Events from the year 1967 in the United States.

Incumbents

Federal Government

President President most commonly refers to: *President (corporate title) * President (education), a leader of a college or university * President (government title) President may also refer to: Automobiles * Nissan President, a 1966–2010 Japanese ...

Lyndon B. 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 ...

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Texas Texas (, ; Spanish: ''Texas'', ''Tejas'') is a state in the South Central region of the United States. At 268,596 square miles (695,662 km2), and with more than 29.1 million residents in 2020, it is the second-largest U.S. state by ...

) *

Vice President A vice president, also director in British English, is an officer in government or business who is below the president (chief executive officer) in rank. It can also refer to executive vice presidents, signifying that the vice president is on ...

Hubert Humphrey Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr. (May 27, 1911 – January 13, 1978) was an American pharmacist and politician who served as the 38th vice president of the United States from 1965 to 1969. He twice served in the United States Senate, representing Mi ...

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Minnesota Minnesota () is a state in the upper midwestern region of the United States. It is the 12th largest U.S. state in area and the 22nd most populous, with over 5.75 million residents. Minnesota is home to western prairies, now given over to ...

) * Chief Justice: Earl Warren (

California California is a state in the Western United States, located along the Pacific Coast. With nearly 39.2million residents across a total area of approximately , it is the most populous U.S. state and the 3rd largest by area. It is also the m ...

) * Speaker of the House of Representatives: John William McCormack ( D-

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Senate Majority Leader The positions of majority leader and minority leader are held by two United States senators and members of the party leadership of the United States Senate. They serve as the chief spokespersons for their respective political parties holding t ...

Mike Mansfield Michael Joseph Mansfield (March 16, 1903 – October 5, 2001) was an American politician and diplomat. A Democrat, he served as a U.S. representative (1943–1953) and a U.S. senator (1953–1977) from Montana. He was the longest-serving Sen ...

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Montana Montana () is a state in the Mountain West division of the Western United States. It is bordered by Idaho to the west, North Dakota and South Dakota to the east, Wyoming to the south, and the Canadian provinces of Alberta, British Columb ...

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Congress A congress is a formal meeting of the representatives of different countries, constituent states, organizations, trade unions, political parties, or other groups. The term originated in Late Middle English to denote an encounter (meeting of ...

: 89th (until January 3), 90th (starting January 3)

Events

January

*January 2 – Ronald Reagan, past movie actor and future President of the U.S., is inaugurated the new governor of California. *January 4 –

The Doors The Doors were an American rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1965, with vocalist Jim Morrison, keyboardist Ray Manzarek, guitarist Robby Krieger, and drummer John Densmore. They were among the most controversial and influential rock acts ...

' self-titled debut album is released. *January 6 –

Vietnam War The Vietnam War (also known by other names) was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. It was the second of the Indochina Wars and was officially fought between North Vietnam a ...

United States Marine Corps The United States Marine Corps (USMC), also referred to as the United States Marines, is the maritime land force service branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for conducting expeditionary and amphibious operations through combi ...

and Army of the Republic of Vietnam 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. *January 8 – 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 11 –

Segregationist Racial segregation is the systematic separation of people into racial or other ethnic groups in daily life. Racial segregation can amount to the international crime of apartheid and a crime against humanity under the Statute of the Interna ...

Lester Maddox Lester Garfield Maddox Sr. (September 30, 1915 – June 25, 2003) was an American politician who served as the 75th governor of the U.S. state of Georgia from 1967 to 1971. A populist Democrat, Maddox came to prominence as a staunch segregatio ...

is sworn in as Governor of

Georgia Georgia most commonly refers to: * Georgia (country), a country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia * Georgia (U.S. state), a state in the Southeast United States Georgia may also refer to: Places Historical states and entities * Related to the ...

. *January 12 – Dr.

James Bedford James Hiram Bedford (April 20, 1893 – January 12, 1967) was an American psychology professor at the University of California who wrote several books on occupational counseling. He is the first person whose body was cryopreserved after legal de ...

becomes the first person to be cryonically preserved with the intent of future resuscitation. *January 14 **''

The New York Times ''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid d ...

'' reports that the U.S. Army is conducting secret

germ warfare Biological warfare, also known as germ warfare, is the use of biological toxins or infectious agents such as bacteria, viruses, insects, and fungi with the intent to kill, harm or incapacitate humans, animals or plants as an act of war. Bi ...

experiments. **The

Human Be-In The Human Be-In was an event held in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park Polo Fields on January 14, 1967. It was a prelude to San Francisco's Summer of Love, which made the Haight-Ashbury district a symbol of American counterculture a ...

takes place in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco; the event sets the stage for the Summer of Love. *January 15 –

Super Bowl I The first AFL–NFL World Championship Game (known retroactively as Super BowlI and referred to in contemporaneous reports, including the game's radio broadcast, as the Super Bowl) was an American football game played on January 15, 1967, at the ...

: The Green Bay Packers defeat the Kansas City Chiefs 35–10 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. *January 18 –

Albert DeSalvo Albert Henry DeSalvo (September 3, 1931 – November 25, 1973) was an American rapist and suspected serial killer in Boston, Massachusetts, who purportedly confessed to being the "Boston Strangler," the murderer of thirteen women in the Boston ...

is convicted of numerous crimes and sentenced to life in prison. *January 27 **

Apollo 1 Apollo 1, initially designated AS-204, was intended to be the first crewed mission of the Apollo program, the American undertaking to land the first man on the Moon. It was planned to launch on February 21, 1967, as the first low Earth orbita ...

: U.S. astronauts

Gus Grissom Virgil Ivan "Gus" Grissom (April 3, 1926 – January 27, 1967) was an American engineer, pilot in the United States Air Force, and member of the Mercury Seven selected by National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) as Project Mercur ...

, Ed White, and

Roger Chaffee Roger Bruce Chaffee (; February 15, 1935 – January 27, 1967) was an American naval officer, aviator and aeronautical engineer who was a NASA astronaut in the Apollo program. Chaffee was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he became an Eag ...

are killed when fire breaks out in their

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spacecraft during a launch pad test. **The United States, Soviet Union and United Kingdom sign the

Outer Space Treaty russian: link=yes, Договор о космосе es, link=yes, Tratado sobre el espacio ultraterrestre , long_name = Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, including the Moo ...

. *January 28 – The Mantra-Rock Dance, called the "ultimate high" of the hippie era, takes place in San Francisco, featuring Swami Bhaktivedanta, Janis Joplin,

The Grateful Dead The Grateful Dead was an American rock band formed in 1965 in Palo Alto, California. The band is known for its eclectic style, which fused elements of rock, folk, country, jazz, bluegrass, blues, rock and roll, gospel, reggae, world music, ...

and

Allen Ginsberg Irwin Allen Ginsberg (; June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) was an American poet and writer. As a student at Columbia University in the 1940s, he began friendships with William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, forming the core of the Beat Gener ...

February

* February 2 – The American Basketball Association is formed. * February 5 –

NASA The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA ) is an independent agencies of the United States government, independent agency of the US federal government responsible for the civil List of government space agencies, space program ...

launches ''

Lunar Orbiter 3 The Lunar Orbiter 3 was a spacecraft launched by NASA in 1967 as part of the Lunar Orbiter Program. It was designed primarily to photograph areas of the lunar surface for confirmation of safe landing sites for the Surveyor and Apollo missions. ...

''. * February 10 – The

Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution The Twenty-fifth Amendment (Amendment XXV) to the United States Constitution deals with presidential succession and disability. It clarifies that the vice president becomes president if the president dies, resigns, or is removed from office, a ...

(presidential succession and disability) is ratified. * February 13 – American researchers discover the Madrid Codices by

Leonardo da Vinci Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (15 April 14522 May 1519) was an Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who was active as a painter, Drawing, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, and architect. While his fame initially res ...

in the National Library of Spain. * February 14 – " Respect" is recorded by Aretha Franklin (to be released in April). * February 18 –

New Orleans New Orleans ( , ,New Orleans

District Attorney

Jim Garrison James Carothers Garrison (born Earling Carothers Garrison; November 20, 1921 – October 21, 1992) was the District Attorney of Orleans Parish, Louisiana, from 1962 to 1973. A member of the Democratic Party, he is best known for his investigat ...

claims he will solve the John F. Kennedy assassination, and that a conspiracy was planned in New Orleans. * February 23 – The

is enacted, outlining rules of succession of the presidency. * February 25 – The Human Be-In#2 is held in Griffith Park, Los Angeles, CA.

March

* March 7 – Jimmy Hoffa begins his 8-year sentence for attempting to bribe a jury. * March 9 –

Joseph Stalin Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili; – 5 March 1953) was a Georgian revolutionary and Soviet political leader who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953. He held power as General Secretar ...

's daughter, Svetlana Alliluyeva, defects to the USA via the U.S. Embassy in

New Delhi New Delhi (, , ''Naī Dillī'') is the capital of India and a part of the National Capital Territory of Delhi (NCT). New Delhi is the seat of all three branches of the government of India, hosting the Rashtrapati Bhavan, Parliament Ho ...

. * March 14 – The body of U.S. President

John F. Kennedy John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), often referred to by his initials JFK and the nickname Jack, was an American politician who served as the 35th president of the United States from 1961 until his assassination ...

is moved to a permanent burial place at

Arlington National Cemetery Arlington National Cemetery is one of two national cemeteries run by the United States Army. Nearly 400,000 people are buried in its 639 acres (259 ha) in Arlington, Virginia. There are about 30 funerals conducted on weekdays and 7 held on Sa ...

. * March 26 – 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 ...

. * March 29 – A 13-day TV strike begins in the U.S. * March 31 – U.S. President

signs the Consular Treaty.

April

* April 1 – The Department of Transportation begins operation. The

Federal Aviation Administration The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is the largest transportation agency of the U.S. government and regulates all aspects of civil aviation in the country as well as over surrounding international waters. Its powers include air traffic ...

is folded into the DOT. * April 4 –

Martin Luther King Jr. Martin Luther King Jr. (born Michael King Jr.; January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American Baptist minister and activist, one of the most prominent leaders in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968 ...

denounces the Vietnam War during a religious service in New York City. * April 9 – The first

Boeing 737 The Boeing 737 is a narrow-body aircraft produced by Boeing at its Boeing Renton Factory, Renton Factory in Washington (state), Washington. Developed to supplement the Boeing 727 on short and thin routes, the twinjet retains the Boeing 707, 7 ...

(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 Leslie Townes "Bob" Hope (May 29, 1903 – July 27, 2003) was a British-American comedian, vaudevillian, actor, singer and dancer. With a career that spanned nearly 80 years, Hope appeared in Bob Hope filmography, more than 70 short and ...

at Santa Monica Civic Auditorium.

Fred Zinnemann Alfred ''Fred'' Zinnemann (April 29, 1907 – March 14, 1997) was an Austrian Empire-born American film director. He won four Academy Awards for directing and producing films in various genres, including thrillers, westerns, film noir and pla ...

's '' A Man for All Seasons'' wins the most awards with six, including

Best Picture This is a list of categories of awards commonly awarded through organizations that bestow film awards, including those presented by various film, festivals, and people's awards. Best Actor/Best Actress *See Best Actor#Film awards, Best Actress#F ...

and Zinnemann's second

Best Director Best Director is the name of an award which is presented by various film, television and theatre organizations, festivals, and people's awards. It may refer to: Film awards * AACTA Award for Best Direction * Academy Award for Best Director * BA ...

award (his first since 1953).

Mike Nichols Mike Nichols (born Michael Igor Peschkowsky; November 6, 1931 – November 19, 2014) was an American film and theater director, producer, actor, and comedian. He was noted for his ability to work across a range of genres and for his aptitude fo ...

' ''

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? ''Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?'' is a play by Edward Albee first staged in October 1962. It examines the complexities of the marriage of a middle-aged couple, Martha and George. Late one evening, after a university faculty party, they receive ...

'' receives 13 nominations. * April 12 – The

Ahmanson Theatre The Ahmanson Theatre is one of the four main venues that compose the Los Angeles Music Center. History The theatre was built as a result of a donation from Howard F. Ahmanson Sr, the founder of H.F. Ahmanson & Co., an insurance and savings and ...

opens in Los Angeles. * April 14 – In

San Francisco San Francisco (; Spanish for " Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the fourth most populous in California and 17th ...

, 10,000 march against the

. * April 15 – Large demonstrations are held against the Vietnam War in New York City and San Francisco. * April 20 – The Surveyor 3 probe lands on the Moon. * April 21 – 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 Oak Lawn is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States. The population was 58,362 at the 2020 census. Oak Lawn is a suburb of Chicago, located southwest of the city. It shares borders with the city in two areas but is surrounded mostly by ...

, where 33 people are killed and 500 injured). * April 24 – ''The Outsiders'' is published. * April 28 **In

Houston Houston (; ) is the most populous city in Texas, the most populous city in the Southern United States, the fourth-most populous city in the United States, and the sixth-most populous city in North America, with a population of 2,304,580 i ...

, boxer Muhammad Ali refuses military service. **

Expo 67 The 1967 International and Universal Exposition, commonly known as Expo 67, was a general exhibition from April 27 to October 29, 1967. It was a category One World's Fair held in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is considered to be one of the most su ...

opens to the public, with over 310,000 people attending. Al Carter from Chicago is the first visitor, as noted by Expo officials.

May

National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam The Spring Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam, which became the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam, was a coalition of American antiwar activists formed in November 1966 to organize large demonstrations in o ...

established. * May 1 –

Elvis Presley Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977), or simply Elvis, was an American singer and actor. Dubbed the "Honorific nicknames in popular music, King of Rock and Roll", he is regarded as Cultural impact of Elvis Presley, one ...

and

Priscilla Beaulieu Priscilla Ann Presley ( Wagner, changed by adoption to Beaulieu; born May 24, 1945) is an American actress and businesswoman. She is the former wife of American singer Elvis Presley, as well as co-founder and former chairwoman of Elvis Presley ...

are married in Las Vegas. * May 1 – Overmyer Network launches. It would shut down a month later. * May 2 – Armed members of the Black Panther Party enter the California state capital to protest a bill that restricted the carrying of arms in public. * May 4 –

Lunar Orbiter 4 Lunar Orbiter 4 was a robotic U.S. spacecraft, part of the Lunar Orbiter Program, designed to orbit the Moon, after the three previous orbiters had completed the required needs for Apollo mapping and site selection. It was given a more general ...

is launched by the United States. * May 6 – Four hundred students seize the administration building at Cheney State College, now

Cheyney University of Pennsylvania Cheyney University of Pennsylvania is a public historically black university in Cheyney, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1837, it is the oldest university out of all historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in the United States. It is a m ...

, the oldest institute for higher education for African Americans. *May 18 **

Tennessee Tennessee ( , ), officially the State of Tennessee, is a landlocked state in the Southeastern region of the United States. Tennessee is the 36th-largest by area and the 15th-most populous of the 50 states. It is bordered by Kentucky to th ...

Governor Ellington repeals the "Monkey Law" (officially the

Butler Act The Butler Act was a 1925 Tennessee law prohibiting public school teachers from denying the Biblical account of mankind's origin. The law also prevented the teaching of the evolution of man from what it referred to as lower orders of animals ...

; see the Scopes Trial). **

announces the crew for the '' Apollo 7'' space mission (first manned Apollo flight): Walter M. Schirra Jr., Donn F. Eisele, and R. Walter Cunningham. * May 19 – The Soviet Union ratifies a treaty with the United States and the United Kingdom, banning nuclear weapons from outer space. * May 25 – The Twenty-fifth Amendment is added to the Constitution.

June

* June 2 – Luis Monge is executed in

Colorado Colorado (, other variants) is a state in the Mountain states, Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. It encompasses most of the Southern Rocky Mountains, as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the wes ...

gas chamber A gas chamber is an apparatus for killing humans or other animals with gas, consisting of a sealed chamber into which a poisonous or asphyxiant gas is introduced. Poisonous agents used include hydrogen cyanide and carbon monoxide. History ...

, in the last pre-''Furman'' execution in the United States. * June 5 – Murderer

Richard Speck Richard Benjamin Speck (December 6, 1941 – December 5, 1991) was an American mass murderer who killed eight student nurses in their South Deering, Chicago, residence via stabbing, strangling, slashing their throats, or a combination of the th ...

is sentenced to death in the electric chair for killing eight student nurses in

Chicago (''City in a Garden''); I Will , image_map = , map_caption = Interactive Map of Chicago , coordinates = , coordinates_footnotes = , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name ...

. * June 7 – Two

Moby Grape Moby Grape is an American rock band founded in 1966, known for having all five members contribute to singing and songwriting, and who collectively merged elements of folk music, blues, country, and jazz with rock and psychedelic music. They were ...

members are arrested for contributing to the delinquency of minors. * June 8 –

Six-Day War The Six-Day War (, ; ar, النكسة, , or ) or June War, also known as the 1967 Arab–Israeli War or Third Arab–Israeli War, was fought between Israel and a coalition of Arab states (primarily Egypt, Syria, and Jordan) from 5 to 10 Ju ...

– USS ''Liberty'' incident: Israeli fighter jets and Israeli warships fire at the USS ''Liberty'' off Gaza, killing 34 and wounding 171. * June 11 – A race riot occurs in

Tampa, Florida Tampa () is a city on the Gulf Coast of the United States, Gulf Coast of the U.S. state of Florida. The city's borders include the north shore of Tampa Bay and the east shore of Old Tampa Bay. Tampa is the largest city in the Tampa Bay area and ...

after the shooting death of Martin Chambers by police while allegedly robbing a camera store. The unrest lasts until June 15. * June 12 – '' Loving v. Virginia'': The

United States Supreme Court 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 ...

declares all U.S. state laws prohibiting

interracial marriage Interracial marriage is a marriage involving spouses who belong to different races or racialized ethnicities. In the past, such marriages were outlawed in the United States, Nazi Germany and apartheid-era South Africa as miscegenation. In 1 ...

to be unconstitutional. * June 13 – Solicitor General

Thurgood Marshall Thurgood Marshall (July 2, 1908 – January 24, 1993) was an American civil rights lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1967 until 1991. He was the Supreme Court's first African-A ...

is nominated as the first

African American African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans and Afro-Americans) are an ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from sub-Saharan Africa. The term "African American" generally denotes descendants of ens ...

justice of the United States Supreme Court. * June 14 –

Mariner program The Mariner program was conducted by the American space agency NASA to explore other planets. Between 1962 and late 1973, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) designed and built 10 robotic interplanetary probes named Mariner to explore the in ...

: ''

Mariner 5 Mariner 5 (Mariner Venus 1967) was a spacecraft of the Mariner program that carried a complement of experiments to probe Venus' atmosphere by radio occultation, measure the hydrogen Lyman-alpha (hard ultraviolet) spectrum, and sample the sola ...

'' is launched toward

Venus Venus is the second planet from the Sun. It is sometimes called Earth's "sister" or "twin" planet as it is almost as large and has a similar composition. As an interior planet to Earth, Venus (like Mercury) appears in Earth's sky never f ...

. * June 14–June 15 –

Glenn Gould Glenn Herbert Gould (; né Gold; September 25, 1932October 4, 1982) was a Canadian classical pianist. He was one of the most famous and celebrated pianists of the 20th century, and was renowned as an interpreter of the keyboard works of Johann ...

records

Prokofiev Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev; alternative transliterations of his name include ''Sergey'' or ''Serge'', and ''Prokofief'', ''Prokofieff'', or ''Prokofyev''., group=n (27 April .S. 15 April1891 – 5 March 1953) was a Russian composer, p ...

's Seventh Piano Sonata, Op. 83, in

New York City New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States. With a 2020 population of 8,804,190 distributed over , New York City is also the most densely populated major city in the Un ...

(his only recording of a Prokofiev composition). * June 16 – The

Monterey Pop Festival The Monterey International Pop Festival was a three-day music festival held June 16 to 18, 1967, at the Monterey County Fairgrounds in Monterey, California. The festival is remembered for the first major American appearances by the Jimi Hendrix ...

begins and is held for 3 days. * June 23 – Cold War: U.S. President

meets with Soviet Premier

Alexei Kosygin Alexei Nikolayevich Kosygin ( rus, Алексе́й Никола́евич Косы́гин, p=ɐlʲɪkˈsʲej nʲɪkɐˈla(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ kɐˈsɨɡʲɪn; – 18 December 1980) was a Soviet statesman during the Cold War. He served as the Premi ...

Glassboro, New Jersey Glassboro is a borough in Gloucester County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2010 U.S. census, the borough's population was 18,579,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, respectiv ...

. 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 26 – The Buffalo Race Riot begins, lasting until July 1; leads to 200 arrests. * June 29 – Actress

Jayne Mansfield Jayne Mansfield (born Vera Jayne Palmer; April 19, 1933 – June 29, 1967) was an American actress, singer, nightclub entertainer, and ''Playboy'' Playmate. A sex symbol of the 1950s and early 1960s while under contract at 20th Century Fox, Man ...

and two others die in an automobile crash near

Slidell, Louisiana Slidell is a city on the northeast shore of Lake Pontchartrain in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 28,781 at the 2020 census. It is part of the New Orleans− Metairie− Kenner metropolitan statistical area. Hi ...

. Mansfield's daughter,

Mariska Hargitay Mariska Magdolna Hargitay (; born January 23, 1964) is an American actress, director and philanthropist. The daughter of bodybuilder and actor Mickey Hargitay and actress Jayne Mansfield, her accolades include a Primetime Emmy Award, a Peopl ...

, is asleep in the back seat at the time of the crash and survives.

July

* July 1 –

American Samoa American Samoa ( sm, Amerika Sāmoa, ; also ' or ') is an unincorporated territory of the United States located in the South Pacific Ocean, southeast of the island country of Samoa. Its location is centered on . It is east of the Internationa ...

's first constitution becomes effective. * July 2 –

Walt Disney's Carousel of Progress Walt Disney's Carousel of Progress is a rotating theater audio-animatronic stage show attraction in Tomorrowland at the Magic Kingdom theme park at the Walt Disney World Resort in Bay Lake, Florida just outside of Orlando, Florida. Crea ...

opens at

Disneyland Disneyland is a theme park in Anaheim, California. Opened in 1955, it was the first theme park opened by The Walt Disney Company and the only one designed and constructed under the direct supervision of Walt Disney. Disney initially envision ...

. *July 5 –

Freedom of Information Act Freedom of Information Act may refer to the following legislations in different jurisdictions which mandate the national government to disclose certain data to the general public upon request: * Freedom of Information Act 1982, the Australian act * ...

becomes effective. * July 12 – After the arrest of an African-American cab driver for allegedly illegally driving around a police car and gunning it down the road,

rioting A riot is a form of civil disorder commonly characterized by a group lashing out in a violent public disturbance against authority, property, or people. Riots typically involve destruction of property, public or private. The property targeted ...

breaks out in

Newark, New Jersey Newark ( , ) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of New Jersey and the seat of Essex County and the second largest city within the New York metropolitan area.Plainfield riots also occur. * July 16 – A prison riot in

Jay, Florida Jay is a town in Santa Rosa County, Florida, United States. The population was 533 at the 2010 census. As of 2018, the population estimated by the U.S. Census Bureau was 620. It is part of the Pensacola– Ferry Pass– Brent Metropolitan ...

leaves 37 dead. * July 18 – The United Kingdom announces the closing of its

military base A military base is a facility directly owned and operated by or for the military or one of its branches that shelters military equipment and personnel, and facilitates training and operations. A military base always provides accommodations for ...

s in

Malaysia Malaysia ( ; ) is a country in Southeast Asia. The federation, federal constitutional monarchy consists of States and federal territories of Malaysia, thirteen states and three federal territories, separated by the South China Sea into two r ...

and

Singapore Singapore (), officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia. It lies about one degree of latitude () north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, bor ...

. 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. There will be two more such incidents in the following two weeks. * July 21 – The town of

Winneconne, Wisconsin Winneconne is a village in Winnebago County, Wisconsin. The population was 2,383 at the time of the 2010 census. The village is located within the Town of Winneconne. Developed along the Wolf River, the city is in the middle of the Wolf Chain ...

, announces secession from the United States because it is not included in the official maps and declares war. Secession is repealed the next day. * July 23 ** 12th Street Riot: In

Detroit Detroit ( , ; , ) is the largest city in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is also the largest U.S. city on the United States–Canada border, and the seat of government of Wayne County. The City of Detroit had a population of 639,111 at t ...

, one of the worst riots in United States history begins on 12th Street in the predominantly

inner city: 43 are killed, 342 injured and 1,400 buildings burned. **Riots break out in

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and lasts until July 24. 2 people would die and $60,000 dollars worth of damage would be dealt. It will be one of many riots that occurred during the

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. * July 29 – An explosion and fire aboard the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier in the Gulf of Tonkin leaves 134 dead. * July 30 ** Joni Eareckson breaks her neck in a diving accident, becoming a

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. This leads to her starting 'Joni and Friends', a ministry for disabled people. **The 1967 Milwaukee race riots begin, lasting through August 2 and leading to a ten-day shutdown of the city from August 1.

August

* August 1 – Race riots in the United States spread to Washington, D.C. * August 9 –

– Operation Cochise:

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begin a new operation in the Que Son Valley. * August 21 – The

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announces that it has shot down United States planes violating its airspace. * August 23 – Jimi Hendrix's debut album ''Are You Experienced'' is released in the United States. * August 25 – American Nazi Party leader George Lincoln Rockwell is assassinated in Arlington, Virginia. * August 30 –

is confirmed as the first African American Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, United States Supreme Court.

September

* September 4 –

– Operation Swift: The

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 9 – Fashion Island, one of

's first outdoor shopping malls, opens in Newport Beach, California, Newport Beach. * September 11 – Sketch comedy series ''The Carol Burnett Show'' premieres on CBS. It runs for 11 seasons, until March 1978. * September 17 – Jim Morrison and

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.

October

* October 1 – The Boston Red Sox clinch the American League pennant in one of the most memorable pennant races of all time with Boston (92-70) beating out the Minnesota Twins and Detroit Tigers by one game; Carl Yastrzemski wins the baseball's Major League Baseball Triple Crown, Triple Crown. * October 2 –

is sworn in as the first black justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. * October 3 – An X-15 research aircraft with test pilot William J. Knight establishes an unofficial world fixed-wing speed record of Mach 6.7. * October 12 –

: U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk states during a news conference that proposals by the Congress of the United States, U.S. Congress for peace initiatives are futile, because of North Vietnam's opposition. ** The St. Louis Cardinals defeat the Boston Red Sox, 4 games to 3, to win their 8th World Series Title. * 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. * October 18 – 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''. * October 19 – The ''

'' probe flies by

. * October 20 – The Patterson–Gimlin film is shot in Bluff Creek, California supposedly capturing a Bigfoot on tape. * October 21 – Tens of thousands of Vietnam War protesters march in Washington, D.C.

symbolically chants to 'levitate' The Pentagon. * October 26 – U.S. Navy pilot Early life and military career of John McCain#Prisoner of war, John McCain is shot down over North Vietnam and made a Prisoner of war, POW. His capture is announced in ''

'' and ''The Washington Post'' two days later. * October 27 – National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam#1967 March on the Pentagon, March on the Pentagon: several thousands people advance to the Pentagon to protest against the

November

* November 2 –

: U.S. President

holds a secret meeting with a group of the nation's most prestigious leaders ("the Wise Men") and asks them to suggest ways to unite the American people behind the war effort. They conclude that the American people should be given more optimistic reports on the progress of the war. * November 3 – Vietnam War – 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 (the Americans narrowly win the battle on November 22). * November 4 – Tampa Stadium in Tampa, Florida opens. * November 7 **U.S. President

signs the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, establishing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. **Carl B. Stokes is elected List of mayors of Cleveland, mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, becoming the first

mayor of a major United States city. * November 9 ** Apollo program:

launches a Saturn V rocket carrying the unmanned ''Apollo 4'' test spacecraft from Cape Kennedy. ** First issue of the magazine ''Rolling Stone'' is published in San Francisco. * November 11 – Vietnam War: In a propaganda ceremony in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 3 United States prisoners of war are released by the Viet Cong and turned over to "New Left" antiwar activist Tom Hayden. * November 17 – Vietnam War: Acting on optimistic reports he was given on November 13, U.S. President

tells his nation that, while much remained to be done, "We are inflicting greater losses than we're taking...We are making progress." * 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 29 – Vietnam War: U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara announces his resignation to become president of the World Bank. This action is due to U.S. President

's outright rejection of McNamara's early November recommendations to freeze troop levels, stop bombing North Vietnam and hand over ground fighting to South Vietnam. * November 30 – 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 4 –

: U.S. and South Vietnamese forces engage Viet Cong troops in the Mekong Delta (235 of the 300-strong Viet Cong battalion are killed). * December 5 – In New York City, Benjamin Spock and

are arrested for protesting against the

. * December 7 – The U.S. Public Health Service studies potential ray leakage from color TVs. * December 8 – ''Magical Mystery Tour (album), Magical Mystery Tour'' is released by The Beatles as an eleven-song album in the U.S. 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". * December 10 – Soul singer Otis Redding, 26, is killed when the airplane he is on crashes into Lake Monona. The crash also claims the lives of all of his five-member band; the only survivor is fellow musician Ben Cauley. * December 15 – The Silver Bridge over the Ohio River in Point Pleasant, West Virginia, collapses, killing 46. * December 19 – Professor John Archibald Wheeler uses the term ''black hole'' for the first time. * December 28 – Businesswoman Muriel Siebert becomes the first woman to own a seat on the New York Stock Exchange.

Undated

* Lonsdaleite (the rarest allotrope of carbon) is discovered in the Barringer Crater, Arizona. * The Summer of Love is held in San Francisco. * The Big Mac is introduced, initially in Pittsburgh. * Warner Bros. Pictures becomes a wholly owned subsidiary of Seven Arts Productions, thus becoming Warner Bros.-Seven Arts. *

(various riots around June, July, and August)

Ongoing

* Cold War (1947–1991) * Space Race (1957–1975) *

, U.S. involvement (1964–1973)

Births

* January 1 – Derrick Thomas, American football player (d. 2000) * January 4 – David Berman (musician), David Berman, singer-songwriter * January 7 ** Tim Donaghy, basketball player and referee ** Guy Hebert, ice hockey player ** Dave Matthews, singer and artist, lead singer of Dave Matthews Band * January 8 – R. Kelly, R&B singer-songwriter and basketball player * January 24 ** Mark Kozelek, singer and musician ** Phil LaMarr, actor, singer, and screenwriter ** John Myung, bass player and songwriter * February 5 – Chris Parnell, actor and comedian * February 13 – Carolyn Lawrence, television, film and voice actress * February 18 – John Valentin, baseball player and coach * February 20 – Kurt Cobain, singer and artist, lead singer of Nirvana (band), Nirvana (died 1994 in the United States, 1994) * March 6 – Glenn Greenwald, journalist, author, and attorney * April 18 – Maria Bello, actress and singer * April 19 – ** Steven H Silver, journalist and author ** Dar Williams, singer-songwriter and guitarist * April 20 – Lara Jill Miller, actress * April 23 – Rhéal Cormier, baseball player (d. 2021) * April 26 – Kane (wrestler), Kane, politician and pro wrestler * May 1 – Tim McGraw, country singer * May 14 – Tony Siragusa, American football player (d. 2022) * May 21 – Blake Schwarzenbach, singer and guitarist * June 3 – Anderson Cooper, television personality * June 5 ** Matt Bullard, basketball player and sportscaster ** Joe DeLoach, sprinter ** Ray Lankford, baseball player ** Ron Livingston, actor * June 20 – Nicole Kidman, Australian-born actress. * June 21 – Jim Breuer, former ''Saturday Night Live'' cast member and stand-up comedian * June 22 ** Lane Napper, actor ** Mike Sussman (TV series writer/producer), Mike Sussman, screenwriter and producer * June 29 ** Jeff Burton, stock car racing driver ** Melora Hardin, actress and singer * July 3 – Brian Cashman, businessman * July 11 ** Andy Ashby, baseball player ** Jeff Corwin, biologist and wildlife conservationist ** John Henson (comedian), John Henson, TV show host * July 16 – Will Ferrell, comedian, impressionist, actor and writer * July 18 – Vin Diesel, actor, writer, director and producer * July 23 – Philip Seymour Hoffman, actor and director (died 2014 in the United States, 2014) * July 24 – Stacey Castor, poisoner who murders two of her husbands (died 2016 in the United States, 2016) * August 11 – Joe Rogan, podcaster, comedian and martial artist * October 11 ** Artie Lange, actor, comedian and radio personality ** David Starr (racing driver), David Starr, stock car driver ** Tazz, professional wrestler and commentator ** Joshua Braff, writer * October 14 – Stephen A. Smith, sports TV personality * October 23 – LaVar Ball, businessman * October 28 – Julia Roberts, American actress * November 2 – Scott Walker (politician), Scott Walker, List of Governors of Wisconsin, 45th Governor of Wisconsin * November 13 – Kristen Gilbert, serial killer nurse who murdered four patients * November 15 **Greg Anthony, basketball player and sportscaster **E-40, rapper and actor (The Click) * November 21 – Ken Block, rally driver (died 2022 in the United States, 2022) * November 22 – Mark Ruffalo, actor and producer * November 24 – Jon Hein, radio personality * November 26 – Will Jimeno, Colombia-born Port Authority Police officer, survivor of September 11 attacks * November 27 – KC Johnson, Professor of History at Brooklyn College and the City University of New York, known for his work exposing the facts about the Duke lacrosse case, Duke Lacrosse Case * December 21 – Ervin Johnson, basketball player * Date unknown **Michael Peri, military analyst

Deaths

* January 1 – Moon Mullican, country singer (b. 1909 in the United States, 1909) * January 3 ** Stanley Borleske, sports player and coach (b. 1888 in the United States, 1888) ** Jack Ruby, assassin of Lee Harvey Oswald (b. 1911 in the United States, 1911) * January 16 – Robert J. Van de Graaff, physicist (b. 1901 in the United States, 1901) * January 17 ** Evelyn Nesbit, actress and model (b. 1884 in the United States, 1884) ** Barney Ross, boxer (b. 1909) * January 18 – Harry Antrim, actor (b. 1884 in the United States, 1884) * January 21 – Ann Sheridan, actress (b. 1915 in the United States, 1915) * January 31 – Eddie Tolan, sprinter (b. 1908 in the United States, 1908) * February 18 – J. Robert Oppenheimer, physicist (b. 1904 in the United States, 1904) * February 28 – Henry Luce, magazine publisher (b. 1898 in the United States, 1898) * March 7 – Alice B. Toklas, memoirist and autobiographer, dies in Paris (b. 1893 in the United States, 1893) * March 11 – Geraldine Farrar, operatic soprano and actress (b. 1882 in the United States, 1882) * March 30 ** Paul Clayton (folksinger), Paul Clayton, Folk music, folksinger and folklorist (b. 1931 in the United States, 1930) ** Jean Toomer, writer (b. 1894 in the United States, 1894) * April 3 – Alvin M. Owsley, diplomat (born 1888 in the United States, 1888) * April 17 – Abbie Rowe, White House photographer (b. 1905 in the United States, 1905) * May 10 ** Chuck Apolskis, American footballer (b. 1914 in the United States, 1914) ** Margaret Larkin, writer, poet, singer-songwriter, researcher, journalist and union activist (b. 1899 in the United States, 1899) * May 15 – Edward Hopper, painter (b. 1882 in the United States, 1882) * May 27 – Tilly Edinger, Paleoneurology, paleoneurologist (b. 1897 in Germany) * June 7 – Dorothy Parker, humorist, writer and critic (b. 1893 in the United States, 1893) * June 10 – Spencer Tracy, film actor (b. 1900 in the United States, 1900) * June 29 –

, film actress, dies with two others in automobile crash near Slidell, Louisiana (b. 1933 in the United States, 1933) * July 17 ** John Coltrane, jazz saxophonist (b. 1926 in the United States, 1926) ** Cyril Ring, film actor (b. 1892 in the United States, 1892) * July 22 – Carl Sandburg, writer and editor (b. 1878 in the United States, 1878) * August 22 – Gregory Goodwin Pincus, biologist, co-inventor of the combined oral contraceptive pill (b. 1903 in the United States, 1903) * August 25 ** Paul Muni, film actor (b. 1895 in Austro-Hungary) ** George Lincoln Rockwell, American Nazi Party leader (b. 1918 in the United States, 1918) * September 1 – James Dunn (actor), James Dunn, film actor (b. 1901 in the United States, 1901) * September 3 – Francis Ouimet, golfer (b. 1893 in the United States, 1893) * September 16 – Ethel May Halls, actress (b. 1882 in the United States, 1882) * September 29 – Carson McCullers, fiction writer (b. 1917 in the United States, 1917) * October 3 ** Pinto Colvig, actor, newspaper cartoonist and circus performer (b. 1892 in the United States, 1892) ** Woody Guthrie, folk musician (Huntington's disease) (b. 1912 in the United States, 1912) * October 4 – Claude C. Bloch, admiral (b. 1878 in the United States, 1878) * October 25 – Margaret Ayer Barnes, playwright, novelist and short-story writer (b. 1886 in the United States, 1886) * November 5 – Joseph Kesselring, playwright (b. 1902 in the United States, 1902) * November 7 – John Nance Garner, 32nd Vice President of the United States from 1933 to 1941 (b. 1868 in the United States, 1868) * November 15 – Alice Lake, film actress (b. 1895 in the United States, 1895) * December 3 – Peter Bocage, jazz musician (b. 1887 in the United States, 1887) * December 4 – Bert Lahr, actor, played the Cowardly Lion in ''The Wizard of Oz (1939 film), The Wizard of Oz'' (b. 1895 in the United States, 1895) * December 8 – Robert Henry Lawrence Jr., astronaut (b. 1935 in the United States, 1935) * December 10 – Otis Redding, singer, songwriter, record producer and musician (b. 1941 in the United States, 1941) * December 18 – Barry Byrne, "Prairie School" architect (b. 1883 in the United States, 1883)

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