Major Events
- Feb 22 25,000 US and South Vietnamese troops launch Operation Junction City against the Viet Cong. Largest US airborne assault since World War II.
- Apr 24 Vietnam War: American General William Westmoreland says in a news conference that the enemy had "gained support in the United States that gives him hope that he can win politically that which he cannot win militarily."
- Jun 5 Six-Day War begins between Israel and the neighboring Arab states of Egypt, Jordan and Syria
- Jul 6 Nigerian Civil War erupts as Nigerian forces invade the secessionist state of Biafra
- Nov 28 1st radio pulsars detected by British postgraduate Jocelyn Bell Burnell and her supervisor Antony Hewish at Cambridge University
- Dec 3 First human heart transplant performed in South Africa by Dr. Christiaan Barnard on Louis Washkansky
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1967 in Film & TV
- Jun 25 First global satellite television program: "Our World" broadcast features 19 acts representing 19 nations including The Beatles singing "All You Need Is Love"
- Jul 11 "The Newlywed Game" premieres in the US on ABC TV
- Aug 13 "Bonnie and Clyde" crime film directed by Arthur Penn and starring Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway, is released
- Aug 29 Final TV episode of "The Fugitive" starring David Janssen watched by 78 million people
- Dec 11 "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner", directed by Stanley Kramer, starring Spencer Tracy, Sidney Poitier and Katharine Hepburn, premieres in NYC (Hepburn - Academy Award for Best Actress 1968)
- Dec 16 "Playtime", French film directed by Jacques Tati, starring himself, is released
1967 in Music
- Mar 31 1st time Jimi Hendrix burns his guitar (and his fingers) at Finsbury Park Astoria theater in London: the guitar sold at auction for nearly $500K, the building is currently a church
- Apr 29 Aretha Franklin releases her single "Respect" (written by Otis Redding); Billboard Song of the Year, 1967
- May 12 Track Records releases "Are You Experienced" album by the Jimi Hendrix Experience - one of the most influential debut albums ever
- May 26 EMI rush releases The Beatles' album "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" in London and select markets in the UK, prior to nation-wide release; it would go to number one for 15 weeks in the US and 22 weeks in the UK
- Jul 1 The Beatles' album "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" goes #1 in the United States, stays there for 15 weeks
- Nov 27 The Beatles release their album "Magical Mystery Tour" in US; issued as an EP in UK in December
1967 in Sport
- May 14 NY Yankee Mickey Mantle hits career HR #500 off Baltimore Oriole's Stu Miller
Did You Know?
Harold Holt, Prime Minister of Australia, vanishes in mysterious circumstances while swimming near Melbourne
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Tim McGraw
Nicole Kidman
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Jason Statham
Faith Hill
Julia Roberts
R. Kelly
Dave Matthews
Kurt Cobain
Vanilla Ice
Deion Sanders
Riddick Bowe
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Thomas Muster
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Fun Fact About 1967
A purported bigfoot is filmed at Bluff Creek by Roger Patterson and Robert Gimlin in Northern California
Jack Ruby
Robert Oppenheimer
Konrad Adenauer
Elmer Rice
Dorothy Parker
Che Guevara
Spencer Tracy
Jayne Mansfield
Vivien Leigh
Basil Rathbone
Paul Muni
Ina Boyle
Langston Hughes
John Coltrane
Brian Epstein
Woody Guthrie
Otis Redding
Gerald Patterson
Eddie Eagan
Primo Carnera
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Articles About 1967
Apollo 1 Fire
The command module of Apollo 1 the day after the fatal fire that killed 3 astronautsJanuary 27
Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
One of the most famous album covers in music history, The Beatles' Sgt Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band, designed by artists Peter Blake and Jann HaworthMay 26
Six-Day War
Egyptian aircraft destroyed by an Israeli airstrike at the beginning of the Six-Day War on June 5, 1967June 5
Sweden Switches to Driving on the Right Hand Side
Kungsgatan, Stockholm, on Dagen H (switch-over day)September 3
Pirates Put BBC Broadcasting to the Sword
Deprived of their music over the airwaves, British pop fans of the early 60s were happy to turn to "seawaves" and tune in to pirate radio stations.September 30
The Motherland Calls
The Motherland Calls statue in Volvograd, RussiaOctober 15
Famous Weddings in 1967
- Jan 10 Dutch Princess Margret marries Pieter van Vollenhoven
- Feb 14 American actress Raquel Welch (26) weds American film producer Patrick Curtis (27) in Paris, France; divorce in 1972
- Feb 16 Hairdresser and businessman Vidal Sassoon (39) weds actress Beverly Adams (21)
Famous Divorces in 1967
- Jan 5 Actor Lee Marvin (42) divorces Elizabeth Ebeling after 14 years of marriage
- Jan 10 Actor Christopher Plummer (37) divorces columnist Patricia Lewis after nearly 5 years of marriage
- Apr 6 American singer-songwriter Harry Nilsson (25) divorces Sandi McTaggart (23) in Los Angeles, California, after 2-1/2 years of marriage
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