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Year 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the 1967 Gregorian calendar.
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[edit] Events of 1967
[edit] January
January - Publication of the influential science fiction anthology Dangerous Visions. January 1 - Canada begins a year-long celebration of the 100th anniversary of the British North America Act, 1867, featuring the Expo 67 World's fair. January 5 - Charlie Chaplin opens his last film, A Countess From Hong Kong, in England. January 6 - Vietnam War: USMC and ARVN troops launch "Operation Deckhouse Five" in the Mekong River delta. January 8 - Vietnam War: Operation Cedar Falls starts. January 10 - Segregationist Lester Maddox is sworn in as Governor of Georgia. January 12 - Dr. James Bedford becomes the first person to be cryonically preserved with the intent of future resuscitation. January 13 - A military coup occurs in Togo under the leadership of Etienne Eyadema. January 14 - The New York Times reports that the U.S. Army is conducting secret germ warfare experiments. January 14 - Human Be-In takes place in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco; event sets the stage for the Summer of Love January 15 - Louis Leakey announces the discovery of pre-human fossils in Kenya; he names the species Kenyapitchecus africanus. January 15 - The United Kingdom enters the first round of negotiations for European Economic Community membership in Rome. January 15 - Super Bowl I played in Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. The Green Bay Packers defeat the Kansas City Chiefs 35-10. January 18 - Albert DeSalvo is convicted of numerous crimes and sentenced to life in prison. January 18 - Jeremy Thorpe becomes leader of the UK's Liberal Party. January 23 - In Munich, the trial begins of Wilhelm Harster, accused of the murder of 82,856 Jews (including Anne Frank) when he led German security police during the German occupation of the Netherlands. He is eventually sentenced to 15 years in prison. January 23 - The new town of Milton Keynes (England) is founded by Order in Council. January 26 - The Parliament of the United Kingdom decides to nationalize 90% of the British steel industry. January 27 - Apollo 1: U.S. astronauts Gus Grissom, Edward Higgins White, and Roger Chaffee are killed when fire breaks out in their Apollo spacecraft during a launch pad test. January 27 - The United States, Soviet Union and United Kingdom sign the Outer Space Treaty. January 27 - The Doors' self-titled debut album is released. January 31 - West Germany and Romania establish diplomatic relations.
[edit] February
February 2 - The American Basketball Association is formed. February 3 - Ronald Ryan becomes the last man hanged in Australia, for murdering a guard while escaping from prison in December 1965. February 4 - The Soviet Union protests the demonstrations before its embassy in Peking. February 5 - NASA launches Lunar Orbiter 3. February 5 - Italy's first guided missile cruiser, the Vittorio Veneto (C550), is launched. February 5 - General Anastasio Somoza Debayle becomes president of Nicaragua. February 6 - Aleksei Kosygin arrives in the UK for an 8-day visit. He meets the Queen on February 9. February 7 - The Chinese government announces that it can no longer guarantee the safety of Soviet diplomats outside the Soviet Embassy building. February 7 - Serious bushfires in southern Tasmania claim 62 lives. February 7 - Opening of Mazenod College, Victoria. February 10 - The 25th Amendment to the United States Constitution (presidential succession) is ratified. February 14 - "Respect" is recorded by Aretha Franklin. It will be released in April. February 15 - The Soviet Union announces that it has sent troops near the Chinese border. February 18 - China sends 3 People's Liberation Army divisions to Tibet. February 18 - New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison claims he will solve the John F. Kennedy assassination, and that it was planned in New Orleans. February 22 - Suharto takes power from Sukarno in Indonesia (see Transition to the New Order and Supersemar). February 22 - Donald Sangster becomes the new Prime Minister of Jamaica, succeeding Alexander Bustamante. February 23 - Trinidad and Tobago are the first Commonwealth nations to join the Organization of American States. February 23 - 25th Amendment of the United States Constitution enacted. February 24 - Moscow forbids its satellite states to form diplomatic relations with West Germany. February 25 - The Chinese government announces that it has ordered the army to help in the spring seeding. February 25 - Britain's second Polaris missile submarine, HMS Renown, is launched. February 26 - A Soviet nuclear test is conducted at Semipalatinsk Test Site, Eastern Kazakhstan. February 27 - The Dutch government supports British EEC membership.
[edit] March
March 1 - Founding of the city of Hatogaya, Saitama, Japan. March 1 - Brazilian police arrest Franc Paul Stangli, ex-commander of Treblinka and Sobibór concentration camps. March 1 - The Red Guards return to schools in China. March 1 - The Queen Elizabeth Hall is opened in London. March 4 - The first North Sea gas is pumped ashore at Easington, East Riding of Yorkshire. March 4 - Queens Park Rangers become the first 3rd Division side to win the League Cup at Wembley Stadium defeating West Bromwich Albion 3-2. March 7 - Jimmy Hoffa begins his 8-year sentence for attempting to bribe a jury. March 9 - Joseph Stalin's daughter, Svetlana Alliluyeva, defects to the USA via the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi. March 12 - The Indonesian State Assembly takes all presidential powers from Sukarno and names Suharto as acting president. March 13 - Moise Tshombe, ex-prime minister of Congo, is sentenced to death in absentia. March 14 - The body of U.S. President John F. Kennedy is moved to a permanent burial place at Arlington National Cemetery. March 14 - Nine executives of the German pharmaceutical company Grunenthal are charged for breaking German drug laws because of thalidomide. March 16 - In the Aspida case in Greece, 15 officers are sentenced to 2-18 years in prison, accused of treason and intentions of staging a coup. March 18 - The supertanker Torrey Canyon runs aground in between Land's End and the Scilly Isles. March 19 - A referendum in French Somaliland favors the connection to France. March 21 - A military coup takes place in Sierra Leone. March 26 - 10,000 gather for the Central Park Be-In March 28 - Pope Paul VI issues the encyclical Populorum Progressio. March 29 - A 13-day TV strike begins in the U.S. March 29 - The first French nuclear submarine, Le Redoutable, is launched. March 29 - The SEACOM cable system is inaugurated. March 29 - Royal Air Force planes bomb the Torrey Canyon and sink her. March 31 - U.S. President Lyndon Johnson signs the Consular Treaty.
[edit] April
April 2 - A United Nations delegation arrives in Aden due to approaching independence. They leave April 7, accusing British authorities of lack of cooperation. The British say the delegation did not contact them. April 4 - Martin Luther King, Jr. denounces the Vietnam War during a religious service in New York City. April 6 - Georges Pompidou begins to form the next French government. April 7 - Lead-up to the Six Day War: Israeli fighters shoot down 7 Syrian MIG-21s. April 8 - Puppet On A String by Sandie Shaw (music and text by Bill Martin and Phil Coulter) wins the Eurovision Song Contest 1967 for United Kingdom. April 9 - The first Boeing 737 (a 100 series) takes its maiden flight. April 10 - 39th Academy Awards ceremony April 12 - Ahmanson Theatre opens in Los Angeles. April 13 - Conservatives win the Greater London Council elections. April 14 - In San Francisco, 10,000 march against the Vietnam War. April 15 - Large demonstrations are held against the Vietnam War in New York City and San Francisco. April 20 - The Surveyor 3 probe lands on the Moon. April 20 - A Globe Air Bristol Britannia turboprop crashes at Nicosia, Cyprus, killing 126 people. [1][2] April 21 - Greece is taken over by a military dictatorship led by George Papadopoulos; ex-Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou political prisoner to December 25. April 21 - The Belvidere - Oak Lawn tornado outbreak strikes the upper Midwest section of the United States (in particular the Chicago area, including the suburbs of Belvidere and Oak Lawn, Illinois, where 33 people are killed and 500 injured). April 23 - A group of young radicals are expelled from the Nicaraguan Socialist Party (PSN). This group goes on to found the Socialist Workers Party (POS).
April 24 - Soyuz 1: Vladimir Komarov becomes the first Soviet cosmonaut to die, when the parachute of his space capsule fails during re-entry. April 27 - Montreal, Quebec, Expo 67, a World's Fair to coincide with the Canadian Confederation centennial, officially opens with Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson igniting the Expo Flame in the Place des Nations. April 28 - In Houston, Texas, boxer Muhammad Ali refuses military service. April 28 - Expo 67 opens to the public, with over 310,000 people attending. Al Carter from Chicago is the first visitor as noted by Expo officials. April 29 - Fidel Castro announces that all intellectual property belongs to all people and that Cuba intends to translate and publish technical literature without compensation. April 30 - Moscow's 537m-tall TV tower is finished.
[edit] May
May 1 - Elvis Presley and Priscilla Beaulieu are married in Las Vegas. May 1 - GO Transit, Canada's first interregional public transit system, is established. May 2 - The Toronto Maple Leafs win the Stanley Cup. May 2 - Harold Wilson announces that the United Kingdom has decided to apply for EEC membership. May 4 - Lunar Orbiter 4 is launched. May 6 - Dr. Zakir Hussain is the first Muslim to become president of India. May 6 - Four hundred students seize the administration building at Cheyney State College, Pennsylvania. May 6 - Hong Kong 1967 riots: Clashes between striking workers and police kill 51 and injure 800. May 8 - The Philippine province of Davao is split into three: Davao del Norte, Davao del Sur, and Davao Oriental. May 10 - The Greek military government accuses Andreas Papandreou of treason. May 11 - The United Kingdom and Ireland apply officially for European Economic Community membership. May 17 - Syria mobilizes against Israel. May 17 - President Gamal Abdal Nasser of Egypt demands withdrawal of the peacekeeping UN Emergency Force in Sinai. U.N. Secretary-General U Thant complies (May 18). May 18 - Tennessee Governor Ellington repeals the "Monkey Law" (see the Scopes Trial). May 18 - In Mexico, schoolteacher Lucio Cabañas begins a guerrilla campaign in Atoyac de Alvarez, west of Acapulco, in the state of Guerrero. May 18 - NASA announces crew members for the Apollo 7 space mission (first manned Apollo flight): Walter M. Schirra, Jr., Donn F. Eisele, and R. Walter Cunningham. May 19 - The Soviet Union ratifies a treaty with the United States and the United Kingdom, banning nuclear weapons from outer space. May 19 - Yuri Andropov becomes KGB chief. May 22 - The Innovation department store in the centre of Brussels (Belgium) burns down. It is the most devastating fire in Belgian history, resulting in 323 dead and missing and 150 injured. May 22 - The Monkees release Headquarters, which is #1 on the album charts for one week, until the release of Sgt. Pepper by the Beatles. May 23 - Egypt closes the Straits of Tiran to Israeli shipping, blockading Israel's southern port of Eilat. May 25 - Celtic F.C. becomes the first British team to reach a European Cup final and also the first to win it, beating Inter Milan 2-1. May 25 - 25th Amendment added to the Constitution May 27 - Naxalite Guerrilla War: Beginning with a peasant uprising in the town of Naxalbari, this Marxist/Maoist rebellion sputters on in the Indian countryside. The guerrillas operate among the impoverished peasants, fighting both the government security forces and private paramilitary groups funded by wealthy landowners. Most fighting takes place in the states of Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Orissa and Madhya Pradesh. May 27 - The Australian referendum, 1967 passes with an overwhelming 90% support, removing, from the Australian Constitution, two discriminatory sentences referring to Indigenous Australians. It signified Australia's first step in recognising Indigenous rights. May 28 - The Folk-Rock band Fairport Convention plays their first gig in London. May 30 - Biafra, in eastern Nigeria, announces its independence.
[edit] June
Moshe Dayan becomes Israel's Secretary of Defense. June 1 - The Beatles release Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, nicknamed "The Soundtrack of the Summer of Love"; it would be number one on the albums charts throughout the summer of 1967. June 2 - Protests in West Berlin against the arrival of the Shah of Iran turn into fights, during which young Benno Ohnesorg is killed by a police officer. His death results in the founding of the terrorist group Movement 2 June. June 2 - Luis Monge executed in Colorado's Gas Chamber. Last pre-Furman execution in USA. June 4 - Stockport Air Disaster: British Midland flight G-ALHG crashes in Hopes Carr, Stockport, killing 72 passengers and crew. June 5 - Murderer Richard Speck is sentenced to death in the electric chair for killing the Chicago nurses. June 5 - Start of Six-Day War, Israel occupies the West Bank, Gaza Strip, Sinai peninsula and Golan Heights after defeating its Arab neighbours. June 7 - Two Moby Grape members are arrested for contributing to the delinquency of minors. June 8 - Six-Day War: The USS Liberty incident - Israeli fighter jets and Israeli warships fire at USS Liberty off Gaza, killing 34 and wounding 171. June 10 - Israel and Syria agree to a United Nations-mediated cease-fire. June 10 - The Soviet Union severs diplomatic relations with Israel. June 10 - Margrethe, heir apparent to the throne of Denmark, marries French count Henri de Laborde de Monpezat. June 11 - A race riot occurs in Tampa, Florida. June 12 - Loving v. Virginia: The United States Supreme Court declares all U.S. state laws prohibiting interracial marriage to be unconstitutional. [3] June 12 - Venera program: Venera 4 is launched (it will become the first space probe to enter another planet's atmosphere and successfully return data). June 13 - Solicitor General Thurgood Marshall is nominated as the first African American justice of the United States Supreme Court. [4] June 14 - Mariner program: Mariner 5 is launched toward Venus. June 14 - The People's Republic of China tests its first hydrogen bomb.[5] June 14-June 15 - Glenn Gould records Prokofiev's Seventh Piano Sonata, Op. 83, in New York City, his only recording of a Prokofiev composition.