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

A newly annotated version of his memoir was published in 1968.

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 ).

The Commonwealth Immigrants Act 1968, amending legislation passed in 1962, removed the right of entry from 200, 000 south Asians long resident in British East Africa who had become the victims of the Africanization drive in newly independent Kenya and wished to move to Britain.

Two forces converged to initiate the PDB: 1 ) a small but growing collection of sets of protein structure data determined by X-ray diffraction ; and 2 ) the newly available ( 1968 ) molecular graphics display, the Brookhaven RAster Display ( BRAD ), to visualize these protein structures in 3-D.

In 1954, newly built Nesconset Highway created a major commercial crossroad in Lake Grove, which prompted the construction of the Smith Haven Mall in 1968, which made the local residents become concerned about the impact of new businesses and increased traffic in their community.

While the previously introduced Ford Maverick offered either straight-6 or V8 engine and twin bench seats, the Pinto offered an inline-4 engine, and bucket seats – more in keeping with small imports such as the Volkswagen Beetle, available since 1949, the Toyota Corolla, introduced to North America March 1968, and the newly introduced Datsun 1200 which appeared in 1970.

The newly refitted east end opened in 1968 and proved highly controversial, with the Architects Journal criticising it as " motivated not by the demands of liturgical worship but by those of museum display.

In 1965, he was appointed Director of the newly constructed Armagh Planetarium in Northern Ireland, a post he held until 1968.

Many members became fans of the newly created Star Trek television show, and in 1968 Trimble and other members of LASFS were instrumental in organizing a nationwide letter writing campaign which saved the show from its announced cancellation by NBC at the end of its second season.

In 1968, in further rationalisations of the British motor industry, BMC became part of the newly formed British Leyland Motor Corporation ( BLMC ), and subsequently, in 1975, the nationalised British Leyland Limited ( BL ).

It was commissioned in 1968 by the newly built Charles De Gaulle International Airport at Roissy, France, which needed a new directional sign system.

During the university reforms beginning in 1968, in order to quickly broaden the professorial base for the many newly opened and expanding universities, often professors were appointed who were not private lecturers as well.

The model line also featured wraparound front side marker lamps which doubled as parking lights and rear side reflectors, newly mandated by US law for the 1968 model year.

In 1968, the newly formed Parti Gerakan Rakyat Malaysia or Gerakan, led by Lim Chong Eu, joined DAP.

In 1968, the Ministry of Health was dissolved and its functions transferred ( along with those of the similarly dissolved Ministry of Social Security ) to the newly created Department of Health and Social Security ( DHSS ).

With their Headquarters at RAF Bentley Priory the ROC remained administered by Fighter Command until 31 March 1968 when responsibility was handed over to the newly formed RAF Strike Command.

By 1968 the reputation of the Twisted Wheel and the type of music being played there had grown nationwide. Soul fans were traveling from all over the United Kingdom to attend the Saturday all-nighters, with resident ' All Niter ' DJ Bob Dee compiling & supervising the playlist and utilising the newly developed slip-cueing technique to spin the vinyl between 1968 and the club's eventual closure in 1971.

His uncle had grown to dislike the subject and in particular its practitioners, so when it became time to write his ' masterscriptie ' ( Dutch equivalent of a master's thesis ) in 1968 ,'t Hooft turned to the newly appointed professor Martinus Veltman, who specialized in Yang – Mills theory, a relative fringe subject at the time because it was thought that these could not be renormalized.

In 1968, he disbanded the RIN and invited its members to join René Lévesque's Mouvement Souveraineté-Association and the Ralliement national in the newly founded Parti Québécois, under Lévesque's leadership.

He moved on to the newly established University of Pristina, where he was a student in the Faculty of Philosophy, Department of Albanian Studies and participated in the 1968 Kosovo Protests.

Immaculate Heart closed at the end of 1968, when its building was renamed De Sales Hall ; St. Francis remained open until 1970, when it was transferred to another location on campus, leaving all of the newly named Bishop Leo T. Maher Hall to the newly merged co-educational University of San Diego in 1972.

* USS Denver ( LPD-9 ), an amphibious transport dock commissioned in 1968 and on active service as of 2010

In 1968, Rockwell was commissioned to do an album cover portrait of Mike Bloomfield and Al Kooper for their record The Live Adventures of Mike Bloomfield and Al Kooper.

*, a commissioned in 1945 that served during World War II and was sold to Canada in 1968, becoming

In 1968, Félix commissioned a serpent diamond necklace from Cartier Paris.

A public radio study commissioned by the CPB and the Ford Foundation and conducted from 1968 – 1969 led to the establishment of National Public Radio, a public radio system under the terms of the amended Public Broadcasting Act.

The Finnish Navy commissioned two Turunmaa class corvettes, Turunmaa and Karjala, in 1968.

He was commissioned in the Panama National Guard in 1967 and promoted to lieutenant in 1968.

The Overlord embroidery was commissioned by Lord Dulverton in 1968 and made by the Royal School of Needlework from designs by artist Sandra Lawrence.

In 1968, a Johnson work titled Diversions was commissioned by the American Wind Symphony and performed in Pittsburgh.

Rothko kept the commissioned paintings in storage until 1968.

"</ ref > The facility, which originally opened in 1968, was commissioned by the Garden State Parkway Authority at a cost of $ 6. 75 million and built based on a design by architect Edward Durell Stone.

Wodehouse, Dr. Simon Sparrow in BBC Radio 4's adaptions of Richard Gordon's Doctor in the House and Doctor At Large ( 1968 ) ( currently repeated on BBC Radio 4 Extra ), a retired thespian in a series of six plays with Stanley Baxter Two Pipe Problems, and later the play Not Talking, commissioned for BBC Radio 3 by Mike Bartlett.

*, was an Iwo Jima-class amphibious assault ship commissioned in 1968, decommissioned in 1997, and sunk as a target in 2010.

" An opinion poll commissioned by the BBC television programme Panorama in December 1968 found that 8 per cent of immigrants believed that they had been treated worse by white people since Powell's speech, 38 per cent would like to return to their country of origin if offered financial help, 47 per cent supported immigration control, with 30 per cent opposed.

* The is an amphibious transport dock commissioned in 1968 and currently in active service.

In 1968, Brown was commissioned by David Hilliard, the current Chairman of the Party, to record her songs, a request resulting in the album " Seize the Time ".

During those years he also wrote the cantata, Sweet Freedom's Song, in 1965 ; the Fifth Symphony in 1976 ; a Piano Concerto in 1968, which was commissioned by the Powder River Foundation for the soloist Marjorie Mitchell ; a Saxophone Concerto in 1984 ; and the operas The Lady from Colorado in 1964, Claudia Leqare in 1977, Abelard and Heloise in 1981, Minutes till Midnight in 1982, and Roman Fever in 1993 ( based on the short story of the same name by Edith Wharton ).

The first storage ring commissioned as a synchrotron light source was Tantalus, at the Synchrotron Radiation Center, first operational in 1968.

The Windermere coat of arms was commissioned in 1968 and designed by local schoolgirl, Sheila West.

The last unit of the 1. 8 MT phase of Rourkela-the Tandem Mill-was commissioned in February 1968, and the 1. 6 MT stage of Durgapur Steel Plant was completed in August 1969 after commissioning of the Furnace in SMS.

It was commissioned in 1968, and it operated from 1968 until 2006.

A qualified private pilot, he was commissioned into the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve in 1968, and 20 years later, in 1988 received the Britannia Airways Parliamentary Pilot of the Year Award.