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.
- February 9, 1967 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Sheep in Chinese astrology.
- April 27, 1967 – Expo 67 officially opens in Montreal, Canada with a large opening ceremony broadcast around the world. It opens to the public the next day.
- April 29, 1967 – After refusing induction into the United States Army the day before (citing religious reasons), Muhammad Ali is stripped of his boxing title.
- 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 24, 1967 – Egypt imposes a blockade and siege of the Red Sea coast of Israel.
- May 27, 1967 – Australians vote in favor of a constitutional referendum granting the Australian government the power to make laws to benefit Indigenous Australians and to count them in the national census.
- June 12, 1967 – Venera program: Venera 4 is launched (it will become the first space probe to enter another planet’s atmosphere and successfully return data).
- June 14, 1967 – Mariner program: Mariner 5 is launched toward Venus.
- June 27, 1967 – The world’s first ATM is installed in Enfield Town, England, United Kingdom.
- September 4, 1967 – Vietnam War: Operation Swift begins: U.S. Marines engage the North Vietnamese in battle in the Que Son Valley.
- September 8, 1967 – The formal end of steam traction in the North East of England by British Railways.
- September 20, 1967 – RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 is launched at John Brown & Company, Clydebank, Scotland. It is operated by the Cunard Line.
- October 8, 1967 – Guerrilla leader Che Guevara and his men are captured in Bolivia.
- October 9, 1967 – A day after being captured, Marxist revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara is executed for attempting to incite a revolution in Bolivia.
- November 5, 1967 – The Hither Green rail crash in the United Kingdom kills 49 people. Survivors include Robin Gibb of the Bee Gees.
- November 7, 1967 – Carl B. Stokes is elected as Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, becoming the first African American mayor of a major American city.
- November 9, 1967 – Apollo program: NASA launches the unmanned Apollo 4 test spacecraft atop the first Saturn V rocket from Cape Kennedy, Florida.
- December 3, 1967 – At Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa, a transplant team headed by Christiaan Barnard carries out the first heart transplant on a human (53-year-old Louis Washkansky).
- December 19, 1967 – Prime Minister of Australia Harold Holt is officially presumed dead.
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