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July 26, 1968

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CLEVELAND MAYOR SENDS GUARD BACK TO PATROL SLUMS; Stokes Abandons All-Negro Teams of Citizens After Community Request

By Anthony Ripley

Stokes, at request of Negro community leaders, orders police and Guardsmen to return to E Side; acts after touring area; also institutes curfew; repts several instances of looting and fires; illus; Justice Dept official says he believes gun battle was work of local group acting on its own; Hough Development Corp head Rev De Forest Brown says Evans was among Negro militants to get funds under summer Cleveland Now program instituted by Mayor's office; police arrest white man and his 2 sons in connection with slaying of Negro man during shooting incident

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PERCY ENDORSES ROCKEFELLER BID FOR PRESIDENCY; Concedes Move Could Bar Him From Second Place on a Ticket With Nixon

By Warren Weaver Jr

Sen Percy backs Rockefeller, press conf, Washington; Rockefeller aides see move influencing delegates in states other than Ill; move seen counterbalancing Hatfield's support of Nixon; Percy concedes move might eliminate him from consideration as Nixon's running mate if he is nominated; politicians say that assn with Rockefeller preconv campaign might be asset if Nixon wants to make his Vice-Pres choice gesture toward party unity; Nixon aide Klein links endorsement to 'lure' of Vice-Pres and sees signs Rockefeller promised him 2d spot; Percy avoids criticism of Nixon; Rockefeller hails support, statement; Percy gave advance notice to Rockefeller, Nixon, Dirksen, Ill Repub Gov candidate Ogilvie, Hatfield; is 7th Repub Sen to back Rockefeller; Dirksen comments; Nixon, in Los Angeles, says their relations remain cordial

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CAMPUS RIOTERS FACE FUND LOSS; House Votes Curb on Loans to Students Who Take Part in College Disturbances

By Marjorie Hunter

HR votes, 259-147, in approving 2-yr $5-billion aid bill, to require coll officials to shut off Fed funds to students who take part in serious campus disorders; also votes to deny aid students within 3 yrs of conviction of crime stemming from campus disorders; Repr Scherle sponsored mandatory curb; HR action overrides HR com proposals which sought to soften aid curbs

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Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 24, 1968, covering July 26, 1968.

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    Album cover for Beat Of The Brass by Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass

    Beat Of The Brass

    Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass

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    Album cover for Wheels Of Fire by Cream

    Wheels Of Fire

    Cream

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    Album cover for Bookends by Simon & Garfunkel

    Bookends

    Simon & Garfunkel

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    Album cover for A Tramp Shining by Richard Harris

    A Tramp Shining

    Richard Harris

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    Album cover for The Graduate by Soundtrack

    The Graduate

    Soundtrack

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Notable Births

Frédéric Diefenthal

1968Frédéric Diefenthal, French actor and director[†]

Frédéric Diefenthal is a French actor and director.

James Naismith (chemist)

1968Jim Naismith, Scottish biologist and academic[†]

James Henderson Naismith is a Scot, Professor of Structural Biology and since autumn of 2023 the Head of the Mathematical, Physical, and Life Science Division (MPLS) Division at the University of Oxford. He was the inaugural Director of the Rosalind Franklin Institute and Director of the Research Complex at Harwell. He previously served as Bishop Wardlaw Professor of Chemical Biology at the University of St Andrews. He was a member of Council of the Royal Society (2021-2022). He is also currently the Vice-Chair of Council of the European X-ray Free Electron Laser and Vice-President (non-clinical) of The Academy of Medical Sciences.

Olivia Williams

1968Olivia Williams, English actress[†]

Olivia Haigh Williams is a British actress who appears in British and American films and television. Williams studied drama at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School for two years followed by three years at the Royal Shakespeare Company. Her first significant screen role was as Jane Fairfax in the British television film Emma (1996), based on Jane Austen's novel.

Notable Deaths

1968Cemal Tollu, Turkish lieutenant and painter (born 1899)[†]

Cemal Tollu was a Turkish painter. He served in the Turkish War of Independence as a cavalry lieutenant. and witnessed the Fire of Manisa. In 1933 he founded the "D Group" with several other painters who were devoted to Cubism and Constructivism. In his later life he was to teach at the Fine Arts Academy of Istanbul until 1965.

Historical Events

Vietnam War

1968Vietnam War: South Vietnamese opposition leader Trương Đình 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.[†]

The Vietnam War was an armed conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia fought between North Vietnam and South Vietnam and their allies. North Vietnam was supported by the Soviet Union and China, while South Vietnam was supported by the United States and other anti-communist nations. The conflict was the second of the Indochina wars and a proxy war of the Cold War between the Soviet Union and US. The Vietnam War was one of the postcolonial wars of national liberation, a theater in the Cold War, and a civil war, with civil warfare a defining feature from the outset. Direct US military involvement escalated from 1965 until its withdrawal in 1973. The fighting spilled into the Laotian and Cambodian Civil Wars, which ended with all three countries becoming communist in 1975.

Historical Context for July 26, 1968

In 1968, the world population was approximately 3,545,187,251 people[†]