1967 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1967?
- January 12, 1967 – Dr. James Bedford becomes the first person to be cryonically preserved with intent of future resuscitation.
- January 14, 1967 – Counterculture of the 1960s: The Human Be-In, takes place in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, launching the Summer of Love.
- February 9, 1967 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Sheep in Chinese astrology.
- March 6, 1967 – Joseph Stalin’s daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva defects to the United States.
- March 26, 1967 – Ten thousand people gather for one of many Central Park be-ins in New York City
- April 21, 1967 – Greek military junta of 1967–1974: A few days before the general election in Greece, Colonel George Papadopoulos leads a coup d'état, establishing a military regime that lasts for seven years.
- May 23, 1967 – Egypt closes the Straits of Tiran and blockades the port of Eilat at the northern end of the Gulf of Aqaba to Israeli shipping.
- May 27, 1967 – The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy is launched by Jacqueline Kennedy and her daughter Caroline.
- June 2, 1967 – Luis Monge is executed in Colorado’s gas chamber, in the last pre-Furman execution in the United States.
- June 9, 1967 – Six-Day War: Israel captures the Golan Heights from Syria
- June 28, 1967 – Israel annexes East Jerusalem.
- July 10, 1967 – Uruguay becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
- July 12, 1967 – The Newark riots began in Newark, New Jersey.
- August 30, 1967 – Thurgood Marshall is confirmed as the first African American Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
- September 30, 1967 – BBC Light Programme, Third Programme and Home Service are replaced with BBC Radio 2, 3 and 4 Respectively, BBC Radio 1 is also launched with Tony Blackburn presenting the first show.
- October 13, 1967 – The first game in the history of the American Basketball Association is played as the Anaheim Amigos lose to the Oakland Oaks 134-129 in Oakland, California.
- October 27, 1967 – Catholic priest Philip Berrigan and others of the Baltimore Four protest the Vietnam War by pouring blood on Selective Service records.
- October 29, 1967 – Montreal’s World Fair, Expo 67, closes with over 50 million visitors.
- December 15, 1967 – The Silver Bridge collapses, killing 46 people.
- December 19, 1967 – Prime Minister of Australia Harold Holt is officially presumed dead.
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