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At least 2 Air Force officers reptdly are being court-martialed in connection with unopposed flight by 2 Israeli jets last mo over Cairo northeastern outskirts, where Nasser has his home; several other officers reptdly were dismissed several wks ago in connection with unimpeded Israeli flight over Mansura; map
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, July 17 -- President Tito will go to Prague tomorrow with a delegation of leading Yugoslav politicians in answer to an urgent request from Alexander Dubcek, the Czechoslovak Communist leader, informed sources here said today.
Named Bklyn Diocese Bishop; to be installed Sept 12
PRAGUE, July 17--Reliable Czechoslovak sources reported today that Leonid I. Brezhnev, General Secretary of the Soviet Communist party, demanded that Alexander Dubcek, First Secretary of the Czechoslovak party, agree to a meeting Friday between the entire ruling bodies of both parties.
US reptdly has advised USSR that an armed intervention in Czech would imperil Johnson efforts to improve US-USSR ties
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 17, 1968, covering July 18, 1968.
Simon & Garfunkel
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
Soundtrack
Richard Harris
Sergio Mendes
1968Grant Bowler, New Zealand-Australian actor[†]
Grant Bowler is a New Zealand-Australian actor and television presenter who has worked in American, Australian, New Zealand, and Canadian film, television, and theatre.
1968Scott Gourley, Australian rugby player[†]
Scott Robert Gourley is an Australian former rugby league and rugby union footballer who played from 1986 to 1998 and achieved the status of a dual-code international representing his country in both sports. He made five Test appearances for the Wallabies and switched to rugby league in 1990 playing for the St George Dragons, the Sydney Roosters and making one Test appearance for the Kangaroos.
1968Corneille Heymans, Belgian physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1892)[†]
Corneille Jean François Heymans was a Belgian physiologist. He studied at the Jesuit College of Saint Barbara and then at Ghent University, where he obtained a doctor's degree in 1920.
1968Intel is founded in Mountain View, California.[†]
Intel Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, and incorporated in Delaware. Intel designs, manufactures, and sells computer components such as central processing units (CPUs) and related products for business and consumer markets. It is one of the world's largest semiconductor chip manufacturers by revenue, and ranked in the Fortune 500 list of the largest United States corporations by revenue for nearly a decade, from 2007 to 2016 fiscal years, until it was removed from the ranking in 2018. In 2020, it was reinstated and ranked 45th, being the 7th-largest technology company in the ranking. It was one of the first companies listed on Nasdaq.
In 1968, the world population was approximately 3,545,187,251 people[†]