January 1967
The following events occurred in January 1967: January 1, 1967 (Sunday) *''People's Daily'', the official newspaper of the Chinese Communist Party, began the new year with the editorial "Carry the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution Through to the End", directing all Party faithful to launch a general attack on specific people, particularly China's President, Liu Shaoqi; the next day, officials addressing a rally of 10,000 people in Beijing listed twenty charges against Liu. *In the first 1967 Laotian parliamentary election, elections in Laos to restore voting privileges to all citizens 18 and older, voters favored the Lao Neutralist Party led by Prime Minister Souvanna Phouma. *Canada began a year-long celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Constitution Act, 1867, British North America Act, 1867, with the Expo 67 World's Fair as a highlight. *Medicaid went into effect in the United States, providing free medical care for disabled low-income people and marking what one o ...
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