In
Munich, the trial begins for
Wilhelm Harster, accused of the murder of 82,856 Jews (including
Anne Frank) when he led German security police during the German occupation of the Netherlands. He is eventually sentenced to 15 years in prison.[1]
Milton Keynes (England) is founded as a
new town by
Order in Council, with a planning brief to become a city of 250,000 people. Its initial designated area enclosed three existing towns and twenty one villages. The area to be developed was largely farmland, with
evidence of permanent settlement dating back to the
Bronze Age.
The United States, Soviet Union and United Kingdom sign the
Outer Space Treaty (ratified by USSR May 19; comes into force October 10), prohibiting
weapons of mass destruction from space.
February 18 –
New Orleans District Attorney
Jim Garrison claims he will solve the John F. Kennedy assassination, and that a conspiracy was planned in New Orleans.
The
Indonesian State Assembly takes all presidential powers from
Sukarno and names
Suharto as acting president (Suharto resigned in
1998).
The Velvet Underground's first album, The Velvet Underground & Nico, is released in the United States. It is initially a commercial failure but receives widespread critical and commercial acclaim in later years.
Vietnam War: In ongoing campus unrest,
Howard University students protesting the Vietnam War, the
ROTC program on campus and the draft, confront Gen.
Lewis Hershey, then head of the U.S.
Selective Service System, and as he attempts to deliver an address, shout him down with cries of "America is the Black man's battleground!"
Charles Manson is released from
Terminal Island. Telling the authorities that prison had become his home, he requested permission to stay. Upon his release, he relocates to San Francisco where he spends the
Summer of Love.[4]
April 1 – A new South Vietnamese constitution is adopted.
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.
Oral arguments begin in the landmark
Supreme Court of the United States case Loving v. Virginia, 388 U.S. 1 (1967), challenging the State of Virginia's statutory scheme to prevent marriages between persons solely on the basis of racial classifications.[citation needed]
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.
An outbreak of tornadoes strikes the upper Midwest section of the United States (in particular the Chicago area, including the suburbs of
Belvidere and
Oak Lawn, Illinois[8] where 33 people are killed and 500 injured).
In
Houston, Texas, boxer
Muhammad Ali refuses military service. He is stripped of his boxing title and barred from professional boxing for the next three years.
Expo 67 opens to the public, with over 310,000 people attending. Al Carter from Chicago is the first visitor as noted by Expo officials.
The
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.
Harold Wilson announces that the United Kingdom has decided to apply for
EEC membership.
Zakir Husain is the first Muslim to become president of India.
Four hundred students seize the administration building at Cheyney State College, now
Cheyney University of Pennsylvania, the oldest institute for higher education for African Americans.[why?]
Hong Kong 1967 riots: Clashes between striking workers and police kill 51 and injure 800.
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.[11]
NaxaliteGuerrilla 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.[13]
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.
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.
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.[19]
July 22 – King Kong Escapes is released in Japan, becoming the fourth entry in the King Kong franchise. It is based on the Saturday-morning cartoon, The King Kong Show, which is airing at the time.
July 23–
31 –
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.
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 [...]".[20] The date of the discovery is not recorded.[citation needed]
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).[22]
Beatles manager
Brian Epstein is found dead in his locked bedroom.
August 29 – The final episode of The Fugitive airs on
ABC. The broadcast attracts 78 million viewers, one of the largest audiences for a single episode in U.S. television history.
Vietnam War: U.S. Secretary of State
Dean Rusk states during a news conference that, because of
North Vietnam's opposition, proposals by the
U.S. Congress for peace initiatives are futile.
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.
Walt Disney's 19th full-length animated feature 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.[26][27]
Approximately 70,000
Vietnam War protesters march in Washington, D.C. and rally at the Lincoln Memorial; in a successive march that day, 50,000 people march to
the Pentagon, where
Allen Ginsberg,
Abbie Hoffman, and
Jerry Rubin symbolically chant to "levitate" the building and "exorcise the evil within."
An
Egyptian surface-to-surface missile sinks the
Israeli destroyer Eilat, killing 47 Israeli sailors. Israel retaliates by shelling Egyptian refineries along the
Suez Canal.
U.S. Navy pilot
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.
Vietnam War: U.S. President
Lyndon B. Johnson holds a secret meeting with a group of the nation's most prestigious leaders ("the Wise Men") and asks them to suggest ways to unite the American people behind the war effort. They conclude that the American people should be given more optimistic reports on the progress of the war.[29]
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.[citation needed]
Test pilot
Michael Adams is killed when his
X-15 rocket plane tumbles out of control during atmospheric re-entry and disintegrates.
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.)[citation needed]
French author
Régis Debray is sentenced to 30 years imprisonment in
Bolivia. (He will be released in 1970 after less than three years imprisonment.)
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 Green Bay Packers become the first team in the modern era to win their third consecutive NFL Championship. They defeat the Dallas Cowboys 21–17 in what becomes known as "The Ice Bowl".
Motorcycle daredevil
Evel Knievel attempts to jump 141 feet over the
Caesars Palace Fountains on the
Las Vegas Strip. Knievel crashes on landing and the accident is caught on film.
Gunsmoke, after 12 seasons and with declining ratings, almost gets cancelled, but protests from viewers, network affiliates and even members of
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.[37]
^"Ceausescu Elected Romanian President; 'Soviet Men' Demoted", Hartford Courant, December 10, 1967, p22
^Baines, Mary.
"History". St Christopher's.
Archived from the original on September 11, 2012. Retrieved August 8, 2012.
^Enslow, Sam (1990). The art of prehispanic Colombia : an illustrated cultural and historical survey. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland.
ISBN0899504248.
OCLC20827619.
1967 – Headlines A report from Michael Wallace of WCBS Newsradio 880 (WCBS-AM New York) Part of WCBS 880's celebration of 40 years of newsradio.
1967 – The Year in Sound An Audiofile produced by Lou Zambrana of WCBS Newsradio 880 (WCBS-AM New York) Part of WCBS 880's celebration of 40 years of newsradio.
In
Munich, the trial begins for
Wilhelm Harster, accused of the murder of 82,856 Jews (including
Anne Frank) when he led German security police during the German occupation of the Netherlands. He is eventually sentenced to 15 years in prison.[1]
Milton Keynes (England) is founded as a
new town by
Order in Council, with a planning brief to become a city of 250,000 people. Its initial designated area enclosed three existing towns and twenty one villages. The area to be developed was largely farmland, with
evidence of permanent settlement dating back to the
Bronze Age.
The United States, Soviet Union and United Kingdom sign the
Outer Space Treaty (ratified by USSR May 19; comes into force October 10), prohibiting
weapons of mass destruction from space.
February 18 –
New Orleans District Attorney
Jim Garrison claims he will solve the John F. Kennedy assassination, and that a conspiracy was planned in New Orleans.
The
Indonesian State Assembly takes all presidential powers from
Sukarno and names
Suharto as acting president (Suharto resigned in
1998).
The Velvet Underground's first album, The Velvet Underground & Nico, is released in the United States. It is initially a commercial failure but receives widespread critical and commercial acclaim in later years.
Vietnam War: In ongoing campus unrest,
Howard University students protesting the Vietnam War, the
ROTC program on campus and the draft, confront Gen.
Lewis Hershey, then head of the U.S.
Selective Service System, and as he attempts to deliver an address, shout him down with cries of "America is the Black man's battleground!"
Charles Manson is released from
Terminal Island. Telling the authorities that prison had become his home, he requested permission to stay. Upon his release, he relocates to San Francisco where he spends the
Summer of Love.[4]
April 1 – A new South Vietnamese constitution is adopted.
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.
Oral arguments begin in the landmark
Supreme Court of the United States case Loving v. Virginia, 388 U.S. 1 (1967), challenging the State of Virginia's statutory scheme to prevent marriages between persons solely on the basis of racial classifications.[citation needed]
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.
An outbreak of tornadoes strikes the upper Midwest section of the United States (in particular the Chicago area, including the suburbs of
Belvidere and
Oak Lawn, Illinois[8] where 33 people are killed and 500 injured).
In
Houston, Texas, boxer
Muhammad Ali refuses military service. He is stripped of his boxing title and barred from professional boxing for the next three years.
Expo 67 opens to the public, with over 310,000 people attending. Al Carter from Chicago is the first visitor as noted by Expo officials.
The
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.
Harold Wilson announces that the United Kingdom has decided to apply for
EEC membership.
Zakir Husain is the first Muslim to become president of India.
Four hundred students seize the administration building at Cheyney State College, now
Cheyney University of Pennsylvania, the oldest institute for higher education for African Americans.[why?]
Hong Kong 1967 riots: Clashes between striking workers and police kill 51 and injure 800.
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.[11]
NaxaliteGuerrilla 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.[13]
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.
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.
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.[19]
July 22 – King Kong Escapes is released in Japan, becoming the fourth entry in the King Kong franchise. It is based on the Saturday-morning cartoon, The King Kong Show, which is airing at the time.
July 23–
31 –
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.
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 [...]".[20] The date of the discovery is not recorded.[citation needed]
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).[22]
Beatles manager
Brian Epstein is found dead in his locked bedroom.
August 29 – The final episode of The Fugitive airs on
ABC. The broadcast attracts 78 million viewers, one of the largest audiences for a single episode in U.S. television history.
Vietnam War: U.S. Secretary of State
Dean Rusk states during a news conference that, because of
North Vietnam's opposition, proposals by the
U.S. Congress for peace initiatives are futile.
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.
Walt Disney's 19th full-length animated feature 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.[26][27]
Approximately 70,000
Vietnam War protesters march in Washington, D.C. and rally at the Lincoln Memorial; in a successive march that day, 50,000 people march to
the Pentagon, where
Allen Ginsberg,
Abbie Hoffman, and
Jerry Rubin symbolically chant to "levitate" the building and "exorcise the evil within."
An
Egyptian surface-to-surface missile sinks the
Israeli destroyer Eilat, killing 47 Israeli sailors. Israel retaliates by shelling Egyptian refineries along the
Suez Canal.
U.S. Navy pilot
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.
Vietnam War: U.S. President
Lyndon B. Johnson holds a secret meeting with a group of the nation's most prestigious leaders ("the Wise Men") and asks them to suggest ways to unite the American people behind the war effort. They conclude that the American people should be given more optimistic reports on the progress of the war.[29]
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.[citation needed]
Test pilot
Michael Adams is killed when his
X-15 rocket plane tumbles out of control during atmospheric re-entry and disintegrates.
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.)[citation needed]
French author
Régis Debray is sentenced to 30 years imprisonment in
Bolivia. (He will be released in 1970 after less than three years imprisonment.)
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 Green Bay Packers become the first team in the modern era to win their third consecutive NFL Championship. They defeat the Dallas Cowboys 21–17 in what becomes known as "The Ice Bowl".
Motorcycle daredevil
Evel Knievel attempts to jump 141 feet over the
Caesars Palace Fountains on the
Las Vegas Strip. Knievel crashes on landing and the accident is caught on film.
Gunsmoke, after 12 seasons and with declining ratings, almost gets cancelled, but protests from viewers, network affiliates and even members of
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.[37]
^"Ceausescu Elected Romanian President; 'Soviet Men' Demoted", Hartford Courant, December 10, 1967, p22
^Baines, Mary.
"History". St Christopher's.
Archived from the original on September 11, 2012. Retrieved August 8, 2012.
^Enslow, Sam (1990). The art of prehispanic Colombia : an illustrated cultural and historical survey. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland.
ISBN0899504248.
OCLC20827619.
1967 – Headlines A report from Michael Wallace of WCBS Newsradio 880 (WCBS-AM New York) Part of WCBS 880's celebration of 40 years of newsradio.
1967 – The Year in Sound An Audiofile produced by Lou Zambrana of WCBS Newsradio 880 (WCBS-AM New York) Part of WCBS 880's celebration of 40 years of newsradio.