Editing 1968 (section)

=== July&ndash;August ===
{{Main|July 1968}}
{{Main|August 1968}}
[[File:František Dostál Srpen 1968 3.jpg|thumb|125px|right|August 20–21: Warsaw Pact invades Czechoslovakia]]
* [[July 1]] – The [[Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty]] opens for signature.
* [[July 4]] – British yachtsman [[Alec Rose]], 59, receives a hero's welcome as he sails into [[Portsmouth]], after his 354-day solo round-the-world trip.
* [[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 in what becomes known as the [[Silicon Valley]] of California.
* [[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]]–[[July 28|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]] ''[[Humanae vitae]]'', reaffirming the Catholic Church's opposition to artificial [[birth control]].
* [[July 26]] – Vietnam War: [[South Vietnam]]ese 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.
*[[August 1]] – The [[Universidade Municipal de São Caetano do Sul|Municipal University of São Caetano do Sul]] is established in [[São Caetano do Sul]], [[São Paulo]].
*[[August 2]] – The magnitude ({{M|w|link=y}}) 7.6 [[1968 Casiguran earthquake|Casiguran earthquake]] affects the [[Aurora (province)|Aurora province]] in the Philippines with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (''Violent''), killing at least 207 and injuring 261.
* [[August 5]]–[[August 8|8]] – The [[Republican National Convention]] in [[Miami Beach, Florida]] nominates [[Richard Nixon]] for U.S. president and [[Spiro Agnew]] for vice president.
* [[August 11]] – The last steam passenger train service runs in Britain. A selection of [[British Rail]] [[steam locomotive]]s make the 120-mile journey from [[Liverpool Lime Street railway station|Liverpool]] to [[Carlisle railway station|Carlisle]] and return – the journey is known as the [[Fifteen Guinea Special]].
* [[August 18]] – Two charter buses are forced into the [[Hida River]] on National Highway Route 41 in Japan in an accident caused by heavy rain; 104 are killed.
* [[August 20]]–[[August 21|21]] – [[Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia]]: The '[[Prague Spring]]' of political liberalization ends, as 750,000 [[Warsaw Pact]] troops and 6,500 [[tank]]s with 800 aircraft invade [[Czechoslovakia]], the largest military operation in Europe since the end of World War II.
* [[August 24]] – [[Canopus (nuclear test)]]: France explodes its first [[hydrogen bomb]] in a test at [[Fangataufa]] atoll in [[French Polynesia]].
* [[August 22]]–[[August 30|30]] – [[1968 Democratic National Convention protests]]: Police clash with [[Opposition to United States involvement in the Vietnam War|anti-Vietnam War protesters]] in [[Chicago]] outside the [[1968 Democratic National Convention]], which nominates [[Hubert Humphrey]] for U.S. president and [[Edmund Muskie]] for vice president. The riots and subsequent trials are an essential part of the activism of the [[Youth International Party]].
* [[August 29]] – [[Harald V of Norway|Crown Prince Harald]] of Norway marries [[Sonja Haraldsen]], the commoner he has dated for 9 years.