Bardot met in person once, in 1968 at the Mayfair Hotel, introduced by Beatles press agent Derek Taylor ; a nervous Lennon took LSD before arriving, and neither star impressed the other.

Douglas Engelbart introduced the chorded keyset as a computer interface in 1968 at what is often called " The Mother of All Demos ".

In a famous 1968 demonstration, Engelbart introduced a computer human interface that included the QWERTY keyboard, a three button mouse computer mouse, and a five key keyset.

When the Flip Chip packaging allowed the PDP-6 to be re-implemented at a much lower cost, DEC took the opportunity to carry out a similar evolution of their 36-bit design and introduced the PDP-10 in 1968.

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

Category: Fictional characters introduced in 1968

Relatively small modifications were introduced in the Firearms Act, 1964, the Firearms ( Proofing ) Act, 1968, the Firearms Act, 1971, the Firearms and Offensive Weapons Act, 1990, the Firearms ( Temporary Provisions ) Act, 1998 and the Firearms ( Firearm Certificates For Non-Residents ) Act, 2000.

The iconic Holden Monaro coupé, introduced in 1968 and based on the mainstream Holden Kingswood | Kingswood, has since gained a cult following.

Hewlett Packard ( HP ) introduced LEDs in 1968, initially using GaAsP supplied by Monsanto.

When Volkswagen introduced a sliding side door on their van in 1968, it then had all the features that would later come to define a minivan: compact length, three rows of forward-facing seats, station wagon-style top-hinged tailgate / liftgate, sliding side door, passenger car base.

* 1968 – The Motion Picture Association of America's film rating system is officially introduced, originating with the ratings G, M, R, and X.

One year later, they started to wear black pants with their white jerseys, a move influenced by coach Hank Stram, who introduced red pants to the Kansas City Chiefs ' uniforms in 1968.

This convention was introduced by Thomsen ( 1893 ), and followed by Gabain ( 1941 ), Malov ( 1951 ) and Tekin ( 1968 ).

The 1968 – 1975 government of Juan Velasco Alvarado introduced radical reforms, which included agrarian reform, the expropriation of foreign companies, the introduction of an economic planning system, and the creation of a large state-owned sector.

The original PDP-10 processor was the KA10, introduced in 1968.

A definition of pain widely employed in nursing, emphasizing its subjective nature and the importance of believing patient reports, was introduced by Margo McCaffery in 1968: " Pain is whatever the experiencing person says it is, existing whenever he says it does ".

Quarks were introduced as parts of an ordering scheme for hadrons, and there was little evidence for their physical existence until deep inelastic scattering experiments at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center in 1968.

Dijkstra wrote his seminal paper, " Go To Statement Considered Harmful ", in 1968 and David Parnas introduced the key concept of modularity and information hiding in 1972 to help programmers deal with the ever increasing complexity of software systems.

In 1968, Puma SE introduced the first pair of sneakers with Velcro straps in lieu of shoelaces, and these became popular by the 1980s, especially among children and the elderly.

The sonic screwdriver was first introduced in 1968, and was used regularly throughout the Second Doctor's tenure.

In April 1968, The New York Times — using Telfer as a main source — introduced the XYY genetic condition to the general public in a three-part series on consecutive days that began with a Sunday front-page story about the planned use of the condition as a mitigating factor in two murder trials in Paris and Melbourne — and falsely reported that Richard Speck was an XYY male and that the condition would be used in an appeal of his murder conviction.

The work was premiered in May 1968 with the singer Amelita Baltar and introduced a new style of tango, the tango song.

L-systems were introduced and developed in 1968 by the Hungarian theoretical biologist and botanist from the University of Utrecht, Aristid Lindenmayer ( 1925 – 1989 ).

The German word " Kinder " in the name came about because in 1967, Ferrero's German subsidiary introduced Kinder Chocolate (" Kinderschokolade ") to the German market, and in 1968 that product was introduced to Ferrero's native Italy, establishing the " Kinder " brand there, prior to the introduction of the Kinder Sorpresa chocolate eggs.

Curtis ' comedies include Some Like It Hot ( 1959 ), Sex and the Single Girl ( 1964 ) and The Great Race ( 1965 ), and his dramas included playing the slave Antoninus in Stanley Kubrick's Spartacus ( 1960 ) co-starring Kirk Douglas and Laurence Olivier, The Outsider ( 1961 ), the true story of WW II veteran Ira Hayes, and The Boston Strangler ( 1968 ), in which he played the self-confessed murderer of the film's title, Albert DeSalvo.

It reached reaching a peak of No. 14 on the Billboard Hot 100, and No. 13 on the Cash Box Top 100 Singles Chart in June 1968 ,.

* Hot Line ( 1968 )

Hot Dog is Jughead's dog, though when he first appeared in Pep Comics # 224 ( December, 1968 ), he belonged to Archie.

In the US, " Nights in White Satin " did not make the Billboard Hot 100 in 1968 ( although it would reach No. 2 on re-release in 1972 ); " Tuesday Afternoon " however was more successful on initial release Stateside, peaking at No. 24 on the Billboard Hot 100.

In October 1968, Gaye's recording of " I Heard It Through the Grapevine ", which became Gaye's first to reach number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and also reached the top of the charts in other countries, selling well over a million copies.

" Hey Jude " was the top Billboard Hot 100 single for 1968, according to year-end charts.

) ( 1962 ), playing sadistic Lieutenant Scott-Padget, co-starring Sir Alec Guinness ; I Could Go On Singing ( 1963 ), co-starring Judy Garland in her final screen role ; Hot Enough for June, ( aka " Agent 8¾ ") ( 1964 ), a James Bond-type spy spoof co-starring Robert Morley ; Modesty Blaise ( 1966 ), a campy spy send-up playing archvillain Gabriel opposite Monica Vitti and Terence Stamp and directed by Joseph Losey ; The Fixer ( 1968 ), based on Bernard Malamud's novel, co-starring Alan Bates ; Sebastian ( 1968 ), as Sebastian, a mathematician working on code decryption, who falls in love with Susannah York, a decrypter in the all-female decoding office he heads for British Intelligence, also co-starring Sir John Gielgud, and Lilli Palmer, co-produced by Michael Powell ; Oh!

The 1967 musical Hair generated the same-named 1968 album, whose cuts include " Aquarius " and " Let The Sunshine In ", " Hair ", " Good Morning Starshine ", " Easy To Be Hard " ( covered, chronologically and respectively, by The 5th Dimension at # 1, The Cowsills at # 2, Oliver at # 3, Three Dog Night at # 4, on the Hot 100 in 1969 ), and others, and a London Cast album released in April 1969.

Upon its February 1968 release, " Dance to the Music " became a widespread ground-breaking hit, and was the band's first charting single, reaching # 8 on the Billboard Hot 100.

He also worked on several films as writer and occasionally director, including The Way Ahead ( 1944 ), School for Secrets ( 1946 ), Hot Millions ( 1968 ) and Memed, My Hawk ( 1984 ).

* Hot Millions ( 1968 )

Written by Dennis Edmonton, who had begun using the pen name Mars Bonfire, the song had already reached No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 in August 1968.

The track spent four weeks as the # 1 pop song on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and was fourth in the Billboard year-end chart of 1967 and earned her Grammy awards for Best New Artist and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance in 1968.

In 1968 Rogers licensed his name to the Marriot corporation, which converted its Hot Shoppes locations to Roy Rogers Restaurants, with which Rogers otherwise had no involvement.

In 1968, " The Weight " peaked at # 63 on Billboards Hot 100 singles chart in the US.

The album's first single, " Fire ," was a global success, reaching # 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 in North America in October 1968, # 1 in the UK in August 1968, and # 19 in Australia in October 1968.

It Ain't Half Hot Mum is the second of the two sitcom series co-written by Perry and Croft set in the Second World War, the first being Dad's Army ( 1968 – 1977 ).

Hicks eventually left the group in 1968 to form his own band, Dan Hicks and his Hot Licks and Gogerty was subsequently fired from the band.

Not intended for official release, these songs were later compiled on a number of records and released under the alias Electric Banana: Electric Banana ( 1967 ), More Electric Banana ( 1968 ), Even More Electric Banana ( 1969 ), Hot Licks ( 1970 ), and Return of the Electric Banana ( 1978 ).

* Hot Millions ( 1968 ) ( Caesar Smith )