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.

Before his mentor Sholes died in 1968, Atkins had become vice president of RCA's country division.

* 1968 – Brazilian president Artur da Costa e Silva decrees the AI-5 ( or the fifth Institutional Act ), which lasts until 1978 and marks the beginning of the hard times of Brazilian military dictatorship.

In the presence of a UN observer team, a referendum was held on August 11, 1968, and 63 % of the electorate voted in favor of the constitution, which provided for a government with a General Assembly and a Supreme Court with judges appointed by the president.

In September 1968, Francisco Macías Nguema was elected first president of Equatorial Guinea, and independence was granted in October.

General Suharto politically outmanoeuvred President Sukarno, and was formally appointed president in March 1968.

On November 19, 1968, a group of young officers staged a bloodless coup and set up a 14-member Military Committee for National Liberation ( CMLN ), with Lt. Moussa Traoré as president.

On 19 November 1968, a group of young Malian officers staged a bloodless coup and set up a 14-member military junta, with Lt. Moussa Traoré as president.

The primary classroom building on campus, this building is named for former university president John X. Jamrich and opened in 1968.

In October 1968, Dr. Arnulfo Arias Madrid was elected president for the third time.

" In 1968 Biko was elected its first president.

His son, Thomas Jr., later served as National president of the Boy Scouts of America from 1964 to 1968.

* Sandra Barr-UNB's female athlete of the year in 1968, president of the Geological Association of Canada

In 1968 Kaunda was re-elected as president, running unopposed.

* October 30 – Bob Jones Sr, American evangelist, pioneer religious broadcaster, and founder and first president of Bob Jones University ( d. 1968 )

He was president of the Scientific Council of the State Institute of Mathematics ( 1968 – 1980 ).

In the event of a national crisis, the emergency law reforms of 1968 designate the president as a mediator.

In June 1968, Warren, fearing that Nixon would be elected president that year, worked out a retirement deal with President Johnson.

When the current Garden opened in 1968, the theater was known as the Felt Forum, in honor of then president Irving Felt.

Important members of the party have included Minneapolis mayor Hubert H. Humphrey and Minnesota Attorney General Walter Mondale, who each went on to be United States Senators, Vice Presidents of the United States, and unsuccessful Democratic nominees for president, Humphrey in 1968 and Mondale in 1984 ; Eugene McCarthy, a Senator who ran for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1968 as an anti-Vietnam War candidate ; and Paul Wellstone, a Senator from 1991 – 2002 who became an icon of populist progressivism.

At the end of March 1968, however, the president agreed to send 24, 500 more troops on an emergency basis, raising authorized strength to 549, 500, a figure never reached.

He had reached the rank of lieutenant colonel by 1966 and in 1968 he and Major Boris Martínez led a successful coup d ' état against the recently elected president of Panama, Arnulfo Arias, after only eleven days in office, when he tried to order Torrijos to a foreign post.

* José Ángel Gutiérrez 1968, attorney, co-founder of the Mexican American Youth Organization, president of Raza Unida Party, professor at the University of Texas at Arlington

" A debacle unfolded as Harvard historian ( and AHA president in 1968 ) John Fairbank literally wrestled the microphone from Zinn's hands.

He became the National president of the Jana Sangh in 1968 and along with Nanaji Deshmukh, Balraj Madhok and Lal Krishna Advani led Jana Sangh to national prominence.