January
1st	Canada begins a year-long celebration of the 100th anniversary of the British North America Act, 1867, featuring the Expo 67 World's fair
5th	Charlie Chaplin opens his last film, A Countess From Hong Kong, in England
10th	Segregationist Lester Maddox is sworn in as Governor of Georgia
12th	Dr. James Bedford becomes the first person to be cryonically preserved with the intent of future resuscitation
13th	A military coup occurs in Togo under the leadership of Etienne Eyadema
14th	The New York Times reports that the U.S. Army is conducting secret germ warfare experiments
14th	Human Be-In takes place in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco; event sets the stage for the Summer of Love
15th	Louis Leakey announces the discovery of pre-human fossils in Kenya; he names the species Kenyapitchecus africanus
15th	The United Kingdom enters the first round of negotiations for European Economic Community membership in Rome
18th	Albert DeSalvo, the "Boston Strangler", is convicted of numerous crimes and sentenced to life in prison
18th	Jeremy Thorpe becomes leader of the UK's Liberal Party
23rd	In Munich, the trial begins of Wilhelm Harster, accused of the murder of 82,856 Jews (including Anne Frank) when he led German security police during the German occupation of the Netherlands. He is eventually sentenced to 15 years in prison
23rd	The new town of Milton Keynes (England) is founded by Order in Council
26th	The Parliament of the United Kingdom decides to nationalise 90% of the British steel industry
27th	Apollo 1: U.S. astronauts Gus Grissom, Edward Higgins White, and Roger Chaffee are killed when fire breaks out in their Apollo spacecraft during a launch pad test
27th	The Doors' self-titled debut album is released

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February
3rd	Ronald Ryan becomes the last man hanged in Australia, for murdering a guard while escaping from prison in December 1965
5th	Italy's first guided missile cruiser, the Vittorio Veneto (C550), is launched
5th	General Anastasio Somoza Debayle becomes president of Nicaragua
7th	Serious bushfires in southern Tasmania claim 62 lives
14th	Respect is recorded by Aretha Franklin. It will be released in April
15th	The Soviet Union announces that it has sent troops near the Chinese border
18th	China sends 3 People's Liberation Army divisions to Tibet
22nd	Donald Sangster becomes the new Prime Minister of Jamaica, succeeding Alexander Bustamante
24th	Moscow forbids its satellite states to form diplomatic relations with West Germany
25th	Britain's second Polaris missile submarine, HMS Renown, is launched
26th	A Soviet nuclear test is conducted at Semipalatinsk Test Site, Eastern Kazakhstan
27th	The Dutch government supports British EEC membership

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March
1st	Brazilian police arrest Franc Paul Stangli, ex-commander of Treblinka and Sobibór concentration camps
4th	The first North Sea gas is pumped ashore at Easington, East Riding of Yorkshire
4th	Queens Park Rangers become the first 3rd Division side to win the League Cup at Wembley Stadium defeating West Bromwich Albion 3-2
7th	Teamsters Union Leader Jimmy Hoffa begins his 8-year sentence for attempting to bribe a jury
9th	Joseph Stalin's daughter, Svetlana Alliluyeva, defects to the USA via the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi
13th	Moise Tshombe, ex-prime minister of Congo, is sentenced to death in absentia
14th	The body of U.S. President John F. Kennedy is moved to a permanent burial place at Arlington National Cemetery
14th	Nine executives of the German pharmaceutical company Grunenthal are charged for breaking German drug laws because of thalidomide
18th	The supertanker Torrey Canyon runs aground in between Land's End and the Scilly Isles
21st	A military coup takes place in Sierra Leone
29th	The first French nuclear submarine, Le Redoutable, is launched
29th	The SEACOM cable system is inaugurated
29th	Royal Air Force planes bomb the Torrey Canyon and sink her

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April
4th	Martin Luther King, Jr. denounces the Vietnam War during a religious service in New York City
6th	Georges Pompidou begins to form the next French government
7th	Leading up to the Six Day War, Israeli fighters shoot down 7 Syrian MIG-21s
8th	Puppet On A String by Sandie Shaw (music and text by Bill Martin and Phil Coulter) wins the Eurovision Song Contest 1967 for United Kingdom
9th	The first Boeing 737 (a 100 series) takes its maiden flight
10th	The 39th Academy Awards ceremony takes place in Los Angeles, California
14th	In San Francisco, 10,000 march against the Vietnam War
20th	The Surveyor 3 probe lands on the Moon
20th	A Globe Air Bristol Britannia turboprop crashes at Nicosia, Cyprus, killing 126 people
21st	Greece is taken over by a military dictatorship led by George Papadopoulos; ex-Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou political prisoner to December 25
21st	The Belvidere - Oak Lawn tornado outbreak strikes the upper Midwest section of the United States (in particular the Chicago area, including the suburbs of Belvidere and Oak Lawn, Illinois, where 33 people are killed and 500 injured)
24th	Vladimir Komarov becomes the first Soviet cosmonaut to die, when the parachute of his space capsule fails during re-entry
28th	In Houston, Texas, boxer Muhammad Ali refuses military service
29th	Fidel Castro announces that all intellectual property belongs to all people and that Cuba intends to translate and publish technical literature without compensation
30th	Moscow's 537m-tall TV tower is completed

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May
1st	Elvis Presley and Priscilla Beaulieu are married in Las Vegas
2nd	Harold Wilson announces that the United Kingdom has decided to apply for EEC membership
4th	Lunar Orbiter 4 is launched
6th	Hong Kong 1967 riots: Clashes between striking workers and police kill 51 and injure 800
10th	The Greek military government accuses Andreas Papandreou of treason
10th	Totenham Hotspur won The FA cup
11th	The United Kingdom and Ireland apply officially for European Economic Community membership
17th	Syria mobilises its armed forces against Israel
18th	NASA announces crew members for the Apollo 7 space mission (first manned Apollo flight): Walter M. Schirra, Jr., Donn F. Eisele, and R. Walter Cunningham
19th	The Soviet Union ratifies a treaty with the United States and the United Kingdom, banning nuclear weapons from outer space
19th	Yuri Andropov becomes KGB chief
22nd	The 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
23rd	Egypt closes the Straits of Tiran to Israeli shipping, blockading Israel's southern port of Eilat
25th	Celtic F.C. becomes the first Scottish team to reach a European Cup final and also the first to win it, beating Inter Milan 2-1
27th	The Australian referendum, 1967 passes with an overwhelming 90% support, removing, from the Australian Constitution, two discriminatory sentences referring to Indigenous Australians. It signified Australia's first step in recognising Indigenous rights
28th	The Folk-Rock band Fairport Convention plays their first gig in London
30th	Biafra, in eastern Nigeria, announces its independence

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June
1st	The Beatles release Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, nicknamed "The Soundtrack of the Summer of Love"; it would be number one on the albums charts throughout the summer of 1967
2nd	Protests in West Berlin against the arrival of the Shah of Iran turn into fights, during which young Benno Ohnesorg is killed by a police officer. His death results in the founding of the terrorist group Movement 2 June
2nd	Luis Monge executed in Colorado's Gas Chamber. Last pre-Furman execution in USA
4th	Stockport Air Disaster: British Midland flight G-ALHG crashes in Hopes Carr, Stockport, killing 72 passengers and crew
5th	Israel occupies the West Bank, Gaza Strip, Sinai peninsula and Golan Heights after defeating its Arab neighbours at the start of the Six Day war
8th	The USS Liberty incident - Israeli fighter jets and Israeli warships fire at USS Liberty off Gaza, killing 34 and wounding 171
10th	Israel and Syria agree to a United Nations-mediated cease-fire
10th	The Soviet Union severs diplomatic relations with Israel
12th	Venera 4 is launched (it will become the first space probe to enter another planet's atmosphere and successfully return data)
14th	Mariner 5 is launched toward Venus
14th	The People's Republic of China tests its first hydrogen bomb
16th	The Monterey Pop Festival begins in California, featuring acts including Jimi Hendrix and The Who, as well as the first major public performances for Janis Joplin and Otis Redding
17th	The People's Republic of China announces a successful hydrogen bomb test
25th	400 million viewers watch Our World, the first live, international, satellite television production. It features the live debut of The Beatles' song "All You Need is Love."
27th	The first automatic cash machine (voucher-based) is installed, in the office of the Barclays Bank in Enfield, England
28th	Israel declares the annexation of East Jerusalem

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July
1st	The first UK colour television broadcasts begin on BBC2. The first one is from the tennis championship at Wimbledon. A full colour service begins on BBC2 on December 2
4th	the British Parliament decriminalizes homosexuality
6th	Nigerian forces invade Biafra, following the latter's secession May 30
6th	A level crossing collision between a train loaded with children and a tanker-truck near Magdeburg, East Germany kills 94 people, mostly children
10th	Heavy massive rain and landslide occurred mainly Kobe and Kure, Japan, at least 371 reported killed
18th	The United Kingdom announces the closing of its military bases in Malaysia and Singapore. Australia and the U.S. disapprove
23rd	In Detroit, Michigan, one of the worst riots in United States history begins on 12th Street in the predominantly African American inner city (43 killed, 342 injured and 1,400 buildings burned)
24th	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, delights many Quebecers but angers the Canadian government and many English Canadians
29th	An earthquake in Caracas, Venezuela leaves 240 dead

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August
1st	Israel annexes East Jerusalem
5th	Pink Floyd releases their debut album The Piper at the Gates of Dawn in the United Kingdom
7th	A general strike in the old quarter of Jerusalem protests Israel's unification of the city
9th	Operation Cochise is initiated - United States Marines begin a new operation in the Que Son Valley
19th	West Germany receives 36 East German prisoners it has "purchased" through the border posts of Herleshausen and Wartha
21st	The People's Republic of China announces that it has shot down United States planes violating its airspace
23rd	The album, "Are You Experienced" is released by The Jimi Hendrix Experience in Canada and the United States
25th	American Nazi Party leader George Lincoln Rockwell is assassinated in Arlington, Virginia

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September
1st	Ilse Koch, also known as the "Witch of Buchenwald", commits suicide in the Bavarian prison of Aichach
2nd	Paddy Roy Bates occupies Roughs Tower and establishes the Principality of Sealand
3rd	Nguyen Van Thieu is elected President of South Vietnam
3rd	H-Day in Sweden: At 5:00 a.m. local time, all traffic in the country switches from left-hand traffic pattern to right-hand traffic
4th	Operation Swift begins - The United States Marines launch a search and destroy mission in Quang Nam and Quang Tin Provinces. The ensuing 4-day battle in Que Son Valley kills 114 Americans and 376 North Vietnamese
10th	In Gibraltar, only 44 out of 12,182 voters support union with Spain
17th	A riot occurs during a football match in Kaysei, Turkey leaving 44 dead and about 600 injured
17th	Jim Morrison and The Doors defy CBS censors on The Ed Sullivan Show, when Morrison sings the word "higher" from their #1 hit Light My Fire, despite having been asked not to
27th	RMS Queen Mary arrives in Southampton, at the end of her last transatlantic voyage
30th	BBC Radio 1, BBC Radio 2, BBC Radio 3 and BBC Radio 4 are all launched

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October
3rd	An X-15 research aircraft with test pilot William J. Knight establishes an unofficial world fixed-wing speed record of Mach 6.7
8th	Guerrilla leader Che Guevara and his men are captured in Bolivia
9th	Che Guevara executed
16th	Thirty-nine people, including singer-activist Joan Baez, are arrested in Oakland, California, for blocking the entrance of that city's military induction centre
17th	The musical Hair opens off-Broadway. It will move to Broadway the following April
18th	Walt Disney's 19th full-length animated feature The Jungle Book, the last animated film personally supervised by Disney, is released and becomes an enormous box-office and critical success. On a double bill with the film is the (now) much less well-known true-life adventure, Charlie the Lonesome Cougar
19th	The Mariner 5 probe flies by Venus
21st	Tens of thousands of Vietnam War protesters march in Washington, D.C.. Allen Ginsberg symbolically chants to 'levitate' The Pentagon
21st	An Egyptian surface-to-surface missile sinks the Israeli destroyer Eilat, killing 47 Israeli sailors. Israel retaliates by shelling Egyptian refineries along the Suez Canal
25th	The abortion bill passes into law in the British Parliament
27th	Charles De Gaulle vetoes British entry into the European Economic Community again
27th	London criminal Jack McVitie is murdered by the Kray twins, leading to their eventual imprisonment and downfall

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November
2nd	Vietnam War: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson holds a secret meeting with a group of the nation's most prestigious leaders ("the Wise Men") and asks them to suggest ways to unite the American people behind the war effort. They conclude that the American people should be given more optimistic reports on the progress of the war
3rd	The Battle of Dak To begins - Around Dak To (located about 280 miles north of Saigon near the Cambodian border) heavy casualties are suffered on both sides (the Americans narrowly win the battle on November 22)
6th	The Rhodesian parliament passes pro-Apartheid laws
8th	The BBC's very first local radio station is launched (BBC Radio Leicester)
9th	NASA launches a Saturn V rocket carrying the unmanned Apollo 4 test spacecraft from Cape Kennedy
11th	In a propaganda ceremony in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 3 United States prisoners of war are released by the Viet Cong and turned over to "New Left" antiwar activist Tom Hayden
15th	Civil rights activists in the US succeed in their campaign to extend the definition of murder to include the killing of blacks
15th	Regional Conflict General Grivas and his 10,000 strong Greek Army division forced to leave Cyprus after 24 Turkish Cypriot civilians are killed by Greek Cypriot National Guard in the villages of Kophinou and Ayios Theodhoros - relations sour between Nicosia and Athens. Turkey flies sorties into Greece territory; masses troops in Thrace on her border with Greece
17th	Acting on optimistic reports he was given on November 13, U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson tells his nation that, while much remained to be done, "We are inflicting greater losses than we're taking...We are making progress." (2 months later the Tet Offensive makes him regret his words.)
21st	United States General William Westmoreland tells news reporters: "I am absolutely certain that whereas in 1965 the enemy was winning, today he is certainly losing."
26th	Major floods hit the Lisbon region of Portugal, killing 462
30th	The People's Republic of South Yemen becomes independent of the United Kingdom

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December
1st	RMS Queen Mary is retired. Her place is taken by RMS Queen Elizabeth 2
4th	At 1850 hours, a volcano erupts on Deception Island in Antarctica
4th	U.S. and South Vietnamese forces engage Viet Cong troops in the Mekong Delta (235 of the 300-strong Viet Cong battalion are killed)
5th	In New York City, Benjamin Spock and Allen Ginsberg are arrested for protesting against the Vietnam War
9th	Nicolae Ceauşescu becomes the Chairman of the Romanian State Council, making him the de-facto leader of Romania
11th	The Concorde is unveiled in Toulouse, France
15th	The Silver Bridge over the Ohio River in Point Pleasant, West Virginia, collapses (46 dead). It has been linked to the so-called Mothman mystery
17th	Harold Holt, Australian prime minister, disappears when swimming at a beach 60 km from Melbourne
19th	Professor John Archibald Wheeler uses the term Black Hole for the first time