Historical Events in 1968 (Part 3)

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• Jun 17 Ohio Express' "Yummy Yummy Yummy" goes gold
• Jun 18 Supreme Court bans racial discrimination in sale and rental of housing
• Jun 19 50,000 participate in Solidarity Day March of Poor People's Campaign
• Jun 20 Jim Hines becomes 1st person to run 100 meters in under 10 seconds
• Jun 20 Austin Currie, then Nationalist Member of Parliament (MP) at Stormont, and other Irish civil rights activists, protest discrimination in the allocation of housing by 'squatting' (illegally occupying) in a house in Caledon, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland

• Jun 21 18th Berlin International Film Festival: "Who Saw Him Die?" wins the Golden Bear
• Jun 22 "Here Come Da Judge" by The Buena Vistas peaks at #88
• Jun 23 74 are killed and 150 injured in a football stampede towards a closed exit in a Buenos Aires stadium
• Jun 24 14th LPGA Championship won by Sandra Post
• Jun 24 Australia all out for 78 v England at Lord's
• Jun 24 Deadline for redeeming silver certificate dollars for silver bullion
• Jun 24 Jim Northrup hits 2 grand-slammers to help Tigers beat Cleve 14-3

• Jun 24 Resurrection City in Washington, D.C. closed permanently
• Jun 25 Bobby Bonds hits a grand slam in his 1st major league game (Giants)


• Jun 26 Executive Council decides both AL & NL to divide into 2 divisions

• Jun 27 Ludvik Vaculik publishes "Manifest of 2000 words" in Prague
• Jun 28 Daniel Ellsberg indicted for leaking Pentagon Papers
• Jun 29 "Tip-Toe Thru' The Tulips With Me" by Tiny Tim peaks at #17
• Jun 30 East German Communist Party leader Walter Ulbricht receives "Order of October Revolution"
• Jun 30 Gaullists win French parliamentary election, 358 of 458 seats
• Jul 1 Cardinals pitcher Bob Gibson's streak of 47 2/3 scoreless innings (3rd most live era) ends on wild pitch but earns 8-1 win v LA Dodgers
• Jul 1 Fortuna Sittard soccer team forms in Sittard

• 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 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 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
• Jul 7 Rock group "Yardbirds" disband
• Jul 8 Israeli-Egyptian artillery duel along Suez Canal

• 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 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 reach the milestone
• Jul 12 Couve de Murville forms government in France
• Jul 12 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR

• Jul 13 French government-Couve de Murville forms

• Jul 14 Houston Astro Don Wilson strikes-out 18, beats Reds 6-1
• Jul 14 WSWO TV channel 26 in Springfield, OH (ABC) begins broadcasting
• Jul 15 "One Life to Live", American soap opera, premieres on TV
• Jul 15 Commercial air travel begins between US & USSR
• Jul 15 France performs nuclear Test at Mururoa atoll
• Jul 15 NJ Americans moved to Comack & become NY Nets (ABA)
• Jul 17 The Beatles' animated film "Yellow Submarine" premieres in London
• 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 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
• Aug 1 Canada begins replacing silver with nickel in coins
• Aug 1 Cleveland Metroparks begins operating Zoo
• Aug 1 WXIX TV channel 19 in Cincinnati-Newport, OH (IND) begins broadcasting
• Aug 1 The coronation is held of Hassanal Bolkiah, the 29th Sultan of Brunei.
• Aug 2 35th Chicago College All-Star Game: Green Bay 34, All-Stars 17, 69,917 at Soldier Field
• Aug 2 Ron Hansen (Washington) & Tim Cullen (Chicago WS) become the first MLB players to be traded for each other twice in the same season, they had been traded in February in opposite directions
• Aug 3 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
• Aug 4 100,000 attend Newport Pop Festival, Costa Mesa, California
• Aug 4 WXTV TV channel 41 in New York-Paterson, NY (UNI) begins broadcasting
• Aug 5 WMCV (now WZTV) TV channel 17 in Nashville, TN (IND) 1st broadcast
• Aug 8 Jarry Park is approved by Mayor Jean Drapeau for interim use by Expos
• Aug 8 Race riot in Miami, Florida

• Aug 9 Yugoslav president Tito visits Prague
• Aug 10 Race riot in Miami, Chicago & Little Rock
• 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 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 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 29 Democrats nominate Hubert H Humphrey for US President (Chicago)
• Aug 30 1st record under Apple label (Beatle's Hey Jude)
• Aug 30 John Lennon and Yoko Ono's "One on One" benefit for children at Madison Square Garden, New York
• Aug 31 12,000 die in 7.8 quake destroys 60,000 buildings in NE Iran
• Aug 31 68th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Bruce Fleisher

• 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
• Sep 1 Earthquake destroys Ferdows Persia, 2,000 killed
• Sep 1 Pirate Radio Marina (Netherlands) begins transmitting

• Sep 4 Nigerian troops conquer the city of Aba, Biafra during the Nigerian Civil War
• Sep 5 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR

• Sep 6 Swaziland gains independence from Britain (National Day)
• Sep 7 US Open Women's Tennis: England's Virginia Wade wins first Open era US title; beats Billie Jean King 6-4, 6-2

• Sep 8 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
• Sep 8 Saundra Williams wins 1st Miss Black America pageant
• Sep 8 US Open Men's Tennis: Arthur Ashe wins first Open era US title; beats Dutchman Tom Okker 14-12, 5-7, 6-3, 3-6, 6-3
• Sep 9 WGIQ TV channel 43 in Louisville, AL (PBS) begins broadcasting


• Sep 9 WVPT TV channel 51 in Staunton, VA (PBS) begins broadcasting
• Sep 11 Air France Flight 1611 crashes off Nice, France, killing 89 passengers and 6 crew.
• Sep 12 Albania announces it is withdrawing from the Warsaw Pact
• Sep 13 Albania leaves Warsaw pact

• Sep 14 1st broadcast of "60 Minutes" on CBS-TV
• Sep 14 Detroit Tigers' Denny McLain's 30th victory of season

• Sep 14 USSR's Zond 5 is launched on 1st circumlunar flight
• Sep 15 "Barbra Streisand: A Happening in Central Park" Show on CBS TV
• Sep 15 Launch of Zond 5, 1st lunar fly-around with Earth reentry
• Sep 15 NY Zendo (Shoboji) was opened by S Nakagawa & D S Harada
• Sep 15 WUAB TV channel 43 in Lorain-Cleveland, Ohio (IND) begins broadcasting
• Sep 15 WXON TV channel 20 in Detroit, MI (IND) begins broadcasting
• Sep 15 Probable Test flight for a manned fly-around (scooped by Apollo 8)
• Sep 16 KLNI (now KADN) TV channel 15 in Lafayette, LA (IND) begins
• Sep 16 Richard Nixon appears on "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-in"
• Sep 17 Gaylord Perry (Giants) no-hits St Louis Cardinals, 1-0
• Sep 17 Zond 5 completes circumnavigation of Moon
• Sep 18 Ray Washburn (Cards) no-hits SF Giants 2-0
• Sep 19 Nigerian federal army begins the "final offensive" against the secessionist state of Biafra during the Nigerian Civil War

• Sep 20 Mickey Mantle hits final career homer # 536
• Sep 21 Police drama "Adam-12" debuts on NBC in the US
• Sep 22 Iraq adopts constitution
• Sep 22 KMTC (now KDEB) TV channel 27 in Springfield, MO (IND) 1st broadcast
• Sep 22 Twins' Cesar Tovar pitched a hitless inning & plays all 9 positions
• Sep 22 Zond 5 completes flight
• Sep 23 WKAS TV channel 25 in Ashland, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting
• Sep 23 WKGB TV channel 53 in Bowling Green, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting
• Sep 23 WKLE TV channel 46 in Lexington, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting
• Sep 23 WKMA TV channel 35 in Madisonville, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting
• Sep 23 WKMR TV channel 38 in Morehead, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting
• Sep 23 WKON TV channel 52 in Owenton, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting
• Sep 23 WKSO TV channel 29 in Somerset, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting
• Sep 23 WKZT TV channel 23 in Elizabethtown, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting
• Sep 24 "60 Minutes" premieres on CBS-TV
• Sep 24 "That's Life" premieres-A Broadway musical type TV show

• Sep 24 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• Sep 26 1st broadcast of "Hawaii Five-O" on CBS-TV
• Sep 26 Marcelo Caetano elected premier of Portugal
• Sep 26 St Louis Cards' Bob Gibson's 13th shutout ends with 1.12 ERA
• Sep 26 Theatre censorship ends in Britain
• Sep 26 "Oliver!" directed by Carol Reed and starring Mark Lester and Ron Moody premieres in London (Best Picture 1969)
• Sep 27 "Hair" opens in London
• Sep 27 Cardinals' super pitcher Bob Gibson's 13th shutout of year
• Sep 27 France denies UK entry into common market
• Sep 28 "Happy Time" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 286 performances

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