1967 Jan 3, Mary Garden (92), opera star, died.
(MC, 1/3/02)
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)(MC, 1/3/02)
1967 Jan 6, 16,000 U.S. 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, PBS began as a 70 station network.
(MC, 1/10/02)
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 10, Segregationist Lester Maddox was inaugurated as
governor of Georgia.
(MC, 1/10/02)
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 12, The Louisville, Ky, draft board refused an exemption
for boxer Muhammad Ali.
(MC, 1/12/02)
1967 Jan 13, The Rolling Stones appeared on Ed Sullivan Show.
(MC, 1/13/02)
1967 Jan 14, Sonny and Cher released "The Beat Goes On."
(MC, 1/14/02)
1967 Jan 14, NY Times reported that the US Army was conducting
secret germ warfare experiments.
(MC, 1/14/02)
1967 Jan 14, The great Human Be-In was held in Golden Gate Park
and drew national attention to the Haight-Asbury scene. 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, 6/4/96, p.A19)(SFC, 5/19/96,City Guide, p.5)(SFEC, 4/6/97,
p.A11)
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.
(WSJ, 1/28/97, p.A16)(AP, 1/15/98)(HNQ, 1/30/00)
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 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 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. [see Calif: 1949-1967]
(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 a space treaty with Russia. More than
60 nations signed a treaty banning the orbiting of nuclear weapons.
(SFC, 1/28/67, p.A1)(AP, 1/27/98)
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 5, "Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour" premiered on CBS (later
ABC, NBC).
(MC, 2/5/02)
1967 Feb 6, Muhammad Ali TKO’d Ernie Terrell in 15 for the heavyweight
boxing title.
(MC, 2/6/02)
1967 Feb 7, Henry Morgenthau (74), US minister of Finance, died.
(MC, 2/7/02)
1967 Feb 10, The 25th Amendment to the Constitution, dealing with
presidential disability and succession, went into effect.
(HFA, '96, p.22)(AP, 2/10/97)
1967 Feb 15, Thirteen U.S. helicopters were shot down in one day
in Vietnam.
(HN, 2/15/98)
1967 Feb 15, The 1st anti-bootleg recording laws were enacted.
(440 Int’l., 2/15/99)
1967 Feb 15, The longest dream (REM sleep) on record was by Bill
Carskadon in Chicago (2:23).
(440 Int’l., 2/15/99)
1967 Feb 15, French DiadŠme 1-D satellite was launched into Earth
orbit.
(440 Int’l., 2/15/99)
1967 Feb 17, Beatles released "Penny Lane" & "Strawberry Fields."
(MC, 2/17/02)
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.
(TNG, Klein, p.9,81)(SFC, 12/19/98, p.C3)(MC, 2/18/02)
1967 Feb 20, Kurt Cobain was born. [The Nirvana grunge band musician
committed suicide on Apr 8, 1994]
(HFA, '96, p.24)
1967 Feb 21, Ford recalled 217,000 cars to check brakes and steering.
(HN, 2/21/98)
1967 Feb 22, Barbara Garson's "MacBird," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 2/22/02)
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, Operation Junction City became the largest U.S.
operation in Vietnam with 25,000 US and S. Vietnamese troops.
(HN, 2/22/99)(MC, 2/22/02)
1967 Feb 23, The 25th amendment, on presidential succession, was
declared ratified.
(MC, 2/23/02)
1967 Feb 23, American troops began the largest offensive of the
war, 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.
(HN, 2/23/98)
1967 Feb 26, USSR performed a nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan,
Semipalitinsk, USSR.
(SC, 2/26/02)
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 Mar 1, U.S. Rep. Adam Clayton Powell 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)(SC, 3/1/02)
1967 Mar 1, Queen Elizabeth Hall (South Bank Center) opened in
London.
(SC, 3/1/02)
1967 Mar 2, Chart Toppers: Baby I Need Your Lovin', Johnny Rivers;
Georgy Girl, The Seekers Tiny Bubbles, Don Ho; Green Green Grass of Home,
Tom Jones.
(HC, Internet, 2/3/98)
1967 Mar 2, At the 9th Grammy Awards: Strangers in Night and
Michele won.
(SC, 3/2/02)
1967 Mar 2, US performed a nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
[see Mar 3]
(SC, 3/2/02)
1967 Mar 3, US performed a nuclear test at Nevada Test Site. [see
Mar 2]
(SC, 3/3/02)
1967 Mar 3, Grenada gained partial independence from Britain.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1967 Mar 5, Mohammed H. Mossadeq, premier of Persia (1951-53-
ousted by CIA), died.
(MC, 3/5/02)
1967 Mar 6, Lyndon B. Johnson announced his plan to establish
a draft lottery.
(HN, 3/6/98)
1967 Mar 6, Jimmy Hoffa entered Lewisburg Federal Prison. [see
Mar 7]
(MC, 3/6/02)
1967 Mar 6, Muhammad Ali was ordered by selective service to
be inducted.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1967 Mar 6, Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva asked for political
asylum in US.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1967 Mar 6, Nelson Eddy (65), US baritone, actor (Phantom of
the Opera), died.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1967 Mar 6, Zoltan Kodaly (84), Hungarian composer (Hary Janos),
died.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1967 Mar 7, Clark Gesner's musical "You're a Good Man, premiered
in NYC.
(MC, 3/7/02)
1967 Mar 7, Convicted Teamster boss Jimmy Hoffa began an eight-year
prison term in Pennsylvania for defrauding the union and jury tampering.
The sentence was commuted by President Nixon Dec 23, 1971.
(HN, 3/7/98)(MC, 3/7/02)
1967 Mar 9, Svetlana Alliluyeva (Allilueva), Josef Stalin's daughter
defected to the U.S.
(HN, 3/9/98)(MC, 3/9/02)
1967 Mar 11, Pink Floyd released their 1st song (Arnold Layne).
(MC, 3/12/02)
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 15, LBJ named Ellsworth Bunker as the new ambassador
to Saigon. Bunker replaced Lodge.
(HN, 3/15/98)
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, U of Mich held the 1st "Teach-in" after bombing of
North Vietnam.
(MC, 3/24/02)
1967 Mar 24, Viet Cong ambushed a truck convoy in South Vietnam,
damaging 82 of the 121 trucks.
(HN, 3/24/98)
1967 Mar 26, In the 21st Tony Awards: Homecoming and Cabaret won.
(SS, 3/26/02)
1967 Mar 26, Pope Paul VI published encyclical Populorum progressio.
(SS, 3/26/02)
1967 Mar 28, UN Sec. General U Thant made public proposals for
peace in Vietnam.
(MC, 3/28/02)
1967 Mar 29, The first nationwide strike in the 30-year history
of the American Federation of Television occurred and lasted for 13 days.
(HN, 3/29/98)
1967 Mar 29, France launched its first nuclear submarine.
(HN, 3/29/98)
1967 Mar 31, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Consular Treaty,
the first bi-lateral pact with the Soviet Union since the Bolshevik Revolution.
(HN, 3/31/98)
1967 Apr 1, The 1st British ombudsman Sir Edward Compton began
work.
(MC, 4/1/02)
1967 Apr 7, Israeli-Syrian border fights took place.
(MC, 4/7/02)
1967 Apr 9, The 1st Boeing 737 rolled out.
(MC, 4/9/02)
1967 Apr 10, In the 39th Academy Awards "Man For All Seasons,"
Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Scofield won.
(MC, 4/10/02)
1967 Apr 11, Tom Stoppard's "Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are
Dead," premiered.
(MC, 4/11/02)
1967 Apr 11, Harlem, NYC, voters defied Congress and reelected
Adam Clayton Powell Jr.
(MC, 4/11/02)
1967 Apr 14, In the Vietnam War, US planes bombed Haiphong for
1st time.
(MC, 4/14/02)
1967 Apr 14, Some 10,000 marched against the Vietnam war in SF.
(SFEC, 5/23/99, Z1 p.4)
1967 Apr 19, Conrad Adenauer (91), West Germany chancellor (1949-63),
died.
(MC, 4/19/02)
1967 Apr 20, U.S. planes bombed Haiphong for first time during
the Vietnam War.
(HN, 4/20/98)
1967 Apr 20, French author Regis Debray captured CIA "advisors"
along with Che Guevara in Bolivia. Guevara (39) was assassinated Oct 9.
[see Oct 8]
(PCh, 1992, p.1008)(MC, 4/20/02)
1967 Apr 21, In Greece "the colonels" led by Colonel George Papadopoulos
took power in a bloodless military coup.
(SFC, 4/23/98, p.B4)(SFC, 6/28/99, p.A19)
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 (48), actor (12 O'Clock High), died.
(MC, 4/24/02)
1967 Apr 25, Britain granted internal self-government to Swaziland.
(SS, 4/25/02)
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 retired as undefeated boxing champ.
(MC, 4/27/02)
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 Easter, 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 Easter, 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 Apr-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, A Pulitzer prize was awarded to Bernard Malamud (Fixer).
(MC, 5/1/02)
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 3, Black students seized the finance building at Northwestern
U.
(MC, 5/3/02)
1967 May 6, 400 students seized the administration building at
Cheyney State College, Pa.
(MC, 5/6/02)
1967 May 8, Boxer Muhammad Ali was indicted for refusing induction
in U.S. Army.
(HN, 5/8/98)
1967 May 10, The Stockholm Vietnam Tribunal condemned US aggression
in Vietnam and Cambodia.
(MC, 5/10/02)
1967 May 11, Great Britain, Ireland and Denmark applied for EG
membership.
(MC, 5/11/02)
1967 May 11, In Vietnam the siege of Khe Sanh ended, with the
base still in American hands.
(HN, 5/11/98)
1967 May 12, H. Rap Brown replaced Stokely Carmichael as chairman
of Student Nonviolating Coordinating Committee.
(MC, 5/12/02)
1967 May 13, NY Yankee Mickey Mantle hit career HR #500
off Stu Miller.
(SS, Internet, 5/13/97)
1967 May 13, An octagonal boxing ring was tested to avoid
corner injuries.
(SS, Internet, 5/13/97)
1967 May 15, Edward Hopper (84), US painter (House by Railroad),
died.
(MC, 5/15/02)
1967 May 18, Tennessee Governor Ellington repealed the "Monkey
Law", upheld in the 1925 Scopes Trial.
(SC, 5/18/02)
1967 May 18, Silver hit a record $1.60 an ounce in London.
(SC, 5/18/02)
1967 May 18, Richard Ainley (56), actor (I Dood It, Above Suspicion),
died.
(SC, 5/18/02)
1967 May 18, Andy Clyde (75), Hopalong Cassidy's sidekick, died.
(SC, 5/18/02)
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)(DTnet, 5/19/97)(SFC, 6/25/97, p.A15)(SFEC, 7/13/97,
Par p.8)
1967 May 19, The first U.S. air strike on central Hanoi was launched.
(DTnet, 5/19/97)(HN, 5/19/98)
1967 May 20, 10,000 demonstrated against the war in Vietnam.
(MC, 5/20/02)
1967 May 20, BBC banned Beatle's "A Day in the Life" due to drug
references.
(MC, 5/20/02)
1967 May 22, The children's program Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
premiered on NET (later PBS).
(HN, 5/22/01)(MC, 5/22/02)
1967 May 22, Egyptian president Nasser closed the Straits of
Tiran to Israel.
(MC, 5/22/02)
1967 May 22, J. Langston Hughes (b.1902), poet laureate, US author
(Tambourines to Glory), died.
(MC, 5/22/02)
1967 May 25, John Lennon took delivery of his psychedelic painted
Rolls Royce.
(SC, 5/25/02)
1967 May 28, Francis Chichester arrived home at Plymouth from
a round-the-world, one man sailboat trip.
(MC, 5/28/02)
1967 May 29, Pope Paul VI named 27 new cardinals, including Karol
Wojtyla, archbishop of Krakow, who later became Pope John Paul II.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1967 May 29, Geronimo Baqueiro (69), Foster composer, died.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1967 May 30, Robert "Evel" Knievel on his motorcycle jumped 16
automobiles.
(MC, 5/30/02)
1967 May 30, Biafra declared independence from Nigeria.
(MC, 5/30/02)
1967 Jun 1, 30 years ago, the Beatles' album, "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)(DTnet, 6/1/97)
1967 Jun 1, Moshe Dayan was named defense minister of Israel.
(DTnet, 6/1/97)
1967 Jun 2, Race riots took place in the Roxbury section of Boston.
(SC, 6/2/02)
1967 Jun 2, Zamah Cunningham (74), actress (Menosha the Magnificent),
died.
(SC, 6/2/02)
1967 Jun 4, American actor and comedian Bill Cosby received an
Emmy Award for his work in the television series "I Spy." In the 19th Emmy
Awards: Mission Impossible, Monkees, Don Knotts & Lucy Ball were among
the winners.
(HN, 6/4/00)(MC, 6/4/02)
1967 Jun 5, Murderer Richard Speck was sentenced to death in electric
chair for murder of nurses.
(MC, 6/5/02)
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, Israel annexed the largely Arab East Jerusalem, which
included the Old City, and has since ringed it with Jewish neighborhoods.
(SFC, 6/25/96, p.A10)
1967 Jun 5-10, 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.
(WSJ, 5/6/96, p.A-13)(WSJ, 8/17/95, p.A-1)(WSJ,11/24/95, p.A-1)(SFC,
1/22/98, p.B12)(SFC, 4/24/98, p.A17)
1967 Jun 6, Israeli troops occupied Gaza. 2nd day of the 6-day
war.
(MC, 6/6/02)
1967 Jun 7, 2 Moby Grape members were arrested for contributing
to delinquency of minors.
(SC, 6/7/02)
1967 Jun 7, Author-critic Dorothy Parker, famed for her caustic
wit, died in NY. 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. Parker 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.
(SC, 6/7/02)
1967 Jun 8, 34 U.S. servicemen were killed when Israeli forces
raided the USS Liberty, a Navy ship stationed in the Mediterranean. Israel
called the attack a tragic mistake. The Israeli Air Force attacked the
U.S. Navy intelligence gathering auxiliary ship Liberty, killing 34 crewmen
and wounding 171. The attack came at the outbreak 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)(HN, 6/8/98)(HNQ, 8/13/98)(SFC, 3/9/99, p.A22)(WSJ,
5/9/01, p.A24)(WSJ, 5/16/01, p.A23)
1967 Jun 10, The Six-Day Middle East War ended as 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."
(AP, 6/10/97)(WSJ, 6/5/02, p.D7)
1967 Jun 11, There was a race riot in Tampa Florida and the National
Guard was mobilized.
(SC, 6/11/02)
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.
(HN, 6/11/98)(AP, 6/11/03)
1967 Jun 11, Israel annexed the largely Arab East Jerusalem,
which included the Old City, and has since ringed it with Jewish neighborhoods.
(SFC, 6/25/96, p.A10)
1967 Jun 12, The Supreme Court struck down state laws prohibiting
interracial marriages.
(AP, 6/12/97)(HN, 6/12/98)
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 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 a liberalized California abortion
bill.
(MC, 6/15/02)
1967 Jun 17, China detonated its 1st hydrogen bomb and became
the world's 4th thermo-nuclear power.
(SSFC, 6/9/02, p.F6)(MC, 6/17/02)
1967 Jun 19, Beatle Paul McCartney, having admitted in Life Magazine
that he had taken LSD, repeated the admission on television.
(DTnet, 6/19/97)
1967 Jun 20, Boxer Muhammad Ali was convicted in Houston of violating
Selective Service laws by refusing to be drafted. (Ali's conviction was
ultimately overturned by the Supreme Court).
(AP, 6/20/97)(HN, 6/20/98)
1967 Jun 23, President Johnson and Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin
held the first of two meetings in Glassboro, N.J.
(AP, 6/23/97)
1967 Jun 23, US Senate censured Thomas J. Dodd (D-Ct) for misusing
campaign funds.
(MC, 6/23/02)
1967 Jun 24, Pope Paul VI published his encyclical Sacerdotalis
coelibatus (priestly celibacy).
(MC, 6/24/02)
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 25, Mohammed Ali (Cassius Clay) was sentenced to 5 years
for draft evasion.
(MC, 6/25/02)
1967 Jun 27, There was a race riot in Buffalo, NY, and 200 were
arrested.
(SC, 6/27/02)
1967 Jun 28, Fourteen people were shot in race riots in Buffalo,
New York.
(HN, 6/28/98)
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 (34), actress (Female Jungle), was
beheaded in a car crash. 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.
(SFEC, 3/16/97, z1 p.4)(SFEC, 7/13/97, Par p.18)(SFEC, 4/5/98,
p.A22)(MC, 6/29/02)
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 Jun, The 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)
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 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 Ibo
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 Ibos
attempted to hold out in a small and crowded area.
(AP, 7/6/97)(HNQ, 5/27/98)
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 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 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 22, Carl Sandburg (89), poet (Abraham Lincoln: Prairie
Years), died.
(MC, 7/22/02)
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 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 29, Fire swept the USS Forrestal in the Gulf of Tonkin,
killing 134 servicemen.
(AP, 7/29/97)
1967 Jul 30, General William Westmoreland claimed that he is winning
the war in Vietnam but needed more men.
(HN, 7/30/98)
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 Somalia Mohamed Ibrahim Egal (d.2002) served as the
prime minister until 1969.
(SFC, 5/4/02, p.A21)
1967 Jul, In Venezuela a 6.7 earthquake hit Caracas and left 300
dead and 2,000 injured.
(SFC, 7/10/97, p.E3)
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 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. Marine Roy M. Wheat was the only
Mississippian to earn the Medal of Honor during the Vietnam War.
(HN, 9/19/01)
1967 Aug 28, Charles Darrow, US inventor of Monopoly, died.
(MC, 8/28/01)
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 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, 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 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, "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 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 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 Washington took office as the first mayor
of the District of Columbia.
(AP, 9/28/97)
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, 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."
(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)
1967 Oct 3, Malcolm Sargent, English conductor (Last Night of
Proms), died at 72.
(MC, 10/3/01)
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, premier of Great Britain (1945-51),
died at 84.
(MC, 10/8/01)
1967 Oct 9, Latin American guerrilla leader Che Guevara, Ernesto
Serna, was executed while attempting to incite revolution in Bolivia. He
believed that a man of action could revolutionize a people and strove to
fight what he perceived as the American domination of Latin America. It
is believed that Soviet pressure caused his disappearance in 1965. Other
rumors believe that the CIA had orchestrated his assassination. Officially
the Bolivian government stated that Guevara was killed late at night in
a skirmish with guerrillas.
(AP, 10/9/97)(MC, 10/8/01)
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 17, "Hair" premiered on Broadway. [see Oct 29]
(MC, 10/17/01)
1967 Oct 17, Henry Pu Yi, the last emperor of China, died at
61.
(MC, 10/17/01)
1967 Oct 18, Walt Disney's "Jungle Book" was released.
(MC, 10/18/01)
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 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 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 27, Expo '67 closed in Montreal.
(AP, 10/27/97)
1967 Oct 29, In Oakland, Ca., police made a traffic stop on Black
Panther leader Huey Newton. 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, MacDermot, Ragni & Rado's counter-culture musical
"Hair" opened off-Broadway. [see Oct 17]
(AP, 10/29/97)(MC, 10/29/01)
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 1, The first issue of Rolling Stone hit the streets.
[see Nov 9]
(HN, 11/1/00)
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, founded by Jann Wenner in
SF, published its debut issue with a press run of 40,000 copies. In 1998
"Rolling Stone: The Complete Covers 1967-1997" was edited by Holly George-Warren.
[see Nov 1]
(SFC,10/28/97, p.E1)(SFEC, 6/21/98, BR p.12)
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 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 was sentenced to 30 years
in Bolivia.
(MC, 11/17/01)
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 20, The Census Clock at the 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)
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, Beatles released their "Magical Mystery Tour" album.
(MC, 11/27/01)
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, The first pulsating radio source (pulsar) was detected.
(DTnet, 11/28/97)
1967 Nov 28, Yemen gained independence from Britain.
(DTnet, 11/28/97)
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 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 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 died in the crash of his private
plane in Wisconsin.
(AP, 12/10/97)
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 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 18 days after undergoing
the 1st heart transplant.
(MC, 12/21/01)
1967 Dec 23, U.S. Navy SEALs were ambushed during an operation
southeast of Saigon.
(HN, 12/23/98)
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 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, 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 Marcel Duchamp wrote his piece "Paragraphs on Conceptual
Art" for Artforum magazine.
(SFEM, 1/12/97, BR p.7)
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 Prof. Charles M. Hardin (1908-1997) wrote "Food and Fiber
in the National Politics."
(SFC, 7/4/97, p.E2)
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).
1967 "The Naked Ape" by Desmond Morris was published.
(GQ, Summer ‘96, p.22)
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 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 Four Tops sang "Bernadette."
(SFC, 11/12/02, p.D8)
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 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 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 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 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 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 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)
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 Hans Bethe (b.1906), peace worker and physicist, won the
Nobel Prize.
(SC, 7/2/02)
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 Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker's charge from President Lyndon
B. Johnson in 1967 was to de-escalate the Vietnam conflict without losing
the war.
(HN, 6/19/98)
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 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 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 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 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. changed its name to Del Monte.
(SFC, 3/1/97, p.B1)
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 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 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 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 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 John Coltrane (b.1926), composer and saxophonist, died. He
gained attention through recordings as part of Miles Davis’ quintet in
the 50s, but 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.
(HNQ, 3/2/01)(SFC, 4/23/02, p.A18)(SSFC, 12/8/02, p.M5)
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 The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) was formed
by Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, Brunei, Myanmar, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia
and the Philippines.
(SFC, 12/17/98, p.C6)
1967 Australia’s Prime Minister Harold Holt plunged into the surf
at Victoria during a stroll on the beach and vanished.
(SFEM, 10/11/98, p.26)
1967 In Australia the Aborigines gained citizenship.
(SFC, 5/29/97, p.A10)
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 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 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 Canada revised its immigration policy.
(SFC, 11/29/96, p.A29)
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 In Gabon Pres. Omar Bongo began ruling. 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)
1967 The Chinese Cultural Revolution briefly spilled over into
Hong Kong with street riots.
(SFEC, 6/22/97, p.A14)
1967 In Marburg, Germany, a disease believed to be caused from
African monkeys infected 31 people in a laboratory and nearly a quarter
of them died. The virus came to be called the Marburg virus.
(SFC, 5/7/99, p.D2)
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 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 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 This year marked the beginning of oil production in Oman.
(NG, 5/95, p.120)
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 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.
(WSJ, 1/23/96, p.A-15)
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)
1967-1977 The East African Community of Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda established
a common shilling that lasted only a decade as cooperation fizzled.
(WSJ, 1/13/98, p.A1)
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 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)