On August 18, 1967, Red Sox batter Tony Conigliaro was hit almost directly in the left eye by a fastball thrown by Jack Hamilton of the California Angels.

* Alfredo Ottaviani ( 3 August 1961 – 26 June 1967 )

At the time, the final episode of The Fugitive held the record for the greatest number of American homes with television sets to watch a series finale, at 72 % in August 1967.

Herbert Blaize was the first Premier of the Associated State of Grenada from March to August 1967.

Eric Gairy served as Premier from August 1967 until February 1974, as the Grenada United Labour Party party won majorities in both the 1967 and 1972 general elections.

Hugo Gernsback ( August 16, 1884 – August 19, 1967 ), born Hugo Gernsbacher, was a Luxembourgian American inventor, writer, editor, and magazine publisher, best remembered for publications that included the first science fiction magazine.

He died at Roosevelt Hospital in New York City on August 19, 1967.

Gernsback held 80 patents by the time of his death in New York City on August 19, 1967.

Harold Edward Holt, CH ( 5 August 190817 December 1967 ) was an Australian politician and the 17th Prime Minister of Australia.

The entire area of the West Bank and Gaza, previously annexed by Jordan and occupied by Egypt respectively, was controlled by Israel from the 1967 war until August 2005, when Israel withdrew from Gaza.

James Tiptree, Jr. ( August 24, 1915 – May 19, 1987 ) was the pen name of American science fiction author Alice Bradley Sheldon, used from 1967 to her death.

John Kingsley (" Joe ") Orton ( 1 January 1933 – 9 August 1967 ), was an English playwright and author.

On 9 August 1967, Kenneth Halliwell bludgeoned 34-year-old Orton to death at his home in Islington, London, with nine hammer blows to the head, and then committed suicide with an overdose of 22 Nembutal tablets washed down with the juice from canned grapefruit.

The 22 November 1970 edition of The Sunday Times reported that on 5 August 1967, four days before the murder, Orton went to the Chelsea Potter pub in the King's Road.

Two archive recordings of Orton are known to survive: a short BBC radio interview first transmitted in August 1967 and a video recording, held by the British Film Institute, of his appearance on Eamonn Andrews ' ITV chat show transmitted 23 April 1967.

Bench was drafted 36th overall by the Cincinnati Reds in the second round of the 1965 amateur draft, playing for the minor-league Buffalo Bisons in the 1966 and 1967 seasons before being called up to the Reds in August 1967.

He was a member of the Grateful Dead from September 1967 to February 1971, and from October 1974 to August 1995.

Several key events occurred, which raised public awareness of the New Age subculture: the production of the musical Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical ( 1967 ) with its opening song " Aquarius " and its memorable line " This is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius "; publication of Linda Goodman's best-selling astrology books Sun Signs ( 1968 ) and Love Signs ( 1978 ); the release of Shirley MacLaine's book Out on a Limb ( 1983 ), later adapted into a television mini-series with the same name ( 1987 ); and the " Harmonic Convergence " planetary alignment on August 16 and 17, 1987, organized by José Argüelles at Sedona in the U. S. state of Arizona.

An August 1940 plebiscite endorsed Estigarribia's constitution, which remained in force until 1967.

In August 1967, a new Constitution created the two-house Paraguayan legislature and formally allowed Stroessner to serve for two more five-year presidential terms.

In August 1919, at the age of nine, Capp lost his left leg in a trolley accident.

Andy Capp is a British comic strip created by cartoonist Reg Smythe ( 1917 – 1998 ), seen in The Daily Mirror and The Sunday Mirror newspapers since 5 August 1957.

Written and drawn by Al Capp ( 1909 – 1979 ), the strip ran for 43 years, from August 13, 1934 through November 13, 1977.

( 28 August 1967 ) ABC ( TV special, hosted by Al Capp )

Created by Al Capp ( 1909 – 1979 ), it first appeared in his classic comic strip Li ' l Abner on August 31, 1948, and quickly became a postwar national craze in the USA.

School began in August, the hottest part of the year, and for the first few days Miss Langford was very lenient with the children, letting them play a lot and the new ones sort of get acquainted with one another.

The street that is full now of traffic and parked cars then and for many years drowsed on an August afternoon in the shade of the curbside trees, and silence was a weight, almost palpable, in the air.

Ironically no president we have had would have regretted more than President Eisenhower the possibility to which his own words, in the press conference held at the beginning of August, testified: that unable as he was himself to say his running was best for the country, unconsciously he had placed his party before his nation.

From the night of August 30 to the morning of September 2 there was no Union cavalry east of the Macon railway to disclose to Sherman that he was missing the greatest opportunity of his career.

The 15th Street deposit is not to be confused with the nearby famous Mayflower Hotel cypress swamp on 17th Street reported in The Washington Post, August 2, 1955, which was probably formed during the second interglacial period and is therefore much younger.

Its ground for this recommendation was that, while petitioner claimed before the local board August 17, 1956 ( as evidenced by its memorandum in his file of that date ), that he was devoting 100 hours per month to actual preaching, the headquarters of the Jehovah's Witnesses reported that he was no longer doing so and, on the contrary, had relinquished both his Pioneer and Bible Student Servant positions.

He was born in the small Danish town of Rudkoebing on the island of Langeland in the south-central part of Denmark on August 14, 1777.

The final mailing of the questionnaire was made late in August, 1960, to 4,900 firms consisting of 3,450 from the AIA list and 1,450 from the TR list.

This was working by the end of August and giving satisfactory service.

Bailly, after leaving Fort Snelling in August 1821, was forced to leave some of the cattle at the Hudson's Bay Company's post on Lake Traverse `` in the Sieux Country '' and reached Fort Garry, as the Selkirk Hudson's Bay Company center was now called, late in the fall.

The normal rate of suicides in East Berlin was one a day, but since the border was closed on August 13 it has jumped to 25 a day!!

She glanced at the man nodding beside her, a man with weather cracks furrowed into his lean cheeks, with powdery pale eyes reflecting all the droughts he had seen, reflecting the sky and the drought which must follow now in August -- yes, with eyes predicting the drought and here it was only June, only festival time again and thoughts of Gratt Shafer would not leave her.

President Lincoln rejected two geographically limited emancipation attempts by Major General John C. Frémont in August 1861 and by Major General David Hunter in May 1862, on the grounds that it was not within their power, and it would upset the border states loyal to the Union.

On August 12, 2011, a plaque was unveiled on the Wolff building at Third Ave and La Mesa Bl commemorating Dwan and the Flying A Studios origins in La Mesa, California.

He was named Adjutant General as a colonel in the Republic of Texas Army on August 5, 1836.

Andy Warhol ( August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987 ) was an American artist who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art.

Andy Warhol ( né Andrej Varchola, Jr .) was born on August 6, 1928 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

From 2002 to July 2008 under Turkmen calendar reform, the month of August was named after Alp Arslan.