** Former SS Captain Erich Priebke is retried ; on July 22 he is sentenced to 5 years in prison.

** Former Nicaraguan President Anastasio Somoza Debayle is killed in Asunción, Paraguay.

** Former Massachusetts Attorney General Edward Brooke becomes the first African American elected to the United States Senate since Reconstruction.

** Former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard David Duke wins a spot in the runoff election for governor of Louisiana, ultimately losing to Edwin Edwards.

** Former Dutch queen Wilhelmina buried at the New Church in Delft.

** Former U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson dies at his Stonewall, Texas ranch, leaving no former U. S. President living until the resignation of Richard M. Nixon in 1974.

** Former California Governor Ronald Reagan enters the race for the Republican presidential nomination, challenging incumbent President Gerald Ford.

** Former King Chang of Goryeo ( assassinated )

** Wang Jian ( Former Shu )

** Former U. S. President Jimmy Carter arrives in Cuba for a 5-day visit with Fidel Castro, becoming the first U. S. President, in or out of office, to visit the island since Castro's 1959 revolution.

** Former King Gongyang of Goryeo ( b. 1345 )

** Chen Chien-Chou 陳建洲 / 陈建洲 ( Blackie 黑人 ) ( 1977 -; ancestral Meixian, Guangdong ; born in Kaohsiung, Taiwan ; Hakka pronunciation: Chin Kian Zhiu ), Compere ; Former national basketball player, Chinese Taipei national basketball team

** Former Edmonton Oiler Chris Pronger for being a " turncoat "

** Former local electricity supply authorities established as energy companies

** Former Shu ( 前蜀 ), one of the divisions of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period ( 907 – 925 )

** Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc .: Former American holding company, formerly Konami of America Inc., Konami Corporation of America.

** Konami Digital Entertainment GmbH: Former holding company Europe, formerly Konami Limited, Konami Corporation of Europe B. V .. On March 31, 2003, Konami of Europe announced it would be renamed as Konami Digital Entertainment GmbH at the start of Konami ’ s new financial year ( 2003-04-01 ).

** Former Senior Vice President, Operations – Greg Emmer

** People's Self-Defense Political Party ( Former Forward, Ukraine!

** 3rd Field Hospital ( Former 3rd Casualty Clearing Station )

** 5th Field Hospital ( Former 5th Casualty Clearing Station )

** Former OLT owners incl.

** Former Saint Joseph's Institution, now a museum in Singapore

** Former name of Chervona Ukraina light cruiser

** Robert F. Kennedy, Senator from New York, Presidential candidate in 1968

** Ted Kennedy, Senator from Massachusetts

** U. S. Senator Barry Goldwater announces that he will seek the Republican nomination for President.

** U. S. Senator Margaret Chase Smith, 66, announces her candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination.

** Senator Barry Goldwater receives more than 75 % of the votes in the Texas Republican Presidential primary.

** Senator Barry Goldwater wins the California Republican Presidential primary, making him the overwhelming favorite for the nomination.

** Al Franken, United States Senator from Minnesota

** Hubert H. Humphrey, American Vice President and Senator ( d. 1978 )

** Jim Bunning, American baseball player and U. S. Senator

** Mary Jo Kopechne, American campaign aide to U. S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy ( b. 1940 )

** Robert Stafford, Governor of Vermont, U. S Representative and U. S. Senator ( d. 2006 )

** Senator Dennis Chavez ( D-NM ) calls for a vote on an FEPC bill which calls for an end to discrimination in the workplace.

** U. S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy enters the race for the Democratic Party presidential nomination.

** Robert F. Kennedy, U. S. Senator and U. S. Attorney General ( assassinated ) ( b. 1925 )

** Edward Brooke, Senator from Massachusetts

** In Forlì, Italy, the brigate rosse kill Senator Roberto Ruffilli, an advisor of Prime Minister Ciriaco de Mita.

** In Omaha, Nebraska, in the only vice presidential debate of the 1988 U. S. presidential election, the Republican vice presidential nominee, Senator Dan Quayle of Indiana, insists he has as much experience in government as John F. Kennedy did when he sought the presidency in 1960.

** Walter Mondale, U. S. Senator, Vice President and Presidential candidate

** John H. Bankhead, U. S. Senator from Alabama ( b. 1842 )

** Winthrop M. Crane, Governor of Massachusetts and Senator ( b. 1853 )

** Eugene McCarthy, U. S. Senator from Minnesota and Presidential candidate ( d. 2005 )

** Senator John Heinz of Pennsylvania and six other people are killed when a helicopter collides with their plane over Merion, Pennsylvania.

** William Kennedy Smith, a nephew of U. S. Senator Edward Kennedy, is identified as a suspect in an alleged Palm Beach, Florida sexual assault.

** John Glenn, American astronaut and former U. S. Senator