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 18, 1967 – Albert DeSalvo, the “Boston Strangler”, is convicted of numerous crimes and is sentenced to life imprisonment.
- February 9, 1967 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Sheep in Chinese astrology.
- March 18, 1967 – The supertanker Torrey Canyon runs aground off the Cornish coast.
- April 9, 1967 – The first Boeing 737 (a 100 series) makes its maiden flight.
- April 30, 1967 – The Aldene Connection opened in Roselle Park, NJ, shutting down the CNJ’s Jersey City waterfront terminal and transferring commuters to Newark Penn Station.
- May 22, 1967 – The L'Innovation department store in the centre of Brussels, Belgium, burns down. It is the most devastating fire in Belgian history, resulting in 323 dead and missing and 150 injured.
- June 4, 1967 – Stockport Air Disaster: British Midland flight G-ALHG crashes in Hopes Carr, Stockport, killing 72 passengers and crew.
- June 7, 1967 – Israeli forces enter Jerusalem during the Six-Day War.
- June 8, 1967 – Six-Day War: The Israeli army enters Hebron and the Cave of the Patriarchs.
- June 10, 1967 – The Six-Day War ends: Israel and Syria agree to a cease-fire.
- July 30, 1967 – Israel passes the Jerusalem Law and annexes East Jerusalem.
- August 30, 1967 – Thurgood Marshall is confirmed as the first African American Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
- October 8, 1967 – Guerrilla leader Che Guevara and his men are captured in Bolivia.
- 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.
- 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 6, 1967 – Adrian Kantrowitz performed the first human heart transplant in the United States.
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