March 2 » United States Steel Corporation is founded as a result of a merger between Carnegie Steel Company and Federal Steel Company which became the first corporation in the world with a market capital over $1 billion.
April 25 » New York becomes the first U.S. state to require automobile license plates.
August 21 » Six hundred American school teachers, Thomasites, arrived in Manila on the USAT Thomas.
September 6 » Leon Czolgosz, an unemployed anarchist, shoots and fatally wounds US President William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York.
November 13 » The 1901 Caister lifeboat disaster.
Day of death August 1, 1968
The temperature on August 1, 1968 was between 15.4 °C and 25.0 °C and averaged 19.2 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain during 1.0 hours. There was 3.5 hours of sunshine (23%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
January 5 » Alexander Dubček comes to power in Czechoslovakia, effectively beginning the "Prague Spring".
January 13 » Johnny Cash performs live at Folsom State Prison.
February 17 » In Springfield, Massachusetts, the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame opens.
August 22 » Pope Paul VI arrives in Bogotá, Colombia. It is the first visit of a pope to Latin America.
October 22 » Apollo program: Apollo 7 safely splashes down in the Atlantic Ocean after orbiting the Earth 163 times.
December 21 » Apollo program: Apollo 8 is launched from the Kennedy Space Center, placing its crew on a lunar trajectory for the first visit to another celestial body by humans.
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