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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 Operation Deckhouse Five was a United States Marine Corps (USMC) and Republic of Vietnam Marine Corps operation that took place from 6–15 January 1967 in the Mekong Delta, during the Vietnam War. "The ten-day sweep," reported the AP from its ...
'' 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 Operation Cedar Falls was a military operation of the Vietnam War conducted primarily by US forces that took place from 8 to 26 January 1967. The aim of the massive search-and-destroy operation was to eradicate the so-called " Iron Triangle", an ...
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 18Albert 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

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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 , motto_translation = Leave Nothing Undared for the Kingdom of God , established = 1967 , type = Independent, single-sex (male) , denomination = Roman Catholic , address ...
, 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 18New 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 The UGM-27 Polaris missile was a two-stage solid-fueled nuclear-armed submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM). As the United States Navy's first SLBM, it served from 1961 to 1980. In the mid-1950s the Navy was involved in the Jupiter 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 Harold Rowe Holbrook Jr. (February 17, 1925 – January 23, 2021) was an American actor, television director, and screenwriter. He first received critical acclaim in 1954 for a one-man stage show that he developed called ''Mark Twain Tonight!'' ...
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 9Joseph 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 ''The Velvet Underground & Nico'' is the debut album by the American rock band the Velvet Underground and German singer Nico, released in March 1967 through Verve Records. It was recorded in 1966 while the band were featured on Andy Warhol's Ex ...
'', is released in the United States. It is initially a commercial failure but receives widespread critical and commercial acclaim in later years. * March 13Moise 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 Terminal Island, historically known as Isla Raza de Buena Gente, is a largely artificial island located in Los Angeles County, California, between the neighborhoods of Wilmington and San Pedro in the city of Los Angeles, and the city of Long Be ...
. 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 In the 1960s, several "be-ins" were held in Central Park, Manhattan, New York City to protest against various issues such as U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War and racism. Background During the 1960s America was involved in the Vietnam War. Thi ...
. ** Jim Thompson, co-founder of the Thai Silk Company, disappears from the Cameron Highlands. * March 28Pope 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 Nine ships of the French Navy have borne the name ''Redoutable'' ("Redoubtable"): Ships named ''Redoutable'' * , 74-gun ship of the line. She took part in the landing in Mahon under Admiral la Galissonière. She was destroyed in Lagos in 175 ...
'', 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 6Georges Pompidou begins to form the next French government. * April 7Six-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
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, 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
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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 The Nicaraguan Socialist Party (''Partido Socialista Nicaragüense'') is a political party in Nicaragua. Founded in July 1944 by Dr. Mario Flores Ortiz. PSN operated as the official communist party in the country. At the time of its foundation, P ...
(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
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, the
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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
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, boxer
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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
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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 GO Transit is a regional public transit system serving the Greater Golden Horseshoe region of Ontario, Canada. With its hub at Union Station in Toronto, GO Transit's green-and-white trains and buses serve a population of more than seven millio ...
, 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
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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 4Lunar Orbiter 4 is launched by the United States. * May 6 ** Dr.
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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:
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, 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
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membership. * May 12The 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
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. U.N. Secretary-General U Thant complies (
May 18 Events Pre-1600 * 332 – Emperor Constantine the Great announces free distributions of food to the citizens in Constantinople. * 872 – Louis II of Italy is crowned for the second time as Holy Roman Emperor at Rome, at the age of 4 ...
). *
May 18 Events Pre-1600 * 332 – Emperor Constantine the Great announces free distributions of food to the citizens in Constantinople. * 872 – Louis II of Italy is crowned for the second time as Holy Roman Emperor at Rome, at the age of 4 ...
** Tennessee Governor Ellington repeals the "Monkey Law" (officially the Butler Act; see the Scopes Trial). ** In Mexico, schoolteacher Lucio Cabañas begins
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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
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. * May 19Yuri 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 Events Pre-1600 * 192 – Dong Zhuo is assassinated by his adopted son Lü Bu. * 760 – Fourteenth recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet. * 853 – A Byzantine fleet sacks and destroys undefended Damietta in Egypt. * 11 ...
– 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
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an football club to win the European Cup (now Champions League). *
May 26 Events Pre-1600 * 17 – Germanicus celebrates a triumph in Rome for his victories over the Cherusci, Chatti, and other German tribes west of the Elbe. * 451 – Battle of Avarayr between Armenian rebels and the Sasanian Empire take ...
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,
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, 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
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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 On 4 June 1967 a Canadair C-4 Argonaut passenger aircraft owned by British Midland Airways crashed near the centre of Stockport, Cheshire, England. Of the 84 people on board, 72 were killed. It is the fourth-worst accident in British aviation ...
:
British Midland British Midland Airways Limited (trading at various times throughout its history as British Midland, bmi British Midland, bmi or British Midland International) was an airline with its head office in Donington Hall in Castle Donington, close ...
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
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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 Events Pre-1600 * 910 – Battle of Augsburg: The Hungarians defeat the East Frankish army under King Louis the Child, using the famous feigned retreat tactic of the nomadic warriors. * 1240 – At the instigation of Louis IX of Fr ...
** ''
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 14Mariner program: '' Mariner 5'' is launched toward Venus. * June 1415Glenn 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 Events Pre-1600 * 653 – Pope Martin I is arrested and taken to Constantinople, due to his opposition to monothelitism. * 1242 – Following the Disputation of Paris, twenty-four carriage loads of Jewish religious manuscripts were bur ...
– The People's Republic of China tests its first
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. * 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 The Glassboro Summit Conference, usually just called the Glassboro Summit, was the 23–25 June 1967 meeting of the heads of government of the United States and the Soviet Union—President Lyndon B. Johnson and Premier Alexei Kosygin, respective ...
. 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 30Moise Tshombe, former President of Katanga and former prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is kidnapped to Algeria.


July

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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 Canadian Centennial, 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 and the European Atomic Community, to form the European Communities (from the 1980s usually known as European Community [EC]). ** Seaboard Air Line Railroad merges with Atlantic Coast Line Railroad to become Seaboard Coast Line Railroad, first step to today's CSX Transportation. ** The first UK colour television broadcasts begin on BBC Two, BBC2. The first one is from the The Championships, Wimbledon, 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 begins in Katanga Province, 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 Kisangani, Stanleyville, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Congo. * 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 and Kure, Hiroshima, Japan, kill at least 371. ** New Zealand decimalises its currency from New Zealand pound, pound to New Zealand dollar, dollar at £1 to $2 ($1 = 10/-). * July 12 ** The Greek military regime strips 480 Greeks of their citizenship. ** 1967 Newark riots: After the arrest of an African-American cab driver for allegedly illegally driving around a police car and gunning it down the road,
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s break out in Newark, New Jersey, lasting 5 days and leaving 26 dead. * July 14 ** The Bee Gees release their first international album ''Bee Gees' 1st'' in the UK. ** Near Newark, New Jersey, the 1967 Plainfield riots, 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 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 receives the first Viareggio-Versile prize. * July 23 – July 31, 31 – 1967 Detroit riot, 12th Street Riot: 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 declares to a crowd of over 100,000 in Montreal: ''Vive le Québec libre, 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 Canada, English Canadians. * July 29 ** An explosion and fire aboard the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier in the Gulf of Tonkin leaves 134 dead. ** Georges Bidault moves to Belgium where he receives political asylum. ** An 1967 Caracas earthquake, earthquake in Caracas, Venezuela leaves 240 dead. * July 30 – The 1967 Milwaukee riot, 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 – The Turkish football club Trabzonspor is established in Trabzon. * August 5 – Pink Floyd releases their debut album ''The Piper at the Gates of Dawn'' in the United Kingdom. * August 6 – A pulsar is noted by Jocelyn Bell and Antony Hewish. 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 makes their live debut at the Windsor Jazz and Blues Festival. * August 14 – 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 (Eisenach), Wartha. * August 21 ** 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, 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 (1963 TV series), The Fugitive'' airs on American Broadcasting Company, 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 Supreme Court of the United States, United States Supreme Court. He is the first African American to hold the position.


September

* September 1 ** The Khmer–Chinese Friendship Association 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
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. ** At 5:00 a.m. local time, all road traffic in Sweden Dagen H, 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 Province, Quảng Nam and Quảng Tín Province, 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 in Canada. * September 10 – In a 1967 Gibraltar sovereignty referendum, Gibraltar sovereignty referendum, only 44 voters out of 12,182 in the British Crown colony of Gibraltar support union with Spain. * September 17 ** A riot during a football match in Kayseri, 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 (TV series), 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 in West Berlin, West-Berlin. ** The classic sci-fi TV series ''Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons'' broadcasts on ITV (TV network), ITV. * September 30 – In the United Kingdom, BBC Radio completely restructures its national programming: the Light Programme is split between new national pop station BBC Radio 1, Radio 1 (modelled on the successful pirate station Wonderful Radio London, Radio London) and BBC Radio 2, Radio 2; the cultural Third Programme is rebranded as BBC Radio 3, Radio 3; and the primarily-talk BBC Home Service, Home Service becomes BBC Radio 4, 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 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 vetoes British entry into the
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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 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 pulsar to be discovered by Earth observers is found in the constellation of Vulpecula by astronomers Jocelyn Bell Burnell and Antony Hewish, and is given the name PSR B1919+21. * November 29 – Vietnam War: U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara announces his resignation to become president of the World Bank. McNamara's resignation follows U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson's outright rejection of McNamara's early November recommendations to freeze troop levels, stop the bombing of North Vietnam, and hand over ground fighting to
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. * November 30 ** Zulfikar Ali Bhutto founds the Pakistan People's Party and becomes its first chairman. It has gone on to become one of Pakistan's major political parties (alongside the ''Pakistan Muslim League'') that is broken into many factions, bearing the same name under different leaders, such as the Pakistan's Peoples Party Parliamentarians (PPPP). ** The Yemen, People's Republic of South Yemen becomes independent of the United Kingdom. ** Pro-Soviet communists in the Philippines establish Malayang Pagkakaisa ng Kabataan Pilipino as its new youth wing. ** U.S. Senator Eugene McCarthy announces his candidacy for the Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party presidential nomination, challenging incumbent President Lyndon B. Johnson over the Vietnam War.


December

* December 1 ** The Jimi Hendrix Experience releases ''Axis: Bold as Love''. ** The RMS Queen Mary, RMS ''Queen Mary'' is retired. Her place is taken by the ''Queen Elizabeth 2''. * December 3 – Christiaan Barnard carries out the world's first heart transplant at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa. * December 4 ** At 6:50 PM, a volcano erupts on Deception Island in Antarctica. ** Vietnam War: U.S. and
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ese forces engage Viet Cong troops in the
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(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 6 – Vice President Jorge Pacheco Areco is sworn in as List of Presidents of Uruguay, President of Uruguay after President Oscar Gestido dies in office. * December 8 – ''Magical Mystery Tour (album), Magical Mystery Tour'' is released by The Beatles as a double EP in the UK, while the only psychedelic rock album by The Rolling Stones, ''Their Satanic Majesties Request'', is released in the UK and in the USA. * December 9 ** Nicolae Ceaușescu becomes the Chairman of the Romanian State Council, making him the de facto leader of Romania. ** Jim Morrison is arrested on stage in New Haven, Connecticut for attempting to spark a riot in the audience during a concert. * December 11 – Supersonic airliner Concorde is unveiled in Toulouse, France. * December 12 – ''Guess Who's Coming to Dinner'', one of the seminal race relations films of the 1960s, is released to theaters. * 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, killing 46 people. * December 17 – Harold Holt, 17th Prime Minister of Australia, Disappearance of Harold Holt, disappears when swimming at Cheviot Beach, 60 km from Melbourne. He was briefly replaced as Prime Minister by John McEwen, until the Liberal Party of Australia, Liberal Party 1968 Liberal Party of Australia leadership election, elected Minister for Education and Training, Minister for Education Minister for Industry and Science#List of science ministers, and Science John Gorton as leader. * December 19 – Professor John Archibald Wheeler coined the astronomical term ''black hole''. * December 26 – The Beatles' film ''Magical Mystery Tour (film), Magical Mystery Tour'' receives its world première on BBC Television in the UK. * December 29 – Hyundai Motor Company, Hyundai Motor founded in South Korea. * December 31 ** The Green Bay Packers become the first team in the modern era to win their third consecutive NFL Championship. They defeat the Dallas Cowboys 21-17 in what becomes known as "The Ice Bowl". ** Motorcycle daredevil Evel Knievel attempts to jump 141 feet over the Caesars Palace Fountains on the Las Vegas Strip. Knievel crashes on landing and the accident is caught on film.


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* Warner Bros. becomes a wholly owned subsidiary of Seven Arts Productions, thus becoming Warner Bros.-Seven Arts. * The Jari project begins in the Amazon basin, Amazon. * Albania is officially declared an atheism, atheist state by its leader, Enver Hoxha. * The University of Winnipeg is founded in Canada. * Lonsdaleite (the rarest allotrope of carbon) is first discovered in the Barringer Crater, Arizona. * St Christopher's Hospice, the world's first purpose-built secular hospice specialising in palliative care of the terminally ill, is established in South London by Dame Cicely Saunders with the support of Albertine Winner. * PAL is first introduced in Germany. * ''Gunsmoke'', after 12 seasons and with declining ratings, almost gets cancelled, but protests from viewers, network affiliates and even members of United States Congress, Congress and especially William S. Paley, the head of the network, lead the network to move the series from its longtime late Saturday time slot to early Mondays for the fall—displacing ''Gilligan's Island'', which initially had been renewed for a fourth season but is cancelled instead. ''Gunsmoke'' would remain on CBS until 1975. * Lech Wałęsa goes to work in Gdańsk shipyards. * The Greek military junta exiles Melina Mercouri. * Parker Morris Committee, Parker Morris Standards become mandatory for all housing built in new towns in the United Kingdom. * Sabon typeface, designed by Jan Tschichold, introduced. * Gabriel García Márquez's influential novel ''One Hundred Years of Solitude'' is published (in Spanish). * The first edition of the book, ''A Short History of Pakistan'', is published by Karachi University, Pakistan. * Fernand Braudel begins publication of ''Civilisation matérielle, économie et capitalisme, XVe-XVIIIe siècle''. * The National Hockey League adds six more teams, doubling its size. The teams are the St. Louis Blues, Oakland Seals, Minnesota North Stars, Los Angeles Kings, Philadelphia Flyers, and Pittsburgh Penguins.


Births


January

* January 1 ** Sunny Chan, Hong Kong actor ** Derrick Thomas, American football player (d. 2000) * January 2 ** Marcelo Costa de Andrade, Brazilian serial killer ** Tia Carrere, American actress ** Jón Gnarr, Icelandic comedian and politician ** Gary Larson (rugby league), Gary Larson, Australian rugby league player **Francois Pienaar, South African rugby union player and coach * January 4 – Marina Orsini, Canadian actress *
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 ...
– A. R. Rahman, Indian composer, singer, and music producer * January 7 ** David Berman (musician), David Berman, American musician (Silver Jews), singer, poet, and cartoonist (d. 2019) ** Nick Clegg, British politician ** Irrfan Khan, Indian actor (d. 2020) ** Mark Lamarr, British comedian, TV and radio presenter ** Ricky Stuart, Australian rugby league player and coach *
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 ...
** Małgorzata Foremniak, Polish actress ** R. Kelly, American R&B singer, songwriter, and convicted sex offender * January 9 ** Dale Gordon, English footballer ** Dave Matthews, South African–born American musician * January 11 – Michael Healy-Rae, Irish politician * January 12 – Vendela Kirsebom, Norwegian supermodel *
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 ...
** Matjaž Cvikl, Slovenian footballer (d. 1999) ** Suzanne Cryer, American actress *
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 ...
** Kerri Green, American actress and film director ** Leonardo Ortolani, Leo Ortolani, Italian comic book author ** Emily Watson, English actress *
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 ...
– Lisa Lisa, American actress and singer * January 16 – Andrea James, American producer and author * January 17 – Song Kang-ho, Korean actor * January 18 ** Kim Perrot, American basketball player (d. 1999) ** Iván Zamorano, Chilean footballer * January 19 – Christine Tucci, American actress * January 20 ** Wigald Boning, German actor, singer, writer and television presenter ** Kellyanne Conway, American pollster, political consultant, and pundit **Aderonke Apata, advocate for LGBT equality, lesbian, human rights activist, feminist, and former asylum seeker. * January 21 – Artashes Minasian, Armenian chess grandmaster * January 23 **Magdalena Andersson, Prime Minister of Sweden, 34th Prime Minister of Sweden **Belkis Ayón, Cuban printmaker (d. 1999) **Mohammad Daud Miraki, Afghan politician and activist **Naim Süleymanoğlu, Turkish weightlifter (d. 2017) * January 24 ** Phil LaMarr, American actor, voice actor, comedian, and writer ** John Myung, American musician *
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 ...
** Nozomu Sasaki, Japanese voice actor ** Voltaire (musician), Voltaire, Cuban singer * January 28 – Bongani Mayosi, South African cardiology professor (d. 2018) * January 29 – Khalid Skah, Moroccan long-distance runner * January 31 ** Randy Bernard, former CEO of Professional Bull Riders and IndyCar, current co-manager of Garth Brooks ** Fat Mike, American musician and producer ** Roberto Palazuelos, Mexican actor ** Joey Wong, Taiwanese actress


February

* February 1 – Meg Cabot, American teen author *
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 ...
** Doc Hammer, American actor and voice artist ** Jenny Lumet, American actress ** Frederick Pitcher, Nauruan politician *
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 ...
– Sergei Grinkov, Russian figure skater (d. 1995) *
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 ...
– Chris Parnell, American actor, voice artist, comedian, and singer *
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 ...
– Izumi Sakai, Japanese singer (Zard) (d. 2007) * February 7 – Cheung Man, Hong Kong actress * February 9 ** Todd Pratt, American baseball player ** Dan Shulman, Canadian sports announcer * February 10 ** Laura Dern, American actress ** Ivan Francescato, Italian rugby union player (d. 1999) ** Vince Gilligan, American writer, director and producer ** Armand Serrano, Filipino animator ** Maria Rosa Candido, Italian short track speed skater (d. 1993) *
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 ...
** Hank Gathers, American college basketball player (d. 1990) ** Paul McLoone, Irish radio presenter, voice actor, former radio producer and frontman with The Undertones * February 12 ** Sophie Fiennes, English film director and producer ** Chitravina N. Ravikiran, Indian composer and musician *
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 ...
– Carolyn Lawrence, American actress and voice actress * February 14 ** Mark Rutte, Dutch politician, 50th Prime Minister of the Netherlands since 2010. ** Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou, British-Greek entrepreneur *
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 ...
** Dan Farr, American entrepreneur, Founder of Salt Lake Comic Con ** Trond Egil Soltvedt, Norwegian footballer * February 18 ** Marco Aurélio Cunha dos Santos, Marco Aurélio, Brazilian footballer ** Roberto Baggio, Italian football player ** Colin Jackson, British former sprint and hurdling athlete ** John Valentin, American baseball player * February 19 – Benicio del Toro, Puerto Rican actor *
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 ...
, American musician (Nirvana (band), Nirvana) (d. 1994) ** David Herman, American actor ** Andrew Shue, American actor and activist ** Kath Soucie, American voice actress ** Lili Taylor, American actress * February 22 ** Bentley Mitchum, American actor ** Paul Lieberstein, American screenwriter and actor *
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. ...
– Oleg Babak, Soviet army officer (d. 1991) *
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 ...
** Currie Graham, Canadian actor ** Kazuyoshi Miura, Japanese footballer *
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 ...
– Jonathan Ive, British industrial designer (Apple Inc.) * February 28 – Laurence Treil, French model and actress


March

* March 1 ** Michael Mronz, German sports and events manager ** George Eads, American actor ** Rosyam Nor, Malaysian actor * March 3 ** Alexander Volkov (tennis), Alexander Volkov, Russian tennis player (d. 2019) ** Hans Teeuwen, Dutch comedian * March 4 ** Daryll Cullinan, South African cricketer ** Tim Vine, English comedian and actor * March 6 ** Connie Britton, American actress ** Glenn Greenwald, American journalist and author ** Mihai Tudose, Prime Minister of Romania *
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 ...
– Jean-Pierre Barda, Swedish singer (Army of Lovers) * March 9 – Nikolas Vogel, German actor and news camera operator (d. 1991) * March 11 ** John Barrowman, Scottish-American actor and singer ** Cynthia Klitbo, Mexican actress ** George Gray (television personality), George Gray, American comedian and game show announcer *
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 ...
– Massimiliano Frezzato, Italian comic writer * March 13 – Andrés Escobar, Colombian football player (d. 1994) *
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 ...
– Tomáš Cihlář, Czech chemist and virologist * March 15 ** Naoko Takeuchi, Japanese artist ** Pierre Coffin, French film director and voice actor (''Despicable Me'', ''Minions (film), Minions'') * March 16 ** Lauren Graham, American actress and singer ** John Mangum (defensive back), John Mangum, American professional football player * March 17 – Billy Corgan, American musician and songwriter * March 18 ** Taiten Kusunoki, Japanese actor and voice artist ** Andre Rison, American pro football player ** Miki Berenyi, British musician and songwriter (Lush (band), Lush and Piroshka) *
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 ...
– Jonas Berggren, Swedish musician * March 22 – Mario Cipollini, Italian cyclist * March 25 ** Matthew Barney, American sculptor, photographer and filmmaker ** Debi Thomas, American figure skater * March 27 ** Kenta Kobashi, Japanese professional wrestler ** Talisa Soto, American actress * March 30 ** Albert-László Barabási, Romanian-born Hungarian-American physicist ** Christopher Bowman, American figure skater (d. 2008) ** Megumi Hayashibara, Japanese actress and voice actress


April

* April 2 – Renée Estevez, American actress and writer *
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 – ...
– Xenia Seeberg, German actress * April 5 ** Anu Garg, Indian-American writer and speaker ** Troy Gentry, American country musician (Montgomery Gentry) (d. 2017) * April 6 ** Kathleen Barr, Canadian voice actress ** Jonathan Firth, English actor ** Mika Koivuniemi, Finnish ten-pin bowler * April 9 ** Sam Harris, American neuroscientist and political podcast host ** Alex Kahn, American artist * April 11 – Liina Olmaru, Estonian actress * April 14 ** Steve Chiasson, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1999) * April 15 ** Frankie Poullain, British rock bassist ** Dara Torres, American swimmer * April 17 ** Henry Ian Cusick, Scottish-Peruvian actor and director ** Kimberly Elise, African-American actress ** Marquis Grissom, American baseball player ** Liz Phair, American musician * April 18 – Maria Bello, American actress * April 20 ** Mike Portnoy, American musician ** Lara Jill Miller, American actress ** Raymond van Barneveld, Dutch darts player * April 22 ** Sheryl Lee, American actress ** Sherri Shepherd, American comedian and TV show host *
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 ...
** Melina Kanakaredes, American actress ** Eleonora De Angelis, Italian voice actress * April 24 **Dino Rađa, Croatian basketball player **Shannon Larkin, American drummer * April 26 ** Kane (wrestler), Glenn Jacobs (a.k.a. "Kane"), American professional wrestler ** Marianne Jean-Baptiste, English actress, singer-songwriter, composer and director *
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 ...
**Simcha Barbiro, Israeli actor and voice actor ** Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands, King of the Netherlands **Aki Avni, Israeli actor * April 28 – Kevin Jubinville, Canadian actor * April 29 ** Curtis Joseph, Canadian hockey player ** Igor Meda, former Russian professional footballer ** Rachel Williams, American model, actress and television presenter * April 30 ** Philipp Kirkorov, Soviet-Russian pop singer, actor and producer ** Steven Mackintosh, English actor


May

* May 1 ** Scott Coffey, American actor and director ** Kenny Hotz, Canadian entertainer ** Tim McGraw, American country singer * May 4 ** Ana Gasteyer, American actress ** Akiko Yajima, Japanese voice actress * May 5 ** Takehito Koyasu, Japanese voice actor ** Bill Ward (actor), Bill Ward, English actor *
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 ...
– Angus Scott (television presenter), Angus Scott, British sports television presenter *
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 ...
– Nobuhiro Takeda, Japanese footballer and sportscaster *
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 ...
– Géza Röhrig, Hungarian actor and poet * May 12 ** Brent Forrester, American writer and producer ** Bill Shorten, Australian politician * May 13 ** Chuck Schuldiner, American singer and guitarist (d. 2001) ** Melanie Thornton, American singer (La Bouche) (d. 2001) * May 14 – Tony Siragusa, American football player * May 15 ** Madhuri Dixit, Indian actress ** John Smoltz, American baseball player ** Ernesto Araújo, Brazil's former Minister of Foreign Affairs * May 17 – Greg Florimo, Australian rugby league player and administrator * May 19 – Geraldine Somerville, Irish actress * May 20 – Pavlos, Crown Prince of Greece * May 21 – Chris Benoit, Canadian professional wrestler (d. 2007) *
May 22 Events Pre-1600 * 192 – Dong Zhuo is assassinated by his adopted son Lü Bu. * 760 – Fourteenth recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet. * 853 – A Byzantine fleet sacks and destroys undefended Damietta in Egypt. * 11 ...
– Brooke Smith (actress), Brooke Smith, American actress * May 23 ** Rahman (actor), Rahman, Indian actor * May 24 ** Andrey Borodin, Russian banker ** Eric Close, American actor ** Heavy D, Jamaican-born American rapper, singer, record producer, and actor (d. 2011) ** Bruno Putzulu, French actor * May 25 **Poppy Z. Brite, American author ** Andrew Sznajder, Canadian tennis player *
May 26 Events Pre-1600 * 17 – Germanicus celebrates a triumph in Rome for his victories over the Cherusci, Chatti, and other German tribes west of the Elbe. * 451 – Battle of Avarayr between Armenian rebels and the Sasanian Empire take ...
** Stacy Compton, American racing driver ** Eddie McClintock, American actor ** Kristen Pfaff, American bassist (d. 1994) *
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 ...
** Paul Gascoigne, English footballer ** Kai Pflaume, German television presenter and game show host ** Kristen Skjeldal, Norwegian Olympic skier * May 28 – Glen Rice, American basketball player * May 29 ** Heidi Mohr, German footballer (d. 2019) ** Noel Gallagher, British musician (Oasis (band), Oasis) *
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 ...
** Grant Kereama, New Zealand Radio DJ, Actor, and television host. * May 31 ** Sandrine Bonnaire, French actress ** Phil Keoghan, New Zealand-born television host (''The Amazing Race (American TV series), The Amazing Race'') ** Kenny Lofton, American baseball player


June

* June 1 – Roger Sanchez, American DJ * June 2 – Nadhim Zahawi, Iraqi-born British politician * June 3 ** Anderson Cooper, American television journalist ** Tamás Darnyi, Hungarian swimmer ** Christopher Walker (athlete), Christopher Walker, Gibraltarian triathlete and cyclist *
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 ...
** Joe DeLoach, American athlete ** Ron Livingston, American actor * June 6 ** Max Casella, American actor ** Tristan Gemmill, English actor ** Paul Giamatti, American actor * June 7 ** Olli Mustonen, Finnish pianist and composer ** Dave Navarro, American guitarist and singer (Jane's Addiction, Red Hot Chili Peppers) * June 8 ** Efan Ekoku, Nigerian footballer ** Jasmin Tabatabai, German/Iranian actress and musician * June 9 **Jian Ghomeshi, Iranian-Canadian radio personality **Rubén Maza, Venezuelan long-distance runner * June 10 ** Emma Anderson, British musician and songwriter (Lush (band), Lush and Sing-Sing (band), Sing-Sing) ** Darren Robinson (rapper), Darren Robinson, African-American rapper (The Fat Boys) (d. 1995) ** Elizabeth Wettlaufer, Canadian nurse and serial killer * June 14 – Rushan Abbas, Uyghur-American activist * June 15 ** Fred Tatasciore, American voice actor ** Yūji Ueda, Japanese voice actor * June 16 ** Kasra Anghaee, Swiss poet and writer ** Jürgen Klopp, German footballer and manager of Liverpool F.C. ** Ike Shorunmu, Nigerian football goalkeeper * June 19 ** Bjørn Dæhlie, Norwegian Olympic skier ** Mia Sara, American actress * June 20 ** Nicole Kidman, American-born Australian actress * June 21 – Yingluck Shinawatra, Thai politician, 28th Prime Minister of Thailand *
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 ...
– Yoko Minamino, ''Japanese Idol'' star and actress * June 24 ** Richard Kruspe, German rock musician (Rammstein) ** Janez Lapajne, Slovenian film director * June 26 ** Kaori Asoh, Japanese voice actress and singer ** Luisito Espinosa, Filipino boxer *
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 – ...
– Lars Riedel, German Olympic athlete * June 29 ** Carl Hester, British dressage rider ** Melora Hardin, American actress and singer * June 30 ** Quốc Bảo, Vietnamese songwriter and record producer ** Sture Fladmark, Norwegian football manager and player **Babak NikTalab, Persian poet. ** Robert Więckiewicz, Polish film and television actor


July

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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 ...
** Pamela Anderson, Canadian actress and model ** Luca Bottale, Italian voice actor ** Ritchie Coster, English film, television, and theatre actor ** Kim Komando, American talk radio program host ** Peter Plate, German musician, singer, songwriter and record producer * July 2 ** Maïtena Biraben, French-Swiss television presenter and producer ** Paul Wekesa, Kenyan tennis player * July 4 – Greg Kuperberg, Polish-American mathematician * July 5 ** Mustafa Al-Kadhimi, Iraqi politician, 80th Prime Minister of Iraq ** Silvia Ziche, Italian comics artist ** Steffen Wink, German actor * July 6 ** Wendell Lawrence, Bahamian triple jumper ** Heather Nova, Bermudian singer-songwriter * July 7 – Tom Kristensen (racing driver), Tom Kristensen, Danish racing driver * July 8 ** Charlie Cardona, Colombian singer ** Jordan Chan, Hong Kong singer and actor ** Henry McKop, Zimbabwean football defender * July 9 ** Gunnar Axén, Swedish politician ** Mark Stoops, American football coach * July 10 ** Tom Meents, American monster truck driver ** Ikki Sawamura, Japanese model, film and television actor, and television presenter * July 11 – Jhumpa Lahiri, British-born Indian-American author * July 12 ** John Petrucci, American musician ** Count Jefferson von Pfeil und Klein-Ellguth * July 13 ** Benny Benassi, Italian DJ, record producer and remixer ** Akira Hokuto, Japanese women's professional wrestler * July 14 ** Jeff Jarrett, American professional wrestler ** Patrick J. Kennedy, American politician ** Robin Ventura, American baseball player * July 15 ** Christopher Golden, American novelist ** Adam Savage, American TV show host ** Michael Tse, Hong Kong actor * July 16 ** Jonathan Adams (American actor), Jonathan Adams, American actor and voice actor ** Brian Baker (actor), Brian Baker, American actor ** Will Ferrell, American actor, comedian, and screenwriter ** Joel Stransky, South African rugby union player ** Mihaela Stanulet, Romanian artistic gymnast * July 17 – Regina Lund, Swedish actress and singer * July 18 ** Vin Diesel, American actor and film producer ** Martin Eric Ain, Swiss-American musician (d. 2017) * July 19 ** Rageh Omaar, broadcaster ** Lee Hsing-wen, Taiwanese actor * July 20 **Reed Diamond, American actor **Courtney Taylor-Taylor, American singer-songwriter, frontman of The Dandy Warhols * July 22 ** Irene Bedard, American actress ** Jeremy Callaghan, Papua New Guinean actor ** Rhys Ifans, Welsh actor and musician * July 23 – Philip Seymour Hoffman, American actor, director, and producer (d. 2014) * July 25 ** Matt LeBlanc, American actor ** Wendy Raquel Robinson, American actress ** Margarita Zavala, Mexican lawyer and politician, First Lady of Mexico ** Magdalena Forsberg, Swedish biathlete * July 26 – Jason Statham, English actor, martial artist, and former diver * July 28 ** Jakob Augstein, German journalist and publisher ** Taka Hirose, Japanese musician (Feeder (band), Feeder) **Jeff Sharples, Canadian NHL defenceman and podcaster * July 30 ** Marisol Espinoza, Peruvian politician, 1st Vice President of Peru ** A. W. Yrjänä, Finnish rock musician and poet * July 31 ** Tony Bancroft, American artist (The Walt Disney Company, Disney) ** Rodney Harvey, American actor and model (d.
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 ...
) ** Minako Honda, Japanese singer and musical actress (d. 2005) ** Elizabeth Wurtzel, author and feminist (d. 2020)


August

* August 2 – Aaron Krickstein, American tennis player * August 3 – Mathieu Kassovitz, French movie director and actor * August 4 ** Tom Anderson (politician), Tom Anderson, American partner at Optima Public Relations ** Arbaaz Khan, Indian actor ** Michael Marsh (athlete), Michael Marsh, American athlete * August 5 ** Patrick Baumann (basketball), Patrick Baumann, Swiss basketball executive and player and coach (d. 2018) ** Thomas Lang, Austrian drummer * August 7 ** Eston Mulenga, Zambian footballer (d. 1993) ** Charlotte Lewis, English actress * August 8 ** Yūki Amami, Japanese actress ** Sable (wrestler), Sable, American wrestler, model and actress * August 9 – Deion Sanders, American pro football and baseball player * August 10 – Riddick Bowe, American boxer * August 11 ** Enrique Bunbury, Spanish singer-songwriter ** Collin Chou, Taiwanese martial arts actor ** Joe Rogan, American comedian and television host ** Massimiliano Allegri, former Italian association football player and coach * August 12 ** Andy Hui, Hong Kong singer and actor ** Emil Kostadinov, Bulgarian football player ** Regilio Tuur, Dutch boxer * August 13 ** Amélie Nothomb, Belgian writer ** Jeanine Áñez, President of Bolivia * August 15 – Brahim Boutayeb, Moroccan long-distance runner * August 16 ** Mark Coyne (rugby league), Mark Coyne, Australian rugby league player ** Ulrika Jonsson, Swedish-born television personality ** Pamela Smart, American murderer * August 18 – Daler Mehndi, Indian singer * August 19 ** Satya Nadella, Indian-American businessman and current CEO of Microsoft ** Deborah Kafoury, Oregon Elected Leader * August 21 ** Carrie-Anne Moss, Canadian actress ** Serj Tankian, Lebanese-born singer (System of a Down) * August 22 ** Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Nigerian-British actor and model ** Ty Burrell, American actor and comedian ** Yukiko Okada, Japanese idol singer (d. 1986) ** Layne Staley, American rock musician (Alice in Chains) (d. 2002) * August 25 ** Tom Hollander, English actor ** Eckart von Hirschhausen, German physician and comedian * August 26 ** Michael Gove, British politician ** András Rosztóczy, Hungarian gastroenterologist * August 27 ** Ogie Alcasid, Filipino singer-songwriter, comedian, parodist, and actor ** Bob Nastanovich, American musician (Pavement (band), Pavement, Silver Jews) * August 28 – Masaaki Endoh, Japanese singer * August 29 ** Neil Gorsuch, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court since 2017 ** Anton Newcombe, American musician (The Brian Jonestown Massacre) * August 30 – Frederique van der Wal, Dutch supermodel *31 August – Gene Hoglan, American drummer


September

* September 3 ** Drena De Niro, American actress ** Luis Gonzalez (outfielder, born 1967), Luis Gonzalez, American baseball player ** Sedrak Saroyan, Armenian general and politician (d. 2022) * September 5 ** Kōichi Morishita, Japanese long-distance runner ** Arnel Pineda, Filipino singer-songwriter (Journey (band), Journey) ** Matthias Sammer, German football player ** Jane Sixsmith, English field hockey player * September 6 – Macy Gray, African-American urban musician * September 9 – Akshay Kumar, Indian actor * September 11 – Harry Connick Jr., American singer and actor * September 12 ** Louis C.K., American comedian and actor ** Rob Renzetti, American animator and director * September 13 ** Michael Johnson (sprinter), Michael Johnson, American sprinter ** Temur Kabisashvili, retired Georgian professional football player ** Tim "Ripper" Owens, American rock singer (Judas Priest, Iced Earth, Yngwie Malmsteen) * September 18 ** Tara Fitzgerald, British actress ** Mónica Kräuter, Venezuelan chemist and professor * September 19 – Aleksandr Karelin, Russian Greco-Roman wrestler * September 20 – Kristen Johnston, American actress * September 21 ** Faith Hill, American country singer ** Suman Pokhrel, Nepalese poet * September 22 ** Jason Moran (criminal), Jason Moran, Australian criminal (d. 2003) ** Félix Savón, Cuban boxer ** Michelle Ruff, American voice actress * September 23 ** Masashi Nakayama, Japanese footballer ** Jenna Stern, American actress * September 25 ** Melissa De Sousa, American actress ** Audrey Wasilewski, American actress and voice actress *September 26 – Shannon Hoon, singer songwriter and musician; lead singer in the band Blind Melon from 1990 until his death in 1995 * September 27 – Debi Derryberry, American voice actress * September 28 ** Mira Sorvino, American actress ** Moon Zappa, American actress, musician and author * September 30 – Andrea Roth, Canadian actress


October

* October 1 ** Gillian Welch, American country singer-songwriter * October 2 ** Frankie Fredericks, Namibian athlete ** Lew Temple, American actor * October 3 ** Jay Taylor (basketball), Jay Taylor, American basketball player (d.
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 ...
) ** Tiara Jacquelina, Malaysian actress ** Rob Liefeld, American author and illustrator ** Denis Villeneuve, Canadian film director and writer * October 4 – Liev Schreiber, American actor and film director * October 5 ** Rex Chapman, American basketball player ** Guy Pearce, English-born Australian actor * October 6 ** Bruno Bichir, Mexican actor ** Sergi López Segú, Spanish footballer (d. 2006) * October 7 ** Samir Guesmi, French actor ** Toni Braxton, American R&B singer * October 9 ** Maurice Banach, German footballer (d. 1991) ** Eddie Guerrero, Mexican-American professional wrestler (d. 2005) * October 10 ** Gavin Newsom, American politician, 40th Governor of California ** Michael Giacchino, American film composer * October 11 ** Artie Lange, American actor, comedian and radio personality ** Peter Thiel, German-American entrepreneur and venture capitalist * October 13 ** Trevor Hoffman, American Major League Baseball player ** Hannu Lintu, Finnish conductor ** Javier Sotomayor, Cuban high jumper ** Kate Walsh (actress), Kate Walsh, American actress * October 16 – Davina McCall, British TV presenter and UK ''Big Brother'' host * October 17 – René Dif, Danish-Algerian singer (''Aqua'') * October 18 – Eric Stuart, American voice actor, singer, and voice director * October 19 – Yōji Matsuda, Japanese actor and voice actor * October 20 ** Kerrod Walters, Australian rugby league player ** Kevin Walters, Australian rugby league player and coach * October 21 – Pam Rehm, American poet * October 22 ** Salvatore Di Vittorio, Italian composer-conductor ** Ulrike Maier, Austrian alpine skier (d. 1994) ** Carlos Mencia, Latino-American actor and standup comedian * October 24 ** Andrea Hirata, Indonesian author ** Jacqueline McKenzie, Australian actress * October 26 – Keith Urban, New Zealand-born Australian country music singer * October 27 – Scott Weiland, American musician (d. 2015) * October 28 ** Julia Roberts, American actress ** Sophie, Hereditary Princess of Liechtenstein * October 29 ** Joely Fisher, American actress ** Péter Kun, Hungarian guitarist (d. 1993) ** Rufus Sewell, English actor ** Beth Chapman (bounty hunter), Beth Chapman, American bounty hunter (d. 2019) * October 30 ** Ty Detmer, American NFL quarterback; 1990 Heisman Trophy winner ** Gavin Rossdale, English singer-songwriter and actor * October 31 ** Vanilla Ice, American rapper ** Buddy Lazier, American race car driver


November

* November 1 – Tina Arena, Australian singer-songwriter * November 2 ** Akira Ishida, Japanese voice actor ** Scott Walker (politician), Scott Walker, American legislator and politician; 45th Governor of Wisconsin (2011–2019) * November 3 – Steven Wilson, British musician * November 4 **Keith English (politician), Keith English, American politician (d. 2018) **Mino Raiola, Italian football agent (d. 2022) * November 5 – Judy Reyes, American actress * November 6 **Pervin Buldan, Turkish-Kurdish politician **Rebecca Schaeffer, American actress (d. 1989) * November 7 ** Father Paulo Ricardo, Brazilian Catholic priest, TV host, writer, and professor ** Noraini Ahmad, Malaysian politician ** David Guetta, French DJ and songwriter ** Sharleen Spiteri, Scottish singer-songwriter * November 8 – Courtney Thorne-Smith, American actress * November 11 – Gil de Ferran, Brazilian race car driver * November 13 ** Juhi Chawla, Indian actress, model, and film producer ** Jimmy Kimmel, American comedian and talk show host ** Steve Zahn, American actor * November 14 ** Letitia Dean, English actress ** Mary Woodvine, British actress * November 15 ** François Ozon, French writer and director ** E-40, American rapper * November 16 – Lisa Bonet, American actress * November 17 – Zuhdi Jasser, American religious commentator and medical doctor * November 20 – Teoman (singer), Teoman, Turkish rock singer and songwriter * November 21 – Ken Block, American racing driver * November 22 ** Boris Becker, German tennis player ** Mark Ruffalo, American actor ** Bart Veldkamp, Dutch-born speed skater * November 23 – Salli Richardson, American actress * November 24 – Jon Hein, American radio personality * November 25 ** Anthony Nesty, Surinamese swimmer ** Mikey D, American rapper * November 28 – Anna Nicole Smith, American model and actress (d. 2007) * November 29 – Fernando Ramos da Silva, Brazilian actor, known as Pixote (d. 1987)


December

* December 1 ** Néstor Carbonell, American actor, director and screenwriter ** Reggie Sanders, American Major League Baseball outfielder * December 4 – Adamski, English dance music producer * December 5 – Knez (singer), Knez, Montenegrin singer * December 6 – Judd Apatow, American screenwriter and producer * December 7 – Tino Martinez, American baseball player * December 8 – Kotono Mitsuishi, Japanese voice actress * December 9 ** Joshua Bell, American violinist ** Caryn Kadavy, American figure skater * December 11 ** DJ Yella, American DJ and record producer ** Mo'Nique, African-American actress and comedian ** Peter Kelamis, Australian voice actor * December 12 – John Randle, American football player * December 13 ** Jamie Foxx, African-American actor and singer ** Yūji Oda, Japanese singer and actor * December 14 ** Ewa Białołęcka, Polish writer ** Louise Lear, English weather presenter (BBC) ** Ángel García Yáñez, Mexican federal senator (2018–2024) * December 15 – Mo Vaughn, American baseball player * December 16 ** Donovan Bailey, Canadian athlete ** Miranda Otto, Australian actress * December 17 – Gigi D'Agostino, Italian musician and DJ * December 18 ** Robert Wahlberg, American actor ** Toine van Peperstraten, Dutch sports journalist * December 19 ** Criss Angel, American musician, magician, illusionist, escapologist and stunt performer ** Charles Austin, American Olympic athlete * December 20 – Eugenia Cauduro, Mexican actress and model * December 21 ** Mikheil Saakashvili, Georgian politician, 3rd President of Georgia and Governor of Odessa Oblast ** Spitz (band), Masamune Kusano, Japanese musician * December 22 ** Juan Manuel Bernal, Mexican actor ** Richey Edwards, Welsh musician (d. 1995) ** Dan Petrescu, Romanian footballer * December 23 – Carla Bruni, Italian-French model, singer-songwriter and First Lady of France


Deaths


January

* January 3 ** Mary Garden, Scottish-American opera singer (b. 1874) ** Jack Ruby, American nightclub owner and convicted criminal, best known as the murderer of Lee Harvey Oswald (b. 1911) * January 4 – Donald Campbell, English water and land speed record seeker (b. 1921) * January 9 – Waldo Frank, American novelist and historian (b. 1889) * January 12 – Holland Smith, American general (b. 1882) *
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 ...
– Miklós Kállay, 34th Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1887) * January 17 ** Evelyn Nesbit, American actress and model (b. 1884) ** Barney Ross, American boxer (b. 1909) * January 21 – Ann Sheridan, American actress (b. 1915) * January 22 – Jobyna Ralston, American actress (b. 1899) * January 23 – Holcombe Ward, American tennis player (b. 1878) * January 24 – Luigi Federzoni, Italian Fascist politician (b. 1878) *
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 ...
** Crew of Apollo 1 (launch pad fire): *** Ed White, American astronaut (b. 1930) *** Gus Grissom, American astronaut (b. 1926) *** Roger Chaffee, American astronaut (b. 1935) ** David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir, British politician, lawyer, and judge (b. 1900) ** Alphonse Juin, Marshal of France (b. 1888) ** Luigi Tenco, Italian singer-songwriter (b. 1938) * January 28 – Leonhard Seppala, Norwegian-American sled dog breeder, trainer and musher (b. 1877) * January 31 – Eddie Tolan, American athlete (b. 1908)


February

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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 – ...
– Joe Meek, English record producer and sound engineer (b. 1929) *
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 ...
** Martine Carol, French actress (b. 1920) ** Henry Morgenthau Jr., United States Secretary of the Treasury during World War II (b. 1891) * February 7 – David Unaipon, Australian author and inventor (b. 1872) * February 8 – Victor Gollancz, British publisher (b. 1893) *
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 ...
– Abelardo L. Rodríguez, substitute president of Mexico (1932-1934) (b. 1889) * February 14 – Sig Ruman, German actor (b. 1884) *
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 ...
– Antonio Moreno, Spanish actor (b. 1887) * February 16 – Smiley Burnette, American actor (b. 1911) * February 17 – Ciro Alegría, Peruvian journalist, politician, and novelist (b. 1909) * February 18 – J. Robert Oppenheimer, American physicist (b. 1904) * February 21 – Charles Beaumont, American writer (b. 1929) *
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 ...
– Franz Waxman, German-American composer (b. 1906) * February 28 – Henry Luce, American publisher (b. 1898)


March

* March 2 ** Gordon Harker, English actor (b. 1885) ** José Martínez Ruiz, José Martínez Ruiz, 'Azorín', Spanish writer (b. 1873) *
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 ...
** Mischa Auer, Russian-born actor (b. 1905) ** Mohammad Mosaddegh, Iranian politician, 35th Prime Minister of Iran (b. 1882) ** Georges Vanier, Canadian Governor General (b. 1888) * March 6 ** Nelson Eddy, American singer and actor (b. 1901) ** Zoltán Kodály, Hungarian composer (b. 1882) *
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 ...
– Alice B. Toklas, American personality (b. 1877) * March 11 – Geraldine Farrar, American soprano (b. 1882) * March 23 – Pete Johnson (musician), Pete Johnson, American boogie-woogie and jazz pianist, songwriter (b. 1904) * March 27 – Jaroslav Heyrovský, Czech chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1890) * March 30 – Jean Toomer, American writer (b. 1894) *
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 ...
** Don Alvarado, American actor (b. 1904) ** Rodion Malinovsky, Soviet military commander and Minister of Defence (b. 1898)


April

* April 5 – Hermann Joseph Muller, American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1890) *
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 ...
– Luis Somoza Debayle, 26th President of Nicaragua (b. 1922) * April 15 – Totò, Italian actor (b. 1898) * April 17 – Red Allen, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1908) * April 18 – Friedrich Heiler, German theologian and historian (b. 1892) * April 19 ** Konrad Adenauer, German statesman, 27th Chancellor of Germany, Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany (b. 1876) ** William Boyle, 12th Earl of Cork and Orrery, British admiral of the fleet (b. 1873) * April 22 – Tom Conway, British actor (b. 1904) *
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 ...
– Edgar Neville, Spanish playwright and film director (b. 1899) * April 24Vladimir Komarov, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1927) * April 25 – Joseph Boxhall, British sailor, fourth officer of the (b. 1884) *
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 ...
– William Douglas Cook, New Zealand founder of Eastwoodhill Arboretum and Pukeiti, Taranaki, Pukeiti (b. 1884) * April 29 – Anthony Mann, American actor and director (b. 1906)


May

* May 6 – Zhou Zuoren, Chinese writer (b. 1885) * May 7 ** Anne Bauchens, American film editor (b. 1882) ** Judith Evelyn, American actress (b. 1909) *
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 Andrews Sisters, Laverne Andrews, American singer (b. 1911) ** Elmer Rice, American playwright (b. 1892) *
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 ...
– Lorenzo Bandini, Italian Formula One driver (b. 1935) * May 12 – John Masefield, English poet and novelist (b. 1878) * May 15 – Edward Hopper, American painter (b. 1882) *
May 18 Events Pre-1600 * 332 – Emperor Constantine the Great announces free distributions of food to the citizens in Constantinople. * 872 – Louis II of Italy is crowned for the second time as Holy Roman Emperor at Rome, at the age of 4 ...
– Andy Clyde, Scottish actor (b. 1892) * May 21 ** Géza Lakatos, Hungarian general and politician, 36th Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1890) ** Rexhep Mitrovica, Albanian politician, 18th Prime Minister of Albania (b. 1888) *
May 22 Events Pre-1600 * 192 – Dong Zhuo is assassinated by his adopted son Lü Bu. * 760 – Fourteenth recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet. * 853 – A Byzantine fleet sacks and destroys undefended Damietta in Egypt. * 11 ...
** Langston Hughes, American writer, novelist, playwright, and columnist (b. 1901) ** Josip Plemelj, Slovene mathematician (b. 1873) *
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 ...
**Tilly Edinger, German-born American scientist, founder of paleoneurology (b. 1897) **Johannes Itten, Swiss painter (b. 1888) * May 29 – Georg Wilhelm Pabst, Austrian film director (b. 1885) *
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 ...
– Claude Rains, British actor (b. 1889) * May 31 – Billy Strayhorn, American composer and pianist (b. 1915)


June

* June 3 – Arthur Tedder, 1st Baron Tedder, British air force officer, Marshal of the Royal Air Force (b. 1890) *
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 ...
– Arthur Biram, Israeli philosopher and educator, and Israel Prize recipient (b. 1878) * June 6 – Edward Givens, American astronaut (b. 1930) * June 7 – Dorothy Parker, American writer (b. 1893) * June 10 – Spencer Tracy, American actor (b. 1900) * June 11 – Wolfgang Köhler, German psychologist (b. 1887) * June 13 ** Gerald Patterson, Australian tennis champion (b. 1895) ** Edward Ellington, Sir Edward Ellington, British military officer; Marshal of the Royal Air Force (b. 1877) * June 14 – Eddie Eagan, American sportsman (b. 1897) * June 16 – Reginald Denny (actor), Reginald Denny, English actor (b. 1891) *
June 17 Events Pre-1600 * 653 – Pope Martin I is arrested and taken to Constantinople, due to his opposition to monothelitism. * 1242 – Following the Disputation of Paris, twenty-four carriage loads of Jewish religious manuscripts were bur ...
– Vernon Huber, American admiral and 36th Governor of American Samoa (b. 1899) * June 26 – Françoise Dorléac, French actress (b. 1942) * June 29 ** Primo Carnera, Italian boxer (b. 1906) ** Jayne Mansfield, American actress (b. 1933)


July

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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 ...
– Gerhard Ritter, German historian (b. 1888) * July 8 ** Fatima Jinnah, Pakistan's "Mother of the Nation" (b. 1893) ** Vivien Leigh, English actress (b. 1913) * July 9 – Eugen Fischer, German professor of medicine, anthropology and eugenics (b. 1874) * July 13 – Tommy Lucchese, Italian-American gangster (b. 1899) * July 14 – Tudor Arghezi, Romanian writer (b. 1880) * July 17 ** Cyril Ring, American film actor (b. 1892) ** John Coltrane, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1926) * July 18 – Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco, 26th President of Brazil (plane crash) (b. 1897) * July 19 – John T. McNaughton, United States Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs and an advisor to Robert McNamara (plane crash) (b. 1921) * July 20 – Lewis H. Brereton, American aviation pioneer and air force general (b. 1890) * July 21 ** Jimmie Foxx, American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics) and member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1907) ** Albert Lutuli, South African politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1898) ** Basil Rathbone, British actor (b. 1892) * July 22 – Carl Sandburg, American poet (b. 1878)


August

* August 1 ** Richard Kuhn, Austrian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900) ** Adrien Arcand, Canadian politician (b. 1899) * August 9 ** Joe Orton, English playwright (b. 1933) ** Anton Walbrook, Austrian actor (b. 1896) * August 13 – Jane Darwell, American actress (b. 1879) * August 15 ** René Magritte, Belgian painter (b. 1898) ** Manuel Prado Ugarteche, 50th & 54th President of Peru (b. 1889) * August 19 ** Isaac Deutscher, British Marxist historian (b. 1907) ** Hugo Gernsback, Luxembourg-born editor and publisher (b. 1884) * August 22 – Gregory Goodwin Pincus, American biologist and researcher (b. 1903) * August 23 – Nathaniel Cartmell, American Olympic athlete (b. 1883) * August 24 – Henry J. Kaiser, American industrialist (b. 1882) * August 25 ** Stanley Bruce, 8th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1883) ** Paul Muni, American actor (b. 1895) ** George Lincoln Rockwell, American Nazi Party leader (b. 1918) * August 27 – Brian Epstein, English band manager ('' The Beatles'') (b. 1934) * August 30 ** Samuel Mosberg, American boxer, Olympic champion (b. 1896) ** Ad Reinhardt, American painter (b. 1913) * August 31 ** Ilya Ehrenburg, Russian writer (b. 1891) ** Mikhail Kovalyov, Soviet general (b. 1897)


September

* September 1 ** James Dunn (actor), James Dunn, American actor (b. 1901) ** Ilse Koch, Nazi German war criminal (b. 1906) ** Siegfried Sassoon, British poet (b. 1886) * September 3 – Francis Ouimet, American professional golfer (b. 1893) * September 8 – Juliusz Rómmel, Polish general (b. 1881) * September 12 – Vladimir Bartol, Slovene author (b. 1903) * September 13 – Varian Fry, American journalist (b. 1907) * September 18 – John Cockcroft, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897) * September 27 – Prince Felix Yusupov, Russian assassin of Rasputin (b. 1887) * September 29 – Carson McCullers, American writer (b. 1917)


October

* October 3 ** Woody Guthrie, American folk musician (b. 1912) ** Sir Malcolm Sargent, English conductor (b. 1895) ** Pinto Colvig, American actor, newspaper cartoonist, and circus performer (b. 1892) * October 5 – Clifton Williams, American astronaut (b. 1932) * October 7 – Norman Angell, Sir Norman Angell, British politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1872) * October 8 – Clement Attlee, British politician, 60th Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1883) * October 9 ** Gordon Allport, American psychologist (b. 1897) ** Che Guevara, Argentine communist revolutionary (b. 1928) ** Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897) ** Joseph Pilates, German physical culturist and developer of Pilates (b. 1883) ** Edith Storey, American actress (b. 1892) * October 12 – Nat Pendleton, American actor and Olympic wrestler (b. 1895) * October 17 – Puyi, Xuantong Emperor, last Emperor of China (b. 1906) * October 20 – Shigeru Yoshida, Japanese diplomat and politician, 32nd Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1878) * October 21 – Ejnar Hertzsprung, Danish chemist and astronomer (b. 1873) * October 29 – Julien Duvivier, French film director (b. 1896) * October 30 – Charles Trowbridge, American actor (b. 1882)


November

* November 7 – John Nance Garner, 32nd Vice President of the United States (b. 1868) * November 9 – Charles Bickford, American actor (b. 1891) * November 13 – Harriet Cohen, English pianist (b. 1895) * November 15 – Alice Lake, American actress (b. 1895) * November 19 – Casimir Funk, Polish biochemist (b. 1884) * November 21 – Florence Reed, American actress (b. 1883) * November 25 – Ossip Zadkine, Russian sculptor, painter and lithographer (b. 1888) * November 26 – Albert Warner, American film producer (b. 1884) * November 28 – Léon M'ba, 1st President of Gabon (b. 1902) * November 29 – Ferenc Münnich, 47th Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1886)


December

* December 4 ** Daniel Jones (phonetician), Daniel Jones, British phonetician (b. 1881) ** Bert Lahr, American actor (b. 1895) * December 8 – Robert Henry Lawrence Jr., American astronaut (b. 1935) * December 10 – Otis Redding, American singer (b. 1941) * December 11 ** Howard Freeman, American actor (b. 1899) ** Victor de Sabata, Italian conductor and composer (b. 1892) * December 17 – Harold Holt, 17th Prime Minister of Australia (body never found) (b. 1908) * December 21 ** Stuart Erwin, American actor (b. 1903) ** Ejnar Hertzsprung, Danish chemist and astronomer (b. 1873) * December 26 – Sydney Barnes, English cricketer (b. 1873) * December 27 – Ferran Sunyer i Balaguer, Spanish mathematician (b. 1912) * December 28 – Katharine McCormick, American suffragist (b. 1875) * December 29 – Paul Whiteman, American bandleader (b. 1890) * December 30 – Vincent Massey, Canadian Governor General (b. 1887)


Date unknown

* Fathollah Khan Akbar, Iranian cabinet minister, 17th Prime Minister of Iran (b. 1878)


Nobel Prizes

* Nobel Prize in Physics, Physics – Hans Bethe * Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Chemistry – Manfred Eigen, Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, George Porter * Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Physiology or Medicine – Ragnar Granit, Haldan Keffer Hartline, George Wald * Nobel Prize in Literature, Literature – Miguel Ángel Asturias * Nobel Peace Prize, Peace – not awarded


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