1967 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1967?
- February 9, 1967 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Sheep in Chinese astrology.
- April 14, 1967 – Gnassingbé Eyadéma overthrows President of Togo Nicolas Grunitzky and installs himself as the new president, a title he would hold for the next 38 years.
- 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.
- April 24, 1967 – Vietnam War: American General William Westmoreland says in a news conference that the enemy had “gained support in the United States that gives him hope that he can win politically that which he cannot win militarily.”
- 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 11, 1967 – Andreas Papandreou, Greek economist and socialist politician, is imprisoned in Athens by the Greek military junta.
- May 27, 1967 – The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy is launched by Jacqueline Kennedy and her daughter Caroline.
- May 30, 1967 – The Nigerian Eastern Region declares independence as the Republic of Biafra, sparking a civil war.
- June 5, 1967 – Six-Day War begins: The Israeli air force launches simultaneous pre-emptive attacks on the air forces of Egypt and Syria.
- June 8, 1967 – Six-Day War: The USS Liberty incident occurs, killing 34 and wounding 171.
- June 14, 1967 – Mariner program: Mariner 5 is launched toward Venus.
- August 30, 1967 – Thurgood Marshall is confirmed as the first African American Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
- September 4, 1967 – Vietnam War: Operation Swift begins: U.S. Marines engage the North Vietnamese in battle in the Que Son Valley.
- September 20, 1967 – RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 is launched at John Brown & Company, Clydebank, Scotland. It is operated by the Cunard Line.
- October 2, 1967 – Thurgood Marshall is sworn in as the first African-American justice of United States Supreme Court.
- November 2, 1967 – Vietnam War: US President Lyndon B. Johnson and “The Wise Men” conclude that the American people should be given more optimistic reports on the progress of the war.
- November 9, 1967 – Apollo program: NASA launches the unmanned Apollo 4 test spacecraft atop the first Saturn V rocket from Cape Kennedy, Florida.
- November 30, 1967 – The Pakistan Peoples Party is founded by Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto who becomes its first Chairman later as the Head of state and Head of government after the 1971 Civil War.
- December 6, 1967 – Adrian Kantrowitz performed the first human heart transplant in the United States.
- December 19, 1967 – Prime Minister of Australia Harold Holt is officially presumed dead.
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