cricket by scoring an upset against one of the five national teams that met regularly in test cricket matches, defeating the visiting West Indies team 125 runs to 25 in the first innings of an unofficial one day match. The newest and largest casino and resort in Las Vegas, the International Hotel, opened to guests. Renowned singer Barbra Streisand performed the first concert date to inaugurate the 1,510 room hotel, at the time the tallest building (30 stories) in Nevada. Born: Jenni Rivera, American Latin music singer; in Long Beach, California (killed in plane crash, 2012) Tim Rodber, English rugby union flanker with 44 appearances for the national team; in Richmond, Yorkshire Matthew Cox, American white collar criminal; in Tampa Died: "Iron Mike" DiBiase, 45, American professional wrestler and former college wrestling champion, died of a heart attack during a match in Lubbock, Texas. As the match began, DiBiase was preparing to fight Gary Fletcher, but before the two could grapple, DiBiase collapsed and fell backward out of the ring."**Mikio Naruse, 63, Japanese film producer July 3, 1969 (Thursday) The Soviet Union's race to land a man on the Moon, already far behind the American program, ended with the explosion after launch of its N1 rocket, the Soviet counterpart to the American Saturn V. Although the N1 was capable of carrying the mass of a large payload (an orbiting vehicle, a lunar lander and at least one cosmonauts) out of Earth orbit, the Soviets had yet to accomplish what the U.S. had done with Apollo 8 in December, putting men into orbit around the Moon. Although U.S. intelligence officials suspected that the launch had been a failure after noting that a mission had not taken place as expected, the extent of the failure would not be clear until six weeks later, when an analyst with the National Photographic Interpretation Center saw the damage from the explosion on film from an American spy satellite. Unlike Apollo 11, the Zond capsule on top of the N1 was unmanned. An American CIA analyst would comment later in a top secret report that the unsuccessful launch "was probably intended to send an unmanned spacecraft to the vicinity of the moon and return it to earth" and that the blast heavily damaged the launch pad at Baikonur. A press release from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), announced the existence of what would become