Historical Events in July 1968

Jul 1 John Lennon's 1st full art exhibition (You are Here)

Jul 1 US, Britain, USSR & 58 nations sign Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty
Jul 1 USSR performs underground nuclear test
Jul 1 The CIA's Phoenix Program is officially established.
Jul 1 Formal separation of the United Auto Workers from the AFL-CIO.
Jul 2 An El Al Israeli airliner is hijacked and diverted to Algeria by three armed members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)
Jul 3 41°F lowest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in July
Jul 3 Cleveland pitcher Luis Tiant strikes out a record 19 Minnesota Twins (10 inns) for another record 32 Ks in consecutive games
Jul 3 As part of a series of protests against housing conditions in Derry, the Derry Housing Action Committee (DHAC) hold a sit-down protest on the newly opened second deck of the Craigavon Bridge in the city, Northern Ireland
Jul 4 Arthur Kopit's "Indians" premieres in London
Jul 4 Radio astronomy satellite Explorer 38 launched
Jul 5 "Manifest of 1000 words" published in Prague
Jul 5 John Lennon sells his psychedelic painted Rolls-Royce

Jul 5 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Billie Jean King beats Judy Tegart 9-7, 7-5 to earn first ever prize money (£750) offered at Wimbledon

Jul 6 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Rod Laver beats Tony Roche 6-3, 6-4, 6-2 to earn first ever prize money (£2,000) offered at Wimbledon
Jul 6 Sacharov publishes "Manifest of 10,000 words"

Jul 7 US Open Women's Golf, Moselem Springs GC: Susie Maxwell Berning beats Mickey Wright by 3 strokes

Jul 9 Wilt Chamberlain becomes the first reigning NBA MVP to be traded the next season when he moves from Philadelphia 76'ers to LA Lakers

Jul 9 15.68" (39.83 cm) of rainfall, Columbus, Mississippi (state 24-hour record)
Jul 9 39th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 1-0 at Astrodome, Houston

Jul 9 All star MVP: Willie Mays (SF Giants), 1st player to win a second times

Jul 10 US Major League baseball announces it will split into 2 divisions for 1969
Jul 11 Earl Weaver replaces Hank Bauer as manager of Orioles
Jul 11 Start of Colin Cowdrey's 100th Test, 1st person to do so
Jul 12 Couve de Murville forms government in France
Jul 12 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR

Jul 13 97th British Golf Open: Gary Player shoots 289 at Carnoustie Scotland

Jul 14 Brave Hank Aaron hits his 500th HR off SF Giant Mike McCormick

Jul 17 Bloodless coup in Iraq led by General Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr
Jul 18 The Intel Corporation is founded in Santa Clara, California
Jul 20 Jane Asher breaks her engagement with Paul McCartney on live TV
Jul 20 Iron Butterfly's "In-a-gadda-da-vida" becomes 1st heavy metal song to hit charts, it comes in at #117

Jul 21 PGA Championship, Pecan Valley GC: Julius Boros (48) becomes oldest winner of a major; wins by 1 from Bob Charles & Arnold Palmer

Jul 21 55th Tour de France won by Jan Janssen of Netherlands
Jul 22 Sir John Newsome recommends public schools should take 50% of their intake from the state school system
Jul 23 Fred Blasie wins 5th wrestling world championship belt
Jul 23 PLO's 1st hijacking of an El Al plane
Jul 23 Race riot in Cleveland, 11 including 3 police officers killed
Jul 24 Hoyt Wilhelm's 907th pitch breaks Cy Young's record for pitching appearances
Jul 24 Hoyt Wilhelm pitches in a record 907th major league game
Jul 25 Pope Paul VI encyclical against On regulation of birth
Jul 27 Race Riot in Gary Indiana
Jul 29 Cincinnati Red George Culver no hits Phillies, 6-1
Jul 29 Gram Parsons refuses to play with the Byrds in South Africa
Jul 29 Mount Arenal, Costa Rica kills 80 in Pelee-type eruption
Jul 29 Pope Paul VI, in an encyclical entitled "Humanae Vitae" (Of Human Life), declares any artificial forms of birth control prohibited
Jul 29 Washington, D.C. Ron Hansen makes unassisted triple play vs Cleve
Jul 30 Wash Senator Ron Hansen makes 1st unassisted triple-play in 41 years
Jul 31 The Beatles close Apple Boutique in London, giving clothes away for free