1967

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1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar.

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Events

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January

January 4 - British record-breaker Donald Campbell dies while attempting a water speed record on Coniston Water.
January 4 - Algerian revolutionary Mohammed Khider is shot in Madrid.
January 6 - Vietnam War: USMC and ARVN troops launch "Operation Deckhouse Five" in the Mekong River delta.
January 10 - Segregationist Lester Maddox inaugurated as governor of Georgia.
January 13 - Military coup in Togo under the leadership of Etienne Eyadema.
January 14 - The New York Times reports that the US Army is conducting secret germ warfare experiments.
January 15 - Louis Leakey announces that he has found prehuman fossils from Kenya - he names the species Kenyapitchecus Africanus.
January 15 - United Kingdom enters the first round of negotiations for EEC membership in Rome.
January 16 - Italy announces support for United Kingdom's EEC membership.
January 18 - Albert DeSalvo, the "Boston Strangler," is convicted of numerous crimes and is sentenced to life in prison.
January 18 - Jeremy Thorpe becomes leader of the Liberal Party
January 23 - In Munich, trial begins against Wilhelm Harster, accused of murder of 82,856 Jews (including Anne Frank) when he lead German security police during the German occupation of Netherlands. He is eventually sentenced to 15 years in prison.
January 26 - Parliament of the United Kingdom decides to nationalize 90% of British steel industry.
January 27 - Apollo 1: US astronauts Gus Grissom, Edward White, and Roger Chaffee are killed when fire erupts in their Apollo spacecraft during a test on the launch pad.
January 27 - USA, Soviet Union and UK sign the Outer Space Treaty.
January 31 - West Germany and Romania form diplomatic relations.

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February

February 2 - The American Basketball Association is formed.
February 3 - Ronald Ryan becomes the last man hanged in Australia, executed for the murder of a prison guard, which he committed while escaping from prison in December 1965
February 4 - Soviet Union protests the demonstrations before its embassy in Peking
February 5 - Lunar Orbiter 3 is launched.
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 eight-day visit. He meets the Queen on the 9th.
February 7 - Chinese government announces that it can no longer guarantee safety of Soviet diplomats outside the Soviet embassy building
February 7 - Serious brush fires in southern Tasmania claim 62 lives
February 10 - The 25th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified
February 14 - King Constantine II of Greece flees the country when his coup attempt fails
February 15 - Soviet Union announces that it has sent troops to near Chinese border
February 18 - China sends three PLA divisions to Tibet
February 18 - New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison claims he is going to solve the John F. Kennedy assassination and that it was planned in New Orleans
February 22 - Suharto takes power from Sukarno in Indonesia.
February 22 - Donald Sangster becomes the new Prime Minister of Jamaica, succeeding Alexander Bustamante.
February 23 - Trinidad and Tobago are the first Commonwealth nation to join the OAS.
February 24 - Moscow forbids its satellite states to form diplomatic relations to West Germany
February 25 - 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 - Soviet nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan, Semipalitinsk.
February 27 - Dutch government supports British EEC membership
February 27 - Dominica gains independence from the United Kingdom.
February 27 - The Outer Space Treaty was signed in Washington, London, and Moscow (entered into force October 10, 1967).

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March

March 1 - The city Hatogaya, located in Saitama, Japan is founded
March 1 - Brazilian police arrest Franc Paul Stangli, ex-commander of Treblinka and Sobibór concentration camps
March 1 - 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 Co Durham.
March 7 - Jimmy Hoffa begins his 8-year sentence for attempted bribery of jury
March 9 - Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva defects to USA via the US Delhi Embassy.
March 12 - 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 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 coup
March 18 - Supertanker Torrey Canyon runs aground in between Land's End and the Scilly Isles
March 19 - Referendum in French Somaliland favors the connection to France
March 21 - Military coup takes place in Sierra Leone.
March 28 - Pope Paul VI issues the encyclical Populorum Progressio.
March 29 - 13-day TV strike begins in USA.
March 29-March 30 - RAF planes bomb the Torrey Canyon and sink it
March 29 - The First French nuclear submrine, Le Redoutable, is launched.
March 29 - The SEACOM cable system is inaugurated.
March 31 - President Lyndon Johnson signs the Consular Treaty.

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April

April 2 - UN delegation arrives in Aden due to approaching independence. They leave April 7 and accuse British authorities for lack of cooperation. British say the delegation did not contact them.
April 4 - Martin Luther King, Jr denounces Vietnam War during a religous service in New York City
April 6 - Georges Pompidou begins to form the next French government.
April 7 - Six-Day War: Israeli fighters shoot down seven Syrian MIG-21s.
April 9 - The first Boeing 737 (a 100 series) takes its maiden flight.
April 13 - Conservatives win the Greater London Council elections.
April 14 - 10,000 march against the Vietnam War in San Francisco.
April 15 - Large demonstrations against the Vietnam War in New York City and San Francisco.
April 20 - Surveyor 3 probe lands on the Moon.
April 20 - A Swiss Britannia turboprop crashes at Toronto, Canada, killing 126.
April 21 - Greece is taken over by military dictatorship led by George Papadopoulos, forcing King Constantine II to flee.
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 - Soviet cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov dies during reentry of Soyuz 1 after the spacecraft's parachutes fail to deploy properly.
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 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.

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May

May 2 - The Toronto Maple Leafs win the Stanley Cup.
May 2 - Harold Wilson announces that United Kingdom has decided to apply for EEC membership
May 3 - Big gold robbery in London.
May 4 - Lunar Orbiter 4 launched.
May 6 - Dr Zakir Hussain is the first Muslim to become president of India.
May 6 - 400 students seize the administration building at Cheyney State College, Pennsylvania
May 8 - The Philippine province of Davao is split into three: Davao del Norte, Davao del Sur, and Davao Oriental.
May 10 - Greek military government accused Andreas Papandreou of treason
May 11 - United Kingdom and Ireland apply officially for EEC membership
May 12 - Linda Ronstadt launches her first single 'Different Drum' with band The Stone Ponies.
May 17 - Syria mobilizes against Israel
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 Straits of Tiran, blockading Israel's southern port of Eilat.
May 18 - Tennessee Governor Ellington repeals the "Monkey Law" (see the Scopes Trial)
May 18 - In Mexico, schoolteacher Lucio Cabañas begins a guerilla campaign in Atoyac de Alvarez, west of Acapulco in the state of Guerrero
May 19 - The Soviet Union ratifies a treaty with the United States and United Kingdom banning nuclear weapons from outer space
May 19 - Yuri Andropov becomes the chief of KGB
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 22 - Nasser announces the closure of the Straits of Tiran to Israeli shipping.
May 25 - Celtic F.C. become the first British team to reach a European Cup final and also to win it, beating Inter Milan 2-1 in normal time.
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 and fight both the government security forces and the 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, allowing the Government of Australia to make special laws for Indigenous Australians.
May 30 - Biafra, in eastern Nigeria, announces its independence.
May 30 - At the Ascot Speedway in Gardena, California, daredevil Evel Knievel jumps his motorcycle over 16 cars lined up in a row.

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June

Left to right, Israeli generals Uzi Narkiss, Moshe Dayan and Yitzhak Rabin entering Jerusalem in June 1967

June 1 - Moshe Dayan becomes Israel's Secretary of Defense. The Beatles release Sgt Pepper, one of rock's most acclaimed albums. The mythologised "Summer of Love" kicks into high gear.
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 5-June 10 - Israel defeats Arab neighbours in Six-Day War, occupying West Bank, Gaza Strip, Sinai peninsula and Golan Heights
June 5 - Murderer Richard Speck sentenced to death in electric chair for murder of nurses
June 7 - Two Moby Grape members arrested for contributing to delinquency of minors
June 8 - Six-Day War: The USS Liberty incident - Four Israeli fighter jets and four Israeli warships fire at USS Liberty off Gaza, killing 34 and wounding 171
June 10 - Israel and Syria agree to observe a United Nations-mediated cease-fire.
June 10 - 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 in Tampa, Florida
June 12 - The United States Supreme Court in Loving v. Virginia declares all U.S. state law which prohibit interracial marriage to be unconstitutional. [1]
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 - [2]
June 14 - Mariner program: Mariner 5 is launched toward Venus
June 14 - The People's Republic of China tests its first hydrogen bomb.[3]
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 three-day Glassboro Summit Conference. [4]
June 26 - Pope ordinates 276 new cardinals (one of them Karol Wojtyła).
June 27 - 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 - 200 arrested
June 28 - Israel declares annexation of East Jerusalem.
June 30 - Moise Tshombe, former prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is kidnapped to Algeria.

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July

July 1 - Canada celebrates its first one hundred years of Confederation.
July 1 - American Samoa's first constitution becomes effective.
July 3 - A military rebellion led by a Belgian mercenary Jean Schramme begins in Katanga, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
July 4 - British parliament decriminalizes homosexuality
July 5 - Troops of Belgian mercenary commander Jean Schramme revolt against Mobutu and try to take control of Stanleyville, Congo
July 5 - Israel annexes Gaza
July 6 - Nigerian forces invade Biafra following latter's secession May 30: beginning of the Biafran War.
July 12 - Greek military regime strips 480 Greeks of their citizenship
July 13 - Newark, New Jersey race riots.
July 15 - Detroit race riots.
July 16 - Prison riot in Jay, Florida - 37 dead
July 18 - United Kingdom announces closing of its military bases in Malaysia and Singapore. Australia and USA do not approve
July 18 - Humberto Castelo Branco, ex-president of Brazil, dies in a plane accident near Fortaleza
July 20 - Pablo Neruda receives the first Viareggio-Versile prize
July 22 - 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 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, delighted many Quebecers but angered the Canadian government and many English Canadians.
July 29 - 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 gets an political asylum

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August

August 1 - Race riots in the United States spread to Washington, D.C.
August 1 - Israel annexes East Jerusalem.
August 3 - Sweden switches to right-hand traffic.
August 7 - Vietnam War: The People's Republic of China agrees to give North Vietnam an undisclosed amount of aid in the form of a grant.
August 7 - General strike in the old quarter of Jerusalem protests Israel's unification of the city.
August 8 - The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is founded.
August 9 - Vietnam War: Operation Cochise initiated - United States Marines begin a new operation in the Que Son Valley.
August 10 - Schramme's troops take border town of Bukavu.
August 14 - UK Marine Broadcasting Offences Act declares participation in offshore pirate radio illegal.
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 the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
August 21 - The People's Republic of 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.
August 30 - Thurgood Marshall is confirmed as the first African American Justice of the United States Supreme Court.

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September

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 and declared Principality of Sealand
September 3 - Nguyen Van Thieu is elected President of South Vietnam
September 3 - H-Day in Sweden. At 5:00 AM local time, all traffic in the country switched from left-hand traffic pattern to right-hand traffic.
September 4 - Vietnam War: Operation Swift begins - 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 5 - Sweden changes to driving on the right
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 17 - Jim Morrison and The Doors defy CBS censors on The Ed Sullivan Show when Morrison sang the word "higher" from their #1 hit Light My Fire when asked not to.
September 27 - Queen Mary arrives Southampton at the end of her last transatlantic voyage
September 30 - BBC Radio 1 launched.

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October

October - Patterson-Gimlin film of a purported bigfoot taken.
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 Pete Knight establishes an unofficial world fixed-wing speed record of Mach 6.7
October 8 - Guerrilla leader Che Guevara and his men are captured in Bolivia. The next day Guevara is executed for attempting to incite a revolution
October 12 - Vietnam War: US Secretary of State Dean Rusk states during a news conference that proposals by the U.S. Congress for peace initiatives were futile because of North Vietnam's opposition
October 17 - Premiere of the musical Hair Off-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, D.C.
October 25 - Abortion bill passes in British parliament.
October 26 - Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran is officially crowned.
October 27 - Charles De Gaulle vetoes British entry into EEC – again.
October 29 - Mobutu's trooops launch an offensive against mercenaries in Bukavu
October 30 - British troops and Chinese demonstrators clash in the border of China and Hong Kong.

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November

November 2 - Vietnam War: US 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 given more optimistic reports on the progress of the war
November 3 - Vietnam War: Battle of Dak To begins - Around Dak To (located about 280 miles north of Saigon near the Cambodian border) heavy casualties are suffered on both sides (the Americans narrowly won the battle on November 22).
November 4-November 5 - Mercenaries of Jean Schramme and Jerry Puren withdraw from Bukavu over Shangugu Bridge to Rwanda
November 5 - Hither Green rail crash - commuter train derails in South-East London - 40 dead, 80 injured
November 6 - Rhodesian parliament passes pro-Apartheid laws.
November 7 - US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, establishing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting
November 9 - Apollo program: NASA launches a Saturn V rocket carrying the unmanned Apollo 4 test spacecraft from Cape Kennedy
November 11 - Vietnam War: In a propaganda ceremony in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, three American prisoners of war are released by the Viet Cong and turned over to "new left" antiwar activist Tom Hayden
November 15 - Cyprus conflict eye-witness account: "In the afternoon of November 15 National Guard (Greek Cypriot Army) organised by General Grivas attacked two villages, Kophinou (Tr. Gecitkale) (a wholly Turkish Cypriot village) and Ayios Theodoros (Tr Bogazici) (a Greek/Turkish village) with an estimated 10000 men. The total T.Cypriot population in these villages was under 3000. 24 in all, some armed but mainly unarmed Turkish Cypriot civilians were killed - one 90 year old men in particular was wounded, and burnt to death in the front of his house where he fell. Women and children forced out of their houses were forced to pass by the burning corpse. In the morning of 16th of November, Turkey threatened invasion by bombing various Greek Cypriot army positions at which stage the National Guard withdrew releasing all civilians forcefully kept in various public places eg schools/cinemas in the two villages."
November 17 - Vietnam War: Acting on optimistic reports he was given on November 13, US President Lyndon B. Johnson tells his nation that, while much remained to be done, "We are inflicting greater losses than we're taking...We are making progress." (two months later the Tet Offensive makes him regret his words)
November 17 - French author Regis Debray is sentenced to 30 years in Bolivia
November 19 - UK pound devalued from 1 GBP = 2.80 USD to 1 GBP = 2.40 USD.
November 21 - Vietnam War: American General William Westmoreland tells news reporters: "I am absolutely certain that whereas in 1965 the enemy was winning, today he is certainly losing."
November 22 - UN Security Council Resolution 242 is adopted by the UN Security Council, establishing a set of the principles aimed at guiding negotiations for an Arab-Israeli peace settlement
November 24 - Cambodian triple agent Inchin Lam killed
November 29 - Vietnam War: US Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara announces his pending resignation and that he will become president of the World Bank. This action was the result of US President Lyndon B. Johnson's outright rejection of McNamara's early November recommendations to freeze troop levels, stop bombing North Vietnam and hand over ground fighting to South Vietnam
November 30- The People's Republic of South Yemen becomes independent from the United Kingdom