1967 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1967?
- January 18, 1967 – Albert DeSalvo, the “Boston Strangler”, is convicted of numerous crimes and is sentenced to life imprisonment.
- January 27, 1967 – Astronauts Gus Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee are killed in a fire during a test of their Apollo 1 spacecraft at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida.
- February 9, 1967 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Sheep in Chinese astrology.
- April 1, 1967 – The United States Department of Transportation begins operation.
- April 9, 1967 – The first Boeing 737 (a 100 series) makes its maiden flight.
- April 24, 1967 – Cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov dies in Soyuz 1 when its parachute fails to open. He is the first human to die during a space mission.
- 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.
- 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.
- May 30, 1967 – The Nigerian Eastern Region declares independence as the Republic of Biafra, sparking a civil war.
- June 25, 1967 – Broadcasting of the first live global satellite television program: Our World
- August 14, 1967 – UK Marine Broadcasting Offences Act declares participation in offshore pirate radio illegal.
- August 30, 1967 – Thurgood Marshall is confirmed as the first African American Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
- September 10, 1967 – The people of Gibraltar vote to remain a British dependency rather than becoming part of Spain.
- October 10, 1967 – The Outer Space Treaty, signed on January 27 by more than sixty nations, comes into force.
- October 18, 1967 – The Soviet probe Venera 4 reaches Venus and becomes the first spacecraft to measure the atmosphere of another planet.
- October 20, 1967 – A purported bigfoot is filmed by Patterson and Gimlin.
- October 26, 1967 – Mohammad Reza Pahlavi crowns himself Emperor of Iran and then crowns his wife Farah Empress of Iran.
- October 29, 1967 – Montreal’s World Fair, Expo 67, closes with over 50 million visitors.
- December 6, 1967 – Adrian Kantrowitz performed the first human heart transplant in the United States.
- December 21, 1967 – Louis Washkansky, the first man to undergo a heart transplant, dies in Cape Town, South Africa, after living for 18 days after the transplant.
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