1967
1967 (
MCMLXVII) was a
common year starting on Sunday of the
Gregorian calendar (the link is to a full 1967 calendar).
January
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January 2 -
Charlie Chaplin opens his last film,
A Countess From Hong Kong in England.
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January 4 -
Algerian revolutionary
Mohammed Khider is shot in
Madrid.
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January 6 -
Vietnam War:
USMC and
ARVN troops launch "
Operation Deckhouse Five" in the
Mekong River delta.
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January 10 - Segregationist
Lester Maddox inaugurated as
governor of Georgia.
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January 12 - Dr.
James Bedford becomes the first person to be
cryonically preserved with intent of future resuscitation.
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January 13 -
Military coup in
Togo under the leadership of
Etienne Eyadema.
*
January 14 -
The New York Times reports that the
US Army is conducting secret
germ warfare experiments.
*
January 15 -
Louis Leakey announces that he has found prehuman fossils from
Kenya - he names the species
Kenyapitchecus africanus.
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January 15 -
United Kingdom enters the first round of negotiations for
EEC membership in Rome.
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January 15 -
Super Bowl I Green Bay Packers defeats
Kansas City Chiefs 35-10.
Bart Starr Awarded MVP.
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January 16 -
Italy announces support for United Kingdom's EEC membership.
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January 18 -
Albert DeSalvo, the "
Boston Strangler," is convicted of numerous crimes and is sentenced to life in prison.
*
January 18 -
Jeremy Thorpe becomes leader of the
Liberal Party*
January 23 - In
Munich, trial begins against
Wilhelm Harster, accused of murder of 82,856 Jews (including
Anne Frank) when he led German security police during the German occupation of
the Netherlands. He is eventually sentenced to 15 years in prison.
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January 26 -
Parliament of the United Kingdom decides to nationalize 90% of British
steel industry.
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January 27 -
Apollo 1: US astronauts
Gus Grissom,
Edward White, and
Roger Chaffee are killed when fire erupts in their
Apollo spacecraft during a test on the launch pad.
*
January 27 -
USA,
Soviet Union and
UK sign the
Outer Space Treaty.
*
January 31 -
West Germany and
Romania form
diplomatic relations.
February
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February 2 - The
American Basketball Association is formed.
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February 3 -
Ronald Ryan becomes the last man hanged in
Australia, executed for the murder of a prison guard, which he committed while escaping from prison in December
1965*
February 4 -
Soviet Union protests the demonstrations before its embassy in
Peking*
February 5 -
Lunar Orbiter 3 is launched.
*
February 5 -
Italy's first
guided missile cruiser, the
Vittorio Veneto (C550), is launched.
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February 5 - General
Anastasio Somoza Debayle becomes president of
Nicaragua.
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February 6 -
Aleksei Kosygin arrives in the
UK for an eight-day visit. He meets the
Queen on the 9th.
*
February 7 - Chinese government announces that it can no longer guarantee safety of Soviet diplomats outside the Soviet embassy building
*
February 7 - Serious
brush fires in southern
Tasmania claim 62 lives
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February 10 - The
25th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified
*
February 14 - King
Constantine II of Greece flees the country when his coup attempt fails
*
February 15 -
Soviet Union announces that it has sent troops to near Chinese border
*
February 18 -
China sends three
PLA divisions to
Tibet*
February 18 -
New Orleans District Attorney
Jim Garrison claims he is going to solve the John F. Kennedy assassination and that it was planned in New Orleans
*
February 20 -
Nirvana leader
Kurt Cobain is born to Don and Wendy Cobain.
*
February 22 -
Suharto takes power from
Sukarno in
Indonesia.
*
February 22 -
Donald Sangster becomes the new Prime Minister of
Jamaica, succeeding
Alexander Bustamante.
*
February 23 -
Trinidad and Tobago are the first
Commonwealth nation to join the
OAS.
*
February 24 -
Moscow forbids its
satellite states to form diplomatic relations to
West Germany*
February 25 - Chinese government announces that it has ordered the army to help in the spring seeding.
*
February 25 - Britain's second
Polaris missile submarine,
HMS Renown, is launched.
*
February 26 - Soviet nuclear test at
Semipalatinsk Test Site, Eastern
Kazakhstan.
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February 27 -
Dutch government supports British
EEC membership
*
February 27 -
Dominica gains independence from the
United Kingdom.
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February 27 - The
Outer Space Treaty was signed in Washington, London, and Moscow (entered into force
October 10, 1967).
March
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March 1 - The city
Hatogaya, located in
Saitama,
Japan is founded
*
March 1 -
Brazilian police arrest
Franc Paul Stangli, ex-commander of
Treblinka and
Sobibór concentration camps
*
March 1 -
Red Guards return to schools in China.
*
March 1 - The
Queen Elizabeth Hall is opened in London.
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March 4 - The first
North Sea gas is pumped ashore at Easington Co
Durham.
*
March 4 - Dr.
Mohammed Mossadegh, the disposed democratically elected prime minister of
Iran, dies while under house arrest.
*
March 7 -
Jimmy Hoffa begins his 8-year sentence for attempted bribery of jury
*
March 9 -
Stalin's daughter
Svetlana Alliluyeva defects to
USA via the US Delhi Embassy.
*
March 12 -
Indonesian State Assembly takes all presidential powers from
Sukarno and names
Suharto as acting president.
*
March 13 -
Moise Tshombe, ex-prime minister of
Congo is sentenced to death
in absentia*
March 14 - The body of
President John F. Kennedy is moved to a permanent burial place at
Arlington National Cemetery*
March 14 - Nine executives of the
German pharmaceutical company
Grunenthal are charged for breaking German drug laws because of
thalidomide*
March 16 - In the
Aspida case in
Greece, 15 officers are sentenced to 2-18 years in prison accused of treason and intentions of
coup*
March 18 - Supertanker
Torrey Canyon runs aground in between
Land's End and the
Scilly Isles*
March 19 - Referendum in
French Somaliland favors the connection to France
*
March 21 - Military coup takes place in
Sierra Leone.
*
March 28 -
Pope Paul VI issues the
encyclical Populorum Progressio.
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March 29 - 13-day TV strike begins in USA.
*
March 29-
March 30 -
RAF planes bomb the
Torrey Canyon and sink it
*
March 29 - The First French nuclear submarine,
Le Redoutable, is launched.
*
March 29 - The
SEACOM cable system is inaugurated.
*
March 31 - President
Lyndon Johnson signs the
Consular Treaty.
April
*
April 2 -
UN delegation arrives in
Aden due to approaching independence. They leave
April 7 and accuse British authorities for lack of cooperation. British say the delegation did not contact them.
*
April 4 -
Martin Luther King, Jr denounces Vietnam War during a religious service in
New York City*
April 6 -
Georges Pompidou begins to form the next French government.
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April 7 -
Six-Day War:
Israeli fighters shoot down seven Syrian
MIG-21s.
*
April 9 - The first
Boeing 737 (a 100 series) takes its maiden flight.
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April 13 -
Conservatives win the
Greater London Council elections.
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April 14 - 10,000 march against the
Vietnam War in
San Francisco.
*
April 15 - Large demonstrations against the
Vietnam War in
New York City and
San Francisco.
*
April 20 -
Surveyor 3 probe lands on the
Moon.
*
April 20 - A
Swiss Bristol Britannia turboprop crashes at
Nicosia,
Cyprus, killing 126. [
1]
*
April 21 -
Greece is taken over by
military dictatorship led by
George Papadopoulos, forcing
King Constantine II to flee.
*
April 21 - The
Belvidere Tornado Outbreak strikes the Upper Midwest section of the United States, in particular the Chicago area including the suburbs of Belvidere and Oak Lawn, Illinois, where Thirty-three people were killed and five hundred were injured
*
April 23 - A group of young radicals are expelled from the
Nicaraguan Socialist Party (PSN). This group goes on to found the
Socialist Workers Party (POS).
*
April 24 - Soviet cosmonaut
Vladimir Komarov dies during reentry of
Soyuz 1 after the spacecraft's parachutes fail to deploy properly.
*
April 26 -
Glen Jacobs 'Kane' - American Professional Wrestler is born.
*
April 28 - Boxer
Muhammad Ali refuses military service.
*
April 28 -
Montreal hosts
Expo '67; it is to coincide with the centennial of
Canadian Confederation.
*
April 29 -
Fidel Castro announces that all
intellectual property belongs to all people and that Cuba intends to translate and publish technical literature without compensation.
*
April 30 -
Moscow's 537m-tall TV tower is finished.
May
*
May 1 -
Elvis Presley and
Priscilla Beaulieu get married in Las Vegas.
*
May 2 - The
Toronto Maple Leafs win the
Stanley Cup.
*
May 2 -
Harold Wilson announces that
United Kingdom has decided to apply for
EEC membership
*
May 3 - Big gold robbery in
London.
*
May 4 -
Lunar Orbiter 4 launched.
*
May 6 -
Dr Zakir Hussain is the first
Muslim to become president of
India.
*
May 6 - 400 students seize the administration building at
Cheyney State College,
Pennsylvania*
May 8 - The
Philippine province of Davao is split into three:
Davao del Norte,
Davao del Sur, and
Davao Oriental.
*
May 10 - Greek military government accused
Andreas Papandreou of treason
*
May 11 -
United Kingdom and
Ireland apply officially for
EEC membership
*
May 12 -
Linda Ronstadt launches her first single 'Different Drum' with band The Stone Ponies. The album
Are You Experienced? is released by
The Jimi Hendrix Experience.
*
May 17 -
Syria mobilizes against
Israel*
May 17 - President
Gamal Abdal Nasser of
Egypt demands withdrawal of the peacekeeping
UN Emergency Force in
Sinai. UN secretary-general
U Thant complies (
May 18). On
May 23 Egypt closes the
Straits of Tiran, blockading
Israel's southern port of
Eilat.
*
May 18 -
Tennessee Governor Ellington repeals the "
Monkey Law" (see the
Scopes Trial)
*
May 18 - In
Mexico, schoolteacher
Lucio Cabañas begins a
guerrilla campaign in
Atoyac de Alvarez, west of
Acapulco in the state of
Guerrero*
May 19 - The
Soviet Union ratifies a treaty with the
United States and
United Kingdom banning nuclear weapons from outer space
*
May 19 -
Yuri Andropov becomes the chief of
KGB*
May 22 - The
Innovation department store in the centre of
Brussels (
Belgium) burns down. It is the most devastating fire in Belgian history, which results in 323 dead and missing and 150 wounded.
*
May 22 -
Nasser announces the closure of the
Straits of Tiran to
Israeli shipping.
*
May 25 -
Celtic F.C. become the first British team to reach a
European Cup final and also to win it, beating
Inter Milan 2-1 in normal time.
*
May 27 -
Naxalite Guerrilla War Beginning with a peasant uprising in the town of Naxalbari, this Marxist/Maoist rebellion sputters on in the Indian countryside. The guerrillas operate among the impoverished peasants and fight both the government security forces and the private paramilitary groups funded by wealthy landowners. Most fighting takes place in the states of
Andhra Pradesh,
Maharashtra,
Orissa and
Madhya Pradesh.
*
May 27 - The
Australian referendum, 1967 passes with an overwhelming 90% support, allowing the
Government of Australia to make special laws for
Indigenous Australians.
*
May 30 -
Biafra, in eastern
Nigeria, announces its independence.
*
May 30 - At the Ascot Speedway in
Gardena, California, daredevil
Evel Knievel jumps his
motorcycle over 16 cars lined up in a row.
*
May 31 - The Philadelphia Rock Orchestra..A Psychedelic Band is formed in Jeffersonville PA]].
June
*
June 1 -
The Beatles release
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, one of rock's most acclaimed albums.
Moshe Dayan becomes
Israel's Secretary of Defense.
*
June 2 - Protests in
West Berlin against the arrival of the
Shah of
Iran turn into fights, during which young
Benno Ohnesorg is killed by a police officer. His death results in the founding of the
terrorist group
Movement 2 June*
June 4 -
Stockport Air Disaster:
British Midland flight G-ALHG crashes in Hopes Carr,
Stockport, killing 72 passengers and crew.
*
June 5-
June 10 -
Israel defeats
Arab neighbours in
Six-Day War, occupying
West Bank,
Gaza Strip,
Sinai peninsula and
Golan Heights*
June 5 - Murderer
Richard Speck sentenced to death in electric chair for murder of nurses
*
June 7 - Two
Moby Grape members arrested for contributing to delinquency of minors
*
June 8 -
Six-Day War: The
USS Liberty incident - Israeli fighter jets and Israeli warships fire at
USS Liberty off Gaza, killing 34 and wounding 171
*
June 10 -
Israel and
Syria agree to observe a
United Nations-mediated cease-fire.
*
June 10 -
Soviet Union severs diplomatic relations with
Israel.
*
June 10 -
Margrethe, heir apparent to the throne of
Denmark, marries French count
Henri de Laborde de Monpezat.
*
June 11 - A
race riot in
Tampa, Florida*
June 12 - The
United States Supreme Court in
Loving v. Virginia declares all
U.S. state laws which prohibit
interracial marriage to be
unconstitutional. [
2]
*
June 12 -
Venera program:
Venera 4 is launched (it will become the first
space probe to enter another
planet's atmosphere and successfully return data)
*
June 13 - Solicitor General
Thurgood Marshall is nominated as the first
African American justice of the
United States Supreme Court - [
3]
*
June 14 -
Mariner program:
Mariner 5 is launched toward
Venus*
June 14 - The
People's Republic of China tests its first
hydrogen bomb.[
4]
*
June 14 -
15 -
Glenn Gould records
Prokofiev's Seventh piano sonata, op.83 in
New York City. It's his only recording of a composition of Prokofiev.
*
June 16 - Monterey Pop Festival begins and goes for 3 days. [
5]
*
June 17 - The
People's Republic of China announces a successful
hydrogen bomb test.
*
June 23 -
Cold War: U.S. President
Lyndon B. Johnson meets with Soviet Premier
Aleksei Kosygin in
Glassboro, New Jersey for the three-day
Glassboro Summit Conference. [
6]
*
June 26 -
Pope Paul VI ordains 276 new cardinals (one of them
Karol Wojtyła).
*
June 27 - First automatic cash machine (voucher-based) is installed in the office of the
Barclays Bank in
Enfield,
England.
*
June 27 - A
race riot in
Buffalo, New York - 200 arrested
*
June 28 -
Israel declares annexation of East
Jerusalem.
*
June 30 -
Moise Tshombe, former prime minister of the
Democratic Republic of the Congo, is kidnapped to
Algeria.
July
*
July 1 -
Canada celebrates its
first one hundred years of Confederation.
*
July 1 - The first
colour television broadcasts begin on
BBC2 in
UK on certain programmes. A full colour service began on
BBC2 on
December 2.
*
July 1 -
American Samoa's first constitution becomes effective.
*
July 3 - A military rebellion led by a Belgian mercenary
Jean Schramme begins in
Katanga,
Democratic Republic of the Congo.
*
July 4 - British parliament decriminalizes
homosexuality*
July 5 - Troops of Belgian
mercenary commander
Jean Schramme revolt against
Mobutu and try to take control of
Stanleyville,
Congo*
July 6 -
Nigerian forces invade
Biafra following latter's secession
May 30: beginning of the
Biafran War.
*
July 12 - Greek military regime strips 480 Greeks of their
citizenship*
July 13 -
Newark, New Jersey race riots.
*
July 15 -
Detroit race riots.
*
July 16 - Prison riot in
Jay, Florida - 37 dead
*
July 18 -
United Kingdom announces closing of its
military bases in
Malaysia and
Singapore.
Australia and
USA do not approve
*
July 18 -
Humberto Castelo Branco, ex-president of
Brazil, dies in a plane accident near
Fortaleza*
July 20 -
Pablo Neruda receives the first
Viareggio-Versile prize*
July 22 - The town of
Winneconne, Wisconsin, announces secession from the
United States because it is not included in the official maps and declares war. Secession is repealed the next day
*
July 23 -
12th Street Riot: In
Detroit, Michigan, one of the worst
riots in
United States history begins on 12th Street in the predominantly
African American inner city (43 killed, 342 injured and ~1,400 buildings burned)
*
July 24 - During an official state visit to
Canada,
French President
Charles de Gaulle declares to a crowd of over 100,000 in
Montreal:
Vive le Québec libre! (Long live free Quebec!). The statement, interpreted as support for
Quebec independence, delighted many Quebecers but angered the Canadian government and many
English Canadians.
*
July 29 - Explosion and fire aboard the
U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Forrestal in the
Gulf of Tonkin leaves 134 dead.
*
July 29 -
Georges Bidault moves to
Belgium where he receives
political asylum.
*
July 29 -
Earthquake in
Caracas,
Venezuela - 240 died.
August
*
August 1 -
Race riots in the
United States spread to
Washington, D.C.*
August 1 -
Israel annexes East
Jerusalem.
*
August 5 -
Pink Floyd released their debut album
The Piper at the Gates of Dawn*
August 7 -
Vietnam War: The
People's Republic of China agrees to give
North Vietnam an undisclosed amount of aid in the form of a grant.
*
August 7 - General strike in the old quarter of
Jerusalem protests
Israel's unification of the city.
*
August 8 - The
Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is founded.
*
August 9 -
Vietnam War:
Operation Cochise initiated -
United States Marines begin a new operation in the
Que Son Valley.
*
August 10 -
Schramme's troops take border town of
Bukavu.
*
August 14 -
UK Marine Broadcasting Offences Act declares participation in offshore
pirate radio illegal.
*
August 15 -
British Labour Government bans
pirate radio stations.
*
August 18 - The State of
Tamil Nadu,
India is established.
*
August 19 -
West Germany receives 36
East Germany prisoners it has "purchased" through the border posts of
Herleshausen and
Wartha.
*
August 20 -
Ross Castillo is born.
*
August 21 - Truce in the
Democratic Republic of the Congo.
*
August 21 - The
People's Republic of China announces that it has shot down
American planes violating its airspace.
*
August 25 - Leader of
American Nazi Party,
George Lincoln Rockwell, is assassinated.
*
August 30 -
Thurgood Marshall is confirmed as the first
African American Justice of the
United States Supreme Court.
September
*
September 1 -
Ilse Koch, also known as the "Bitch of Buchenwald", commits suicide in the
Bavarian prison of
Aichach.
*
September 2 - Roughs Tower claimed by
Paddy Roy Bates and declared Principality of
Sealand*
September 3 -
Nguyen Van Thieu is elected President of
South Vietnam*
September 3 -
H-Day in
Sweden. At 5:00 AM local time, all traffic in the country switched from left-hand traffic pattern to right-hand traffic.
*
September 4 -
Vietnam War:
Operation Swift begins - The
United States Marines launch a search and destroy mission in
Quang Nam and
Quang Tin Provinces. The ensuing 4-day battle in
Que Son Valley kills 114 Americans and 376
North Vietnamese
*
September 5 -
Sweden changes to
driving on the right*
September 10 - In
Gibraltar, only 44 out of 12.182 voters support union with
Spain.
*
September 17 - Riot in a football match in
Kaysei, Turkey - 44 dead, about 600 injured.
*
September 17 -
Jim Morrison and
The Doors defy
CBS censors on
The Ed Sullivan Show when Morrison sings the word "higher" from their #1 hit
Light My Fire despite having been asked not to.
*
September 27 -
Queen Mary arrives
Southampton at the end of her last transatlantic voyage
*
September 30 -
BBC Radio 1 launched.
October
*
October 2 -
Thurgood Marshall is sworn in as the first black justice of the
U.S. Supreme Court.
*
October 3 - An
X-15 research aircraft with test pilot
Pete Knight establishes an unofficial world fixed-wing speed record of Mach 6.7
*
October 8 - Guerrilla leader
Che Guevara and his men are captured in
Bolivia. The next day Guevara is executed for attempting to incite a revolution
*
October 12 -
Vietnam War: US Secretary of State
Dean Rusk states during a news conference that proposals by the
U.S. Congress for peace initiatives were futile because of
North Vietnam's opposition
*
October 17 - Premiere of the musical
Hair Off-Broadway.
*
October 19 -
Mariner 5 probe flies by
Venus.
*
October 20 -
Patterson-Gimlin film of a purported
bigfoot taken.
*
October 21 -
Egyptian surface-to-surface missile sinks the
Israeli destroyer
Eilat, killing 47 Israeli sailors. Israel retaliates by shelling Egyptian refineries along the
Suez Canal.
*
October 21 - Ten of thousands of
Vietnam War protesters march in
Washington, D.C.*
October 25 -
Abortion bill passes in
British parliament.
*
October 26 - Shah
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran is officially crowned.
*
October 27 -
Charles De Gaulle vetoes British entry into
EEC – again.
*
October 29 - Mobutu's troops launch an offensive against mercenaries in Bukavu
*
October 30 -
British troops and
Chinese demonstrators clash in the border of
China and
Hong Kong.
*
October 30 - Mayor A.V. Sorensen of
Omaha,
Nebraska declares the following day to be
Grace Bible Institute Day in the city of Omaha.
November
*
November 2 -
Vietnam War: US President
Lyndon B. Johnson holds a secret meeting with a group of the nation's most prestigious leaders ("the Wise Men") and asks them to suggest ways to unite the American people behind the war effort. They conclude that the American people should be given more optimistic reports on the progress of the war
*
November 3 -
Vietnam War:
Battle of Dak To begins - Around
Dak To (located about 280 miles north of
Saigon near the
Cambodian border) heavy casualties are suffered on both sides (the
Americans narrowly won the battle on
November 22).
*
November 4-
November 5 - Mercenaries of
Jean Schramme and
Jerry Puren withdraw from Bukavu over
Shangugu Bridge to
Rwanda*
November 5 -
Hither Green rail crash - commuter train derails in South-East
London - 40 dead, 80 injured
*
November 6 -
Rhodesian parliament passes pro-
Apartheid laws.
*
November 7 - US President
Lyndon B. Johnson signs the
Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, establishing the
Corporation for Public Broadcasting*
November 7 -
Carl B. Stokes is elected
mayor of
Cleveland, Ohio, becoming the first
African American mayor of a major United States city
*
November 9 -
Apollo program:
NASA launches a
Saturn V rocket carrying the unmanned
Apollo 4 test spacecraft from
Cape Kennedy*
November 11 -
Vietnam War: In a propaganda ceremony in
Phnom Penh,
Cambodia, three
American prisoners of war are released by the
Viet Cong and turned over to "new left" antiwar activist
Tom Hayden*
November 15 - Cyprus conflict eye-witness account:
"In the afternoon of November 15 National Guard (Greek Cypriot Army) organised by General Grivas attacked two villages, Kophinou (Tr. Gecitkale) (a wholly Turkish Cypriot village) and Ayios Theodoros (Tr Bogazici) (a Greek/Turkish village) with an estimated 10000 men. The total T.Cypriot population in these villages was under 3000. 24 in all, some armed but mainly unarmed Turkish Cypriot civilians were killed - one 90 year old men in particular was wounded, and burnt to death in the front of his house where he fell. Women and children forced out of their houses were forced to pass by the burning corpse. In the morning of 16th of November, Turkey threatened invasion by bombing various Greek Cypriot army positions at which stage the National Guard withdrew releasing all civilians forcefully kept in various public places eg schools/cinemas in the two villages."
*
November 17 - Vietnam War: Acting on optimistic reports he was given on
November 13, US President
Lyndon B. Johnson tells his nation that, while much remained to be done, "We are inflicting greater losses than we're taking...We are making progress." (two months later the
Tet Offensive makes him regret his words)
*
November 17 - French author
Regis Debray is sentenced to 30 years in
Bolivia*
November 19 -
UK pound devalued from 1
GBP = 2.80
USD to 1 GBP = 2.40 USD.
*
November 21 - Vietnam War:
American General
William Westmoreland tells news reporters: "I am absolutely certain that whereas in 1965 the enemy was winning, today he is certainly losing."
*
November 22 -
UN Security Council Resolution 242 is adopted by the
UN Security Council, establishing a set of the principles aimed at guiding negotiations for an
Arab-
Israeli peace settlement
*
November 24 -
Cambodian triple agent
Inchin Lam killed
*
November 29 -
Vietnam War: US Secretary of Defense
Robert McNamara announces his pending resignation and that he will become president of the
World Bank. This action was the result of US President
Lyndon B. Johnson's outright rejection of McNamara's early November recommendations to freeze troop levels, stop bombing
North Vietnam and hand over ground fighting to
South Vietnam*
November 30 -
Quaid-I-Awam, Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto Founded
The Pakistan People Party
and becomes its first Chairman, today it is one the major Political Parties in Pakistan alongside with the Pakistan
Muslim League that is broken into many fractions bearing the same name under different leaderships such as the Pakistan's Peoples Party Parliamentarians (PPPP)
*
November 30 - The
People's Republic of South Yemen becomes independent from the
United Kingdom*
November 30 -
Minnesota Senator
Eugene McCarthy announces his candidacy for the
Democratic Party presidential nomination, opposing incumbent President
Lyndon B. Johnson over the
Vietnam War.
December
*
December 4, 1850 hours - A
volcano erupts on
Deception Island in
Antarctica.
*
December 4 -
Vietnam War:
US and
South Vietnamese forces engage
Viet Cong troops in the
Mekong Delta (235 of the 300-strong Viet Cong battalion were killed).
*
December 5 -
Benjamin Spock and
Allen Ginsberg arrested for protesting against
Vietnam War*
December 9 -
Nicolae Ceauşescu becomes the Chairman of the
Romanian State Council - that is, de-facto dictator of
Romania.
*
December 11 - The
Concorde is unveiled in
Toulouse,
France*
December 15 - Silver Bridge over
Ohio River in
Point Pleasant, West Virginia, collapses - 46 dead. It has been linked to the so-called
Mothman mystery.
*
December 17 -
Harold Holt,
Australian prime minister, disappears when swimming at a beach 60 km from
Melbourne.
*
December 19 - Professor
John Archibald Wheeler uses the term
Black Hole for the first time.
Unknown dates
*
Jari project begins in the Amazon
*
Ashleigh Brilliant begins to copyright pithy mottoes for a living
* In
Albania the
Enver Hoxha regime conducts a violent campaign against religion
* Influential
science fiction anthology
Dangerous Visions published.
*
LSD declared a
Schedule I drug by the
United States government.
*
University of Winnipeg founded.
*
Lonsdaleite (the rarest
allotrope of
carbon) first discovered in the
Barringer Crater,
Arizona.
*
Lost city discovered on the island of
Thera, buried under
volcanic debris. It has been suggested that
Plato may have heard legends about this, and used them as the germ of his story of
Atlantis.
*
PAL first introduced in
Germany.
*
Summer of Love*
25th Amendment of the United States Constitution enacted.
* First
Pulsar discovered by
Jocelyn Bell and
Antony Hewish.
*
Arno River floods in
Florence.
*
Desmond Morris publishes
The Naked Ape.
*
Lech Wałęsa goes to work in
Gdańsk shipyards.
*
Benjamin Netanyahu joins
Israeli army.
*
Greek military junta exiles
Melina Mercouri.
*
Parker Morris Standards became mandatory for all housing built in
New Towns in the
UK.
*
Love is a Many Splendored Thing debuts on US daytime television and is the first
soap opera to deal with an interracial relationship.
CBS censors find it too controversial and ask for it to be stopped, causing show creator
Irna Phillips to quit.
January
*
January 2 -
Tia Carrere, American actress
*
January 5 -
Joe Flanigan, American actor
*
January 7 -
Mark Lamarr , British Comedian/TV and Radio Presenter
*
January 8 -
Michelle Forbes, American actress
*
January 8 -
R. Kelly, American R&B Singer/Songwriter/Producer
*
January 9 -
Steven Harwell, American singer and musician (
Smash Mouth)
*
January 9 -
Dave Matthews, South African-born musician
*
January 14 -
Kerri Green, American actress
*
January 22 -
Olivia d'Abo, English actress
*
January 23 -
Naim Suleymanoglu, Bulgarian-born weightlifter
February
*
February 9 -
Todd Pratt, American baseball player
*
February 12 -
Chitravina N. Ravikiran, Indian composer and musician
*
February 16 -
John Valentin, baseball player
*
February 17 -
Chanté Moore, American singer
*
February 18 -
Roberto Baggio, Italian football player
*
February 20 -
Kurt Cobain, American musician (d.
1994)
March
*
March 4 -
Evan Dando, American musician
*
March 11 -
John Barrowman, Scottish-born actor
*
March 17 -
Billy Corgan, American musician and songwriter
*
March 22 -
Mario Cipollini, Italian cyclist
*
March 25 -
Debi Thomas, American figure skater
*
March 27 -
Talisa Soto, American actress
*
March 29 -
Brian Jordan, baseball player
April
*
April 2 -
Greg Camp, American guitarist and songwriter (
Smash Mouth)
*
April 2 -
Helen Chamberlain, British television presenter
*
April 15 -
Frankie Poullain, British bassist (
The Darkness)
*
April 15 -
Dara Torres, American swimmer
*
April 17 -
Marquis Grissom, baseball player
*
April 17 -
Liz Phair, American singer and songwriter
*
April 18 -
Maria Bello, American actress
*
April 19 -
Steven H Silver, American science fiction editor
*
April 19 -
Dar Williams, American musician and songwriter
*
April 20 -
Raymond van Barneveld, Dutch darts player
*
April 20 -
Lara Jill Miller, American actress
*
April 20 -
Mike Portnoy, American Drummer (
Dream Theater)
*
April 22 -
Sheryl Lee, American actress
*
April 23 -
Melina Kanakaredes, American actress
*
April 26 -
Glen Jacobs (
Kane), American professional wrestler
*
April 27 -
Prince Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands*
April 29 -
Curtis Joseph, Canadian hockey player
*
April 29 -
Master P, American rapper, composer, actor, athlete, and sports agent
May
*
May 1 -
Tim McGraw, American singer
*
May 2 -
Jeff Curro,
Jeff the Drunk from radio's
The Howard Stern Show*
May 5 -
Takehito Koyasu, Japanese
seiyu (voice actor)
*
May 13 -
Melanie Thornton, American singer (d.
2001)
*
May 14 -
Tony Siragusa, American football player
*
May 15 -
Madhuri Dixit, Indian actress
*
May 15 -
John Smoltz, baseball player
*
May 21 -
Chris Benoit, Canadian professional wrestler
*
May 22 -
MC Eiht, American rapper
*
May 24 -
Heavy D, American rapper
*
May 24 -
Steve McDonald, American bassist (
Redd Kross)
*
May 25 -
Poppy Z. Brite, American author
*
May 29 -
Noel Gallagher, British musician (
Oasis)
*
May 31 -
Phil Keoghan, New Zealand-born television host
June
*
June 3 -
Anderson Cooper, American television journalist
*
June 5 -
Joe DeLoach, American athlete
*
June 7 -
Dave Navarro, American guitarist
*
June 10 -
Darren "Buffy, the Human Beatbox" Robinson, American rapper (
The Fat Boys) (d.
1995)
*
June 15 -
Yuji Ueda, Japanese seiyu (voice actor)
*
June 19 -
Bjørn Dæhlie, Norwegian skier
*
June 20 -
Nicole Kidman, American-born Australian actress
*
June 24 -
Janez Lapajne, Slovenian film director
*
June 24 -
Richard Z. Kruspe, German musician (
Rammstein)
July
*
July 1 -
Pamela Anderson, Canadian actress
*
July 4 -
Vinny Castilla, Mexican
Major League Baseball player
*
July 4 -
Andy Walker, Canadian television personality
*
July 4 -
Michael Daniel Peters, American computer security expert
*
July 7 -
Jackie Neal, American singer
*
July 8 -
Marcus Chong, American actor
*
July 13 -
Akira Hokuto, Japanese women's professional wrestler
*
July 14 -
Robin Ventura, baseball player
*
July 18 -
Vin Diesel, American actor
*
July 19 -
Rageh Omaar, broadcaster
*
July 25 -
Matt LeBlanc, American actor
*
July 25 -
Chuck Paugh, American record company owner
*
July 27 -
Juliana Hatfield, American guitarist and songwriter
*
July 27 -
Kellie Waymire, American actress (d.
2003)
*
July 31 -
Minako Honda, Japanese singer and musical actress (d.
2005)
*
July 31 -
Elizabeth Wurtzel, author and feminist
August
*
August 4 -
Mike Marsh, American athlete
*
August 8 -
Rena Mero, WWE Women's Wrestler,
Sable,
Playboy Cover Girl
*
August 10 -
Layne Staley, lead singer of Alice in Chains
*
August 10 -
Riddick Bowe, American boxer
*
August 11 -
Enrique Bunbury, Spanish singer and songwriter
*
August 11 -
Joe Rogan, American comedian and television host
*
August 12 -
Regilio Tuur, Dutch boxer
*
August 16 -
Pamela Smart, American murderer
*
August 16 -
Ulrika Jonsson, Swedish-born television personality
*
August 21 -
Carrie-Anne Moss, Canadian actress
*
August 21 -
Serj Tankian, Lebanese-born singer (
System of a Down)
*
August 22 -
Yukiko Okada, Japanese idol singer (d.
1986)
*
August 29 -
Anton Newcombe, American musician (
The Brian Jonestown Massacre)
September
*
September 3 -
Luis Gonzalez, baseball player
*
September 5 -
Jane Sixsmith, English field hockey player
*
September 7 -
Salvatore Cezar Pais, Romanian-born engineer and scientist
*
September 11 -
Harry Connick, Jr., American singer and actor
*
September 13 -
Michael Johnson, American athlete
*
September 21 -
Faith Hill, American singer
*
September 21 -
Susie Dent, British lexicographer on
Countdown.
*
September 22 -
Félix Savón, Cuban boxer
*
September 27 -
Alvin V. Cheeks, American businessman, minister, and conservative civic activist
October
*
October 2 -
Frankie Fredericks, Namibian athlete
*
October 4 -
Liev Schreiber, American actor
*
October 5 -
Johnny Gioeli, American
Power Metal singer
*
October 7 -
Toni Braxton, American
R&B singer
*
October 9 -
Eddie Guerrero, American professional wrestler (d.
2005)
*
October 11 -
Tazz, American professional wrestler, commentator,
ECW (wwe)*
October 11 -
Artie Lange, American actor, comedian and radio personality
*
October 11 -
David Starr, American racecar driver
*
October 16 -
Davina McCall, British TV presenter and UK
Big Brother host
*
October 22 -
Carlos Mencia, Latino actor and standup comedian
*
October 26 -
Keith Urban, Australian-born, American country music singer
*
October 27 -
Scott Weiland, American musician
*
October 28 -
Julia Roberts, American actress
*
October 30 -
Gavin Rossdale, English musician
November
*
November 7 -
Sharleen Spiteri, Scottish singer and songwriter (Texas)
*
November 8 -
Courtney Thorne-Smith, American actress
*
November 14 -
Letitia Dean, British actress
*
November 16 -
Lisa Bonet, American actress
*
November 22 -
Boris Becker, German tennis player
*
November 22 -
Bart Veldkamp, Dutch-born speed skater
*
November 28 -
Anna Nicole Smith, American model and actress
*
November 29 -
John Bradshaw Layfield, American professional wrestler
December
*
December 7 -
Mo'Nique, American actress and
comedian*
December 8 -
Kotono Mitsuishi, Japanese seiyu (voice actress)
*
December 9 -
Joshua Bell, American violinist
*
December 11 -
DJ Yella, American music producer
*
December 12 -
John Randle, American football player
*
December 13 -
Jamie Foxx, American actor
*
December 14 -
Ewa Białołęcka, Polish writer
*
December 16 -
Donovan Bailey, Canadian athlete
*
December 17 -
Gigi D'Agostino, Italian musician and DJ
*
December 19 -
Criss Angel, American musician, magician, illusionist, escapologist, stunt performer
*
December 20 -
Mikhail Saakashvili,
President of Georgia*
December 22 -
Dan Petrescu, Romanian footballer
Dates unknown
*
Steve Aylett, British writer
*
LTJ Bukem, English musician
*
Chico Science, Brazilian entertainer (d.
1997)
*
Mairtín Crawford, Irish poet (d.
2004)
January
*
January 3 -
Jack Ruby, American killer of
Lee Harvey Oswald (b.
1911)
*
January 4 -
Donald Campbell, English water and land speed record seeker (b.
1921)
*
January 17 -
Barney Ross, American boxer (b.
1909)
*
January 19 -
Kazimierz Funk, Polish biochemist (b.
1884)
*
January 21 -
Ann Sheridan, American actress (b.
1915)
*
January 27 - Crew of
Apollo 1**
Edward White (b.
1930)
**
Gus Grissom (b.
1926)
**
Roger Chaffee (b.
1935)
*
January 27 -
Alphonse Juin, Marshal of France (b.
1888)
*
January 31 -
Eddie Tolan, American athlete (b.
1908)
February
*
February 4 -
Albert Orsborn, the 6th General of
The Salvation Army (b.
1886)
*
February 8 -
Victor Gollancz, British publisher (b.
1893)
*
February 16 -
Smiley Burnette, American actor (b.
1911)
*
February 16 -
Józef Hofmann, Polish pianist (b.
1876)
*
February 18 -
J. Robert Oppenheimer, American physicist (b.
1904)
*
February 21 -
Charles Beaumont, American writer (b.
1929)
March
*
March 6 -
John Haden Badley, English author (b.
1865)
*
March 6 -
Nelson Eddy, American singer and actor (b.
1901)
*
March 6 -
Zoltán Kodály, Hungarian composer (b.
1882)
*
March 7 -
Alice B. Toklas, American personality (b.
1877)
*
March 11 -
Geraldine Farrar, American soprano (b.
1882)
*
March 27 -
Jaroslav Heyrovský, Czech chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1890)
April
*
April 2 -
Eddie Eagan, American sportsman (b.
1897)
*
April 5 -
Hermann Joseph Muller, American geneticist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b.
1890)
*
April 17 -
Red Allen, American jazz trumpeter (b.
1908)
*
April 19 -
Konrad Adenauer,
Chancellor of Germany (b.
1876)
*
April 24 -
Vladimir Komarov, cosmonaut (b.
1927)
May
*
May 6 -
Zhou Zuoren, Chinese writer (b.
1885)
*
May 12 -
John Masefield, English poet and novelist (b.
1878)
*
May 22 -
Langston Hughes, American writer (b.
1902)
June
*
June 7 -
Dorothy Parker, American writer (b.
1893)
*
June 14 -
Eddie Eagan, American sportsman (b.
1897)
*
June 29 -
Jayne Mansfield, American actress (b.
1933)
July
*
July 7 -
Vivien Leigh, English actress (b.
1913)
*
July 8 -
Fatima Jinnah, Pakistani
Mother of the Nation (b.
1893)
*
July 14 -
Tudor Arghezi, Romanian writer (b.
1880)
*
July 17 -
John Coltrane, American jazz saxophonist (b.
1926)
*
July 21 -
Jimmie Foxx, American baseball player (b.
1907)
*
July 21 -
Albert Lutuli, South African politician, recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize*
July 22 -
Carl Sandburg, American poet (b.
1878)
*
July 30 -
Alfred Krupp, German industrialist (b.
1907)
August
*
August 1 -
Richard Kuhn, Austrian chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1900)
*
August 9 -
Joe Orton, English playwright (b.
1933)
*
August 15 -
René Magritte, Belgian painter (b.
1898)
*
August 19 -
Hugo Gernsback, Luxembourg-born editor and publisher (b.
1884)
*
August 24 -
Henry J. Kaiser, American industrialist (b.
1882)
*
August 24 -
Lam Bun, Hong Kong radio commentator (b.
1930)
*
August 25 -
Stanley Bruce, eighth
Prime Minister of Australia (b.
1883)
*
August 25 -
Paul Muni, Polish actor (b.
1895)
*
August 25 -
George Lincoln Rockwell, American Nazi Party leader (b.
1918)
*
August 27 -
Brian Epstein, English band manager (
The Beatles) (b.
1934)
*
August 31 -
Ilya Ehrenburg, Russian writer (b.
1891)
September
*
September 13 -
Varian Fry, American journalist (b.
1907)
*
September 18 -
John Cockcroft, English physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1897)
*
September 27 -
Prince Felix Yussupov, Russian assassin of Rasputin (b.
1887)
October
*
October 3 -
Woody Guthrie, American musician (b.
1912)
*
October 3 -
Malcolm Sargent, English conductor (b.
1895)
*
October 7 -
Norman Angell, British politician, recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize (b.
1872)
*
October 8 -
Clement Attlee,
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b.
1893)
*
October 9 -
Che Guevara, Argentine revolutionary (executed) (b.
1928)
*
October 9 -
Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, English chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1897)
*
October 17 -
Xuantong Emperor,
Emperor of China (b.
1906)
*
October 20 -
Yoshida Shigeru,
Prime Minister of Japan (b.
1878)
November
*
November 7 -
John Nance Garner,
U.S. Vice President (b.
1868)
*
November 13 -
Harriet Cohen, English pianist (b.
1895)
*
November 19 -
Charles J. Watters, U.S. Army chaplain,
Medal of Honor recipient (b.
1927)
*
November 25 -
Ossip Zadkine, Russian sculptor, painter and lithographer (b.
1890)
December
*
December 10 -
Otis Redding, American singer (b.
1941)
*
December 24 -
Karl Ristenpart, German conductor (b.
1900)
*
December 26 -
Sydney Barnes, English cricketer (b.
1873)
*
December 28 -
Katharine McCormick, American feminist (b.
1875)
*
December 29 -
Paul Whiteman, American bandleader (b.
1890)
Unknown date
*
Daniel Jones, British phonetician (b.
1881)
*
Physics -
Hans Albrecht Bethe*
Chemistry -
Manfred Eigen,
Ronald George Wreyford Norrish,
George Porter*
Physiology or Medicine -
Ragnar Granit,
Haldan Keffer Hartline,
George Wald*
Literature -
Miguel Ángel Asturias*
Peace - not awarded
