1967

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**1967 in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	1967 MCMLXVII
Ab urbe condita	2720
Armenian calendar	1416 ԹՎ ՌՆԺԶ
Chinese calendar	4663 – 4664 丙午 – 丁未
Ethiopian calendar	1959 – 1960
Hebrew calendar	5727 – 5728
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	2022 – 2023
- Shaka Samvat	1889 – 1890
- Kali Yuga	5068 – 5069
Iranian calendar	1345 – 1346
Islamic calendar	1387 – 1388

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

Events

January

January - The influential science fiction anthology Dangerous Visions is published.
January 2 - Charlie Chaplin opens his last film, A Countess From Hong Kong, in England.
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 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 15 - Louis Leakey announces that he has found prehuman fossils from Kenya; he names the species Kenyapitchecus africanus.
January 15 - The United Kingdom enters the first round of negotiations for EEC membership in Rome.
January 16 - Italy announces support for the United Kingdom's EEC membership.
January 18 - Albert DeSalvo, the "Boston Strangler," is convicted of numerous crimes and 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 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 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 erupts in their Apollo spacecraft during a launch pad test.
January 27 -The USA, Soviet Union and UK sign the Outer Space Treaty.
January 31 - West Germany and Romania establish diplomatic relations.

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 brush fires in southern Tasmania claim 62 lives.
February 10 - The 25th Amendment to the United States Constitution (presidential succession) is ratified.
February 14 - King Constantine II of Greece flees the country when his coup attempt fails.
February 15 - The Soviet Union announces that it has sent troops near the Chinese border.
February 18 - China sends 3 PLA 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.
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 OAS.
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.
February 27 - Dominica gains independence from the United Kingdom.

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 - 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 Co Durham.
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 4 - Dr. Mohammed Mossadegh, the deposed democratically elected prime minister of Iran, dies while under house arrest.
March 7 - Jimmy Hoffa begins his 8-year sentence for attempting to briber 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 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.
- The SEACOM cable system is inaugurated.
March 29-March 30 - RAF planes bomb the Torrey Canyon and sink it.
March 31 - U.S. President Lyndon Johnson signs the Consular Treaty.

April

April 2 - A UN 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 - Six-Day War: Israeli fighters shoot down seven 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 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 Swiss Bristol Britannia turboprop crashes at Nicosia, Cyprus, killing 126. [1]
April 21 - Greece is taken over by a military dictatorship led by George Papadopoulos, forcing King Constantine II to flee.
The Belvidere 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 - Soviet cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov dies during reentry of Soyuz 1 when the spacecraft's parachutes fail to deploy properly.
April 28 - In Houston, Texas, boxer Muhammad Ali refuses military service.
April 28 - Montreal hosts Expo '67, to coincide with the Canadian Confederation centennial.
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.

May

May 1 - Elvis Presley and Priscilla Beaulieu are married in Las Vegas.
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 3 - A big gold robbery occurs in London.
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 - The 1967 Hong Kong 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 EEC membership.
May 12 - Linda Ronstadt launches her first single Different Drum, with the band The Stone Poneys.
May 12 - The album Are You Experienced is released by The Jimi Hendrix Experience.
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 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, which results in 323 dead and missing and 150 wounded.
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 and Northern European 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, 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, allowing the Government of Australia to make special laws for Indigenous Australians.
May 28 - The Folk-Rock band Fairport Convention plays their first gig in London.
May 30 - Biafra, in eastern Nigeria, announces its independence.

June

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

June 1 - The Beatles release Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, one of rock's most acclaimed albums.
June 1 - Moshe Dayan becomes Israel's Secretary of Defense.
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 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 Chicagonurses.
June 5-June 10 - Israel defeats its Arab neighbours in Six-Day War, occupying the West Bank, Gaza Strip, Sinai peninsula and Golan Heights.
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 - The United States Supreme Court (Loving v. Virginia) declares all U.S. state laws prohibiting interracial marriage to be unconstitutional. [2]
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. [3]
June 14 - Mariner program: Mariner 5 is launched toward Venus.
June 14 - The People's Republic of China tests its first hydrogen bomb.[4]
June 14 - 15 - Glenn Gould records Prokofiev's Seventh Piano Sonata, Op. 83, in New York City. It's his only recording of a Prokofiev composition.
June 16 - The Monterey Pop Festival begins and goes for 3 days. [5]
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. [6]
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

July 1 - Canada celebrates its first one hundred years of Confederation.
July 1 - The first colour television broadcasts begin on BBC2 in UK on certain programmes. 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, and try to take control of Stanleyville, Congo.
July 6 - Nigerian forces invade Biafra, following the latter's secession May 30: beginning of the Biafran War.
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. do not approve.
July 18 - Humberto Castelo Branco, ex-president of Brazil, dies in a plane accident near Fortaleza.
July 20 - Chilean poet 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, 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.

August

August 1 - Race riots in the United States spread to Washington, D.C..
August 1 - Israel annexes East Jerusalem.
August 5 - Pink Floyd releases their debut album The Piper at the Gates of Dawn.
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 - A 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 is initiated - United States Marines begin a new operation in the Que Son Valley.
August 10 - Belgian mercenary Jean Schramme's troops take the Congolese border town of Bukavu.
August 14 - The UK Marine Broadcasting Offences Act declares participation in offshore pirate radio illegal.
August 18 - The State of Tamil Nadu, India is established.
August 19 - West Germany receives 36 East German prisoners it has "purchased" through the border posts of Herleshausen and Wartha.
August 21 - A truce is declared 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 - American Nazi Party leader George Lincoln Rockwell is assassinated in Arlington, Virginia.
August 30 - Thurgood Marshall is confirmed as the first African American Justice of the United States Supreme Court.

September

September 1 - Ilse Koch, also known as the "Bitch of Buchenwald", commits suicide in the Bavarian prison of Aichach.
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 switches 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 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 occcurs during 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 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 Queen Mary arrives in Southampton, at the end of her last transatlantic voyage.
September 30 - BBC Radio 1 is launched.

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 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 are futile, because of North Vietnam's opposition.
October 17 - The musical Hair premieres Off-Broadway.
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 27 - Charles De Gaulle vetoes British entry into the EEC again.
October 29 - Mobutu's troops launch an offensive against mercenaries in Bukavu, Congo.
October 30 - British troops and Chinese demonstrators clash on the border of China and Hong Kong during the Hong Kong Riots.