1865 book From the Earth to the Moon was actually Columbiad. Died: Tom Mboya, 38, Kenyan Justice Minister and national economist Leo McCarey, 70, American film director and three time Oscar-winner Ben Alexander, 58, American TV and film actor known as Jack Webb's costar in the original Dragnet TV and radio series; of a heart attack Walter Gropius, 66, German architect Lambert Hillyer, 75, American film director July 6, 1969 (Sunday) One of the Soviet Central Television networks gave viewers "their first look at nude movies and sex magazines", unprecedented in the network's broadcasting and a shock to Russian society's normally prudish attitudes toward sex. Western observers concluded that the late evening show was intended for propaganda purposes, and that "Its apparent aim was to put America in a bad light by shocking puritanical Russians". Nude scenes from the recently produced off-Broadway play Oh! Calcutta! were shown, along with the recent film Che!, along with photographs of "sex magazine covers with unclad men and women" that "appeared to have been photographed through the windows of midtown bookshops in New York City". The show's narrator informed viewers that "The American public loves this." The narrator also described Oh! Calcutta! as "the most repulsive" example of the "erotic revolution" in the United States. Air South Flight 168, part of the fleet of a commuter airline founded earlier in the year, crashed near Monroe, Georgia, killing all 12 passengers and both the crew. The twin-engine Beechcraft Model 99 airplane had taken off from Atlanta at about 9:00 pm and was scheduled to land at an airfield in Greer, South Carolina when it went down in a swampy area. The final vestige of the penny arcade era was quietly retired as the last known one-cent machine, a "fortune teller" that dispensed tickets for one penny, was removed and replaced by a newer version that cost five cents. Died: Sister Laura Latorre Mendoza, 91, Philippine Roman Catholic missionary July 7, 1969 (Monday) French joined English as one of the two official languages of Canada as the House of Commons approved the Official Languages Act on its third and final reading. By the time the reading was completed, only 45 of the 264 members remained (16 from the ruling Liberal Party, 17 from the opposing Progressive Conservative Party (the Tories) and 12 from the moderately liberal New Democratic Party. An hour before the vote, opponents made