Timeline 1967
Return to home
1967 Jan 1, Pope
Paul VI announced his Apostolic Constitution (Indulgentiarum Doctrina).
He also established this day as World Peace Day.
(http://tinyurl.com/ah8ck9)(SFC, 1/2/99, p.C12)
1967 Jan 3, Mary Garden (b.1874),
Scottish opera star, died in Inverurie, Scotland.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Garden)
1967 Jan 3, Jack Ruby (55), the
man who shot accused presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, died in a
Dallas hospital.
(AP, 1/3/98)
1967 Jan 5, Ronald Reagan was
sworn in as Gov. of California.
(SSFC, 6/9/02, p.F7)
1967 Jan 6, Some 16,000 US and
14,000 South Vietnamese troops started their biggest attack on the Iron
Triangle, northwest of Saigon. They launched Operation Deckhouse V, an
offensive in the Mekong River delta.
(AP, 1/6/98) (HN, 1/6/99)
1967 Jan 10, National Educational
Television (forerunner of Public Broadcasting Service) operated as a
true network for the 1st time as it carried Pres. Johnson's State of
the Union address.
(AP, 1/10/07)
1967 Jan 10, Edward W. Brooke,
R-Mass., the first black elected to the U.S. Senate by popular vote,
took his seat.
(AP, 1/10/98)
1967 Jan 11, Segregationist Lester
Maddox (1915-2003) was inaugurated as governor of Georgia.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lester_Maddox)
1967 Jan 12, HAL, the
Heuristically Programmed Algorithmic Computer, from the 1968 Arthur C.
Clark and Stanley Kubrick movie/book, became operational at the HAL
plant in Urbana, Illinois. The book "HAL’s Legacy: 2001’s Computer as
Dream and Reality" was published in 1997 by MIT Press. The birthday in
the movie was 1/12/92.
(SFEC, 1/12/97, p.C14)(SFC, 1/25/97,
p.E1)(SFEC, 3/16/97, Par p.31)(WSJ, 10/3/97, p.A8)
1967 Jan 13, In Togo Lt. Col.
Etienne Eyadama (29) led an army coup and overthrew Pres. Grunitzky.
Eyadama suspended the constitution and instituted direct military rule.
(EWH, 1st ed., p.1172)
1967 Jan 14, Sonny and Cher’s "The
Beat Goes On" peaked at #6 on the pop charts. In 1999 the TV special
“And the Beat Goes On: The Sonny and Cher Story,” written by Sonny Bono
(1935-1998), was produced.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beat_Goes_On)(www.imdb.com/title/tt0185155/)
1967 Jan 14, NY Times reported
that the US Army was conducting secret germ warfare experiments.
(www.economicexpert.com/a/1967.htm)
1967 Jan 14, The great Human Be-In
was held in Golden Gate Park and drew national attention to the
Haight-Ashbury scene. Allen Cohen, editor of a paper called the Oracle,
came up with the idea. It was here that Timothy Leary proclaimed "Turn
on, Tune in, Drop out." At the Gathering of the Tribes Allen Ginsberg
is credited with coining the term "Flower Power."
(SFC, 5/19/96,City Guide, p.5)(SFEC, 4/6/97,
p.A11)(SSFC, 1/14/07, p.A10)
1967 Jan 15, The Rolling Stones
appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show.
(www.crazyabouttv.com/edsullivanshow.html)
1967 Jan 15, The first Super Bowl
was played as the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League
defeated the Kansas City Chiefs of the American Football League, 35-10
in Los Angeles. The matchup was officially called the AFL-NFL World
Championship Game.
(WSJ, 1/28/97, p.A16)(AP, 1/15/98)
1967 Jan 15, Some 462 Yale faculty
members called for an end to the bombing in North Vietnam.
(HN, 1/15/99)
1967 Jan 16, Alan S. Boyd was
sworn in as the first US secretary of transportation.
(AP, 1/16/98)
1967 Jan 16, Gov. Reagan met with
FBI agents at his governor’s mansion in Sacramento, Ca., for
information on UC campus radicals.
(SSFC, 6/9/02, p.F1)
1967 Jan 17, Barney Ross
(1909), Jewish boxer born as Dov-Ber Rasofsky, died. He won the
lightweight title in 1933 and the welterweight crown in 1934. In 2006
Douglas Century authored the biography “Barney Ross.”
(www.ibhof.com/ross.htm)(WSJ, 3/17/06, p.W7)
1967 Jan 18, Albert DeSalvo, who
claimed to be the "Boston Strangler," was convicted in Cambridge,
Mass., of armed robbery, assault and sex offenses. Sentenced to life,
DeSalvo was killed by a fellow inmate in 1973. DeSalvo had confessed to
being the Boston Strangler and killing 13 women. He was never convicted
of murder. A portrait of him with police interviews was made in 1996
for TV show Biography. In 1999 DNA evidence was sought to confirm
DeSalvo's claims.
(SFC, 6/6/96, E9)(AP, 1/18/98)(SFC, 7/10/99, p.A4)
1967 Jan 20, Clark Kerr, president
of the UC system, was fired by Gov. Reagan and the UC Regents for being
too soft on student protesters at Berkeley. In 2003 Kerr authored vol.
2 of his memoir: "The Gold and the Blue: A Personal Memoir of the Univ.
of California.
(SSFC, 2/17/02, p.M6)(SSFC, 6/9/02, p.F6)
1967 Jan 27, During a launch pad
test of the Apollo I (AS-204) mission at Cape Kennedy, a flash fire
suddenly broke out in the vehicle's command module and killed its crew,
Lt. Col. Edward White, II (U.S. Air Force), Lt. Col. Virgil "Gus"
Grissom (U.S. Air Force) and Lt. Cmdr. Roger Chaffee (U.S. Navy). The
fire consumed the command module mere seconds after the crew had
reported it.
(AP, 1/27/98)(HNPD, 1/27/99)
1967 Jan 27, The US signed the
Outer Space Treaty with Russia. More than 60 nations signed a treaty
banning the orbiting of nuclear weapons. All weapons of mass
destruction were banned from orbit, as was military activity on the
moon and other celestial bodies.
(SFC, 1/28/67, p.A1)(AP, 1/27/98)(SSFC, 7/15/07,
p.D1)
1967 Jan 27, Luigi Tenco (29), one
of Italy's most famous modern singers, was found dead in his hotel room
with a single gunshot wound to the head, hours after learning that his
song had been eliminated from a national music competition. In 2006
prosecutors exhumed his body and said they had laid to rest suspicions
that he had been murdered.
(Reuters, 2/16/06)
1967 Jan 29, Thirty-seven
civilians were killed by a U.S. helicopter attack in Vietnam.
(HN, 1/29/99)
1967 Jan, Ernesto "Che" Guevara
began organizing the National Liberation Army in
Bolivia.
(SFC, 5/12/96, Z1p.4)
1967 Feb 1, The US Federal Hourly
Minimum Wage was set at $1.40 an hour.
(www.dol.gov/ESA/minwage/chart.htm)
1967 Feb 2, The American
Basketball Association (ABA) was officially born as the brainchild of
promoter Dennis Murphy. He later founded the World Football League, the
World Hockey Association, and World Team Tennis.
(www.hoophall.com/genrel/070307aaa.html)
1967 Feb 3, Ronald Ryan (b.1925)
was the last person executed in Australia.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Ryan)
1967 Feb 5, “The Smothers Brothers
Comedy Hour” premiered on CBS TV.
(AP, 2/5/07)
1967 Feb 6, Muhammad Ali (b.1942)
TKO’d Ernie Terrell (b.1939) in 15 for the heavyweight boxing title.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernie_Terrell)
1967 Feb 7, Henry Morgenthau
(b.1891), 52nd US secretary of the treasury, died. He served under
President Franklin D. Roosevelt from January 1, 1934 to July 22, 1945.
(www.ustreas.gov/education/history/secretaries/hmorgenthaujr.html)
1967 Feb 10, The 25th Amendment to
the Constitution, dealing with presidential disability and succession,
went into effect as Minnesota and Nevada adopted it.
(HFA, '96, p.22)(AP, 2/10/08)
1967 Feb 14, Ramparts Magazine
published an ad in the NY Times and Washington Post saying: “In its
March issue, Ramparts magazine will document how the CIA has
infiltrated and subverted the world of American student leaders over
the past fifteen years.”
(WSJ, 1/23/08,
p.D8)(www.nytimes.com/books/first/m/mackenzie-secrets.html)
1967 Feb 15, Thirteen US
helicopters were shot down in one day in Vietnam.
(HN, 2/15/98)
1967 Feb 15, The 1st anti-bootleg
recording laws were enacted.
(www.historyorb.com/events/date/1967)
1967 Feb 15, France launched its
Diademe-D satellite into Earth orbit. This followed the launch of
Diademe-C on Feb 8. These satellites were magnetically stabilized which
limited their trackability in the southern hemisphere.
(http://ilrs.gsfc.nasa.gov/satellite_missions/list_of_satellites/di1c_general.html)
1967 Feb 17, Beatles released
"Penny Lane" & "Strawberry Fields." Strawberry Fields was a
children’s home run by the Salvation Army. It was closed in 2005.
(http://www.jpgr.co.uk/r5570.html)(SFC, 6/2/05, p.E8)
1967 Feb 18, The National Art
Gallery in Washington agreed to buy a Da Vinci for a record $5 million.
(HN, 2/18/98)
1967 Feb 18, Robert Oppenheimer
(62), theoretical physicist and leader of atomic bomb development,
died. His work included outlining processes by which old stars of
sufficient mass might collapse beyond the Schwarzschild radius and
become black holes. Physicist John Wheeler named the phenomena black
holes. In 2005 Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin authored “American
Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer,” and
Priscilla J. McMillan authored “The Ruin of J. Robert Oppenheimer.”
(SFC, 12/19/98, p.C3)(SSFC, 4/10/05, p.B1)(SSFC,
7/31/05, p.F2)
1967 Feb 20, Kurt Cobain, Nirvana
grunge band musician, was born in Aberdeen, Washington. He was found
dead at his Lake Washington home on April 8, 1994, of suicide committed
about April 5.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Cobain)
1967 Feb 20, Elvis Presley
released his album "How Great Thou Art." The song “How Great Thou Art”
is a Christian hymn based on a Swedish poem written by Carl Gustav
Boberg (1859-1940) in Sweden in 1885.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_Great_Thou_Art_(album))
1967 Feb 21, Ford recalled 217,000
cars to check brakes and steering.
(HN, 2/21/98)
1967 Feb 22, Barbara Garson's
"MacBird!," a notorious counterculture drama, premiered in NYC. It
satirically depicted President Lyndon Johnson as Macbeth and his wife,
Lady Bird Johnson, as Lady Macbeth.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacBird)
1967 Feb 22, A report from Africa
indicated that the world's first white gorilla had been found.
(HN, 2/22/98)
1967 Feb 22, More than 25,000 US
and South Vietnamese troops launched Operation Junction City, aimed at
smashing a Vietcong stronghold near the Cambodian border. In order to
deny the Vietcong cover, and allow men to see through the dense
vegetation, herbicides were dumped on the forests near the South
Vietnamese borders as well as Cambodia and Laos. The operation
continued to May 14.
(HN, 2/22/99)(AP, 2/22/07)(HN,
2/23/98)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Junction_City)
1967 Feb 24, Franz Waxman
(b.1906), German born composer, died in Los Angeles. In 1947 he founded
the Los Angeles International Music Festival. Waxman won the Academy
Award in 1950 for Billy Wilder's "Sunset Boulevard" and in 1951 for
George Steven's "A Place in the Sun." He is the only composer to have
won the award for Best Score in two successive years.
(www.franzwaxman.com/about.html)
1967 Feb 26, USSR performed an
underground nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan, Semipalitinsk, USSR.
(http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/res/pi/Monitoring/Arch/sts-table/sts-table.html)
1967 Feb 28, In Mississippi 19
were indicted in the slayings of three civil rights workers in 1964.
Samuel H. Bowers and 6 others were convicted on federal charges in
1970. Bowers was released in 1976.
(HN, 2/28/98)(SFC, 8/18/98, p.A5)
1967 Feb 28, Art Davidson, Ray
Genet and Dave Johnston completed the first winter ascent of Mount
McKinley. On their descent they became trapped by a storm for 6 days at
18,500 feet in an ice-cave. In 1969 Art Davidson authored “Minus
148°.”
(WSJ, 4/28/07,
p.P8)(www.summitpost.org/parent/150199/mount-mckinley-denali.html)
1967 Feb 28, Henry Luce (68),
American publisher, died in Phoenix. He and Briton Hadden published the
first issue of Time magazine on March 3, 1923.
(AP,
2/28/07)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Luce)
1967 Feb, The song Georgy Girl
reached the top of the US charts making The Seekers the first
Australian group to top the US charts. The song was used in the 1966
British film of the same title.
(www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/alley/4567/)
1967 Mar 1, US Rep. Adam Clayton
Powell (1908-1972) of New York City, accused of misconduct, was denied
his seat in the 90th Congress. The House of Representatives voted
307 to 116 to expel Powell. The Supreme Court ruled in 1969 that Powell
had to be seated.
(AP,
3/1/98)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Clayton_Powell_Jr.)
1967 Mar 1, Queen Elizabeth Hall
(South Bank Center) opened in London.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Elizabeth_Hall)(http://tinyurl.com/md43c3)
1967 Mar 1, Dominica became a West
Indies associated state with Edward Oliver LeBlanc as premier. Full
independence was attained on Nov. 03, 1978.
(www.chiefacoins.com/Database/Countries/Dominica.htm)
1967 Mar 1, St. Lucia became a
West Indies associated state with John Compton as Premier. It gained
full independence on Feb 22, 1979.
(www.stlucia1979.com/page3.htm)
1967 Mar 2, At the 9th Grammy
Awards: “Strangers in Night” by Frank Sinatra won Record of the Year
and “Michele” by the Beatles won Song of the Year.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammy_Awards_of_1967)
1967 Mar 2, The US performed a
nuclear test at its Nevada Test Site. The Rivet III test was part of
Operation Latchkey.
(www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Operation_Latchkey)
1967 Mar 3, The US performed a
nuclear test at its Nevada Test Site. The Mushroom test was part of
Operation Latchkey.
(www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Operation_Latchkey)
1967 Mar 3, Grenada became an
associated state of Britain. Full independence came on Feb 7, 1974.
(http://dosfan.lib.uic.edu/ERC/bgnotes/wha/grenada9011.html)
1967 Mar 5, Mohammed H. Mosaddeq
(b.1882), former prime minister of Iran (1951-53), died in Iran
following a period of house arrest. He had been ousted in a military
coup organized by the CIA and British intelligence.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad_Mossadegh)
1967 Mar 6, US Pres. Lyndon B.
Johnson announced his plan to establish a draft lottery.
(www.historynet.com/tdih0306.htm)
1967 Mar 6, Elijah Muhammad,
Nation of Islam sect leader, gave a radio address in which he declared
the name Cassius Clay lacked a "divine meaning." He gave Clay the
Muslim name "Muhammad Ali." Muhammad meant one worthy of praise, and
Ali was the name of a cousin of the prophets.
(http://espn.go.com/sportscentury/features/00014063.html)
1967 Mar 6, The daughter of Josef
Stalin, Svetlana Alliluyeva, appeared at the US Embassy in India and
announced her intention to defect to the West.
(AP, 3/6/07)
1967 Mar 6, Nelson Eddy (b.1901),
US baritone and actor, died. “Rose Marie” (1936) is probably his
most-remembered film. Eddy sang "Song of the Mounties" and "Indian Love
Call" by Rudolf Friml. His definitive portrayal of the steadfast
Mountie became a popular icon.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Eddy)
1967 Mar 6, Zoltan Kodaly
(b.1882), Hungarian composer, died. His major works, notably the comic
opera Hary Janos, the Psalmus hungaricus, the Peacock Variations for
orchestra and the Dances of Marosszek and Galanta drew on Magyar folk
music.
(www.malaspina.org/kodalyz.htm)
1967 Mar 7, The Los Angeles-based
Doors made their 2nd trip to SF and performed for a mid-week engagement
at the Matrix ahead of a weekend performance at the Avalon. Peter
Abrams, co-owner of the Matrix, recorded the show with a recently
installed tape recorder.
(SFC, 11/17/08, p.E1)(http://tinyurl.com/mxky7j)
1967 Mar 7, Clark Gesner's musical
"You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown” premiered in NYC.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You%27re_a_Good_Man,_Charlie_Brown)
1967 Mar 7, Convicted Teamster
boss Jimmy Hoffa began an eight-year prison term at Lewisburg Federal
Prison in Pennsylvania for defrauding the union and jury tampering. The
sentence was commuted by President Nixon Dec 23, 1971.
(HN, 3/7/98)(www.moldea.com/One-9.html)
1967 Mar 7, Alice B. Toklas
(b.1877), the life partner of writer Gertrude Stein, died In Paris,
France. Her work included “The Alice B. Toklas Cookbook” (1954). In
2007 Janet Malcolm authored “Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice.”
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_B._Toklas)(WSJ,
9/25/07, p.D6)
1967 Mar 6, Svetlana Alliluyeva,
the daughter of Josef Stalin, appeared at the US Embassy in India and
announced her intention to defect to the West. She arrived at New York
in April and held a press conference during which she denounced her
father's regime.
(AP,
3/6/07)(www.economicexpert.com/a/Svetlana:Alliluyeva.htm)
1967 Mar 11, British psychedelic
group Pink Floyd released “Arnold Layne,” their 1st single song.
(http://pinkfloydhyperbase.dk/albums/arnold.htm)(SFC, 9/26/06, p.D6)
1967 Mar 14, The body of President
Kennedy was moved from a temporary grave to a permanent memorial site
at Arlington National Cemetery.
(AP, 3/14/98)(HN, 3/14/98)
1967 Mar 23, Reverend Martin
Luther King Jr. called the Vietnam War the biggest obstacle to the
civil rights movement.
(HN, 3/23/98)
1967 Mar 24, In Vietnam B Battery
was replaced at Gio Linh and returned to base camp at JJ Carroll. The
entire battalion had been involved in Operation High Rise, the first
Operation involving heavy artillery firing at targets in North Vietnam.
The firing into North Vietnam proceeded with an intense rate in an
effort to stifle the enemy supply channels from the North.
(www.willpete.com/history2nd94th.htm)
1967 Mar 26, The 21st Tony Awards
were held at the Schubert Theater in NYC. “The Homecoming” won for Best
Play and “Cabaret” won for Best Musical.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/21st_Tony_Awards)
1967 Mar 26, Herbert von Karajan
founded the Salzburg Easter Festival with the idea of staging his ideal
Ring of the Nibelung with his own Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.
(WSJ, 4/12/96, p.A-12)
1967 Mar 26, Jim Thompson,
American ex-serviceman, disappeared while on holiday in the Cameron
Highlands of Northern Malaysia. He revived the Thai silk industry after
WW II. He was one of the first to adopt a classic Thai house to the
requirements of modern life, and his home is now a museum in Bangkok,
Thailand.
(Hem, Mar. 95, p.63)(SFEC, 7/16/00, p.T14)
1967 Mar 26, Pope Paul VI
published encyclical Populorum Progressio (On the Development of
Peoples).
(www.ewtn.com/library/ENCYC/P6DEVELO.HTM)
1967 Mar 27, A North Vietnamese
spokesman unequivocally rejected a new peace plan proposed by UN Sec.
General U Thant (1907-1974) on March 14.
(http://www.nybooks.com/articles/12091)
1967 Mar 29, The first nationwide
strike in the 30-year history of the American Federation of Television
occurred and lasted for 13 days.
(www.aftra.org/aftra/history.htm)
1967 Mar 29, France launched its
first nuclear submarine. It did not enter operational service until
1972, when it began its first patrol on 28 January.
(http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/France/FranceOrigin.html)
1967 Mar 31, President Lyndon
Johnson signed the Consular Treaty, the first bi-lateral pact with the
Soviet Union since the Bolshevik Revolution.
(http://travel.state.gov/law/legal/treaty/treaty_1508.html)
1967 Apr 1, Sir Edward Compton,
who had been appointed as Ombudsman-designate in September 1966, began
work as Britain’s Parliamentary Ombudsman.
(www.ombudsman.org.uk/about_us/our_history/timeline.html)
1967 Apr 5, Pres. Johnson
appointed Ellsworth Bunker (1894-1984) as the new ambassador to Saigon,
South Vietnam. Bunker replaced Lodge and continued as ambassador to
1973.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Ambassador_to_South_Vietnam)
1967 Apr 7, A, Israeli-Syrian
minor border incident escalated into a full-scale aerial battle over
the Golan Heights, resulting in the loss of six Syrian MiG-21s to
Israeli Air Force (IAF) Dassault Mirage IIIs, and the latter's flight
over Damascus.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six-Day_War)
1967 Apr 9, The 1st Boeing 737-100
made its maiden flight.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_737)
1967 Apr 10, In the 39th Academy
Awards "A Man For All Seasons" won for Best Picture; Elizabeth Taylor
won as Best Actress for “Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”; and Paul
Scofield won as Best Actor for “A Man For All Seasons.”
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/39th_Academy_Awards)
1967 Apr 11, Tom Stoppard's
"Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead," was performed by the Royal
National Theater at London’s Old Vic Theater. It had premiered on Aug
26, 1966, in Edinburgh, Scotland.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosencrantz_and_Guildenstern_Are_Dead)
1967 Apr 11, Harlem, NYC, voters
defied Congress and reelected Adam Clayton Powell Jr. (1908-1972). In
January, 1967, the House Democratic Caucus had stripped Powell of his
committee chairmanship following allegations that Powell had
misappropriated Committee funds for his personal use and other charges.
In June, 1969, the Supreme Court ruled that the House had acted
unconstitutionally when it excluded Powell, a duly elected member. He
returned to the House, but without his seniority.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Clayton_Powell_Jr.)
1967 Apr 11, In the Vietnam War,
US planes bombed two thermal power plants in Haiphong, North Vietnam.
(www.pownetwork.org/bios/e/e031.htm)
1967 Apr 14, In San Francisco
thousands marched from the Ferry building to Kezar Stadium against the
Vietnam war. The marchers filled the 40,000 capacity stadium.
(SFEC, 5/23/99, Z1 p.4)
1967 Apr 17, In Vietnam Lt. Col.
Leo Thorsness and “backseater” Harry Johnson shot down 2 MiG fighters.
Both men were captured on Apr 28, and spent 6 years as POWs.
(WSJ, 12/30/08, p.A9)
1967 Apr 19, Conrad Adenauer
(b.1876), West Germany chancellor (1949-63), died.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konrad_Adenauer)
1967 Apr 20, U.S. planes bombed
Haiphong for first time during the Vietnam War.
(HN, 4/20/98)
1967 Apr 21, Northern Illinois was
struck by 17 tornadoes, including several in the Chicago metropolitan
area. One violent tornado moved through Belvidere (east of Rockford),
killing 24 people and injuring another 450, including 13 deaths at the
local high school. Damage to Belvidere totaled about $20 million,
including destruction of 400 cars at the local Chrysler plant. A
second violent tornado touched down in Elgin and moved northeast to
Lake Zurich, causing $10 million damage. A third violent tornado
touched down near Palos Hills and moved across the south side of
Chicago to Lake Michigan. This tornado struck during Friday rush hour,
and many of the 33 deaths and 500 injuries occurred in vehicles stopped
at traffic lights. Over $50 million damage was reported from the
tornado outbreak.
(www.crh.noaa.gov/ilx/trivia/aprtriv.php)
1967 Apr 21, In Greece "The
Colonels" led by Colonel George Papadopoulos (1919-1999) took power in
a bloodless military coup. Papadopoulos, Stylianos Pattakos, and
Nikolaos Makarezos (1919-2009) imposed martial law and cracked down
heavily on political opponents, imprisoning or exiling thousands of
mostly left-wing supporters, many of whom were tortured by military
police.
(SFC, 4/23/98, p.B4)(SFC, 6/28/99, p.A19)(AP, 8/6/09)
1967 Apr 23, Soyuz 1 was launched,
and Vladimir Komarov became the first in-flight casualty.
(AP, 4/23/98)
1967 Apr 24, Frank Overton
(b.1918), American film and TV actor, died. His films included “The
Dark At the Top of the Stairs” (1960).
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Overton)
1967 Apr 25, Britain granted
internal self-government to Swaziland.
(http://flagspot.net/flags/sz.html)
1967 Apr 27, Expo '67 was
officially opened in Montreal by Canadian Prime Minister Lester B.
Pearson. The urban theme park, La Ronde, was built on the Ile
Sainte-Helene for the exposition and continues on to today. The Expo
featured the big-screen, multi-projector film Polar Life. This led to
the formation of Multiscreen Corporation and eventually IMAX in 1970.
(Hem., 7/95, p.129)(Hem., 3/97, p.81)(AP, 4/27/97)
1967 Apr 27, Rocky Marciano
(1923-1969), American heavyweight champion, retired as the undefeated
boxing champ.
(http://tinyurl.com/nqhtzs)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_Marciano)
1967 Apr 28, Heavyweight boxing
champion Muhammad Ali refused to be inducted into the Army and was
stripped of his boxing title.
(AP, 4/28/97)(HN, 4/28/98)
1967 Apr 28, Gen. William C.
Westmoreland told Congress the United States "would prevail in Vietnam."
(AP, 4/28/97)
1967 Apr 28, Lt. Col. Leo
Thorsness and “backseater” Harry Johnson ejected over North Vietnam
following an attack by an enemy MiG fighter. They were released along
with other POWs in 1973. In Oct, 1973, Thorsness received a Medal of
Honor. In 2008 he authored “Surviving Hell: A POWs Journey.”
(WSJ, 12/30/08, p.A9)
1967 Apr, French author Regis
Debray (b.1940) was imprisoned in Bolivia shortly before the capture of
Che Guevara [see Nov 17].
(www.tamilnation.org/ideology/debray.htm)
1967 Apr-1967 May, The US military
conducted chemical warfare tests, Red Oak, Phase 1, in the Upper
Waiakea Forest Reserve of Hawaii using shells and rockets filled with
sarin gas.
(SFC, 11/1/02, p.A3)
1967 May 1, Elvis Presley (32)
married Priscilla Beaulieu (20) in Las Vegas at the Aladdin Hotel. They
divorced in 1973. They had met when she was 14 in West Germany.
(AP, 5/1/97)(SFEM, 1/25/98, p.66)
1967 May 1,
Anastasio Somoza Debayle became president of Nicaragua.
(AP, 5/1/97)
1967 May 2, The Stockholm Vietnam
Tribunal opened and continued to May 10. The formation of this
investigative body immediately followed the 1966 publication of
Bertrand Russell's book, “War Crimes in Vietnam.” It condemned US
aggression in Vietnam and Cambodia. A 2nd session of the tribunal was
held at Roskilde, Denmark, Nov 20 – Dec 1, 1967.
(www.vietnamese-american.org/contents.html)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Tribunal)
1967 May 6, The body of Keith Lyon
(12) of Brighton, England, was found clad in his school uniform on a
grass bank near a rural bridle path between the nearby villages of
Ovingdean and Woodingdean, about 56 miles south of London. He had left
home to buy a geometry set and never returned. Lyon had been stabbed 11
times in the chest, back and abdomen with a serrated kitchen knife. In
2006 2 suspects were arrested.
(AP, 8/1/06)
1967 May 8, Boxer Muhammad Ali
(b.1942) was indicted for refusing induction in US Army.
(www.cyberboxingzone.com/boxing/alirec.htm)
1967 May 9, Marine Sgt. James Neil
Tycz (22) and three other US servicemen were killed on Hill 665 near
Khe Sanh, Vietnam, close to the Laos border. In 2005 three of the men
were buried at Arlington National Cemetery on the 38th anniversary of
their deaths.
(AP, 5/8/05)
1967 May 11, The United Kingdom
re-applied to join the European Community. It is followed by Ireland
and Denmark and, a little later, by Norway. General de Gaulle is still
reluctant to accept British accession.
(http://europa.eu.int/abc/history/1967/index_en.htm)
1967 May 11, French President
Charles de Gaulle for a second time said he will veto Britain's
application to join the Common Market.
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/27/newsid_4187000/4187714.stm)
1967 May 11, David Galula
(b.1919), Tunisia-born French military officer and scholar, died in
France. He was influential in developing theories of counterinsurgency.
He wrote his experiences in two books, later published by the RAND
Corporation: “Pacification in Algeria” (1963), and “Counterinsurgency
Warfare: Theory and Practice” (1964).
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Galula)(WSJ,
3/14/09, p.W9)
1967 May 12, H. Rap Brown (b.1943)
replaced Stokely Carmichael (1941-1968) as chairman of Student
Nonviolating Coordinating Committee and announced that the organization
will continue its commitment to black power.
(www.shmoop.com/civil-rights-black-power/timeline.html)
1967 May 12, English poet laureate
John Masefield died.
(AP, 5/12/07)
1967 May 13, NY Yankee
Mickey Mantle (b.1931) hit career HR #500 off Stu Miller.
(www.baseball-almanac.com/boxscore/05141967.shtml)
1967 May 15, Edward Hopper
(b.1882), US painter (House by Railroad), died in NYC. He studied in
Paris but never painted in the abstract. He often used his wife, artist
Josephine Nivison (d.1968), as his model. He was the first artist to
paint the American scene as a desolate, vacant place. A biography of
Mr. Hopper and his 44 years with Josephine was published in 1995 by
Gail Levin titled “Edward Hopper.” In 1998 the Whitney Museum
published: "Edward Hopper: A Journal of His Work."
(www.fact-index.com)(WSJ, 10/4/95, p.A-12)(SFEC,
3/15/98, BR p.7)(HN, 7/22/02)
1967 May 18, Tennessee Gov. Buford
Ellington signed a measure repealing the "Monkey Law" against teaching
evolution that was used to prosecute John T. Scopes in 1925.
(AP, 5/18/07)(SC, 5/18/02)
1967 May 18, Richard Ainley
(b.1910), English stage and film actor, died. His films included
“Above Suspicion” (1943).
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Ainley)
1967 May 18, Andy Clyde (75),
Scottish movie and TV actor, died. He is remembered for his roles as a
comic sidekick, usually teaming with William Boyd in the Hopalong
Cassidy series.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Clyde)
1967 May 18, In Mexico
schoolteacher Lucio Cabanas began a guerilla campaign in Atoyac de
Alvarez, west of Acapulco in the state of Guerrero. The government
responded with widespread repression and hundreds of civilians were
killed or disappeared.
(SFEC, 9/30/96, p.A12)
1967 May 19, The Soviet Union
ratified a treaty with the United States and Britain banning nuclear
weapons from outer space: "Treaty on Principles Governing the
Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space,
including the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies." The Int’l. Outer Space
Treaty barred nations from appropriating celestial bodies but did not
mention individuals.
(AP, 5/19/97)(SFC, 6/25/97, p.A15)(SFEC, 7/13/97,
Par p.8)
1967 May 19, Aircraft from the US
carriers Enterprise, Kitty Hawk, and Bon Homme Richard conducted air
strikes against three targets in the vicinity of Hanoi.
(www.virtualwall.org/dp/PattersonJK01a.htm)
1967 May 20, A 2-day Spring
Mobilization Conference opened in Washington D.C. The gathering of 700
antiwar activists was called to evaluate the antiwar demonstrations
that had taken place on April 15, 1967 in New York City and San
Francisco. The conference set another antiwar action for the fall of
1967 and created an administrative committee to plan it. That committee
was the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam
(MOBE).
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Mobilization_Committee_to_End_the_War_in_Vietnam)
1967 May 20, BBC disc jockey Kenny
Everett gave the official preview of Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club
Band on the radio show Where It's At, broadcast on the BBC Light
Program. He was unable to play the final track "A Day in the Life,"
which the BBC had banned a day earlier due to drug references.
(www.beatlesbible.com/1967/05/20/the-bbc-bans-a-day-in-the-life/)
1967 May 22, Egyptian president
Nasser closed the Straits of Tiran to Israel.
(www.palestinefacts.org/pf_1948to1967_sixday_backgd.php)
1967 May 22, J. Langston Hughes
(b.1902), poet laureate, US author (Tambourines to Glory), died of
complications following surgery at NY Polyclinic Hospital.
(SSFC, 7/25/04, p.F3)
1967 May 25, John Lennon took
delivery of his psychedelic painted Rolls Royce. He had acquired the
Phantom V on June 3, 1965.
(www.blogcatalog.com/blog/jinxi-boo/cc59e352cc28925ddae7f1497e6cd46c)
1967 May 27, Australians approved
a referendum to amend the constitution to allow the federal government
to make laws for indigenous Australians and to include them in the
national census. The referendum became law on August 10.
(Econ, 6/2/07,
p.43)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_referendum,_1967_(Aboriginals))
1967 May 28, Francis Chichester
(1901-1972), English aviator and sailor, arrived home at Plymouth from
a round-the-world, one man sailboat trip.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Chichester)
1967 May 29, Pope Paul VI named 27
new cardinals, including Karol Wojtyla, archbishop of Krakow, who later
became Pope John Paul II.
(SSFC, 4/3/05, p.A13)
1967 May 29, Geronimo Baqueiro
Foster (b.1898), Mexican musicologist and composer, died.
(www.dolmetsch.com/cdefsb.htm)
1967 May 30, Robert "Evel" Knievel
(1938-2007) on his motorcycle jumped 16 cars in Gardena, Ca.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evel_Knievel)
1967 May 30, Biafra declared
independence from Nigeria.
(http://flagspot.net/flags/ng-biaf.html)
1967 May, The American
organization known as CORDS (Civil Operations and Revolutionary
Development Support) was formed to coordinate the US civil and military
pacification programs in Vietnam.
(www.historynet.com/cords-winning-hearts-and-minds-in-vietnam.htm)
1967 May, The Olympic Committee
banned a number of substances including narcotics, steroids and
amphetamines and announced that small-scale drug-testing would begin at
the 1968 Olympics in Grenoble and Mexico City.
(WSJ, 8/7/06, p.B1)(www.steroid.com/)
1967 Jun 1, "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely
Hearts Club Band," was released in the U.K. and the following day in
the U.S. and was certified "gold" the same day of release. It topped
the charts all over the world, holding the number one slot in Britain
for 27 weeks and for 19 in America. It received four Grammys including
Best Album.
(AP, 6/1/97)
1967 Jun 1, In Israel pressure
from the army and a threat by some parties to quit the governing
coalition forced PM Levi Eshkol to bring in Moshe Dayan as defense
minister.
(www.britannica.com/ebc/article-9029562)(Econ,
5/26/07, p.43)
1967 Jun 2, Race riots took place
in the Roxbury section of Boston.
(http://ksgaccman.harvard.edu/hotc/DisplayPlace.asp?id=11607)
1967 Jun 2, Zamah Cunningham
(b.1892), actress, died. Her films included “Here Come the Girls”
(1953).
(http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0192476/)
1967 Jun 2, In Germany Benno
Ohnesorg, a newly wed student of literature, was shot in the back of
the head during a protest in West Berlin against the visiting shah of
Iran. Police officer Karl-Heinz Kurras, who claimed he was threatened
by knife-wielding protesters, was acquitted of manslaughter charges on
Nov 23. The led to the formation of the Red Army Faction, also known as
the Baader-Meinhof gang. In 2009 Kurras was found to have been a
long-time agent of East Germany’s secret police, the Stasi.
(Econ, 5/30/09,
p.52)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gudrun_Ensslin)
1967 Jun 3, Arthur Ransome
(b.1884), English author of children’s adventure stories, died. He is
best known for writing the “Swallows and Amazons” series of children's
books. It is believed that he served as a double agent and worked in
the Russian service after the collapse of the Czarist regime. In 1918
he wrote a propaganda pamphlet titled: “On Behalf of Russia: An Open
Letter to America.” In 2009 Roland Chambers authored “The Last
Englishman: The Double Life of Arthur Ransome.”
(Econ, 8/29/09,
p.73)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Ransome)
1967 Jun 4, American actor and
comedian Bill Cosby (b.1937) received an Emmy Award for his work in the
television series "I Spy." Cosby won three consecutive Emmy Awards for
Outstanding Lead Actor in the Drama Series in 1966, 1967 and 1968. In
the 19th Emmy Awards: Mission Impossible, Monkees, Don Knotts &
Lucy Ball were among the winners.
(HN, 6/4/00)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Spy)
1967 Jun 5, Murderer Richard Speck
(1941-1991) was sentenced to death in electric chair for the murder of
8 student nurses on July 14, 1966. The Illinois Supreme Court upheld
his conviction and death sentence on November 22, 1968.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Speck)
1967 Jun 5, The Six Day War
erupted in the Middle East as Israel, convinced an Arab attack was
imminent, raided Egyptian military targets. Syria, Jordan and Iraq
entered the conflict. Jordan lost the West Bank, an area of 2,270 sq.
miles. War broke out as Israel reacted to the removal of UN
peace-keeping troops, Arab troop movements and the barring of Israeli
ships in the Gulf of Aqaba.
(AP, 6/5/97)(HN, 6/5/98)(NG, 5/93, p.58)(HNQ,
5/22/00)
1967 Jun 5-1967 Jun 10, Israel
fought the Six-Day War against Syria and captured the Golan Heights,
the Gaza Strip, the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Allegations that
Israeli soldiers killed hundreds of Egyptian prisoners with the
knowledge of national leaders were made by Israeli historians in 1995.
Israel occupied Syrian territory. The Gaza Strip and the West Bank were
captured by Israel. Israel annexed the largely Arab East Jerusalem,
which included the Old City, and has since ringed it with Jewish
neighborhoods.
(WSJ, 8/17/95, p.A-1)(WSJ,11/24/95, p.A-1)(WSJ,
5/6/96, p.A-13)(SFC, 6/25/96, p.A10)(SFC, 1/22/98, p.B12)(SFC, 4/24/98,
p.A17)
1967 Jun 6, Israeli troops
occupied Gaza on the 2nd day of the 6-day war.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six-Day_War)
1967 Jun 7, The Haight Ashbury
Free Medical Clinic opened in San Francisco. Dr. David E. Smith (28)
founded the SF Free Clinic. The first clinic opened at 509 Clayton St.
with $500 in seed money from Rev. Leon Harris, pastor of All Saints
Episcopal Church. The facility spawned a nationwide movement. Smith
resigned in 2006.
(SFC, 6/7/97, p.A16)(SFC, 3/6/06, p.B5)(AP, 6/7/07)
1967 Jun 7, Three Moby Grape
members were arrested on Mt. Tamalpais, following a concert at the
Avalon Ballroom in SF, for having sex with underage girls.
(www.rockument.com/scenes_sf1.html)
1967 Jun 7, Author-critic Dorothy
Parker (b.1893), famed for her caustic wit, died in NYC. The 1994 film
"Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle" starred Jennifer Jason Leigh as
the poet Dorothy Parker. It covered 25 years of Parker's life. She left
most of her estate to Martin Luther King, Jr.
(AP, 6/7/97)(SFEC, 8/23/98, DB p.43)(SFEC, 9/19/99,
Z1 p.3)
1967 Jun 7, Israel captured the
Wailing Wall in East Jerusalem. 3rd day of the 6-day war.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six-Day_War)
1967 Jun 8, On the 4th day of the
Six-Day War Israel captured the Gaza Strip and Sinai Peninsula from
Egypt, as well as the West Bank and Eastern Jerusalem from Jordan.
Israel’s occupation of Gaza continued for the next 38 years.
(SSFC, 6/3/07, p.E6)(Econ, 1/10/09, p.9)
1967 Jun 8, Israeli forces raided
the USS Liberty, a US Navy ship stationed in the Mediterranean. Israel
called the attack a tragic mistake. The Israeli Air Force attack on the
intelligence gathering auxiliary ship Liberty killed 34 crewmen and
wounded 171. The attack took place on the 4th day of the Six-Day War in
international waters off the coast of Israel. While still a
controversy, the official explanation was that Israel believed the
Liberty was an Egyptian vessel. Commander William L. McGonagle (d.1999
at 73) was awarded the Medal of Honor for keeping Liberty afloat and
remaining on the bridge for 17 hours despite his own wounds. Israel
apologized and paid over $12 million in compensation.
(AP, 6/8/97)(SFC, 3/9/99, p.A22)(WSJ, 5/9/01,
p.A24)(WSJ, 5/16/01, p.A23)
1967 Jun 10, Israel completed its
final offensive in the Golan Heights in the 6-Day Middle East War. The
next day Israel and Syria agreed to observe a United Nations-mediated
cease-fire. Israel took Gaza and the Sinai from Egypt, Old Jerusalem
and the West Bank from Jordan, and the Golan Heights from Syria. In
2002 Michael B. Oren authored "Six Days of War: June 1967 and the
making of the Modern Middle East." Israeli military historian Arieh
Yitzhaki later said that his research showed Israeli troops killed 300
Egyptian prisoners of war. Israel said soldiers on both sides committed
atrocities. In 2007 Tom Segev authored “1967: Israel, the War and the
Year that Transformed the Middle East.”
{Israel, Palestine, Syria, Egypt}
(AP, 6/10/97)(WSJ, 6/5/02, p.D7)(AP, 3/6/07)(Econ,
5/26/07, p.97)
1967 Jun 11, There was a race riot
in Tampa Florida and the National Guard was mobilized. Martin Chambers
(19) was suspected of robbing a camera store. Chambers ran from police
near Nebraska and Harrison Streets and was shot in the back and died.
Several days of riots around Central Avenue followed.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tampa_Riots)
1967 Jun 11, Israel and Syria
accepted a UN cease-fire. The UN brokered a cease-fire between Israel
and the defeated Egypt, Syria, and Jordan, ending the Six-Day War with
Israel occupying the Sinai, West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Golan
Heights. Israel annexed the largely Arab East Jerusalem, which included
the Old City, and has since ringed it with Jewish neighborhoods.
(HN, 6/11/98)(AP, 6/11/03)(SFC, 6/25/96, p.A10)
1967 Jun 12, The US Supreme Court,
in Loving v. Virginia, struck down state laws prohibiting interracial
marriages. Mildred Loving (1940-2008) and her white husband, Richard
(d.1975), married in 1958, had been arrested in Virginia within weeks
of arriving from Washington DC and convicted on charges of "cohabiting
as man and wife.
(AP, 6/12/97)(HN, 6/12/98)(AP, 5/5/08)(Econ,
5/17/08, p.105)
1967 Jun 13, President Johnson
nominated Solicitor-General Thurgood Marshall to become the first black
justice on the U.S. Supreme Court. The seat on the court formerly held
by Justice Tom Clark was filled by the first African-American Supreme
Court Justice, Thurgood Marshall. In 1967, President Lyndon Johnson
convinced Clark, a fellow Texan who had served on the court since 1949,
to resign so he could name Marshall to the bench. Marshall, a leading
civil rights lawyer, had been the U.S. Solicitor General since 1965. He
served on the court until he resigned in 1991.
(AP, 6/13/97)(HNQ, 2/16/99)
1967 Jun 14, The movie "To Sir,
with Love," starring Sidney Poitier, was first released.
(AP, 6/14/07)
1967 Jun 14, The space probe
Mariner 5 was launched from Cape Kennedy on a flight that took it past
Venus.
(AP, 6/14/97)
1967 Jun 15, Gov. Reagan signed
the Therapeutic Abortion Act, which permitted abortions in the first 20
weeks of pregnancy if a woman's life or health was threatened or the
pregnancy was the result of rape or incest.
(SFC, 12/27/99, p.A10)(AP, 6/15/07)
1967 Jun 16, The three-day
Monterey International Pop Music Festival opened in northern California.
(AP, 6/16/07)
1967 Jun 17, China detonated its
1st hydrogen bomb and became the world's 4th thermo-nuclear power.
(SSFC, 6/9/02,
p.F6)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teller%E2%80%93Ulam_design)
1967 Jun 18, The 3-day Monterey
Pop Festival featured Pete Townshend and The Who on the Sunday finale.
They nearly stopped the show with the destruction of guitars, drums and
microphones on stage. They were immediately followed by Jerry Garcia
and The Grateful Dead. The festival also featured Janis Joplin, Jimi
Hendrix and Otis Redding.
(WSJ, 8/11/95,
p.A-7)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monterey_Pop_Festival)
1967 Jun 19, Beatle Paul
McCartney, having admitted in Queen Magazine that he had taken LSD,
repeated the admission on television.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_McCartney)
1967 Jun 20, Boxer Muhammad Ali
was convicted in Houston of violating Selective Service laws by
refusing to be drafted. He was soon sentenced to five years in prison
but was released on appeal. His conviction was overturned three years
later by the US Supreme Court.
(AP,
6/20/97)(www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-3404700148.html)
1967 Jun 23, President Johnson and
Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin held the first of two meetings in
Glassboro State College in New Jersey.
(AP, 6/23/07)
1967 Jun 23, The US Senate voted
to censure Democrat Thomas J. Dodd of Connecticut for using campaign
money for personal uses.
(AP, 6/23/07)
1967 Jun 24, Pope Paul VI
published his encyclical Sacerdotalis Caelibatus (priestly celibacy).
(http://tinyurl.com/n5pq3)
1967 Jun 25, The Beatles performed
their new song, "All You Need Is Love," during a live international
telecast from the Abbey Road studio.
(AP, 6/25/97)(Sky, 9/97, p.54)
1967 Jun 27, There was a race riot
in Buffalo, NY, and 200 were arrested.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_riot_of_1967)
1967 Jun 27, The first
recognizably automated teller machine (ATM) was placed outside the
Barclays PLC branch in Enfield, a north London suburb.
(AP, 6/27/07)
1967 Jun 28, Fourteen people were
shot in race riots in Buffalo, New York.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_riot_of_1967)
1967 Jun 28, Israel formally
declared Jerusalem reunified under its sovereignty following its
capture of the Arab sector in the June 1967 war.
(AP, 6/28/98)
1967 Jun 29, Jayne Mansfield
(b.1933), stage and film actress, was beheaded in a car crash in
Louisiana. Her 3 children survived in the back seat of the 1966 Buick
Electra. Daughter Mariska Hargitay was 3 and began a film career at 19.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jayne_Mansfield)(SFEC,
7/13/97, Par p.18)(SFEC, 4/5/98, p.A22)
1967 Jun 29, Jerusalem was
reunified as Israel removed barricades separating the Old City from the
Israeli sector.
(AP, 6/29/97)(HN, 6/29/98)
1967 Jul 1, "Funny Girl" closed at
Winter Garden Theater in NYC after 1348 performances.
(MC, 7/1/02)
1967 Jul 1, Beatles' "Sgt Pepper's
Lonely Hearts Club Band," went #1 for 15 weeks.
(MC, 7/1/02)
1967 Jul 2, The U.S. Marine Corps
launches Operation Buffalo in response to the North Vietnamese Army's
efforts to seize the Marine base at Con Thien.
(HN, 7/2/98)
1967 Jul 3, North Vietnamese
soldiers attacked South Vietnam’s only producing coal mine at Nong Son.
(HN, 7/3/98)
1967 Jul 4, The Freedom of
Information Act became official, making government information more
readily available. To withhold information, the government must prove
its need to be classified.
(IB, Internet, 12/7/98)
1967 Jul 5, Bruce Barton (b.1886),
advertising king and former US Congressman from NY (1937-1941), died in
NYC. In 1925 he authored “The Man Nobody Knows,” in which he argued
that Jesus was a pre-eminent business executive. In 2005 Richard M.
Fried authored “”The Man Everybody Knew,” a biography of Bruce Barton.
(www.infoplease.com/biography/us/congress/barton-bruce.html)(WSJ,
10/25/05, p.D8)
1967 Jul 6, The Biafran War
erupted. The war, which lasted more than two years, claimed some
600,000 lives. The Republic of Biafra was proclaimed when the eastern
region of Nigeria, the homeland of the Igbo people, seceded. This was
followed by civil war. The federal troops of Nigeria held most of
rebellious Biafra by the end of 1968 but the Igbos attempted to hold
out in a small and crowded area. The war broke out when the Igbos, led
by Colonel Emeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu of the Nigerian army, launched a
rebellion to form a separate state following allegations of ethnic
cleansing, neglect and marginalization against federal forces.
(AP, 7/6/97)(HNQ, 5/27/98)(AFP, 1/10/07)
1967 Jul 7, Beatles' "All You Need
is Love" was released.
(MC, 7/7/02)
1967 Jul 7, Vivian Leigh (53),
actress (Scarlet-Gone with the Wind), died.
(MC, 7/7/02)
1967 Jul 12, Blacks in Newark
rioted. 26 were killed, 1500 injured and over 1000 arrested.
(MC, 7/12/02)
1967 Jul 12, Greek regime deprived
480 Greeks of their citizenship.
(MC, 7/12/02)
1967 Jul 13, Race-related rioting
broke out in Newark, N.J.; by the time the violence ended four days
later, 27 people had been killed.
(AP, 7/13/97)
1967 Jul 13, Tommy Simpson,
British cyclist, died as he competed in the Tour de France. Traces of
amphetamine and cognac were found in his blood.
(WSJ, 8/7/06, p.B1)
1967 Jul 14, The Convention
Establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization, or WIPO
Convention, was signed at Stockholm, Sweden, and entered into force on
April 26, 1970. As its name suggests, it established the World
Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). WIPO Convention has 184
Contracting Parties. The Convention is written in English, French,
Russian and Spanish, all texts being equally authentic. The Convention
was amended on September 28, 1979.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Intellectual_Property_Organization)
1967 Jul 15, In Alaska a major
blizzard caught 7 climbers high on Mount McKinley (Denali). Five of 12
climbers managed to reach safety, but 7 were caught and froze to death.
In 2007 James M. Tabor’s: “Forever on the Mountain: The Truth Behind
One of Mountaineering's Most Controversial and Mysterious Disasters,”
was published.
(WSJ, 1/17/07, p.D6)
1967 Jul 16, A prison brawl
ignited barracks, killing 37 in Jay, Florida.
(MC, 7/16/02)
1967 Jul 17, Race riots took place
in Cairo, Illinois.
(MC, 7/17/02)
1967 Jul 17, John Coltrane
(b.1926), jazz composer-musician died in Huntington, N.Y. He gained
attention through recordings as part of Miles Davis’ quintet in the
50s. By 1960, following critical acclaim, Coltrane was leading his own
quartet that eventually dissolved in 1965. He worked with various
musicians for the next two years until succumbing to liver cancer in
1967. Coltrane’s style, developed over the years from influences
ranging from Miles Davis’ forms of modal improvisation to Eastern
musical theory, has influenced and been imitated by numerous jazz
musicians since. His album’s included "Kulu Se Mama" written by Juno
Lewis (d.2002). In 2002 Ashley Kahn authored "A Love Supreme: The Story
of John Coltrane’s Signature Album.” In 2007 Ben Ratliff authored
“Coltrane: The Story of Sound.”
(SFC, 4/23/02, p.A18)(SSFC, 12/8/02, p.M5)(AP,
7/17/07)(Econ, 11/10/07, p.104)
1967 Jul 19, The 1st air
conditioned NYC subway car was R-38 on the F line.
(MC, 7/19/02)
1967 Jul 19, Race riots took place
in Durham, NC.
(MC, 7/19/02)
1967 Jul 20, Race riots took place
in Memphis, Tenn.
(MC, 7/20/02)
1967 Jul 20, Pablo Neruda received
the 1st Viareggio-Versile prize.
(MC, 7/20/02)
1967 Jul 21, Basil Rathbone (75),
actor (Sherlock Holmes), died of heart attack.
(MC, 7/21/02)
1967 Jul 21, In South Africa ANC
president Albert Luthuli died after being hit by a train in what was
widely thought to have been an assassination operation. The
anti-apartheid icon received the 1960 Nobel prize for his role in the
struggle against whites-only rule.
(AP, 7/11/07)
1967 Jul 22, Carl Sandburg (89),
historian and poet (Abraham Lincoln: Prairie Years), died in North
Carolina.
(AP, 7/22/07)
1967 Jul 23-30, Racial riots in
the city of Detroit left 40 dead, 2,000 injured and 5,000 homeless in
the worst riot of the summer. The rioting, looting and burning was
quelled with the arrival of 4,700 paratroops dispatched by President
Lyndon Johnson. Nearly all of America's large cities were wracked by
racial violence during the 1965-'68 period. The event inspired Rev.
William Cunningham (d.1997 at 67) to found Focus: Hope, a volunteer
project that grew to become one of the largest programs in the country
dedicated to feeding and teaching job skills to the urban poor.
(SFC, 5/29/97, p.C4)(HNQ, 7/11/98)
1967 Jul 24, Race riots took place
in Cambridge, Maryland.
(MC, 7/24/02)
1967 Jul 24, Race riots in Detroit
forced the postponement of a Tigers-Orioles baseball game. [see Jul
23-30]
(MC, 7/24/02)
1967 Jul 24, French President
Charles de Gaulle stirred controversy during a visit to Montreal,
Canada, when he declared, ''Vive le Quebec libre!'' (Long live free
Quebec!).
(AP, 7/24/07)
1967 Jul 25, Construction began on
SF MUNI Metro (Market Street subway).
(SC, 7/25/02)
1967 Jul 25, US Navy Lt. Commander
Donald Davis crashed his jet on the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Searchers later
recovered fragments of his remains for return to the US.
(SFC, 5/25/98, p.A4)
1967 Jul 27, In the wake of urban
rioting, President Johnson appointed the Kerner Commission to assess
the causes of the violence. The same day, black militant H. Rap Brown
said violence was "as American as cherry pie."
(AP, 7/27/97)
1967 Jul 28, Pirate Radio Station
390 (Radio Invicta) in England, closed down.
(SC, 7/28/02)
1967 Jul 29, Fire swept the USS
Forrestal in the Gulf of Tonkin, off the coast of Vietnam, killing 134
servicemen with $100 million in damage. One survivor was Navy Lt. Cmdr.
John McCain, who later became a US senator.
(AP, 7/29/07)
1967 Jul 30, General William
Westmoreland claimed that he was winning the war in Vietnam but needed
more men.
(HN, 7/30/98)
1967 Jul 30, There was a race riot
in Milwaukee and 4 people were killed.
(MC, 7/30/02)
1967 Jul 30, Alfred Krupp (59),
German industrialist, died.
(MC, 7/30/02)
1967 Jul, Maxine Hartman Nellen
became the first woman to earn her Golden Wings when she jumped out of
a hot-air balloon for her 1,000th free-fall parachute jump over
Lumberton N.J.
(SFC, 6/19/98, p.B6)
1967 Jul, In the wake of the Six
Day War some 2,000 Jews in Libya were compelled to leave the country.
(WSJ, 1/10/07, p.A19)
1967 Jul, In Somalia Mohamed
Ibrahim Egal (d.2002) served as the prime minister until 1969.
(SFC, 5/4/02, p.A21)
1967 Jul, A 6.7 earthquake hit
Caracas, Venezuela, and left 300 dead and 2,000 injured.
(SFC, 7/10/97, p.E3)
1967 Aug 2, The crime and race
drama "In the Heat of the Night," starring Sidney Poitier and Rod
Steiger, opened in New York.
(AP, 8/2/07)
1967 Aug 3, John Femia, actor
(Square Pegs, Hello Larry), was born in Brooklyn, NY.
(SC, 8/3/02)
1967 Aug 3, President Lyndon B.
Johnson announced plans to send 45,000 more troops to Vietnam.
(HN, 8/3/98)
1967 Aug 7, In China a speech by
Wang Li to the Red Guards led their violent takeover of the Foreign
Ministry building. In the weeks that followed they rampaged among
foreign diplomats and often beat envoys.
(SFC, 10/23/96, p.C2)
1967 Aug 8, The Association of
Southeast Asian Nations or ASEAN was established in Bangkok by the five
original Member Countries, namely, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines,
Singapore, and Thailand. Brunei Darussalam joined on 8 January
1984, Vietnam on 28 July 1995, Laos and Myanmar on 23 July 1997, and
Cambodia on 30 April 1999.
(www.aseansec.org/64.htm)
1967 Aug 8, Jaromir Weinberger
(71), Czech-US composer (Czech Rhapsody), died.
(MC, 8/8/02)
1967 Aug 9, Joe Orton (34),
English actor, playwright (What the Butler Saw, Loot), was murdered
(bludgeoned with a hammer) while he slept by his male lover. In 1978
John Lahr authored “Prick Up Your Ears,” a biography of Orton.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Orton)(WSJ,
1/13/06, p.P8)
1967 Aug 11, Roy M. Wheat
(20) led a team from Company K, 3rd Battalion, 7th Marines, providing
security for a Navy construction crew on the Liberty Road in Quang Nam
Province, Vietnam. Lance Corporal Roy Wheat accidentally triggered a
well-concealed, bounding type anti-personnel mine. He yelled for team
members Lance Corporals Vernon Sorenson and Bernard Cannon to run. Then
he flung himself onto the mine as it exploded, absorbing the tremendous
impact with his body. Roy Wheat was killed, but his companions were
spared certain injury and possible death. Marine Roy M. Wheat was the
only Mississippian to earn the Medal of Honor during the Vietnam War.
(HN, 9/19/01)
1967 Aug 13, The movie "Bonnie and
Clyde," starring Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway, had its US premiere.
(AP, 8/13/07)
1967 Aug 19, Beatles' "All You
Need is Love," single went #1.
(MC, 8/19/02)
1967 Aug 21, Michael Bendetti,
actor (Officer Tony McCann-21 Jump Street), was born.
(SC, 8/21/02)
1967 Aug 24, Abbie Hoffman and the
Yippies tossed fistfuls of paper money onto the floor of the NY Stock
Exchange. Plexiglas screens were soon installed to prevent such
displays.
(SFEC, 6/21/98,
p.T4)(www.metroactive.com/papers/sonoma/02.13.97/bk-raskin-9707.html)
1967 Aug 24, Henry J. Kaiser (85),
industrialist (Boulder Dam, Liberty ship), died.
(MC, 8/24/02)
1967 Aug 25, Beatles went to Wales
to study TM with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
(MC, 8/25/02)
1967 Aug 25, George Lincoln
Rockwell (b.1918), founder of the American Nazi Party, was shot to
death in the parking lot of a shopping center in Arlington, Va. Former
party member John Patler (29) was later convicted of the killing. In
1999 Frederick J. Simonelli authored “American Fuehrer” George Lincoln
Rockwell and the American Nazi Party.”
(AP, 8/25/07)(AH, 2/06, p.60,64)
1967 Aug 25, Paraguay
accepted its constitution.
(chblue.com, 8/25/01)
1967 Aug 29, Charles Darrow
(b.1889), self-claimed inventor of Monopoly, died.
(www.todayinsci.com/8/8_29.htm)
1967 Aug 30, The U.S. Senate
confirmed the appointment of Thurgood Marshall as the first black
justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
(AP, 8/30/97)
1967 Aug 31, Haydee Tamara Bunke
Bider, aka Tania the Guerrilla, was killed when her guerrilla column
was ambushed by Bolivian soldiers. The remains of Bider, who was born
in Argentina, were uncovered in Sep. 1998 in Vallegrande and returned
to Cuba, her adopted homeland.
(SFC, 12/15/98, p.A17)
1967 Aug 31, Ilya G. Ehrenburg
(76), Russian poet and propagandist ("Russians, get your
German!"), died.
(MC, 8/31/01)
1967 Sep 1, James Dunn (65), actor
(Uncle Earl-It's a Great Life), died.
(SC, 9/1/02)
1967 Sep 1, Siegfried Sassoon
(b.1886), WW I English soldier poet, died. His books included “Memoirs
of a Fox Hunting Man” (1928). In 2005 Max Egremont authored the
biography: “Siegfried Sassoon.”
(WSJ, 12/1/05,
p.D9)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siegfried_Sassoon)
1967 Sep 2, Paddy Roy Bates,
retired British army major, landed on the island of Sealand, a WW II
military fortress 6 miles off the coast of England, and declared it a
sovereign nation, the Principality of Sealand.
(SFEC, 6/4/00, p.A4)(www.sealandgov.com/history.html)
1967 Sep 3, The original version
of the television game show "What's My Line?," hosted by John Charles
Daly, broadcast its final episode after more than 17 years on CBS.
(AP, 9/3/97)
1967 Sep 3, James Dunn, actor
(Tree Grows in Brooklyn, 6 Gun Law), died at age 61.
(MC, 9/3/01)
1967 Sep 3, Muhammad Bin Laden
(b.1908), a Yemeni immigrant to Saudi Arabia, died in a plane crash. He
made a fortune in the construction business and left King Faisal in
charge of some 55 of his children.
(Econ, 4/12/08,
p.92)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_bin_Laden)
1967 Sep 3, Motorists in Sweden
began driving on the right-hand side of the road instead of the left.
(AP, 9/3/97)
1967 Sep 3, Lieutenant General
Nguyen Van Thieu was elected president of South Vietnam under a new
constitution.
(AP, 9/3/97)(HN, 9/3/98)
1967 Sep 4, Michigan Gov. George
Romney told a TV interview he'd undergone a "brainwashing" by U.S.
officials during a 1965 visit to Vietnam, a comment that apparently
damaged Romney's bid for the Republican presidential nomination.
(AP, 9/4/97)
1967 Sep 9, "Rowan and Martin's
Laugh-In" aired as a one-time special on NBC; its success led to a
regular series beginning in January 1968. The show folded in 1973.
(AP, 9/9/07)(SSFC, 5/25/08, p.B6)
1967 Sep 10, Gibraltar voted
12,138 to 44 to remain British and not Spanish.
(MC, 9/10/01)
1967 Sep 11, Harry Connick Jr. was
born. He became a Grammy Award-winning singer: We are in Love; actor:
Copycat, When Harry Met Sally.
(MC, 9/11/01)
1967 Sep 11, Charles Manson
(b.1934) recorded his album "Lie," which was produced by Dennis Wilson
(b.1944), drummer for the Beach Boys.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lie:_The_Love_and_Terror_Cult)
1967 Sep 11, "The Carol Burnett
Show" premiered on CBS.
(AP, 9/11/97)
1967 Sep 11, The Beatles drove
their Magical Mystery Bus around England.
(MC, 9/11/01)
1967 Sep 16, The TV series
"Mannix," starring Mike Connors, premiered on CBS.
(AP, 9/16/07)
1967 Sep 17, "Mission Impossible"
premiered on CBS-TV. [see Sep 17, 1966]
(MC, 9/17/01)
1967 Sep 19, Nigeria began an
offensive against Biafra. [see Jul 6]
(MC, 9/19/01)
1967 Sep 20, The 963-foot
passenger ship Queen Elizabeth II was launched.
(www.cunard.co.uk)
1967 Sep 23, The regime of Greek
Colonels freed ex-premier Georgios Papandreou. [see Dec 24]
(MC, 9/23/01)
1967 Sep 23, Soviets signed a pact
to send more aid to Hanoi.
(HN, 9/23/98)
1967 Sep 25, Stuff Smith (b.1909),
jazz violinist, died in Munich, Germany.
(http://nfo.net/calendar/sep25.htm)
1967 Sep 26, Hanoi rejected a U.S.
peace proposal.
(HN, 9/26/99)
1967 Sep 27, Felix F. Yussupov,
litigious Russian monarchist and slayer of Rasputin, died at 80.
(MC, 9/27/01)
1967 Sep 28, Moon Zappa, singer,
was born. Valley Girl, actress: Dark Side of Genius, Heartstopper,
Spirit of '76, The Boys Next Door; daughter of the famous singer, Frank
Zappa.
(MC, 9/28/01)
1967 Sep 28, Walter E. Washington
(d.2003) took office as the first mayor of the District of Columbia. He
had been appointed mayor-commissioner by Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson and
won by election in 1974.
(AP, 9/28/97)(SFC, 11/1/03, p.A20)
1967 Sep 29, Author Carson
McCullers died in Nyack, N.Y., at age 50.
(AP, 9/29/07)
1967 Sep, The government
delegations of China, Tanzania and Zambia held talks in Beijing and
formally signed the "Agreement of the Government of the People's
Republic of China, the Government of the United Republic of Tanzania
and the Government of the Republic of Zambia on the Construction of the
Tanzania-Zambia Railway".
(www.fmprc.gov.cn/eng/ziliao/3602/3604/t18009.htm)
1967 Sep, The British, French and
German governments signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to start
development of the 300 seat Airbus A300 in order to compete with
American companies. Airbus Industrie was formally set up in 1970.
(www.absoluteastronomy.com/reference/airbus)
1967 Oct 2, Thurgood Marshall, the
first African-American Supreme Court justice, was sworn in as an
associate justice of he U.S. Supreme Court. Marshall had previously
been the solicitor general, the head of the legal staff of the National
Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and a
leading American civil rights lawyer.
(TMC, 1994, p.1967)(AP, 10/2/97)(HN, 10/2/98)
1967 Oct 3, William J. Knight
(d.2004), US Air Force test pilot, set a speed record in a
rocket-powered X-15-2A that reached 4,520 mph. Knight later served as a
California state senator (1996-2004).
(SSFC, 5/9/04, p.B7)
1967 Oct 3, Woody Guthrie
(b.1912), born as Woodrow Wilson Guthrie, folksinger, died from
Huntington’s disease. In 1998 Billy Bragg and the band Wilco released a
new album based on Guthrie’s lyrics: "Mermaid Avenue." In 1998 a Woody
Guthrie archive was opened on W. 57th St. in NYC. In 2002 Elizabeth
Partridge authored "This Land Was made for You and Me: The Life and
Songs of Woody Guthrie." In 2004 Ed Cray authored "Ramblin' Man: The
Life and Times of Woody Guthrie."
(SFC,12/26/97, p.C22)(SFEC, 6/21/98, DB p.38)(SFC,
11/27/98, p.C11)(SFC, 11/23/00, p.C5)(SSFC, 6/2/02, p.M3)(SFC, 3/30/04,
p.E1)
1967 Oct 3, Malcolm Sargent,
English conductor (Last Night of Proms), died at 72.
(MC, 10/3/01)
1967 Oct 5, Haji Hassanal Bolkiah
Mu’Izzaddin Waddaulah, the 29th Sultan of Brunei, ascended to the
throne.
(www.brunei.gov.bn/government/)
1967 Oct 8, Che Guevara was
captured by US trained Bolivian Rangers near Vado del Yeso.
(SFC, 5/12/96, Z1p.4)(SFEC, 7/13/97, p.A10)
1967 Oct 8, Clement R. Attlee
(84), former premier of Great Britain (1945-51), died.
(AP, 10/8/07)
1967 Oct 9, The British Road
Safety Act, providing for use of the "breathalyser" (or breathalyzer)
to detect intoxicated motorists, went into effect.
(AP, 10/9/07)
1967 Oct 9, Latin American
guerrilla leader Che Guevara (b.1928), Ernesto Serna, was executed
while attempting to incite revolution in Bolivia. Guevara was captured
the previous day and executed on the orders of Bolivia’s Pres. Gen.
Rene Barrientos. Guevara believed that a man of action could
revolutionize a people and strove to fight what he perceived as the
American domination of Latin America. ”Pueblo unido jamas sera
vencido.” (A United people will never be overcome.)
(AP, 10/9/97)(SFC, 12/23/04, p.A18)(SFC, 10/9/07,
p.A17)
1967 Oct 10, The Outer Space
Treaty, which prohibits the placing of weapons of mass destruction on
the moon or elsewhere in space, entered into force.
(AP, 10/10/07)
1967 Oct 10, Sargent Johnson
(b.1888), Boston-born and SF-based African-American painter and
sculptor, died.
(SFC, 5/4/09,
p.E3)(http://www.aaregistry.com/detail.php?id=1195)
1967 Oct 10, Brendan Behan's
"Borstal Boy," premiered in Dublin.
(MC, 10/10/01)
1967 Oct 10, The body of Che
Guevara was laid out at the Lord of Malta Hospital in Villegrande,
Bolivia, 300 miles from the site of capture. The next day his body
vanished. His body was found in a common grave on Jun 28, 1997. Two
biographies were later written: "Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life," by
Jon Lee Anderson, and "Companero: The Life and Times of Che Guevara by
Jorge G. Castaneda.
(SFC, 5/12/96, Z1p.1)(SFEC, 7/13/97, p.A10)(WSJ,
10/1/97, p.A20)
1967 Oct 12, In India a massive
cyclone struck the rural Orissa state consisting of small villages.
Basically all life (human and animal) and each structure was wiped out;
the precise number of fatalities and destruction is unknown.
(www.emergency-management.net/cyclone.htm)
1967 Oct 17, "Hair," subtitled The
American Tribal Love/Rock Musical, premiered off Broadway at the Public
Theater. It moved to the Biltmore Theater on Broadway on April 29,
1968, where it stayed for 1,873 performances.
(http://www.new-age-guide.com/new_age/hair_(musical).htm)
1967 Oct 29, MacDermot, Ragni
& Rado's counter-culture musical "Hair" opened off-Broadway. [see
Oct 17]
(AP, 10/29/97)(MC, 10/29/01)
1967 Oct 17, American forces of
the black Lion battalion walked into an ambush set by NV commander Vo
Minh Triet and 61 were killed. In 2003 David Maraniss authored "They
Marched Into Sunlight: War and Peace, Vietnam and America," which
centered on this battle and a protest in Wisconsin on Oct 18.
(Econ, 11/22/03, p.82)(SSFC, 12/28/03, p.M3)
1967 Oct 17, Aisin-Gioro Henry
Puyi (61), the last emperor of China, died of cancer. Official reports
said his death occurred while under persecution from ultra-leftists of
the Cultural Revolution.
(SFC, 6/11/97,
p.C16)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Puyi)
1967 Oct 18, Walt Disney's "Jungle
Book" was released.
(MC, 10/18/01)
1967 Oct 18, A protest in Madison,
Wisc., against recruiting by Dow Chemical, the maker of napalm and
Agent Orange, turned violent. In 2003 David Maraniss authored "They
Marched Into Sunlight: War and Peace, Vietnam and America." It centered
on an Oct 17 battle in Vietnam and the Wisconsin protest.
(Econ, 11/22/03, p.82)(SSFC, 12/28/03, p.M3)
1967 Oct 18, A Russian unmanned
spacecraft made the first landing on the surface of Venus.
(HN, 10/18/98)
1967 Oct 19, Amy Carter, Pres
Carter's daughter and peace activist, was born.
(MC, 10/19/01)
1967 Oct 19, The US space probe
Mariner V flew past Venus.
(AP, 10/19/07)
1967 Oct 20, Seven men were
convicted in Meridian, Miss., of violating the civil rights of three
murdered civil rights workers.
(AP, 10/20/97)
1967 Oct 21, Tens of thousands of
Vietnam War protesters marched in Washington, D.C. 35,000 people
assembled outside the Pentagon to protest the war in Vietnam. The
"March on the Pentagon," protesting American involvement in Vietnam ,
drew 50,000 protesters.
(TMC, 1994, p.1967)(AP, 10/21/97)(HN, 10/21/98)
1967 Oct 21, The Israeli destroyer
INS Eilat was sunk by Egyptian missile boats near Port Said; 47 Israeli
crew members were lost.
(AP, 10/21/07)
1967 Oct 23, A secret US State
Dept. cable reported that covert Guatemalan security operations
included "kidnapping, torture and summary executions."
(SFC, 3/11/99, p.A12)
1967 Oct 26, US Navy pilot John
McCain, later US Senator, was shot down in his A-4 over North Vietnam
and spent 5 1/2 years in prison, two in solitary confinement. He signed
a confession following torture admitting to being a war criminal and in
1999 published the family saga "Faith of My Fathers." The 1995 book
"The Nightingale's Song" by Robert Timberg was about McCain.
(SFC, 8/16/99, p.A1,4) (WSJ, 9/8/99, p.A24)
1967 Oct 26, The Shah of Iran
crowned himself and his Queen after 26 years on the Peacock Throne.
(AP, 10/26/97)
1967 Oct 27, 4 people from
Baltimore poured blood on selective service records.
(MC, 10/27/01)
1967 Oct 29, In Oakland, Ca.,
police made a traffic stop on Black Panther leader Huey Newton
(d.1989). In a gun battle Newton was wounded and police officer John
Frey was killed. Newton was convicted of voluntary manslaughter but the
conviction was overturned. Gene McKinney (d.2000 at 58) and Newton had
driven out for takeout feed following a Black Panther Party fundraiser
when they were pulled over. McKinney commandeered a passing car to get
Newton to a hospital.
(SFC,10/24/97, p.A15)(SFC, 9/23/00, p.A19)
1967 Oct 29, Expo 67 in Montreal
closed after six months.
(AP, 10/29/07)
1967 Oct 31, Nguyen Van Thieu took
the oath of office as the first president of South Vietnam's second
republic.
(AP, 10/31/97)
1967 Oct, Pres. Johnson named
Edward M. Korry (d.2003 at 81) to serve as the US ambassador to Chile.
Korry served until 1971 and was kept ignorant by the Nixon
administration of plans for a coup.
(SFC, 2/1/03, p.A19)
1967 Oct, In California John Lion
staged "The Lesson" by Eugene Ionesco as his UC thesis project. The
play moved to the Steppenwolf Bar in Berkeley and inspired Lion to open
his Magic Theater, later housed in SF’s Fort Mason.
(SFEC, 10/5/97, DB p.43)
1967 Oct, US Capt. John McCain,
bomber pilot, bailed out from his damaged plane and fell into Hanoi’s
Truc Bach Lake. He was rescued by Main Van On of the People’s Army of
Vietnam. McCain later became a US senator.
(SFC, 11/14/96, p.A11)
1967 Oct, TV journalist Charles
Kuralt (1934-1997) hit the nation’s roads with a 3-person crew for a
trial run of what would become the "On the Road" series.
(SFC, 7/5/97, p.A5)
1967 Nov 5, US troops conquered
Loc Ninh South Vietnam.
(MC, 11/5/01)
1967 Nov 7, President Lyndon B.
Johnson signed a bill establishing the Corporation for Public
Broadcasting.
(AP, 11/7/97)(HN, 11/7/98)
1967 Nov 7, Carl Stokes
(1927-1996) was elected the first black mayor of a major city --
Cleveland, Ohio. He served two terms as mayor from 1967 to 1971 and was
a leading advocate for increased federal aid to American cities. After
serving as mayor, Stokes became a television commentator and later a
judge in Cleveland.
(AP, 11/7/97)(HNQ, 1/9/03)
1967 Nov 7, John Nance Garner
(98), (VP-D, 1933-41), died.
(MC, 11/7/01)
1967 Nov 7, Juan Tomas Perez (71),
composer, died.
(MC, 11/7/01)
1967 Nov 9, NASA (National
Aeronautics and Space Administration) launched Apollo 4 into orbit from
Cape Kennedy with the first successful test of a Saturn V rocket.
(AP, 11/9/97)(HN, 11/9/98)
1967 Nov 9, Rolling Stone
Magazine, co-founded by Jann Wenner in SF, published its debut issue
with a press run of 40,000 copies. Ralph J. Gleason, SF jazz critic,
helped Wenner fund the 1st issue. In 1998 "Rolling Stone: The Complete
Covers 1967-1997" was edited by Holly George-Warren. In 1977 the
company moved its headquarters to NYC.
(SFC,10/28/97, p.E1)(SFEC, 6/21/98, BR p.12)(SFC,
12/23/04, p.E16)(SFC, 4/18/09, p.C1)
1967 Nov 13, The first US
African-American mayor was elected. Carl Stokes became the first black
US mayor of a major US city.
(HFA, '96, p. 42)(TMC, 1994, p.1967)
1967 Nov 13, In SF 3 attackers
opened fire on Officer Herman George at the Hunters Point Project
Station. George later died from his wounds and the case remained
unsolved.
(SFC, 1/27/07, p.A8)
1967 Nov 14, Barney Kilgore
(b.1908), WSJ columnist and Chairman of Dow Jones & Co., died. He
is credited as the visionary who made The Wall Street Journal into a
national newspaper. In 2009 Richard J. Tofel authored “Restless Genius:
Barney Kilgore, The Wall Street Journal, and the Invention of Modern
Journalism.”
(www.nassauchurch.org/cemetery/docs/bernard_kilgore.htm)(WSJ, 3/9/09,
p.A17)
1967 Nov 16, Haiphong shipyard in
North Vietnam was hit by U.S. planes for the first time.
(HN, 11/16/98)
1967 Nov 17, Surveyor 6 made a
six-second flight on moon, the first lift off on lunar surface.
(HN, 11/17/98)
1967 Nov 17, French author Regis
Debray (b.1940) was sentenced to 30 years in Bolivia. Debray (b.1940)
was jailed in Bolivia shortly before Che Guevara was captured and was
convicted of having been part of Guevara's guerrilla group. He was
released in 1970 after an international campaign for his release which
included Jean-Paul Sartre, André Malraux, General De Gaulle and
Pope Paul VI.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regis_Debray)
1967 Nov 18, A Detroit newspaper
strike began and shut down both daily papers for 267 days. The strike
ended on August 9, 1968.
(SFC, 9/18/97,
p.C2)(www.loc.gov/rr/news/chronological/exception_report.html)
1967 Nov 18, A photograph of the
planet Earth was made from a space vehicle, the ATS-III Satellite.
(E&IH, 1973, p.1)
1967 Nov 19, In Vietnam, the
Tiger Force, an elite US Army unit of the 101st Airborne Division,
achieved their 327th kill. The unit had killed hundreds of civilians in
Hanh Thien, a Central Highland area, over the last seven months. US
Army Lt. Col. Gerald Morse had called for 327 kills to match the name
of the 327th infantry regiment. In 2006 Michael Sallah and Mitch Weiss
authored “Tiger Force: A True Story of Men and War.” It was based on
secret documents from Henry Tufts (d.2002), former head of the Army’s
Criminal Investigations Command (CID).
(AP, 10/25/03)(SSFC, 5/14/06, p.M1)
1967 Nov 20, The Census Clock at
the US Commerce Department ticked past 200 million.
(AP, 11/20/97)
1967 Nov 21, President Lyndon B.
Johnson signed the Air Quality Act, allotting $428 million for the
fight against pollution.
(HN, 11/21/98)(AP, 11/21/07)
1967 Nov 22, Boris Becker, tennis
player (Wimbledon 1985, 86, 89), was born in West Germany.
(MC, 11/22/01)
1967 Nov 22, BBC unofficially
banned "I Am the Walrus" by Beatles.
(MC, 11/22/01)
1967 Nov 22, The U.N. Security
Council approved Resolution 242, which called for Israel to withdraw
from territories it captured in 1967, and implicitly called on
adversaries to recognize Israel's right to exist.
(AP, 11/22/97)
1967 Nov 24, Cambodian triple
agent Inchin Lam was murdered. Special Forces Captain John J. McCarthy
was accused and later tried for the murder in a court in Vietnam. [see
Jan 29, 1968]
(HN,11/24/98)(http://www.copvcia.com/Mac.htm)(www.geocities.com/larryjodaniel/17.html)
1967 Nov 26, Cloudburst over
Lisbon, Portugal, killed 250-450.
(MC, 11/26/01)(AP, 11/26/02)
1967 Nov 27, The Beatles' "Magical
Mystery Tour," album was released in Britain.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magical_Mystery_Tour_(album))
1967 Nov 27, Lyndon Johnson
appointed Robert McNamara to the presidency of the World Bank. McNamara
served 2 terms from 1968-1981.
(HN, 11/27/98)(SFC, 9/28/99, p.C16)
1967 Nov 27, Charles DeGaulle
vetoed Britain’s entry into the Common Market again.
(HN, 11/27/98)
1967 Nov 27, Ettore Panizza (92),
opera conductor, died.
(MC, 11/27/01)
1967 Nov 28, Actress-model Anna
Nicole Smith (d.2007) was born Vickie Lynn Hogan in Houston.
(AP, 11/28/07)
1967 Nov 28, The first pulsating
radio source (pulsar) was detected.
(DTnet, 11/28/97)
1967 Nov 28, Yemen gained
independence from Britain. British troops withdrew and the People's
Republic of Yemen was declared with Qahtan ash-Sha'abi as the country's
first President.
(www.atlapedia.com/online/countries/yemen.htm)
1967 Nov 29, Secretary of Defense
Robert S. McNamara announced he was leaving the Johnson administration
to become president of the World Bank.
(AP, 11/29/97)
1967 Nov 30, Sen. Eugene McCarthy
began a run for US presidency.
(MC, 11/30/01)
1967 Nov, At SF State a dozen
members of the Black Student Union stormed the offices of The Gator,
the campus newspaper. They were upset over remarks against Mohammad
Ali. They left the 21-year-old editor badly beaten.
(SFEC, 3/1/98, p.W3)
1967 Nov, a task force from the
4th Battalion, 31st Infantry, under Maj. Gilbert Dorland, fought a
fierce three-day battle at Hill 63 with the North Vietnamese Army’s 2nd
Battalion, 3rd Regiment. Early in the battle, Dorland was thrown off
the APC he was riding on, and then run over by that same vehicle.
Because the ground was soft and mushy, Dorland was not crushed
instantly, but was injured severely and in great pain. Nonetheless, he
remained in command for almost another 24 hours. He later received the
Distinguished Service Cross for his heroism.
(HNQ, 2/4/02)
1967 Dec 1, Queen Elizabeth
inaugurated the 98-inch (249-cm) Isaac Newton telescope.
(MC, 12/1/01)
1967 Dec 2, Cardinal Francis
Spellman died in New York City at age 78.
(AP, 12/2/97)
1967 Dec 2, In Gabon Pres. Omar
Bongo began ruling upon the death of Leon M'Ba. Jacques Foccart,
architect of French policy in Africa, helped to handpick Omar Bongo.
(WSJ, 12/10/96, p.A22)(SFC, 3/20/97, p.A24)(AP,
11/30/05)
1967 Dec 3, The 20th Century Ltd.,
the famed luxury train, completed its final run from New York City to
Chicago.
(AP, 12/3/97)
1967 Dec 3, Surgeons in Cape Town,
South Africa, led by Dr. Christiaan Barnard, performed the first human
heart transplant at the Groote Shur Hospital. Louis Washkansky lived 18
days with the new heart. The first heart transplant operation in the
U.S. was on December 6, 1967, in New York City.
(AP, 12/3/97)(HNQ, 1/9/99)
1967 Dec 4, Bert Lahr (72),
[Irving Lahrheim], US comic (Wizard of Oz), died.
(MC, 12/4/01)
1967 Dec 5, Benjamin Spock and
Allen Ginsberg were arrested for protesting Vietnam war.
(MC, 12/5/01)
1967 Dec 6, Dr. Adrian Kantrowitz
(1918-2008) performed the first US human heart transplant on a baby in
Brooklyn, who died 6 hours later.
(SFC, 11/21/08, p.B6)
1967 Dec 8, In the biggest battle
yet in the Mekong Delta, 365 Vietcong were killed.
(HN, 12/8/98)
1967 Dec 8, Major Robert Lawrence
Jr. was killed in the crash of an F-104 fighter during a training
exercise, six months after being named to the Air Force’s manned
orbiting laboratory program. in 1997 he was recognized as a
full-fledged astronaut, the first black astronaut.
(SFC,12/897, p.A6)
1967 Dec 9, Nicolae Ceausescu
became president (dictator) of Romania.
(MC, 12/9/01)
1967 Dec 10, Singer Otis Redding
(26) and 6 others died in the crash of his private plane in Lake
Monona, Wisconsin. He had recently recorded “Sittin’ on the Dock of the
Bay,” which became a big hit in 1968.
(SFC, 4/25/06, p.B5)(AP, 12/10/07)
1967 Dec 11, The Concorde, a joint
British-French venture and the world’s first supersonic airliner, was
unveiled in Toulouse, France.
(HN, 12/11/98)
1967 Dec 12, The U.S. ended the
airlift of 6,500 men in Vietnam.
(HN, 12/12/98)
1967 Dec 14, DNA was created in a
test tube.
(MC, 12/14/01)
1967 Dec 14, Israel submitted to
the United Nations a five-year plan to solve the Arab refugee problem
conditioned on a general peace settlement between Israel and the Arab
states.
(AP, 12/14/02)
1967 Dec 15, President Lyndon B.
Johnson signed the meat bill in the presence of Upton Sinclair the
author of the controversial book "The Jungle."
(HN, 12/15/98)
1967 Dec 15, The US Age
Discrimination Employment Act became public law.
(www.dotcr.ost.dot.gov/documents/ycr/adea67.htm)
1967 Dec 15, John Patler (b.1938)
was convicted for the August 25 murder of George Lincoln Rockwell, head
of the American Nazi Party. He was sentenced top 20 years, but served
only 4 before being paroled in August, 1975.
(AH, 2/06, p.66)
1967 Dec 15, In Point Pleasant,
West Virginia, it took less than 30 seconds for the Silver Bridge to
tumble into the Ohio River, killing 46 people and leaving towns on
either side stunned and bereft. The bridge had linked Point Pleasant
and Kanauga, Ohio, since 1928.
(AP, 12/15/07)
1967 Dec 17, Australia’s PM Harold
Holt (59) plunged into the surf at Victoria during a stroll on the
beach and vanished. In 2005 a coroner officially confirmed that Holt
had drowned.
(SFEM, 10/11/98, p.26)(AP, 9/2/05)
1967 Dec 20, Ian Anderson &
Glenn Cornick formed the rock group Jethro Tull.
(MC, 12/20/01)
1967 Dec 20, "Graduate," starring
Dustin Hoffman and Anne Bancroft, premiered.
(MC, 12/20/01)
1967 Dec 20, Some 474,300 US
soldiers were stationed in Vietnam.
(MC, 12/20/01)
1967 Dec 21, Louis Washkansky (55)
died in South Africa 18 days after undergoing the 1st heart transplant.
(AP, 12/3/97)(HNQ, 1/9/99)
1967 Dec 23, President Johnson, on
his way home from a visit to Southeast Asia, held an unprecedented
meeting with Pope Paul VI at the Vatican.
(AP, 12/23/07)
1967 Dec 23, US Navy SEALs were
ambushed during an operation southeast of Saigon.
(HN, 12/23/98)
1967 Dec 24, Burt Baskin (b.1913)
co-founder of the Baskins-Robbins ice cream chain, died. He and Irvine
Robbins (1917-2008) had become partners in 1948.
(WSJ, 5/10/08,
p.A8)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burt_Baskin)
1967 Dec 24, Greek Junta freed
ex-Premier Papandreou.
(HN, 12/24/98)
1967 Dec 26, The BBC broadcasted
the Beatle’s "Magical Mystery Tour."
(MC, 12/26/01)
1967 Dec 26, Atlantic Richfield
oil workers struck oil on Alaska’s North Slope at Prudhoe Bay.
(AH, 10/04, p.42)
1967 Dec 27, Singer Bob Dylan
(b.1941 as Robert Allen Zimmerman) released his "John Wesley Harding"
album.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wesley_Harding_(album))
1967 Dec 29, Star Trek's "Trouble
With Tribbles" 1st aired.
(MC, 12/29/01)
1967 Dec 29, Paul Whiteman (77),
US orchestra leader (Fabulous Dorseys), died.
(MC, 12/29/01)
1967 Dec 29, A Turkish-Cypriot
government formed in Cyprus.
(MC, 12/29/01)
1967 Dec 30, Beatles' "Hello
Goodbye," single went #1 for 3 weeks.
(MC, 12/30/01)
1967 Dec 31, Evel Knievel
(1938-2007) failed in his attempt to jump Caesar's Palace Fountain.
(www.evelknievel.com/ek-timeline.html)
1967 Dec, In Greece the military
junta crushed an attempted counter rebellion led by King Constantine.
The Royal family fled the country and Colonel George Papadopoulos
emerged as the junta leader.
(SFC, 6/28/99, p.A19)
1967 Francis Bacon painted
"Portrait of George Dyer."
(WSJ, 11/13/98, p.W16)
1967 Trudy Baker, Rachel Jones and
Donald Bain authored “Coffee, Tea or Me: The Uninhibited Memoirs of Two
Airline Stewardesses.” The pseudonymous author turned out to be a male
airline publicist.
(http://tinyurl.com/33hh6e)(Econ, 5/5/07, p.105)
1967 Marcel Duchamp wrote his
piece "Paragraphs on Conceptual Art" for Artforum magazine.
(SFEM, 1/12/97, BR p.7)
1967 Olafur Eliasson, artist, was
born in Denmark to Icelandic parents. He later created 121ethiopia.org,
a charitable organization to finance orphanages in Ethiopia.
(Econ, 10/6/07,
p.100)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%93lafur_El%C3%ADasson)
1967 Michael Bar-Zohar authored
"The Avengers." It covered the story of Holocaust survivors who formed
a death squad after World War II to take revenge on their Nazi
persecutors. One operation included attempts to poison hundreds of SS
officers imprisoned after the war by the Americans at Dachau and
Nuremberg in Germany. The group's 40 or so members were largely Jews
who had not been sent to concentration camps and spent the war fighting
Nazis.
(AP, 12/23/05)
1967 John Gregory Dunne
(1932-2003) authored "Delano," an account of the California grape
strike.
(SFC, 1/1/04, p.A23)
1967 Don Fabun authored "The
Dynamics of Change."
(SFEC, 12/19/99, Z1 p.3)
1967 Fred W. Friendly, TV
producer, published "Due to Circumstances Beyond Our Control."
(SFC, 3/5/98, p.A24)
1967 Herbert Gans authored
“Levittowners,” in which he described the changing mindset of America’s
new middle class.
(Econ, 2/14/09, SR p.7)
1967 Prof. Charles M. Hardin
(1908-1997) wrote "Food and Fiber in the National Politics."
(SFC, 7/4/97, p.E2)
1967 S.E. Hinton authored “The
Outsiders,” her 1st novel. In 1983 a film version starred Emilio
Estevez, Rob Lowe, C. Thomas Howell, Patrick Swayze, and Tom Cruise. It
was directed by Francis Ford Coppola and produced by Fred Roos.
(SFC, 9/20/05, p.E1)(www.sehinton.com/bio/)
1967 Milan Kundera’s 1st novel,
"The Joke," was published in Czechoslovakia under the title "Zert."
(SSFC, 11/3/02, p.M3)
1967 Dr. Joseph Leighton (d.1999
at 77) authored the textbook "The Spread of Cancer."
(SFC, 6/11/99, p.D6)
1967 Denise Levertov (d.1997 at
74) published her volume of verse: "The Sorrow Dance," on sorrow for
the Vietnam war and the death of her sister.
(SFC,12/23/97, p.D4)
1967 Margaret Lovett (b.1910),
English writer, authored "The Great and Terrible Quest," a children's
historical novel set in medieval Italy.
(Econ, 8/30/03, p.62)
1967 "Aging And Mental Disorder"
by Marjorie Fiske Lowenthal was published by Jossey-Bass Inc., which
was founded in San Francisco in 1967 by Allen Jossey Bass (1928-1996).
(www.worldcatlibraries.org/wcpa/top3mset/dfc48d83f1e8a2f5.html)
1967 Norman Mailer (1923-2007),
American writer, authored “Why Are We in Vietnam.”
(SSFC, 11/11/07, p.A7)
1967 The book "A Hundred Years of
Solitude," by Colombian novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez (b.1927), was
published in Spanish.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Hundred_Years_of_Solitude)
1967 The book “The Medium is the
Message” was written by Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore, and
Co-ordinated by Jerome Agel. A typesetter’s error retitled the book
“The Medium Is the Massage.”
(www.marshallmcluhan.com/pub.html)(WSJ, 1/21/06,
p.P11)
1967 "The Naked Ape" by Desmond
Morris was published.
(GQ, Summer ‘96, p.22)
1967 Anthony Nutting published "No
End of a Lesson" which explained why he quit his British government
position during the 1956 Suez crises.
(SFC, 2/26/99, p.A25)
1967 Emil Petaja (d.2000 at 85),
American science fiction writer, authored "Lord of the Green Planet."
His 13 novels included a series based on the Kalevala, a Finnish epic
poem. These included "Saga of Lost Earth" and "Tramontane."
(SFC, 8/19/00, p.A19)
1967 Norman Podhoretz, editor of
Commentary, authored "Making It," the first volume of a 3 part series
of his memoirs.
(SFEC, 3/28/99, BR p.8)
1967 The travel book "Dublin: A
Portrait" by V.A. Pritchett was published.
(SFC, 3/22/97, p.A21)
1967 Carleton Putnam (d.1998)
wrote his book: "Race and Reality." It was a sequel to his earlier book
"Race and Reason" where he argued that the Negro race could not hold a
candle to the white race in the personal characteristics that produced
the glories of the Western civilization.
(SFC, 3/17/98, p.A20)
1967 Chih-Han Sah (d.1997 at 62),
theoretical mathematician, published his text on algebraic number
theory: "Abstract Algebra."
(SFC, 8/19/97, p.A20)
1967 Thomas Savage (d.2003 at 88),
Western novelist, authored "The Power of the Dog."
(SFC, 8/25/03, p.B4)
1967 "The Candlesticks and the
Cross" by Ruth Freeman Solomon (1908-1996) was published. It was the
first book of a trilogy based on her father’s family in
pre-Revolutionary Russia. The sequels "The Eagle and the Dove" and "Two
Lives, Two Lands" were later published. Her 4th novel was "The Ultimate
Triumph."
(SFC, 8/16/96, p.A26)
1967 Charles Plunket Bourchier
Taylor (1935-1997), Beijing correspondent for the Globe & Mail,
published "Reporter in Red China."
(G&M, 7/31/97, p.A20)
1958 Telford Taylor published "The
Breaking Wave." He helped write the rules for Nuremberg Trials.
(SFC, 5/26/98, p.B2)
1967 Hunter Thompson authored
"Hells Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga." Sonny Barger, founder of
the Angels, co-wrote his auto-biography in 2000 with Kent and Keith
Zimmerman.
(SFC, 6/10/00, p.B1)
1967 The lead role in "Prodigal
Prince" by Geoffrey Holder was created for dancer Miguel Godreau
(1947-1996) of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.
(SFC, 9/2/96, p.A20)
1967 The play "The Killing of
Sister George" by Frank Marcus starred Beryl Reid (1920-1996) in
London.
(SFC, 10/15/96, p.A19)
1967 The play "Fortune and Men’s
Eyes" by John Herbert (d.2001 at 75), Canadian playwright, was produced
off Broadway. It provided a glimpse of sexual struggles behind prison
doors.
(SFC, 6/29/01, p.D5)
1967 The opera "Mourning Becomes
Electra" premiered at the NYC Metropolitan Opera House. It was composed
by Martin David Levy and Henry Butler (d.1998 at 79) wrote the libretto.
(SFC, 8/11/98, p.B2)(WSJ, 10/21/98, p.A20)
1967 Frank Pacelli spent 13 years
(1967-1980) on The TV show "Days of Our Lives." He then moved on to
"The Young and the Restless."
(SFC, 3/15/97, p.A19)
1967 The Biograph movie theater
opened in Washington DC. For the next 29 years it featured film
classics and a broad ranging repertoire of film.
(WP, 6/29/96, p.F1)
1967 The ACT Theater settled in at
the Geary Theater in SF. The American Conservatory Theater was founded
by William Ball in 1965 in Pittsburgh.
(SFEC, 3/8/98, p.W29)
1967 The film “Titicut Follies”
was directed by Frederick Wiseman. It was banned by the Massachusetts
Supreme Court for its stark portrayal of inmate conditions in
Bridgewater, Mass.
(WSJ, 11/11/06, p.P2)
1967 Glen Campbell made a hit with
"Gentle On My Mind," written by John Hartford (d.2001 at 63).
(SFC, 6/6/01, p.A19)
1967 Bob Dylan and The Band
recorded "The Basement Tapes" in West Saugerties, N.Y., in a ranch
house dubbed Big Pink, rented by Rick Danko (d.1999). In 1997 Greil
Marcus, wrote "Invisible Republic," an exploration of the recordings.
Other band members included Garth Hudson, Richard Manuel, Robbie
Robertson and Levon Helm.
(SFEC, 5/25/97, DB p.52)(SFC, 12/1/97, p.E4)(WSJ,
12/15/99, p.A20)
1967 The 5th Dimension released
the Jimmy Webb tune "Up, Up and Away." The group included Ron Townson
(d.2001 ay 68), Florence LaRue, Marilyn McCoo, and Billy Davis.
(SFC, 8/4/01,
p.E2)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up,_Up_and_Away)
1967 The Four Tops sang
"Bernadette."
(SFC, 11/12/02, p.D8)
1967 Aretha Franklin (b.1942)
recorded "Chain of Fools."
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chain_of_Fools_(song))
1967 Aretha Franklin (b.1942) sang
"Respect," "Baby I Love You" and "I Never Love a Man (the Way I Love
You)."
(SSFC, 6/30/02, Par p.30)
1967 Arlo Guthrie recorded the
18.5 minute ballad "Alice’s Restaurant." It was about his arrest for
dumping garbage that had piled up at the former Episcopal Church where
Alice and Ray Brock lived in Great Barrington, Mass. Guthrie bought the
building in 1991 for $300,000 and set up a foundation to promote
understanding among religious traditions. "It’s a bring your own god
church."
(SFC, 1/5/02, p.A2)
1967 The Irish Rovers released
their album “The Unicorn.” They had formed in Canada and released their
album in California.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unicorn)
1967 Sly & the Family Stone
released the first of their 8 albums. The group was led by Sylvester
Stewart, aka Sly Stone, an African American from Vallejo, Ca. In 2008
Jeff Kaliss authored “I Want To Take You Higher: The Life and Times of
Sly & the Family Stone.”
(SFC, 11/24/08, p.E2)
1967 Zal Yanovsky (d.2002 at 57)
left the Lovin’ Spoonful. The group’s hits had included "Do You Believe
in Magic" and "Summer in the City."
(SFC, 12/17/02, p.A23)
1967 The rock group Moby Grape
made its debut album "Moby Grape."
(SFC, 6/29/96, p.E1)
1967 Procol Harum’s "A Whiter
Shade of Pale" became a psychedelic classic. It was later voted one of
the greatest pop songs of all time. In 2006 the High Court in London
awarded organist Matthew Fisher a 40% right to the song. Singer Gary
Brooker had claimed he was the sole writer.
(AFP, 12/20/06)
1967 Grace Slick and the Jefferson
Airplane (b.1965) burst out of SF with their songs "Somebody To Love"
and "White Rabbit." In 1998 Slick and Andrea Cagan wrote "Somebody To
Love? A Rock-and-Roll Memoir." A 1980 biography of Slick was written by
Barbara Rowe of the NY Times. In 2003 Jeff Tamarkin authored "Got a
Revolution: The Turbulent Flight of Jefferson Airplane."
(SFEC, 9/6/98, BR p.3)(SSFC, 6/22/03, p.M6)
1967 "Songs of Granite and Men" by
SF composer Walter Tolleson (d. 1997 at 72) was performed at Carnegie
Hall.
(SFC,10/31/97, p.A24)
1967 Gladys Knight and the Pips,
already an established singing group, joined the Motown record label.
Their hits included "I Heard It Through the Grapevine." In 1997 Gladys
Knight wrote "Between Each Line of Pain and Glory: My Life Story."
(SFC,11/19/97, p.E4)
1967 Miriam Makeba (1932-2008),
South African folk singer and anti-apartheid activist, released her hit
single “Pata Pata.”
(SFC, 11/11/08, p.B5)
1967 The Miracles sang "I Second
That Emotion."
(SFC, 11/12/02, p.D8)
1967 In Cuba the Orquesta de
Musica Moderna, a government sponsored group, was formed. It was the
basis for the later jazz group Irakere.
(SFC, 6/16/96, BR p.42)
1967 Rod Stewart emerged as the
vocal sensation in the Jeff Beck Group.
(USAT, 3/24/99, p.5E)
1967 The Supremes sang "Love Is
Here and Now You’re Gone" and "The Happening."
(SFC, 11/12/02, p.D8)
1967 The rock group Traffic was
founded by drummer Jim Capaldi (1945-2005), keyboardist Winwood,
guitarist Dave Mason and saxophonist-flutist Chris Wood.
(SFC, 2/1/05, p.B9)
1967 Jackie Wilson sang "Higher
and Higher."
(SFC, 11/12/02, p.D8)
c1967 John Portman designed the
Hyatt Regency Hotel in Atlanta, the first with a large atrium-style
lobby.
(WSJ, 2/21/97, p.B1)
1967 In Maryland developer James
W. Rouse started the town of Columbia, an experiment in urban idealism.
(WSJ, 4/5/08, p.A1)
1967 Reinhard Bonnke, founder of
the Frankfurt-based Christ for All Nations, began delivering his
evangelism in Africa after a vision he had of the continent being
washed by the blood of Jesus.
(SFC, 11/4/96, p.A12)
c1967 The 18th Street gang of Los
Angeles formed about this time.
(SFC, 8/30/97, p.A7)
1967 Flower children made The
Haight-Ashbury in San Francisco their epicenter.
(TMC, 1994, p.1967)
1967 "The Love Book" by beat poet
Lenore Kandel was the last volume of poetry dragged into court in SF
for obscenity charges.
(SFC, 8/15/97, p.A21)
1967 Dr. David E. Smith founded
the SF Free Clinic. The first clinic opened at 509 Clayton St. with
$500 in seed money from Rev. Leon Harris, pastor of All Saints
Episcopal Church. The facility spawned a nationwide movement.
(SFC, 6/7/97, p.A16)
1967 Ashleigh Brilliant began to
copyright pithy mottoes for a living. By 1997 he had copyrighted 7,540
aphorisms which he licensed for postcards, T-shirts and other products.
"Fundamentally, there may be no basis for anything."
(WSJ, 1/27/97, p.B1)
1967 The American Film Institute
was founded.
(SFEC, 12/1/96, p.B1)
1967 Writer Cleveland Amory
(d.1998) founded The Fund for Animals in NYC.
(SFC, 10/16/98, p.D4)
1967 Chuck Carpy (1928-1996)
founded the Freemark Abbey Winery in Napa Valley. He later founded
Rutherford Hill Winery (1976) and the Napa Valley Bank (1982).
(SFC, 8/21/96, p.A20)
1967 Rick Klein, the son of a
Pittsburgh physician, took his $50,000 inheritance and bought 100 acres
near Taos, N.M. where he founded New Buffalo. It became a commune that
was used by the likes of Timothy Leary, Ram Dass (aka Richard Alpert),
Dennis Hopper, and was the model for the commune in the film Easy
Rider. Klein later converted the facility to a Bed & Breakfast Inn.
(SFC, 12/10/95, p.T-9)
1967 Dennis Pulestin (d.2001 at
95) helped found the Environmental Defense Fund to fight DDT spraying
and to campaign for better environmental protection.
(SSFC, 6/17/01, p.A27)
1967 The World Intellectual
Property Organization was founded.
(Wired, 3/97, p.61)
1967 Board sailing was invented in
Southern California.
(Sp., 5/96, p.104)
1967 William Vaughan Shaw (d.1997
at 73), architect, won the Prix di Rome for his environmental design.
(SFC, 7/15/97, p.A18)
1967 John Fulton (d.1998 at 65),
American professional bullfighter, was confirmed in his ranking by
Madrid’s renowned Las Ventas bullring. He later did illustrations for
Michener’s "Miracle in Seville" and wrote a primer on how to be a
matador titled "Bullfighting."
(SFEC, 2/22/98, p.D8)
1967 Monroe "Bud" Karmin (e.1999
at 69) won a Pulitzer Prize in journalism for an expose of Mafia
dominance in gambling in the Bahamas.
(SFC, 1/18/99, p.A21)
1967 Miguel A. Asturias
(1899-1974) of Guatemala won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
(AP,
10/8/09))(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel_%C3%81ngel_Asturias)
1967 Hans Bethe (1906-2005),
German-born peace worker and physicist, won the Nobel Prize for
explaining how the sun and stars generate energy.
(SFC, 3/8/05, p.B5)
1967 George Wald (d.1997 at
90), won a Nobel Prize for his work on the biochemistry of
vision. As a National Research Council fellow in Germany in 1932 he
helped discover Vitamin A in the retina and retinol as a component of
the visual cycle.
(SFC, 4/14/97, p.A19)
1967 Thich Nhat Hanh of Vietnam
was nominated by Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. for the Nobel Peace Prize.
No winner was selected in this year.
(SFC, , Z1 p.3)
1967 Irish writer Erskine Childers
joined the United Nations. He later wrote "A World of Leadership:
Tomorrow’s United Nations" with Sir Brian Urquhart.
(SFC, 4/9/96, p.A17)
1967 Pres. Johnson began the
practice of placing a wreath on the graves of deceased presidents on
their birthdays.
(SFC, 12/30/98, p.A5)
1967 The government WIN program,
work incentive, mandated job training for some welfare recipients.
(SFEC, 1/5/97, zone 1 p.5)
1967 The President’s Crime
Commission recommended the creation of a single national number for
emergency phone calls. ATT reserved 911 in 1968.
(WSJ, 1/9/97, p.A8)
1967 The US government announced
that all silver coins would be withdrawn from circulation
(http://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/commodity/silver/880798.pdf)
1967 The first US African-American
mayor was elected in Gary, Ind.
(SFC, 9/8/97, p.A8)
1967 The US Supreme Court ruled
that mixed-race couples deserve the same protection as other couples
and toppled laws against mixed-race marriages.
(SFEC, 8/3/97, p.B1)
1967 The US introduced the concept
of the SDR (special drawing right) as an alternative to the dollar and
gold as an int'l. reserve currency to finance global trade.
(SSFC, 8/31/03, p.A29)
1967 The US Army Corps of
Engineers sought to keep the San Pedro Dam in northern California about
35% empty to catch flood waters. Local interests favored a fuller dam
for irrigation water and power and a 17% figure was settled.
(SFEC, 3/3/97, p.A8)
1967 Ray Knisley, owner of Camp
Richardson at Lake Tahoe, Ca., deeded the land to the government to
keep it out of the hands of developers. It was initially developed by
entrepreneur Alonzo Richardson in 1924, who in 1921 had begun ferrying
guests between Placerville and Lake Tahoe in his fleet of Pierce Arrow
touring cars.
(SSFC, 8/31/08, p.E6)
1967 The USS John F. Kennedy
aircraft carrier was christened by 9-year-old Caroline Kennedy.
(WSJ, 8/22/96, p.A12)
1967 Sidney Gottlieb (d.1999 at
80) rose to the top of the technical services division of the CIA. For
22 years he experimented with LSD and participated in the MKULTRA
program of secret experiments with mind-altering drugs.
(SFC, 4/6/99, p.)
1967 Robert Lipka, a National
Security Agency clerk at Fort Meade, Md., from 1964-1967, passed
documents to Soviet agents thought to contain descriptions of US troop
movements, NATO communications, and NSA electronic eavesdropping
targets. His meetings with Russians continued on and off until 1974. He
was arrested by the FBI in 1996. His indictment said he received
$27,000 for his alleged espionage. He pleaded guilty to one charge of
espionage in 1997 in exchange for a prison term not to exceed 18 years.
(WSJ, 2/26/96, p.A-1)(WSJ, 11/21/96, p.A19)(SFC,
5/24/97, p.A7)
1967 The IRS began arguing that
the Church of Scientology should loose its tax-exempt status because it
was a for-profit business that enriched its church officials. The case
was settled on Oct 1, 1993.
(WSJ, 12/30/97, p.A12)
1967 In Marin County, California,
Donald McCoy (1932-2004), a houseboat developer, used inheritance money
to lease a 700-acre estate at Rancho Olompoli and recruited others,
including activist Frank Cerda (1913-2007), to join him at a 22-room
mansion there. Commune leaders became known as “the Chosen Family.”
(SSFC, 10/24/04, p.B7)(SFC, 8/4/07, p.B5)(SFC,
1/14/09, p.B12)
1967 Stew Albert (1939-2006)
co-founded the anti-establishment Youth International Party, Yippies
along with Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffman. In 2004 Albert authored the
memoir “Who the Hell Is Stew Albert.”
(SSFC, 10/10/04, p.M2)(SFC, 2/1/06, p.B7)
1967 Blacks rioted in Newark and
Detroit. In Detroit the riots lasted 8 days and 40 people died and
2,000 were injured.
(TMC, 1994, p.1967)
1967 Stokely Carmichael became
honorary prime minister of the Black Panthers.
(SFC, 11/16/98, p.A7)
1967 The US Board of Geographic
Names banned the word "Jap" from appearing on any federal map.
(SFEC, 8/11/96, p.A20)
1967 Eight Mississippi Klan
members were convicted of federal conspiracy in the murders of three
civil rights workers with the testimony of Delmar Dennis.
(SFC, 6/5/96, p.C5)
1967 Raymond Hurlbert (1902-1996)
helped persuade Congress to pass the Public Broadcasting Act.
(SFC, 11/13/96, p.C3)
1967 Muriel Siebert became the
first woman to own a seat on the NY stock exchange.
(WSJ, 1/11/99, p.R42)
1967 AMC installed a buzzer in its
cars warning drivers if their lights were left on.
(WSJ, 6/19/96, Adv. Supl)
1967 Robert Kearns (1928-2005)
patented automobile intermittent windshield wipers.
(SFC, 3/2/05, p.B7)
1967 James M. Roche (d.2004)
became chairman and CEO of General Motors. He stepped down as chairman
in 1971.
(SFC, 6/8/04, B7)
1967 James Whitman McLamore and
Dave Edgarton sold Burger King to Pillsbury. Pillsbury later sold it to
Britain’s Grand Metropolitan PLC.
(SFC, 8/10/96, p.A20)
1967 The California Packing Co.
(Calpak) changed its name to Del Monte.
(SFC, 3/1/97, p.B1)(SSFC, 10/3/04, p.J1)
1967 Gablinger’s beer, named after
Swiss chemist Hersch Gablinger, was launched by Rheingold Breweries.
Joseph Owades (1919-2005, brewmaster, developed the process to remove
starch from beer and gave the formula to Meister Brau. The product
failed but Meister Brau was sold to Miller Brewing. Miller successfully
marketed the beer as Miller Lite.
(www.ereader.com/product/book/excerpt/17067)(SFC,
12/20/05, p.B7)
1967 William F. Farah (d.1998 at
78) took his family clothing business public as Farah Inc. A 22 month
strike later forced him to recognize the Amalgamated Clothing Workers
Union.
(SFC, 3/13/98, p.D2)
1967 Warner Brothers Corp. was
acquired by Canadian-based Seven Arts Productions and became
Warner-Seven Arts.
(WSJ, 1/11/00, p.B1)
1967 IBM opened a plant in Austin,
Texas, to make Selectric typewriters. The plant moved on to make
mainframe circuit boards, terminals and eventually personal computers.
(Econ, 9/23/06, p.74)
1967 Robert Kearns patented the
intermittent windshield wiper. He later sued Ford Motor Co. and settled
for 33 cents for every one of 20 million Ford cars sold with the device.
(WSJ, 7/26/99, p.A22)
1967 Steven Weinberg, physicist at
MIT, published a paper showing that gauge theories could describe the
real world if the effects of spontaneous symmetry-breaking are taken
into account. A few months later the same discovery was made
independently by Abdus Salam (1916-1990) in London.
(JST-TMC,1983, p.99)
1967 The first neutrino detector
was built in South Dakota. It was designed to capture solar neutrinos
with energies on the order of millions of electron volts.
(PacDis, Spring/'94, p. 40)
1967 The Becton Dickinson plant in
Holdredge, Nebraska, began manufacturing insulin syringes.
(BD Calendar, 7/97)
1967 The first successful heart
transplant was performed in South Africa.
(TMC, 1994, p.1967)
1967 The AMA unanimously adopted a
resolution asking syringe manufacturers to market designs that would
prevent reuse.
(SFC, 10/27/98, p.A5)
1967 Robert Mishell (1934-2008),
immunologist, discovered how to grow antibodies in a petri dish using
air with 7% oxygen rather than the usual 20%. This later led to the
discovery of T cells , B cells and other components of the immune
system.
(SFC, 4/5/08, p.B3)
1967 The World Health Organization
(WHO) launched a global plan to eradicate smallpox by extensive
vaccination. By 1980 the virus was extinct except for some lab
specimens.
(ON, 9/01, p.2)
1967 Syukuro Manabe and Richard
Wetherald of the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Lab. in Princeton, New
Jersey, performed one of the first serious computer analysis of the
climate using computers. Later GCMs (global circulation models) reached
wide use.
(NOHY, 3/90, p.59)
1967 Simon Sze and Dawon Kahng,
researchers at Bell Labs in New Jersey, devised a new semiconductor
memory device in which information could be stored and updated, and
which was non-volatile. It retained its contents even after it was
turned off.
(Econ, 3/11/06, Survey p.26)
1967 Jocelyn Bell, research
student at Cambridge discovered objects in the sky emitting regular
pulses of radio waves, later named pulsars. Fast-spinning pulsars
rotate at 50,000 rpm.
(BHT, Hawking, p.93)(NH, 3/97, p.70)
1967 A cosmic gamma ray burster
was first detected by a fleet of American spy satellites called Vela
Hotel. The satellites had been flying over the poles since 1963 to make
sure the Soviets were not conducting illegal nuclear tests in outer
space.
(SFC, 3/26/99, p.A2)(SFC, 11/5/99, p.D7)
1967 U Thant, the UN
secretary-general from Burma, began an archeological project in Nepal
that in 1996 claimed to discover the birthplace of Siddartha, the monk
Buddha.
(WSJ, 2/6/96, p.A-11)
1967 The US declared the eagle an
endangered species.
(SFC, 6/18/99, p.A3)
1967 In Livermore a small amount
of plutonium accidentally leaked out of the Lawrence Livermore Lab. and
into the sewer system. The sewer sludge was sold to Tri-Valley
residents as a soil conditioner for gardens and lawns. The 4.2-acre Big
Trees Park later tested higher than background for plutonium but
experts assured residents that there was no real danger.
(SFC, 2/27/98, p.A22)
1967 Surveyor 5 landed on the moon
at the Sea of Tranquility with an alpha-scattering spectrometer to
analyze the surface elements. The device was made by Prof. Anthony L.
Turkevich (1916-2002).
(SFC, 9/23/02, p.B5)
1967 Three US astronauts died when
their capsule caught fire on the ground.
(TMC, 1994, p.1967)
1967 Charles Burchfield, artist,
died at 73. He spent most of his time on the outskirts of Buffalo. His
work included the watercolor "New Moon in January" (1918) and "Wind
Blown Asters" (1951).
(WSJ, 6/20/97, p.A16)
1967 David Burliuk, Russian
artist, died. His work included "A Cup of Sake" (1921), which fetched
$60,375 for the IRS in a 2003 auction.
(SSFC, 2/2/03, Par p.A19)
1967 Donald Ewen Cameron (b.1901),
Scottish-born professor of neurology and psychology, died. After WWII
Cameron worked at the Albany State Medical School. Cameron developed
the theory that mental patients could be cured by treatment that erased
existing memories and by rebuilding the psyche completely.
(www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/LSD/marks8.htm)
1967 J. Frank Duryea (1869-1967)
died. He and his brother Charles were the first to successfully build a
gasoline-engine motor vehicle in 1893 in Springfield, Mass.
(WSJ, 6/19/96, Adv. Supl)
1967 Brian Epstein, the manager of
the Beatles, died of a drug overdose.
(SFC, 12/1/01, p.D1)
1967 Varian Fry died. He had
helped some 2,000 refugees escape from Nazi-occupied France from
1941-1942.
(SFC, 3/9/98, p.C2)
1967 Aisingyoro Henry Puyi, the
last emperor of China, Xuantong, died of cancer. Official reports say
his death occurred while under persecution from ultra-leftists of the
Cultural Revolution.
(SFC, 6/11/97, p.C16)
1967 Billy Strayhorn, jazz pianist
and composer, died. of esophageal cancer at age 51. His biography: Lush
Life, A Biography of Billy Strayhorn was written in 1996 by David
Hajdu. He wrote "Take the A Train."
(SFEC, 8/11/96, DB, p.52)
1967 Spencer Tracy (b.1900), film
actor, died.
(SFEC, 4/2/00, DB p.56,58)
1967 In Albania the Hoxha
regime conducted a violent campaign to extinguish religious life; by
year's end over two thousand religious buildings were closed or
converted to other uses. Albania was declared "the world's first
atheist country," religious leaders were imprisoned and executed.
(www, Albania, 1998)(USAT, 2/11/97, p.5A)(WA,
1997,CD)
1967 In Anguilla locals burned
down Government House and declared their independence from St. Kitts
& Nevis. Britain sent 300 troops followed by police to quell the
rebellion.
(Econ, 5/26/07, p.38)
1967 In Belgium 323 people
perished in a fire in a Brussels department store.
(AP, 8/7/09)
1967 Diamonds were discovered in
Botswana. It was later thought that the deposits would run out by 2030.
(Econ, 10/24/09, p.59)
1967 Fernando Henrique Cardoso
(b.1931) authored “Dependency and Development in Latin America.”
Cardoso later served as president of Brazil.
(WSJ, 4/6/06, p.D8)
1967 Singer-songwriter Caetano
Veloso and Gilberto Gil founded the tropicalista (tropicalismo)
movement. It was a group of singers, artists and radicals that turned
Brazilian culture inside out. They began experimenting with electric
instruments and the rhythms of rock, but in 1970 the military regime
sent them into exile in Europe. In 1997 Caetano Veloso authored
"Tropical Truth: A Story of Music and Revolution in Brazil." An English
translation was made in 2002.
(SFEC, 6/22/97, DB p.58)(Wired, 2/98, p.129)(SSFC,
11/3/02, p.M3)
1967 Brazil passed legislation
stipulating that journalists must obtain a diploma and register with
the labor ministry, in order to prevent troublemakers from voicing
their opinions. In the name of national security, legislation censored
news media, composers, playwrights and writers and allowed for the
seizure of publications. In 2009 Brazil’s Supreme Court struck down the
press censorship legislation.
(Econ, 10/25/08, p.48)(AP, 5/1/09)
1967 Brazil, in an attempt to
foment progress (and diminish regional inequalities), created a tax
free zone was created called Zona Franca de Manaus. Manaus is the only
city in Amazonas where an industrial park has been developed.
(www.v-brazil.com/information/geography/amazonas/economy.html)
1967 Dr. Philip D. Marsden began
fieldwork in Brazil and was named a professor of tropical medicine at
the Univ. of Brasilia, where he became a leading authority on
Leishmaniasis, an often fatal disease borne by sand flies.
(SFC,10/27/97, p.C2)
1967 Britain’s PM Harold Wilson
dubbed Edgar Louis Granville (d.1998 at 102) Baron Granville of Eye.
(SFC, 2/18/98, p.A18)
1967 Britain abolished capital
punishment.
(SFC, 4/6/98, p.A26)
1967 The British Sexual Offenses
Act partially decriminalized sexual behavior between consenting males
over 21. The event was later described in the film: "A Bill Called
William." The age of consent for homosexual acts was reduced to 16 in
1998.
(SFEC, 6/15/97, DB p.49)(SFC, 6/23/98, p.A10)
1967 Britain started pumping oil
from the North Sea.
(Econ, 7/14/07, p.60)
1967 Dame Cicely Saunders founded
St. Christopher's, the 1st modern hospice, in West London. America’s
1st hospice was founded in 1974.
(SFC, 8/5/03, p.A18)(Econ, 8/2/08, p.62)
1967 An outbreak of hoof-and-mouth
disease in Britain led to the slaughter of 400,000 animals.
(SFC, 2/21/01, p.A12)
1967 Canada revised its
immigration policy.
(SFC, 11/29/96, p.A29)
1967 The government of Canada took
over the coal mines of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. In the 1970s the
government lured some 1,800 new workers to the mines to secure a cheap
source of energy for Nova Scotia. In 1999 the government attempted to
end the costly public venture but faced strikes by miners who claimed
inadequate severance packages.
(WSJ, 1/12/00, p.A18)
1967 Toronto's first Caribbean
festival began as a contribution from its West Indian community to
Canada's 100th anniversary of Confederation and coinciding with Expo
'67 celebrations in Montreal.
(Reuters, 8/3/02)
1967 Alberta, Canada, began to
develop its oil sands. Fort McMurray, population 4,000, grew to 65,000
residents by 2007, including some 200 families from Venezuela.
(WSJ, 6/26/07, p.A12)
1967 McDonald's opened its first
restaurant outside the US in Canada.
(WSJ, 5/13/99, p.B13)
1967 The Chinese Cultural
Revolution briefly spilled over into Hong Kong with street riots.
(SFEC, 6/22/97, p.A14)
1967 Liu Shaoqi (d.1969),
president of China since 1959, and his wife Wang Guangmei were put
under house arrest in Beijing. The couple were soon separated and
imprisoned. Liu died in prison. Wang Guangmei (d.2006) spent nearly 12
years in prison before she was released in 1979.
(SFC, 10/19/06,
p.B5)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liu_Shaoqi)
1967 The French film noir "Le
Samourai" with Alain Delan was directed by Jean-Pierre Melville. He had
just recently completed 2 other gangster films: "Le Doulos" and "Le
Deuxieme Souffle."
(SFC, 2/28/97, p.D3)
1967 The French film "Young Girls
of Rochefort" was directed by Jacques Demy.
(SFC, 8/18/98, p.D4)
1967 Charles Munch, conductor,
formed the Orchestre de Paris.
(SFC, 2/6/01, p.A17)
1967 In Marburg, Germany, a
disease believed to be caused from African monkeys infected 31 people
in a laboratory. The virus came to be called the Marburg virus. Seven
people died in Germany and Yugoslavia from the virus. It was traced to
infected vervet monkeys from Uganda cut up for polio research.
(SFC, 5/7/99, p.D2)(Econ, 8/18/07, p.40)
1967 In Hong Kong Television
Broadcasts Limited (TVB) received a rare license to operate by the
colonial government. In the 1970s Sir Run Run Shaw gained control. Its
film production ceased operations in 1985. In 1999 it sold its vast
library of films to a Malaysian firm.
(Econ, 5/24/08, p.88)
1967 In India a Maoist-inspired
rebel movement began in the West Bengal village of Naxalbari. Police
action wiped the movement out over the next 8 years. It resurfaced in
the 1980s as the People’s War Group in an area of Andra Pradesh called
Telugana and supporters came to be called Naxalites.
(Econ, 4/15/06, p.45)
1967 In Indonesia Pres. Sukarno
was placed under house arrest and Suharto became acting president.
(WSJ, 5/22/98, p.A15)
1967 Freeport-McMoran Copper &
Gold Inc. arrived in Indonesia. The government was given a 10% stake in
the world’s largest copper and gold deposit.
(WSJ, 9/29/98, p.A1)
1967 In Ireland educational reform
guaranteed the country’s youth a free secondary-school education.
(WSJ, 12/5/96, p.A16)
1967 In Israel Sheik Assad Bayoud
Tamini (d.1998 at 86), a militant Muslim leader who later advocated
peace with Israel, was deported from Hebron for resisting Israeli
occupation. He continued his resistance from Jordan.
(SFC, 3/24/98, p.B2)
1967 Italy passed a set of
labeling laws similar to the French 1935 Appellation d’Origine
Controlee (controlled place of origin). The AOC laws were meant to
protect growers and properly identify a wine’s origin. They were not
intended as an indicator of quality. The Italian DOC laws
(Denominazione di Origine Controllata) regulated grape growing zones
and wine production practices.
(SFC, 1/8/96, zz-1 p.4)(SFC, 6/30/99, Z1 p.6)
1967 The East African Community
(EAC) of Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda established a common shilling. The
EAC lasted only a decade as cooperation fizzled. The project was
revived in 1999 and expanded in 2007 to include Burundi and Rwanda.
(WSJ, 1/13/98, p.A1)(Econ, 9/5/09, p.52)
1967 The Orthodox church in
Macedonia broke free from its Serb overlords.
(Econ, 9/10/05, p.50)
1967 In Namibia a 23-year brush
war began with the South West Africa People’s Organization (SWAPO)
rebel movement demanding independence from South Africa.
(LVRJ, 11/1/97, p.20A)
1967 This year marked the
beginning of oil production in Oman.
(NG, 5/95, p.120)
1967 Pakistan’s 7-year, $518
million Mangla Dam project on the River Jhelum was completed. Richard
Byers (d.2004) served as chief project engineer for the Guy F. Atkinson
Co.
(www.waterinfo.net.pk/pdf/md.pdf)(SFC, 12/22/04,
p.B4)
1967 Peru and 3 other countries in
South America banned trade in vicuna, a relative of the llama, after
numbers had severely dwindled. A CITES ban followed in 1975.
(Econ, 3/8/08,
p.86)(www.rumbosonline.com/articles/4-46-vicuna.htm)
1967 Author Alexander Solzhenitsyn
met with Olga Andreyev Carlisle in Moscow. She agreed to get smuggled
copies of "The First Circle" and "The Gulag Archipelago" published in
the West. The novel, completed in 1964, was banned by Soviet officials.
A shortened version came out in English in 1968. After some years a
feud ensued when Solzhenitsyn accused Carlisle of being motivated only
by profit and personal acclaim. An unedited English version was
scheduled for publication in 2009.
(SSFC, 1/25/04, p.A1)(SFC, 7/16/08, p.E6)
1967 Soviet Gen. Sakharovsky
became chief intelligence adviser in Romania. He helped bring Yasser
Arafat to the Soviet Union via Romania for training and indoctrination.
The soviets maneuvered to have Arafat named chairman of the PLO with
help from Egypt’s ruler, Gamal Abdel Nasser.
(WSJ, 1/10/02, p.A12)
1967 Venera 4, a space probe of
the Soviet Union, was launched. It transmitted information on the
atmosphere of Venus.
(SFEC, 9/28/97, p.A14)
1967 Uganda’s Pres. Obote banned
the countries traditional kingdoms.
(SFC, 10/20/09, p.A4)
1967 UN members adopted a protocol
on refugees.
(Econ, 11/27/04, p.44)
1967 Luis Posada Carriles,
Cuban-born CIA agent since 1965, moved to Venezuela and rose to become
head of a government counterintelligence security agency.
(SFC, 5/18/05, p.A9)
1967 At least 30 Indians in
Venezuela died from a measles epidemic that hit Yanomani villages at
least one year before researchers administered the Edmonston B vaccine.
1967 In Vietnam, the Tiger
Force, an elite US Army unit of the 101st Airborne Division, killed
hundreds of civilians in Hanh Thien, a Central Highland area, during
seven months.
(AP, 10/25/03)
1967 In Zaire Pres. Mobutu
presided over the adoption of a new constitution that vested all powers
in the presidency and his political party.
(SFC, 5/17/97, p.A14)
1967 The Organization of African
Unity decided to set up a regional nuclear research center in Kinshasa,
Zaire, and the US helped build a Triga Mark II research reactor made be
General Atomic.
(WSJ, 5/30/97, p.A4)
1967-1968 The Andy Griffith Show was the top ranking
network show on television with a ranking of 27.6%.
(WSJ, 4/24/95, p.R-5)
1967-1968 Louis Armstrong recorded "What a Wonderful
World."
(SFC, 7/4/97, p.D9)
1967-1968 In Cambodia the Khmer Rouge took up arms in
support of a peasant uprising in the northwest against a government
rice tax. The army ruthlessly suppressed the insurrection.
(SFC, 6/14/97, p.A15)
1967-1969 In Vietnam 31,508 or 14% of all wounded US
soldiers were mine victims.
(WSJ, 5/17/96,p.A-1)
1967-1970 The Cultural Revolution occurred in China.
(NOHY, Weiner, 3/90, p.40)
1967-1973 Ellsworth Bunker was the American
ambassador in Saigon. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker's charge from
President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1967 was to de-escalate the Vietnam
conflict without losing the war.
(WSJ, 1/23/96, p.A-15)(HN, 6/19/98)
1967-1973 The entire population of the Chagos
archipelago, which lies 2,200 miles east of Africa and around 1,000
miles southwest of India, was relocated by this year. Britain leased
Diego Garcia, the main island, to the US and barred anyone from
entering the archipelago except by permit. In 2003 a British judge
ruled that former residents have no right to return home or get
compensation.
(AP, 10/9/03)
1967-1974 A military junta ruled Greece and was
supported by the US government.
(SFC, 4/23/98, p.B4)(SFEC, 11/21/99, p.A19)
1967-1981 The West Indies Associated State were group
of territorial islands in the West Indies in association with the
United Kingdom. The original members included Antigua, Dominica,
Grenada, St. Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, and adjacent
islands. All the member islands became independent except Anguilla.
(WUD, 1994, p.1623)
1967-1982 Pete McCloskey served in the US House of
Representatives for the San Francisco peninsula. He was co-chairman of
the first Earth Day in 1970 and co-wrote the Endangered Species Act of
1973. In 1972 he ran against Richard Nixon for the Republican
nomination for president.
(Econ, 6/3/06, p.30)
1967-1982 In China Wang Li, close associate to Mao
Zedong, was jailed. He had been deputy editor-in-chief of the party
magazine, Red Flag, and was accused of inciting the Red Guards to
violence.
(SFC, 10/23/96, p.C2)
1967-1991 Thurgood Marshall (1908-1993) served on the
US Supreme. As a civil rights lawyer in the 1950s he maintained a
confidential relationship with the FBI.
(HFA, '96, p.32)(SFC, 12/3/96, p.A3)
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