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Years: 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 - 1967 - 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972
Events:
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 - Apollo 1 destroyed in a fire on the launch pad.
January 27 - USA , Soviet Union and UK sign the Outer Space Treaty .
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 a president of Nicaragua .
February 7 - Massive brush fires 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 4 - The first North Sea gas pumped ashore at Easington Co Durham .
March 9 – Stalin 's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva defects to USA by US Delhi Embassy.
March 12 – Indonesian State Assembly takes all presidential powers from Sukarno and names Suharto as acting president.
March 13 – Indira Gandhi becomes prime minister of India .
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 in Sierra Leone .
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 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 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 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 Strait 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 30 - Biafra , in Eastern Nigeria , announces 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 1 - Moshe Dayan becomes Israel 's Secretary of Defense.
June 2 - Shah of Iran visits West Germany and faces left-wing student demonstrations.
June 5 -June 10 - Israel defeats Arab neighbours in Six-Day War , occupying West Bank , Gaza Strip and Golan Heights .
June 10 - Soviet Union severs diplomatic relations to Israel .
June 10 - Margrethe , heir apparent to the throne of Denmark , marries French count Henri de Laborde de Monpezat .
June 17 - China announces a successful hydrogen bomb test.
June 23 -June 24 - U.S. president Lyndon Johnson and Soviet premier Alexei Kosygin[?] confer at Glassboro, New Jersey .
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 Congo , is kidnapped to Algeria .
July 1 - Canada celebrates its first one hundred years of Confederation.
July 3 - A military rebellion lead by a Belgian mercenary Jean Schramme[?] begins in Katanga , Congo .
July 6 - Nigerian forces invade Biafra following latter's secession (May 30): beginning of the Biafran War[?] .
July 13 - Newark 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 - Detroit race riots erupt again.
July 24 - During his visit to Canada , Charles De Gaulle supports Quebec 's separation attempts, angering Canadian government.
July 29 - Explosion and fire in U.S. Navy carrier Forrestal [?] in Gulf of Tonkin leaves 134 dead.
August 1 - Race riots in USA spread to Washington DC .
August 3 – Sweden switches to right-hand traffic.
August 7 - General strike in the old quarter of Jerusalem protests Israel 's unification of the city.
August 8 – ASEAN formed.
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 Congo .
August 21 - 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 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 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 - Patterson-Gimlin film of a purported bigfoot taken.
October 2 – Thurgood Marshall is 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 17 - Premiere of the musical Hair on 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 Mohammed Reza Pahlevi 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 6 - Rhodesian parliament passes pro-Apartheid laws.
November 9 - first launch of Saturn V , Apollo 4 mission.
November 30 - Britain withdraws its last troops from Aden /Yemen .
December 1 - So-called Russell Tribunal[?] in Sweden condemns USA for a mass murder in Vietnam .
December 3 - The first heart transplant is performed by Christiaan Barnard in Cape Town , South Africa .
December 4 , 1850 hours - Volcano erupts on Deception Island in Antarctica .
December 9 – Nicolae Ceaucescu 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 100 km off Melbourne .
December 19 - Professor John Archibald Wheeler[?] use the term Black Hole for the first time.
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 defense 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 – The Naked Ape .
Lech Walesa goes to work in Gdansk shipyards .
Benjamin Netanyahu joins Israeli army.
Greek military junta exiles Melina Mercouri .
Art, Culture & Fashion
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1967 in literature
1967 in music
1967 in sports
1967 in television
June 25 - The Our World[?] program airs to over 30 countries and features The Beatles performing "All You Need Is Love[?] ", with guests Mick Jagger , Marianne Faithfull , Keith Richards , Keith Moon , Eric Clapton , Pattie Harrison[?] , Jane Asher , Graham Nash , Hunter Davies[?] and others.
December 26 - The Beatles air the Magical Mystery Tour on British TV
Jamaican entertainer DJ Kool Herc moves to New York City , bringing dub music with him; this is the root of hip hop
The Carol Burnett Show[?] premieres.
The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour premieres.
The FCC orders that cigarette ads on television , radio and in print must include a warning about the health risks of smoking .
Births:
January 14 - Emily Watson[?] , actress
February 7 - Chris Rock , comedian, actor
February 10 - Laura Dern[?] , actress
February 11 - Barbara Byrne[?] , American rower
February 11 - Chris Reohr[?] , American fencer
February 11 - John Patterson[?] US baseball player
February 18 - Roberto Baggio , Italian football player
February 19 - Benicio Del Toro[?] , actor
February 20 - Kurt Cobain , rock musician
March 4 - Evan Dando[?] , musician
April 27 - Prince Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands
May 15 - Madhuri Dixit
May 24 - Heavy D[?]
May 24 - Margaret Crowley[?]
May 24 - Steve McDonald[?]
May 25 - Poppy Z. Brite , author
June 20 - Nicole Kidman , actress
July 16 - Will Ferrell , actor
July 27 - Juliana Hatfield , guitarist/songwriter
July 1 - Pamela Anderson , actress
September 11 - Harry Connick, Jr.
October 28 - Julia Roberts
November 22 - Boris Becker , tennisman
LTJ Bukem
Anna Nicole Smith , model and actress
Deaths:
January 3 – Jack Ruby , killer of Lee Harvey Oswald
January 4 - Donald Campbell , waterspeed/ landspeed record seeker
January 27 - Edward White , Gus Grissom and Roger Chaffee , Apollo 1 crew
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 (+ 1890 )
April 19 - Konrad Adenauer , German statesman
April 24 - Vladimir Komarov , cosmonaut on Soyuz 1
May 22 - Langston Hughes writer
June 10 - Spencer Tracy , actor, lung cancer
June 22 - Judy Garland , actress
June 29 - Jayne Mansfield[?] , actress, car accident
July 7 - Vivien Leigh , actress, tuberculosis
July 17 - John Coltrane , jazz musician, liver failure
July 22 - Carl Sandburg , poet
August 15 – Rene Magritte , painter
August 19 - Hugo Gernsback , editor, publisher
August 29 – Brian Epstein , the original manager for The Beatles
September 27 – Feliks Feliksovits Jusupov[?] , killer of Grigori Rasputin
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 , last emperor of China
December 10 - Otis Redding , singer
Daniel Jones , phonetician
Joe Orton , satirical modern playwright
Kazimierz Funk , biochemist
Alfried Krupp[?] , head of the Krupp business empire
Ossip Zadkine , sculptor , painter and lithographer[?]
Nobel Prizes
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