In 1968, UBBTS became a Bible and junior Christian liberal arts college, and in 1970 the name was changed to Atlantic Baptist College ( ABC ).

In 1897, the shoal became a French possession, later being placed under the administration of a commissioner residing in Réunion in 1968.

The prize was originally known as the Booker-McConnell Prize, after the company Booker-McConnell began sponsoring the event in 1968 ; it became commonly known as the " Booker Prize " or simply " the Booker.

In 1968, the split became formalized with the establishment of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College.

When he finished college in 1968, Sappenfield became the Parks and Recreation Supervisor for Conejo Recreation and Park District in Thousand Oaks, California.

Upon her husband's death on April 20, 1968, Day learned that he had committed her to a television series, which became The Doris Day Show.

In 1968, the International Convention of Christian Churches ( Disciples of Christ ) adopted the Commission's proposed “ Provisional Design of the Christian Church ( Disciples of Christ ).” Soon the Provisional Design became “ The Design .”

Equatorial Guinea became officially independent from Spain on October 12, 1968.

It became the 126th UN member on November 12, 1968.

The Guiana Space Centre was built and became operational in 1968.

When the art academy in Amsterdam became part of the higher professional education system in 1968 and was given the status of an Academy for Fine Arts and Design, the name was changed to the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in honour of Rietveld.

In 1968, the company became a corporation.

In 1968 Dancer's Image became the first ( and to this day the only ) horse to win the race and then be disqualified after traces of phenylbutazone, an analgesic and anti-inflammatory drug, were found in the horse's urinalysis ; Forward Pass won after a protracted legal battle by the owners of Dancer's Image ( which they lost ).

The rivalry between the clubs intensified during the 1960s, after Manchester United became the first English team to win the European Cup in 1968, an achievement surpassed by Liverpool's four European Cup victories in the 1970s and 1980s.

Ibrahim Nasir, Prime Minister under the pre-1968 sultanate, became President and held office from 1968 to 1978.

Mauritius was successively colonized by the Dutch, the French and the British, and became independent in 1968.

Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam, MLP leader and chief minister in the colonial government, became the first prime minister after independence, on 12 March 1968.

Mauritius became an independent state on 12 March 1968, with Elizabeth II as Queen of Mauritius, represented as head of state the Governor-General.

In 1968, Manchester United became the first English ( and second British ) club to win the European Cup, beating Benfica 4 – 1 in the final with a team that contained three European Footballers of the Year: Bobby Charlton, Denis Law and George Best.

Stull was an ordained Methodist minister from the Montana Annual Conference of The Methodist Episcopal Church ( Later became The United Methodist Church in 1968 ).

On 31 January 1968, following a two-year constitutional convention, Nauru became the world's smallest independent republic.

* 1968 – Penny Ann Early became the first woman to play major professional basketball, in an ABA game Kentucky Colonels vs. Los Angeles Stars.

Then in 1968 he became Professor of Informatics at ETH Zürich, taking two one-year sabbaticals at Xerox PARC in California ( 1976 – 1977 and 1984 – 1985 ).

John Gorton became the new Liberal Prime Minister in January 1968.

Dylan's lead was also followed by The Byrds, joined by Gram Parsons to record Sweetheart of the Rodeo ( 1968 ), helping to define the genre of country rock, which became a particularly popular style in the California music scene of the late 1960s, and was adopted by former folk rock artists including Hearts and Flowers, Poco and New Riders of the Purple Sage.

She was a professor of anthropology and chair of the Division of Social Sciences at Fordham University's Lincoln Center campus from 1968 to 1970, founding their anthropology department.

It made its greatest stride in becoming the fourth movement in North American Judaism ( Orthodox, Conservative and Reform being the other three ) with the founding of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in 1968.

He was a Fulbright lecturer at the Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg in 1968 and 1969 and a founding member of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages ( ACTFL ).

In 1968, on sabbatical from the Near Eastern and Judaic studies department of the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, he joined a group of other Jews in founding a havurah ( small cooperative congregation ) in Somerville, Massachusetts, called Havurat Shalom.

Knighted in 1968, Sir Barnes Wallis was instrumental in the founding days of the KGV playing fields at Effingham.

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.

In 1968 the PFP held a state-wide founding convention in the Richmond, California.

( founded in 1946 and which was one of the founding members of the JSL ) but when Toyota ALW were relegated to regional leagues in 1968, Toyota Motor saw an opportunity to rise at their expense.

Since its founding in 1968, the college has spent more than $ 43 million restoring the historic campus and adding new buildings.

English Electric Aircraft would become a founding member of the British Aircraft Corporation in 1960 with the other industrial operations acquired by GEC in 1968.

Dexter retired from cricket to concentrate on other interests in 1968, remaining a journalist, becoming a broadcaster and founding a PR company.

In the summer of 1968, Krenwinkel and fellow Family member, Ella Bailey, were hitchhiking around Los Angeles when Beach Boys founding member and drummer, Dennis Wilson, picked them up.

* Bill Bruford placed an ad in 1968 that was answered by Jon Anderson and Chris Squire to form the founding lineup of Yes.

Rod Evans ( born 19 January 1947 in Slough, Berkshire ) is a former English singer and was a founding member of Deep Purple in 1968.

He was a founding member of Deep Purple when they formed in Hertfordshire in 1968.

In 1963, Adams became founding president of the Central Hockey League, a post he held until his death at his desk in 1968.

Balder was a founding member of the Krautrock band Birth Control in 1968.

In October 1968, two weeks after the founding congress of the Parti Québécois ( PQ ), the members of the RIN gathered and voted the dissolution of their party.

After Bloomfield's brief stay, the station was managed for 14 years by David Wilkinson, one of the founding team, and a local radio pioneer from his days at BBC Radio Nottingham in 1968.

On 6 October 1968, a celebration was held for the founding of a new campus in Garyounis district of Benghazi.

* Cyrene ( Quryna ), a bulletin issued by U. of Libya because of founding the new campus at 6 Oct. 1968.

* From NFB to Box-Office, 2009 documentary by Denys Desjardins about the development of Quebec cinema, from the founding of the National Film Board of Canada to the creation of the Canadian Film Development Corporation in 1968

He served as founding trustee of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund for forty-two years, from its inception in 1940 to 1982 ; during this time he also served as president ( 1958 – 1968 ) and later its chairman ( 1968 – 1980 ) for twenty-two years, longer than any other leader in the Fund's history.