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August 5-August 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 locomotives make the
120-mile journey from Liverpool to Carlisle and returns to Liverpool
before having their fires dropped for the last time - this working
was known as the Fifteen Guinea Special.
August 18 - Two charter buses plunge into the Hida River on
national highway route 41 in Japan, in an accident caused by heavy
rain. 104 killed.
August 20 - The Prague Spring of political liberalization
ends, as 200,000 Warsaw Pact troops and 5,000 tanks invade
Czechoslovakia.
August 21 - The Medal of Honor is posthumously awarded to James
Anderson, Jr. — he is the first black U.S. Marine to be awarded the
Medal of Honor.
August 24 - France explodes its first hydrogen bomb.
August 22-August 30 - Police clash with anti-war protesters in
Chicago, Illinois, outside the 1968 Democratic National Convention,
which nominates Hubert Humphrey for U.S. President, and Edmund
Muskie for Vice President.
August 29 - Crown Prince Harald of Norway marries Sonja
Haraldsen, the commoner he has dated for nine years, in Oslo.
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