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Events

January

• 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 - A launch pad fire destroys Apollo 1 and kills all three astronauts on board.
• January 27 - USA, Soviet Union and UK sign the Outer Space Treaty.

February

• 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 president of Nicaragua.
• February 7 - Massive brush fires break out 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

• March 1 - USS Tarawa struck from the Naval Vessel Register
• March 1 - USS Albany decommissioned in order to undergo extensive modifications
• March 1 - the city Hatogaya, located in Saitama, Japan is founded
• March 4 - The first North Sea gas is pumped ashore at Easington Co Durham.
• 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 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 takes place in Sierra Leone.

April

• 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 is 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

• 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 8 - The Philippine province of Davao is split into three: Davao del Norte, Davao del Sur, and Davao Oriental.
• 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 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 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

• 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 5-June 10 - Israel defeats Arab neighbours in Six-Day War, occupying West Bank, Gaza Strip, Sinai peninsula and Golan Heights.
• June 8 - 6-Day War: Israeli attack on USS Liberty kills 34 and wounds 171.
• 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 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 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 the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is kidnapped to Algeria.

July

• July 1 - Canada celebrates its first one hundred years of Confederation.
• July 3 - A military rebellion led by a Belgian mercenary Jean Schramme begins in Katanga, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
• July 6 - Nigerian forces invade Biafra following latter's secession (May 30): beginning of the Biafran War.
• July 13 - Newark, New Jersey 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 - 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 Quebec and 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 in U.S. Navy carrier Forrestal in Gulf of Tonkin leaves 134 dead.

August

• August 1 - Race riots in USA spread to Washington DC.
• August 3 - Sweden switches to right-hand traffic.
• August 7 - Vietnam War: The People's Republic of China agrees to give North Vietnam and 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) was founded.
• August 9 - Vietnam War: Operation Cochise initiated - United States Marines begin a new operation in the Que Son Valley.
• 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.

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, declared Principality of Sealand
• September 3 - Nguyen Van Thieu is elected President of South Vietnam.
• 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 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

• October - Patterson-Gimlin film of a purported bigfoot taken.
• October 2 - Thurgood Marshall becomes 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 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 United States 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 DC.
• 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 30 - British troops and Chinese demonstrators clash in the border of China and Hong Kong.

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 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 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 made him regret his words).
• 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 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 handing over ground fighting to South Vietnam.
• November 30- The People's Republic of South Yemen becomes independent from the United Kingdom.

December

• December 1 - Russell Tribunal in Sweden condemns USA for a mass murder in Vietnam.
• December 3 - At Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa, 53-year-old Lewis Washkansky becomes the first human to receive a heart transplant (however he died 18 days later from double pneumonia). The transplant team was headed by Christiaan Barnard.
• December 3 - The luxury train 20th Century Limited completes its last run from New York City to Chicago, Illinois (the train was inaugurated on June 15, 1902).
• December 4, 1850 hours - A volcano erupts on Deception Island in Antarctica.
• December 4 - Vietnam War: US and South Vietnamese forces engage Viet Cong troops in the Mekong Delta (235 of the 300-strong Viet Cong battalion were killed).
• December 5 - Silver bridge, spanning the Ohio River from Point Pleasant, West Virginia to Gallipolis, Ohio, collapses.
• December 9 - Nicolae Ceausescu 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 at a beach 60 km from Melbourne.
• December 19 - Professor John Archibald Wheeler uses the term Black Hole for the first time.

Other

• 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 defence 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 publishes The Naked Ape.
• Lech Walesa goes to work in Gdansk shipyards.
• Benjamin Netanyahu joins Israeli army.
• Greek military junta exiles Melina Mercouri.

• January 8 - Michelle Forbes, actress (, , 24)
• January 9 - Dave Matthews, South Africa-born US musician
• January 22 - Olivia d'Abo, actress (The Wonder Years)
• January 23 - Naim Suleymanoglu, Bulgaria-born Turkish weightlifter
• February 11 - Barbara Byrne, US rower
• February 11 - Chris Reohr, US fencer
• February 11 - John Patterson US baseball player
• February 18 - Roberto Baggio, Italian football player
• February 20 - Kurt Cobain, rock musician (d. 1994)
• March 4 - Evan Dando, musician
• March 17 - Billy Corgan, musician, songwriter
• March 22 - Mario Cipollini, cyclist
• March 25 - Debi Thomas, figure skater
• April 17 - Liz Phair, American singer/songwriter
• April 27 - Prince Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands
• April 29 - Curtis Joseph, NHL goalie
• May 1 - Tim McGraw, country music singer
• May 15 - Madhuri Dixit, Indian actress
• May 15 - John Smoltz, baseball pitcher
• May 24 - Margaret Crowley
• May 24 - Heavy D, rapper
• May 24 - Steve McDonald
• May 25 - Poppy Z. Brite, author
• June 4 - John O. Loyd, Boston's son
• June 5 - Joe DeLoach, American athlete
• June 19 - Bjørn Dæhlie, Norwegian cross country skier
• July 14 - Robin Ventura, baseball player
• July 18 - Vin Diesel, American actor
• July 25 - Matt LeBlanc, actor (Friends)
• July 27 - Juliana Hatfield, guitarist/songwriter
• July 27 - Kellie Waymire, actress (d. 2003)
• August 4 - Mike Marsh, American athlete
• August 11 - Joe Rogan, comedian, television host (Fear Factor)
• September 11 - Harry Connick, Jr.
• September 13 - Michael Johnson, American track and field athlete
• September 22 - Félix Savón, Cuban boxer
• October 2 - Frankie Fredericks, Namibian athlete
• October 27 - Scott Weiland, musician (Stone Temple Pilots, Velvet Revolver)
• October 28 - Julia Roberts, actress
• November 16 - Lisa Bonet, actress (The Cosby Show)
• November 22 - Boris Becker, tennis player
• November 28 - Anna Nicole Smith, model and actress
• December 9 - Joshua Bell, violinst
• December 13 - Jamie Foxx, actor (In Living Color, Any Given Sunday, Ali)
• December 16 - Donovan Bailey, Canadian athlete
• December 21 - Mikhail Saakashvili, Georgian politician, President of the Republic of Georgia
• LTJ Bukem, musician

• January 3 - Jack Ruby, killer of Lee Harvey Oswald
• January 4 - Donald Campbell, waterspeed/ landspeed record seeker
• January 17 - Barney Ross, American boxing champion
• January 27 - Edward White, Gus Grissom and Roger Chaffee, Apollo 1 crew
• January 31 - Eddie Tolan, American athlete
• February 8 - Victor Gollancz, British publisher
• 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 (b. 1890)
• April 17 - Red Allen, jazz musician (b. 1908)
• April 19 - Konrad Adenauer, German statesman
• April 24 - Vladimir Komarov, cosmonaut on Soyuz 1
• May 22 - Langston Hughes, writer
• June 7 - Dorothy Parker, writer (b. 1893)
• June 14 - Eddie Eagan, American sportsman
• June 29 - Jayne Mansfield, actress
• July 7 - Vivien Leigh, actress
• July 17 - John Coltrane, jazz musician (liver failure)
• July 21 - Jimmie Foxx, Baseball Hall of Famer (b. 1907)
• July 22 - Carl Sandburg, poet
• July 30 - Alfried Krupp, head of the Krupp business empire
• August 9 - Joe Orton, satirical modern playwright
• August 15 - René Magritte, painter
• August 19 - Hugo Gernsback, editor, publisher
• August 25 - Stanley Bruce, eighth Prime Minister of Australia
• August 29 - Brian Epstein, the original manager for The Beatles
• September 1 - Ilse Koch, wife of Karl Koch, commandant of the concentration camp Buchenwald
• September 13 - Varian Fry, ran an escape network in wartime Marseille, France
• September 27 - Prince Felix Yussupov, assassin of Rasputin (b. 1887)
• 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 or Henry Pu Yi, last emperor of Qing China
• October 20 - Yoshida Shigeru, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1878)
• November 13 - Harriet Cohen, pianist
• November 19 - Charles Watters, US Army Chaplain
• November 25 - Ossip Zadkine, sculptor, painter and lithographer
• December 10 - Otis Redding, singer
• December 19 - Harold Holt, seventeenth Prime Minister of Australia
• December 29 - Paul Whiteman, bandleader (b. 1890)
• Kazimierz Funk, biochemist
• Daniel Jones, phonetician
• Xuantong, Emperor of the Qing Dynasty in China

• 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.