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1967 (''' MCMLXVII ''') was a Common Year Starting On Sunday of the Gregorian Calendar (the link is to a full 1967 calendar).
Events
January
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 Fire s 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 20 - Nirvana leader Kurt Cobain is born to Don and Wendy Cobain.
- 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 State s 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).
March
April
May
- May 1 - Elvis Presley and Priscilla Presley get married in Las Vegas.
- 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
- , 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. 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 . 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 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 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.
June
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- June 1 - The Beatles release '' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band '', one of rock's most acclaimed albums. 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 ''
- flight G-ALHG crashes in Hopes Carr, Stockport , killing 72 passengers and crew.
- 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
- - Israeli fighter jets and 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 . {Link without Title}
- 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 - {Link without Title}
- is launched toward Venus
- June 14 - The People's Republic Of China tests its first Hydrogen Bomb . {Link without Title}
- June 17 - The People's Republic Of China announces a successful Hydrogen Bomb test.
- meets with Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin in Glassboro, New Jersey for the three-day Glassboro Summit Conference . {Link without Title}
- 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 .
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 began on BBC2 on December 2 .
- 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 12 - Greek military regime strips 480 Greeks of their Citizenship
- July 13 - Newark, New Jersey Race Riot s.
- July 15 - Detroit race riots.
- July 16 - Prison riot in Jay, Florida - 37 dead
- July 18 - United Kingdom announces closing of its Military Base s 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
- , one of the worst Riot s in United States History begins on 12th Street in the predominantly African American inner city (43 killed, 342 injured and ~1,400 buildings burned)
- '' (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 receives Political Asylum .
- July 29 - Earthquake in Caracas , Venezuela - 240 died.
August
September
October
November
- 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
- begins - Around Dak To (located about 280 miles north of Saigon near the Cambodia n 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 - Rhodesia n 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 7 - Carl B. Stokes is elected Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio , becoming the first African American mayor of a major United States city
- launches a Saturn V rocket carrying the unmanned Apollo 4 test spacecraft from Cape Kennedy
- , 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.''"
- , 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.
- 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 - Israel i peace settlement
- November 24 - Cambodia n triple agent Inchin Lam killed
- 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
December
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