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Year 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the 1967 Gregorian calendar.
[edit] Events of 1967
[edit] January
at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.
[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, and destroys 2,642.7 square kilometres (653,025.4 acres) of land.
- February 7 - Mazenod College, Victoria opens in Australia.
- February 10 - The 25th Amendment to the United States Constitution (presidential succession) is ratified.
- February 14 - Respect is recorded by Aretha Franklin (to 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 a conspiracy 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 is the first Commonwealth nation to join the Organization of American States.
- February 23 - The 25th Amendment to the United States Constitution is 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 the Semipalatinsk Test Site, Eastern Kazakhstan.
- February 27 - The Dutch government supports British EEC membership.
- March 1 - The city of Hatogaya, Saitama, Japan is founded.
- 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 - The 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 telephone cable 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.
- 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 by the United States.
- 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 University of 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 the 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 guerrilla warfare in Atoyac de Alvarez, west of Acapulco, in the state of Guerrero.
- May 18 - NASA announces the crew 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 - The 25th Amendment is 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, 2 discriminatory sentences referring to Indigenous Australians. It signifies 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.
- 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 is executed in Colorado's gas chamber, in the last pre-Furman execution in the United States.
- 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 - 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 - USS Liberty incident: Israeli fighter jets and Israeli warships fire at the 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 by the Soviet Union (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).
- June 16 - The Monterey Pop Festival begins and goes for 3 days. [6]
- June 17 - The People's Republic of China announces a successful hydrogen bomb test.
- June 23 - Cold War: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson meets with Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin in Glassboro, New Jersey, for the 3-day Glassboro Summit Conference. Johnson travels to Los Angeles for a dinner at the Century Plaza Hotel where earlier in the day thousands of war protesters clashed with L.A. police. [7]
- June 25 - 400 million viewers watch Our World, the first live, international, satellite television production. It features the live debut of The Beatles' song "All You Need is Love."
- June 26 - Pope Paul VI ordains 276 new cardinals (one of them Karol Wojtyła).
- June 27 - The first automatic cash machine (voucher-based) is installed, in the office of the Barclays Bank in Enfield, England.
- June 27 - A race riot in Buffalo, New York leads to 200 arrests.
- June 28 - Israel declares the annexation of East Jerusalem.
- June 30 - Moise Tshombe, former prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is kidnapped to Algeria.
- July 1 - Canada celebrates its first one hundred years of Confederation.
- July 1 - The first UK colour television broadcasts begin on BBC2. The first one is from the tennis championship at Wimbledon. A full colour service begins on BBC2 on December 2.
- July 1 - American Samoa's first constitution becomes effective.
- July 3 - A military rebellion led by Belgian mercenary Jean Schramme begins in Katanga, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- July 4 - The British Parliament decriminalizes homosexuality.
- July 5 - Troops of Belgian mercenary commander Jean Schramme revolt against Mobutu Sese Seko, and try to take control of Stanleyville, Congo.
- July 6 - Biafran War: Nigerian forces invade Biafra, following the latter's secession May 30.
- July 6 - A level crossing collision between a train loaded with children and a tanker-truck near Magdeburg, East Germany kills 94 people, mostly children.
- July 10 - Heavy massive rains and a landslide at Kobe and Kure, Hiroshima, Japan, kill at least 371.
- July 12 - The Greek military regime strips 480 Greeks of their citizenship.
- July 13 - The Newark, New Jersey race riots occur.
- July 15 - The Detroit race riots occur.
- July 16 - A prison riot in Jay, Florida leaves 37 dead.
- July 18 - The United Kingdom announces the closing of its military bases in Malaysia and Singapore. Australia and the U.S. disapprove.
- July 20 - Chilean poet Pablo Neruda receives the first Viareggio-Versile prize.
- July 21 - The town of Winneconne, Wisconsin, announces secession from the United States because it is not included in the official maps and declares war. Secession is repealed the next day.
- July 23 - 12th Street Riot: In Detroit, Michigan, one of the worst riots in United States history begins on 12th Street in the predominantly African American inner city: 43 are killed, 342 injured and 1,400 buildings burned.
- July 24 - During an official state visit to Canada, French President Charles de Gaulle declares to a crowd of over 100,000 in Montreal: Vive le Québec libre! (Long live free Quebec!). The statement, interpreted as support for Quebec independence, delights many Quebecers but angers the Canadian government and many English Canadians.
- July 29 - An explosion and fire aboard the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Forrestal in the Gulf of Tonkin leaves 134 dead.
- July 29 - Georges Bidault moves to Belgium where he receives political asylum.
- July 29 - An earthquake in Caracas, Venezuela leaves 240 dead.
[edit] August
[edit] September
- September 1 - Ilse Koch, also known as the "Witch of Buchenwald", commits suicide in the Bavarian prison of Aichach.
- September 2 - Paddy Roy Bates occupies Roughs Tower and establishes the Principality of Sealand.
- September 3 - Nguyen Van Thieu is elected President of South Vietnam.
- September 3 - H-Day in Sweden: At 5:00 a.m. local time, all traffic in the country switches from left-hand traffic pattern to right-hand traffic.
- September 4 - Vietnam War - Operation Swift: The United States Marines launch a search and destroy mission in Quang Nam and Quang Tin Provinces. The ensuing 4-day battle in Que Son Valley kills 114 Americans and 376 North Vietnamese.
- September 9 - Fashion Island, one of California's first outdoor shopping malls, opens in Newport Beach.
- September 10 - In Gibraltar, only 44 out of 12,182 voters support union with Spain.
- September 17 - A riot during a football match in Kaysei, Turkey leaves 44 dead, about 600 injured.
- September 17 - Jim Morrison and The Doors defy CBS censors on The Ed Sullivan Show, when Morrison sings the word "higher" from their #1 hit Light My Fire, despite having been asked not to.
- September 18 - Love Is a Many Splendored Thing debuts on U.S. daytime television and is the first soap opera to deal with an interracial relationship. CBS censors find it too controversial and ask for it to be stopped, causing show creator Irna Phillips to quit.
- September 27 - The RMS Queen Mary arrives in Southampton, at the end of her last transatlantic voyage.
- September 30 - BBC Radio 1, BBC Radio 2, BBC Radio 3 and BBC Radio 4 are all launched.
[edit] October
- October 2 - Thurgood Marshall is sworn in as the first black justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
- October 3 - An X-15 research aircraft with test pilot William J. Knight establishes an unofficial world fixed-wing speed record of Mach 6.7.
- October 4 - Omar Ali Saifuddin III of Brunei abdicates in favour of his son, His Majesty Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah.
- October 8 - Guerrilla leader Che Guevara and his men are captured in Bolivia.
- October 9 - Che Guevara is executed.
- October 12 - Vietnam War: U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk states during a news conference that proposals by the U.S. Congress for peace initiatives are futile, because of North Vietnam's opposition.
- October 14 - Quebec Nationalism: René Lévesque leaves the Liberal Party.
- October 16 - Thirty-nine people, including singer-activist Joan Baez, are arrested in Oakland, California, for blocking the entrance of that city's military induction center.
- October 17 - The musical Hair opens off-Broadway. It moves to Broadway the following April.
- October 18 - Walt Disney's 19th full-length animated feature The Jungle Book, the last animated film personally supervised by Disney, is released and becomes an enormous box-office and critical success. On a double bill with the film is the (now) much less well-known true-life adventure, Charlie the Lonesome Cougar.
- October 19 - The Mariner 5 probe flies by Venus.
- October 21 - Tens of thousands of Vietnam War protesters march in Washington, D.C.. Allen Ginsberg symbolically chants to 'levitate' The Pentagon.
- October 21 - An 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 25 - An abortion bill passes in the British Parliament.
- October 26 - Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran is officially crowned.
- October 26 - [[Early life and military career of John McCain#Prisoner of war|U.S. Navy pilot John McCain is shot down over North Vietnam and made a POW]].
- October 27 - Charles De Gaulle vetoes British entry into the European Economic Community again.
- October 27 - London criminal Jack McVitie is murdered by the Kray twins, leading to their eventual imprisonment and downfall.
- October 29 - Mobutu's troops launch an offensive against mercenaries in Bukavu, Congo.
- October 29 - The Montreal, Quebec Expo 67 closes, having received over 50 million attendees.
- October 30 - Hong Kong 1967 riots: British troops and Chinese demonstrators clash on the border of China and Hong Kong.
[edit] November
- November 2 - Vietnam War: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson holds a secret meeting with a group of the nation's most prestigious leaders ("the Wise Men") and asks them to suggest ways to unite the American people behind the war effort. They conclude that the American people should be
