Historical Events in August 1968

Aug 8 Republican convention in Miami Beach nominates Richard Nixon for president

Aug 9 Yugoslav president Tito visits Prague
Aug 10 Race riot in Miami, Chicago & Little Rock
Aug 10 Shirley Englehorn wins LPGA Concord Golf Open
Aug 11 Beatles launch "Apple Records" label
Aug 11 Satchel Paige (62) & needing 158 days on a major league payroll to qualify for a pension, is signed by Braves
Aug 11 Fifteen Guinea Special - last main-line steam passenger train service in Britain. Selection of British Rail steam locomotives make a return 120-mile journey Liverpool to Carlisle, before having their fires dropped for the last time.
Aug 14 Montreal Expos officially become a member of NL
Aug 15 Pirate Radio Free London begins transmitting

Aug 15 Romanian president Nicolae Ceausescu visits Prague

Aug 15 USSR performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan USSR
Aug 17 Dick Beyers (Dr X) beats Verne Gagne, to become NWA champ
Aug 20 During the night 200,000 Warsaw Pact Soviet led troops invade Czechoslovakia in response to the Prague Spring
Aug 20 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR

Aug 21 After 5 years Soviet Union once again jams Voice of America radio
Aug 21 Democratic Convention opens in Chicago, goes on to nominate Hubert Humphrey
Aug 21 Marine James Anderson Jr is 1st African American to win Medal of Honor
Aug 21 Warsaw Pact forces complete their invasion of Czechoslovakia by arresting the Czech leader Alexander Dubček and forcing him to sign the Moscow Protocols
Aug 21 William Dana reaches 80 km (last high-altitude X-15 flight)
Aug 22 1st papal visit to Latin America, Pope Paul VI arrives in Bogota to open a Eucharistic congress.
Aug 22 The Society of Labour Lawyers (SLL) publishes an 'interim report' about alleged discrimination in Northern Ireland; the report is heavily criticised by unionists.
Aug 23 Ringo quits Beatles over a disagreement (temporarily).
Aug 23 Yanks & Tigers play 3-3 tie in 19 due to 1 AM curfew
Aug 24 France becomes the world's fifth thermonuclear power with a detonation on Mururoa Atoll in the South Pacific
Aug 24 Northern Ireland's first civil rights march held; many more marches would be held over the following year and Loyalists organized counter-demonstrations to get the marches banned

Aug 25 Arthur Ashe becomes 1st African American to win the US singles championship

Aug 25 NY Yankee outfield Rocky Colavito pitches second 2/3 innings and beats Tigers 6-5; he played right field in second game and homered
Aug 25 29th Venice Film Festival: "Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed" directed by Alexander Kluge wins Golden Lion
Aug 26 "Hey Jude" single released by the Beatles (Billboard Song of the Year 1968, Billboard 10th biggest song of all time 2013)
Aug 27 Portest by the Derry Housing Action Committee (DHAC) at the Guildhall's council chamber; after which Eamon Melaugh phones the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association (NICRA) to organise a march in Derry
Aug 28 Police & anti-war demonstrators clash at Chicago's Democratic National Convention
Aug 28 MP Gerry Fitt, tables House of Commons motion criticising Royal Ulster Constabulary at Dungannon "citizens of Northern Ireland should be allowed the same rights of peaceful demonstration as those in other parts of the United Kingdom"

Aug 29 1st US Open tennis match (Billie Jean King beats Dr Vija Vuskains)

Aug 30 John Lennon and Yoko Ono's "One on One" benefit for children at Madison Square Garden, New York

Aug 31 Private Eye magazine reports a John Lennon and Yoko Ono album will have a picture of them nude on cover

Aug 31 Roy Face ties W Johnson's record of 802 pitching appearances with club
Aug 31 Verne Gagne beats Dick Beyers (Dr X) in Minn, to become NWA champ
Aug 31 Gary Sobers becomes the first cricketer to hit 6 sixes in one over