1967's

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Event Date:	Event Title:	Event Description:
01/27/1967	Jan 27, During a launch pad test of the Apollo I (AS-204) mission at Cape Kennedy, a flash fire suddenly broke out in the vehicle's command module and killed its crew,
02/03/1967	Ronald Ryan was the last person executed in Australia.	More info on Ronald Ryan
02/08/1967	Gough Whitlam succeeds Arthur Calwell to become new Leader of the Labor Party
04/10/1967	Martin Luther King Jr. begins to speak out against the war in Vietnam.	For further info
04/15/1967	Anti-Vietnam War protest. 400,000 march from Central Park to UN. Speeches by Martin Luther King, Stokely Carmichael and Dr. Benjamin Spock	for more information
05/27/1967	90% of white Australians vote in referendum for proposal to count aborigines in the census and to allow the federal government to make special laws for them.
07/10/1967	July - Rioting throughout the summer in the US. Blacks begin protesting in Chicago, Brooklyn, Cleveland and Baltimore.
08/19/1967	, Beatles' "All You Need is Love," single went #1.
08/30/1967	The U.S. Senate confirmed the appointment of Thurgood Marshall as the first black justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
09/09/1967	The Federal Government announces it will set up the Office of Aboriginal Affairs
10/10/1967	The Outer Space Treaty, which prohibits the placing of weapons of mass destruction on the moon or elsewhere in space, entered into force.
11/13/1967	The first US African-American mayor was elected. Carl Stokes became the first black US mayor of a major US city.
12/22/1967	Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt disappears while swimming in heavy surf south of Melbourne. His body is never found	more information