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January

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January 1 January 1 is the first day of the calendar year in the Gregorian Calendar; 364 days remain until the end of the year (365 in leap years). This day is also known as New Year's Day since the day marks the beginning of the year. __TOC__ Events ...
– Canada begins a year-long celebration of the 100th anniversary of
Confederation A confederation (also known as a confederacy or league) is a political union of sovereign states united for purposes of common action. Usually created by a treaty, confederations of states tend to be established for dealing with critical issu ...
, featuring the
Expo 67 The 1967 International and Universal Exposition, commonly known as Expo 67, was a general exhibition from April 28 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 s ...
World's Fair. *
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 ...
Vietnam War The Vietnam War (1 November 1955 – 30 April 1975) was an armed conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia fought between North Vietnam (Democratic Republic of Vietnam) and South Vietnam (Republic of Vietnam) and their allies. North Vietnam w ...
:
United States Marine Corps The United States Marine Corps (USMC), also referred to as the United States Marines or simply the Marines, is the maritime land force service branch of the United States Department of Defense. It is responsible for conducting expeditionar ...
and
Army of the Republic of Vietnam The Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN; ; ) composed the ground forces of the Republic of Vietnam Military Forces, South Vietnamese military from its inception in 1955 to the Fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. Its predecessor was the ground forc ...
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 d ...
'' in the
Mekong Delta The Mekong Delta ( or simply ), also known as the Western Region () or South-western region (), is the list of regions of Vietnam, region in southwestern Vietnam where the Mekong, Mekong River River delta, approaches and empties into the sea th ...
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January 8 Events Pre-1600 * 307 – Emperor Huai of Jin, Sima Chi becomes emperor of the Jin dynasty (266–420), Jin dynasty in succession to his brother, Emperor Hui of Jin, Sima Zhong, despite a challenge from his other brother, Sima Ying. * 871 ...
– 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, search-and-destroy operation was to eradicate the Iron Triangl ...
starts, in an attempt to eliminate the Iron Triangle. *
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 ra ...
– A
military coup A military, also known collectively as armed forces, is a heavily armed, highly organized force primarily intended for warfare. Militaries are typically authorized and maintained by a sovereign state, with their members identifiable by a d ...
occurs in
Togo Togo, officially the Togolese Republic, is a country in West Africa. It is bordered by Ghana to Ghana–Togo border, the west, Benin to Benin–Togo border, the east and Burkina Faso to Burkina Faso–Togo border, the north. It is one of the le ...
under the leadership of
Étienne Eyadema Étienne, a French analog of Stephen or Steven, is a masculine given name. An archaic variant of the name, prevalent up to the mid-17th century, is Estienne. Étienne, Etienne, Ettiene or Ettienne may refer to: People Artists and entertainers * ...
. *
January 15 Events Pre-1600 *AD 69, 69 – Otho seizes power in Rome, proclaiming himself Roman emperor, Emperor of Rome, beginning a reign of only three months. *1541 – King Francis I of France gives Jean-François Roberval a commission to set ...
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 Kenya, officially the Republic of Kenya, is a country located in East Africa. With an estimated population of more than 52.4 million as of mid-2024, Kenya is the 27th-most-populous country in the world and the 7th most populous in Africa. ...
; he names the species '' Kenyapithecus africanus''. *
January 23 Events Pre-1600 * 393 – Roman emperor Theodosius I proclaims his eight-year-old son Honorius co-emperor. * 971 – Using crossbows, Song dynasty troops soundly defeat a war elephant corps of the Southern Han at Shao. * 1229 ...
** In
Munich Munich is the capital and most populous city of Bavaria, Germany. As of 30 November 2024, its population was 1,604,384, making it the third-largest city in Germany after Berlin and Hamburg. Munich is the largest city in Germany that is no ...
, the trial begins of
Wilhelm Harster Wilhelm Harster (21 July 1904 – 25 December 1991) was a German lawyer, police official and convicted war criminal. An SS-''Gruppenführer'' in the ''Schutzstaffel'' (SS), he commanded German security police and intelligence services in Kraków ...
, accused of the murder of 82,856 Jews (including
Anne Frank Annelies Marie Frank (, ; 12 June 1929 – February or March 1945)Research by The Anne Frank House in 2015 revealed that Frank may have died in February 1945 rather than in March, as Dutch authorities had long assumed"New research sheds new li ...
) 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 status in the United Kingdom, city in Buckinghamshire, England, about north-west of London. At the 2021 Census, the population of Milton Keynes urban area, its urban area was 264,349. The River Great Ouse forms t ...
in England is founded as a
new town New or NEW may refer to: Music * New, singer of K-pop group The Boyz (South Korean band), The Boyz * New (album), ''New'' (album), by Paul McCartney, 2013 ** New (Paul McCartney song), "New" (Paul McCartney song), 2013 * New (EP), ''New'' (EP), ...
by
Order in Council An Order in Council is a type of legislation in many countries, especially the Commonwealth realms. In the United Kingdom, this legislation is formally made in the name of the monarch by and with the advice and consent of the Privy Council ('' ...
, with a planning brief to become a city of 250,000 people. Its initial designated area encloses three existing towns and twenty one villages. The area to be developed is largely farmland, with evidence of permanent settlement dating back to the
Bronze Age The Bronze Age () was a historical period characterised principally by the use of bronze tools and the development of complex urban societies, as well as the adoption of writing in some areas. The Bronze Age is the middle principal period of ...
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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 dyn ...
South Vietnam South Vietnam, officially the Republic of Vietnam (RVN; , VNCH), was a country in Southeast Asia that existed from 1955 to 1975. It first garnered Diplomatic recognition, international recognition in 1949 as the State of Vietnam within the ...
ese junta leader and Prime Minister Nguyen Cao Ky forces his rival, Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Nguyen Huu Co, into exile while overseas on a diplomatic visit. *
January 26 Events Pre-1600 * 661 – The Rashidun Caliphate is effectively ended with the assassination of Ali, the last caliph. * 1531 – The 6.4–7.1 Lisbon earthquake kills about thirty thousand people. * 1564 – The Council of T ...
** The
Parliament of the United Kingdom The Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the supreme legislative body of the United Kingdom, and may also legislate for the Crown Dependencies and the British Overseas Territories. It meets at the Palace ...
decides to nationalise 90% of the nation's steel industry. ** The largest-ever blizzard to hit the US city of
Chicago Chicago is the List of municipalities in Illinois, most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States. With a population of 2,746,388, as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, it is the List of Unite ...
begins. *
January 27 Events Pre-1600 * 98 – Trajan succeeds his adoptive father Nerva as Roman emperor. * 945 – The co-emperors Stephen and Constantine are overthrown and forced to become monks by Constantine VII, who becomes sole emperor of the ...
**
Apollo 1 Apollo 1, initially designated AS-204, was planned 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 orbital ...
: U.S. astronauts
Gus Grissom Virgil Ivan "Gus" Grissom (April 3, 1926 – January 27, 1967) was an American engineer and pilot in the United States Air Force, as well as one of the original Mercury Seven selected by the NASA, National Aeronautics and Space Administration fo ...
, Ed White and Roger Chaffee are killed when fire breaks out in their
Apollo Apollo is one of the Twelve Olympians, Olympian deities in Ancient Greek religion, ancient Greek and Ancient Roman religion, Roman religion and Greek mythology, Greek and Roman mythology. Apollo has been recognized as a god of archery, mu ...
spacecraft during a launch pad test. ** The United States, Soviet Union and United Kingdom sign the
Outer Space Treaty The Outer Space Treaty, formally the Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, including the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies, is a Multilateralism, multilateral treaty that forms the bas ...
(ratified by USSR May 19; comes into force October 10), prohibiting
weapons of mass destruction A weapon of mass destruction (WMD) is a Biological agent, biological, chemical weapon, chemical, Radiological weapon, radiological, nuclear weapon, nuclear, or any other weapon that can kill or significantly harm many people or cause great dam ...
from space. *
January 31 Events Pre-1600 * 314 – Pope Sylvester I is consecrated, as successor to the late Pope Miltiades. * 1208 – The Battle of Lena takes place between King Sverker II of Sweden and his rival, Prince Eric, whose victory puts him on th ...
– West Germany and
Romania Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern and Southeast Europe. It borders Ukraine to the north and east, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, Bulgaria to the south, Moldova to ...
establish
diplomatic relations Diplomacy is the communication by representatives of state, intergovernmental, or non-governmental institutions intended to influence events in the international system.Ronald Peter Barston, ''Modern Diplomacy'', Pearson Education, 2006, p. ...
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February

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February 3 Events Pre-1600 * 1047 – Drogo of Hauteville is elected as count of the Apulian Normans during the Norman conquest of Southern Italy. * 1112 – Ramon Berenguer III, Count of Barcelona, and Douce I, Countess of Provence, marry, u ...
Ronald Ryan Ronald Joseph Ryan (21 February 1925 – 3 February 1967) was the last person to be legally executed in Australia. Ryan was found guilty of shooting and killing warder George Hodson during an escape from Pentridge Prison, Victoria, in 1965. R ...
becomes the last man hanged in Australia, for murdering a guard while escaping from prison in December 1965. *
February 5 Events Pre-1600 * *2 BC – Caesar Augustus is granted the title ''pater patriae'' by the Roman Senate. *AD 62, 62 – AD 62 Pompeii earthquake, Earthquake in Pompeii, Italy. *756 – Chinese New Year; An Lushan proclaims himself E ...
**
NASA The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA ) is an independent agencies of the United States government, independent agency of the federal government of the United States, US federal government responsible for the United States ...
launches ''
Lunar Orbiter 3 The Lunar Orbiter 3 was a spacecraft launched by NASA in 1967 as part of the Lunar Orbiter program, Lunar Orbiter Program. It was designed primarily to photograph areas of the Moon, lunar surface for confirmation of safe landing sites for the S ...
''. ** Italy's first
guided missile cruiser A cruiser is a type of warship. Modern cruisers are generally the largest ships in a fleet after aircraft carriers and amphibious assault ships, and can usually perform several operational roles from search-and-destroy to ocean escort to s ...
, the ''
Vittorio Veneto Vittorio Veneto is a city and ''comune'' situated in the Province of Treviso, in the region of Veneto, Italy, in the Cardinal direction, northeast of Italy, between the Piave and the Livenza rivers, borders with the following municipalities: Alpa ...
'', is launched. ** General
Anastasio Somoza Debayle Anastasio "Tachito" Somoza Debayle (; 5 December 1925 – 17 September 1980) was a Nicaraguan politician who served as the 53rd President of Nicaragua from 1967 to 1972 and again from 1974 to 1979. As head of the National Guard (Nicaragu ...
becomes president of
Nicaragua Nicaragua, officially the Republic of Nicaragua, is the geographically largest Sovereign state, country in Central America, comprising . With a population of 7,142,529 as of 2024, it is the third-most populous country in Central America aft ...
. *
February 6 Events Pre-1600 * 590 – Hormizd IV, king of the Sasanian Empire, is overthrown and blinded by his brothers-in-law Vistahm and Vinduyih. * 1579 – The Diocese of Manila is erected by papal bull, with Domingo de Salazar appointe ...
Alexei Kosygin Alexei Nikolayevich Kosygin (–18 December 1980) was a Soviet people, Soviet statesman during the Cold War. He served as the Premier of the Soviet Union from 1964 to 1980 and, alongside General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev, was one of its most ...
arrives in the UK for an 8-day visit. He meets The Queen on
February 9 Events Pre-1600 * 474 – Zeno (emperor), Zeno is crowned as co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire, Eastern Roman Empire *1003 – Boleslaus III, Duke of Bohemia, Boleslaus III is restored to authority with armed support from Bolesław I ...
. *
February 7 Events Pre-1600 * 457 – Leo I becomes the Eastern Roman emperor. * 987 – Bardas Phokas the Younger and Bardas Skleros, Byzantine generals of the military elite, begin a wide-scale rebellion against Emperor Basil II. * 1301 & ...
– Serious
bushfires A wildfire, forest fire, or a bushfire is an unplanned and uncontrolled fire in an area of Combustibility and flammability, combustible vegetation. Depending on the type of vegetation present, a wildfire may be more specifically identified as a ...
in southern
Tasmania Tasmania (; palawa kani: ''Lutruwita'') is an island States and territories of Australia, state of Australia. It is located to the south of the Mainland Australia, Australian mainland, and is separated from it by the Bass Strait. The sta ...
claim 62 lives and destroy 2,642.7 square kilometres (653,025.4 acres) of land. *
February 10 Events Pre-1600 * 1258 – The Siege of Baghdad ends with the surrender of the last Abbasid caliph to Hulegu Khan, a prince of the Mongol Empire. * 1306 – In front of the high altar of Greyfriars Church in Dumfries, Robert the Bru ...
– The
Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution The Twenty-fifth Amendment (Amendment XXV) to the United States Constitution addresses issues related to presidential succession and disability. It clarifies that the Vice President of the United States, vice president becomes President of th ...
(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 comin ...
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 Alexander Island, which is also known as Alexander I Island, Alexander I Land, Alexander Land, Alexander I Archipelago, and Zemlja Alexandra I, is the largest island of Antarctica. It lies in the Bellingshausen Sea west of Palmer Land, Antarcti ...
, 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 list of global issues, global issues, and to provide an active prese ...
(BAS). *
February 13 Events Pre-1600 * 962 – Emperor Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor, Otto I and Pope Pope John XII, John XII co-sign the ''Diploma Ottonianum'', recognizing John as ruler of Rome. *1258 – Siege of Baghdad (1258), Siege of Baghdad: Hulegu Kh ...
– American researchers discover the Madrid Codices by
Leonardo da Vinci Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (15 April 1452 - 2 May 1519) was an Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who was active as a painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, and architect. While his fame initially rested o ...
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, ce ...
. *
February 22 Events Pre-1600 * 1076 – Having received a letter during the Lenten synod of 14–20 February demanding that he abdicate, Pope Gregory VII excommunicates Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor. * 1316 – The Battle of Picotin, between Fer ...
**
Suharto Suharto (8 June 1921 – 27 January 2008) was an Indonesian Officer (armed forces), military officer and politician, and dictator, who was the second and longest serving president of Indonesia, serving from 1967 to 1998. His 32 years rule, cha ...
takes power from
Sukarno Sukarno (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 the Indonesian struggle for independenc ...
in
Indonesia Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania, between the Indian Ocean, Indian and Pacific Ocean, Pacific oceans. Comprising over List of islands of Indonesia, 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, ...
(see
Transition to the New Order Transition or transitional may refer to: Mathematics, science, and technology Biology * Transition (genetics), a point mutation that changes a purine nucleotide to another purine (A ↔ G) or a pyrimidine nucleotide to another pyrimidine (C ↔ ...
and
Supersemar The Order of Eleventh March (), commonly referred to by its syllabic abbreviation ''Supersemar'', was a document signed by the Indonesian President Sukarno on 11 March 1966, giving army commander Lt. Gen. Suharto authority to take whatever mea ...
). **
Donald Sangster Sir Donald Burns Sangster ON GCVO (26 October 1911 – 11 April 1967) was a Jamaican solicitor and politician, and the second Prime Minister of Jamaica. Early life Donald Burns Sangster was born in Black River in the parish of St. Elizab ...
becomes the new prime minister of
Jamaica Jamaica is an island country in the Caribbean Sea and the West Indies. At , it is the third-largest island—after Cuba and Hispaniola—of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean. Jamaica lies about south of Cuba, west of Hispaniola (the is ...
, succeeding
Alexander Bustamante Sir William Alexander Clarke Bustamante (born William Alexander Clarke; 24 February 1884 – 6 August 1977) was a Jamaican politician and Jamaica Labour Party leader, who, on Independence Day, August 6th, 1962, became the first prime minister ...
. *
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 o ...
**
Trinidad and Tobago Trinidad and Tobago, officially the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, is the southernmost island country in the Caribbean, comprising the main islands of Trinidad and Tobago, along with several List of islands of Trinidad and Tobago, smaller i ...
is the first
Commonwealth A commonwealth is a traditional English term for a political community founded for the common good. The noun "commonwealth", meaning "public welfare, general good or advantage", dates from the 15th century. Originally a phrase (the common-wealth ...
nation to join the
Organization of American States The Organization of American States (OAS or OEA; ; ; ) is an international organization founded on 30 April 1948 to promote cooperation among its member states within the Americas. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., United States, the OAS is ...
. ** The
Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution The Twenty-fifth Amendment (Amendment XXV) to the United States Constitution addresses issues related to presidential succession and disability. It clarifies that the Vice President of the United States, vice president becomes President of th ...
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. ...
– Moscow forbids its
satellite state A satellite state or dependent state is a country that is formally independent but under heavy political, economic, and military influence or control from another country. The term was coined by analogy to planetary objects orbiting a larger ob ...
s 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. * ...
– Britain's second
Polaris missile The UGM-27 Polaris missile was a two-stage solid-fuel rocket, solid-fueled nuclear warhead, 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 ...
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. * 320 – Chandragupta ...
– A Soviet nuclear test is conducted at the
Semipalatinsk Test Site The Semipalatinsk Test Site or Semipalatinsk-21 (; ), also known as "The Polygon", was the primary testing venue for the Soviet Union's nuclear weapons. It is located in Zhanasemey District, Abai Region, Kazakhstan, south of the valley of the Ir ...
, Eastern
Kazakhstan Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a landlocked country primarily in Central Asia, with a European Kazakhstan, small portion in Eastern Europe. It borders Russia to the Kazakhstan–Russia border, north and west, China to th ...
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March

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March 1 Events Pre-1600 * 509 BC – Publius Valerius Publicola celebrates the first triumph of the Roman Republic after his victory over the deposed king Lucius Tarquinius Superbus at the Battle of Silva Arsia. * 293 – Emperor Diocleti ...
**
Brazil Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest country in South America. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, fifth-largest country by area and the List of countries and dependencies by population ...
ian police arrest
Franz Stangl Franz Paul Stangl (; 26 March 1908 – 28 June 1971) was an Austrian police officer and commandant of the Nazi extermination camps Sobibor and Treblinka in World War II. Stangl, an employee of the T-4 Euthanasia Program and an SS commander ...
, ex-commander of
Treblinka Treblinka () was the second-deadliest extermination camp to be built and operated by Nazi Germany in Occupation of Poland (1939–1945), occupied Poland during World War II. It was in a forest north-east of Warsaw, south of the Treblinka, ...
and
Sobibór extermination camp Sobibor ( ; ) was an extermination camp built and operated by Nazi Germany as part of Operation Reinhard. It was located in the forest near the village of Żłobek Duży in the General Government region of German-occupied Poland. As an ext ...
s. ** Óscar Gestido is sworn in as
President of Uruguay The president of Uruguay (), officially known as the president of the Oriental Republic of Uruguay (), is the head of state and head of government of Uruguay. The president presides over the Cabinet of Uruguay, Council of Ministers, directing ...
after 15 years of collegiate government. *
March 4 Events Pre-1600 * AD 51 – Nero, later to become Roman emperor, is given the title '' princeps iuventutis'' (head of the youth). * 306 – Martyrdom of Saint Adrian of Nicomedia. * 581 – Yang Jian declares himself Emperor ...
** 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 ...
is pumped ashore at Easington, East Riding of Yorkshire, UK. **
Queens Park Rangers Queens Park Rangers Football Club, commonly abbreviated to QPR, is a professional association football club based in Shepherd's Bush, West London, England. The team currently compete in the EFL Championship, the second level of the English f ...
become the first 3rd Division side to win the English
Football League Cup The English Football League Cup, often referred to as the League Cup and currently known as the Carabao Cup for sponsorship reasons, is an annual Single-elimination tournament, knockout competition in men's domestic football in England. Orga ...
at
Wembley Stadium Wembley Stadium, currently branded as Wembley Stadium connected by EE Limited, EE for sponsorship reasons, is an association football stadium in Wembley, London. It opened in 2007 on the site of the Wembley Stadium (1923), original Wembley Sta ...
, defeating
West Bromwich Albion West Bromwich Albion Football Club (), commonly known as West Brom or The Albion, is a professional association football club based in West Bromwich, West Midlands, England. They compete in the EFL Championship, the second level of the Englis ...
3–2. *
March 9 Events Pre-1600 *141 BC – Liu Che, Posthumous name, posthumously known as Emperor Wu of Han, assumes the throne over the Han dynasty of China. *1009 – First known mention of Lithuania, in the Annals of Quedlinburg, annals of the mo ...
Joseph Stalin Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (born Dzhugashvili; 5 March 1953) was a Soviet politician and revolutionary who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until Death and state funeral of Joseph Stalin, his death in 1953. He held power as General Secret ...
's daughter,
Svetlana Alliluyeva Svetlana Iosifovna Alliluyeva (née Stalina; 28 February 1926 – 22 November 2011), later known as Lana Peters, was the youngest child and only daughter of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and his second wife Nadezhda Alliluyeva. In 1967, she bec ...
, defects to the United States via the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi. *
March 11 Events Pre-1600 * 843 – Triumph of Orthodoxy: Empress Theodora II restores the veneration of icons in the Orthodox churches in the Byzantine Empire. * 1343 – Arnošt of Pardubice becomes the last Bishop of Prague (3 March 13 ...
– The first phase of the
Cambodian Civil War The Cambodian Civil War (, Romanization of Khmer#UNGEGN, UNGEGN: ) was a civil war in Cambodia fought between the Communist Party of Kampuchea (known as the Khmer Rouge, supported by North Vietnam and China) against the government of the Ki ...
begins between the
Kingdom of Cambodia Cambodia, officially the Kingdom of Cambodia, is a country in Southeast Asia on the Indochinese Peninsula. It is bordered by Thailand to the northwest, Laos to the north, and Vietnam to the east, and has a coastline along the Gulf of Thail ...
and the
Khmer Rouge The Khmer Rouge is the name that was popularly given to members of the Communist Party of Kampuchea (CPK), and by extension to Democratic Kampuchea, which ruled Cambodia between 1975 and 1979. The name was coined in the 1960s by Norodom Sihano ...
. *
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 th ...
– The
Indonesia Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania, between the Indian Ocean, Indian and Pacific Ocean, Pacific oceans. Comprising over List of islands of Indonesia, 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, ...
n State Assembly takes all presidential powers from
Sukarno Sukarno (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 the Indonesian struggle for independenc ...
and names
Suharto Suharto (8 June 1921 – 27 January 2008) was an Indonesian Officer (armed forces), military officer and politician, and dictator, who was the second and longest serving president of Indonesia, serving from 1967 to 1998. His 32 years rule, cha ...
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 Lunar water, frozen water, in soil i ...
). *
March 13 Events Pre-1600 * 222 – Roman emperor Elagabalus is murdered alongside his mother, Julia Soaemias. He is replaced by his 14-year old cousin, Severus Alexander. * 624 – The Battle of Badr, the first major battle between the Mu ...
Moise Tshombe Moise is a given name and surname, with differing spellings in its French and Romanian origins, both of which originate from the name Moses: Moïse is the French spelling of Moses, while Moise is the Romanian spelling. As a surname, Moisè and Mo ...
, ex-prime minister of Congo, 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 H ...
** The body of U.S. President
John F. Kennedy John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), also known as JFK, was the 35th president of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. He was the first Roman Catholic and youngest person elected p ...
is moved to a permanent burial place at
Arlington National Cemetery Arlington National Cemetery is the largest cemetery in the United States National Cemetery System, one of two maintained by the United States Army. More than 400,000 people are buried in its 639 acres (259 ha) in Arlington County, Virginia. ...
. ** Nine executives of the German pharmaceutical company Grunenthal are charged with breaking German drug laws because of
thalidomide Thalidomide, sold under the brand names Contergan and Thalomid among others, is an oral administered medication used to treat a number of cancers (e.g., multiple myeloma), graft-versus-host disease, and many skin disorders (e.g., complication ...
. *
March 16 Events Pre-1600 * 1190 – Massacre of Jews at Clifford's Tower, York. * 1244 – Over 200 Cathars who refuse to recant are burnt to death after the Fall of Montségur. * 1355 – Amidst the Red Turban Rebellions, Han Lin'er, ...
– 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. *
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** ''Torrey Canyon'' oil spill: The supertanker runs aground between
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off the coast of Britain, causing the biggest oil spill in history up to that point. *
March 19 Events Pre-1600 * 1277 – The Byzantine–Venetian treaty of 1277 is concluded, stipulating a two-year truce and renewing Venetian commercial privileges in the Byzantine Empire. * 1279 – A Mongol victory at the Battle of Yamen en ...
– A referendum in
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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 ...
** A military coup takes place in
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: In ongoing campus unrest,
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, and as he attempts to deliver an address, shout him down with cries of "America is the Black man's battleground!" **
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. 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
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Jim Thompson, co-founder of the Thai Silk Company, disappears from the
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March 28 Events Pre-1600 * AD 37 – Roman emperor Caligula accepts the titles of the Principate, bestowed on him by the Senate. * 193 – After assassinating the Roman Emperor Pertinax, his Praetorian Guards auction off the throne to Did ...
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issues the
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'' Populorum progressio''. * March 29 ** The first French nuclear submarine, ''French submarine Redoutable (S611), Le Redoutable'', is launched. ** The SEACOM (Asian cable system), 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 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Consular Treaty.


April

* April 2 – A United Nations delegation arrives in Aden 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 – Martin Luther King Jr. denounces the Vietnam War during his sermon at the Riverside Church in New York City. * April 7 – Six-Day War (approach): Israeli fighters shoot down 7 Syrian MIG-21s. * April 8 – ''Puppet on a String (Sandie Shaw song), 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 ceremony to be held, hosted by Bob Hope. Academy Award for Best Picture, Best Picture goes to ''A Man for All Seasons (1966 film), A Man for All Seasons''. * April 15 ** Large demonstrations are held against the
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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 unmanned space missions, probe lands on the Moon. ** A Globe Air Bristol Britannia turboprop crashes at Nicosia, Cyprus, killing 126 people. * April 21 ** Greece suffers a military coup by a group of military officers, who establish a Greek military junta of 1967–1974, military dictatorship led by Georgios Papadopoulos; future-Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou remains a political prisoner till December 25. The dictatorship ends in 1974. ** An outbreak of tornadoes strikes the upper Midwest section of the United States (in particular the Chicago area, including the suburbs of Belvidere, Illinois, Belvidere and Oak Lawn, Illinois where 33 people are killed and 500 injured). * April 23 – A group of young leftist radicals are expelled from the Nicaraguan Socialist Party (PSN). This group goes on to found the Communist Party of Nicaragua, 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. * April 27 – Montreal, Quebec, ''
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'', a World's Fair to coincide with the Canadian Confederation centennial, officially opens with Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson igniting the Expo Flame in the Place des Nations. * April 28 ** In Houston, Texas, United States, boxer Muhammad Ali refuses military service. He is stripped of his boxing title and barred from professional boxing for the next three years. **
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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 Company, Douglas Aircraft (it becomes part of The Boeing Company three decades later). * April 29 – Fidel Castro 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 Ostankino Tower, TV tower is finished.


May

* May 1 ** Elvis Presley and Priscilla Beaulieu are married in Las Vegas. ** GO Transit, Canada's first interregional public transit system, is established. * May 2 ** The Toronto Maple Leafs win the Stanley Cup. It is their last Stanley Cup and last finals appearance to date. It will turn out to be the last game in the Original Six era. Six more teams will be added in the fall. ** British Prime Minister Harold Wilson announces that the United Kingdom has decided to apply for European Economic Community, EEC membership. * May 4 – Lunar Orbiter 4 is launched by the United States. * May 6 ** Zakir Husain is the first Muslim to become president of India. ** Hong Kong 1967 riots: Clashes between striking workers and police kill 51 and injure 800. * May 8 – The Provinces of the Philippines, Philippine province of Davao is split into three: Davao del Norte, Davao del Sur, and Davao Oriental. * May 9 – A Solar eclipse of May 9, 1967, partial solar eclipse took place. * May 10 – The Greek military government accuses Andreas Papandreou of treason. * May 11 – The United Kingdom and Ireland apply officially for European Economic Community membership. * May 15 – The Waiting period (Six-Day War), Waiting period leading up to the Six-Day War begins. * May 17 ** Syria mobilizes against Israel. ** President Gamal Abdal Nasser of Egypt demands withdrawal of the peacekeeping UN Emergency Force in the Sinai Peninsula, Sinai. U.N. Secretary-General U Thant complies (May 18). * May 18 ** Tennessee Buford Ellington, Governor Ellington repeals the "Monkey Law" (officially the Butler Act; see the Scopes Trial). ** In Mexico, schoolteacher Lucio Cabañas begins guerrilla warfare in Atoyac de Alvarez, west of Acapulco, in the state of Guerrero. **
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announces the crew for the ''Apollo 7'' space mission (the first in the Apollo series with a crew): Wally Schirra, Donn F. Eisele, and R. Walter Cunningham. * May 19 – Yuri Andropov becomes KGB chief in the Soviet Union. * May 20 – The Spring Mobilization Conference, a gathering of 700 antiwar activists is held in Washington D.C. to chart the future moves for the U.S. antiwar movement * May 22 – The ''Innovation'' department store in the centre of Brussels, Belgium, burns down. It is the most devastating fire in Belgian history, resulting in 323 dead and missing and 150 injured. * May 23 ** A significant worldwide geomagnetic flare unfolded. Radio emissions coming from the Sun jammed military surveillance radars. ** Egypt closes the Straits of Tiran to Israeli shipping, blockading Israel's southern port of Eilat, and Israel's entire Red Sea coastline. * May 27 ** Naxalite guerrilla warfare, Guerrilla War: Beginning with a peasant uprising in the town of Naxalbari, this Marxist/Maoist rebellion sputters on in the Indian countryside. The guerrillas operate among the impoverished peasants, fighting both the government security forces and private paramilitary groups funded by wealthy landowners. Most fighting takes place in the states of Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Odisha and Madhya Pradesh. ** The 1967 Australian referendum (Aboriginals), 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. * May 30 – Biafra, in eastern Nigeria, announces its independence, which is not recognized.


June

* June 2 ** Protests in West Berlin against the arrival of the Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, 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 terrorism, terrorist group ''2 June Movement''. ** Luis Monge (mass murderer), Luis Monge is executed in capital punishment in Colorado, Colorado's gas chamber, in the last Furman v. Georgia, pre-''Furman'' execution in the United States. * June 4 – Stockport air disaster: British Midland International, British Midland flight G-ALHG crashes in Hopes Carr, Stockport, killing 72 passengers and crew. * June 5 – Six-Day War begins: Israel launches Operation Focus, an attack on Egyptian Air Force airfields; the allied armies of Egypt, Syria, Iraq, and Jordan invade Israel. Battle of Ammunition Hill, start of the Jordanian campaign (1967), Jordanian campaign * 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. * June 8 ** Ras Sedr massacre in the Sinai Peninsula: a mass killing of dozens of Egyptian prisoners of war by the Israel Defense Forces. ** USS Liberty incident: a United States Navy spy ship is attacked by Israeli forces, allegedly in error, killing 34 crew. ** Egypt severs Egypt–United States relations , diplomatic relations with the United States. * June 10 ** Six-Day War ends: Israel and Syria agree to a United Nations-mediated cease-fire. ** The Soviet Union severs diplomatic relations with Israel. ** Margrethe II of Denmark, Margrethe, heir apparent to the throne of Denmark, marries French count Henri de Laborde de Monpezat. * June 11 – A race riot occurs in Tampa, Florida after the shooting death of Martin Chambers by police while he was allegedly robbing a camera store. The unrest lasts several days. * June 12 ** ''Loving v. Virginia'': The United States Supreme Court declares all U.S. state laws prohibiting interracial marriage to be unconstitutional. ** Venera program: Venera 4 is launched by the Soviet Union (the first space probe to enter another planet's atmosphere and successfully return data). * June 13 – Solicitor General Thurgood Marshall is nominated as the first African American justice of the United States Supreme Court. * June 14 – Mariner program: ''Mariner 5'' is launched toward Venus. * June 16 – The Monterey Pop Festival begins and is held for 3 days. * June 17 – The People's Republic of China tests its first hydrogen bomb. * June 18 – Eighteen British soldiers are killed in the Aden, Aden police mutiny. * June 23 – Cold War: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson meets with Soviet Premier
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in Glassboro, New Jersey, for the 3-day Glassboro Summit Conference. Johnson travels to Los Angeles for a dinner at the Century Plaza Hotel where earlier in the day thousands of war protesters clashed with L.A. police. * June 25 – 400 million viewers watch ''Our World (TV special), 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 **
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ordains 27 new cardinals (one of whom is the future Pope John Paul II). ** The 1967 Buffalo riot, 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 Town, Enfield, England. * June 28 – Israel declares the annexation of East Jerusalem. * June 30 –
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, former president of State of Katanga, Katanga and former prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is kidnapped and taken to Algeria.


July

* July 1 ** Canada celebrates its Canadian Centennial, first one hundred years of Confederation. ** The European Economic Community, EEC 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. ** Langenweddingen level crossing disaster: 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, race riots break out in Newark, New Jersey, lasting 5 days and leaving 26 dead. * July 14 – Near Newark, New Jersey, the 1967 Plainfield riots, Plainfield, NJ, riots take place. * July 16 – A prison riot in Jay, Florida, United States leaves 37 dead. * 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, United States. * 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!'' (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 – The UAC TurboTrain makes its first journey. * 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'' [...]". * August 7 **
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: 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 –
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– 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 15 – The United Kingdom Marine, &c., Broadcasting (Offences) Act 1967 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 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 –
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– 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 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 27 – The arrives in Southampton at the end of her last transatlantic crossing. * 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 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 5 – Widespread coverage of the mutilation of "Snippy" the horse. * 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 **
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: 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. **
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: The Battle of Ong Thanh takes place. * October 18 **
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: 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
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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 European Economic Community for the second time in the decade. * October 29 ** President Joseph Mobutu of the Democratic Republic of the Congo launches an offensive against mercenaries in Bukavu. **
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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. * November 2 **
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: 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 –
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– 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 9 – Apollo program:
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launches the first Saturn V rocket, successfully carrying the Apollo 4 test spacecraft from Cape Kennedy into Earth orbit. * November 11 –
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: 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 –
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: 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 (Australia, 1955), 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 –
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: 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
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.


December

* December 1 – 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. **
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: 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
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. * 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 US. * December 9 ** Nicolae Ceaușescu becomes the Chairman of the Romanian State Council, making him the de facto leader of
Romania Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern and Southeast Europe. It borders Ukraine to the north and east, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, Bulgaria to the south, Moldova to ...
. ** 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 – The Rescue Agreement setting forth rights and obligations in outer space is voted into consensus by the United Nations General Assembly. * 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 – Motorcycle daredevil Evel Knievel attempts to jump 141 feet over the Caesars Palace Fountains on the Las Vegas Strip in the United States. 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. * 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. * The Greek military junta exiles Melina Mercouri.


Births


January

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January 1 January 1 is the first day of the calendar year in the Gregorian Calendar; 364 days remain until the end of the year (365 in leap years). This day is also known as New Year's Day since the day marks the beginning of the year. __TOC__ Events ...
– Sunny Chan, Hong Kong actor * January 2 ** Tia Carrere, American actress ** Gary Larson (rugby league), Gary Larson, Australian rugby league player ** Francois Pienaar, South African rugby union player * 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 ...
– A. R. Rahman, Indian composer, singer, and music producer * January 7 ** Nick Clegg, British politician ** Irrfan Khan, Indian actor (d. 2020) ** Ricky Stuart, Australian rugby league player and coach *
January 8 Events Pre-1600 * 307 – Emperor Huai of Jin, Sima Chi becomes emperor of the Jin dynasty (266–420), Jin dynasty in succession to his brother, Emperor Hui of Jin, Sima Zhong, despite a challenge from his other brother, Sima Ying. * 871 ...
** 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 ra ...
– Suzanne Cryer, American actress * January 14 ** Kerri Green, American actress and film director ** Leonardo Ortolani, Leo Ortolani, Italian comic book author *
January 15 Events Pre-1600 *AD 69, 69 – Otho seizes power in Rome, proclaiming himself Roman emperor, Emperor of Rome, beginning a reign of only three months. *1541 – King Francis I of France gives Jean-François Roberval a commission to set ...
– 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 20 ** Wigald Boning, German actor, singer, writer and television presenter ** Kellyanne Conway, American pollster, political consultant, and pundit * January 21 – Artashes Minasian, Armenian chess grandmaster *
January 23 Events Pre-1600 * 393 – Roman emperor Theodosius I proclaims his eight-year-old son Honorius co-emperor. * 971 – Using crossbows, Song dynasty troops soundly defeat a war elephant corps of the Southern Han at Shao. * 1229 ...
** 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 dyn ...
** Nozomu Sasaki, Japanese voice actor ** Voltaire (musician), Voltaire, Cuban singer * January 29 ** Khalid Skah, Moroccan long-distance runner ** Cyril Suk, Czech tennis player *
January 31 Events Pre-1600 * 314 – Pope Sylvester I is consecrated, as successor to the late Pope Miltiades. * 1208 – The Battle of Lena takes place between King Sverker II of Sweden and his rival, Prince Eric, whose victory puts him on th ...
** Fat Mike, American musician and producer ** Roberto Palazuelos, Mexican actor


February

* February 1 – Meg Cabot, American teen author * February 4 – Sergei Grinkov, Russian figure skater (d. 1995) *
February 5 Events Pre-1600 * *2 BC – Caesar Augustus is granted the title ''pater patriae'' by the Roman Senate. *AD 62, 62 – AD 62 Pompeii earthquake, Earthquake in Pompeii, Italy. *756 – Chinese New Year; An Lushan proclaims himself E ...
– Chris Parnell, American actor, voice artist, comedian, and singer *
February 6 Events Pre-1600 * 590 – Hormizd IV, king of the Sasanian Empire, is overthrown and blinded by his brothers-in-law Vistahm and Vinduyih. * 1579 – The Diocese of Manila is erected by papal bull, with Domingo de Salazar appointe ...
– Izumi Sakai, Japanese singer (Zard) (d. 2007) *
February 10 Events Pre-1600 * 1258 – The Siege of Baghdad ends with the surrender of the last Abbasid caliph to Hulegu Khan, a prince of the Mongol Empire. * 1306 – In front of the high altar of Greyfriars Church in Dumfries, Robert the Bru ...
** Laura Dern, American actress ** Vince Gilligan, American writer, director and producer *
February 13 Events Pre-1600 * 962 – Emperor Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor, Otto I and Pope Pope John XII, John XII co-sign the ''Diploma Ottonianum'', recognizing John as ruler of Rome. *1258 – Siege of Baghdad (1258), Siege of Baghdad: Hulegu Kh ...
– Carolyn Lawrence, American actress and voice actress * February 14 ** Manuela Maleeva, Bulgarian born-Swiss tennis player ** Mark Rutte, Dutch politician, 50th Prime Minister of the Netherlands since 2010. ** Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou, British-Greek entrepreneur ** Bernie Moreno, American politician and businessman * February 16 – Paul Paddick, singer and actor (The Wiggles) * February 18 ** Roberto Baggio, Italian football player ** Colin Jackson, British former sprint and hurdling athlete * February 19 – Benicio del Toro, Puerto Rican actor * February 20 ** Kurt Cobain, American musician (Nirvana (band), Nirvana) (d. 1994) ** David Herman, American actor ** Andrew Shue, American actor and activist ** Lili Taylor, American actress *
February 22 Events Pre-1600 * 1076 – Having received a letter during the Lenten synod of 14–20 February demanding that he abdicate, Pope Gregory VII excommunicates Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor. * 1316 – The Battle of Picotin, between Fer ...
– Paul Lieberstein, American screenwriter and actor *
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. * 320 – Chandragupta ...
** Currie Graham, Canadian actor ** Kazuyoshi Miura, Japanese footballer * February 27 – Jonathan Ive, British industrial designer (Apple Inc.)


March

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March 1 Events Pre-1600 * 509 BC – Publius Valerius Publicola celebrates the first triumph of the Roman Republic after his victory over the deposed king Lucius Tarquinius Superbus at the Battle of Silva Arsia. * 293 – Emperor Diocleti ...
** George Eads, American actor ** Rosyam Nor, Malaysian actor * March 3 – Hans Teeuwen, Dutch comedian *
March 4 Events Pre-1600 * AD 51 – Nero, later to become Roman emperor, is given the title '' princeps iuventutis'' (head of the youth). * 306 – Martyrdom of Saint Adrian of Nicomedia. * 581 – Yang Jian declares himself Emperor ...
** 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 – Jean-Pierre Barda, Swedish singer (Army of Lovers) *
March 9 Events Pre-1600 *141 BC – Liu Che, Posthumous name, posthumously known as Emperor Wu of Han, assumes the throne over the Han dynasty of China. *1009 – First known mention of Lithuania, in the Annals of Quedlinburg, annals of the mo ...
– Nikolas Vogel, German actor and news camera operator (d. 1991) *
March 11 Events Pre-1600 * 843 – Triumph of Orthodoxy: Empress Theodora II restores the veneration of icons in the Orthodox churches in the Byzantine Empire. * 1343 – Arnošt of Pardubice becomes the last Bishop of Prague (3 March 13 ...
** John Barrowman, Scottish-American actor and singer ** 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 th ...
– Massimiliano Frezzato, Italian comic writer *
March 13 Events Pre-1600 * 222 – Roman emperor Elagabalus is murdered alongside his mother, Julia Soaemias. He is replaced by his 14-year old cousin, Severus Alexander. * 624 – The Battle of Badr, the first major battle between the Mu ...
** Andrés Escobar, Colombian football player (d. 1994) ** Roger Schmidt (footballer), Roger Schmidt, German football player and coach * March 15 – Naoko Takeuchi, Japanese artist *
March 16 Events Pre-1600 * 1190 – Massacre of Jews at Clifford's Tower, York. * 1244 – Over 200 Cathars who refuse to recant are burnt to death after the Fall of Montségur. * 1355 – Amidst the Red Turban Rebellions, Han Lin'er, ...
** 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 Events Pre-1600 * 37 – Roman Senate annuls Tiberius' will and proclaims Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus ''(aka Caligula = Little Boots)'' emperor.Tacitus, ''Annals'' V.10. * 1068 – An earthquake in the Levant and the Ar ...
** Taiten Kusunoki, Japanese actor and voice artist ** Andre Rison, American pro football player *
March 19 Events Pre-1600 * 1277 – The Byzantine–Venetian treaty of 1277 is concluded, stipulating a two-year truce and renewing Venetian commercial privileges in the Byzantine Empire. * 1279 – A Mongol victory at the Battle of Yamen en ...
– Sandra Dombrowski, Swiss ice hockey player and referee *
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 ...
– 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 29 – Nathalie Cardone, French actress and singer * 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 5 – Anu Garg, Indian-American writer and speaker * April 6 ** Kathleen Barr, Canadian voice actress ** 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 ** Melina Kanakaredes, American actress ** Eleonora De Angelis, Italian voice actress * April 24 – Dino Rađa, Croatian basketball player * April 26 – Marianne Jean-Baptiste, English actress, singer-songwriter, composer and director * April 27 – Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands, King of the Netherlands * April 29 ** Curtis Joseph, Canadian hockey player ** Rachel Williams (model), Rachel Williams, American model, actress and television presenter * April 30 – Steven Mackintosh, English actor


May

* May 1 ** Scott Coffey, American actor and director ** Kenny Hotz, Canadian entertainer ** Myriam Hernández, Chilean singer ** Tim McGraw, American country singer * May 4 ** Ana Gasteyer, American actress ** Ronny Jackson, American politician and physician ** Akiko Yajima, Japanese voice actress * May 5 ** Takehito Koyasu, Japanese voice actor ** Bill Ward (actor), Bill Ward, English actor * May 8 – Angus Scott (television presenter), Angus Scott, British sports television presenter * May 10 – Nobuhiro Takeda, Japanese footballer and sportscaster * May 11 – 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 * 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 – Brooke Smith (actress), Brooke Smith, American actress * 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 ** Eddie McClintock, American actor ** Kristen Pfaff, American bassist (d. 1994) * May 27 ** 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 – Noel Gallagher, British musician (Oasis (band), Oasis) * May 31 – Sandrine Bonnaire, French actress


June

* June 1 – Roger Sanchez, American DJ * June 3 ** Anderson Cooper, American television journalist ** Tamás Darnyi, Hungarian swimmer ** Christopher Walker (athlete), Christopher Walker, Gibraltarian triathlete and cyclist * June 5 ** 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 – Rubén Maza, Venezuelan long-distance runner * June 10 – Elizabeth Wettlaufer, Canadian nurse and serial killer * June 15 – Fred Tatasciore, American voice actor * June 16 ** Jürgen Klopp, German former footballer and former 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 – Yoko Minamino, ''Japanese Idol'' star and actress * June 24 – Richard Kruspe, German rock musician (Rammstein) * June 26 ** Kaori Asoh, Japanese voice actress and singer ** Luisito Espinosa, Filipino boxer * June 28 – 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 ** Robert Więckiewicz, Polish film and television actor


July

* July 1 ** 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 5 ** Mustafa Al-Kadhimi, Iraqi politician, Prime Minister of Iraq ** Silvia Ziche, Italian comics artist * 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 ** 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 ** Patrick J. Kennedy, American politician ** Valérie Pécresse, French 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 ** Will Ferrell, American actor, comedian, and screenwriter ** Mihaela Stanulet, Romanian artistic gymnast * July 17 – Regina Lund, Swedish actress and singer * July 18 – Vin Diesel, American actor and film producer * 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 * 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) * July 30 ** Marisol Espinoza, Peruvian politician, 1st Vice President of Peru ** A. W. Yrjänä, Finnish rock musician and poet * July 31 ** 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 Lunar water, frozen water, in soil i ...
) ** 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 ** Ida Mahmudah, Indonesian politician * August 4 ** Tom Anderson (politician), Tom Anderson, American partner at Optima Public Relations ** Arbaaz Khan, Indian actor * August 5 – Patrick Baumann (basketball), Patrick Baumann, Swiss basketball executive and player and coach (d. 2018) * August 7 – 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 * 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 * 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 * August 27 – Ogie Alcasid, Filipino singer-songwriter, comedian, parodist, and actor * 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


September

* September 3 ** Daron Acemoglu, Turkish-born economist ** Drena De Niro, American actress ** Luis Gonzalez (outfielder, born 1967), Luis Gonzalez, American baseball player * 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 ** Tim "Ripper" Owens, American rock singer (Judas Priest, Iced Earth, Yngwie Malmsteen) * September 16 – Alain Claude Bilie By Nze, Demographics of Gabon, Gabonese politician, 13th Prime Minister of Gabon, Prime Minister of Gabon * September 18 – Tara Fitzgerald, British actress * September 19 – Aleksandr Karelin, Russian Greco-Roman wrestler * September 20 – Kristen Johnston, American actress * September 21 – Faith Hill, American country singer * September 22 – Félix Savón, Cuban boxer * 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 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.
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) ** 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 – Guy Pearce, English-born Australian actor * October 6 ** Bruno Bichir, Mexican actor ** Sergi López Segú, Spanish footballer (d. 2006) * October 7 – 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 * 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'') ** Nathalie Tauziat, French tennis player * 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 – Jacqueline McKenzie, Australian actress * October 27 – Scott Weiland, American musician (d. 2015) * October 28 ** Julia Roberts, American actress ** Sophie, Hereditary Princess of Liechtenstein ** Margaret Kilgallen, American visual artist (d. 2001) * 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 * 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) * November 5 – Judy Reyes, American actress * November 6 **Pervin Buldan, Turkish-Kurdish politician **Rebecca Schaeffer, American actress (d. 1989) * November 7 ** David Guetta, French DJ and record producer ** Sharleen Spiteri, Scottish singer-songwriter * November 8 – Courtney Thorne-Smith, American actress * November 11 – Gil de Ferran, Brazilian race car driver (d. 2023) * 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 * November 16 – Lisa Bonet, American actress * November 20 – Teoman (singer), Teoman, Turkish rock singer and songwriter * November 22 ** Boris Becker, German tennis player ** Mark Ruffalo, American actor ** Bart Veldkamp, Dutch-born speed skater * November 23 – Salli Richardson, American actress * November 25 – Anthony Nesty, Surinamese swimmer * November 28 – Anna Nicole Smith, American model and actress (d. 2007)


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 13 ** Jamie Foxx, African-American actor and singer ** Yūji Oda, Japanese singer and actor * December 14 – Hanne Haugland, Norwegian high jumper * 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 (high jumper), Charles Austin, American Olympic athlete * December 21 – Mikheil Saakashvili, Georgian politician, 3rd President of Georgia and Governor of Odessa Oblast * December 22 ** 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 – 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 23 Events Pre-1600 * 393 – Roman emperor Theodosius I proclaims his eight-year-old son Honorius co-emperor. * 971 – Using crossbows, Song dynasty troops soundly defeat a war elephant corps of the Southern Han at Shao. * 1229 ...
– 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. * 945 – The co-emperors Stephen and Constantine are overthrown and forced to become monks by Constantine VII, who becomes sole emperor of the ...
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, 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 Events Pre-1600 * 314 – Pope Sylvester I is consecrated, as successor to the late Pope Miltiades. * 1208 – The Battle of Lena takes place between King Sverker II of Sweden and his rival, Prince Eric, whose victory puts him on th ...
– Eddie Tolan, American athlete (b. 1908)


February

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February 3 Events Pre-1600 * 1047 – Drogo of Hauteville is elected as count of the Apulian Normans during the Norman conquest of Southern Italy. * 1112 – Ramon Berenguer III, Count of Barcelona, and Douce I, Countess of Provence, marry, u ...
– Joe Meek, English record producer and sound engineer (b. 1929) *
February 6 Events Pre-1600 * 590 – Hormizd IV, king of the Sasanian Empire, is overthrown and blinded by his brothers-in-law Vistahm and Vinduyih. * 1579 – The Diocese of Manila is erected by papal bull, with Domingo de Salazar appointe ...
** Martine Carol, French actress (b. 1920) ** Henry Morgenthau Jr., United States Secretary of the Treasury during World War II (b. 1891) *
February 7 Events Pre-1600 * 457 – Leo I becomes the Eastern Roman emperor. * 987 – Bardas Phokas the Younger and Bardas Skleros, Byzantine generals of the military elite, begin a wide-scale rebellion against Emperor Basil II. * 1301 & ...
– 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, Holy Roman Emperor, Otto I and Pope Pope John XII, John XII co-sign the ''Diploma Ottonianum'', recognizing John as ruler of Rome. *1258 – Siege of Baghdad (1258), Siege of Baghdad: Hulegu Kh ...
– Abelardo L. Rodríguez, substitute president of Mexico (1932-1934) (b. 1889) * February 14 **Forough Farrokhzad, Iranian poet, writer and filmmaker (b. 1934) **Sig Ruman, German actor (b. 1884) * February 15 – 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. ...
– 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 ** 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 – Alice B. Toklas, American personality (b. 1877) *
March 11 Events Pre-1600 * 843 – Triumph of Orthodoxy: Empress Theodora II restores the veneration of icons in the Orthodox churches in the Byzantine Empire. * 1343 – Arnošt of Pardubice becomes the last Bishop of Prague (3 March 13 ...
– Geraldine Farrar, American soprano (b. 1882) * March 23 – Pete Johnson (musician), Pete Johnson, American boogie-woogie and jazz pianist, songwriter (b. 1904) * March 25 – Johannes Itten, Swiss painter (b. 1888) * March 27 – Jaroslav Heyrovský, Czech chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1890) * March 30 – Jean Toomer, American writer (b. 1894) * March 31 ** 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 – 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, first Chancellor of Germany, Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany (b. 1876) ** William Boyle, 12th Earl of Cork, British admiral of the fleet (b. 1873) * April 22 – Tom Conway, British actor (b. 1904) * April 23 – Edgar Neville, Spanish playwright and film director (b. 1899) * April 24 – Vladimir Komarov, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1927) * April 25 – Joseph Boxhall, British sailor, fourth officer of the (b. 1884) * April 27 – 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 ** The Andrews Sisters, Laverne Andrews, American singer (b. 1911) ** Elmer Rice, American playwright (b. 1892) * May 10 – Lorenzo Bandini, Italian Formula One driver (b. 1935) * May 12 – John Masefield, English poet and novelist (b. 1878) * May 13 – Lance Sharkey, Australian Communist leader (b. 1898) * May 15 – Edward Hopper, American painter (b. 1882) * May 18 – Andy Clyde, Scottish actor (b. 1892) * May 20 – Bosman di Ravelli, South African concert pianist, composer, and writer (b. 1882) * 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 ** Langston Hughes, American writer, novelist, playwright, and columnist (b. 1901) ** Josip Plemelj, Slovene mathematician (b. 1873) * May 27 – Tilly Edinger, German-born American scientist, founder of paleoneurology (b. 1897) * May 29 – Georg Wilhelm Pabst, Austrian film director (b. 1885) * May 30 – Claude Rains, British actor (b. 1889) * May 31 – Billy Strayhorn, American composer and pianist (b. 1915)


June

* June 2 – Ivan Miller (journalist), Ivan Miller, Canadian journalist and sportscaster (b. 1898) * June 3 – Arthur Tedder, 1st Baron Tedder, British air force officer, Marshal of the Royal Air Force (b. 1890) * June 5 – 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 26 – Françoise Dorléac, French actress (b. 1942) * June 29 ** Primo Carnera, Italian boxer (b. 1906) ** Jayne Mansfield, American actress (b. 1933)


July

* July 1 – Gerhard Ritter, German historian (b. 1888) * July 8 – Vivien Leigh, English actress (b. 1913) * July 9 ** Eugen Fischer, German professor of medicine, anthropology and eugenics (b. 1874) ** Fatima Jinnah, Pakistan's "Mother of the Nation" (b. 1893) * 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 Luthuli, 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) * July 31 – Richard Kuhn, Austrian chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900)


August

* August 1 ** Richard Kuhn, Austrian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900) ** Adrien Arcand, Canadian politician (b. 1899) * August 2 – Walter Terence Stace, British philosopher (b. 1886) * August 9 ** Joe Orton, English playwright (b. 1933) ** Anton Walbrook, Austrian actor (b. 1896) * August 13 – Jane Darwell, American actress (b. 1879) * August 15 ** Luis A. Eguiguren, Peruvian historian and politician (b. 1887) ** 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 G. 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 2 – 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 16 – Pavlo Tychyna, Ukrainian poet, translator, publicist, public activist, academician, and statesman. (b. 1891) * September 18 – John Cockcroft, Sir 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 ** Pinto Colvig, American actor, newspaper cartoonist and circus performer (b. 1892) ** Woody Guthrie, American folk musician (b. 1912) ** Sir Malcolm Sargent, English conductor (b. 1895) * 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 N. Hinshelwood, Sir Cyril Hinshelwood, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897) ** André Maurois, French author (b. 1885) ** 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 14 – Marcel Aymé, French writer (b. 1902) * October 17 – Puyi, 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 20 – Józef Skoczyński, Polish Roman Catholic priest and social activist (b. 1903) * 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 24 – Karl Ristenpart, German conductor (b. 1900) * December 26 – Sydney Barnes, English cricketer (b. 1873) * 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


References


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