July 1968 calendar

Events

• 01 Jul 1968 Fortuna Sittard soccer team forms in Sittard
• 03 Jul 1968 Cleveland Indians' Luis Tiant strikes out 19 Minnesota Twins players.
• 04 Jul 1968 Yachtsman Alec Rose, 59, receives a hero's welcome as he sails into Portsmouth, England after his 354-day round-the-world trip.
• 05 Jul 1968 Manifest of 1000 words published in Prague
• 06 Jul 1968 75th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Billie Jean King beats J Tegart
• 07 Jul 1968 Rock group "The Yardbirds" disband.
• 08 Jul 1968 Israeli-Egyptian artillery duel along Suez Canal
• 09 Jul 1968 15.68 (39.83 cm) of rainfall, Columbus, Miss
• 10 Jul 1968 NL announces break into 2 divisions for 1969
• 11 Jul 1968 Earl Weaver replaces Hank Bauer as manager of Orioles
• 12 Jul 1968 Couve de Murville forms government in France
• 13 Jul 1968 97th British Golf Open: Gary Player shoots 289 at Carnoustie Scotland
• 14 Jul 1968 Brave Hank Aaron hits his 500th HR off SF Giant Mike McCormick
• 15 Jul 1968 One Life to Live premieres on TV
• 17 Jul 1968 A revolution occurs in Iraq when Abdul Rahman Arif is overthrown and the Ba'ath Party is installed as the governing power in Iraq with Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr as the new Iraqi President.
• 18 Jul 1968 Intel incorporates.
• 20 Jul 1968 Jane Asher breaks her engagement with Paul McCartney on live TV.
• 21 Jul 1968 50th PGA Championship: Julius Boros shoots a 281 at Pecan Valley, Texas
• 23 Jul 1968 Fred Blasie wins 5th wrestling world championship belt.
• 25 Jul 1968 Pope Paul VI publishes encyclical on the regulation of birth, reaffirms stand against artificial birth control.
• 26 Jul 1968 Vietnam War: South Vietnamese opposition leader Truong ?inh Dzu is sentenced to five years hard labor for advocating the formation of a coalition government as a way to move toward an end to the war.
• 27 Jul 1968 Carol Mann wins LPGA Supertest Canadian Golf Open
• 29 Jul 1968 Gram Parson refuses to play with the Byrds in South Africa
• 30 Jul 1968 Thames Television starts transmission in London.

Famous Birthday

• Julian McMahon

  Australian model and actor who relocated to Hollywood, CA for fame and fortune.

• Kristin Chenoweth

  American singer and actress.

• Stephanie Seymour

  American model and actress.

• Michael Weatherly

  NYC, New York -- Actor (Cooper Alden-The City / Loving).

• Frédéric Diefenthal

  French film actor and author, he had a main role in the French TV serie "The Judge is a Woman" in the 1990s.

• Terry Crews

  NFL linebacker (Washington Redskins).

• Eric Judor
• Maria Grazia Cucinotta

  Messina Sicily, Italy -- Actress (Postman).

• Billy Crudup

  American actor and singer.

• Jorja Fox

  American actress.

• Sophie Le Saint
• David Proux
• Sébastien Courivaud
• Bitty Schram

  American actress.

• Laura Leighton

  American actress.

• Hedi Slimane

  French photographer and fashion designer.

• Olivia Williams

  English actress.

• Gary Payton

  American basketball player, guard for the Seattle Supersonics.

• Elden Campbell

  American basketball player: forward/center, Lakers.

• Jordi Mollà

  Spanish actor director and screenwriter.

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Famous Deaths

• Virginia Weidler

  American child star who first played in the film "Surrender" at the age of four and was in a stage play by the time she was six.

• Jo Schlesser

  French race car driver (Born 1928).

• Francis Brennan

  US Cardinal of Philadelphia, dies at 74.

• Allyn Edwards

  Host (One Minute Please, Mr Citizen), dies at 53.

• John Indrisano

  Actor (OK Crackerby), dies at 62.

• Konstatin G Paustovski

  Russian sailor / author, dies at 76.

• Joseph Keilberth

  German conductor (Bayreuther Festival).

• Don Lillis

  NFL President (NY Jets).

• Anton van Duinkerken [Willem J M A Asselbergs]

  Literary.

• Lillian Harvey

  Actress (Invitation to the Waltz), dies at 61.

• Charles W Mayo

  US surgeon, dies at 70.

• Jon Leifs

  Composer, dies at 69.

• Gertrude Short

  Actress (Stella Dallas, Blonde Venus), dies at 66.

• Konstantin Georgiyevich Paustovsky

  Russian writer (Born 1892).

• Henry Hallett Dale

  English scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b.

• Ilias Tsirimokos

  Greek politician, 164th Prime Minister of Greece (Born 1907).

• Otto Hahn

  German scientist with a PhD, a chemistry professor in Berlin, 1906 and Director of the Institute in 1928.

• Ruth St Denis

  American dancer and choreographer, strongly influenced by Indian, Oriental and Greek dance.

• Corneille Heymans

  Belgian physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (Born 1892).

• Giovannino Guareschi

  Italian journalist and author (d. 1968).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Herb Alpert - This Guy's In Love With You
2. Hugh Masekela - Grazing In The Grass
3. Cliff Nobles - The Horse
4. Gary Puckett - Lady Willpower
5. The Rolling Stones - Jumpin' Jack Flash

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. The Equals - Baby Come Back
2. Des O'Connor - I Pretend
3. OC Smith - Son Of Hickory Holler's Tramp
4. Tommy James & The Shondells - Mony Mony
5. Cupid's Inspiration - Yesterday Has Gone