Events
January
*
January 1 – Canada begins a year-long celebration of the 100th anniversary of
Confederation, featuring the
Expo 67 World's Fair.
*
January 5
** Spain and
Romania sign an agreement in Paris, establishing full consular and commercial relations (not diplomatic ones).
**
Charlie Chaplin
Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin Jr. (16 April 188925 December 1977) was an English comic actor, filmmaker, and composer who rose to fame in the era of silent film. He became a worldwide icon through his screen persona, the Tramp, and is consider ...
launches his last film, ''
A Countess from Hong Kong'', in the UK.
*
January 6
Events Pre-1600
*1066 – Following the death of Edward the Confessor on the previous day, the Witan meets to confirm Harold Godwinson as the new King of England; Harold is crowned the same day, sparking a succession crisis that will eve ...
–
Vietnam War:
USMC and
ARVN troops launch ''
Operation Deckhouse Five'' in the
Mekong Delta
The Mekong Delta ( vi, Đồng bằng Sông Cửu Long, lit=Nine Dragon River Delta or simply vi, Đồng Bằng Sông Mê Kông, lit=Mekong River Delta, label=none), also known as the Western Region ( vi, Miền Tây, links=no) or South-weste ...
.
*
January 8
Events Pre-1600
* 307 – Emperor Huai of Jin, Jin Huaidi becomes emperor of China in succession to his father, Emperor Hui of Jin, Jin Huidi, despite a challenge from his uncle, Sima Ying.
* 871 – Æthelred I, King of Wessex, Æthel ...
– Vietnam War:
Operation Cedar Falls starts.
*
January 13
Events Pre-1600
* 27 BC – Octavian transfers the state to the free disposal of the Roman Senate and the people. He receives Spain, Gaul, and Syria as his province for ten years.
* 532 – The Nika riots break out, during the racing ...
– A
military coup occurs in
Togo under the leadership of
Étienne Eyadema.
*
January 14
Events Pre-1600
*1236 – King Henry III of England marries Eleanor of Provence.
*1301 – Andrew III of Hungary dies, ending the Árpád dynasty in Hungary.
1601–1900
*1639 – The "Fundamental Orders of Connecticut, Fundamenta ...
– The
Human Be-In takes place in
Golden Gate Park
Golden Gate Park, located in San Francisco, California, United States, is a large urban park consisting of of public grounds. It is administered by the San Francisco Recreation & Parks Department, which began in 1871 to oversee the development ...
,
San Francisco; the event sets the stage for the
Summer of Love
The Summer of Love was a social phenomenon that occurred during the summer of 1967, when as many as 100,000 people, mostly young people sporting hippie fashions of dress and behavior, converged in San Francisco's neighborhood of Haight-Ashbury. ...
.
*
January 15
Events Pre-1600
* 69 – Otho seizes power in Rome, proclaiming himself Emperor of Rome, beginning a reign of only three months.
* 1541 – King Francis I of France gives Jean-François Roberval a commission to settle the province of ...
**
Louis Leakey
Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey (7 August 1903 – 1 October 1972) was a Kenyan-British palaeoanthropologist and archaeologist whose work was important in demonstrating that humans evolved in Africa, particularly through discoveries made at Olduvai ...
announces the discovery of pre-human fossils in
Kenya; he names the species ''
Kenyapithecus africanus
''Ekembo nyanzae'', originally classed as a species of ''Proconsul'', is a species of fossil primate first discovered by Louis Leakey on Rusinga Island in 1942, which he published in ''Nature'' in 1943. It is also known by the name ''Dryopithecus ...
''.
**
American football: The
Green Bay Packers
The Green Bay Packers are a professional American football team based in Green Bay, Wisconsin. The Packers compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the National Football Conference (NFC) NFC North, North division. It ...
defeat the
Kansas City Chiefs 35–10 in the
First AFL-NFL World Championship Game at the
Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum (also known as the L.A. Coliseum) is a multi-purpose stadium in the Exposition Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. Conceived as a hallmark of civic pride, the Coliseum was commissioned in 1921 as a mem ...
.
*
January 18 –
Albert DeSalvo is convicted of numerous crimes and sentenced to life in prison.
*
January 23
** In
Munich, the trial begins for
Wilhelm Harster
Wilhelm Harster (21 July 1904 – 25 December 1991) was a German policeman and war criminal. A high-ranking member in the Schutzstaffel, SS and a Holocaust perpetrator during the Nazi era, he was twice convicted for his crimes by the Netherlands a ...
, 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
Milton Keynes ( ) is a city and the largest settlement in Buckinghamshire, England, about north-west of London. At the 2021 Census, the population of its urban area was over . The River Great Ouse forms its northern boundary; a tributary ...
(England) is founded as a
new town
New is an adjective referring to something recently made, discovered, or created.
New or NEW may refer to:
Music
* New, singer of K-pop group The Boyz
Albums and EPs
* ''New'' (album), by Paul McCartney, 2013
* ''New'' (EP), by Regurgitator, ...
by
Order in Council, with a planning brief to become a city of 250,000 people. Its initial designated area enclosed three existing towns and twenty one villages. The area to be developed was largely farmland, with
evidence of permanent settlement dating back to the
Bronze Age.
*
January 25
Events Pre-1600
* 41 – After a night of negotiation, Claudius is accepted as Roman emperor by the Senate.
* 750 – In the Battle of the Zab, the Abbasid rebels defeat the Umayyad Caliphate, leading to the overthrow of the dynasty ...
–
South Vietnam
South Vietnam, officially the Republic of Vietnam ( vi, Việt Nam Cộng hòa), was a state in Southeast Asia that existed from 1955 to 1975, the period when the southern portion of Vietnam was a member of the Western Bloc during part of th ...
ese junta leader and Prime Minister
Nguyen Cao Ky fired rival, Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister
Nguyen Huu Co
Nguyễn () is the most common Vietnamese name, Vietnamese surname. Outside of Vietnam, the surname is commonly rendered without diacritics as Nguyen. wiktionary:nguyên, Nguyên (元)is a different word and surname.
By some estimates 39 perc ...
while the latter was overseas on a diplomatic visit.
*
January 26
** The
Parliament of the United Kingdom decides to nationalise 90% of the nation's steel industry.
**
Chicago's largest-ever blizzard begins.
*
January 27
Events Pre-1600
* 98 – Trajan succeeds his adoptive father Nerva as Roman emperor; under his rule the Roman Empire will reach its maximum extent.
* 945 – The co-emperors Stephen and Constantine are overthrown and forced to becom ...
**
Apollo 1: U.S. astronauts
Gus Grissom,
Ed White, and
Roger Chaffee are killed when fire breaks out in their
Apollo spacecraft during a launch pad test.
** The United States, Soviet Union and United Kingdom sign the
Outer Space Treaty (ratified by USSR May 19; comes into force October 10), prohibiting
weapons of mass destruction from space.
*
January 31 – West Germany and
Romania establish
diplomatic relations.
February
*
February 2
Events Pre-1600
* 506 – Alaric II, eighth king of the Visigoths, promulgates the Breviary of Alaric (''Breviarium Alaricianum'' or ''Lex Romana Visigothorum''), a collection of "Roman law".
* 880 – Battle of Lüneburg Heath: King ...
– The
American Basketball Association
The American Basketball Association (ABA) was a major men's professional basketball league from 1967 to 1976. The ABA ceased to exist with the ABA–NBA merger, American Basketball Association–National Basketball Association merger in 1976, ...
is formed.
*
February 3
Events Pre-1600
* 1112 – Ramon Berenguer III, Count of Barcelona, and Douce I, Countess of Provence, marry, uniting the fortunes of those two states.
*1451 – Sultan Mehmed II inherits the throne of the Ottoman Empire.
*1488 – ...
–
Ronald Ryan becomes the last man hanged in Australia, for murdering a guard while escaping from prison in December 1965.
*
February 4
Events Pre–1600
* 211 – Following the death of the Roman Emperor Septimius Severus at Eboracum (modern York, England) while preparing to lead a campaign against the Caledonians, the empire is left in the control of his two quarrellin ...
– The
Soviet Union protests the demonstrations before its embassy in Beijing.
*
February 5
Events Pre-1600
* 62 – Earthquake in Pompeii, Italy.
* 1576 – Henry of Navarre abjures Catholicism at Tours and rejoins the Protestant forces in the French Wars of Religion.
* 1597 – A group of early Japanese Christians ar ...
**
NASA launches ''
Lunar Orbiter 3''.
** Italy's first
guided missile cruiser, the ''
Vittorio Veneto'', is launched.
** General
Anastasio Somoza Debayle
Anastasio "Tachito" Somoza Debayle (; 5 December 1925 – 17 September 1980) was the President of Nicaragua from 1 May 1967 to 1 May 1972 and from 1 December 1974 to 17 July 1979. As head of the National Guard, he was ''de facto'' ruler of ...
becomes president of
Nicaragua.
*
February 6
Events Pre-1600
* 1579 – The Archdiocese of Manila is made a diocese by a papal bull with Domingo de Salazar being its first bishop.
1601–1900
* 1685 – James II of England and VII of Scotland is proclaimed King upon the death of ...
–
Alexei 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, and destroys 2,642.7 square kilometres (653,025.4 acres) of land.
**
Mazenod College, Victoria, opens in Australia.
*
February 10 – The
25th Amendment to the United States Constitution
The Twenty-fifth Amendment (Amendment XXV) to the United States Constitution deals with President of the United States, presidential succession and disability.
It clarifies that the Vice President of the United States, vice president becomes Pr ...
(presidential succession and disability) is ratified.
*
February 11
Events Pre-1600
*660 BC – Traditional date for the foundation of Japan by Emperor Jimmu.
* 55 – The death under mysterious circumstances of Tiberius Claudius Caesar Britannicus, heir to the Roman empire, on the eve of his coming ...
–
Burgess Ice Rise
Burgess Ice Rise () is a small ice rise lying within the Wilkins Ice Shelf, off the west coast of Alexander Island, Antarctica. It was mapped from the air on a radio echo sounding flight by the British Antarctic Survey on 11 February 1967, and lat ...
, lying off the west coast of
Alexander Island, Antarctica, is first mapped by the
British Antarctic Survey
The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) is the United Kingdom's national polar research institute. It has a dual purpose, to conduct polar science, enabling better understanding of global issues, and to provide an active presence in the Antarctic on ...
(BAS).
*
February 13
Events Pre-1600
* 962 – Emperor Otto I and Pope John XII co-sign the ''Diploma Ottonianum'', recognizing John as ruler of Rome.
*1322 – The central tower of Ely Cathedral falls on the night of 12th–13th.
*1462 – The ...
– American researchers discover the Madrid Codices by
Leonardo da Vinci in the
National Library of Spain
National may refer to:
Common uses
* Nation or country
** Nationality – a ''national'' is a person who is subject to a nation, regardless of whether the person has full rights as a citizen
Places in the United States
* National, Maryland, c ...
.
*
February 15
Events Pre-1600
* 438 – Roman emperor Theodosius II publishes the law codex Codex Theodosianus
* 590 – Khosrau II is crowned king of Persia.
* 706 – Byzantine emperor Justinian II has his predecessors Leontios and Tiberi ...
– The
Soviet Union announces that it has sent troops near the Chinese border.
*
February 18 –
New Orleans District Attorney
Jim Garrison claims he will solve the John F. Kennedy assassination, and that a conspiracy was planned in New Orleans.
*
February 20
Events Pre-1600
*1339 – The Milanese army and the St. George's (San Giorgio) Mercenaries of Lodrisio Visconti clash in the Battle of Parabiago; Visconti is defeated.
*1472 – Orkney and Shetland are pawned by Norway to Scotland ...
–
Kurt Cobain
Kurt Donald Cobain (February 20, 1967 – April 5, 1994) was an American musician who served as the lead vocalist, guitarist and primary songwriter of the rock band Nirvana. Through his angst-fueled songwriting and anti-establishment persona ...
was born
*
February 22
**
Suharto
Suharto (; ; 8 June 1921 – 27 January 2008) was an Indonesian army officer and politician, who served as the second and the longest serving president of Indonesia. Widely regarded as a military dictator by international observers, Suharto ...
takes power from
Sukarno
Sukarno). (; born Koesno Sosrodihardjo, ; 6 June 1901 – 21 June 1970) was an Indonesian statesman, orator, revolutionary, and nationalist who was the first president of Indonesia, serving from 1945 to 1967.
Sukarno was the leader of ...
in
Indonesia (see
Transition to the New Order and
Supersemar).
**
Donald Sangster becomes the new Prime Minister of
Jamaica, succeeding
Alexander Bustamante.
*
February 23
Events Pre-1600
* 303 – Roman emperor Diocletian orders the destruction of the Christian church in Nicomedia, beginning eight years of Diocletianic Persecution.
* 532 – Byzantine emperor Justinian I lays the foundation stone of a ...
**
Trinidad and Tobago is the first
Commonwealth
A commonwealth is a traditional English term for a political community founded for the common good. Historically, it has been synonymous with "republic". The noun "commonwealth", meaning "public welfare, general good or advantage", dates from the ...
nation to join the
Organization of American States
The Organization of American States (OAS; es, Organización de los Estados Americanos, pt, Organização dos Estados Americanos, french: Organisation des États américains; ''OEA'') is an international organization that was founded on 30 April ...
.
** The
25th Amendment to the United States Constitution
The Twenty-fifth Amendment (Amendment XXV) to the United States Constitution deals with President of the United States, presidential succession and disability.
It clarifies that the Vice President of the United States, vice president becomes Pr ...
is enacted.
*
February 24
Events Pre-1600
* 484 – King Huneric of the Vandals replaces Nicene bishops with Arian ones, and banishes some to Corsica.
* 1303 – The English are defeated at the Battle of Roslin, in the First War of Scottish Independence.
* 13 ...
– Moscow forbids its
satellite states to form diplomatic relations with West Germany.
*
February 25
Events Pre-1600
* 138 – Roman emperor Hadrian adopts Antoninus Pius as his son, effectively making him his successor.
* 628 – Khosrow II, the last great Shah of the Sasanian Empire (Iran), is overthrown by his son Kavadh II.
...
** 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
Events Pre-1600
*747 BC – According to Ptolemy, the epoch (origin) of the Nabonassar Era began at noon on this date. Historians use this to establish the modern BC chronology for dating historic events.
* 364 – Valentinian I is p ...
– A Soviet nuclear test is conducted at the
Semipalatinsk Test Site, Eastern
Kazakhstan.
*
February 27
Events Pre-1600
* 380 – Edict of Thessalonica: Emperor Theodosius I and his co-emperors Gratian and Valentinian II declare their wish that all Roman citizens convert to Nicene Christianity.
* 425 – The University of Constantinople ...
– The
Dutch government supports British
EEC
The European Economic Community (EEC) was a regional organization created by the Treaty of Rome of 1957,Today the largely rewritten treaty continues in force as the ''Treaty on the functioning of the European Union'', as renamed by the Lisb ...
membership.
March
*
March 1
** The city of
Hatogaya,
Saitama, Japan, is founded.
**
Brazilian police arrest
Franz Stangl, ex-commander of
Treblinka and
Sobibór extermination camps.
** The
Red Guards return to schools in China.
** The
Queen Elizabeth Hall
The Queen Elizabeth Hall (QEH) is a music venue on the South Bank in London, England, that hosts classical, jazz, and avant-garde music, talks and dance performances. It was opened in 1967, with a concert conducted by Benjamin Britten.
The ...
is opened in London.
**
Óscar Gestido is sworn in as
President of Uruguay
The president of Uruguay ( es, Presidente del Uruguay), officially known as the president of the Oriental Republic of Uruguay (), is the head of state and head of government of Uruguay. Their rights are determined in the Constitution of Urugua ...
after 15 years of
collegiate government.
*
March 4
** The first
North Sea gas
North Sea oil is a mixture of hydrocarbons, comprising liquid petroleum and natural gas, produced from petroleum reservoirs beneath the North Sea.
In the petroleum industry, the term "North Sea" often includes areas such as the Norwegian Sea and ...
is pumped ashore at
Easington, East Riding of Yorkshire.
**
Queens Park Rangers become the first 3rd Division side to win the English
Football League Cup
The EFL Cup (referred to historically, and colloquially, as the League Cup), currently known as the Carabao Cup for sponsorship reasons, is an annual knockout competition and major trophy in men's domestic football in England. Organised by the ...
at
Wembley Stadium, defeating
West Bromwich Albion 3–2.
*
March 5
Events Pre-1600
* 363 – Roman emperor Julian leaves Antioch with an army of 90,000 to attack the Sasanian Empire, in a campaign which would bring about his own death.
* 1046 – Nasir Khusraw begins the seven-year Middle Eastern ...
–
Mohammad Mosaddegh (or Mosaddeq; fa, مُحَمَد مُصَدِق; ), deposed Iranian prime minister, dies after fourteen years of house arrest.
*
March 6 – ''
Mark Twain Tonight'' starring
Hal Holbrook as Mark Twain, premieres on CBS television in the United States.
*
March 7
Events Pre-1600
* 161 – Marcus Aurelius and L. Commodus (who changes his name to Lucius Verus) become joint emperors of Rome on the death of Antoninus Pius.
* 1138 – Konrad III von Hohenstaufen was elected king of Germany at Cob ...
– U.S. labor union leader
Jimmy Hoffa
James Riddle Hoffa (born February 14, 1913 – disappeared July 30, 1975; declared dead July 30, 1982) was an American labor union leader who served as the president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) from 1957 until 1971.
F ...
begins his 8-year sentence for attempting to bribe a jury.
*
March 9 –
Joseph Stalin's daughter,
Svetlana Alliluyeva
Svetlana Iosifovna Alliluyeva, born Stalina (); ka, სვეტლანა იოსების ასული ალილუევა () (28 February 1926 – 22 November 2011), later known as Lana Peters, was the youngest child and only ...
, defects to the United States via the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi.
*
March 11 – The first phase of the
Cambodian Civil War begins between the
Kingdom of Cambodia and the
Khmer Rouge
The Khmer Rouge (; ; km, ខ្មែរក្រហម, ; ) is the name that was popularly given to members of the Communist Party of Kampuchea (CPK) and by extension to the regime through which the CPK ruled Cambodia between 1975 and 1979. ...
.
*
March 12
Events Pre-1600
* 538 – Vitiges, king of the Ostrogoths ends his siege of Rome and retreats to Ravenna, leaving the city to the victorious Byzantine general, Belisarius.
* 1088 – Election of Urban II as the 159th Pope of the Cat ...
** The
Indonesian State Assembly takes all presidential powers from
Sukarno
Sukarno). (; born Koesno Sosrodihardjo, ; 6 June 1901 – 21 June 1970) was an Indonesian statesman, orator, revolutionary, and nationalist who was the first president of Indonesia, serving from 1945 to 1967.
Sukarno was the leader of ...
and names
Suharto
Suharto (; ; 8 June 1921 – 27 January 2008) was an Indonesian army officer and politician, who served as the second and the longest serving president of Indonesia. Widely regarded as a military dictator by international observers, Suharto ...
as acting president (Suharto resigned in
1998
1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''.
Events January
* January 6 – The '' Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently ...
).
**
The Velvet Underground's first album, ''
The Velvet Underground & Nico'', is released in the United States. It is initially a commercial failure but receives widespread critical and commercial acclaim in later years.
*
March 13 –
Moise Tshombe, ex-prime minister of
Congo
Congo or The Congo may refer to either of two countries that border the Congo River in central Africa:
* Democratic Republic of the Congo, the larger country to the southeast, capital Kinshasa, formerly known as Zaire, sometimes referred to a ...
, is sentenced to death
''in absentia''.
*
March 14
Events Pre-1600
* 1074 – Battle of Mogyoród: Dukes Géza and Ladislaus defeat their cousin Solomon, King of Hungary, forcing him to flee to Hungary's western borderland.
* 1590 – Battle of Ivry: Henry of Navarre and the Huguen ...
** 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 17 – The
Grateful Dead
The Grateful Dead was an American rock music, rock band formed in 1965 in Palo Alto, California. The band is known for its eclectic style, which fused elements of rock, Folk music, folk, country music, country, jazz, bluegrass music, bluegrass, ...
debut their first album 'the Grateful Dead' consisting of the songs; The Golden Road, Beat it down on the Line, Good morning little schoolgirl, Cold rain and snow, Sitting on top of the world, Morning dew, New new minglewood blues, and Viola Lee blues
*
March 18
**
''Torrey Canyon'' oil spill: The supertanker runs aground between
Land's End and the
Scilly Isles off the coast of Britain.
** The classic
Pirates of the Caribbean
''Pirates of the Caribbean'' is a Disney media franchise encompassing numerous theme park rides, a series of films, and spin-off novels, as well as a number of related video games and other media publications. The franchise originated with th ...
attraction opens at
Disneyland, California.
*
March 19 – A referendum in
French Somaliland
French Somaliland (french: Côte française des Somalis, lit= French Coast of the Somalis so, Xeebta Soomaaliyeed ee Faransiiska) was a French colony in the Horn of Africa. It existed between 1884 and 1967, at which time it became the French Ter ...
favors the connection to France.
*
March 21
Events Pre-1600
* 537 – Siege of Rome: King Vitiges attempts to assault the northern and eastern city walls, but is repulsed at the Praenestine Gate, known as the ''Vivarium'', by the defenders under the Byzantine generals Bessas an ...
** A military coup takes place in
Sierra Leone.
**
Vietnam War: In ongoing campus unrest,
Howard University students protesting the Vietnam War, the
ROTC
The Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC ( or )) is a group of college- and university-based officer-training programs for training commissioned officers of the United States Armed Forces.
Overview
While ROTC graduate officers serve in all ...
program on campus and the draft, confront Gen.
Lewis Hershey
Lewis Blaine Hershey (September 12, 1893May 20, 1977) was a United States Army general who served as the second Director of the Selective Service System, the means by which the United States administers its military conscription.
Early life
He ...
, then head of the U.S.
Selective Service System
The Selective Service System (SSS) is an Independent agencies of the United States government, independent agency of the Federal government of the United States, United States government that maintains information on U.S. Citizenship of the Unite ...
, and as he attempts to deliver an address, shout him down with cries of "America is the Black man's battleground!"
**
Charles Manson
Charles Milles Manson (; November 12, 1934November 19, 2017) was an American criminal and musician who led the Manson Family, a cult based in California, in the late 1960s. Some of the members committed a series of nine murders at four loca ...
is released from
Terminal Island. Telling the authorities that prison had become his home, he requested permission to stay. Upon his release, he relocates to San Francisco where he spends the
Summer of Love
The Summer of Love was a social phenomenon that occurred during the summer of 1967, when as many as 100,000 people, mostly young people sporting hippie fashions of dress and behavior, converged in San Francisco's neighborhood of Haight-Ashbury. ...
.
*
March 26
** In New York City, 10,000 gather for the
Central Park be-in.
**
Jim Thompson, co-founder of the Thai Silk Company, disappears from the
Cameron Highlands.
*
March 28 –
Pope Paul VI issues the
encyclical
An encyclical was originally a circular letter sent to all the churches of a particular area in the ancient Roman Church. At that time, the word could be used for a letter sent out by any bishop. The word comes from the Late Latin (originally from ...
''
Populorum progressio''.
*
March 29
** A 13-day TV strike begins in the United States.
** The first French nuclear submarine, ''
Le Redoutable'', is launched.
** The
SEACOM Asian telephone cable is inaugurated.
**
''Torrey Canyon'' oil spill: British
Fleet Air Arm and
Royal Air Force aircraft bomb and sink the grounded supertanker .
*
March 31
Events Pre-1600
* 307 – After divorcing his wife Minervina, Constantine the Great, Constantine marries Fausta, daughter of the retired Roman emperor Maximian.
*1146 – Bernard of Clairvaux preaches his famous sermon in a field at V ...
– U.S. President
Lyndon Johnson
Lyndon Baines Johnson (; August 27, 1908January 22, 1973), often referred to by his initials LBJ, was an American politician who served as the 36th president of the United States from 1963 to 1969. He had previously served as the 37th vice ...
signs the Consular Treaty.
April
*
April 1 – A new South Vietnamese constitution is adopted.
*
April 2 – A
United Nations delegation arrives in
Aden
Aden ( ar, عدن ' Yemeni: ) is a city, and since 2015, the temporary capital of Yemen, near the eastern approach to the Red Sea (the Gulf of Aden), some east of the strait Bab-el-Mandeb. Its population is approximately 800,000 people. ...
as its independence approaches. The delegation leaves
April 7, accusing British authorities of lack of cooperation. The British say the delegation did not contact them.
*
April 4
Events Pre-1600
* 503 BC – Roman consul Agrippa Menenius Lanatus celebrates a triumph for a military victory over the Sabines.
* 190 – Dong Zhuo has his troops evacuate the capital Luoyang and burn it to the ground.
* 611 – ...
–
Martin Luther King Jr. denounces the Vietnam War during his sermon at the Riverside Church in New York City.
*
April 6 –
Georges Pompidou begins to form the next French government.
*
April 7 –
Six-Day War (approach):
Israeli fighters shoot down 7 Syrian
MIG-21s.
*
April 8
Events Pre-1600
* 217 – Roman emperor Caracalla is assassinated and is succeeded by his Praetorian Guard prefect, Marcus Opellius Macrinus.
* 876 – The Battle of Dayr al-'Aqul saves Baghdad from the Saffarids.
*1139 – Ro ...
– ''
Puppet on a String'' by Sandie Shaw (music and lyrics by Bill Martin and Phil Coulter) wins the
Eurovision Song Contest 1967 for the United Kingdom.
*
April 9 – The first
Boeing 737 (A-100 series) takes its maiden flight.
*
April 10
** The AFTRA strike is settled just in time for the
39th Academy Awards
The 39th Academy Awards, honoring the best in film for 1966, were held on April 10, 1967, at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica, California. They were hosted by Bob Hope.
Only two of the Best Picture nominees were nominated fo ...
ceremony to be held, hosted by
Bob Hope.
Best Picture goes to ''
A Man for All Seasons''.
** Oral arguments begin in the landmark
Supreme Court of the United States
The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States. It has ultimate appellate jurisdiction over all U.S. federal court cases, and over state court cases that involve a point o ...
case ''
Loving v. Virginia
''Loving v. Virginia'', 388 U.S. 1 (1967), was a List of landmark court decisions in the United States, landmark civil rights decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that Anti-miscegenation laws in the United States, laws ban ...
'', 388 U.S. 1 (1967), challenging the State of Virginia's statutory scheme to prevent marriages between persons solely on the basis of racial classifications.
*
April 12 – The
Ahmanson Theatre opens in Los Angeles.
*
April 13
Events Pre-1600
*1111 – Henry V is crowned Holy Roman Emperor.
* 1204 – Constantinople falls to the Crusaders of the Fourth Crusade, temporarily ending the Byzantine Empire.
1601–1900
*1612 – In one of the epic samurai ...
–
Conservatives win the
Greater London Council
The Greater London Council (GLC) was the top-tier local government administrative body for Greater London from 1965 to 1986. It replaced the earlier London County Council (LCC) which had covered a much smaller area. The GLC was dissolved in 198 ...
elections.
*
April 14 – 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. The march, organized by the
National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam, from Central Park to the United Nations drew hundreds of thousands of people, including Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr.,
Harry Belafonte,
James Bevel, and Dr.
Benjamin Spock, who marched and spoke at the event. A simultaneous march in San Francisco was attended by
Coretta Scott King.
** Scotland defeats England 3–2 at Wembley Stadium, with goals from Law, Lennox and McCalligog, in the British Championships. This is England's first defeat since they won the World Cup, and ends a 19-game unbeaten run.
*
April 20
** The
Surveyor 3
Surveyor 3 was the third lander of the American uncrewed Surveyor program sent to explore the surface of the Moon in 1967. It was the first mission to carry a surface-soil sampling-scoop.
Surveyor 3 was visited by Apollo 12 astronauts Pete Con ...
probe lands on the Moon.
** A Globe Air
Bristol Britannia
The Bristol Type 175 Britannia is a retired British medium-to-long-range airliner built by the Bristol Aeroplane Company in 1952 to fly across the Commonwealth. During development two prototypes were lost and the turboprop engines proved sus ...
turboprop crashes at
Nicosia
Nicosia ( ; el, Λευκωσία, Lefkosía ; tr, Lefkoşa ; hy, Նիկոսիա, romanized: ''Nikosia''; Cypriot Arabic: Nikusiya) is the largest city, capital, and seat of government of Cyprus. It is located near the centre of the Mesaor ...
,
Cyprus, killing 126 people.
*
April 21
Events Pre-1600
*753 BC – Romulus founds Rome ( traditional date).
* 43 BC – Battle of Mutina: Mark Antony is again defeated in battle by Aulus Hirtius, who is killed. Antony fails to capture Mutina and Decimus Brutus is murdered ...
** Greece suffers a military coup by a group of military officers, who establish a
military dictatorship
A military dictatorship is a dictatorship in which the military exerts complete or substantial control over political authority, and the dictator is often a high-ranked military officer.
The reverse situation is to have civilian control of the m ...
led by
Georgios Papadopoulos; future-Prime Minister
Andreas Papandreou remains a political prisoner till
December 25. The dictatorship ends in
1974
Major events in 1974 include the aftermath of the 1973 oil crisis and the resignation of United States President Richard Nixon following the Watergate scandal. In the Middle East, the aftermath of the 1973 Yom Kippur War determined politics; f ...
.
** An outbreak of tornadoes 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
Events Pre-1600
* 215 BC – A temple is built on the Capitoline Hill dedicated to Venus Erycina to commemorate the Roman defeat at Lake Trasimene.
* 599 – Maya king Uneh Chan of Calakmul attacks rival city-state Palenque in southe ...
– A group of young leftist radicals are expelled from the
Nicaraguan Socialist Party (PSN). This group goes on to found the
Socialist Workers Party (POS).
*
April 24
**''
Soyuz 1'':
Vladimir Komarov becomes the first Soviet
cosmonaut to die, when the parachute of his space capsule fails during re-entry.
** In the
NBA
The National Basketball Association (NBA) is a professional basketball league in North America. The league is composed of 30 teams (29 in the United States and 1 in Canada) and is one of the major professional sports leagues in the United St ...
, the
Philadelphia 76ers
The Philadelphia 76ers, colloquially known as the Sixers, are an American professional basketball team based in the Philadelphia metropolitan area. The 76ers compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the league's Eas ...
defeat the
San Francisco Warriors 125–122 in game six to win the title. Some say this team is arguably the greatest of all time.
** A
total lunar eclipse
A lunar eclipse occurs when the Moon moves into the Earth's shadow. Such alignment occurs during an eclipse season, approximately every six months, during the full moon phase, when the Moon's orbital plane is closest to Ecliptic, the plane of t ...
took place.
*
April 27
Events Pre-1600
* 247 – Philip the Arab marks the millennium of Rome with a celebration of the ''ludi saeculares''.
* 395 – Emperor Arcadius marries Aelia Eudoxia, daughter of the Frankish general Flavius Bauto. She becomes one of ...
–
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
Houston (; ) is the most populous city in Texas, the most populous city in the Southern United States, the fourth-most populous city in the United States, and the sixth-most populous city in North America, with a population of 2,304,580 in ...
, boxer
Muhammad Ali
Muhammad Ali (; born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr.; January 17, 1942 – June 3, 2016) was an American professional boxer and activist. Nicknamed "The Greatest", he is regarded as one of the most significant sports figures of the 20th century, a ...
refuses military service. He is stripped of his boxing title and barred from professional boxing for the next three years.
**
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.
** The U.S.
aerospace manufacturer McDonnell Douglas is formed through a merger of
McDonnell Aircraft and
Douglas Aircraft (it becomes part of
The Boeing Company three decades later).
*
April 29 –
Fidel Castro
Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (; ; 13 August 1926 – 25 November 2016) was a Cuban revolutionary and politician who was the leader of Cuba from 1959 to 2008, serving as the prime minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976 and president from 1976 to 200 ...
announces that all
intellectual property belongs to the people and that
Cuba intends to translate and publish technical literature without compensation.
*
April 30 – Moscow's 537 m tall
TV tower is finished.
May
*
May 1
**
Elvis Presley and
Priscilla Beaulieu are married in Las Vegas.
**
GO Transit, Canada's first interregional public transit system, is established.
*
May 2
** The
Toronto Maple Leafs win the
Stanley Cup
The Stanley Cup (french: La Coupe Stanley) is the championship trophy awarded annually to the National Hockey League (NHL) playoff champion. It is the oldest existing trophy to be awarded to a professional sports franchise in North America, an ...
. It is their last Stanley Cup and last finals appearance to date. It will turn out to be the last game in the
Original Six
The Original Six () are the teams that comprised the National Hockey League (NHL) between 1942 and 1967. The six teams are the Boston Bruins, Chicago Black Hawks, Detroit Red Wings, Montreal Canadiens, New York Rangers, and Toronto Maple Leafs ...
era. Six more teams will be added in the fall.
**
Harold Wilson
James Harold Wilson, Baron Wilson of Rievaulx, (11 March 1916 – 24 May 1995) was a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom twice, from October 1964 to June 1970, and again from March 1974 to April 1976. He ...
announces that the United Kingdom has decided to apply for
EEC
The European Economic Community (EEC) was a regional organization created by the Treaty of Rome of 1957,Today the largely rewritten treaty continues in force as the ''Treaty on the functioning of the European Union'', as renamed by the Lisb ...
membership.
*
May 4 –
Lunar Orbiter 4 is launched by the United States.
*
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, now
Cheyney University of Pennsylvania, the oldest institute for higher education for African Americans.
**
Hong Kong 1967 riots: Clashes between striking workers and police kill 51 and injure 800.
*
May 8
Events Pre-1600
* 453 BC – Spring and Autumn period: The house of Zhao defeats the house of Zhi, ending the Battle of Jinyang, a military conflict between the elite families of the State of Jin.
* 413 – Emperor Honorius signs a ...
– The
Philippine province of Davao is split into three:
Davao del Norte
Davao del Norte ( ceb, Amihanang Dabaw; tl, Hilagang Davao), officially the Province of Davao del Norte, is a province in the Philippines located in the Davao Region in Mindanao. Its capital and largest city is Tagum. The province also includes ...
,
Davao del Sur, and
Davao Oriental.
*
May 9 – A
partial solar eclipse took place.
*
May 10
Events Pre-1600
* 28 BC – A sunspot is observed by Han dynasty astronomers during the reign of Emperor Cheng of Han, one of the earliest dated sunspot observations in China.
*1291 – Scottish nobles recognize the authority of Edw ...
– The Greek military government accuses
Andreas Papandreou of treason.
*
May 11
Events 1601–1900
*1812 – Prime Minister Spencer Perceval is Assassination of Spencer Perceval, assassinated by John Bellingham in the lobby of the British House of Commons.
*1813 – William Lawson (explorer), William Lawson, Grego ...
– The United Kingdom and Ireland apply officially for
European Economic Community
The European Economic Community (EEC) was a regional organization created by the Treaty of Rome of 1957,Today the largely rewritten treaty continues in force as the ''Treaty on the functioning of the European Union'', as renamed by the Lisb ...
membership.
*
May 12 –
The Jimi Hendrix Experience release their debut album, ''
Are You Experienced''.
*
May 15 – The
Waiting period leading up to the
Six-Day War begins.
*
May 17
**
Syria
Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ar, الجمهورية العربية السورية, al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah as-Sūrīyah), is a Western Asian country loc ...
mobilizes against
Israel.
** President
Gamal Abdal Nasser of
Egypt demands withdrawal of the peacekeeping
UN Emergency Force
The United Nations Emergency Force (UNEF) was a military and peacekeeping operation established by the United Nations General Assembly to secure an end to the Suez Crisis of 1956 through the establishment of international peacekeepers on the bor ...
in the
Sinai
Sinai commonly refers to:
* Sinai Peninsula, Egypt
* Mount Sinai, a mountain in the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt
* Biblical Mount Sinai, the site in the Bible where Moses received the Law of God
Sinai may also refer to:
* Sinai, South Dakota, a place ...
. U.N. Secretary-General
U Thant complies (
May 18).
*
May 18
**
Tennessee Governor Ellington repeals the "Monkey Law" (officially the Butler Act; see the
Scopes Trial).
** In Mexico, schoolteacher
Lucio Cabañas begins
guerrilla warfare
Guerrilla warfare is a form of irregular warfare in which small groups of combatants, such as paramilitary personnel, armed civilians, or Irregular military, irregulars, use military tactics including ambushes, sabotage, Raid (military), raids ...
in Atoyac de Alvarez, west of
Acapulco
Acapulco de Juárez (), commonly called Acapulco ( , also , nah, Acapolco), is a city and major seaport in the state of Guerrero on the Pacific Coast of Mexico, south of Mexico City. Acapulco is located on a deep, semicircular bay and has bee ...
, in the state of
Guerrero.
**
NASA announces the crew for the ''
Apollo 7
Apollo 7 (October 1122, 1968) was the first crewed flight in NASA's Apollo program, and saw the resumption of human spaceflight by the agency after the fire that killed the three Apollo 1 astronauts during a launch rehearsal test on Ja ...
'' space mission (the first in the Apollo series with a crew):
Wally Schirra,
Donn F. Eisele
Donn Fulton Eisele (June 23, 1930 – December 1, 1987) (Colonel USAF) was a United States Air Force officer, test pilot, and later a NASA astronaut. He occupied the command module pilot seat during the flight of Apollo 7 in 1968. After ...
, and
R. Walter Cunningham
Ronnie Walter Cunningham (born March 16, 1932) is a retired American astronaut. In 1968, he was a lunar module pilot on the Apollo 7 mission. He was NASA's third civilian astronaut (after Neil Armstrong and Elliot See), and has also been a figh ...
.
*
May 19 —
Yuri Andropov becomes
KGB chief in the
Soviet Union.
*
May 20 — The Spring Mobilization Conference, a gathering of 700 antiwar activists is held in Washington D.C. to chart the future moves for the U.S. antiwar movement
*
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 injured.
*
May 23
** A significant worldwide geomagnetic flare unfolded. Radio emissions coming from the Sun jammed military surveillance radars.
** Egypt closes the
Straits of Tiran
The straits of Tiran ( ar, مضيق تيران ') are the narrow sea passages between the Sinai and Arabian peninsulas that connect the Gulf of Aqaba and the Red Sea. The distance between the two peninsulas is about . The Multinational Force an ...
to Israeli shipping, blockading Israel's southern port of
Eilat
Eilat ( , ; he, אֵילַת ; ar, إِيلَات, Īlāt) is Israel's southernmost city, with a population of , a busy port and popular resort at the northern tip of the Red Sea, on what is known in Israel as the Gulf of Eilat and in Jordan ...
, and Israel's entire
Red Sea coastline.
*
May 25
**
Celtic F.C. becomes the first
Northern Europe
The northern region of Europe has several definitions. A restrictive definition may describe Northern Europe as being roughly north of the southern coast of the Baltic Sea, which is about 54th parallel north, 54°N, or may be based on other g ...
an football club to win the
European Cup (now Champions League).
*
May 26 –
The Beatles release ''
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
''Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band'' is the eighth studio album by the English rock band the Beatles. Released on 26May 1967, ''Sgt. Pepper'' is regarded by musicologists as an early concept album that advanced the roles of sound composi ...
'', nicknamed "The Soundtrack of the
Summer of Love
The Summer of Love was a social phenomenon that occurred during the summer of 1967, when as many as 100,000 people, mostly young people sporting hippie fashions of dress and behavior, converged in San Francisco's neighborhood of Haight-Ashbury. ...
"; it will be number one on the albums charts throughout the summer of 1967.
*
May 27
Events Pre-1600
* 1096 – Count Emicho enters Mainz, where his followers massacre Jewish citizens. At least 600 Jews are killed.
* 1120 – Richard III of Capua is anointed as Prince two weeks before his untimely death.
* 1153 &ndash ...
**
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
Maharashtra (; , abbr. MH or Maha) is a states and union territories of India, state in the western India, western peninsular region of India occupying a substantial portion of the Deccan Plateau. Maharashtra is the List of states and union te ...
,
Odisha and
Madhya Pradesh.
** The
Australian referendum, 1967 passes with an overwhelming 90% support, removing, from the Australian Constitution, 2 discriminatory sentences referring to
Indigenous Australians. It signifies Australia's first step in recognising
Indigenous rights.
** The
folk rock band
Fairport Convention
Fairport Convention are an English folk rock band, formed in 1967 by guitarists Richard Thompson and Simon Nicol, bassist Ashley Hutchings and drummer Shaun Frater (with Frater replaced by Martin Lamble after their first gig.) They started o ...
plays their first gig in
Golders Green, North London.
*
May 30
Events Pre-1600
* 70 – Siege of Jerusalem: Titus and his Roman legions breach the Second Wall of Jerusalem. Jewish defenders retreat to the First Wall. The Romans build a circumvallation, cutting down all trees within fifteen kilometres ...
–
Biafra, in eastern
Nigeria, announces its independence, which is not recognized.
June
*
June 2
** Protests in
West Berlin against the arrival of the
Shah of Iran turn into fights, during which 27-year-old student
Benno Ohnesorg is killed by a police officer. His death results in the founding of the
terrorist group ''
2 June Movement
The 2 June Movement (german: link=no, Bewegung 2. Juni) was a West German anarchist militant group based in West Berlin. Active from January 1972 to 1980, the anarchist group was one of the few militant groups at the time in Germany. Although ...
''.
**
Luis Monge is executed in
Colorado's
gas chamber, in the last
pre-''Furman'' execution in the United States.
*
June 4 –
Stockport air disaster:
British Midland flight G-ALHG crashes in Hopes Carr,
Stockport
Stockport is a town and borough in Greater Manchester, England, south-east of Manchester, south-west of Ashton-under-Lyne and north of Macclesfield. The River Goyt and Tame merge to create the River Mersey here.
Most of the town is within ...
, killing 72 passengers and crew.
*
June 5
Events Pre-1600
*1257 – Kraków, in Poland, receives city rights.
*1283 – Battle of the Gulf of Naples: Roger of Lauria, admiral to King Peter III of Aragon, destroys the Neapolitan fleet and captures Charles II of Naples, Charles ...
**
Moshe Dayan
Moshe Dayan ( he, משה דיין; 20 May 1915 – 16 October 1981) was an Israeli military leader and politician. As commander of the Jerusalem front in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces (1953–1958) du ...
becomes
Israel's Minister of Defense.
**
Six-Day War begins: Israel launches
Operation Focus, an attack on
Egyptian Air Force
The Egyptian Air Force (EAF) ( ar, القوات الجوية المصرية, El Qūwāt El Gawīyä El Maṣrīya), is the aviation branch of the Egyptian Armed Forces that is responsible for all airborne defence missions and operates all milit ...
airfields; the allied armies of
Egypt,
Syria
Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ar, الجمهورية العربية السورية, al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah as-Sūrīyah), is a Western Asian country loc ...
,
Iraq, and
Jordan invade Israel.
Battle of Ammunition Hill
Ammunition Hill ( he, גִּבְעַת הַתַּחְמֹשֶׁת, ''Giv'at HaTahmoshet'') was a fortified Jordanian military post in the northern part of Jordanian annexation of the West Bank, Jordanian-ruled East Jerusalem and the western slo ...
, start of the
Jordanian campaign
** Murderer
Richard Speck is sentenced to death in the electric chair for killing 8 student nurses in Chicago.
*
June 7
** East Jerusalem is captured in a battle conducted by Israeli forces, without the use of artillery, in order to avoid damage to the Holy City.
** Two members of the American rock group
Moby Grape are arrested for contributing to the delinquency of minors.
*
June 8
**
USS ''Liberty'' incident: A U.S. Navy ship is attacked by Israeli forces, apparently in error, killing 34 crew.
**
Egypt severed diplomatic relations with the
United States
*
June 10
**
Six-Day War ends:
Israel and
Syria
Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ar, الجمهورية العربية السورية, al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah as-Sūrīyah), is a Western Asian country loc ...
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
This is a list of ethnic riots by country, and includes riots based on ethnic, sectarian, xenophobic, and racial conflict. Some of these riots can also be classified as pogroms.
Africa
Americas
United States
Nativist period: 1700s ...
occurs in
Tampa, Florida after the shooting death of Martin Chambers by police while he was allegedly robbing a camera store. The unrest lasts several days.
*
June 12
** ''
Loving v. Virginia
''Loving v. Virginia'', 388 U.S. 1 (1967), was a List of landmark court decisions in the United States, landmark civil rights decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that Anti-miscegenation laws in the United States, laws ban ...
'': The
United States Supreme Court declares all
U.S. state laws prohibiting
interracial marriage to be unconstitutional.
**
Venera program:
Venera 4 is launched by the
Soviet Union (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.
*
June 14 –
Mariner program: ''
Mariner 5'' is launched toward
Venus.
*
June 14 –
15 –
Glenn Gould records
Prokofiev's Seventh Piano Sonata, Op. 83, in New York City (his only recording of a Prokofiev composition).
*
June 16 – The
Monterey Pop Festival begins and is held for 3 days.
*
June 17 – The People's Republic of China tests its first
hydrogen bomb
A thermonuclear weapon, fusion weapon or hydrogen bomb (H bomb) is a second-generation nuclear weapon design. Its greater sophistication affords it vastly greater destructive power than first-generation nuclear bombs, a more compact size, a lowe ...
.
*
June 18 – Eighteen British soldiers are killed in the
Aden police mutiny.
*
June 23
Events Pre-1600
* 229 – Sun Quan proclaims himself emperor of Eastern Wu.
* 1266 – War of Saint Sabas: In the Battle of Trapani, the Venetians defeat a larger Genoese fleet, capturing all its ships.
* 1280 – The Spanish Re ...
–
Cold War
The Cold War is a term commonly used to refer to a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc. The term '' cold war'' is used because the ...
: U.S. President
Lyndon B. Johnson meets with Soviet Premier
Alexei Kosygin in
Glassboro, New Jersey, for the 3-day
Glassboro Summit Conference. Johnson travels to Los Angeles for a dinner at the Century Plaza Hotel where earlier in the day thousands of war protesters clashed with L.A. police.
*
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 27 new cardinals (one of whom is the future
Pope John Paul II).
** The
Buffalo Race Riot begins, lasting until July 1; leads to 200 arrests.
*
June 27 – The first automatic cash machine (voucher-based) is installed, in the office of
Barclays Bank in
Enfield, England.
*
June 28
Events Pre-1600
* 1098 – Fighters of the First Crusade defeat Kerbogha of Mosul at the battle of Antioch.
* 1360 – Muhammed VI becomes the tenth Nasrid king of Granada after killing his brother-in-law Ismail II.
* 1461 – ...
–
Israel declares the annexation of East
Jerusalem.
*
June 30 –
Moise Tshombe, former President of
Katanga and former prime minister of the
Democratic Republic of the Congo, is kidnapped to
Algeria.
July
*
July 1
Events Pre-1600
* 69 – Tiberius Julius Alexander orders his Roman legions in Alexandria to swear allegiance to Vespasian as Emperor.
* 552 – Battle of Taginae: Byzantine forces under Narses defeat the Ostrogoths in Italy, and the ...
** Canada celebrates its
first one hundred years of Confederation.
** The
EEC
The European Economic Community (EEC) was a regional organization created by the Treaty of Rome of 1957,Today the largely rewritten treaty continues in force as the ''Treaty on the functioning of the European Union'', as renamed by the Lisb ...
joins with the
European Coal and Steel Community
The European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) was a European organization created after World War II to regulate the coal and steel industries. It was formally established in 1951 by the Treaty of Paris, signed by Belgium, France, Italy, Luxembo ...
and the European Atomic Community, to form the
European Communities
The European Communities (EC) were three international organizations that were governed by the same set of institutions. These were the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC), the European Atomic Energy Community (EAEC or Euratom), and the ...
(from the 1980s usually known as
European Community C.
**
Seaboard Air Line Railroad merges with
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad to become
Seaboard Coast Line Railroad, first step to today's
CSX Transportation
CSX Transportation , known colloquially as simply CSX, is a Class I freight railroad operating in the Eastern United States and the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec. The railroad operates approximately 21,000 route miles () of track. ...
.
** The first UK
colour television broadcasts begin on
BBC2
BBC Two is a British free-to-air public broadcast television network owned and operated by the BBC. It covers a wide range of subject matter, with a remit "to broadcast programmes of depth and substance" in contrast to the more mainstream an ...
. The first one is from the
Wimbledon tennis championships. 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
Jean "Black Jack" Schramme (25 March 1929, Bruges, Belgium – 14 December 1988, Rondonópolis, Brazil) was a Belgian mercenary and planter. He managed a vast estate in the Democratic Republic of the Congo until 1967.
Planter
Schramme was born ...
begins in
Katanga,
Democratic Republic of the Congo.
*
July 4 – The British Parliament decriminalizes
homosexuality.
*
July 5 – Troops of Belgian
mercenary commander
Jean Schramme
Jean "Black Jack" Schramme (25 March 1929, Bruges, Belgium – 14 December 1988, Rondonópolis, Brazil) was a Belgian mercenary and planter. He managed a vast estate in the Democratic Republic of the Congo until 1967.
Planter
Schramme was born ...
revolt against
Mobutu Sese Seko
Mobutu Sese Seko Kuku Ngbendu Wa Za Banga (; born Joseph-Désiré Mobutu; 14 October 1930 – 7 September 1997) was a Congolese politician and military officer who was the president of Zaire from 1965 to 1997 (known as the Democratic Republic o ...
, and try to take control of
Stanleyville,
Congo
Congo or The Congo may refer to either of two countries that border the Congo River in central Africa:
* Democratic Republic of the Congo, the larger country to the southeast, capital Kinshasa, formerly known as Zaire, sometimes referred to a ...
.
*
July 6
**
Nigerian Civil War:
Nigerian forces invade the secessionist
Biafra May 30
Events Pre-1600
* 70 – Siege of Jerusalem: Titus and his Roman legions breach the Second Wall of Jerusalem. Jewish defenders retreat to the First Wall. The Romans build a circumvallation, cutting down all trees within fifteen kilometres ...
.
** A
level crossing collision between a train loaded with children and a tanker-truck near
Magdeburg,
East Germany kills 94 people, mostly children.
*
July 7 – ''
All You Need Is Love'' is released in the UK.
*
July 10
** Heavy massive rains and a landslide at
Kobe
Kobe ( , ; officially , ) is the capital city of Hyōgo Prefecture Japan. With a population around 1.5 million, Kobe is Japan's seventh-largest city and the third-largest port city after Tokyo and Yokohama. It is located in Kansai region, whic ...
and
Kure, Hiroshima
is a port and major shipbuilding city situated on the Seto Inland Sea in Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan. With a strong industrial and naval heritage, Kure hosts the second-oldest naval dockyard in Japan and remains an important base for the Japan ...
, Japan, kill at least 371.
** New Zealand decimalises its currency from
pound
Pound or Pounds may refer to:
Units
* Pound (currency), a unit of currency
* Pound sterling, the official currency of the United Kingdom
* Pound (mass), a unit of mass
* Pound (force), a unit of force
* Rail pound, in rail profile
Symbols
* Po ...
to
dollar at £1 to $2 ($1 = 10/-).
*
July 12
** The Greek military regime strips 480 Greeks of their
citizenship.
**
1967 Newark riots
The 1967 Newark riots were an episode of violent, armed conflict in the streets of Newark, New Jersey, United States. Taking place over a four-day period (between July 12 and July 17, 1967), the Newark riots resulted in at least 26 deaths and ...
: After the arrest of an African-American cab driver for allegedly illegally driving around a police car and gunning it down the road,
race riot
This is a list of ethnic riots by country, and includes riots based on ethnic, sectarian, xenophobic, and racial conflict. Some of these riots can also be classified as pogroms.
Africa
Americas
United States
Nativist period: 1700s ...
s break out in
Newark, New Jersey, lasting 5 days and leaving 26 dead.
*
July 14
** The
Bee Gees
The Bee Gees
were a musical group formed in 1958 by brothers Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb. The trio were especially successful in popular music in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and later as prominent performers in the disco music era in ...
release their first international album ''
Bee Gees' 1st'' in the UK.
** Near Newark, New Jersey, the
Plainfield, NJ, riots take place.
*
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. disapprove.
*
July 19
** A race riot breaks out in the North Side of Minneapolis on Plymouth Street during the
Minneapolis Aquatennial
The Minneapolis Aquatennial is an annual outdoor event held in the U.S. city of Minneapolis, Minnesota, during the third full week of July. Originating in 1940, the Minneapolis Aquatennial celebrates the city's famous lakes, rivers, and streams. ...
Parade; businesses are vandalized and fires break out in the area, although the disturbance is quelled within hours. However, the next day a shooting sets off another incident in the same area that leads to 18 fires, 36 arrests, 3 shootings, 2 dozen people injured, and damages totaling 4.2 million. Two more such incidents occur during the following two weeks.
** Eighty-two people are killed in a collision between
Piedmont Airlines Flight 22 and a
Cessna 310 near
Hendersonville, North Carolina.
*
July 20 –
Chilean poet
Pablo Neruda
Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto (12 July 1904 – 23 September 1973), better known by his pen name and, later, legal name Pablo Neruda (; ), was a Chilean poet-diplomat and politician who won the 1971 Nobel Prize in Literature. Nerud ...
receives the first Viareggio-Versile prize.
*
July 23 –
31 –
12th Street Riot
The 1967 Detroit Riot, also known as the 12th Street Riot or Detroit Rebellion, was the bloodiest of the urban riots in the United States during the "Long, hot summer of 1967". Composed mainly of confrontations between Black residents and the De ...
: In
Detroit, one of the worst riots in United States history begins on 12th Street in the predominantly
African American inner city: 43 are killed, 342 injured and 1,400 buildings burned.
*
July 24 – During an official state visit to Canada, French President
Charles de Gaulle
Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle (; ; (commonly abbreviated as CDG) 22 November 18909 November 1970) was a French army officer and statesman who led Free France against Nazi Germany in World War II and chaired the Provisional Government ...
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
An aircraft carrier is a warship that serves as a seagoing airbase, equipped with a full-length flight deck and facilities for carrying, arming, deploying, and recovering aircraft. Typically, it is the capital ship of a fleet, as it allows a ...
in the
Gulf of Tonkin
The Gulf of Tonkin is a gulf at the northwestern portion of the South China Sea, located off the coasts of Tonkin (northern Vietnam) and South China. It has a total surface area of . It is defined in the west and northwest by the northern ...
leaves 134 dead.
**
Georges Bidault
Georges-Augustin Bidault (; 5 October 189927 January 1983) was a French politician. During World War II, he was active in the French Resistance. After the war, he served as foreign minister and prime minister on several occasions. He joined the ...
moves to Belgium where he receives
political asylum.
** An
earthquake in
Caracas
Caracas (, ), officially Santiago de León de Caracas, abbreviated as CCS, is the capital and largest city of Venezuela, and the center of the Metropolitan Region of Caracas (or Greater Caracas). Caracas is located along the Guaire River in the ...
,
Venezuela leaves 240 dead.
*
July 30 – The
1967 Milwaukee race riots begin, lasting through August 3 and leading to a ten-day shutdown of the city from August 1.
August
*
August 1 –
UAC TurboTrain maiden voyage.
*
August 2
Events Pre-1600
*338 BC – A Macedonian army led by Philip II defeated the combined forces of Athens and Thebes in the Battle of Chaeronea, securing Macedonian hegemony in Greece and the Aegean.
*216 BC – The Carthaginian arm ...
– The Turkish football club
Trabzonspor is established in
Trabzon.
*
August 5 –
Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd are an English rock band formed in London in 1965. Gaining an early following as one of the first British psychedelic music, psychedelic groups, they were distinguished by their extended compositions, sonic experimentation, philo ...
releases their debut album ''
The Piper at the Gates of Dawn'' in the United Kingdom.
*
August 6
Events Pre-1600
*1284 – The Republic of Pisa is defeated in the Battle of Meloria by the Republic of Genoa, thus losing its naval dominance in the Mediterranean.
* 1538 – Bogotá, Colombia, is founded by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada ...
– A
pulsar
A pulsar (from ''pulsating radio source'') is a highly magnetized rotating neutron star that emits beams of electromagnetic radiation out of its magnetic poles. This radiation can be observed only when a beam of emission is pointing toward Ea ...
is noted by
Jocelyn Bell and
Antony Hewish
Antony Hewish (11 May 1924 – 13 September 2021) was a British radio astronomer who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1974 (together with fellow radio-astronomer Martin Ryle) for his role in the discovery of pulsars. He was also awarded the ...
. The discovery is first recorded in print in 1968: "An entirely novel kind of star came to light on ''Aug. 6 last year''
... The date of the discovery is not recorded.
*
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.
** 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:
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 13 – The first line-up of
Fleetwood Mac
Fleetwood Mac are a British-American rock band, formed in London in 1967. Fleetwood Mac were founded by guitarist Peter Green, drummer Mick Fleetwood and guitarist Jeremy Spencer, before bassist John McVie joined the line-up for their epony ...
makes their live debut at the Windsor Jazz and Blues Festival.
*
August 14
Events Pre-1600
* 74 BC – A group of officials, led by the Western Han minister Huo Guang, present articles of impeachment against the new emperor, Liu He, to the imperial regent, Empress Dowager Shangguan. The articles, enumerating t ...
–
Wonderful Radio London shuts down at 3:00 PM in anticipation of the
Marine Broadcasting Offences Act. Many fans greet the staff upon their return to London that evening with placards reading "Freedom died with Radio London".
*
August 15 – The United Kingdom
Marine Broadcasting Offences Act declares participation in offshore
pirate radio illegal.
Radio Caroline defies the Act and continues broadcasting.
*
August 19 – West Germany receives 36
East German prisoners it has "purchased" through the border posts of Herleshausen and
Wartha.
*
August 21
Events Pre-1600
* 959 – Eraclus becomes the 25th bishop of Liège.
* 1140 – Song dynasty general Yue Fei defeats an army led by Jin dynasty general Wuzhu at the Battle of Yancheng during the Jin–Song Wars.
*1169 – Battle o ...
** A truce is declared in the
Democratic Republic of the Congo.
** Two U.S. Navy jets stray into the airspace of the People's Republic of China following an attack on a target in North Vietnam and are shot down. Lt.
Robert J. Flynn
Robert James Flynn (September 15, 1937 – May 15, 2014) was a Commander and Naval Flight Officer bombardier/navigator in the United States Navy. As a Lieutenant, he was captured by the Chinese in August 1967 after the A-6 Intruder he was flyin ...
, the only survivor, is captured alive and will be held prisoner by China until 1973.
*
August 24 – Pakistan's first steel mill is inaugurated in Chittagong, East Pakistan (Bangladesh).
*
August 25 –
American Nazi Party leader
George Lincoln Rockwell is assassinated in
Arlington, Virginia.
*
August 27
** The
East Coast Wrestling Association is established.
** Beatles manager
Brian Epstein is found dead in his locked bedroom.
*
August 29 – The final episode of ''
The Fugitive'' airs on
ABC. The broadcast attracts 78 million viewers, one of the largest audiences for a single episode in U.S. television history.
*
August 30 –
Thurgood Marshall is confirmed as Justice of the
United States Supreme Court. He is the first
African American to hold the position.
September
*
September 1
** The
Khmer–Chinese Friendship Association
The Khmer–Chinese Friendship Association ( km, សមាគមមិត្តភាពខ្មែរ-ចិន; french: Association d'amitié khmero-chinoise, AAKC) was an organization in Cambodia, seeking to promote ties between Cambodia a ...
is banned in
Cambodia.
**
Ilse Koch, known as the "Witch of Buchenwald", commits suicide in the
Bavarian prison of
Aichach.
*
September 3
**
Nguyễn Văn Thiệu is elected President of
South Vietnam
South Vietnam, officially the Republic of Vietnam ( vi, Việt Nam Cộng hòa), was a state in Southeast Asia that existed from 1955 to 1975, the period when the southern portion of Vietnam was a member of the Western Bloc during part of th ...
.
** At 5:00 a.m. local time, all road traffic in
Sweden
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switches from left-hand traffic pattern to right-hand traffic.
*
September 4 –
Vietnam War –
Operation Swift: The
United States Marines launch a search and destroy mission in
Quảng Nam and
Quảng Tín provinces. The ensuing 4-day battle in Que Son Valley kills 114 Americans and 376
North Vietnamese.
*
September 5 – The television series ''
The Prisoner'' has its world broadcast premiere on the
CTV Television Network
The CTV Television Network, commonly known as CTV, is a Canadian English-language terrestrial television network. Launched in 1961 and acquired by BCE Inc. in 2000, CTV is Canada's largest privately owned television network and is now a divis ...
in Canada.
*
September 10 – In a
Gibraltar sovereignty referendum, only 44 voters out of 12,182 in the British
Crown colony
A Crown colony or royal colony was a colony administered by The Crown within the British Empire. There was usually a Governor, appointed by the British monarch on the advice of the UK Government, with or without the assistance of a local Counci ...
of
Gibraltar
)
, anthem = " God Save the King"
, song = " Gibraltar Anthem"
, image_map = Gibraltar location in Europe.svg
, map_alt = Location of Gibraltar in Europe
, map_caption = United Kingdom shown in pale green
, mapsize =
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support union with Spain.
*
September 17
Events Pre-1600
* 1111 – Highest Galician nobility led by Pedro Fróilaz de Traba and the bishop Diego Gelmírez crown Alfonso VII as "King of Galicia".
* 1176 – The Battle of Myriokephalon is the last attempt by the Byzantine Empi ...
** A riot during a football match in
Kayseri
Kayseri (; el, Καισάρεια) is a large Industrialisation, industrialised List of cities in Turkey, city in Central Anatolia, Turkey, and the capital of Kayseri Province, Kayseri province. The Kayseri Metropolitan Municipality area is comp ...
, Turkey leaves 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 arrives in
Southampton at the end of her last
transatlantic crossing.
*
September 29
**
Tangerine Dream is founded by
Edgar Froese
Edgar Willmar Froese (; 6 June 1944 – 20 January 2015) was a German musical artist and electronic music pioneer, best known for founding the electronic music group Tangerine Dream in 1967. Froese was the only continuous member of the group ...
in
West-Berlin.
** The classic sci-fi TV series ''
Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons'' broadcasts on
ITV
ITV or iTV may refer to:
ITV
*Independent Television (ITV), a British television network, consisting of:
** ITV (TV network), a free-to-air national commercial television network covering the United Kingdom, the Isle of Man, and the Channel Islan ...
.
*
September 30 – In the United Kingdom,
BBC Radio completely restructures its national programming: the
Light Programme
The BBC Light Programme was a national radio station which broadcast chiefly mainstream light entertainment and light music from 1945 until 1967, when it was replaced by BBC Radio 2 and BBC Radio 1. It opened on 29 July 1945, taking over the ...
is split between new national pop station
Radio 1 (modelled on the successful pirate station
Radio London) and
Radio 2; the cultural
Third Programme is rebranded as
Radio 3; and the primarily-talk
Home Service becomes
Radio 4.
October
*
October 1 – India gains victory in the
Nathu La and Cho La clashes.
* 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.
** The Shag Harbour UFO incident occurs.
* October 6 – Southern California's Pacific Ocean Park, known as the "Disneyland By The Sea", closes down.
* October 8 – Guerrilla leader Che Guevara and his men are captured in Bolivia; they are executed the following day.
* October 12
**
Vietnam War: U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk states during a news conference that, because of
North Vietnam's opposition, proposals by the Congress of the United States, U.S. Congress for peace initiatives are futile.
** ''The Naked Ape'', by Desmond Morris, is published.
* October 14 – Quebec Nationalism: René Lévesque leaves the Liberal Party.
* October 16 – Thirty-nine people, including singer-activist Joan Baez, are arrested in Oakland, California, for blocking the entrance of that city's military induction center.
* October 17
** The musical ''Hair (musical), Hair'' opens off-Broadway. It moves to Broadway the following April.
**
Vietnam War: The Battle of Ong Thanh takes place.
* October 18
**
Vietnam War: Students at the University of Wisconsin–Madison protest over recruitment by Dow Chemical on the university campus; 76 are injured in the resulting riot.
** Walt Disney's 19th full-length animated feature ''The Jungle Book (1967 film), 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''.
** The
Venera 4 probe descends through the
Venusian atmosphere.
** A October 1967 lunar eclipse, total lunar eclipse occurred.
* October 19 – The
Mariner 5 probe flies by
Venus.
* October 20 – Patterson–Gimlin film: Roger Patterson and Robert Gimlin's famous film of an unidentified animate cryptid, thought to be Bigfoot or Sasquatch, is recorded at Bluff Creek, California.
* October 21
** Approximately 70,000
Vietnam War protesters march in Washington, D.C. and rally at the Lincoln Memorial; in a successive march that day, 50,000 people march to the Pentagon, where Allen Ginsberg, Abbie Hoffman, and Jerry Rubin symbolically chant to "levitate" the building and "exorcise the evil within."
** An
Egyptian surface-to-surface missile sinks the
Israeli destroyer ''HMS Zealous (R39), Eilat'', killing 47 Israeli sailors. Israel retaliates by shelling Egyptian refineries along the Suez Canal.
* October 23 –
Charles de Gaulle
Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle (; ; (commonly abbreviated as CDG) 22 November 18909 November 1970) was a French army officer and statesman who led Free France against Nazi Germany in World War II and chaired the Provisional Government ...
becomes the first French Co-Prince of Andorra to visit his Andorran subjects. In addition to being President of France, de Gaulle is a joint ruler (along with Spain's Bishop of Urgel) of the tiny nation located in the mountains between France and Spain, pursuant to the 1278 agreement creating the nation.
* October 25 – The Abortion Act 1967 passes in the British Parliament and receives royal assent two days later.
* October 26
** The coronation ceremony of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran, ruler of the nation since 1941, takes place.
** U.S. Navy pilot Early life and military career of John McCain#Prisoner of war, John McCain is shot down over North Vietnam and taken prisoner. His capture is confirmed two days later, and he remains a prisoner of war for more than five years.
* October 27
** French President
Charles de Gaulle
Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle (; ; (commonly abbreviated as CDG) 22 November 18909 November 1970) was a French army officer and statesman who led Free France against Nazi Germany in World War II and chaired the Provisional Government ...
vetoes British entry into the
European Economic Community
The European Economic Community (EEC) was a regional organization created by the Treaty of Rome of 1957,Today the largely rewritten treaty continues in force as the ''Treaty on the functioning of the European Union'', as renamed by the Lisb ...
for the second time in the decade.
** London criminal Jack McVitie is murdered by the Kray twins, a crime that eventually leads to their imprisonment and downfall.
* October 29
** President Joseph Mobutu of the
Democratic Republic of the Congo launches an offensive against mercenaries in
Bukavu.
**
Expo 67 closes in
Montreal, after having attracted more than 50 million visitors in six months.
* October 30 –
Hong Kong 1967 riots: British troops and Chinese demonstrators clash on the border of China and Hong Kong.
November
* November – Islamabad officially becomes Pakistan's political capital, replacing Karachi.
* 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.
** A non-central Solar eclipse of November 2, 1967, total solar eclipse took place.
* November 3 –
Vietnam War – Battle of Dak To: Around Đắk Tô (located about 280 miles north of Saigon near the
Cambodian border), heavy casualties are suffered on both sides; U.S. troops narrowly win the battle on November 22.
* November 4 – November 5, 5 – In the
Democratic Republic of the Congo, mercenaries of
Jean Schramme
Jean "Black Jack" Schramme (25 March 1929, Bruges, Belgium – 14 December 1988, Rondonópolis, Brazil) was a Belgian mercenary and planter. He managed a vast estate in the Democratic Republic of the Congo until 1967.
Planter
Schramme was born ...
and Jerry Puren withdraw from Bukavu, over the Shangugu Bridge, to Rwanda.
* 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, Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, becoming the first
African American elected mayor of a major United States city.
** The 50th anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution is celebrated in the
Soviet Union.
* November 8 – The BBC's first BBC Local Radio, local radio station (BBC Radio Leicester) is launched.
* November 9 – Apollo program:
NASA launches the first Saturn V rocket, successfully carrying the Apollo 4 test spacecraft from Cape Kennedy into Earth orbit.
* November 11 –
Vietnam War: In a ceremony in Phnom Penh,
Cambodia, 3 United States prisoners of war are released by the Viet Cong and turned over to American "New Left" antiwar activist Tom Hayden.
* November 14 – The Congress of Colombia, in commemoration of the 150-year anniversary of the death of Policarpa Salavarrieta, declares this day as the "Day of the Colombian Woman".
* November 15
** General Georgios Grivas and his 10,000 strong Greek Army division are forced to leave Cyprus, after 24 Turkish Cypriot civilians are killed by the Greek Cypriot National Guard in the villages of Kophinou and Ayios Theodhoros; relations sour between Nicosia and Athens. Turkey flies sorties into Greek territory, and masses troops in Thrace on her border with Greece.
** Test pilot Michael J. Adams, Michael Adams is killed when his X-15 rocket plane tumbles out of control during atmospheric re-entry and disintegrates.
* November 17
** Vietnam War: Acting on optimistic reports he was given on November 13, U.S. President
Lyndon B. Johnson tells the nation that, while much remains to be done, "We are inflicting greater losses than we're taking ... We are making progress." (Two months later the Tet Offensive by the Viet Cong is widely reported as a Viet Cong victory by the U.S. press and thus as a major setback to the U.S.)
** French author Régis Debray is sentenced to 30 years imprisonment in Bolivia. (He will be released in 1970 after less than three years imprisonment.)
* November 18 – The UK pound sterling, pound is devalued from £1 = United States dollar, US$2.80 to £1 = US$2.40.
* November 19 – The establishment of TVB, the first wireless commercial television station in Hong Kong.
* November 20 – The "U.S. and World Population Clock, population clock" of the United States Census Bureau records the U.S. population at 200 million people at 11:03 a.m. Washington, D.C. time.
* 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 25 – 1967 Australian Senate election: The Liberal Party of Australia, Liberal/National Party of Australia, Country Coalition (Australia), Coalition Holt Government, Government led by Prime Minister of Australia, Prime Minister Harold Holt lost two seats, while the Australian Labor Party, Labor Party led by Gough Whitlam failed to make any gains. The Democratic Labor Party (historical), Democratic Labor Party won the two seats from the Liberals and gained the sole balance of power in the Australian Senate, Senate.
* November 26 – Major floods hit Lisbon, Portugal, killing 462.
* November 27 –
The Beatles release ''Magical Mystery Tour (album), Magical Mystery Tour'' in the U.S. as a full album. The songs added to the original six songs on the double EP include "
All You Need Is Love", "Penny Lane", "Strawberry Fields Forever", "Baby, You're a Rich Man" and "Hello, Goodbye". Release as a double EP will not take place in the UK until December.
* November 28 – The first