WHAT ALL HAPPENED JULY TO AUGUST 1968
Find out what all happened July to August 1968

Formal separation of the United Auto Workers from the AFL–CIO. (1. July 1968)

The CIA's Phoenix Program is officially established. (1. July 1968)

Pope Paul VI arrives in Bogotá, Colombia. It is the first visit of a pope to Latin America. (22. August 1968)

Riots in Chicago, Illinois, during the Democratic National Convention. (28. August 1968)

A revolution occurs in Iraq when Abdul Rahman Arif is overthrown and the Ba'ath Party is installed as the governing power in Iraq with Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr as the new Iraqi President. (17. July 1968)

Intel is founded in Santa Clara, California. (18. July 1968)

The Chrysler wildcat strike begins in Detroit, Michigan. (8. July 1968)

Soviet Union-dominated Warsaw Pact troops invade Czechoslovakia, crushing the Prague Spring. (20. August 1968)

Garfield Sobers became the first batsman ever to hit six sixes in a single over of six consecutive balls in first-class cricket. (31. August 1968)

The only successful hijacking of an El Al aircraft takes place when a Boeing 707 carrying 10 crew and 38 passengers is taken over by three members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The aircraft was en route from Rome, Italy, to Lod, Israel. (23. July 1968)

The first International Special Olympics Summer Games are held at Soldier Field in Chicago, Ill, with about 1,000 athletes with intellectual disabilities. (20. July 1968)

Alexandros Panagoulis attempts to assassinate the Greek dictator Colonel Georgios Papadopoulos in Varkiza, Athens. (13. August 1968)

The coronation is held of Hassanal Bolkiah, the 29th Sultan of Brunei. (1. August 1968)

The Nuclear non-proliferation treaty is signed in Washington, D.C., London and Moscow by sixty-two countries. (1. July 1968)

Nicolae Ceaușescu, leader of Communist Romania, publicly condemns the Soviet led Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, encouraging the Romanian population to arm itself against possible Soviet reprisals. (21. August 1968)

Glenville Shootout: in Cleveland, Ohio, a violent shootout between a Black Militant organization led by Ahmed Evans and the Cleveland Police Department occurs. During the shootout, a riot begins and lasts for five days. (23. July 1968)

Vietnam War: South Vietnamese opposition leader Truong Dinh 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. (26. July 1968)

James Anderson, Jr. posthumously receives the first Medal of Honor to be awarded to an African American U.S. Marine. (21. August 1968)

The last steam hauled train runs on British Rail (11. August 1968)

An earthquake hits Casiguran, Aurora, Philippines killing more than 270 people and wounding 261. (2. August 1968)