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HR kills proposals for Fed regis of guns, votes to require mandatory prison terms for those convicted of committing Fed felonies, but not state felonies, while using a gun; final action postponed
PRAGUE, July 19 -- The liberal leadership of the Czechoslovak Communist party won the unanimous endorsement today of the Central Committee, a largely conservative body, for its policy of toughness toward the Soviet Union.
Eastern Airlines suspends shuttle service to Washington, DC, and Boston from LaGuardia and Newark airports as traffic delays continue; Northeast suspends hrly service to Boston from LaGuardia
HR approves housing bill, including Fed-private program for ins protection to homeowners and businessmen in slums
African Unity Orgn com repts Nigeria and Biafra will resume talks, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, under com auspices; Nigerian delegates see planned preliminary talks in Niamey indicating whether Biafrans are sincere; Ojukwu meets with Diori, who will be chmn of preliminary talks; Biafran repr rejects com resolution for 'mercy corridor' through Fed territory for emergency food, medicine and clothing shipments to Biafra; IRC names Amb A Lindt High Comr for Nigerian relief
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 17, 1968, covering July 20, 1968.
Simon & Garfunkel
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
Soundtrack
Richard Harris
Sergio Mendes
1968Jimmy Carson, American ice hockey player[†]
James Charles Carson is an American former professional ice hockey player. He played 10 seasons in the National Hockey League with five different teams. In 1988, he became only the second teenager in NHL history to score 50 goals in a season; the first was Wayne Gretzky.
1968Hami Mandıralı, Turkish footballer and manager[†]
Hami Mandıralı is a Turkish football manager and former footballer. He played for Trabzonspor nearly all of his career.
1968Kool G Rap, American hip-hop artist[†]
Nathaniel Thomas Wilson, better known by his stage name Kool G Rap, is an American rapper. He began his career in the mid-1980s as one half of the group Kool G Rap & DJ Polo and as a member of the Juice Crew. He is widely considered to be one of the most influential and skilled MCs of all time, and a pioneer of mafioso rap/street/hardcore content and multisyllabic rhyming. On his album The Giancana Story, he stated that the "G" in his name stands for "Giancana", but on other occasions he has stated that it stands for "Genius".
1968Bray Hammond, American historian and author (born 1886)[†]
Bray Hammond was an American financial historian and assistant secretary to the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System in 1944–1950. He won the 1958 Pulitzer Prize for History for Banks and Politics in America from the Revolution to the Civil War (1957). He was educated at Stanford University.
1968The first International Special Olympics Summer Games are held at Soldier Field in Chicago, with about 1,000 athletes with intellectual disabilities.[†]
Special Olympics is the world's largest sports organization for children and adults with intellectual disabilities, providing year-round training and activities to 5 million participants and Unified Sports partners in 172 countries. Special Olympics competitions are held daily, all around the world—including local, national and regional competitions, adding up to more than 100,000 events a year. Like the International Paralympic Committee, the Special Olympics organization is recognized by the International Olympic Committee; however, unlike the Paralympic Games, its World Games are not held in the same year nor in conjunction with the Olympic Games.
In 1968, the world population was approximately 3,545,187,251 people[†]