1967
Events
January
February
March
April
May
- 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
- May 8 - The Philippine province of Davao is split into three: Davao del Norte, Davao del
Sur, and Davao Oriental.
- May 10 - Greek military government accused Andreas Papadreou of
treason
- May 11 - United Kingdom
and Ireland apply officially for EEC
membership
- 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 Cabanas begins a guerilla 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 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 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
- June 8 - Six-Day War: The
USS Liberty incident occurs, killing 34 and wounding
171
- June 8 - Four Israeli fighter jets and four Israeli warships fire at USS Liberty off Gaza. 34 US servicemen killed, 1717 wounded
- 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. [1] (http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/loving.html)
- 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] (http://www.supremecourthistory.org/02_history/subs_timeline/images_associates/082.html)
- June 14 - Mariner
program: Mariner 5 is launched toward Venus
- June 14 - The People's Republic of China tests its first hydrogen bomb.[3] (http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/china/nuke.htm)
- 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] (http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/johnson/archives.hom/diary/1967/670623.asp)
- 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 27 - A race riot in Buffalo, New York - 200 arrested
- 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 4 - British parliament decriminalizes homosexuality
- July 6 - Nigerian forces invade
Biafra following latter's secession May 30:
beginning of the Biafran War.
- July 12 - Greek military regime strips 480 Greeks of their citizenship
- July 13 - Newark,
New Jersey race riots.
- July 15 - Detroit race riots.
- July 16 - Prison riot in Jay, Florida - 37 dead
- July 18 - United
Kingdom announces closing of its military bases 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 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, delighted many Quebecers but angered the Canadian government and many English Canadians.
- July 29 - Explosion and fire in U.S. Navy aircraft carrier Forrestal in Gulf of Tonkin leaves 134 dead.
- July 29 - Fire on the USS
Forrestal in the Gulf of Tonkin - 134 dead
- July 29 - Georges
Bidault moves to Belgium where he gets an political asylum
August
September
October
November
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 - Benjamin
Spock and Allen Ginsberg arrested for protesting against Vietnam War
- 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 11 - The Concorde
is unveiled in Toulouse, France
- 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.
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