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.
- February 10, 1967 – The 25th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified.
- February 13, 1967 – American researchers discover the Madrid Codices by Leonardo da Vinci in the National Library of Spain.
- March 14, 1967 – The body of President John F. Kennedy is moved to a permanent burial place at Arlington National Cemetery.
- March 26, 1967 – Ten thousand people gather for one of many Central Park be-ins in New York City
- May 11, 1967 – Andreas Papandreou, Greek economist and socialist politician, is imprisoned in Athens by the Greek military junta.
- June 9, 1967 – Six-Day War: Israel captures the Golan Heights from Syria
- 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.
- July 24, 1967 – During an official state visit to Canada, French President Charles de Gaulle declares to a crowd of over 100,000 in Montreal: Vive le Québec libre! (“Long live free Quebec!”). The statement, interpreted as support for Quebec independence, delighted many Quebecers but angered the Canadian government and many English Canadians.
- September 3, 1967 – Dagen H in Sweden: traffic changes from driving on the left to driving on the right overnight.
- October 4, 1967 – Omar Ali Saifuddin III of Brunei abdicates in favour of his son, His Majesty Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah.
- October 9, 1967 – A day after being captured, Marxist revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara is executed for attempting to incite a revolution 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.
- October 18, 1967 – The Soviet probe Venera 4 reaches Venus and becomes the first spacecraft to measure the atmosphere of another planet.
- November 3, 1967 – Vietnam War: The Battle of Dak To begins.
- November 11, 1967 – Vietnam War: In a propaganda ceremony in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, three American prisoners of war are released by the Viet Cong and turned over to “new left” antiwar activist Tom Hayden.
- December 6, 1967 – Adrian Kantrowitz performed the first human heart transplant in the United States.
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