1968

Events

 * April 1:
 * Robert McNamara becomes President of the World Bank Group
 * September 3:
 * Raúl Castro becomes Ambassador to Bolivia
 * December 24:
 * Theodore Stevens becomes a Senator of Alaska

Births

 * March 4:
 * James Paul Lankford - Senator of Oklahoma (Living)
 * May 9:
 * Edward Scott Pruitt - 14th Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (Living)
 * June 3:
 * Eric David Hargan - United States Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services (Living)
 * June 16:
 * Donald Francis McGahn II - 40th White Hall Counsel (Living)

Deaths

 * December 11:
 * Edward Lewis Bartlett - Senator of Alaska (b. 1904)