1967

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  • Unemployment Rate: 3.8%

    Unemployment Rate: 3.8%
    More InformationMany people had jobs at this time so the economy was good in America.
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    1967

  • Johnson asks for surcharge to pay for the war

    Johnson asks for surcharge to pay for the war
    More InformationPresident Johnson, in his annual State of the Union message to Congress, asks for enactment of a 6 percent surcharge on personal and corporate income taxes to help support the Vietnam War for two years, or "for as long as the unusual expenditures associated with our efforts continue." Congress delayed for almost a year, but eventually passed the surcharge. The U.S. expenditure in Vietnam for fiscal year 1967 would be $21 billion.

  • Packers beat Chiefs in first Super Bowl

    Packers beat Chiefs in first Super Bowl
    More Information In the mid-1960s, the intense competition for players and fans between the National Football League (NFL) and the American Football League (AFL) led to talks of a possible merger. It was decided that the winners of each league's championship would meet each year in a single game to determine the "world champion of football."

  • Soviets ratify treaty banning nuclear weapons from outer space

    Soviets ratify treaty banning nuclear weapons from outer space
    More Information One of the first major treaties designed to limit the spread of nuclear weapons goes into effect as the Soviet Union ratifies an agreement banning nuclear weapons from outer space. The United States, Great Britain, and several dozen other nations had already signed and/or ratified the treaty.

  • 400 million watch The Beatles' "Our World"

    400 million watch The Beatles' "Our World"
    More Information The Beatles had signed a contract to represent the BBC, and Britain, on "Our World", the world's first live television satellite link-up to be seen by approximately 400 million people across five continents.

  • Race Riots occur across country, in Detroit.

    Race Riots occur across country, in Detroit.
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    After five days, more than 40 people are dead, hundreds are injured, and damage estimates hit $50 million.

  • Thurgood Marshall becomes the first African-American Supreme Court justice.

    Thurgood Marshall becomes the first African-American Supreme Court justice.
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    Thurgood Marshall would be on the Supreme Court for 24 years before retiring for health reasons, leaving a legacy of upholding the rights of the individual as guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution.

  • Che Guevara defeated

    Che Guevara defeated
    <a href='http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/che-guevara-defeated>>More Information</a> Played a pivotal role in the Cuban Revolution of 1956-59 and encouraged Fidel Castro to pursue his communist, anti-American agenda.
    Disappeared from Cuba in 1965 and secretly traveled to Congo, where he trained rebels, and in 1966 resurfaced in Bolivia as leader of another guerrilla group.

  • First human heart transplant

    First human heart transplant
    More Information On December 3, 1967, 53-year-old Lewis Washkansky receives the first human heart transplant at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa.
    This was a major development in medical technology that has since been built on and improved.

  • DNA created in a test tube

    DNA created in a test tube
    More Information Arthur Kornberg (pictured) and Mehran Goulian announced their success during a press conference on December 14, 1967, pointing out that the achievement would help in future studies of genetics, as well as in the search for cures to hereditary diseases and the control of viral infections.