Year '1967' ('
MCMLXVII') was a
common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the 1967
Gregorian calendar.
Events of 1967
January
★ January - The influential
science fiction anthology ''
Dangerous Visions'' is published.
★
January 1 - Canada begins a year-long celebration of the 100th anniversary of the
British North America Act, 1867, featuring the
Expo 67 World's fair.
★
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 14 -
Human Be-In takes place in
Golden Gate Park,
San Francisco; event sets the stage for the
Summer of Love
★
January 15
★
★
Louis Leakey announces that he has found prehuman fossils from
Kenya; he names the species
Kenyapitchecus africanus.
★
★ The
United Kingdom enters the first round of negotiations for
European Economic Community membership in Rome.
★
January 18
★
★
Albert DeSalvo, the "
Boston Strangler", is convicted of numerous crimes and sentenced to life in prison.
★
★
Jeremy Thorpe becomes leader of the UK's
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.
★
★
Milton Keynes (England) founded by
Order in Council. (See
History of Milton Keynes)
★
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.
★
★ The
United States,
Soviet Union and
United Kingdom sign the
Outer Space Treaty.
★
★
The Doors' self titled debut album is released.
★
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''.
★
★
Italy's first
guided missile cruiser, the ''
Vittorio Veneto (C550)'', is launched.
★
★ 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.
★
★ Serious
bushfires in southern
Tasmania claim 62 lives.
★
★
Mazenod College, Victoria, a
Catholic Secondary School in
Mulgrave,
Victoria (
Australia), commences after a mass the previous night.
★
February 10 - The
25th Amendment to the United States Constitution (presidential succession) is ratified.
★
February 12 - ''
The Wizard of Oz'' is shown on
CBS for what will be the last time for the next nine years. From 1968 until 1976, the film will be telecast on
NBC.
★
February 14 -
Respect is released by
Aretha Franklin
★
★
February 15 - The
Soviet Union announces that it has sent troops near the Chinese border.
★
February 18
★
★
China sends 3
People's Liberation Army divisions to
Tibet.
★
★
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.
★
★
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
Organization of American States.
★
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.
★
★ 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.
★
★
Dominica gains independence from the
United Kingdom.
March
★
March 1
★
★ The city
Hatogaya, located in
Saitama,
Japan is founded.
★
★
Brazilian police arrest Franc Paul Stangli, ex-commander of
Treblinka and
Sobibór concentration camps.
★
★ The
Red Guards return to schools in China.
★
★ The
Queen Elizabeth Hall is opened in London.
★
March 4
★
★ The first
North Sea gas is pumped ashore at
Easington,
East Riding of Yorkshire.
★
★
Queens Park Rangers become the first 3rd Division side to win the
League Cup at
Wembley Stadium defeating
West Bromwich Albion 3-2.
★
★ 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 bribe 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.
★
★ 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 26 - 10,000 gather for the
Central Park Be-In
★
March 28 -
Pope Paul VI issues the
encyclical ''
Populorum Progressio''.
★
March 29
★
★ A 13-day TV strike begins in the U.S.
★
★ The first French nuclear submarine, ''
Le Redoutable'', is launched.
★
★ The SEACOM cable system is inaugurated.
★
March 29-
March 30 -
Royal Air Force planes bomb and sink the ''
Torrey Canyon''.
★
March 31 - U.S. President
Lyndon Johnson signs the Consular Treaty.
April
★
April 2 - A
United Nations 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 -
Lead-up to the Six Day War:
Israeli fighters shoot down 7 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 12 -
Ahmanson Theatre opens in Los Angeles.
★
April 13 -
Conservatives win the
Greater London Council elections.
★
April 14
★
★
The Bee Gees release their first international single,
New York Mining Disaster 1941 on ATCO Records. The song reaches #14 on the
Billboard Hot 100.
★
★ 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.
★
★ A
Swiss Bristol Britannia turboprop crashes at
Nicosia,
Cyprus, killing 126.
[1][2]
★
April 21
★
★
Greece is taken over by a
military dictatorship led by
George Papadopoulos; ex-Prime Minister
Andreas Papandreou political prisoner to
December 25.
★
★ The
Belvidere - Oak Lawn 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 - ''
Soyuz 1'': Soviet cosmonaut
Vladimir Komarov dies during reentry when the spacecraft's parachutes fail to deploy properly.
★
April 27 -
Montreal,
Quebec,
Expo 67, a
World's Fair to coincide with the
Canadian Confederation centennial, officially opens with Prime Minister
Lester B. Pearson igniting the Expo Flame in the Place des Nations.
★
April 28
★
★ In
Houston, Texas, boxer
Muhammad Ali refuses military service.
★
★
Expo 67 opens to the public, with over 310,000 people attending. Al Carter from Chicago is the first visitor as noted by Expo officials.
★
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.
★
★
GO Transit was established this month
★
May 2
★
★ The
Toronto Maple Leafs win the
Stanley Cup.
★
★
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 5 - Col. James L Hughes shot down over Vietnam and became a POW.
★
May 6
★
★ Dr. Zakir Hussain is the first
Muslim to become president of
India.
★
★ Four hundred students seize the administration building at
Cheyney State College,
Pennsylvania.
★
★
Hong Kong 1967 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
European Economic Community membership.
★
May 12
★
★
Linda Ronstadt launches her first single ''
Different Drum'', with the band The Stone Poneys.
★
★ The album ''
Are You Experienced'' is released by
The Jimi Hendrix Experience in the
United Kingdom.
★
May 17
★
★
Syria mobilizes against
Israel.
★
★ 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).
★
★ In
Mexico, schoolteacher
Lucio Cabañas begins a
guerrilla campaign in Atoyac de Alvarez, west of
Acapulco, in the state of
Guerrero.
★
★
NASA announces crew members for the
Apollo 7 space mission (first manned Apollo flight):
Walter M. Schirra, Jr.,
Donn F. Eisele, and
R. Walter Cunningham.
★
May 19
★
★ The
Soviet Union ratifies a treaty with the
United States and the
United Kingdom, banning nuclear weapons from outer space.
★
★
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, resulting 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.
★
★
25th Amendment added to the Constitution
★
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.
★
★ The
Australian referendum, 1967 passes with an overwhelming 90% support, removing, from the Australian Constitution, two discriminatory sentences referring
Indigenous Australians. It signified Australia's first step in recognising Indigenous rights.
★
May 28 - The
Folk-Rock band
Fairport Convention plays their first gig in
London.
★
May 30 -
Biafra, in eastern
Nigeria, announces its independence.
June
★
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''.
★
June 2 -
Luis Monge executed in
Colorado's
Gas Chamber. Last
pre-Furman execution in USA.
★
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
Chicago nurses.
★
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.
★
★ The
Soviet Union severs diplomatic relations with
Israel.
★
★
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
★
★ ''
Loving v. Virginia'': The
United States Supreme Court declares all
U.S. state laws prohibiting
interracial marriage to be unconstitutional.
[3]
★
★
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.
[4]
★
June 14
★
★
Mariner program: ''
Mariner 5'' is launched toward
Venus.
★
★ The
People's Republic of China tests its first
hydrogen bomb.
[5]
★
June 14-
June 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.
[6]
★
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.
[7]
★
June 25 - 400 million viewers watch
Our World, the first live, international, satellite television production. It features the live debut of
The Beatles' song "
All You Need is Love."
★
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.
★
★ A
race riot in
Buffalo, New York leads to 200 arrests.
★
June 28 -
Israel declares the annexation of East
Jerusalem.
★
June 29 - American actress
Jayne Mansfield dies in a car crash en route to New Orleans.
★
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.
★
★ The first
colour television broadcasts begin on
BBC2 in
UK on certain programmes. A full colour service begins on
BBC2 on
December 2.
★
★
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 Sese Seko, and try to take control of
Stanleyville,
Congo.
★
July 6
★
★
Biafran War:
Nigerian forces invade
Biafra, following the latter's secession
May 30.
★
★ A
level crossing collision between a train loaded with children and a tanker-truck near
Magdeburg,
East Germany kills 94, mostly children.
★
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.
★
★
Humberto de Alencar Castello 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 21 - 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.
★
★
Georges Bidault moves to
Belgium where he receives
political asylum.
★
★ An
earthquake in
Caracas,
Venezuela leaves 240 dead.
August
★
August 1
★
★
Race riots in the
United States spread to
Washington, D.C..
★
★
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 in
Bangkok,
Thailand.
★
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
United Kingdom 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.
★
★ The
People's Republic of China announces that it has shot down
United States planes violating its airspace.
★
August 23 - The album ''
Are You Experienced'' is released by
The Jimi Hendrix Experience in
Canada and the
United States.
★
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 2 -
Paddy Roy Bates occupies Roughs Tower and establishes the
Principality of Sealand.
★
September 3
★
★
Nguyen Van Thieu is elected President of
South Vietnam.
★
★
H-Day in
Sweden: At 5:00 a.m. 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 occurs during a football match in Kaysei, Turkey (44 dead, about 600 injured).
★
★
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 ''
RMS 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
William J. Knight establishes an unofficial world fixed-wing speed record of Mach 6.7.
★
October 4 -
Omar Ali Saifuddin III of
Brunei, abdicates in favour of his son, His Majesty Sultan
Hassanal Bolkiah
★
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 14 - Quebec Nationalism:
Rene Lévesque leaves the Liberal Party
★
October 17 - The musical ''
Hair'' opens off-Broadway. It will move to Broadway the following April.
★
October 18 -
Walt Disney's full-length animated feature ''
The Jungle Book'', the last animated film personally supervised by Disney, is released and becomes an enormous box office and critical success. On a double bill with the film is the (now) much less well-known
True-Life Adventure, ''Charlie the Lonesome Cougar''.
★
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.
★
★ 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
European Economic Community again.
★
★ London criminal
Jack McVitie is murdered by the
Kray twins, leading to their eventual imprisonment and downfall.
★
October 29
★
★ Mobutu's troops launch an offensive against mercenaries in
Bukavu,
Congo.
★
★
Montreal,
Quebec Expo 67 closes, with over 50 Million attendees. Considered the most successful
World's Fair of the 20th Century.
★
October 30 -
British troops and
Chinese demonstrators clash on the border of
China and
Hong Kong during the
Hong Kong 1967 riots.
November
★
November 2 -
Vietnam War: U.S. 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: The
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 win the battle on
November 22).
★
November 4-
November 5 - Mercenaries of
Jean Schramme and Jerry Puren withdraw from Bukavu, over the Shangugu Bridge, to
Rwanda.
★
November 5 -
Hither Green rail crash: a commuter train derails in South-East
London (40 dead, 80 injured).
★
November 6 - The
Rhodesian parliament passes pro-
Apartheid laws.
★
November 7
★
★ U.S. President
Lyndon B. Johnson signs the
Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, establishing the
Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
★
★
Carl B. Stokes is elected
mayor of
Cleveland, Ohio, becoming the first
African American mayor of a major United States city.
★
November 8 - The
BBC's very first local
radio station is launched (
BBC Radio Leicester).
★
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, 3
United States prisoners of war are released by the
Viet Cong and turned over to "New Left" antiwar activist
Tom Hayden.
★
November 14 - The
Congress of Colombia in conmemoration of the 150 years of the death of
Policarpa Salavarrieta, declares this day as: "Day of the Colombian Woman".
★
November 15 -
Civil rights activists in the US succeed in their campaign to extend the definition of
murder to include the killing of
blacks.
★
November 17
★
★ Vietnam War: Acting on optimistic reports he was given on
November 13, U.S. 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." (2 months later the
Tet Offensive makes him regret his words.)
★
★ French author
Regis Debray is sentenced to 30 years in
Bolivia.
★
November 19 - The
UK pound is devalued from 1
GBP = 2.80
USD to 1 GBP = 2.40 USD.
★
November 21 - Vietnam War:
United States 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 principles aimed at guiding negotiations for an
Arab-
Israeli peace settlement.
★
November 24 -
Cambodian triple agent Inchin Lam is killed.
★
November 26 - Major floods hit
Lisbon region (
Portugal) killing 462.
★
November 29 -
Vietnam War: U.S. Secretary of Defense
Robert McNamara announces his resignation, to become president of the
World Bank. This action is due to U.S. 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
★
★
Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto founds the Pakistan People's Party and becomes its first chairman. Today it is one of the major political parties in Pakistan (alongside the Pakistan ''
Muslim League'') that is broken into many fractions bearing the same name under different leaders, such as the Pakistan's Peoples Party Parliamentarians (PPPP).
★
★ The
People's Republic of South Yemen becomes independent of the
United Kingdom.
★
★ U.S. Senator
Eugene McCarthy (D-MN) announces his candidacy for the
Democratic Party presidential nomination, challenging incumbent President
Lyndon B. Johnson over the
Vietnam War.
December
★
December 1 Queen Mary is retired. Her place is taken by
Queen Mary 2.
★
December 3 -
Christian Barnard carries out the world's first heart transplant at
Groote Schuur Hospital in
Capetown.
★
December 4
★
★ At 1850 hours, a
volcano erupts on
Deception Island in
Antarctica.
★
★
Vietnam War: U.S. and
South Vietnamese forces engage
Viet Cong troops in the
Mekong Delta (235 of the 300-strong Viet Cong battalion are killed).
★
December 5 - In
New York City,
Benjamin Spock and
Allen Ginsberg are arrested for protesting against the
Vietnam War.
★
December 9 -
Nicolae Ceauşescu becomes the Chairman of the Romanian State Council, making him the de-facto dictator of
Romania.
★
December 11 - The
Concorde is unveiled in
Toulouse,
France.
★
December 13 King
Constantine II of Greece flees the country when his coup attempt fails.
★
December 15 - The Silver Bridge over the
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.
Undated
★
Jari project begins in the
Amazon.
★
Ashleigh Brilliant begins to copyright pithy mottoes for a living.
★ In
Albania the
Enver Hoxha regime conducts a violent campaign against religion.
★
LSD declared an illegal by the
United States government.
★
University of Winnipeg founded.
★
Lonsdaleite (the rarest
allotrope of
carbon) first discovered in the
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. It first appeared in print in 1968: "An entirely novel kind of star came to light on 'Aug. 6 last year' [...]". This does not necessarily mean that the Pulsar was discovered on the 6th of August. The discovery might have dated back several weeks or months.
★
Arno River floods in
Florence.
★
Desmond Morris publishes ''
The Naked Ape''.
★
Lech Wałęsa goes to work in
Gdańsk shipyards.
★
Benjamin Netanyahu joins
Israeli army.
★
Greek military junta exiles
Melina Mercouri.
★
Parker Morris Standards became mandatory for all housing built in
New Towns in the
UK.
★ First edition of the book, ''
A Short History of Pakistan'' published by
Karachi University,
Pakistan.
Ongoing
★ (none)
Fictional
The following are references to year 1967 in fiction: (unknown).
Births
January-February
★
January 2 -
Tia Carrere, American actress
★
January 5 -
Joe Flanigan, American actor
★
January 7 -
Mark Lamarr, British comedian/TV and radio presenter
★
January 8 -
Michelle Forbes, American actress
★
January 8 -
R. Kelly, American R&B singer/songwriter/producer
★
January 9 -
Carl Bell, American musician (
Fuel)
★
January 9 -
Steven Harwell, American singer and musician (
Smash Mouth)
★
January 9 -
Dave Matthews, South African-born musician
★
January 9 -
Dale Gordon, English footballer
★
January 14 -
Kerri Green, American actress
★
January 14 -
Sharon Beshenivsky, West Yorkshire police constable (d.
2005)
★
January 16 - Michael Burkett, a.k.a.
Fat Mike, American singer and musician
★
January 18 -
Iván Zamorano, Chilean footballer
★
January 22 -
Olivia d'Abo, English actress
★
January 23 -
Naim Suleymanoglu, Bulgarian-born weightlifter
★
January 27 -
Byron Mann, Hong Kong actor
★
February 1st-
Meg Cabot, American teen author
★
February 6 -
Izumi Sakai, Japanese singer (
Zard) (d.
2007)
★
February 6 -
Anita Cochran, American singer
★
February 7 -
Cheung Man, Hong Kong actress
★
February 9 -
Todd Pratt, American baseball player
★
February 12 -
Chitravina N. Ravikiran, Indian composer and musician
★
February 16 -
John Valentin, baseball player
★
February 17 -
Chanté Moore, American singer
★
February 18 -
Roberto Baggio, Italian football player
★
February 19 -
Benicio del Toro, Puerto Rican actor
★
February 20 -
Kurt Cobain, American musician (
Nirvana) (d.
1994)
March-April
★
March 4 -
Evan Dando, American musician
★
March 4 -
Daryll Cullinan, South African cricketer
★
March 11 -
John Barrowman, Scottish-born actor
★
March 16 -
Lauren Graham, American actress
★
March 17 -
Billy Corgan, American musician and songwriter
★
March 18 -
Miki Berenyi, British lead singer of
Lush
★
March 21 -
Jonas "Joker" Berggren, Swedish musician (
Ace of Base)
★
March 21 -
Adrian Chiles, British television and radio presenter
★
March 22 -
Mario Cipollini, Italian cyclist
★
March 25 -
Debi Thomas, American figure skater
★
March 27 -
Talisa Soto, American actress
★
March 29 -
Brian Jordan, baseball player
★
April 2 -
Greg Camp, American guitarist and songwriter (
Smash Mouth)
★
April 2 -
Helen Chamberlain, British television presenter
★
April 15 -
Alt, Brazilian comic creator
★
April 15 -
Frankie Poullain, British bassist (
The Darkness)
★
April 15 -
Dara Torres, American swimmer
★
April 17 -
Marquis Grissom, baseball player
★
April 17 -
Liz Phair, American singer and songwriter
★
April 18 -
Maria Bello, American actress
★
April 19 -
Steven H Silver, American science fiction editor
★
April 19 -
Dar Williams, American musician and songwriter
★
April 20 -
Raymond van Barneveld, Dutch darts player
★
April 20 -
Lara Jill Miller, American actress
★
April 20 -
Mike Portnoy, American drummer (
Dream Theater)
★
April 21 -
Neil Marshall, British born Canadian aerospace engineer
★
April 22 -
Sheryl Lee, American actress
★
April 23 -
Melina Kanakaredes, American actress
★
April 26 -
Glen Jacobs (Kane), American professional wrestler
★
April 27 -
Prince Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands
★
April 29 -
Curtis Joseph, Canadian hockey player
★
April 29 -
Master P, American rapper, composer, actor, athlete, and sports agent
May-June
★
May 1 -
Tim McGraw, American singer
★
May 2 -
Jeff Curro, ''Jeff the Drunk'' from radio's ''
The Howard Stern Show''
★
May 5 -
Takehito Koyasu, Japanese
seiyu (voice actor)
★
May 11 -
Big Poppa E,
Poetry Slam artist
★
May 13 -
Chuck Schuldiner, American singer and guitarist (d.
2001)
★
May 13 -
Melanie Thornton, American singer (d.
2001)
★
May 14 -
Tony Siragusa, American football player
★
May 15 -
Madhuri Dixit, Indian actress
★
May 15 -
John Smoltz, baseball player
★
May 21 -
Chris Benoit, Canadian professional wrestler (d.
2007)
★
May 22 -
MC Eiht, American rapper
★
May 24 -
Heavy D, American rapper
★
May 24 -
Steve McDonald, American bassist (
Redd Kross)
★
May 25 -
Poppy Z. Brite, American author
★
May 29 -
Noel Gallagher, British musician (
Oasis)
★
May 31 -
Phil Keoghan, New Zealand-born television host
★
June 3 -
Anderson Cooper, American television journalist
★
June 5 -
Joe DeLoach, American athlete
★
June 7 -
Dave Navarro, American guitarist
★
June 10 -
Darren "Buffy, the Human Beatbox" Robinson, American rapper (
The Fat Boys) (d.
1995)
★
June 15 -
Yūji Ueda, Japanese seiyu (voice actor)
★
June 16 -
Richard Archer, clinical support worker (male model)
★
June 19 -
Bjørn Dæhlie, Norwegian skier
★
June 20 -
Nicole Kidman, American-born Australian actress
★
June 23 -
Yoko Minamino, Japanese idol star and actress
★
June 24 -
Bill Huard, Canadian ice hockey player
★
June 24 -
Janez Lapajne, Slovenian film director
★
June 24 -
Richard Z. Kruspe, German musician (
Rammstein)
July-August
★
July 1 -
Pamela Anderson, Canadian actress and model
★
July 4 -
Vinny Castilla, Mexican
Major League Baseball player
★
July 4 -
Andy Walker, Canadian television personality
★
July 5 -
Silvia Ziche, Italian comics artist
★
July 6 -
Heather Nova, British musician
★
July 7 -
Jackie Neal, American blues singer (d.
2005)
★
July 8 -
Marcus Chong, American actor
★
July 12 -
John Petrucci, American virtuoso guitarist
★
July 12 -
Count Jefferson von Pfeil und Klein-Ellguth
★
July 13 -
Akira Hokuto, Japanese women's professional wrestler
★
July 14 -
Jeff Jarrett, American professional wrestler
★
July 14 -
Robin Ventura, baseball player
★
July 15 -
Adam Savage, Mythbusters co-host
★
July 16 -
Will Ferrell, American comedian and actor
★
July 18 -
Vin Diesel, American actor
★
July 19 -
Rageh Omaar, broadcaster
★
July 25 -
Matt LeBlanc, American actor
★
July 27 -
Juliana Hatfield, American guitarist and songwriter
★
July 27 -
Kellie Waymire, American actress (d.
2003)
★
July 28 -
Taka Hirose, Japanese musician (
Feeder)
★
July 31 -
Minako Honda, Japanese singer and musical actress (d.
2005)
★
July 31 -
Elizabeth Wurtzel, author and feminist
★
August 4 -
Mike Marsh, American athlete
★
August 8 -
Lorraine Pearson, British singer
Five Star
★
August 8 -
Rena Mero, WWE Women's Wrestler,
Sable,
Playboy Cover Girl
★
August 10 -
Riddick Bowe, American boxer
★
August 11 -
Enrique Bunbury, Spanish singer and songwriter
★
August 11 -
Joe Rogan, American comedian and television host
★
August 12 -
Regilio Tuur, Dutch boxer
★
August 13 -
Amélie Nothomb, Belgian writer
★
August 16 -
Pamela Smart, American murderer
★
August 16 -
Ulrika Jonsson, Swedish-born television personality
★
August 21 -
Carrie-Anne Moss, Canadian actress
★
August 21 -
Serj Tankian, Lebanese-born singer (
System of a Down)
★
August 22 -
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, British actor and model
★
August 22 -
Yukiko Okada, Japanese idol singer (d.
1986)
★
August 22 -
Layne Staley, American singer (
Alice in Chains) (d.
2002)
★
August 25 -
Jeff Tweedy, American singer (
Wilco)
★
August 29 -
Anton Newcombe, American musician (
The Brian Jonestown Massacre)
September-October
★
September 3 -
Luis Gonzalez, baseball player
★
September 5 -
Jane Sixsmith, English field hockey player
★
September 9 -
Chris Caffery, American guitarist and singer
★
September 11 -
Harry Connick, Jr., American singer and actor
★
September 13 -
Michael Johnson, American athlete
★
September 21 -
Faith Hill, American singer
★
September 21 -
Susie Dent, British lexicographer on
''Countdown''.
★
September 22 -
Félix Savón, Cuban boxer
★
September 25 -
Kim Issel, Canadian ice hockey player
★
October 2 -
Frankie Fredericks, Namibian athlete
★
October 4 -
Liev Schreiber, American actor
★
October 4 -
Ekin Cheng, Hong Kong actor and singer
★
October 5 -
Johnny Gioeli, American
Power Metal singer
★
October 7 -
Toni Braxton, American
R&B singer
★
October 8 -
Teddy Riley, American
R&B and
hip hop singer
★
October 9 -
Eddie Guerrero, American professional wrestler (d.
2005)
★
October 11 -
Tazz, American professional wrestler, commentator,
★
October 11 -
Artie Lange, American actor, comedian and radio personality
★
October 11 -
David Starr, American racecar driver
★
October 13 -
Trevor Hoffman, Major League Baseball player
★
October 13 -
Kate Walsh, American actress
★
October 16 -
Davina McCall, British TV presenter and UK
Big Brother host
★
October 17 -
René Dif, Danish-Algerian megastar (AQUA)
★
October 22 -
Carlos Mencia, Latino actor and standup comedian
★
October 26 -
Keith Urban, Australian-born, American country music singer
★
October 27 -
Scott Weiland, American musician
★
October 28 -
Julia Roberts, American actress
★
October 28 -
Sophie, Hereditary Princess of Liechtenstein, Princess of Liechtenstein
★
October 29 -
Joely Fisher, American actress
★
October 30 -
Gavin Rossdale, English musician
★
October 30 -
Brad Aitken, Canadian ice hockey player
November-December
★
November 3 -
Steven Wilson, Singer, Songwriter, Guitarist
★
November 7 -
Sharleen Spiteri, Scottish singer and songwriter (Texas)
★
November 8 -
Courtney Thorne-Smith, American actress
★
November 14 -
Letitia Dean, British actress
★
November 15 -
François Ozon, French writer and director
★
November 16 -
Lisa Bonet, American actress
★
November 22 -
Boris Becker, German tennis player
★
November 22 -
Bart Veldkamp, Dutch-born speed skater
★
November 25 -
Kazuya Nakai, Japanese
voice actor
★
November 28 -
Anna Nicole Smith, American model and actress (d.
2007)
★
November 29 -
John Bradshaw Layfield, American professional wrestler
★
December 6 -
Judd Apatow, mayor of comedy
★
December 6 -
Hacken Lee, Hong Kong singer and actor
★
December 7 -
Mo'Nique, American actress and
comedian
★
December 8 -
Kotono Mitsuishi, Japanese seiyu (voice actress)
★
December 9 -
Joshua Bell, American violinist
★
December 11 -
DJ Yella, American music producer
★
December 12 -
John Randle, American football player
★
December 13 -
Jamie Foxx, American actor
★
December 14 -
Ewa Białołęcka, Polish writer
★
December 16 -
Donovan Bailey, Canadian athlete
★
December 17 -
Gigi D'Agostino, Italian musician and DJ
★
December 18 -
Toine van Peperstraten, Dutch sports journalist
★
December 19 -
Criss Angel, American musician, magician, illusionist, escapologist, and stunt performer
★
December 20 -
Teoman, Turkish rock singer and song-writer
★
December 20 -
Mikhail Saakashvili,
President of Georgia
★
December 22 -
Dan Petrescu, Romanian footballer
★
December 29 -
George "Corpsegrinder" Fisher, American Death Metal vocalist
★
December 30 -
Massimo Milano, Italian ethnomusicologist
Unknown dates
★
Steve Aylett, British writer
★
LTJ Bukem, English musician
★
Chico Science, Brazilian entertainer (d.
1997)
★
Mairtín Crawford, Irish poet (d.
2004)
Deaths
January - March
★
January 3 -
Jack Ruby, American killer of
Lee Harvey Oswald (b.
1911)
★
January 4 -
Donald Campbell, English water and land speed record seeker (b.
1921)
★
January 17 -
Barney Ross, American boxer (b.
1909)
★
January 19 -
Kazimierz Funk, Polish biochemist (b.
1884)
★
January 21 -
Ann Sheridan, American actress (b.
1915)
★
January 27 - Crew of
Apollo 1
★
★
Edward White (b.
1930)
★
★
Gus Grissom (b.
1926)
★
★
Roger Chaffee (b.
1935)
★
January 27 -
Alphonse Juin, Marshal of France (b.
1888)
★
January 31 -
Eddie Tolan, American athlete (b.
1908)
★
February 4 -
Albert Orsborn, the 6th General of
The Salvation Army (b.
1886)
★
February 8 -
Victor Gollancz, British publisher (b.
1893)
★
February 16 -
Smiley Burnette, American actor (b.
1911)
★
February 16 -
Józef Hofmann, Polish pianist (b.
1876)
★
February 18 -
J. Robert Oppenheimer, American physicist (b.
1904)
★
February 21 -
Charles Beaumont, American writer (b.
1929)
★
March 6 -
John Haden Badley, English author (b.
1865)
★
March 6 -
Nelson Eddy, American singer and actor (b.
1901)
★
March 6 -
Zoltán Kodály, Hungarian composer (b.
1882)
★
March 7 -
Alice B. Toklas, American personality (b.
1877)
★
March 11 -
Geraldine Farrar, American soprano (b.
1882)
★
March 27 -
Jaroslav Heyrovský, Czech chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1890)
★
March 30 -
Jean Toomer, American writer (b.
1894)
April - June
★
April 2 -
Eddie Eagan, American sportsman (b.
1897)
★
April 4 -
Al Lewis, American songwriter (b.
1901)
★
April 5 -
Hermann Joseph Muller, American geneticist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b.
1890)
★
April 17 -
Red Allen, American jazz trumpeter (b.
1908)
★
April 19 -
Konrad Adenauer,
Chancellor of Germany (b.
1876)
★
April 24 -
Vladimir Komarov, cosmonaut (b.
1927)
★
May 6 -
Zhou Zuoren, Chinese writer (b.
1885)
★
May 8 -
LaVerne Andrews, member of
Big Band/
Swing group
The Andrews Sisters (b.
1911)
★
May 12 -
John Masefield, English poet and novelist (b.
1878)
★
May 15 -
Edward Hopper, American painter (b.
1882)
★
May 22 -
Langston Hughes, American writer (b.
1902)
★
June 7 -
Dorothy Parker, American writer (b.
1893)
★
June 10 -
Spencer Tracy, American actor (b.
1900)
★
June 14 -
Eddie Eagan, American sportsman (b.
1897)
★
June 27-
Francoise Dorleac, French actress (b.
1942)
★
June 29 -
Jayne Mansfield, American actress (b.
1933)
July - September
★
July 7 -
Vivien Leigh, English actress (b.
1913)
★
July 8 -
Fatima Jinnah, Pakistani
Mother of the Nation (b.
1893)
★
July 14 -
Tudor Arghezi, Romanian writer (b.
1880)
★
July 17 -
John Coltrane, American jazz saxophonist (b.
1926)
★
July 21 -
Jimmie Foxx, American baseball player (b.
1907)
★
July 21 -
Albert Lutuli, South African politician, recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize
★
July 22 -
Carl Sandburg, American poet (b.
1878)
★
July 30 -
Alfred Krupp, German industrialist (b.
1907)
★
August 1 -
Richard Kuhn, Austrian chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1900)
★
August 9 -
Joe Orton, English playwright (b.
1933)
★
August 15 -
René Magritte, Belgian painter (b.
1898)
★
August 19 -
Hugo Gernsback, Luxembourg-born editor and publisher (b.
1884)
★
August 24 -
Henry J. Kaiser, American industrialist (b.
1882)
★
August 24 -
Lam Bun, Hong Kong radio commentator (b.
1930)
★
August 25 -
Stanley Bruce, eighth
Prime Minister of Australia (b.
1883)
★
August 25 -
Paul Muni, Polish actor (b.
1895)
★
August 25 -
George Lincoln Rockwell, American Nazi Party leader (b.
1918)
★
August 27 -
Brian Epstein, English band manager (
The Beatles) (b.
1934)
★
August 31 -
Ilya Ehrenburg, Russian writer (b.
1891)
★
September 3 -
Francis Ouimet, American professional golfer (b.
1893)
★
September 11 -
Tadeusz Żyliński, Polish technician and textilist (b.
1904)
★
September 13 -
Varian Fry, American journalist (b.
1907)
★
September 18 -
John Cockcroft, English physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1897)
★
September 27 -
Prince Felix Yussupov, Russian assassin of Rasputin (b.
1887)
October - December
★
October 3 -
Woody Guthrie, American musician (b.
1912)
★
October 3 -
Malcolm Sargent, English conductor (b.
1895)
★
October 7 -
Norman Angell, British politician, recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize (b.
1872)
★
October 8 -
Clement Attlee,
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b.
1893)
★
October 9 -
Che Guevara, Argentine revolutionary (executed) (b.
1928)
★
October 9 -
Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, English chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1897)
★
October 17 -
Xuantong Emperor,
Emperor of China (b.
1906)
★
October 20 -
Yoshida Shigeru,
Prime Minister of Japan (b.
1878)
★
November 7 -
John Nance Garner,
U.S. Vice President (b.
1868)
★
November 13 -
Harriet Cohen, English pianist (b.
1895)
★
November 19 -
Charles J. Watters, U.S. Army chaplain,
Medal of Honor recipient (b.
1927)
★
November 25 -
Ossip Zadkine, Russian sculptor, painter and lithographer (b.
1890)
★
December 4 -
Daniel Jones, British phonetician (b.
1881)
★
December 10 -
Otis Redding, American singer (b.
1941)
★
December 17 -
Harold Holt, Australian Prime Minister (b.
1908)
★
December 17 -
Jack Perrin, American actor (b.
1896)
★
December 24 -
Karl Ristenpart, German conductor (b.
1900)
★
December 26 -
Sydney Barnes, English cricketer (b.
1873)
★
December 28 -
Katharine McCormick, American feminist (b.
1875)
★
December 29 -
Paul Whiteman, American bandleader (b.
1890)
Nobel prizes
★
Physics -
Hans Albrecht Bethe
★
Chemistry -
Manfred Eigen,
Ronald George Wreyford Norrish,
George Porter
★
Physiology or Medicine -
Ragnar Granit,
Haldan Keffer Hartline,
George Wald
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Literature -
Miguel Ángel Asturias
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Peace - not awarded
See also
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20th century
Notes
External links
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1967 - Headlines A report from Michael Wallace of WCBS Newsradio 880 (WCBS-AM New York) Part of WCBS 880's celebration of 40 years of newsradio.
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1967 - The Year in Sound An Audiofile produced by Lou Zambrana of WCBS Newsradio 880 (WCBS-AM New York) Part of WCBS 880's celebration of 40 years of newsradio.
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