An American airplane and its crew of 214 U.S. Army soldiers was forced to land at an airfield in the Soviet Union after being intercepted in Soviet airspace by two MiG-17 jet fighters.[3]Seaboard World Airlines Flight 253A, a Douglas DC-8 chartered by the Army had been en route to South Vietnam when it was ordered to land, and was escorted to an airfield at Burevestnik in the Kurile Islands. The Americans would be detained for two days.[4] After the United States apologized to the Soviet Union for allowing its aircraft to stray into Soviet airspace, the American DC-8 was allowed to leave on July 3 and arrived at the Yokota Air Base in Japan four hours later.[5]
Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 714 was hijacked to Cuba by a passenger as it approached Miami after taking off from Chicago. The Boeing 727 carried 92 people, including the gunman, who ordered the pilot to fly to Havana.[6] Cuban officials refused to allow the Boeing 727 to take off from the Havana Airport because of concerns that the 10,500 feet (3,200 m) runway was not long enough for a fully loaded 727 to depart, so the passengers and crew were taken by bus the next day to Varadero, where they boarded a Douglas DC-7 operated by an American "refugee airlift service".[7]
Japan's new postal codesystem was launched at Tokyo's Central Post Office.[8] Initially, the code consisted of five digits; starting in 1998, it became a seven-digit code.[9]
The Phoenix Program, a U.S. initiative intended to identify and "neutralize" the infrastructure of the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam (the "Viet Cong"), was launched by the American CIA.[10]
Cardinal Francis Brennan, 74, Roman Catholic cardinal and Dean of the Roman Rota. An obituary would note that he "rose from a coal town in Pennsylvania to the highest post ever held by an American in the Vatican."[15]
At the direction of CCP ChairmanMao Zedong, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Central Committee issued the "July 3 Public Notice", described as "an important turning point of the Cultural Revolution" and "the first clear indication that Mao and the central leadership had finally decided to put an end to nationwide violence and chaos."[17] The order came in the wake of the massacre of thousands of rebels in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region by the armies of the Guangxi political commissar, General Wei Guoqing; one historian estimated that as many as 80,000 people were killed in Guangxi during the period before and after the July 3 notice.[18]
At the end of a two day, closed-door meeting of the Soviet Communist Party Politburo regarding the crisis of the Prague Spring in Czechoslovakia, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko told the 11 full members that "It is now quite clear that we cannot avoid an armed intervention."[19]
British yachtsman Alec Rose completed his solo trip around the world after 354 days, as his ketch, Lively Lady, sailed into Portsmouth harbour and was welcomed by 200,000 cheering spectators after an escort by a flotilla of 300 boats. Rose, a 59-year-old vegetable dealer, had spent 320 of his 354 days alone at sea, "longer than any man known in history." [23][24][25] Rose had set off from Portsmouth on July 16, 1967, gotten repairs to his vessel from the people of Bluff, New Zealand during February, and rounded the dangerous waters off Cape Horn on April 2 before returning to Portsmouth almost a year after he had left.[26]
Died:
Hermann-Bernhard Ramcke, 79, Nazi General, commander of paratroopers during World War II, convicted war criminal, and right-wing advocate after the war.[27]
Gustaf Larson, 80, Swedish automotive engineer and the co-founder of Volvo
Rod Laver beat fellow Australian Tony Roche in three straight sets (6–3, 6–4, 6–2) to win the Wimbledon Men's Singles tennis competition.[28] Laver collected £2000 in prize money (roughly $4,800), compared to the £750 awarded to the women's singles champion.[29][30]
Two members of a USO-sponsored pop music band were killed, and two others wounded, when they were ambushed while being transported to perform a concert for a group of U.S. Army members at the coastal resort of Vung Tau. Phil Pill, 19, was a bass player and Curt Willis, 17, a drummer, for the group "Brandi Perry and the Bubble Machine". Wounded were 20-year-old Paula Levine, who had auditioned after concluding that "she could make a bigger mark as a pop singer by going to Vietnam than by any other route" [31] and Jack Bone, 18, played keyboards.
The FBI sent a memorandum to its field offices outlining 11 approved COINTELPRO (COunter INTELligence PROgram) practices for disrupting American anti-government organizations collectively described as the "New Left". The ideas ranged from sending anonymous information and misinformation to the local press and the families of organization leaders, to instigating personal conflicts among group leaders, to more extreme measures such as to "create the impression that leaders are 'informants for the Bureau or other law enforcement agencies" and to "have members arrested on marijuana charges."[34]
The Communist Party USA nominated a presidential candidate for the first time since Earl Browder ran in 1940, choosing 38-year-old Charlene Mitchell as the first African-American woman to run for President of the United States, concluding its four day convention at the Diplomat Hotel in Harlem.[38] Her running mate, Michael Zagarell was a 23-year-old white man from Brooklyn, younger than the constitutionally required age of 35. The Mitchell and Zagarell ticket, on the ballot only in New York, would receive only 1,077 of the 73,199,999 votes cast in the election in November.[39]
Twenty-six people were killed, and 11 others seriously injured near the town of Natagaima in Colombia, when the bus they were riding struck a bridge abutment and then plunged over a cliff. The bus was on the way from Neiva to Bogota.[42][43]
Died:Edgar Monsanto Queeny, 70, American business executive, chemist and conservationist who built the Monsanto Corporation from a small manufacturer of pesticides into the fifth largest chemical company in the world.[44]
Thirty-one Egyptian civilians were killed and 58 wounded when artillery shells landed in the El Arbaeen section of the city of Suez during a battle between Israeli and Egyptian forces on opposite sides of the Suez Canal. Israel said that the battle began after Israeli occupation forces at Port Tewfik were struck by Egyptian artillery.[45]
The U.S. Navy's last flight of the P-5 Marlinflying boat began when an unidentified pilot lifted off from San Diego Bay to fly the aircraft to the Smithsonian Institution.[46]
A powerful solar flare knocked out short wave radio communications on all sunlit portions of the earth, starting at 1803 UTC. The flare was the result of a powerful explosion on the surface of the Sun almost 8+1⁄2 minutes earlier, four days after the Earth had reached its aphelion (94,511,923 miles, its furthest distance from the Sun) on July 4.[47]
With reconnaissance photographs as evidence, the CIA reported to U.S. President Lyndon Johnson that, with American bombing of North Vietnam no longer having been suspended, Haiphong, North Vietnam's largest port, was receiving military cargo from the Soviet Union and from Communist China at unprecedented levels.[48]
The first heart transplant in a Communist nation, and the 25th overall, was performed by a 25-man team of surgeons led by Dr. Karol Siska, at the Slovak Institute of Further Education of Physicians and Pharmacists in Bratislava, the capital of the Slovak region of Czechoslovakia.[52] Mrs. Elena Horvathova died five hours after receiving the donor heart. At the time of the surgery, only 7 of the 25 people who had received donor hearts were still alive.
North Vietnamese Air Force pilot Nguyen Phi Hung claimed to have become an ace by shooting down his fifth enemy plane of the Vietnam War, a U.S. Navy F-8 Crusader (although the U.S. Navy records did not show the loss of an F-8) over the Gulf of Tonkin; his honor was short-lived, because before 1st Lieutenant Hung could land, he was killed when his MiG-17 fighter was shot down by a U.S. Navy F8-E.[55]
Georges Pompidou resigned from his position as Prime Minister of France after more than six years, apparently after he and President Charles de Gaulle disagreed over de Gaulle's handling of the student and worker strikes of May 1968. After accepting Pompidou's resignation, de Gaulle asked Maurice Couve de Murville to form a new government.[56]
Gunmen assassinated the governor of the Philippines' Tarlac Province in front of 100 witnesses as he was walking back to his office in Tarlac City. Minutes earlier, Nicolas Feliciano and his pilot, Captain Cenen Tumbaga (who was also killed), had returned to the provincial capital after a flight from Manila.[57]
In the United Kingdom, the 135-year-old National Provincial Bank and the 134-year-old Westminster Bank completed their merger to become National Westminster Bank, which operates under the trade name NatWest.[58]
Born:Hassiba Boulmerka, Algerian athlete and gold medalist in the 1500 meter race in the 1992 Summer Olympics and the 1991 and 1995 world championships; in Constantine
The board of trustees of Vassar College, one of the leading higher education institutions for women in the United States, voted to become fully coeducational and to admit its first male students, beginning with the 1969 spring semester. The 107-year-old institution had announced plans in October to establish a separate college for men, but chose instead to have a student exchange program with the all-male Williams College. The decision would be announced on October 1.[59]
The latest Gallup poll figures were released, showing that voters would prefer Democrat Hubert H. Humphrey over Republican Richard M. Nixon for the U.S. presidency by a 46% to 35% margin, but that if Nelson A. Rockefeller were the Republican nominee, the voters were evenly divided, 36% to 36% (with another 21% preferring independent candidate George C. Wallace.[60] A Gallup survey of a separate group of adults showed that if Eugene McCarthy was the Democrat nominee, he would have a 39% to 36% lead over Nixon and a 37% to 35% lead over Rockefeller.[61]
The attempted hijacking of Delta Air Lines Flight 977 was foiled by members of the crew. U.S. Senator James O. Eastland of Mississippi and hijacker Oran Daniel Richards were among the 48 passengers on the flight from Philadelphia to Houston. Carrying a .45 caliber pistol, Richards forced his way into the cockpit and ordered the pilot, Captain Forrest Dines, to divert the plane to Cuba. The flight engineer, Glenn Smith, calmly talked to Richards and persuaded him to drop the weapon, then continued the conversation until Richards had calmed down. The Convair 880 then made a landing in Miami, where Richards was arrested. The event "was believed to be the first hijacking thwarted in flight".[62] Richards, a former mental patient, would be found incompetent to stand trial and would later be committed to the United States Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield, Missouri.[63]
Died:Antonio Pietrangeli, 49, Italian film director, killed when he fell off a cliff into the Tyrrhenian Sea near Gaeta.[64] Pietrangeli was on location for his final film, Come, quando, perché.
Died:Jess Lapid, 34, Filipino action film star known in the Philippines for film Westerns and detective movies, shot by two gunmen at the Lanai Nightclub in Manila. Lapid had just completed work on his latest film, The Simmaron Brothers.[71]
Three Soviet space program engineers were killed during the prelaunch testing of a Proton-K rocket, when a liquid oxygen tank on the fourth stage ruptured and exploded. The lower three stages of the rocket, meant to propel an unmanned Soyuz 7K-L1 spacecraft into lunar orbit as part of the Zond program, remained intact but 7K-L1 #8 was discarded.[72]
Two spectators were killed, and 27 others injured, at the Berlin Raceway in Marne, Michigan when a race car crashed into the grandstand after its driver lost control. The 18-year-old driver, who was thrown from the car as it rear-ended another racer, sustained only minor injuries.[73]
The Great Passion Play, which describes itself as "the largest outdoor drama in the United States" (based on total attendance each season), was first performed. Held in Eureka Springs, Arkansas at a 4,100 seat amphitheater at the base of the Christ of the Ozarks statue, and inspired by the Oberammergau Passion Play that has taken place in Germany since 1634, the play is now performed regularly between May and October every year.[74]
The Women's Social Services Law took effect in Iran, directing that all women between the age of 18 and 25, and who had graduated from high school, could be called military service in order for 18 months service in rural areas or poor urban neighborhoods. For women under the age of 30 who had a degree beyond high school, the military service was obligatory.[81]
Alexander Dubcek and the Presidium of the Czechoslovak Communist Party received a letter signed by the Communist Party leaders of five other Warsaw Pact nations (the Soviet Union, Poland, East Germany, Hungary and Bulgaria) giving a two week deadline for the Czechoslovakian leadership to appear at a meeting to justify the democratic reforms that the Czechoslovakian Communists had made during the "Prague Spring". The demands included outlawing political groups that opposed Communism, restoring censorship of the Czechoslovakian media, and reasserting "the principled basis of Marxism-Leninism, an undeviating observance of the principle of democratic centralism" led by the example of the Soviets.[82]
A U.S. Army amphibious boat, and its crew of 11 Americans and one South Vietnamese, was seized by the neutral kingdom of Cambodia and then kept imprisoned for more than five months,[87] after veering into the Cambodian side of the Mekong River that marked its border with South Vietnam.[88] Cambodia's monarch, Prince Norodom Sihanouk, demanded a ransom of 12 bulldozers or tractors for return of the LCU amphibious craft and its men, and refused an American apology.[89] Although treated well during their captivity, the Americans would not be released until December 20.[90]
National Airlines Flight 1064 from Los Angeles to New Orleans was hijacked shortly after it had stopped at Houston. Just 35 minutes before the DC-8 jet reached New Orleans, a passenger holding a hand grenade took control and diverted the flight to Cuba. At Havana, Cuban authorities transferred the other 56 passengers to a U.S. government chartered propeller-driven DC-7, and they were flown to Miami to catch a flight to their original destination. The crew of the DC-8 flew back to Miami separately.[91]
Intel, which would become one of the world's leading computer semiconductor manufacturing companies, was founded by two engineers who had worked at Fairchild Semiconductor, Robert Noyce and Gordon E. Moore in Mountain View, California.[94] They initially called the company and given the name "N M Electronics, Inc.", then soon changed it to "Intelcorporation" [95] before settling on a shorter and more memorable name, Intel,[96] derived from a combination of the words integrated and electronics and suggestive of the word "intelligence".[97]
At 5:00 in the morning Eastern Time, mail delivery ceased in Canada as Canada Post workers walked out on strike.[98] Canadian businesses, located in cities near the United States border, compensated by renting boxes in U.S. post offices for their deliveries.[99] The strike would finally be resolved after three weeks with an accord reached on August 6.[100]
Czechoslovakia's Prime Minister Alexander Dubcek went on national television and radio and told his people that he and the Communist Party would continue the democratic reforms of the Prague Spring, despite demands from the party chiefs in the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact allies to discontinue the reforms.[101][102]
James Earl Ray arrived in the United States on a U.S. Air Force C-135 after almost six weeks incarceration in London's Wandsworth Prison. After the C-135 landed in Memphis, Tennessee, FBI agents handed him over to Tennessee law enforcement officials who placed him in an armored car and transported him to a specially constructed cell on the third floor of the Shelby County Jail.[106]
North Vietnam released three American prisoners of war who had been captured in the past seven months. All three— Major James Frederick Low, Captain Joe Victor Carpenter, and Major Fred Thompson — were United States Air Force pilots who had been shot down on December 16, February 15 and March 20 respectively. The three men were accepted by the International Control Commission in Hanoi and flown to Vientiane in Laos.[107]
All 44 crewmen on the burning Philippine freighter SS Magsaysay were rescued by South Korean patrol boats, more than four hours after the ship sent a distress call. The 7,000 ton Magsaysay had been transporting lumber to the South Korean port of Inchon when the cargo caught fire near Daehuksando Island.[108]
The first Special Olympics games were held, as 1,000 developmentally disabled American and Canadian children, between the ages of 8 and 18, competed during the one-day event at Soldier Field in Chicago.[109][110] The event, organized by Eunice Kennedy Shriver, would be celebrated 40 years later as "one of the most prominent and celebrated sporting programs in the entire world", with programs that were serving 2,500,000 athletes worldwide by 2008.[111]
China's Communist Party Chairman Mao Zedong issued a decree creating what would be called "July 21 universities" or "21 July Workers' Universities". Inspired by a case study of the Shanghai Machine Tool Factory methods for training its employees, Mao directed expanding the program nationwide. "We still need to have universities," he wrote in his study, published the next day in People's Daily, "but we must shorten the period of schooling, make education reforms, put proletarian politics in command, and take the path of Shanghai Machine Tool Factory to turn factory workers into technicians and engineers." He added that universities "should select their students from workers and peasants. After a few years of study, students should return to their fields of practice." By the time of Mao's death in 1976, there would be 780,000 students enrolled in the July 21 universities.[112]
The International Convention on Load Lines, which set uniform safety standards for the waterlines of ships (the mark on a ship to show the limit of how far its hull could go into the ocean), entered into effect.[113]
All 14 people on board an AeroflotAntonov An-2 were killed when the aircraft strayed off course and crashed into a 4,000-meter (13,000 ft) high mountain peak near Sufi-Kurgan in the Soviet Union's Kirghiz SSR (now Kyrgyzstan).[114]
El Al Flight 426, from London to Tel Aviv, was hijacked by three members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. Thirty minutes after the Boeing 707 had taken off from Rome on its flight to Israel, the commando group forced its way into the cockpit and pistol-whipped the pilot, Captain Obed Arbabanel, and ordered the copilot to fly to Algiers, where it landed at 12:35 local time (2135 Monday UTC) in the early hours of July 23 about 90 minutes after the PFLP had taken control. The act has been described as "the advent... of the modern era of international terrorism".[117] The PFLP terrorists had selected Flight 426 in the mistaken beliefs that Israeli General Ariel Sharon was on board, and that Arbabanel carried a diplomatic pouch that would reveal Israeli state secrets.[118]
The Mexican Student Movement of 1968 began after students from two rival high schools fought during a soccer game [119] between Vocational School #2 (affiliated with the Instituto Politécnico Nacional (IPN)) and the Isaac Ochoterena Preparatory School (operated by the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)). Two neighborhood gangs, "Las Arañas" (The Spiders) and "Los Ciudadelos" (The City Boys) joined in the violence between the vocational and prep schools, and Mexican riot police brutally suppressed the street fight. "Although this street battle seemed benign," an author would later note, "it would trigger a sequence of events that led to a confrontation between youth and government forces."[120] Four days later, two groups of student marchers, both of whom had received governmental permits to march, were suppressed in another attack by police, leading to increasing student dissent met by increasing police response that would reach a climax with the massacre of more than 300 students on October 2.[121]
The Soviet Union withdrew its remaining troops from Czechoslovakia, more than three weeks after the originally scheduled end of the Warsaw Pact military exercises.[122] Two Soviet regiments remained at Cieszyn in Poland, directly across the Olza River from Český Těšín.[123]
The Soviet Union also dropped demands that Premier Dubcek and the other ten members of the Presidium of Czechoslovakia come to the U.S.S.R. for a meeting with the Soviet Politburo, and announced that all 11 members of the Soviet Communist Party's Politburo would come to Czechoslovakia, a decision which the New York Times described as "momentous" and one for which "no precedent could be recalled".[124]
Saturday delivery of mail to American homes would be discontinued after August 31, and mail would be delivered to residences only four days per week beginning in December, in a plan announced to a U.S. Senate committee by United States Postmaster GeneralW. Marvin Watson. Watson, who was responding to a Congressional mandate to reduce the number of postal workers, also testified that 314 smaller post offices had been ordered closed and that another 186 would be eliminated by year's end.[125]
Virginia Slims cigarettes, a tobacco product marketed as the choice of a modern woman, were introduced by the Benson & Hedges company with the slogan "You've come a long way, baby".[126] The product test marketed in San Francisco before being rolled out nationwide.[127]
Ten people were killed and 18 others wounded as police in Cleveland and a black nationalist militant group fought a gun battle in the Glenview section on the predominantly black East Side of the Ohio city near the corner of East 105th Street and Superior Avenue.[128] The violence started at 8:30 in the evening at Lakeview and Arbondale Avenues when five men with automatic rifles fired at a police car and a tow truck that had arrived to tow away an abandoned car, followed by sniper fire from apartment houses around the intersection. Fred "Ahmed" Evans, the leader of the Black Power advocacy group "Black Nationalists of New Libya", reportedly told three arresting officers, "If my carbine hadn't jammed, I would have killed you three. I had you in my sights when my rifle jammed." The ten dead were three policemen, three suspects and four bystanders; 10 of the 18 people wounded were policemen. The violence ended after a heavy rainstorm and the intervention of 2,600 Ohio National Guard troops.[129][130][131][132] One of the ten wounded police officers would die from complications of his injuries in March of 1993.[133]
At NASA Headquarters, movements were underway on July 23 and 24 to select a new name for post-Apollohuman spaceflight (the Apollo Applications Program, or AAP) - one that would be more descriptive of the agency's real goals and objectives. At the Planning Study Group meeting, Douglas R. Lord, Chairman of the Working Group on Extension of Manned Space Flight, was asked to recommend a new name for NASA's Earth-orbiting flight program of the mid-1970s. However, AAP Director Charles W. Mathews urged that the name AAP be retained because NASA had a good deal invested in it. On July 26, Julian M. West wrote Lord recommending that NASA choose some other name to cover both AAP and an interim space base of the mid-1970s (dubbed the "IOWS" program, for Interim Orbital Workshop). West urged that all such names as "AAP," "Workshop," and "Extension of Manned Space Flight" be dropped because they did not accurately describe what he saw as "the major goal-manned space flight itself." West voted for a name put forward by George Trimble of Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC), "Space Base Program," which he believed covered NASA's mid-1970s missions. "We are establishing a foothold for man in space."[135]
U.S. Air Force Major General Robert F. Worley, 48, deputy commander of the United States Seventh Air Force, killed by enemy fire in South Vietnam when the reconnaissance plane that he was piloting was shot down.[136] Worley had been directing "the huge armada of Air Force planes bombing North and South Vietnam" and had only 17 days remaining before he was to be reassigned to another country.
Henry Hallett Dale, 93, English pharmacologist and physiologist and 1936 Nobel laureate[137]
A group of 7,000 members of the Meskhetian Turks minority of the Soviet Union demonstrated outside of the headquarters of the Communist Party of the Georgian SSR in Tbilisi and demanded a meeting with the Soviet republic's leadership to discuss the right to return to the territory from which they had been deported in 1944.[138] Local police brutally dispersed the group, but Party First Secretary Vasil Mzhavanadze would meet with representatives of the Meskhetians two days later and promise to find a way of finding regions of the Georgian SSR that would accept roughly 100 families per year.
In Algiers, the Palestinian hijackers holding El Al Flight 426 released the 26 non-Israeli passengers who were on board the plane and allowed them to depart to France. Three days later, 10 women and children were allowed to depart, but the remaining 12 passengers and crew of 10 were held as hostages and would remain captive until September.
The Holy Order of MANS a monastic-style initiatory religious order, was formally incorporated in California by Earl Blighton, an electrical engineer and social worker who had come to San Francisco to preach "esoteric Christianity" to followers "who had tired of the hippie lifestyle and were searching for a coherent path of mystical enlightenment." [139]
Pope Paul VI signed the papal encyclical Humanae vitae, which would be described as "the careful and prudent reflection of the pontiff upon the report of the papal commission" that had considered the Roman Catholic Church position on contraception; the encyclical was not published until four days later.[142]
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) of the United States issued a decision expanding the availability of VHF/FM marine radio (for two-way communication between American pleasure boats and marinas) from 18 channels to 39. The frequency range (between 156.0 and 174 megahertz, at a higher frequency than commercial FM radio broadcasting) remained the same, but the 21 additional channels were added primarily by being put in the spaces between those that existed.[143]
The United Kingdom's Theatres Act 1968, subtitled "An Act to abolish censorship of the theatre and to amend the law in respect of theatres and theatrical performances", received Royal Assent after approval by both Houses of Parliament.[144]
The United Kingdom announced its plans for conversion to the metric system by the end of the year 1975, as Minister of TechnologyAnthony Wedgwood Benn told the House of Commons that the government had accepted the recommendations of the House's Standing Joint Committee on Metrication.[145]
By order of China's Communist Party leader Mao Zedong, "worker-peasant thought propaganda teams" were dispatched to Beijing's Tsinghua University to direct the reform of university education. Yao Wenyuan, who was later convicted as one of the "Gang of Four" that had guided China's Cultural Revolution, would proclaim that "Contradictions which have vexed the intellectuals endlessly are quickly solved as soon as the workers participate," and outlined the goal of resolving what he called "the three differences" of the cultures of urban vs. rural, industrial vs. agricultural, and mental work vs. physical work.[146]
Royal assent was given to the British Standard Time Act after its passage by the House of Commons, providing for a three year experiment in which the United Kingdom would remain on Central European Time (CET) year round (one hour ahead of Greenwich Mean Time or Universal Time).[147] Rather than setting clocks back on the last Sunday in October, the British public would stay on CET.
Chinese Communist Party's Chairman Mao Zedong began the process of phasing out the Red Guards and the bringing to an end of the most violent part of the Cultural Revolution, summoning Nie Yuanzi and four other influential Red Guard leaders (Kuai Dafu, Tan Houlan, Han Aijing and Wang Dabin) to his office, and then reprimanded them. "Mao's harsh reproach of the Red Guards at the meeting," an author would later note, "and his decision to send students away from cities afterwards marked the beginning of the end of the Red Guard movement in China." [149]
Pravda, the official publication of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, printed an editorial signaling an unofficial Soviet warning to Czechoslovakia. "The Communists and working people of Czechoslovakia have been warned by their class brothers," a party spokesman wrote on the eve of the meeting between the leaders of the two nations, and declared that "Our entire party and people attach great importance to this meeting... time is running out." [150]
Pope Paul VI issued the papal encyclicalHumanae vitae, subtitled On the Regulation of Birth, reaffirming the position of the Roman Catholic Church on birth control, and effectively prohibiting all forms of contraception other than sexual abstinence.[157] German Catholic theologian Bernhard Häring would later write that "No papal teaching document has ever caused such an earthquake in the church as the encyclical Humanae vitae" [158] and another author would note that dissent toward the encyclical "precipitated a crisis of authority of unprecedented proportions within the Catholic Church".[159][160]Humanae Vitae had been completed four days earlier, on July 25, a date sometimes reported as the date of release.[161]
Eighty-seven people were killed in the violent eruption of the Arenal Volcano in Costa Rica. At 7:30 in the morning local time, the first explosion took place and sent blocks of stone into the air, many of which fell onto the villages of Tabacón, Pueblo Nuevo and San Luís that were located in the valley below.[162][163]
At the village of Čierna nad Tisou, located in southeastern Czechoslovakia near its borders with the Soviet Union's Ukrainian SSR and with Hungary, Czechoslovakian Communist leader Alexander Dubcek began four days of meetings with Soviet Communist leader Leonid Brezhnev in an effort to avoid a war between the Communist nations of Eastern Europe.[164] The delegations that met at the railway station in Čierna nad Tisou included Prime Minister Oldřich Černík and National Assembly leader Josef Smrkovský to accompany Dubcek, and Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin and Communist Party Second Secretary Mikhail Suslov arriving with Brezhnev.[165]
Just 13 days after leading the Ba'ath Party coup that installed him as President of Iraq, Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr consolidated his power by eliminating his Ba'ath Party rivals who had assisted him, including Prime Minister Abd ar-Razzaq an-Naif, who had been installed on July 17.[86]Saddam Hussein al-Tikriti, a 31-year-old civilian and al-Bakr's chief adviser, led the reorganizational coup and had al-Naif arrested and forced his resignation. Colonel Abd al-Rahman al-Dawud, who had also assisted al-Bakr in the July 17 coup, had been on a diplomatic mission to neighboring Jordan, and agreed not to return to Iraq.[166]
Thames Television went on the air for the first time, broadcasting to London and the surrounding area of the UK. The company would continue to hold the independent television franchise for this area until 1992.[167]
The unsuccessful Apple Boutique, a retail store in London that had been created as a business venture by The Beatles, closed its doors not quite eight months after its December 7, 1967, opening, and gave away all of its remaining merchandise.[168]
Robert Korzeniowski, Polish athlete and gold medalist in the 50 kilometer walk in three Olympics (1996, 2000 and 2004) and 3 world championships (1997, 2001 and 2003); in Lubaczów
The popular British TV situation comedy Dad's Army, based on life in World War II for members of the Local Defence Volunteers (the Home Guard), is launched on BBC1 as a six-part series. It would prove so successful that it would run for nine years, with 80 episodes.[173]
Cartoonist Charles M. Schulz added an African-American character, "Franklin", to his popular Peanuts comic strip.[174][175] Schulz made the decision after receiving a letter three months earlier from Mrs. Harriet Glickman, a housewife and mother of three children from Sherman Oaks, California.[176]
Brian Howe, a three-year-old boy from Newcastle upon Tyne in England, was murdered by 10-year-old Mary Bell and another girl, Norma Bell. He was last seen by his parents in the street outside his house playing with one of his siblings, the family dog, Mary and Norma. Relatives and neighbours became concerned when Brian went missing. At 11:10 p.m., a search party discovered Brian's body between two large concrete blocks on a railway line known to local children as "Tin Lizzie".[177]
Died:Jack Pizzey, 57, Premier of Queensland, Australia; of a heart attack[178]
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