1968 in the United Kingdom

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Events from the year 1968 in the United Kingdom.

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March 12 - Mauritius achieves independence from British Rule.
March 15 - George Brown, British Foreign Secretary, resigns.
March 17 - A demonstration in London's Grosvenor Square against U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War leads to violence - 91 police injured, 200 demonstrators arrested.
April 1 - Thames Valley Police is formed by the amalgamation of Berkshire Constabulary, Buckinghamshire Constabulary, Oxford City Police, Oxfordshire Constabulary and Reading Borough Police.
April 7 - Racing driver Jim Clark is killed in a Formula 2 race at Hockenheim.
April 20 - Enoch Powell makes his controversial Rivers of Blood Speech.
June 20 - Austin Currie, Member of Parliament (MP) at Stormont in Northern Ireland, along with others, squats a house in Caledon to protest discrimination in housing allocations.
August 11 - The last steam passenger train service runs in Britain. A British Rail steam locomotive makes the 314-mile journey from Liverpool to Carlisle and returns to Liverpool before being dispatched to the wrecking yard.
October 5 - A civil rights march in Derry, Northern Ireland, which included several Stormont and British MPs, is batoned off the streets by the Royal Ulster Constabulary.

12 January - Heather Mills McCartney, British campaigner and estranged wife of the former Beatle Sir Paul McCartney
27 January - Tricky (born Adrian Thaws), English rapper and musician
16 February - Warren Ellis, British comic-book and graphic-novel writer
February 18 - Tommy Scott, British musician and frontman of 1990s' Britpop group Space
March 2 - Daniel Craig, British actor
March 4 - Patsy Kensit, English actress
5 March - Theresa Villiers, British Conservative politician and MP for Chipping Barnet
18 March - Paul Marsden, British Labour/Liberal Democrat politician
21 March - Jaye Davidson, British actor
March 23 - Mike Atherton, English cricketer
March 23 - Damon Albarn, English musician (Blur and Gorillaz)
26 March - Chris Ward, British chess Grandmaster, chess coach, and author
March 28 - Nasser Hussain, English cricketer
8 April - Jenny Powell, British television presenter
22 April - Amanda Mealing, British actress
23 April - Ricky Groves, English actor

4 May - Julian Barratt, English comedian and actor
8 May - Rachel Jordan, British artist
9 May - Ruth Kelly, British Labour politician, Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, and MP for Bolton West
12 May - Catherine Tate, comedienne
27 May - Rebekah Wade, British journalist and editor of The Sun
29 May - Torquhil Ian Campbell, 13th Duke of Argyll, Scottish peer
29 May - Jessica Morden, British Labour politician and MP for Newport East
June 2 - John Culshaw, English comedian and impressionist
5 June - Edward Vaizey, British Conservative politician and MP for Wantage
June 13 - Marcel Theroux, British novelist and broadcaster, and son of American writer Paul Theroux
June 26 - Iwan Roberts, Welsh footballer
June 28 - Adam Woodyatt, British actor
20 July - Julian Rhind-Tutt, English film, television and radio actor
22 July - Rhys Ifans, Welsh Actor
August 14- Darren Clarke, Northern Irish golfer
26 July - Olivia Williams, English actress
5 August - Colin McRae, Scottish rally driver
14 August - Adrian Lester, British actor
August 22 - Elisabeth Murdoch, Australian-born business executive
26 August - Chris Boardman, English racing cyclist

9 September - Julia Sawalha, English actress
9 September - Anas Altikriti, British Anti-War activist
14 September - Grant Shapps, British Conservative politician and MP for Welwyn Hatfield
September 20 - Phillipa Forrester, British TV presenter
September 28 - Naomi Watts, English-born actress
1 October - Mark Durden-Smith, British television presenter
October 2 - Victoria Derbyshire, British Radio presenter
October 3 - Paul Crichton, English footballer
October 7 - Thom Yorke, British singer/songwriter
October 14 - Matthew Le Tissier, English footballer
14 October - Roger Moorhouse, British historian and author
27 October - Martin Clark, English snooker player
November 10 - Steve Brookstein, British singer
November 18 - Barry Hunter, Northern Irish footballer and football manager
22 November - Andrew Gilligan, British journalist
20 December - Phil Andrews, British race car driver
23 December - Siôn Simon, British Labour politician and MP for Birmingham Erdington

Moazzam Begg, British Islamist once held in extrajudicial detention in the US Guantanamo Bay detainment camp]
James Brokenshire, British Conservative politician and MP for Hornchurch
Matthew d'Ancona, British journalist and editor of The Spectator
Andrew O'Hagan, Scottish writer and novelist
Chris Ofili, English painter
Paul Rowen, British Liberal Democrat politician and MP for Rochdale