1967 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1967?
- January 6, 1967 – Vietnam War: United States Marine Corps and ARVN troops launch “Operation Deckhouse Five” in the Mekong River delta.
- 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 4, 1967 – Lunar Orbiter program: Lunar Orbiter 3 lifts off from Cape Canaveral’s Launch Complex 13 on its mission to identify possible landing sites for the Surveyor and Apollo spacecraft.
- February 9, 1967 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Sheep in Chinese astrology.
- February 10, 1967 – The 25th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified.
- April 1, 1967 – The United States Department of Transportation begins operation.
- 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 11, 1967 – Andreas Papandreou, Greek economist and socialist politician, is imprisoned in Athens by the Greek military junta.
- 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.
- September 8, 1967 – The formal end of steam traction in the North East of England by British Railways.
- October 9, 1967 – A day after being captured, Marxist revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara is executed for attempting to incite a revolution in Bolivia.
- October 10, 1967 – The Outer Space Treaty, signed on January 27 by more than sixty nations, comes into force.
- October 12, 1967 – Vietnam War: US Secretary of State Dean Rusk states during a news conference that proposals by the U.S. Congress for peace initiatives are futile because of North Vietnam’s opposition
- October 14, 1967 – The Vietnam War: The folk singer Joan Baez is arrested concerning a physical blockade of the U.S. Army’s induction center in Oakland, California.
- October 20, 1967 – A purported bigfoot is filmed by Patterson and Gimlin.
- November 3, 1967 – Vietnam War: The Battle of Dak To begins.
- November 14, 1967 – American physicist Theodore Maiman is given a patent for his ruby laser systems, the world’s first laser.
- December 19, 1967 – Prime Minister of Australia Harold Holt is officially presumed dead.
- 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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