1967

Decades: 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s - 1960s - 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s

Years: 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 - 1967 - 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972

Events:

• January 6 - Vietnam War: USMC and ARVN troops launch "Operation Deckhouse Five[?]" in the Mekong River delta.
• January 18 - Albert DeSalvo[?], the "Boston Strangler[?]," is convicted of numerous crimes and is sentenced to life in prison.
• January 27 - Apollo 1 destroyed in a fire on the launch pad.
• January 27 - USA, Soviet Union and UK sign the Outer Space Treaty.
• February 2 - Aleksei Kosygin[?] visits UK.
• February 2 - The American Basketball Association is formed.
• February 5 - Lunar Orbiter 3[?] is launched.
• February 5 - General Anastasio Somoza Debayle becomes a president of Nicaragua.
• February 7 - Massive brush fires in Tasmania.
• February 10 - The 25th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified.
• February 22 - Suharto takes power from Sukarno in Indonesia.
• February 27 - Dominica gains independence from the United Kingdom.
• March 4 - The first North Sea gas pumped ashore at Easington Co Durham.
• March 9 – Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva defects to USA by US Delhi Embassy.
• March 12 – Indonesian State Assembly takes all presidential powers from Sukarno and names Suharto as acting president.
• March 13 – Indira Gandhi becomes prime minister of India.
• March 14 - The body of President John F. Kennedy is moved to a permanent burial place at Arlington National Cemetery
• March 18 - Supertanker Torrey Canyon[?] runs aground off Lands End, English Channel.
• March 21 - Military coup in Sierra Leone.
• April 7 - Six-Day War: Israeli fighters shoot down seven Syrian MIG-21s[?].
• April 17 - Blizzards begin in Southern Alberta.
• April 20 - Surveyor 3 probe lands on the Moon.
• April 21 - Greece taken over by military dictatorship led by George Papadopoulos[?], forcing King Constantine II to flee.
• April 24 - Soviet cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov is killed during the landing of Soyuz 1.
• April 28 - Boxer Muhammad Ali refuses military service.
• April 28 - Montreal hosts Expo '67; it is to coincide with the centennial of Canadian Confederation.
• April 30 - Moscow's 537m-tall TV tower is finished.
• May 3 - Big gold robbery in London.
• May 4 - Lunar Orbiter 4[?] launched.
• May 6 – Zakir Husain[?] is the first Muslim to become president of India.
• May 17 - President Gamal Abdal Nasser of Egypt demands withdrawal of the peacekeeping UN Emergency Force[?] in Sinai. UN secretary-general U Thant[?] complies (May 18). On May 23 Egypt closes the Strait of Tiran[?], blockading Israel's southern port of Eilat.
• May 22 - The Innovation department store in the centre of Brussels (Belgium) burns down. It is the most devastating fire in Belgian history, which results in 323 dead and missing and 150 wounded.
• May 30 - Biafra, in Eastern Nigeria, announces independence.
• May 30 - At the Ascot Speedway in Gardena, California, daredevil Evel Knievel jumps his motorcycle over 16 cars lined-up in a row.
• June 1 - Moshe Dayan becomes Israel's Secretary of Defense.
• June 2 - Shah of Iran visits West Germany and faces left-wing student demonstrations.
• June 5-June 10 - Israel defeats Arab neighbours in Six-Day War, occupying West Bank, Gaza Strip and Golan Heights.
• June 10 - Soviet Union severs diplomatic relations to Israel.
• June 10 - Margrethe, heir apparent to the throne of Denmark, marries French count Henri de Laborde de Monpezat.
• June 17 - China announces a successful hydrogen bomb test.
• June 23-June 24 - U.S. president Lyndon Johnson and Soviet premier Alexei Kosygin[?] confer at Glassboro, New Jersey.
• June 26 - Pope ordinates 276 new cardinals (one of them Karol Wojtyla).
• June 27 - First automatic cash machine (voucher-based) is installed in the office of the Barclay's Bank in Enfield, England.
• June 28 - Israel declares annexation of East Jerusalem.
• June 30 - Moise Tsombe[?], former prime minister of Congo, is kidnapped to Algeria.
• July 1 - Canada celebrates its first one hundred years of Confederation.
• July 3 - A military rebellion lead by a Belgian mercenary Jean Schramme[?] begins in Katanga, Congo.
• July 6 - Nigerian forces invade Biafra following latter's secession (May 30): beginning of the Biafran War[?].
• July 13 - Newark race riots.
• July 15 - Detroit race riots.
• July 18 - Humberto Castelo Branco[?], ex-president of Brazil, dies in a plane accident near Fortaleza
• July 23 - Detroit race riots erupt again.
• July 24 - During his visit to Canada, Charles De Gaulle supports Quebec's separation attempts, angering Canadian government.
• July 29 - Explosion and fire in U.S. Navy carrier Forrestal[?] in Gulf of Tonkin leaves 134 dead.
• August 1 - Race riots in USA spread to Washington DC.
• August 3 – Sweden switches to right-hand traffic.
• August 7 - General strike in the old quarter of Jerusalem protests Israel's unification of the city.
• August 8 – ASEAN formed.
• August 15 - British Labour Government bans pirate radio stations.
• August 19 - West Germany receives 36 East Germany prisoners it has "purchased" through the border posts of Herleshausen[?] and Wartha[?].
• August 21 - Truce in Congo.
• August 21 - China announces that it has shot down American planes violating its airspace.
• August 25 - Leader of American Nazi Party[?], George Lincoln Rockwell[?], is shot dead.
• September 1 – Ilse Koch[?], also known as the "Bitch of Buchenwald", commits suicide in the Bavarian prison of Aichach[?].
• September 2 - Roughs Tower claimed by Paddy Roy Bates[?], declared Principality of Sealand
• September 10 - In Gibraltar, only 44 out of 12.182 voters support union with Spain.
• September 17 - Riot in a football match in Kaysei[?], Turkey - 44 dead, about 600 injured.
• September 30 - BBC Radio 1 launched.
• October - Patterson-Gimlin film of a purported bigfoot taken.
• October 2 – Thurgood Marshall is the first black member of the U.S. Supreme Court.
• October 3 - The X-15 research aircraft with Chuck Yeager establishes a speed record of Mach 6.7.
• October 17 - Premiere of the musical Hair on Broadway.
• October 19 - Mariner 5 probe flies by Venus.
• October 21 - Egyptian surface-to-surface missile sinks the Israeli destroyer Eilat, killing 47 Israeli sailors. Israel retaliates by shelling Egyptian refineries along the Suez Canal.
• October 21 - Ten of thousands of Vietnam War protesters march in Washington DC.
• October 25 - Abortion bill passes in British parliament.
• October 26 - Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi of Iran[?] is officially crowned.
• October 27 - Charles De Gaulle vetoes British entry into EEC – again.
• October 30 - British troops and Chinese demonstrators clash in the border of China and Hong Kong.
• November 6 - Rhodesian parliament passes pro-Apartheid laws.
• November 9 - first launch of Saturn V, Apollo 4 mission.
• November 30- Britain withdraws its last troops from Aden/Yemen.
• December 1 - So-called Russell Tribunal[?] in Sweden condemns USA for a mass murder in Vietnam.
• December 3 - The first heart transplant is performed by Christiaan Barnard in Cape Town, South Africa.
• December 4, 1850 hours - Volcano erupts on Deception Island in Antarctica.
• December 9 – Nicolae Ceaucescu becomes the Chairman of the Romanian State Council[?] - that is, de-facto dictator of Romania.
• December 15 - Silver Bridge over Ohio River in Point Pleasant, West Virginia, collapses - 46 dead. It has been linked to the so-called Mothman mystery.
• December 17 - Harold Holt, Australian prime minister, disappears when swimming 100 km off Melbourne.
• December 19 - Professor John Archibald Wheeler[?] use the term Black Hole for the first time.
• Influential science fiction anthology Dangerous Visions published.
• LSD declared a Schedule I drug[?] by the United States government.
• Lonsdaleite (the rarest allotrope of carbon) first discovered in Barringer Crater, Arizona.
• Lost city discovered on the island of Thera, buried under volcanic debris. It has been suggested that Plato may have heard legends about this, and used them as the germ of his story of Atlantis.
• PAL first introduced in Germany.
• Summer of Love
• 25th Amendment of the United States Constitution enacted.
• First Pulsar discovered by Jocelyn Bell[?] and Antony Hewish[?].
• British defense minister Denis Healey announces a decision to pull out British troops from Singapore.
• First cryogenic corpsicles[?] are placed in ice.
• Arno River floods in Florence.
• Citizens of New South Wales in Australia vote for the equality of Australian aborigines.
• Desmond Morris – The Naked Ape.
• Lech Walesa goes to work in Gdansk shipyards.
• Benjamin Netanyahu joins Israeli army.
• Greek military junta exiles Melina Mercouri.

Art, Culture & Fashion

• 1967 in film
  • In the Heat of the Night
  • Bonnie and Clyde
  • Doctor Dolittle
  • The Graduate
  • Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
• 1967 in literature
  • Gabriel Garcia Marquez – One Hundred Years of Solitude[?]
• 1967 in music
  • February 12 - British police raids the house of Keith Richards, member of Rolling Stones.
  • April 13 – Rolling Stones concert in Warsaw.
  • May 1 – Elvis Presley marries Priscilla Beaulieu[?] at the Aladdin Hotel[?] in Las Vegas.
  • May 12 - Pink Floyd stages the first ever quadraphonic rock concert at Queen Elizabeth Hall[?], England.
  • June 29 – Rolling Stones members jailed for drug possession.
  • The Beatles release Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
• 1967 in sports
• 1967 in television
  • June 25 - The Our World[?] program airs to over 30 countries and features The Beatles performing "All You Need Is Love[?]", with guests Mick Jagger, Marianne Faithfull, Keith Richards, Keith Moon, Eric Clapton, Pattie Harrison[?], Jane Asher, Graham Nash, Hunter Davies[?] and others.
  • December 26- The Beatles air the Magical Mystery Tour on British TV
  • Jamaican entertainer DJ Kool Herc moves to New York City, bringing dub music with him; this is the root of hip hop
  • The Carol Burnett Show[?] premieres.
  • The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour premieres.
  • The FCC orders that cigarette ads on television, radio and in print must include a warning about the health risks of smoking.

Births:

• January 14 - Emily Watson[?], actress
• February 7 - Chris Rock, comedian, actor
• February 10 - Laura Dern[?], actress
• February 11 - Barbara Byrne[?], American rower
• February 11 - Chris Reohr[?], American fencer
• February 11 - John Patterson[?] US baseball player
• February 18 - Roberto Baggio, Italian football player
• February 19 - Benicio Del Toro[?], actor
• February 20 - Kurt Cobain, rock musician
• March 4 - Evan Dando[?], musician
• April 27 - Prince Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands
• May 15 - Madhuri Dixit
• May 24 - Heavy D[?]
• May 24 - Margaret Crowley[?]
• May 24 - Steve McDonald[?]
• May 25 - Poppy Z. Brite, author
• June 20 - Nicole Kidman, actress
• July 16 - Will Ferrell, actor
• July 27 - Juliana Hatfield, guitarist/songwriter
• July 1 - Pamela Anderson, actress
• September 11 - Harry Connick, Jr.
• October 28 - Julia Roberts
• November 22 - Boris Becker, tennisman
• LTJ Bukem
• Anna Nicole Smith, model and actress

Deaths:

• January 3 – Jack Ruby, killer of Lee Harvey Oswald
• January 4 - Donald Campbell, waterspeed/ landspeed record seeker
• January 27 - Edward White, Gus Grissom and Roger Chaffee, Apollo 1 crew
• February 15 - J. Frank Duryea[?], automobile pioneer
• February 18 – J. Robert Oppenheimer, physicist
• February 21 - Charles Beaumont, writer
• March 6 - Zoltán Kodály, composer
• March 6 - Nelson Eddy[?], singer, actor
• March 7 - Alice B. Toklas, personality
• April 5 - Hermann Joseph Muller geneticist (+ 1890)
• April 19 - Konrad Adenauer, German statesman
• April 24 - Vladimir Komarov, cosmonaut on Soyuz 1
• May 22 - Langston Hughes writer
• June 10 - Spencer Tracy, actor, lung cancer
• June 22 - Judy Garland, actress
• June 29 - Jayne Mansfield[?], actress, car accident
• July 7 - Vivien Leigh, actress, tuberculosis
• July 17 - John Coltrane, jazz musician, liver failure
• July 22 - Carl Sandburg, poet
• August 15 – Rene Magritte, painter
• August 19 - Hugo Gernsback, editor, publisher
• August 29 – Brian Epstein, the original manager for The Beatles
• September 27 – Feliks Feliksovits Jusupov[?], killer of Grigori Rasputin
• October 3 - Woody Guthrie, folk musician.
• October 8- Clement Attlee, former British prime minister
• October 9 – Che Guevara, revolutionary, executed
• October 17 - Ai-xin-jue-luo Pu-yi, last emperor of China
• December 10 - Otis Redding, singer
• Daniel Jones, phonetician
• Joe Orton, satirical modern playwright
• Kazimierz Funk, biochemist
• Alfried Krupp[?], head of the Krupp business empire
• Ossip Zadkine, sculptor, painter and lithographer[?]

Nobel Prizes

• Physics - Hans Albrecht Bethe
• Chemistry - Manfred Eigen[?], Ronald George Wreyford Norrish[?], George Porter[?]
• Medicine - Ragnar Granit[?], Haldan Keffer Hartline[?], George Wald[?]
• Literature - Miguel Angel Asturias[?]
• Peace - Not Awarded.