THIS WEEK IN AMERICA! THE BILLBOARD HOT 100: JULY 20, 1968

Compiled by the Music Popularity Chart Dept. of Billboard, from national retail store and one-stop sales reports, and radio airplay reports.

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• July 1
  • The Central Intelligence Agency’s Phoenix Program is officially established.
  • The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty opens for signature.
• July 4 – Yachtsman Alec Rose, 59, receives a hero’s welcome as he sails into Portsmouth, England after his 354-day round-the-world trip.
• July 13 – 1968 flu pandemic: Influenza A virus sub-type H3N2 first recorded in Hong Kong.
• July 15 – The soap opera One Life to Live premieres on ABC television in the United States.
• July 17 – Saddam Hussein becomes Vice Chairman of the Revolutionary Council in Iraq after a coup d’état.
• July 18 – The semiconductor company Intel is founded.
• July 20 – The first International Special Olympics Summer Games are held at Soldier Field in Chicago, Ill, with about 1,000 athletes with intellectual disabilities.
• July 23–28 – Black militants led by Fred (Ahmed) Evans engage in a fierce gunfight with police in the Glenville Shootout of Cleveland, Ohio, in the United States.
• July 25 – Pope Paul VI publishes the encyclical entitled Humanae vitae, on birth control.
• July 26 – Vietnam War: South Vietnamese opposition leader Trương Đình Dzu is sentenced to 5 years hard labor, for advocating the formation of a coalition government as a way to move toward an end to the war.
• July 29
  • Arenal Volcano erupts in Costa Rica for the first time in centuries.
  • Yorkshire Television starts broadcasting.
• July 30 – Thames Television starts transmission in London.
• July 31 – BBC television sitcom Dad’s Army is broadcast for the first time in the UK.

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Source: ‘1968’; Wikipedia

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