In 1968, a schism formed over whether to represent Dr. Spock's anti-war activism.

Some notable historical groups formed along the way include Colgate University's The Colgate 13 ( 1942 ), Dartmouth College's Aires ( 1946 ), Cornell University's Cayuga's Waiters ( 1949 ) and The Hangovers ( 1968 ), the Columbia University Kingsmen ( 1949 ), the Jabberwocks of Brown University ( 1949 ), and the University of Rochester YellowJackets ( 1956 ).

In 1968, Major League Baseball formed a Special Baseball Records Committee to resolve this ( and other ) issues.

The Family International ( TFI ), formed as the Children of God ( COG ) and later named Family of Love and the Family, is a cult, started in 1968 in Huntington Beach, California, United States.

On 16 May 1968 a parachute brigade of two regiments ( each of three battalions ) was formed which eventually was to grow in size to a full division.

In July 1975, according to the IISS Military Balance, the FAZ was made up of 14 infantry battalions, seven " Guard " battalions, and seven other infantry battalions variously designated as " parachute " ( or possibly " commando "; probably the units of the new parachute brigade originally formed in 1968 ).

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.

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.

Enya has four brothers and four sisters, several of whom formed the band An Clann As Dobhar in 1968.

After leaving the group in late 1968, Parsons and fellow Byrd Chris Hillman formed The Flying Burrito Brothers in 1969, releasing their debut, The Gilded Palace of Sin, the same year.

It was formed in 1968 as an offshoot of the Vietnam People's Army from North Vietnam.

From 1968 onwards it formed a part of NATO ’ s ACE Mobile Force ( Land ) ( AMF ( L )).

The United Methodist Church was formed in 1968 as a result of a merger between the Evangelical United Brethren ( EUB ) and the Methodist Church.

The Twilights, formed in Adelaide, also made the trip to London, recording a series of minor hits, absorbing the psychedelic scene, to return home to produce covers of Beatles ' songs, complete with sitar, and the concept album Once upon a Twilight ( 1968 ).

The super-group Crosby, Stills and Nash, formed in 1968 from members of The Byrds, Buffalo Springfield, and The Hollies, were joined by Neil Young for Deja Vu in 1970, which moved away from many of what had become the " clichés " of psychedelic rock and placed an emphasis on political commentary and vocal harmonies.

The Writer ’ s Union also formed a committee in April 1968, headed by the poet Jaroslav Seifert, to investigate the persecution of writers after the Communist takeover in February 1948 and rehabilitate the literary figures into the Union, bookstores and libraries, and the literary world .< ref > Golan, Galia.

Rush is a Canadian rock band formed in August 1968, in the Willowdale neighbourhood of Toronto, Ontario.

After a period of consolidation under the newly formed National Revolutionary Council, Ngouabi assumed the presidency on December 31, 1968.

Spare Parts was followed by Sound Pump in 1968, Macainsh formed Reuben Tice in Eltham, with Tony Williams on vocals.

In 1968 the National Joint Action Committee was formed by members of the Guild of Undergraduates at the St Augustine campus of the University of the West Indies, under the leadership of Geddes Granger.

In 1966, New York State bought the railroad's controlling stock from the PRR and put it under the newly formed Metropolitan Commuter Transportation Authority ( renamed Metropolitan Transportation Authority in 1968 ).

Seitei Iaido ( 制定 ) (" basis of the Iaido ") or Zen Nippon Kendo Renmei Iaido is the standard set of iaido kata created in 1968 by a committee formed by the All Japan Kendo Federation ( AJKF, Zen Nippon Kendo Renmei or ZNKR ).

These two divisions were combined in 1968 and formed Osco Drug, Inc. Also in 1968, Osco's headquarters relocated from Melrose Park, Illinois to Franklin Park, Illinois.

* Colosseum ( band ), a British progressive jazz-rock band formed in 1968

By 1968 Parsons had come to the attention of The Byrds ' bassist, Chris Hillman, via Larry Spector ( The Byrds ' business manager ), as a possible replacement band member following the departures of David Crosby and Michael Clarke from the group in late 1967.

Parsons had been acquainted with Hillman since the pair had met in a bank during 1967 and in February 1968 he passed an audition for the band, being initially recruited as a jazz pianist but soon switching to rhythm guitar and vocals.

" However, these comments overlook the fact that Parsons, like Kelley, was considered a bona fide member of the band during 1968 and as such, was given equal billing alongside McGuinn, Hillman, and Kelley on the Sweetheart of the Rodeo album and in contemporary press coverage of the band.

While in England with The Byrds in the summer of 1968, Parsons left the band due to his concerns over a planned concert tour of South Africa, citing opposition to that country's apartheid policies.

The psychedelic rock band H. P. Lovecraft ( who shortened their name to Lovecraft and then Love Craft in the 1970s ) who released the H. P. Lovecraft and H. P. Lovecraft II albums in 1967 and 1968 respectively.

Formed as the New Yardbirds in 1968, the band consisted of guitarist Jimmy Page, singer Robert Plant, bassist / keyboardist John Paul Jones, and drummer John Bonham.

The band completed the Scandinavian tour as The New Yardbirds, playing together for the first time in front of a live audience at Gladsaxe Teen Clubs in Gladsaxe, Denmark, on 7 September 1968.

Grant secured an advance deal of $ 200, 000 from Atlantic Records in November 1968, which was then one of biggest deals of its kind for a new band.

On 14 October 1968, the band announced the new name and played their first show at the University of Surrey ( at its original Battersea Park location, not at Guildford ) on 25 October ; this was followed by a short British tour.

Phasing was, by 1967, heavily identified with the musical style known from 1967 onwards as psychedelia, and as " Rainbow Chaser " was the only Nirvana single to achieve commercial success, peaking at number 34 in UK Singles Chart during May 1968, they were invariably tagged as a " psychedelic " band.

The most successful New Zealand band, The La De Das, produced the psychedelic pop concept album The Happy Prince ( 1968 ), based on the Oscar Wilde children's classic, but failed to break through in Britain and the wider world.

The band and its membership went through a number of re-configurations between 1968 and 1974, achieving their current form when Peart replaced original drummer John Rutsey in July 1974, two weeks before the group's first United States tour.

" In The Last Waltz, Manuel claimed that they wanted to call themselves either " The Honkies " or " The Crackers " ( which they used when backing Dylan for a January 1968 concert tribute to Woody Guthrie ), but these names were vetoed by their record label ; Robertson suggests that during their time with Dylan everyone just referred to them as " the band " and it stuck.

Around the time of the student riots in 1968, Vangelis founded progressive rock band Aphrodite's Child together with Demis Roussos, Loukas Sideras, and Anargyros " Silver " Koulouris.

* December 11 – Lynn Strait, vocalist for band Snot ( b. 1968 )

The band finished a Far East tour in December 1968 ( where his copy of Naked Lunch was confiscated by Australian Customs ) and then filmed an NBC television special, 33⅓ Revolutions Per Monkee, which rehashed many of the ideas from Head, only with the Monkees playing a strangely second-string role.

In 1968, guitarist Brian May, a student at London's Imperial College, and bassist Tim Staffell decided to form a band.

That album, the appropriately titled Goodbye, was recorded in late 1968 and released in early 1969, after the band had broken up.

Initially another double album was planned, comprising live material from this tour plus new studio tracks, but a single album, Goodbye was released instead with three live tracks taken from their performance at The Forum in Los Angeles on 19 October 1968, and three studio tracks, one written by each of the band members.

On January 27, 1968, Beefheart achieved one of his most memorable live performances, when the band performed in the MIDEM Music Festival on the beach at Cannes, France.