The 1968 tour of South Africa saw the Lions win 15 of their 16 provincial matches, but the team actually lost three tests against the Springboks and drew one.

For example, they played Rhodesia ( the future Zimbabwe ) in 1910, 1924, 1938, 1955, 1962, 1968 & 1974 during their tours to South Africa.

In addition, they toured pre-independence Namibia ( then South West Africa ), in 1955, 1962, 1968, and 1974.

Geophysicist Jack Oliver is credited with providing seismologic evidence supporting plate tectonics which encompassed and superseded continental drift with “ Seismology and the New Global Tectonics ,” published in 1968, using data collected from seismologic stations, including those he set up in the South Pacific.

A notable upsurge in the protests occurred in 1978, when following a celebration of the tenth anniversary of the student uprising in 1968, students marched and rallied in protest of university investments in South Africa.

* 1968 – Choi Jin-sil, South Korean actress and model ( d. 2008 )

* 1968 – Vietnam War: The execution of Viet Cong officer Nguyen Van Lem by South Vietnamese National Police Chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan is videotaped and photographed by Eddie Adams.

* 1968 – Vietnam War: 135 unarmed citizens of Ha My village in South Vietnam's Quảng Nam Province are killed and buried en masse by South Korean troops in what would come to be known as the Ha My massacre.

* 1968 – Suanne Braun, South African actress

* 1968 – Vietnam War: The Tet Offensive is halted ; South Vietnam recaptures Hué.

* 1968 – Elna Reinach, South African tennis player

* 1968 – American civil rights movement: The Orangeburg massacre: An attack on black students from South Carolina State University who are protesting racial segregation at the town's only bowling alley, leaves three or four dead in Orangeburg, South Carolina.

A Viet Cong base camp being burned, My Tho, South Vietnam, 1968

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.

* 1968 – Vietnam War: South Vietnamese opposition leader Truong Dinh Dzu is sentenced to five years hard labor for advocating the formation of a coalition government as a way to move toward an end to the war.

* 1968 – Operation Igloo White, a US electronic surveillance system to stop communist infiltration into South Vietnam begins installation.

* 1968 – Vietnam War: North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces attack Australian troops defending Fire Support Base Coral, east of Lai Khe in South Vietnam on the night of 12 / 13 May, resulting in heavy casualties on both sides and beginning the Battle of Coral-Balmoral.

* 1968 – Shin Seung Hun, South Korean singer

With the direct intervention of North Vietnam in the South with the Tet Offensive of 1968, US forces suffered heavy losses.

* 1968 – Park Shin-yang, South Korean actor

* 1968 – Vietnam War: Operation Sealords – United States and South Vietnamese forces launch a new operation in the Mekong Delta.

A South African company ( The South Atlantic Trading and Investment Corporation, SATIC ) bought a majority share in Solomon and Company in 1968.

* 1968 – James Anderson, Jr. posthumously receives the first Medal of Honor to be awarded to an African American U. S. Marine.

Abu-Jamal was given the name Mumia in 1968 by his high school teacher, a Kenyan instructing a class on African cultures in which students took African classroom names.

* Martin Luther King, Jr. ( 1929 – 1968 ), American clergyman, activist, and prominent leader in the African American civil rights movement

* 1968 – Richard Snell, South African cricketer

In the United States, the raised fist was associated with the Black Power movement, symbolized in the 1968 Olympics Black Power salute ; a clenched-fist salute is also proper in many African nations, including South Africa.

However, during the riots that followed the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., in the spring of 1968, Agnew angered many African American leaders when he stated in reference to their constituents, " I call on you to publicly repudiate all black racists.

That same year, Naomi Sims became the first African American to feature on the cover of Ladies ' Home Journal in 1968.

In defiance, African Americans adopted a combined strategy of direct action with nonviolent resistance known as civil disobedience, giving rise to the African-American Civil Rights Movement of 1955 – 1968.

Donyale Luna became the first African American model to appear in Vogue, Naomi Sims, who is sometimes regarded as the first black supermodel, became the first African American to feature on the cover of Ladies ' Home Journal in 1968.

The 404 proved rugged enough to win the East African Safari Rally, in four of the six years between 1963 and 1968.

" The percentage of African Americans below the poverty line dropped from 55 percent in 1960 to 27 percent in 1968.

In 1968, only a year after its schools became fully integrated, Chapel Hill became the first predominantly white municipality in the south to elect an African American mayor, Howard Lee.

It is named after Arthur Ashe, the African American tennis player who won the men's final of the inaugural US Open in 1968.

Nearly 3, 500 African Americans were lynched in the United States between 1882 and 1968, mostly from 1882 to 1920.

Between 1882 and 1968, the Tuskegee Institute recorded 1, 297 lynchings of whites as well as the 3, 446 lynchings of African Americans during that period.

He won with it again at the British, United States and Mexican Grands Prix ; and, in January 1968, at the South African Grand Prix.

The Black Cultural Association ( or BCA ) was an African American inmate group that was founded in 1968 at the California Medical Facility at Vacaville, a California state prison, and formally recognized by prison officials in 1969.

Carroll is best known for her title role in the 1968 television series Julia, which made her the first African American actress to star in her own television series where she did not play a domestic worker.

Smith ( James Leonard Brierley Smith, 1897 – 1968 ), South African ichthyologist

In 1968, a mysterious plane load of mercenary soldiers had landed at Kariba Airfield in Rhodesia, and was said also to hold " an African President ".