1968
- In the last minute of a football game between the Oakland Raiders and the New York Jets, Oakland scores two touchdowns to overcome a 32–29 New York lead, just as the NBC Television Network breaks away from the game, with the Jets still winning, to air the television film Heidi
- Japan Airlines Flight 2 flying from Tokyo International Airport to San Francisco International Airport lands in the shallow waters of San Francisco Bay, two and a half miles short of the runway, with no injuries
- Douglas Englebart presents a demonstration of potential new computer technology (prototype based on the demo pictured) at the Fall Joint Computer Conference in San Francisco
- The Lawrence Hall of Science (pictured) is established in Berkeley
- KSFR, 94.9 FM, changes to call letters KSAN, and switches formats from classical music to freeform rock
- Luis Walter Alvarez at the University of California, Berkeley is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics