1968 34655 226105614 2008-07-16T21:08:09Z PseudoBot 6290400 Reverting edits by [[Special:Contributions/87.114.227.131|87.114.227.131]]: page linked does not exist {{year nav|1968}} {{C20YearInTopicX}} Year '''1968''' ('''[[Roman numerals|MCMLXVIII]]''') was a [[leap year starting on Monday]] (link will display full calendar) of the [[Gregorian calendar]]. {{C20YearTOC}} == Events of 1968 == ===January=== <!-- Link dates even if repeated, for date-format preferences. --> * [[January 5]] - ''[[Prague Spring]]'': [[Alexander Dubček]] is elected leader of the Communist Party in [[Czechoslovakia]]. * [[January 8]] - [[United Kingdom|British]] [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|Prime Minister]] [[Harold Wilson]] endorses the '[[I'm Backing Britain]]' campaign for working an additional half hour each day without pay. * [[January 13]] - [[Johnny Cash]] records ''[[Live at Folsom Prison]]''. {{Month3|1|0|1}} * [[January 14]] - [[Green Bay Packers]] win ''[[Super Bowl II]]''. {{Month3|1|0|1}} * [[January 15]] - An [[earthquake]] in Sicily kills 231 and injures 262. * [[January 17]] - [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] calls for the non-conversion of the U.S. dollar. * [[January 19]] - At a [[White House]] conference on crime, singer and actress [[Eartha Kitt]] denounces the [[Vietnam War]] directly to President [[Lyndon Johnson]]. * [[January 21]] - [[Vietnam War]]: [[Battle of Khe Sanh]] begins - One of the most publicized and controversial battles of the war begins, ending on [[April 8]]. * [[January 21]] - A U.S. [[B-52 Stratofortress]] [[B-52 crash at Thule Air Base|crashes in Greenland]], discharging 4 [[nuclear bomb]]s. * [[January 22]] - ''[[Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In]]'' debuts on [[NBC]]. * [[January 23]] - [[North Korea]] seizes the ''[[USS Pueblo (AGER-2)|USS Pueblo]]'', claiming the ship violated its territorial waters while spying. * [[January 25]] - The [[Israel]]i submarine ''[[INS Dakar]]'' sinks in the Mediterranean Sea, killing 69. [[Image:USS Pueblo (AGER-2).jpg|thumb|125px|right| '''[[January 23|Jan.23]]''' ''[[USS Pueblo (AGER-2)|USS Pueblo]]'']] * [[January 27]] - A French submarine sinks in the Mediterranean Sea with 52 men. * [[January 30]] - [[Vietnam War]]: The [[Tet Offensive]] begins, as [[Viet Cong]] forces launch a series of surprise attacks across [[South Vietnam]]. * [[January 31]] - [[Viet Cong]] soldiers attack the [[United States]] Embassy in [[Saigon]]. * [[January 31]] - [[Nauru]] president [[Hammer DeRoburt]] declares independence from [[Australia]]. ===February=== {{Month3|0|3|1}} [[Image:Captain Franklin P. Eller during TET NAM.jpg|thumb|125px|right|'''[[January 30|Jan.30]]''': [[Tet Offensive|Tet]] begins.]] * [[February 1]] - [[Vietnam War]]: A [[Viet Cong]] officer named [[Nguyễn Văn Lém]] is executed by [[Nguyễn Ngọc Loan]], a [[South Vietnam]]ese National Police Chief. The event is photographed by [[Eddie Adams (photographer)|Eddie Adams]]. The photo makes headlines around the world, eventually winning the 1969 [[Pulitzer Prize]], and sways U.S. public opinion against the war. * [[February 6]]-[[February 18]] - The [[1968 Winter Olympics]] were held in [[Grenoble]], [[France]] * [[February 8]] - [[American civil rights movement]]: A [[civil rights]] protest staged at a white-only [[bowling alley]] in [[Orangeburg, South Carolina]] is broken-up by highway patrolmen, leading to the deaths of 3 college students. * [[February 11]] - Border clashes take place between [[Israel]] and [[Jordan]]. * [[February 13]] - Civil rights disturbances occur at the [[University of Wisconsin-Madison]] and the [[University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill]]. * [[February 17]] - Administrative reform in [[Romania]] divides the country into 39 [[judet|counties]]. * [[February 19]] - The Florida Education Association (FEA) initiates a mass resignation of teachers to protest state funding of education. This is, in effect, the first statewide teachers' strike in the United States. * [[February 24]] - [[Vietnam War]]: The [[Tet Offensive]] is halted - [[South Vietnam]] recaptures [[Hué]]. * [[February 27]] - Ex-[[The Teenagers]] singer [[Frankie Lymon]] is found dead from a [[heroin]] [[overdose]] in [[Harlem]]. ===March=== {{Month3|3|4|1}} * [[March 1]] - Student Protest "Valle Giulia" in Rome leading to long period of violent dispute. * [[March 7]] - [[Vietnam War]]: The [[First Battle of Saigon]] begins. * [[March 8]] - First student protests in [[1968 Polish political crisis|Poland's 1968 political crisis]]. * [[March 12]] - [[Mauritius]] achieves independence from British Rule. * [[March 12]] - U.S. President [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] edges out antiwar candidate [[Eugene J. McCarthy]] in the [[New Hampshire Democratic primary]], a vote which highlights the deep divisions in the country, as well as the party, over [[Vietnam]]. * [[March 13]] - First [[Rotaract]] club chartered in North Charlotte, North Carolina, USA. * [[March 14]] - [[Nerve gas]] leaks from the U.S. Army [[Dugway Proving Ground]] near [[Skull Valley]], [[Utah]]. * [[March 15]] - [[George Brown, Baron George-Brown|George Brown]], British [[Foreign Secretary]], resigns. * [[March 16]] - [[Vietnam War]]: [[My Lai massacre]] - American troops kill scores of civilians. * [[March 16]] - U.S. Senator [[Robert F. Kennedy]] (D-NY) enters the race for the [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]] presidential nomination. * [[March 17]] - A demonstration in [[London]]'s [[Grosvenor Square]] against U.S. involvement in the [[Vietnam War]] leads to violence - 91 people injured, 200 demonstrators arrested. * [[March 18]] - [[Gold standard]]: The [[Congress of the United States]] repeals the requirement for a [[gold]] reserve to back U.S. currency. * [[March 19]]-[[March 23]] - [[Afrocentrism]], [[Black power]]: Students at [[Howard University]] in [[Washington, D.C.]], signal a new era of militant student activism on college campuses in the U.S. Students stage rallies, protests and a five-day sit-in, laying siege to the administration building, shutting down the university in protest over its [[ROTC]] program, and demanding a more Afrocentric curriculum. * [[March 21]] - [[Vietnam War]]: In ongoing campus unrest, [[Howard University]] students protesting the Vietnam War, the [[ROTC]] program on campus and the draft, confront Gen. [[Lewis Blaine Hershey|Lewis Hershey]], then head of the U.S. [[Selective Service System]], and as he attempts to deliver an address, shout him down with cries of "America is the Black man's battleground!" * [[March 22]] - [[Daniel Cohn-Bendit]] ("Danny The Red") and seven other students occupy Administrative offices of the [[University of Nanterre]], setting in motion a chain of events that will lead France to the brink of revolution in May. * [[March 27]] - Russian space pioneer [[Yuri Gagarin]] is killed in a training flight crash. * [[March 31]] - U.S. President [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] announces he will not seek re-election. ===April=== {{Month3|4|0|1}} * [[April 2]] - Bombs placed by [[Andreas Baader]] and [[Gudrun Ensslin]] explode at midnight in 2 department stores in [[Frankfurt-am-Main]]; they are later arrested and sentenced for [[arson]]. * [[April 2]] - The [[Washington, D.C.]] premiere of ''[[2001: A Space Odyssey (film)|2001: A Space Odyssey]]'' * [[April 4]] - [[Martin Luther King, Jr.]] is shot dead at the [[Lorraine Motel]] in [[Memphis, Tennessee]]. Riots erupt in major American cities for several days afterward. * [[April 4]] - [[Apollo Program]]: Apollo-Saturn mission 502 (''[[Apollo 6]]'') is launched, as the second and last unmanned test-flight of the [[Saturn V]] launch vehicle. * [[April 4]] - ''La, la, la'' by Massiel (music and text by Manuel de la Calva and Ramón Arcusa) wins the [[Eurovision Song Contest 1968]] for [[Spain]]. * [[April 6]] - Double explosion rocks [[Richmond, Indiana]] in downtown area. The explosion killed 41 people and injured more than 150. * [[April 6]] - A shootout between [[Black Panthers]] and [[Oakland]] police results in several arrests and deaths, including 16-year-old Panther [[Bobby Hutton]]. * [[April 7]] - Racing driver [[Jim Clark]] is killed in a [[Formula 2]] race at [[Hockenheim]]. * [[April 10]] - The ferry [[Wahine disaster|Wahine]] strikes a reef at the entrance to Wellington Harbour, New Zealand, with the loss of 53 lives, during Cyclone Giselle, which provided the windiest conditions ever recorded in New Zealand. * [[April 11]] - [[Josef Bachmann]] tries to assassinate [[Rudi Dutschke]], leader of a left-wing movement ([[Ausserparlamentarische Opposition|APO]]) in Germany, and tries to commit suicide afterwards, failing in both, although Dutschke dies of his brain injuries 11 years later. * [[April 11]] - German left-wing students blockade the [[Axel Springer AG|Springer Press]] HQ in Berlin and many are arrested (one of them is [[Ulrike Meinhof]]). * [[April 11]] - U.S. President [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] signs the [[Civil Rights Act of 1968]]. * [[April 20]] - [[Pierre Elliott Trudeau]] becomes [[Canada]]'s 15th [[Prime Minister of Canada|Prime Minister]]. * [[April 20]] - English politician [[Enoch Powell]] makes his controversial [[Rivers of Blood Speech]]. * [[April 23]] - President [[Mobutu]] releases captured [[mercenary|mercenaries]] in [[Democratic Republic of the Congo|Congo]]. * [[April 23]] - Surgeons at the Hôpital de la Pitié, [[Paris]], perform Europe's first heart transplant, on Clovis Roblain. * [[April 23]] - The [[United Methodist Church]] is created by the union of the former Methodist and Evangelical United Brethren churches. * [[April 23]]-[[April 30]] - [[Vietnam War]]: Student protesters at [[Columbia University]] in [[New York City]] take over administration buildings and shut down the university. '' See main article '' [[Columbia University protests of 1968]] * [[April 29]] - The musical ''[[Hair (musical)|Hair]]'' officially opens on [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]]. ===May=== {{Month3|5|2|1}} * May -'' "[[May 1968|May of 68]]"'' is a symbol of the resistance of that generation. Agitations and strikes in Paris lead many youth to believe that a [[revolution]] is starting. Student and worker strikes, sometimes referred to as the [[French May]], nearly bring down the [[France|French]] government. * [[May 2]] - The [[Israel Broadcasting Authority]] commences television broadcasts. * [[May 3]] - Patrick Wall MP speech to Conservative Association at Leeds University stopped by large crowd and MP's wife Sheila Wall knocked to ground and kicked in ensuing scuffles. Jack Straw Leeds Students President says "this manhandling is deplorable." * [[May 14]] - [[The Beatles]] announce the creation of [[Apple Records]] in a New York press conference * [[May 15]] - An outbreak of severe thunderstorms produces tornadoes causing massive damage and heavy casualties in [[Charles City, Iowa]], [[Oelwein, Iowa]], and [[Jonesboro, Arkansas]]. * [[May 17]] - The [[Catonsville Nine]] enter the [[Selective Service]] offices in [[Catonsville]], [[Maryland]], take dozens of selective service draft records, and burn them with [[napalm]] as a protest against the [[Vietnam War]]. * [[May 19]] - [[Italian general election, 1968|General elections]] are held in [[Italy]]. * [[May 19]] - Nigerian forces capture [[Port Harcourt]] and form a ring around [[Nigerian Civil War|Biafrans]]. This contributes to a humanitarian disaster as the surrounded population was already suffering with hunger and starvation. * [[May 22]] - The U.S. nuclear-powered [[submarine]] [[USS Scorpion (SSN-589)|''Scorpion'']] sinks with 99 men aboard, 400 miles southwest of the [[Azores]]. * [[May 29]] - [[Association football|Football]]: Manchester United wins the [[European Champion Clubs' Cup|European Cup Final]], becoming the first English team to do so. ===June=== {{Month3|6|5|1}} * [[June 3]] - [[Radical feminism|Radical feminist]] [[Valerie Solanas]] shoots [[Andy Warhol]] as he enters his studio, wounding him. * [[June 4]] - The [[S&P 500|Standard & Poor's 500]] index closes above 100 for the first time, closing at 100.38. * [[June 5]] - U.S. presidential candidate [[Robert F. Kennedy]] is shot at the Ambassador Hotel in [[Los Angeles, California]] by [[Sirhan Sirhan]]. Kennedy dies from his injuries the next day. * [[June 8]] - [[James Earl Ray]] is arrested for the murder of [[Martin Luther King Jr]]. * [[June 10]] - Soccer: [[Italy national football team|Italy]] beats [[Yugoslavia national football team|Yugoslavia]] 2–0 in a replay to win the [[1968 European Football Championship|1968 European Championship]]. The original final on [[June 8]] ended 1–1. * [[June 20]] - [[Austin Currie]], Member of Parliament (MP) at [[Parliament Buildings (Northern Ireland)|Stormont]] in [[Northern Ireland]], along with others, squats a house in [[Caledon, County Tyrone|Caledon]] to protest discrimination in housing allocations. * [[June 23]] - A [[football (soccer)|football]] stampede in [[Buenos Aires]] leaves 74 dead and 150 injured. * [[June 24]] - Giorgio Rosa declares the independence of his [[Republic of Rose Island]], an artificial island off [[Rimini]], [[Italy]]. Italian troops demolish it not long after. * ===July=== {{Month3|7|0|1}} * [[July 1]] - The [[Central Intelligence Agency]]'s [[Phoenix Program]] is officially established. * [[July 4]] - Yachtsman [[Alec Rose]], 59, receives a hero's welcome as he sails into [[Portsmouth]], [[England]] after his 354-day round-the-world trip. * [[July 15]] - The [[soap opera]] ''[[One Life to Live]]'' premieres on [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]]. * [[July 17]] - [[Saddam Hussein]] becomes Vice Chairman of the Revolutionary Council in [[Iraq]] after a [[coup d'état]]. * [[July 23]]-[[July 28]] - African-American militants led by Fred (Ahmed) Evans engage in a fierce gunfight with police in the [[Glenville Shootout]] of [[Cleveland, Ohio]]. * [[July 25]] - [[Pope Paul VI]] publishes the [[encyclical]] entitled ''[[Humanae Vitae]]'', condemning [[birth control]]. Many American Catholics defy it. * [[July 26]] - Vietnam War: [[South Vietnam]]ese opposition leader Truong Dinh Dzu is sentenced to 5 years [[hard labor]], for advocating the formation of a [[coalition government]] as a way to move toward an end to the [[war]]. * [[July 29]] - [[Arenal Volcano]] erupts in [[Costa Rica]] for the first time in centuries. ===August=== {{Month3|8|3|1}} * [[August 5]]-[[August 8]] - The [[Republican National Convention]] in [[Miami Beach, Florida]] nominates [[Richard Nixon]] for U.S. President and [[Spiro Agnew]] for Vice President. * [[August 11]] - The last steam passenger train service runs in Britain. A selection of [[British Rail]] steam [[locomotive]]s make the 120-mile journey from [[Liverpool]] to [[Carlisle]] and returns to Liverpool before having their fires dropped for the last time - this working was known as the [[Fifteen Guinea Special]]. * [[August 18]] - Two charter buses push into the [[Hida River]] on national highway route 41 in [[Japan]], in an accident caused by heavy rain. 104 killed. * [[August 20]] - The ''[[Prague Spring]]'' of political liberalization ends, as 200,000 [[Warsaw Pact]] troops and 5,000 [[tank]]s invade [[Czechoslovakia]]. * [[August 21]] - The [[Medal of Honor]] is posthumously awarded to [[James Anderson, Jr.]] &mdash; he is the first black [[U.S. Marine]] to be awarded the Medal of Honor. * [[August 24]] - [[France]] explodes its first hydrogen bomb, thus becoming the world's fifth nuclear power. * [[August 22]]-[[August 30]] - Police clash with anti-war protesters in [[Chicago]], [[Illinois]], outside the [[1968 Democratic National Convention]], which nominates [[Hubert Humphrey]] for U.S. President, and [[Edmund Muskie]] for Vice President. ===September=== {{Month3|9|6|1}} * [[September 6]] - [[Swaziland]] becomes independent. * [[September 7]] - 150 women protest against the [[Miss America]] Pageant, as exploitative of women. It is one of the first large demonstrations of [[Second Wave Feminism]]. * [[September 11]] - French General [[René Cogny]] and 94 others die in a [[Air France]] [[Sud Aviation Caravelle|Caravelle]] jetliner crash near [[Nice]] in the [[Mediterranean]]. * [[September 17]] - The D'Oliveira Affair: The [[Marylebone Cricket Club]] tour of [[South Africa]] is cancelled when the South Africans refuse to accept the presence of [[Basil D'Oliveira]], a [[Cape Coloured]], in the side. * [[September 27]] - [[Marcelo Caetano]] becomes [[prime minister]] of [[Portugal]]. * [[September 29]] - A [[referendum]] in [[Greece]] gives more power to the military junta. ===October=== {{Month3|10|1|1}} * [[October 2]] - [[Tlatelolco massacre]]: A student demonstration ends in a bloodbath at La Plaza de las Tres Culturas in [[Tlatelolco]], [[Mexico City]], [[Mexico]], 10 days before the inauguration of the [[1968 Summer Olympics]]. * [[October 3]] - In [[Peru]], [[Juan Velasco Alvarado]] takes the power by a revolution. * [[October 5]] - An illegal civil rights march in [[Derry]], Northern Ireland, which included several Stormont and British MPs, is batoned off the streets by the [[Royal Ulster Constabulary]]. * [[October 8]] - [[Vietnam War]]: [[Operation Sealords]] - [[United States]] and [[South Vietnam]]ese forces launch a new operation in the [[Mekong Delta]]. * [[October 11]] - [[Apollo program]]: [[NASA]] launches ''[[Apollo 7]]'', the first manned Apollo mission ([[Wally Schirra]], [[Donn Eisele]], [[Walter Cunningham]]). Mission goals include the first live [[television]] broadcast from [[orbit]] and testing the [[lunar module]] docking maneuver. * [[October 11]] - In [[Panama]], a military coup d'état, led by Col. Boris Martinez and Col. [[Omar Torrijos]], overthrows the democratically-elected (but highly controversial) government of President [[Arnulfo Arias]]. Within a year, Torrijos will have ousted Martinez and taken charge as de facto [[Head of Government]] in Panama. * [[October 12]]-[[October 27]] - The [[Games of the XIX Olympiad]] are held in [[Mexico City]], [[Mexico]]. * [[October 12]] - [[Equatorial Guinea]] receives its independence from [[Spain]]. * [[October 14]] - [[Vietnam War]]: The [[United States Department of Defense]] announces that the [[United States Army]] and [[United States Marines]] will send about 24,000 troops back to [[Vietnam]] for involuntary second tours. * [[October 16]] - In [[Mexico City]], [[Tommie Smith]] and [[John Carlos]], 2 African-Americans competing in the Olympic 200-meter run, raise their arms in a [[1968 Olympics Black Power salute|black power salute]] after winning the gold and bronze medals for 1st and 3rd place. * [[October 16]] - [[Kingston, Jamaica]] is rocked by the [[Rodney Riots]], provoked by the banning of [[Walter Rodney]] from the country. * [[October 20]] - [[Aristotle Onassis]] and [[Jacqueline Kennedy]] marry on the Greek island of [[Skorpios]] * [[October 31]] - [[Vietnam War]]: Citing progress in the [[Paris]] peace talks, U.S. President [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] announces to the nation that he has ordered a complete cessation of "all air, naval, and artillery bombardment of [[North Vietnam]]" effective [[November 1]]. ===November=== {{Month3|11|4|1}} * [[November 5]] - [[U.S. presidential election, 1968]]: [[United States Republican Party|Republican]] challenger [[Richard M. Nixon]] defeats Vice President [[Hubert Humphrey]] and [[American Independent Party]] candidate [[George Wallace|George C. Wallace]]. * [[November 5]] - [[Luis A. Ferre]] is elected [[Governor of Puerto Rico]]. * [[November 11]] - [[Vietnam War]]: [[Operation Commando Hunt]] is initiated to interdict men and supplies on the [[Ho Chi Minh Trail]], through [[Laos]] into [[South Vietnam]]. By the end of the operation, 3 million tons of bombs are dropped on Laos, slowing but not seriously disrupting trail operations. * [[November 11]] - A second [[republic]] is declared in the [[Maldives]] * [[November 14]] - [[Yale University]] announces it is going co-educational * [[November 17]] - The [[Heidi game]]: [[NBC]] cuts off the final 1:05 of an [[Oakland Raiders]]-[[New York Jets]] football game to broadcast the pre-scheduled ''[[Heidi (1968 film)|Heidi]]''. Fans are unable to see Oakland (which had been trailing 32–29) score two late touchdowns to win 43–32; as a result, thousands of outraged football fans flood the NBC switchboards to protest. * [[November 22]] - The [[White Album]] is released by [[The Beatles]] * [[November 26]] - [[Vietnam War]]: [[United States Air Force]] First Lieutenant and [[Bell UH-1F]] helicopter pilot [[James P. Fleming]] rescues an Army [[Special Forces]] unit pinned down by [[Viet Cong]] fire, earning a [[Medal of Honor]] for his bravery. ===December=== {{Month3|12|6|1}} * [[December 9]] - [[Douglas Engelbart]] publicly demonstrates his pioneering [[hypertext]] system, [[NLS (computer system)|NLS]], in [[San Francisco]]. * [[December 10]] - [[Japan]]'s biggest heist, the still-unsolved "[[300 million yen robbery]]", occurs in [[Tokyo]] * [[December 11]] - The film ''[[Oliver! (film)|Oliver!]]'', based on the hit [[London]] and [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] musical, opens in the [[U.S.]] after being released first in [[England]]. It will go on to win the [[Academy Award]] for [[Best Picture]]. *[[December 13]] - [[Brazil]]ian [[President of Brazil|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]]. * [[December 22]] - [[David Eisenhower]] marries [[Julie Nixon]], the daughter of U.S. President-elect [[Richard Nixon]] * [[December 22]] - [[Mao Zedong]] advocates educated youth in urban [[China]] to be re-educated in the country. It marks the start of the "Up to the mountains and down to the villages" movement. * [[December 24]] - [[Apollo Program]]: U.S. spacecraft ''[[Apollo 8]]'' enters orbit around the [[Moon]]. Astronauts [[Frank Borman]], [[Jim Lovell]] and [[William A. Anders]] become the first humans to see the [[Far side (Moon)|far side]] of the [[Moon]] and planet [[Earth]] as a whole. The crew also [[Apollo 8 Genesis reading|reads from Genesis]]. ===Undated=== * The [[Cincinnati]] [[Cincinnati Bengals|Bengals]] American [[American football|football]] team is founded * [[Tasmania]] abolishes capital punishment. * [[Cañada College]] opens in [[Redwood City, California]] ===Ongoing=== *[[Namibian War of Independence]] (1966–1978) *[[North Yemen Civil War]] (1962–1970) *[[Rhodesian Bush War]] (1964–1979) *[[Cultural Revolution]] (1966–1969) ==Births== {{Year in other calendars|japanese=[[Shōwa]] 43}} ===January-February=== <!-- Link dates even if repeated, for date-format preferences. --> * [[January 2]] - [[Cuba Gooding Jr.]], American actor * [[January 5]] - [[Andrzej Gołota]], Polish boxer * [[January 6]] - [[John Singleton]], American film director and writer * [[January 9]] - [[Joey Lauren Adams]], American actress * [[January 9]] - [[Al Schnier]], American [[rock guitar]]ist * [[January 12]] - [[Keith Anderson]], American country music singer-songwriter * [[January 13]] - [[Pat Onstad]], Canadian footballer * [[January 14]] - [[LL Cool J]], American rapper and actor * [[January 15]] - [[Chad Lowe]], American actor * [[January 24]] - [[Mary Lou Retton]], American gymnast * [[January 26]] - [[Novala Takemoto]], Japanese author and fashion designer * [[January 27]] - [[Mike Patton]], American singer * [[January 28]] - [[Sarah McLachlan]], Canadian singer * [[January 29]] - [[Edward Burns]], American actor * [[January 29]] - [[Sora Jung]], Korean actress * [[February 1]] - [[Lisa Marie Presley]], American singer * [[February 1]] - [[Mark Recchi]], Canadian hockey player * [[February 3]] - [[Vlade Divac]], basketball player * [[February 5]] - [[Roberto Alomar]], baseball player * [[February 7]] - [[Peter Bondra]], [[Slovakia]]n [[ice hockey]] player in the [[National Hockey League|NHL]] * [[February 8]] - [[Gary Coleman]], American actor * [[February 10]] - [[Atika Suri]], Indonesian television newscaster * [[February 10]] - [[Laurie Foell]], New Zealand/Australian actress * [[February 13]] - [[Kelly Hu]], American actress and former fashion model * [[February 14]] - [[Jules Asner]], American model and television personality * [[February 14]] - Nelson "[[Nelson Frazier, Jr.|Viscera]]" Frazier, Jr., American professional wrestler * [[February 18]] - [[Dennis Satin]], German film director * [[February 18]] - [[Molly Ringwald]], American actress, singer and dancer * [[February 22]] - [[Brad Nowell]], American musician (d. [[1996]]) * [[February 22]] - [[Jeri Ryan]], American actress * [[February 22]] - [[Delphine Boel]], out-of-wedlock daughter of [[King Albert II of Belgium]] * [[February 25]] - [[Sandrine Kiberlain]], French actress * [[February 25]] - [[Evridiki]], Cypriot singer * [[February 27]] - [[Matt Stairs]], baseball player ===March-April=== <!-- Link all dates, even if repeated, for date-format preferences. --> * [[March 1]] - [[Kunjarani Devi]], Indian weightlifter * [[March 1]] - [[Kathryn Cressida]], American actress * [[March 2]] - [[Daniel Craig]], British actor * [[March 4]] - [[Patsy Kensit]], British actress * [[March 4]] - [[Giovanni Carrara]], Venezuelan Major League Baseball player * [[March 6]] - [[Moira Kelly]], American actress * [[March 10]] - [[Thio Li-ann]], Singaporean law academic and Nominated Member of Parliament * [[March 11]] - [[Lisa Loeb]], American singer * [[March 14]] - [[James Frain]], British actor * [[March 15]] - [[Kahimi Karie]], Japanese singer * [[March 15]] - [[Mark McGrath]], American musician ([[Sugar Ray]]) * [[March 16]] - [[Trevor Wilson (basketball)|Trevor Wilson]], American basketball player * [[March 18]] - [[Shinichiro Miki]], Japanese [[seiyu]] (voice actor) * [[March 19]] - [[Mots'eoa Senyane]], [[Lesotho]] diplomat * [[March 22]] - [[Øystein Aarseth]], Norwegian musician (d. [[1993]]) * [[March 23]] - [[Mike Atherton]], English cricketer * [[March 23]] - [[Damon Albarn]], English musician ([[Blur (band)|Blur]] and [[Gorillaz]]) * [[March 23]] - [[Mitch Cullin]], American novelist * [[March 26]] - [[Kenny Chesney]], American musician * [[March 26]] - [[James Iha]], American musician ([[The Smashing Pumpkins]]) * [[March 28]] - [[Iris Chang]], American author (d. [[2004]]) * [[March 28]] - [[Nasser Hussain]], English cricketer * [[March 29]] - [[Lucy Lawless]], New Zealand actress and singer * [[March 30]] - [[Celine Dion|Céline Dion]], Canadian singer * [[April 1]] - [[Andreas Schnaas]], German director * [[April 1]] - [[Julia Boutros]], Lebanese singer * [[April 3]] - [[Sebastian Bach]], West Indian-born musician ([[Skid Row (heavy metal band)|Skid Row]]) * [[April 8]] - [[Patricia Arquette]], American actress * [[April 14]] - [[Anthony Michael Hall]], American actor and singer * [[April 15]] - [[Stacey Williams]], American model * [[April 18]] - [[David Hewlett]], English born Canadian actor * [[April 19]] - [[Ashley Judd]], American actress * [[April 20]] - [[J. D. Roth]], American television host * [[April 23]] - [[Timothy McVeigh]], American terrorist (d. [[2001]]) * [[April 24]] - [[Stacy Haiduk]], American actress ===May-June=== * [[May 1]] - [[D'Arcy Wretzky]], American musician * [[May 7]] - [[Traci Lords]], American actress * [[May 8]] - [[Jamie Summers]], American porn star * [[May 9]] - [[Marie-José Perec]], French athlete * [[May 12]] - [[Tony Hawk]], American skateboarder * [[May 16]] - [[Chingmy Yau]], Hong Kong actress * [[May 17]] - [[Constance Menard]], professional dressage rider * [[May 20]] - [[Waisale Serevi]], Fijian rugby player * [[May 21]] - [[Julie Vega]], Filipino child actress and singer (d. [[1985]]) * [[May 26]] - [[Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark]] * [[May 27]] - [[Jeff Bagwell]], baseball player * [[May 27]] - [[Frank Thomas (AL baseball player)|Frank Thomas]], baseball player * [[May 28]] - [[Kylie Minogue]], Australian actress and singer * [[June 1]] - [[Jason Donovan]], Australian actor and singer * [[June 2]] - [[Beetlejuice (entertainer)|Beetlejuice]], member of the [[Wack Pack]] from radio's ''[[The Howard Stern Show]]'' * [[June 2]] - [[Jon Culshaw]], English comedian and impressionist * [[June 9]] - [[Alexandr Konovalov]], Russian lawyer and [[politician]] * [[June 10]] - [[Bill Burr]], American comedian * [[June 10]] - [[The D.O.C.]], rapper * [[June 13]] - [[Denise Pearson]], British singer [[Five Star]] * [[June 20]] - [[Peter Paige]], American actor * [[June 25]] - [[Oleg Taktarov]], Russian mixed martial artist * [[June 26]] - [[Iwan Roberts]], Welsh footballer * [[June 26]] - [[Shannon Sharpe]], American football player and commentator * [[June 28]] - [[Adam Woodyatt]], British actor * [[June 29]] - [[Theoren Fleury]], Canadian hockey player * [[June 30]] - [[Phil Anselmo|Philip Anselmo]], American musician ===July-August=== <!-- Link all dates, even if repeated, for date-format preferences. --> * [[July 5]] - [[Ken Akamatsu]], Japanese [[mangaka]] * [[July 7]] - [[Jorja Fox]], American actress * [[July 7]] - [[Jeff VanderMeer]], American writer * [[July 8]] - [[Akio Suyama]], Japanese [[seiyu]] (voice actor) * [[July 8]] - [[Michael Weatherly]], American actor * [[July 10]] - [[Hassiba Boulmerka]], Algerian athlete * [[July 15]] - [[Stan Kirsch]], American actor * [[July 16]] - [[Robin Nixon]], Producer.music.Art. * [[July 16]] - [[Dhanraj Pillay]], Indian field hockey player * [[July 16]] - [[Barry Sanders]], American football player * [[July 17]] - [[Darren Day]], actor and TV presenter * [[July 19]] - [[Jim Norton (comedian)|Jim Norton]], American comedian and radio personality (The [[Opie and Anthony]] Show) * [[July 22]] - [[Rhys Ifans]], Welsh actor * [[July 24]] - [[Kristin Chenoweth]], American soprano and actress * [[July 27]] - [[Julian McMahon]], Australian actor * [[July 30]] - [[Robert Korzeniowski]], Polish racewalker * [[August 1]] - [[Dan Donegan]], American musician ([[Disturbed]]) *[[August 3]] - [[Rod Beck]], American baseball player (d.[[2007]]) * [[August 5]] - [[Colin McRae]], Scottish [[rally car]] driver (d. [[2007]]) * [[August 9]] - [[Gillian Anderson]], American actress * [[August 9]] - [[James Roy]], Australian author * [[August 9]] - [[Eric Bana]], Australian actor * [[August 10]] - [[Greg Hawgood]], Canadian ice hockey player * [[August 11]] - [[Charlie Sexton]], American guitarist, singer and songwriter * [[August 12]] - [[Andras Jones]], American actor * [[August 14]] - [[Jason Leonard]], English rugby player * [[August 14]] - [[Darren Clarke]], Northern Irish professional golfer * [[August 15]] - [[Debra Messing]], American actress * [[August 17]] - [[Ed McCaffrey]], American football player * [[August 17]] - [[Bruno van Pottelsberghe]], Belgian economist * [[August 24]] - [[Tim Salmon]], American baseball player * [[August 25]] - [[Rachael Ray]], American television chef and host * [[August 28]] - [[Billy Boyd]], Scottish actor * [[August 31]] - [[Hideo Nomo]], Japanese baseball player === September-October === * [[September 1]] - [[Mohamed Atta al Sayed]], Egyptian terrorist * [[September 4]] - [[Phill Lewis]], American actor * [[September 4]] - [[Mike Piazza]], American baseball player * [[September 6]] - [[Tommy Snider]], American actor * [[September 7]] - [[Marcel Desailly]], French footballer * [[September 10]] - [[Big Daddy Kane]], hip-hop artist * [[September 11]] - [[Kay Hanley]], American musician * [[September 11]] - [[Tetsuo Kurata]], Japanese actor * [[September 18]] - [[Toni Kukoč]], Croatian basketball player * [[September 20]] - [[Darrell Russell (drag racer)|Darrell Russell]], race car driver (d. [[2004]]) * [[September 20]] - [[Phillipa Forrester]], British TV presenter * [[September 20]] - [[Leah Pinsent]], Canadian actress * [[September 23]] - [[Yvette Fielding]], English television presenter * [[September 25]] - [[Will Smith]], American rapper and actor * [[September 26]] - [[James Caviezel]], American actor * [[September 28]] - [[Naomi Watts]], English-born actress * [[September 29]] - [[Patrick Burns (paranormal investigator)|Patrick Burns]], American paranormal investigator and television personality * [[September 29]] - [[Samir Soni]], Indian film and TV actor * [[October 1]] - [[Mark Durden-Smith]], English television presenter * [[October 2]] - [[Victoria Derbyshire]], British radio presenter * [[October 3]] - [[Paul Crichton]], English footballer * [[October 7]] - [[Thom Yorke]], British singer/songwriter * [[October 8]] - [[CL Smooth]], American rapper * [[October 10]] - [[Feridun Düzağaç]], Turkish rock music artist singer and songwriter * [[October 10]] - [[Bart Brentjens]], Dutch mountainbiker * [[October 11]] - [[Jane Krakowski]], American actress * [[October 12]] - [[Hugh Jackman]], Australian actor * [[October 14]] - [[Johnny Goudie]], American musician * [[October 14]] - [[Matthew Le Tissier]], English footballer * [[October 15]] - [[Didier Deschamps]], French footballer * [[October 15]] - [[Jyrki 69]], Finnish singer * [[October 17]] - [[Ziggy Marley]], Jamaican musician and oldest son of [[Bob Marley]] * [[October 19]] - [[Rodney Carrington]], American stand-up comic and comic country musician * [[October 22]] - [[Shaggy (artist)|Shaggy]], Jamaican singer * [[October 24]] - [[Sal the Stockbroker]], American comedian and radio writer for ''[[The Howard Stern Show]]'' * [[October 29]] - [[Tsunku]], Japanese singer, music producer, and song composer * [[October 31]] - [[Vanilla Ice]], American rapper === November-December === <!-- Link dates even if repeated, for date-format preferences. House style is to repeat dates, not use second-level bullet points. --> * [[November 3]] - [[Debbie Rochon]], Canadian actress * [[November 4]] - [[Council Nedd II]], American, Anglican bishop * [[November 4]] - [[Daniel Landa]], Czech composer, singer, actor and rallye racer. * [[November 4]] - [[Lee Germon]], New Zealand cricketer * [[November 8]] - [[Parker Posey]], American actress * [[November 8]] - [[Zara Whites]], Dutch actress * [[November 9]] - [[Nazzareno Carusi]], Italian pianist * [[November 10]] - [[Steve Brookstein]], British singer * [[November 10]] - [[Petra Liebetanz]], German-American photographer * [[November 11]] - [[David L Cook]], Christian music singer and comedian * [[November 12]] - [[Sammy Sosa]], Dominican [[Major League Baseball]] player * [[November 13]] - [[Pat Hentgen]], baseball player * [[November 14]] - [[Serge Postigo]], Canadian actor * [[November 15]] - [[Jennifer Charles]], American singer * [[November 15]] - [[Ol' Dirty Bastard]], American rapper (d. [[2004]]) * [[November 18]] - [[Barry Hunter]], Northern Irish footballer and football manager * [[November 18]] - [[Owen Wilson]], American actor * [[November 20]] - [[John Trobaugh]], American artist and photographer * [[November 22]] - [[Rasmus Lerdorf]], Creator of [[PHP]] * [[November 23]] - [[Hamid Hassani]], Iranian scholar * [[November 25]] - [[Jill Hennessy]], Canadian actress * [[November 25]] - [[Jacqueline Hennessy]], Canadian actress and talk show host * [[November 27]] - [[Michael Vartan]], French actor * [[November 29]] - [[Jonathan Knight]], American singer * [[December 2]] - [[Nate Mendel]], member of the band, [[Foo Fighters]] * [[December 2]] - [[Lucy Liu]], American actress * [[December 5]] - [[Margaret Cho]], Korean-American actress and comedian * [[December 7]] - [[Mark Geyer]], Australian [[rugby league]] player * [[December 8]] - [[Mike Mussina]], baseball player * [[December 8]] - [[Michael Cole]], [[World Wrestling Entertainment]] (WWE) commentator * [[December 9]] - [[Kurt Angle]], American amateur and professional wrestler, [[1996 Summer Olympics|1996 Olympic]] Gold Medalist * [[December 17]] - [[Paul Tracy]], Canadian race car driver * [[December 18]] - [[Rachel Griffiths]], Australian actress ===Unknown dates=== *[[George Henry Smyth]], Irish artist *[[Andrei Ivanovitch]], a famous international classical pianist ==Deaths== ===January-March=== <!-- Link dates even if repeated, for date-format preferences. --> * [[January 7]] - [[Gholamreza Takhti]], The most famous wrestler in Iranian history (b. [[1930]]) * [[January 15]] - [[Bill Masterton]], Canadian hockey player (b. [[1938]]) * [[January 19]] - [[Ray Harroun]], American race car driver (b. [[1879]]) * [[January 21]] - [[Will Lang Jr.]], American journalist (b. [[1914]]) * [[January 22]] - [[Duke Kahanamoku]], American swimmer (b. [[1890]]) * [[January 26]] - [[Merrill C. Meigs]], American newspaper publisher and aviation promoter (b. [[1883]]) * [[January 30]] - [[Robert Wood Johnson II|Robert Wood Johnson]], American business leader and philanthropist (b. [[1893]]) * [[February 4]] - [[Neal Cassady]], American writer (b. [[1926]]) * [[February 11]] - [[Howard Lindsay]], American playwright (b. [[1888]]) * [[February 20]] - [[Anthony Asquith]], British director and writer (b. [[1902]]) * [[February 21]] - [[Howard Walter Florey]], Australian-born pharmacologist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine]] (b. [[1898]]) * [[February 22]] - [[Peter Arno]], American cartoonist (b. [[1904]]) * [[February 27]] - [[Frankie Lymon]], American singer (b. [[1942]]) * [[February 29]] - [[Tore Ørjasæter]], Norwegian poet (b. [[1886]]) * [[March 16]] - [[Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco]], Italian composer (b. [[1895]]) * [[March 16]] - [[Leon Cadore]], American baseball pitcher (b. [[1890]] * [[March 20]] - [[Charles Chaplin Jr.]], American actor (b. [[1925]]) * [[March 23]] - [[Edwin O'Connor]], American novelist and [[Pulitzer Prize for Fiction]] winner (b. [[1918]]) * [[March 27]] - [[Yuri Gagarin]], cosmonaut (b. [[1934]]) * [[March 30]] - [[Bobby Driscoll]], American child actor (b. [[1937]]) ===April-June=== <!--DEATHS--> <!-- Link all dates, even if repeated, for date-format preferences. --> * [[April 1]] - [[Lev Davidovich Landau]], Russian physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1908]]) * [[April 4]] - Rev. [[Martin Luther King Jr.]], American civil rights activist, recipient of the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] (assassinated) (b. [[1929]]) * [[April 7]] - [[Jim Clark (racing driver)|Jimmy Clark]], Scottish race car driver (b. [[1936]]) * [[April 10]] - [[Gustavs Celmins]], Latvian politician (b. [[1899]]) * [[April 14]] - [[Al Benton]], baseball player (b. [[1911]]) * [[April 22]] - [[Stephen H. Sholes]], American record executive (b. [[1911]]) * [[April 25]] - [[John Tewksbury]], American athlete (b. [[1876]]) * [[May 7]] - [[Mike Spence]] British race car driver (b. [[1936]]) * [[May 9]] - [[Mercedes de Acosta]], American poet, playwright, costume designer, and socialite (b. [[1893]]) * [[May 9]] - [[Marion Lorne]], American actress (b. [[1883]]) * [[May 14]] - [[Husband E. Kimmel]], American admiral (b. [[1882]]) * [[June 1]] - [[Helen Keller]], American spokeswoman for deaf and blind (b. [[1880]]) * [[June 6]] - [[Robert F. Kennedy]], U.S. Senator and [[U.S. Attorney General]] (assassinated) (b. [[1925]]) * [[June 14]] - [[Salvatore Quasimodo]], Italian writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1901]]) * [[June 15]] - [[Sam Crawford]], baseball player (b. [[1880]]) * [[June 24]] - [[Tony Hancock]], British comedian (b. [[1924]]) ===July-December=== <!--DEATHS--> <!-- Link all dates, even if repeated, for date-format preferences. --> *[[July 18]] - [[Corneille Heymans]], Belgian physiologist, [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1892]]) *[[July 23]] - [[Henry Hallett Dale]], English scientist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (b. [[1875]]) * [[July 28]] - [[Otto Hahn]], German chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1879]]) * [[July 31]] - [[Jack Pizzey]], incumbent Premier of Queensland, Australia (b. [[1911]]) * [[August 19]] - [[George Gamow]], Ukrainian-born physicist (b. [[1904]]) * [[August 27]] - [[Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark|Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent]] (b. [[1906]]) * [[August 29]] - [[Ulysses S. Grant III]], American soldier and planner (b. [[1881]]) * [[September 8]] - [[Luther Perkins]], American guitarist (b. [[1928]]) * [[September 12]] - [[Tommy Armour]], Scottish golfer (b. [[1894]]) * [[October 2]] - [[Marcel Duchamp]], French artist (b. [[1887]]) * [[October 9]] - [[Pierre Mulele]], [[Democratic Republic of the Congo|Congolese]] [[revolutionary]] * [[October 13]] - [[Bea Benaderet]], American actress (b. [[1906]]) * [[October 30]] - [[Rose Wilder Lane]], American author and reporter (b. [[1886]]) * [[October 30]] - [[Ramón Novarro]], Mexican actor (b. [[1899]]) * [[November 4]] - [[Michel Kikoine]], Belarusian painter (b. [[1892]]) * [[November 6]] - [[Charles Munch]], French conductor and violinist (b. [[1891]]) * [[November 25]] - [[Upton Sinclair]], American writer (b. [[1878]]) * [[November 26]] - [[Arnold Zweig]], German writer (b. [[1887]]) * [[December 2]] - [[Adamson-Eric]], Estonian artist (b. [[1902]]) * [[December 10]] - [[Karl Barth]], German Protestant theologian (b. [[1888]]) * [[December 10]] - [[Thomas Merton]], American author (b. [[1915]]) * [[December 12]] - [[Tallulah Bankhead]], American actress (b. [[1902]]) * [[December 19]] - [[Norman Thomas]], American politician (b. [[1884]]) * [[December 20]] - [[John Steinbeck]], American writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1902]]) * [[December 30]] - [[Trygve Lie]], first [[United Nations Secretary General]] (b. [[1896]]) * [[December 30]] - [[Vladimir Peter Tytla]], American animator (b. [[1904]]) *[[December 31]] - [[George Lewis (clarinetist)|George Lewis]], American musician (b. [[1900]]) ===Unknown dates=== * [[Berthold Bartosch]], Czech animator (b. [[1893]]) * [[Jouett Shouse]], American politician (b. [[1879]]) * [[Ellsworth Johnson]], American gangster (b. [[1906]]) == Nobel prizes == * [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Physics]] - [[Luis Walter Alvarez]] * [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Chemistry]] - [[Lars Onsager]] * [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Physiology or Medicine]] - [[Robert W. Holley]], [[Har Gobind Khorana]], [[Marshall W. Nirenberg]] * [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Literature]] - [[Yasunari Kawabata]] * [[Nobel Peace Prize|Peace]] - [[Rene Cassin|René Cassin]] ==Academy Awards== *Best Picture: ''[[In the Heat of the Night (film)|In the Heat of the Night]]'', [[Walter Mirisch]] *Best Foreign Language Film: ''[[Closely Watched Trains]]'', [[Czechoslovakia]] *Best Documentary Feature: ''[[The Anderson Platoon]]'', [[Pierre Schoendoerffer]] *Best Director: [[Mike Nichols]], ''[[The Graduate]]'' *Best Actor: [[Rod Steiger]], ''[[In the Heat of the Night (film)|In the Heat of the Night]]'' *Best Actress: [[Katharine Hepburn]], ''[[Guess Who's Coming to Dinner]]'' *Best Supporting Actor: [[George Kennedy]], ''[[Cool Hand Luke]]'' *Best Supporting Actress: [[Estelle Parsons]], ''[[Bonnie and Clyde (film)| Bonnie and Clyde]]'' *Best Original Screenplay: [[William Rose]], ''[[Guess Who's Coming to Dinner]]'' *Best Adapted Screenplay: [[Stirling Silliphant]], ''[[In the Heat of the Night (film)| In the Heat of the Night]]'' ==Notes== {{Reflist}} ==References== *TIME Magazine, 40th Anniversary Special (2008). "1968: The Year That Changed the World." *NEWSWEEK Magazine. "[http://prnwire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/11-11-2007/0004702702&EDATE= 1968: The Year That Made Us Who We Are]." November 19, 2007. *TIME Magazine. "[http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19880111,00.html 1968: The Year That Shaped a Generation]." January 11, 1988. * Kurlansky, Mark. (2004). ''1968: The Year that Rocked the World''. Jonathan Cape, Great Britain. Reprint (2005): Vintage, London. ISBN 0–09–942962–4. * NPR "[http://www.npr.org/templates/archives/archive.php?thingId=89372462&startNum=16 Echoes of 1968]" report series. {{commonscat}} ==See also== * [[Protests of 1968]] ==External links== * [http://www.wcbs880.com/topic/play_window.php?audioType=Episode&audioId=847884 1968 - The Year in Sound] An Audiofile produced by Lou Zambrana of WCBS Newsradio 880 (WCBS-AM New York) Part of WCBS 880's celebration of 40 years of newsradio. *[http://www.coinpage.com/1968-pictures.html 1968 Coin Pictures] *[http://www.magnum1968.com Magnum Photos, Historic photos from 1968] [[Category:1968| ]] [[af:1968]] [[am:1968 እ.ኤ.አ.]] [[ar:1968]] [[an:1968]] [[frp:1968]] [[ast:1968]] [[av:1968]] [[az:1968]] [[bn:১৯৬৮]] [[zh-min-nan:1968 nî]] [[map-bms:1968]] [[be:1968]] [[be-x-old:1968]] [[bh:१९६८]] [[bs:1968]] [[br:1968]] [[bg:1968]] [[ca:1968]] [[cv:1968]] [[cs:1968]] [[co:1968]] [[cy:1968]] [[da:1968]] [[pdc:1968]] [[de:1968]] [[et:1968]] [[el:1968]] [[es:1968]] [[eo:1968]] [[eu:1968]] [[fa:۱۹۶۸ (میلادی)]] [[fo:1968]] [[hif:1968]] [[fr:1968]] [[fy:1968]] [[ga:1968]] [[gan:1968年]] [[gv:1968]] [[gd:1968]] [[gl:1968]] [[ko:1968년]] [[hy:1968]] [[hi:1968]] [[hr:1968.]] [[io:1968]] [[ilo:1968]] [[bpy:মারি ১৯৬৮]] [[id:1968]] [[ia:1968]] [[os:1968]] [[is:1968]] [[it:1968]] [[he:1968]] [[jv:1968]] [[pam:1968]] [[kn:೧೯೬೮]] [[ka:1968]] [[csb:1968]] [[kk:1968]] [[kw:1968]] [[sw:1968]] [[ht:1968 (almanak gregoryen)]] [[ku:1968]] [[la:1968]] [[lb:1968]] [[lt:1968 m.]] [[lij:1968]] [[ln:1968]] [[lmo:1968]] [[hu:1968]] [[mk:1968]] [[mi:1968]] [[mr:इ.स. १९६८]] [[ms:1968]] [[nah:1968]] [[nl:1968]] [[new:ई सं १९६८]] [[ja:1968年]] [[nap:1968]] [[no:1968]] [[nn:1968]] [[nrm:1968]] [[nov:1968]] [[oc:1968]] [[uz:1968]] [[pi:१९६८]] [[nds:1968]] [[pl:1968]] [[pt:1968]] [[crh:1968]] [[ty:1968]] [[ksh:Joohr 1968]] [[ro:1968]] [[qu:1968]] [[ru:1968 год]] [[se:1968]] [[sq:1968]] [[scn:1968]] [[simple:1968]] [[sk:1968]] [[sl:1968]] [[so:1968]] [[sr:1968]] [[sh:1968]] [[su:1968]] [[fi:1968]] [[sv:1968]] [[tl:1968]] [[ta:1968]] [[tt:1968]] [[te:1968]] [[th:พ.ศ. 2511]] [[vi:1968]] [[tg:1968]] [[tr:1968]] [[tk:1968]] [[uk:1968]] [[vec:1968]] [[wa:1968]] [[vls:1968]] [[wuu:公元1968年]] [[yo:1968]] [[zh-yue:1968年]] [[cbk-zam:1968]] [[bat-smg:1968]] [[zh:1968年]]