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August 19, 1968

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Headlines from August 19, 1968

DEMOCRATIC UNIT LAYS RACIAL BIAS TO MISSISSIPPIANS; Finding May Insure Seating of Integrated Rebels at Convention in Chicago RATIFICATION IS AWAITED Major Clash Is Developing on Proper Way to Handle the Credentials Issue Democratic Unit Charges Bias To Regulars From Mississippi

By Max Frankelspecial To the New York Times

McCarthy forces want to bar all challenged delegates until their cases are settled; Repr J G O'Hara, Humphrey backer, charges aim is to block 'hundreds of Humphrey delegates from exercising their conv rights

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DEMOCRATS FACE 2 BATTLES TODAY; Committee Hearings to Start on Vietnam War Plank and Delegates' Credentials Democrats Begin First Rounds Today on 2 Convention Issues

By John W. Finneyspecial To the New York Times

Dem Platform Com faces battle over war policy plank; Humphrey backers seek compromise plank road enough to bring together dissident Dem factions yet ambiguous enough to loosen Humphrey bond with Adm policy; seek to maneuver McCarthy into a minority position

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BOMBINGS SET OFF RIOT IN JERUSALEM; Youths Storm Arab Sector After Blasts Rock Center of City, Injuring 14 5 Bombings Set Off Riot in Jerusalem

By Terence Smithspecial To the New York Times

5 heavy blasts rock center of Jerusalem, injuring 14 Israelis; terrorists, who said they would attack Israeli civilians in retaliation for air strike on Salt, blamed; hundreds of Israeli youths stream into Arab sec, smashing windows and stoning taxis; Israeli police force crowd out of sec, cordon it off; crowds continue to roam through Israeli sec; Mayor Kollek tours riot area; Jordan charges Israelis started arty and machine gun exch in al-Shurat area, N of Allenby Bridge

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Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 14, 1968, covering August 19, 1968.

  1. 1
    Album cover for Wheels Of Fire by Cream

    Wheels Of Fire

    Cream

    Last week
    1
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    6
  2. 2
    Album cover for Time Peace/The Rascals' Greatest Hits by The Rascals

    Time Peace/The Rascals' Greatest Hits

    The Rascals

    Last week
    3
    Peak
    2
    Weeks
    6
  3. 3
    Album cover for Aretha Now by Aretha Franklin

    Aretha Now

    Aretha Franklin

    Last week
    5
    Peak
    3
    Weeks
    6
  4. 4
    Album cover for The Graduate by Soundtrack

    The Graduate

    Soundtrack

    Last week
    2
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    23
  5. 5
    Album cover for Beat Of The Brass by Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass

    Beat Of The Brass

    Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass

    Last week
    4
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    15

Notable Deaths

George Gamow

1968George Gamow, Ukrainian-American physicist and cosmologist (born 1904)[†]

George Gamow was a Soviet and American polymath, theoretical physicist and cosmologist. He was an early advocate and developer of Georges Lemaître's Big Bang theory. Gamow discovered a theoretical explanation of alpha decay by quantum tunneling, invented the liquid drop model, worked on radioactive decay, star formation, stellar nucleosynthesis, Big Bang nucleosynthesis, and predicted the existence of the cosmic microwave background radiation and molecular genetics. Gamow was a key figure in the development and understanding of quantum tunneling.

Historical Context for August 19, 1968

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