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January
Pope Paul VI announced his Apostolic Constitution (Indulgentiarum Doctrina). He also established this day as World Peace Day. -
Famous People born in 1967
Note: Not actual date of birth Will Ferrel, Vin Diesel, Pamela anderson, Anna Nicole Smith, Nicole Kidman, Jamie Foxx and Macy Gray -
January
Edward W. Brooke, R-Mass., the first black elected to the U.S. Senate by popular vote, took his seat. -
January
The first Super Bowl was played as the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League defeated the Kansas City Chiefs of the American Football League, 35-10 in Los Angeles. The matchup was officially called the AFL-NFL World Championship Game. -
January
Some 16,000 US and 14,000 South Vietnamese troops started their biggest attack on the Iron Triangle, northwest of Saigon. They launched Operation Deckhouse V, an offensive in the Mekong River delta. -
January
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, Lt. Col. Edward White, II (U.S. Air Force), Lt. Col. Virgil "Gus" Grissom (U.S. Air Force) and Lt. Cmdr. Roger Chaffee (U.S. Navy). The fire consumed the command module mere seconds after the crew had reported it. -
February
The American Basketball Association (ABA) was officially born as the brainchild of promoter Dennis Murphy. He later founded the World Football League, the World Hockey Association, and World Team Tennis. -
February
Ronald Ryan becomes the last man hanged in Australia, executed for the murder of a prison guard, which he commited while escaping from prison in December 1965. -
Februaray
Black tuesday in Tasmina - massive bushfires devestate much of the Tasmaninan Capital of Hobart and surrounding areas. -
February
Gough Whitlam Defeats Dr Jim Carins and Frank Crean to replace the retiring Arthur Calwell as the leader of the federal Australian Labor Party. -
February
The National Art Gallery in Washington agreed to buy a Da Vinci for a record $5 million. -
March
The Royal Australian Navy replaces the British White Ensign flag on all its ships with the Australian White Ensign. -
April
The Australian government announces it will not ban the oral contraceptive pill, maintaining that the risk of thrombosis is very slight. -
April
Australian Roman Catholic bishops publicly declare their opposition to the war in Vietnam. -
May
The Olympic Committee banned a number of substances including narcotics, steroids and amphetamines and announced that small-scale drug-testing would begin at the 1968 Olympics in Grenoble and Mexico City. -
May
Boxer Muhammad Ali (b.1942) was indicted for refusing induction in US Army. -
May
The new Australian 5-dolllar note goes into circulation. -
June
Don Dunstan succeeds Frank Walsh as Premier of South Australia -
June
"Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band," was released in the U.K. and the following day in the U.S. and was certified "gold" the same day of release. It topped the charts all over the world, holding the number one slot in Britain for 27 weeks and for 19 in America. It received four Grammys including Best Album. -
July
Beatles' "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band," went #1 for 15 weeks. -
June
The Six Day War erupted in the Middle East as Israel, convinced an Arab attack was imminent, raided Egyptian military targets. Syria, Jordan and Iraq entered the conflict. Jordan lost the West Bank, an area of 2,270 sq. miles. War broke out as Israel reacted to the removal of UN peace-keeping troops, Arab troop movements and the barring of Israeli ships in the Gulf of Aqaba. -
June
Israel and Syria accepted a UN cease-fire. The UN brokered a cease-fire between Israel and the defeated Egypt, Syria, and Jordan, ending the Six-Day War with Israel occupying the Sinai, West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights. -
June
The US Supreme Court, in Loving v. Virginia, struck down state laws prohibiting interracial marriages. Mildred Loving (1940-2008) and her white husband, Richard (d.1975), married in 1958, had been arrested in Virginia within weeks of arriving from Washington DC and convicted on charges of "cohabiting as man and wife. -
June
President Johnson nominated Solicitor-General Thurgood Marshall to become the first black justice on the U.S. Supreme Court. The seat on the court formerly held by Justice Tom Clark was filled by the first African-American Supreme Court Justice, Thurgood Marshall. In 1967, President Lyndon Johnson convinced Clark, a fellow Texan who had served on the court since 1949, to resign so he could name Marshall to the bench. Marshall, a leading civil rights lawyer, had been the U.S. Solicitor General si -
June
The space probe Mariner 5 was launched from Cape Kennedy on a flight that took it past Venus. -
June
Gov. Reagan signed the Therapeutic Abortion Act, which permitted abortions in the first 20 weeks of pregnancy if a woman's life or health was threatened or the pregnancy was the result of rape or incest. -
June
China detonated its 1st hydrogen bomb and became the world's 4th thermo-nuclear power. -
June
The Beatles performed their new song, "All You Need Is Love," during a live international telecast from the Abbey Road studio. -
June
Mohammed Ali (Cassius Clay) was sentenced to 5 years for draft evasion. -
June
The first recognizably automated teller machine (ATM) was placed outside the Barclays PLC branch in Enfield, a north London suburb. -
July
Beatles' "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band," went #1 for 15 weeks. -
July
Beatles' "All You Need is Love" was released. -
July
Blacks in Newark rioted. 26 were killed, 1500 injured and over 1000 arrested. -
July
The Bee Gees international debut album, Bee Gees 1st is released. It spawns 3 Top 20 singles: "New York Mining Disaster 1941", "To Love Somebody" and "Holiday"; the latter was not released in the UK. -
July
Racial riots in the city of Detroit left 40 dead, 2,000 injured and 5,000 homeless in the worst riot of the summer. The rioting, looting and burning was quelled with the arrival of 4,700 paratroops dispatched by President Lyndon Johnson. Nearly all of America's large cities were wracked by racial violence during the 1965-'68 period. The event inspired Rev. William Cunningham (d.1997 at 67) to found Focus: Hope, a volunteer project that grew to become one of the largest programs in the country de -
August
Beatles' "All You Need is Love," single went #1. -
September
The Beatles drove their Magical Mystery Bus around England. -
September
Hanoi rejected a U.S. peace proposal. -
September
The British, French and German governments signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to start development of the 300 seat Airbus A300 in order to compete with American companies. Airbus Industrie was formally set up in 1970. -
October
Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American Supreme Court justice, was sworn in as an associate justice of he U.S. Supreme Court. Marshall had previously been the solicitor general, the head of the legal staff of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and a leading American civil rights lawyer. -
October
William J. Knight (d.2004), US Air Force test pilot, set a speed record in a rocket-powered X-15-2A that reached 4,520 mph. Knight later served as a California state senator (1996-2004). -
October
Walt Disney's "Jungle Book" was released. -
November
Major floods hit Lisbon, Portugal, killing 462. -
November
Vietnam War: U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara announces his resignation to become president of the World Bank. This action is due to U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson's outright rejection of McNamara's early November recommendations to freeze troop levels, stop bombing North Vietnam and hand over ground fighting to South Vietnam.