August 1968 calendar

Events

• 01 Aug 1968 Canada begins replacing silver with nickel in coins
• 02 Aug 1968 35th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Green Bay 34, All-Stars 17
• 04 Aug 1968 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Gino Paoli Golf Open
• 05 Aug 1968 WMCV (now WZTV) TV channel 17 in Nashville, TN (IND) 1st broadcast
• 08 Aug 1968 Jarry Park is approved by Mayor Jean Drapeau for interim use by Expos
• 09 Aug 1968 Yugoslav President Tito visits Prague
• 10 Aug 1968 Race riot in Miami, Chicago and Little Rock
• 11 Aug 1968 Satchel Paige, 62, and needing 158 days on a major league payroll to qualify for a pension, is signed by Braves
• 14 Aug 1968 Jimmy Ellis beats Floyd Patterson in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
• 15 Aug 1968 Pirate Radio Free London, begins transmitting
• 17 Aug 1968 Dick Beyers (Dr X) beats Verne Gagne, to become NWA champ
• 18 Aug 1968 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Holiday Inn Golf Classic
• 20 Aug 1968 650,000 Warsaw Pact troops invade Czechoslovakia
• 21 Aug 1968 Democratic Convention opens in Chicago
• 22 Aug 1968 Cynthia Lennon sues John Lennon for divorce on adultery.
• 23 Aug 1968 Ringo quits Beatles over a disagreement, temporarily
• 24 Aug 1968 France explodes its first hydrogen bomb, thus becoming the world's fifth nuclear power.
• 25 Aug 1968 Arthur Ashe becomes 1st black to win US singles championship
• 28 Aug 1968 1 day marriage of character Murphy Brown
• 29 Aug 1968 1st US Open tennis match
• 31 Aug 1968 68th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Bruce Fleisher

Famous Birthday

• Marine Le Pen

  French daughter of ultra-right wing politician Jean-Marie Le Pen.

• Gillian Anderson

  American actress.

• Karine Le Marchand
• Marcus Schenkenberg

  Swedish-Dutch model and actor.

• Eric Bana

  Australian actor.

• South Korea
• Debra Messing

  American actress.

• Rachael Ray

  American chef and television personality.

• Catherine Bell

  American actress.

• Clovis Cornillac

  French theater, television and cinema actor, son of actress (Myriam Boyer).

• Billy Boyd

  Scottish actor.

• Raz Degan

  Israeli model and actor of cinema, television and theatre, who resides in Italy.

• Iris Junik
• Krisztina Rády
• Daniel Dae Kim

  American actor.

• Kumiko Takeda
• Lorenzo Bernardi

  Italian volleyball champion, winner of a Bronze Medal at the Atlanta Olympics with the Italian Men's Team, 8/04/1996.

• Nomo Hideo
• Anna Gunn

  TV Actress.

• Abdelatif Benazzi

  Moroccan-French rugby player.

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Famous Deaths

• Kay Francis

  American actress (Born 1899).

• Ernest Burnelle

  Belgian politician, dies at 60.

• Lucien Cerfaux

  Belgian biblical scholar.

• Pieter J Auld

  Mayor of Rotterdam (1945-52), dies at 81.

• Edward Kilenyi

  Composer, dies at 84.

• Luis Gianneo

  Composer, dies at 71.

• Earl Sande

  US jockey (Kentucky Derby), dies at 69.

• Vladimir Boudnik

  Czech sculptor, commits suicide at about 45.

• William E B Dubois

  US founder NAACP (Souls of black people).

• George P Gooch

  English Historian / House of Commons leader.

• Sara Jane Roberts

  Child actress (Our Gang), dies after surgery at 44.

• John Gordon Mein

  US ambassador in Guatemala.

• Princess Marina

  Duchess of Kent (Born 1906).

• Ulysses S Grant III

  American soldier and planner (Born 1881).

• Nick Castle

  choreographer (Dinah Shore, Judy Garland), dies at age 58.

• Luther Perkins

  American guitarist (Born 1928).

• George Gamow

  Ukrainian-American physicist and cosmologist (d. 1968).

• John George

  Actor (Kolb-Adventures of Fu Manchu), dies at 70.

• Stan McCabe

  Australian cricketer (Born 1910).

• Marina

  Princess of Greece / Denmark / Dutchess of Kent, dies at 61.

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. The Doors - Hello, I Love You
2. The Rascals - People Got To Be Free
3. Mason Williams - Classical Gas
4. Steppenwolf - Born To Be Wild
5. The 5th Dimension - Stoned Soul Picnic

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Tommy James & The Shondells - Mony Mony
2. The Beatles - Hey Jude
3. Crazy World Of Arthur Brown - Fire
4. Mary Hopkin - Those Were The Days
5. Herb Alpert - This Guy's In Love With You