Notable Historical Events - 1967
1967 Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 1 |
CRU becomes the CAFA & turns over the Grey Cup trophy to the CFL |
Jan 1 |
Day's play in the Calcutta Test v W Indies cancelled by riots |
Jan 1 |
FCC requires AM-FM sister stations to be at least 50% different |
Jan 1 |
Green Bay Packers beat Dallas Cowboys 34-27 in NFL championship game |
Jan 1 |
KC Chiefs beat Buffalo Bills 31-7 in AFL championship game |
Jan 1 |
St Helena adopts constitution |
Jan 1 |
Tonga revises constitution |
Jan 1 |
WABW TV channel 14 in Pelham, GA (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Jan 3 |
"Tonight Show" is shortened from 105 to 90 minutes |
Jan 3 |
Carl Wilson of the Beach Boys is indicted for draft evasion |
Jan 3 |
WJAN TV channel 17 in Canton, OH (IND) begins broadcasting |
Jan 5 |
KLXA (now KTBN) TV channel 40 in Fontana-San Ana, CA (IND) begins |
Jan 6 |
"Milton Berle Show" last airs on ABC-TV |
Jan 6 |
KHTV TV channel 39 in Houston, TX (IND) begins broadcasting |
Jan 6 |
2 homemade buses collided on a mountain road in Terpate, Philippines plunging off a cliff, killing 84, injuring 140 |
Jan 6 |
United States Marine Corps and ARVN troops launch "Operation Deckhouse Five" in the Mekong River delta. |
Jan 7 |
"Newlywed Game" premieres on ABC TV |
Jan 9 |
Georgia legislature seats Rep Julian Bond |
Jan 9 |
NFL New Orleans' franchise takes name "Saints" |
Jan 10 |
Edward Brooke, takes (Sen-R-Mass) seat as 1st popular elected black |
Jan 10 |
Lester Maddox inaugurated as governor of Georgia |
Jan 10 |
PBS (the National Educational TV) begins as a 70 station network |
Jan 11 |
Romeinse Curie installs Council for Pontifical Study commission |
Jan 12 |
Louisville, Ky, draft board refuses exemption for boxer Muhammad Ali |
Jan 12 |
Dr. James Bedford becomes the first person to be cryonically preserved with intent of future resuscitation. |
Jan 13 |
Coup in Togo |
Jan 13 |
Rolling Stones appear on Ed Sullivan Show |
Jan 14 |
20,000 attend Human Be-In, SF |
Jan 14 |
Earthquake in Sicily kills 231 |
Jan 14 |
NY Times reports Army is conducting secret germ warfare experiments |
Jan 14 |
Sonny & Cher release "Beat Goes On" |
Jan 15 |
Super Bowl I: Green Bay Packers beat KC Chiefs, 35-10 in LA Super Bowl MVP: Bart Starr, Green Bay, QB |
Jan 16 |
1st black government installed in Bahamas |
Jan 16 |
Lucius Amerson, becomes 1st southern (Ala) black sheriff in 20th cent |
Jan 18 |
20th NHL All-Star Game: Montreal beat All-Stars 3-0 at Montreal |
Jan 18 |
Albert DeSalvo (Boston Strangler) sentenced to life in prison |
Jan 18 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Jan 18 |
Yellowknife replaces Ottawa as capital of NW Territories, Canada |
Jan 19 |
Herr Karl Tausch writes shortest will "Vse Zene" (All to wife) |
Jan 21 |
AFL Pro Bowl: East beats West 30-23 |
Jan 21 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Peggy Fleming |
Jan 21 |
US male Figure Skating championship won by Gary Visconti |
Jan 22 |
NFL Pro Bowl: East beats West 20-10 |
Jan 23 |
Stan Musial is named GM of Cards |
Jan 26 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan USSR |
Jan 26 |
Chicago Blizzard strikes with a record 23 inches of snow fall causing 800 buses and 50,000 automobiles to be abandoned |
Jan 27 |
Apollo 1 fire kills astronauts Grissom, White & Chaffee |
Jan 27 |
Beatles sign a 9 year worldwide contract with EMI records |
Jan 27 |
New Orleans Saints sign their 1st player (Paige Cothren-kicker) |
Jan 27 |
Treaty banning military use of nuclear weapons in space, signed |
Jan 28 |
Rolling Stones release "Let's Spend the Night Together" |
Jan 29 |
"Let's Sing Yiddish" closes at Brooks Atkinson NYC after 107 perfs |
Jan 29 |
Branch Rickey & Lloyd Waner elected to Baseball Hall of Fame |
Jan 29 |
Kees Verkerk becomes European skating champ |
Jan 29 |
WDAZ TV channel 8 in Devils Lake, ND (ABC) begins broadcasting |
Feb 1 |
Severe brush fires in Tasmania destroy $11 million & 60 lives |
Feb 1 |
WCLP TV channel 18 in Chatsworth, GA (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Feb 2 |
Bolivia adopts its constitution |
Feb 2 |
Formation of American Basketball Association is announced |
Feb 3 |
"Purple Haze" recorded by Jimi Hendrix |
Feb 3 |
Ronald Ryan, the last person to be executed in Australia, is hanged in Pentridge Prison, Melbourne. |
Feb 4 |
"Wild Thing" hits #20 on the pop singles chart by Senator Bobby |
Feb 4 |
US launches Lunar Orbiter 3 |
Feb 5 |
"Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour" premieres on CBS (later ABC, NBC) |
Feb 5 |
Anastasio Somoza elected president of Nicaragua |
Feb 5 |
Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Robert Penn Warren |
Feb 6 |
Cultural Revolution in Albania |
Feb 6 |
Muhammad Ali TKOs Ernie Terrell in 15 for heavyweight boxing title |
Feb 7 |
A fire at a restaurant in Montgomery, Alabama kills 25 people. |
Feb 8 |
Longest losing streak in Toronto Maple Leaf history (10 games) |
Feb 8 |
Peter (Asher) & Gordon (Waller) discontinue their singing partnership |
Feb 8 |
Pirate Radio UKGM (England) closes down |
Feb 8 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Feb 10 |
25th Amendment (US Presidential Disability & Succession) ratified |
Feb 12 |
Kees Verkerk becomes world champ all round skater |
Feb 12 |
Keith Richards, Mick Jagger & Marianne Faithful busted for drugs |
Feb 12 |
Pirate Radio Free Harlem (NYC) begins transmitting |
Feb 14 |
Aretha Franklin records "Respect" |
Feb 14 |
Latin American nuclear free zone proposal drawn up |
Feb 15 |
1st anti-bootleg recording laws enacted |
Feb 15 |
D66 (D'66) wins 7 seats in Dutch 2nd Chamber |
Feb 15 |
Longest dream (REM sleep) on record, Bill Carskadon, Chicago (2:23) |
Feb 16 |
Red Ruffing selected to Hall of Fame |
Feb 17 |
Beatles release "Penny Lane" & "Strawberry Fields" |
Feb 17 |
Kosmos 140 (Soyuz Test) launches into Earth orbit |
Feb 18 |
Bob Seagren sets pole vault record at 17'3" |
Feb 18 |
Softball pitcher Eddie Feigner strikes out 6 straight major leaguers |
Feb 19 |
Stien Kaiser becomes world champion lady's skater |
Feb 22 |
Barbara Garson's "MacBird," premieres in NYC |
Feb 22 |
Sling-shot goal post & 6' wide border around field are standard in NFL |
Feb 22 |
25,000 US & S Vietnamese troops launch Operation Junction City against Viet Cong. Largest US airborne assult since WWII |
Feb 23 |
25th amendment (US Presidential succession) adopted |
Feb 23 |
John Herbert's "Fortune & Men's Eyes," premieres in NYC |
Feb 23 |
Ted Workman replaces Senator Keith Davey as CFL commissioner |
Feb 23 |
US troops begin largest offensive of Vietnam War |
Feb 26 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Feb 26 |
Verne Gagne beats Mad Dog Vachon in St Paul, to become NWA champ |
Feb 27 |
Antigua & St Christopher-Nevis become associated states of UK |
Feb 27 |
Dominica gains independence from England |
Feb 27 |
Rio de la Plata Treaty |
Feb 28 |
Wilt Chamberlain sinks NBA record 35th consecutive field goal |
Mar 1 |
Dominica & St Lucia gain independence from Britain |
Mar 1 |
House of Reps expels Rep Adam Clayton Powell Jr (307 to 116) |
Mar 1 |
Queen Elizabeth Hall (South Bank Center) opens in London |
Mar 1 |
WMET (now WHSW) TV channel 24 in Baltimore, MD (IND) 1st broadcast |
Mar 2 |
9th Grammy Awards: Strangers in Night, Michele wins |
Mar 2 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Mar 3 |
Grenada gains partial independence from Britain |
Mar 3 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Mar 3 |
White Sox given permission to use semi-DH in training camp with home club permission (use of pinch hitter twice in same game) |
Mar 4 |
Ice Dance Championship at Vienna won by Towler & Ford (GRB) |
Mar 4 |
Ice Pairs Championship at Vienna won by Belousova & Protopopov (USSR) |
Mar 4 |
Men's Fig Skating Championship in Vienna won by Emmerich Danzer (AUT) |
Mar 4 |
Worlds Ladies' Figure Skating Champion in Vienna won by Peggy Fleming (US) |
Mar 5 |
WEDN TV channel 53 in Norwich, CT (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Mar 6 |
2nd Academy of Country Music Awards |
Mar 6 |
Jimmy Hoffa enters Lewisburg Federal Prison |
Mar 6 |
Muhammad Ali is ordered by selective service to be inducted |
Mar 6 |
Stalin's daughter Svetlana Allilujeva asks for political asylum in US |
Mar 6 |
WACS TV channel 25 in Dawson, GA (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Mar 7 |
Clark Gesner's musical "You're a Good Man" premieres in NYC |
Mar 7 |
Teamster pres Jimmy Hoffa begins 8-year jail sentence for defrauding the union & jury tampering (commuted Dec 23, 1971) |
Mar 8 |
New Orleans Saints begin selling season tickets (20,000 sold 1st day) |
Mar 9 |
Svetlana Allilueva, Stalin's daughter, defected to the West |
Mar 11 |
Pink Floyd releases 1st single (Arnold Layne) |
Mar 12 |
Austria's Reinhold Bachler ski jumps 505 feet |
Mar 12 |
Indonesian congress deprives president Sukarno of authority |
Mar 13 |
Congo sentences ex-premier Moise Tsjombe to death |
Mar 13 |
Robert Anderson's "You Know I Can't Hear You ..." premieres in NYC |
Mar 14 |
1st NFL-AFL common draft, Balt Colts pick Bubba Smith |
Mar 14 |
JFK's body moved from temporary grave to a permanent memorial |
Mar 15 |
AFCENT-headquarter moves to Brunssum |
Mar 15 |
Marshal Arturo da Costa e Silva sworn in as pres of Brazil |
Mar 15 |
WSJK TV channel 2 in Sneedville/Knoxville, TN (PBS) 1st broadcast |
Mar 16 |
Pirate Radio Station 333 (Radio Britain) ship breaks down |
Mar 18 |
Beatles' "Penny Lane" single goes #1 |
Mar 18 |
Oil tanker Torrey Canyon hits a rock off Cornwall & spills oil |
Mar 19 |
French Somaliland (Djibouti) votes to continue association with France |
Mar 19 |
Marilynn Smith wins LPGA St Petersburg Orange Golf Classic |
Mar 20 |
The Supremes release "The Happening" |
Mar 20 |
WOET (now WPTD) TV channel 16 in Dayton, OH (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Mar 22 |
Muhammad Ali KOs Zora Folley in 7 for heavyweight boxing title |
Mar 24 |
U of Mich holds 1st "Teach-in" after bombing of North Vietnam |
Mar 25 |
29th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA beats Dayton 79-64 |
Mar 25 |
The Turtle's "Happy Together" goes #1 |
Mar 25 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Mar 25 |
Who & Cream make US debut at Murray the K's Easter Show |
Mar 26 |
21st Tony Awards: Homecoming & Cabaret win |
Mar 26 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Venice Ladies' Golf Open |
Mar 26 |
Pope Paul VI publishes encyclical Populorum progressio |
Mar 28 |
"Sherry!" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 65 performances |
Mar 28 |
UN Sect General U Thant makes public proposals for peace in Vietnam |
Mar 29 |
WCMU TV channel 14 in Mt. Pleasant, MI (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Mar 30 |
Cover picture of Beatles' "Sgt Pepper's" is photographed |
Mar 31 |
1st time Jimi Hendrix burns his guitar (London) |
Apr 1 |
1st British ombudsman sir Edward Compton begins work |
Apr 1 |
The United States Department of Transportation begins operation. |
Apr 2 |
Susie Maxwell wins LPGA Louise Suggs Golf Invitational |
Apr 3 |
WNYE TV channel 25 in Brooklyn, NY (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Apr 3 |
113 East Europeans attending World Amateur hockey championships in Vienna, ask for political asylum |
Apr 4 |
Amsterdam Marines chase out "nozems" of Central Station |
Apr 4 |
Dutch De Young government forms |
Apr 4 |
Marines chase "Nozems" out of Amsterdam Central Station |
Apr 5 |
'76er Wilt Chamberlain sets NBA record of 41 rebounds |
Apr 5 |
ATS II launched but fails to reach orbit |
Apr 6 |
Premier Georges Pompidou forms new French government |
Apr 7 |
Israeli/Syrian border fights |
Apr 7 |
Tom Donahue, SF dj begins new radio format - Progressive (KMPX-FM) |
Apr 9 |
"At the Drop of Another Hat" closes at Booth NYC after 105 perfs |
Apr 9 |
1st Boeing 737 rolls out |
Apr 9 |
31st Golf Masters Championship: Gay Brewer Jr wins, shooting a 280 |
Apr 9 |
Shortwave broadcaster Radio NY Worldwide's transmitter burns down |
Apr 9 |
The first Boeing 737 (a 100 series) makes its maiden flight. |
Apr 10 |
39th Academy Awards - "Man For All Seasons," best picture, Elizabeth Taylor & Paul Scofield best actress/actor |
Apr 11 |
"Illya Darling" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 320 perfs |
Apr 11 |
Harlem (NYC) voters defy Congress & reelect Adam Clayton Powell Jr |
Apr 11 |
Tom Stoppard's "Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead" premieres |
Apr 14 |
General Gnassingbé Eyadéma becomes president of Togo |
Apr 14 |
In the Vietnam War, US planes bombed Haiphong for 1st time |
Apr 14 |
Red Sox rookie Billy Rohome comes within 1 strike of a no hitter at |
Apr 14 |
Yankee Stadium, Elston Howard singles on a 3-2 pitch |
Apr 15 |
"Wait A Minim!" closes at John Golden Theater NYC after 457 perfs |
Apr 16 |
"Walking Happy" closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC after 161 perfs |
Apr 16 |
Yankees beat Boston 7-6 in 18 innings |
Apr 17 |
Shortwave Radio NY Worldwide goes back on the air after a week off |
Apr 17 |
Surveyor 3 launched; soft lands on Moon, April 20 |
Apr 19 |
"Casino Royale" premieres |
Apr 19 |
71st Boston Marathon won by Dave McKenzie of New Zealand in 2:15:45 |
Apr 19 |
Beatles sign a contract to stay together for 10 years (they don't) |
Apr 19 |
Yugoslav author Mihaljo Mihaljov sentenced 4½ years |
Apr 20 |
French author Régis Debray caught in Bolivia |
Apr 20 |
NY Met Tom Seaver's 1st victory, beats Cubs, 6-1 |
Apr 20 |
US Surveyor 3 lands on Moon |
Apr 20 |
US planes bomb Haiphong for 1st time during Vietnam War |
Apr 20 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Apr 20 |
A Globe Air Bristol Britannia turboprop crashes at Nicosia, Cyprus, killing 126. |
Apr 21 |
Dodgers 1st rain out in Los Angeles (after 737 consecutive games) |
Apr 21 |
Evangelical Broadcasting begins in Netherlands |
Apr 21 |
Military coup in Greece, Konstantinos Kollias becomes premier |
Apr 21 |
Svetlana Alliluyeva, Josef Stalin's daughter defects to the US in NYC |
Apr 22 |
Martial Law goes into effect in Greece |
Apr 23 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Raleigh Ladies Golf Invitational |
Apr 23 |
Soyuz 1 launched; Vladimir Komarov becomes 1st in-flight casualty |
Apr 24 |
21st NBA Championship: Phila 76ers beat SF Warriors, 4 games to 2 |
Apr 24 |
Vietnam War: American General William Westmoreland says in a news conference that the enemy had "gained support in the United States that gives him hope that he can win politically that which he cannot win militarily." |
Apr 25 |
Abortion legalized in Colorado |
Apr 25 |
Britain grants internal self-government to Swaziland |
Apr 25 |
Jules Feiffer's "Little Murders" premieres in NYC |
Apr 26 |
"Hallelujah, Baby!" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 293 perfs |
Apr 26 |
KSPS TV channel 7 in Spokane, WA (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Apr 26 |
San Marco 2 Launch (1st Equatorial Launch) |
Apr 27 |
Expo '67 opens in Montreal |
Apr 27 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Apr 28 |
Expo 67 opens in Montreal |
Apr 28 |
Muhammad Ali refuses induction into army & stripped of boxing title |
Apr 29 |
Aretha Franklin releases "Respect" |
Apr 30 |
Highest tower to the world finished, 537m (USSR) |
Apr 30 |
Mickey Wright wins LPGA Shreveport Kiwanis Club Golf Invitational |
Apr 30 |
NY Met pitcher Tom Seaver wins hist 1st game |
Apr 30 |
Orioles' Stu Miller & Steve Barber lose 2-1 despite no-hitting Tigers |
May 1 |
Anastasio Somoza Debayle becomes president of Nicaragua |
May 1 |
Jelle Zijlstra becomes president of Netherlands Bank |
May 1 |
Pulitzer prize awarded to Bernard Malamud (Fixer) |
May 2 |
Stanley Cup: Toronto Maple Leafs beat Montreal Canadiens, 4 games to 2 |
May 3 |
African American students seize finance building at Northwestern University |
May 4 |
Lunar Orbiter 4 launched by US; begins orbiting Moon May 7 |
May 6 |
400 students seize administration building at Cheyney State College |
May 6 |
93rd Kentucky Derby: Bobby Ussery on Proud Clarion wins in 2:00.6 |
May 6 |
Maureen Wilton runs female world record marathon (3:15:22) |
May 6 |
Zakir Hussain elected 1st Moslem president of India |
May 7 |
Carol Mann wins LPGA Tall City Golf Open |
May 8 |
Muhammad Ali is indicted for refusing induction in US Army |
May 8 |
The Philippine province of Davao is split into three: Davao del Norte, Davao del Sur, and Davao Oriental. |
May 9 |
1st flight of Fokker F-28 Fellowship |
May 9 |
Gijsbert van Hall resigns as mayor of Amsterdam |
May 10 |
Foundation AZ soccer team forms in Alkmaar |
May 10 |
Hank Aaron only inside the park HR (vs Jim Bunning) |
May 10 |
Rolling Stones Keith Richards, Brian Jones & Mick Jagger arrested on drug charges |
May 10 |
Stockholm Vietnam Tribunal declares US aggression in Vietnam/Cambodia |
May 10 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
May 11 |
"Sing, Israel Sing" opens at Brooks Atkinson Theater NYC for 14 perfs |
May 11 |
100,000,000th US phone connected |
May 11 |
Great Britain, Ireland & Denmark apply for EG membership |
May 12 |
H Rap Brown replaces Stokely Carmichael as chairman of Student |
May 12 |
Provo disbands in Neth Nonviolent Coordinating Committee |
May 13 |
NY Yankee Mickey Mantle hits career HR #500 off Stu Miller |
May 13 |
Octagonal boxing ring is tested to avoid corner injuries |
May 14 |
Mickey Mantle's 500th HR off Oriole's Stu Miller |
May 14 |
Pirate Radio Station 270 (England) closes down |
May 15 |
Jo Ann Prentice wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open |
May 15 |
Paul McCartney meets his future wife Linda Eastman |
May 16 |
Phila voters approve a $13 million bond issue to build a new stadium |
May 17 |
Dylan's 1965 UK Tour is released as film "Don't Look Back" |
May 17 |
The Butler Act, a Tennessee statue prohibiting the teaching of evolution, is repealed after 42 years |
May 18 |
Silver hits record $1.60 an ounce in London |
May 18 |
Tennessee Governor Ellington approves the repeal of the Butler Act or "Monkey Law", upheld in 1925 Scopes Trial |
May 19 |
US bombs Hanoi |
May 19 |
USSR ratifies treaty with Britain & US banning nuclear weapons in space |
May 20 |
10,000 demonstrate against war in Vietnam |
May 20 |
93rd Preakness: Bill Shoemaker aboard Damascus wins in 1:55.2 |
May 20 |
BBC bans the Beatles' "A Day in the Life" because of drug references |
May 21 |
"Sing, Israel Sing" closes at Brooks Atkinson NYC after 14 perfs |
May 21 |
Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open |
May 22 |
"Mister Rogers' Neighborhood" debuts on NET (now PBS) |
May 22 |
Egyptian president Nassar closes Straits of Tiran to Israel |
May 22 |
Fire at L'Innovation dept store kills 322 (Brussels, Belgium) |
May 23 |
Government bans submarines near South Africa |
May 24 |
AFL grants a franchise to Cincinnati Bengals |
May 25 |
Celtic wins 12th Europe Cup 1 in Lisbon |
May 25 |
John Lennon takes delivery of his psychedelically painted Rolls Royce |
May 26 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
May 27 |
"Sherry!" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 65 performances |
May 27 |
Australians vote in favor of a constitutional referendum granting the Australian government the power to make laws to benefit Indigenous Australians and to count them in the national census. |
May 28 |
Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 2nd Violin concert |
May 28 |
Francis Chichester arrives home at Plymouth from Round-the-world trip |
May 28 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
May 29 |
Australian Paul McManus water skis barefoot for 1:30:19 |
May 29 |
Pope Paul VI names 27 new cardinals, including Karol Wojtyla, archbishop of Krakow, who later became Pope John Paul II |
May 30 |
Biafra declares independence from Nigeria |
May 30 |
King Hussein of Jordan visits Cairo |
May 30 |
Robert "Evel" Knievel's motorcycle jumps 16 automobiles |
May 30 |
Yankee Whitey Ford, nearing 41, announces his retirement from baseball |
May 31 |
Bayern Munchen wins 7th Europe Cup II at Nuremberg |
May 31 |
Indianapolis 500: A.J. Foyt wins in 3:18:24.211 (243.344 km/h) |
Jun 1 |
Beatles release Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band in US & goes gold |
Jun 1 |
Mayor-council form of government instituted for Washington, DC |
Jun 2 |
Race riots in Roxbury section of Boston |
Jun 3 |
99th Belmont: Bill Shoemaker aboard Damascus wins in 2:28.8 |
Jun 3 |
Aretha Franklin's "Respect" reaches #1 |
Jun 4 |
19th Emmy Awards: Mission Impossible, Monkees, Don Knotts & Lucy Ball win |
Jun 4 |
KTVN TV channel 2 in Reno, NV (CBS) begins broadcasting |
Jun 4 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA St Louis Women's Golf Invitational |
Jun 4 |
Monkees take home an Emmy for their Outstanding comedy Series |
Jun 4 |
Curt Flood's record 568 straight chances without an error ends (227 straight games) |
Jun 4 |
Stockport Air Disaster: British Midland flight G-ALHG crashes in Hopes Carr, Stockport, killing 72 passengers and crew. |
Jun 5 |
6 day war between Israel & Arab neighbors begin |
Jun 5 |
Murderer Richard Speck sentenced to death in electric chair |
Jun 5 |
WSBE TV channel 36 in Providence, RI (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Jun 5 |
Royal Canadian Mint ordered to start converting 10 cent & 25 cent coins to pure nickel as soon as possible |
Jun 6 |
Israeli troops occupy Gaza |
Jun 7 |
2 Moby Grape members arrested for contributing to deliquency of minors |
Jun 7 |
Israel captures Wailing Wall in East Jerusalem, Jericho & Bethlehem |
Jun 7 |
NY Yankees draft Ron Blomberg #1 |
Jun 8 |
Israel attacks USS Liberty in Mediterranean, killing 34 US crewmen |
Jun 9 |
Boycott scores 246* v India, Leeds, 573 minutes, 29 fours 1 six |
Jun 9 |
Israeli troops reach Suez Canal |
Jun 9 |
Monkees appear at Hollywood Bowl |
Jun 10 |
15,000 attend Fantasy Faire & Magic Mountain Music Festival, Calif |
Jun 10 |
Israel, Syria, Jordan, Iraq & Egypt end "6-Day War" with UN help |
Jun 10 |
USSR drops diplomatic relations with Israel |
Jun 10 |
Argentina becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty. |
Jun 11 |
A J Foyt & Dan Gurney drove a Ford to victory in Le Mans |
Jun 11 |
Chicago Cubs (7) & NY Mets (4) tie record of 11 HRs in a game |
Jun 11 |
Mickey Wright wins LPGA Bluegrass Golf Invitational |
Jun 11 |
Race riot in Tampa Florida; National Guard mobilizes |
Jun 11 |
Mexico becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty. |
Jun 12 |
Israel wins 6 day war |
Jun 12 |
Race riot in Cincinnati Ohio (300 arrested) |
Jun 12 |
US Supreme Court unanimously ends laws against interracial marriages |
Jun 12 |
USSR launches Venera 4 for parachute landing on Venus |
Jun 12 |
Washington Senators beat Chicago White Sox 6-5 in 22 innings |
Jun 13 |
"You Only Live Twice" premieres in US |
Jun 13 |
Thurgood Marshall nominated as 1st black Supreme Court justice |
Jun 14 |
Mariner 5 Launch (Venus Flyby) |
Jun 14 |
Steve Allen Show" premieres on CBS-TV |
Jun 14 |
USSR launches Kosmos 166 for observation of Sun from Earth orbit |
Jun 15 |
Governor Reagan signs liberalized California abortion bill |
Jun 16 |
50,000 attend Monterey International Pop Festival |
Jun 17 |
"Somebody To Love" by Jefferson Airplane peaks at #5 |
Jun 17 |
1st Chinese hydrogen bomb explodes |
Jun 17 |
Barbra Streisand: A Happening in Central Park performed |
Jun 17 |
China becomes world's 4th thermonuclear (H-bomb) power |
Jun 17 |
Longest doubleheader 9:15 (Tigers & Athletics) |
Jun 18 |
67th US Golf Open: Jack Nicklaus shoots 275 at Baltusrol GC NJ |
Jun 18 |
Houston Don Wilson no-hits Atlanta Braves, 2-0 |
Jun 18 |
Monterey International Pop Festival rocks Southern California |
Jun 18 |
Susie Maxwell wins LPGA Milwaukee Jaycee Golf Open |
Jun 19 |
Paul McCartney admits on TV that he took LSD |
Jun 20 |
Muhammad Ali convicted of refusing induction into armed services |
Jun 20 |
Phillies Larry Jackson beats NY Mets for 18th straight time |
Jun 21 |
Yanks take 5-3 lead in 11th & lose 6-5, in 2nd game Red Sox lead 3-2 in 9th & Yanks beat them 6-3 |
Jun 23 |
Jim Ryun sets mile record (3:51.1, Bakersfield CA) |
Jun 23 |
LBJ & Alexei Kosygin hold 1st of 2 summit meetings in Glassboro, NJ |
Jun 23 |
US Senate censures Thomas J Dodd (D-Ct) for misusing campaign funds |
Jun 24 |
Pope Paul VI publishes encyclical Sacerdotalis coelibatus |
Jun 24 |
Zaire adopts constitution |
Jun 25 |
400 million watch Beatles "Our World" TV special |
Jun 25 |
Carol Mann wins LPGA Buckeye Savings Golf Invitational |
Jun 25 |
KPBS TV channel 15 in San Diego, CA (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Jun 25 |
Mohammed Ali (Cassius Clay) sentenced to 5 years |
Jun 25 |
First global satellite television programme - Our World |
Jun 26 |
Pope Paul VI names 27 new cardinals |
Jun 27 |
Race riot in Buffalo NY (200 arrested) |
Jun 27 |
The world's first ATM is installed in Enfield, London. |
Jun 28 |
George Harrison is fined £6 for speeding |
Jun 28 |
Israel annexes East Jerusalem |
Jun 29 |
Israel removes barricades, re-unifying Jerusalem |
Jun 29 |
Keith Richards is sentenced to 1 year in jail on drugs charge |
Jun 30 |
Maj Robert H Lawrence Jr named 1st black astronaut |
Jun 30 |
Moise Tsjombe kidnapped to Algeria |
Jun 30 |
Phillies Cookie Rojas pitches, plays 9th position since joining Phils |
Jul 1 |
"Funny Girl" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 1348 perfs |
Jul 1 |
1st British color TV broadcast, on BBC 2 |
Jul 1 |
BBC starts their World Radio Club |
Jul 1 |
Beatles' "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" goes #1 for 15 weeks |
Jul 1 |
Canada celebrates the 100th anniversary of the British North America Act, 1867. |
Jul 2 |
22nd US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Catherine Lacoste |
Jul 2 |
Catherine Lacoste becomes youngest (22), 1st foreigner (France) & 1st amateur to US Women's open golf tournament |
Jul 3 |
"News at 10" premieres on English TV |
Jul 4 |
Opening ceremony of Tassajara Zen Mountain Center |
Jul 4 |
Phillies Clay Dairymple ties NL record of 6 walks in doubleheader |
Jul 5 |
Congo uprising under Belgian mercenary Jean Schramme |
Jul 6 |
Biafran War erupts as Nigerian forces invade starting Nigerian Civil war |
Jul 7 |
81st Wimbledon Mens Tennis: John Newcombe beats W Bungert (63 61 61) |
Jul 7 |
Beatles' "All You Need is Love" is released |
Jul 7 |
Doors' "Light My Fire" hits #1 |
Jul 7 |
Beginning of the civil war in Biafra. |
Jul 8 |
74th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Billie Jean King beats Anne Jones (63 64) |
Jul 8 |
Helen Weston of Detroit rolls a record 4,585 in 24 games |
Jul 9 |
13th LPGA Championship won by Kathy Whitworth |
Jul 9 |
WRET TV channel 36 in Charlotte, NC (NBC/CBS) begins broadcasting |
Jul 10 |
Bobbie Gentry records "Ode to Billie Joe" - single goes on to win 4 Grammys |
Jul 10 |
Uruguay becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty. |
Jul 11 |
38th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 2-1 in 15 at Anaheim Stadium, CA |
Jul 11 |
All star MVP: Tony Perez (Cin Reds) |
Jul 11 |
Kenny Rogers forms 1st Edition |
Jul 12 |
23 die in Newark race riot |
Jul 12 |
5th Mayor's Trophy Game, Mets beat Yanks 4-0 |
Jul 12 |
Blacks in Newark, riot, 26 killed, 1500 injured & over 1000 arrested |
Jul 12 |
Greek regime deprives 480 Greeks of their citizenship |
Jul 13 |
Race riots break out in Newark, 27 die |
Jul 14 |
Astro Eddie Matthews hits his 500th HR off SF Giant Juan Marichal |
Jul 14 |
Surveyor 4 launched to Moon; explodes just before landing |
Jul 14 |
The Who begin a US tour opening for Herman's Hermits |
Jul 15 |
"Sweet Charity" closes at Palace Theater NYC after 608 performances |
Jul 15 |
LA Wolves beat Wash Whips 6-5 in OT to be United Soccer Ass champs |
Jul 15 |
Roberto DeVicenzo of Argentina wins golf's British Open |
Jul 15 |
USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Jul 16 |
Mickey Wright wins Lady Carling Golf Open |
Jul 16 |
Prison brawl ignites barracks, killing 37 (Jay, Florida) |
Jul 17 |
Monkees perform at Forest Hills NY, Jimi Hendrix is opening act |
Jul 17 |
Race riots in Cairo Illinois |
Jul 18 |
Silver hits record $1.87 an ounce in NY |
Jul 19 |
1st air conditioned NYC subway car (R-38 on the F line) |
Jul 19 |
Race riots in Durham NC |
Jul 19 |
US launches Explorer 35 for lunar orbit (800/7400 km) |
Jul 20 |
Pablo Neruda receives 1st Viareggio-Versile prizes |
Jul 20 |
Race riots in Memphis Tenn |
Jul 22 |
1st major appearance by Vanilla Fudge (Village Theater NYC) |
Jul 22 |
Atlanta Braves use a record 5 pitchers in 9th inning |
Jul 22 |
Carol Mann wins LPGA Supertest Ladies' Golf Open |
Jul 22 |
Jimi Hendrix quits as opening act of the Monkees' tour |
Jul 23 |
-27] 43 die in race riot in Detroit (2,000 injured, 442 fires) |
Jul 23 |
Pirate Radio Swinging Scotland closes down for financial reasons |
Jul 24 |
49th PGA Championship: Don January shoots a 281 at Columbine CC Colo |
Jul 24 |
Beatles sign a petition in Times to legalize marijuana |
Jul 24 |
Charles de Gaulle says 'Vive le Quebec libre! Long live free Quebec!' |
Jul 24 |
Chinese army/air force/fleet repress uprising in Wuhan City |
Jul 24 |
Norway requests European Common Market membership |
Jul 24 |
Race riots in Cambridge, Maryland |
Jul 24 |
Race riots in Detroit force postponement of Tigers-Orioles game |
Jul 25 |
Construction begins on SF MUNI METRO (Market Street subway) |
Jul 26 |
Twins beat Yanks 3-2 in 18 |
Jul 27 |
Arabs Federation premier Hoesein Al Bayoomi resigns |
Jul 27 |
Helmond Sport soccer team forms |
Jul 27 |
LBJ sets up commission to study cause of urban violence |
Jul 27 |
US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site |
Jul 28 |
Pirate Radio Station 390 (Radio Invicta) (England) closes down |
Jul 29 |
Fire aboard carrier USS Forrestal in Gulf of Tonkin kills 134 |
Jul 29 |
Moderate quake (6.5) strikes Caracas Venezuela causing severe damage |
Jul 29 |
U S S Forrestal explodes kills 134. $100 million damage |
Jul 30 |
Clifford Ann Creed/Margie Masters wins Yankee Ladies' Team Golf Champ |
Jul 30 |
Race riot in Milwaukee (4 killed) |
Jul 31 |
Rolling Stone Mick Jagger & Keith Richards end 1 month jail sentence |
Aug 1 |
Izaak Samkalden becomes mayor of Amsterdam |
Aug 1 |
WBRA TV channel 15 in Roanoke, VA (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Aug 2 |
New Orleans Saints 1st pre-season game, they lose to LA Rams 16-77 |
Aug 2 |
US's Lunar Orbiter 5 launched; enters lunar orbit Aug 5 |
Aug 2 |
The second Blackwall Tunnel opens in Greenwich, London. |
Aug 3 |
45,000 US soldiers sent to Vietnam |
Aug 3 |
James Law rides entire NYC subway in 22 hrs 12 minutes |
Aug 4 |
34th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Green Bay 27, All-Stars 0 (70,934) |
Aug 4 |
British pirate radio station Radio 355 resigns air |
Aug 4 |
Shortwave group ANARC's 1st convention (Chicago) |
Aug 4 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Aug 4 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Aug 5 |
1st time an AFL team beats an NFL team, Broncos beats Detroit 13-7 |
Aug 5 |
Bobby Gentry releases her only hit "Ode to Billy Joe" |
Aug 5 |
Pirate Radio Station 333 (Radio Britain) & Radio London close down |
Aug 6 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open |
Aug 6 |
Minn Twin Dean Chance perfect games Boston Red Sox, 2-0 in 5 innings |
Aug 6 |
Oriole Brooks Robinson hits into a record 4th triple play |
Aug 6 |
Pope Paul VI publishes constitution Pro comperto sane |
Aug 8 |
Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore & Thailand meet to form Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) |
Aug 9 |
Biafran offensive against Nigerian army |
Aug 9 |
KYAY TV channel 39 in West Monroe, LA (IND) begins broadcasting |
Aug 11 |
Al Downing becomes 12th to strike-out side on 9 pitches |
Aug 12 |
New Orleans Saints 1st pre-season victory, beat St Louis 23-14 |
Aug 13 |
WQLN TV channel 54 in Erie, PA (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Aug 14 |
Belgian embassy in Kinshasa, Congo, plundered |
Aug 14 |
Pirate radio stations Radio 270, Radio London, Radio Ireland |
Aug 14 |
Radio Scotland & Radio Swinging Holland go off the air |
Aug 15 |
Pope Paul VI publishes constitution Regimini Ecclesiae Universae |
Aug 15 |
UK's Marine Offences Bill making pirate radio stations a crime goes into effect, pirate station Radio 355 closes down |
Aug 16 |
Cin Red Jim Maloney retires 19 Pirates, then gets injured & leaves |
Aug 16 |
WFIQ TV channel 36 in Florence, AL (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Aug 18 |
Red Sox Tony Conigliaro is beaned by Angels Jack Hamilton |
Aug 18 |
Rolling Stones release "We Love You" |
Aug 18 |
WCBS radio in NYC goes all-news |
Aug 19 |
Beatles' "All You Need is Love" single goes #1 |
Aug 20 |
Alvin Dark (52-69) is fired, rehired, & fired again as manager of A's |
Aug 20 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Women's Western Golf Open |
Aug 21 |
China reports downing of 2 US bombers |
Aug 21 |
Ken Harrelson becomes baseball's 1st free agent |
Aug 21 |
Liquid gas tanker explodes in Martelange Belgium, 22 killed |
Aug 21 |
Mikis Theodorakis arrested in Greece |
Aug 24 |
Liberian flag designed |
Aug 25 |
The Beatles go to Wales to study transcendental meditation with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi |
Aug 25 |
Minn Twin Dean Chance 2nd no-hitter of month beats Cleveland, 2-1 |
Aug 25 |
Paraguay accepts its constitution |
Aug 25 |
Train crash at Beesd, 2 die |
Aug 26 |
Beatles, Mick Jagger & Marianne Faithfull meet Maharishi Mahesh Yogi |
Aug 26 |
Dean Chance pitches a 2-1 no-hitter, & Twins sweep Cleveland |
Aug 26 |
Dutch 2nd Chamber demands US stop bombing North Vietnam |
Aug 27 |
Naomi Sims is 1st black model on US cover (Fashion of the Times) |
Aug 27 |
Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Amarillo Ladies' Golf Open |
Aug 28 |
Asif Iqbal & Intikhab Alam make 190 stand for 9th wkt v Eng |
Aug 28 |
Boston signs 1st free-agent outfielder Ken Harrelson for $75,000 bonus |
Aug 29 |
Final TV episode of "The Fugitive" |
Aug 29 |
Yanks longest day, Red Sox take 1st game 2-1 in 9, Yanks win 2nd game in 20, 4-3 a total of 8 hours & 19 minutes |
Aug 30 |
US Senate confirm Thurgood Marshall as 1st black justice |
Sep 1 |
KMNE TV channel 7 in Bassett, NB (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Sep 1 |
SF Giants beat Cincinnati Reds, 1-0, in 21 innings |
Sep 1 |
WIRT TV channel 13 in Hibbing, MN (ABC) begins broadcasting |
Sep 1 |
WJRJ (WTCG, WTBS) TV channel 17 in Atlanta, GA (IND) begins |
Sep 2 |
KUHI (now KSNF) TV channel 16 in Joplin, MO (CBS) begins broadcasting |
Sep 2 |
The Principality of Sealand is established, ruled by Prince Paddy Roy Bates. |
Sep 3 |
Final episode of "What's My Line?" hosted by John Charles Daly on CBS TV |
Sep 3 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Ladies' World Series of Golf |
Sep 3 |
Nguyen Van Thieu elected President of South Vietnam under a new constitution |
Sep 3 |
Sweden begins driving on right-hand side of road |
Sep 3 |
WJPM TV channel 33 in Florence, SC (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Sep 4 |
6.5 earthquake of Kolya Dam India, kills 200 |
Sep 4 |
Jerry Lewis' 2nd Muscular Dystrophy telethon |
Sep 4 |
Train crash at Arnhem, Netherlands, kills 5 |
Sep 5 |
-23] Hurricane Beuleah, kills 54 in Caribbean, Mexico & Texas |
Sep 5 |
KMEG TV channel 14 in Sioux City, IA (CBS) begins broadcasting |
Sep 5 |
WEBA TV channel 14 in Allendale, SC (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Sep 8 |
Surveyor 5 launched; makes soft landing on Moon Sept 10 |
Sep 8 |
Uganda abolishes traditional tribal kingdoms, becomes a republic |
Sep 8 |
The formal end of steam traction in the North East of England by British Railways. |
Sep 9 |
1st successful Test flight of a Saturn V |
Sep 9 |
Debra Dene Barnes (Kansas), 20, crowned 40th Miss America 1968 |
Sep 9 |
Uganda declares independence from Great Britain |
Sep 10 |
81st US Womens Tennis: Billie Jean M King beats Ann H Jones (119 64) |
Sep 10 |
87th US Mens Tennis: John Newcombe beats Clark Graebner (64 64 86) |
Sep 10 |
Chicago White Sox Joel Horlen no-hits Det Tigers, 6-0 |
Sep 10 |
Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Pacific Golf Classic |
Sep 10 |
Gibraltar votes 12,138 to 44 to remain British & not Spanish |
Sep 10 |
Joel Horlen revives Chicago's pennant hopes with a 5-0 no-hit win |
Sep 10 |
KVVU TV channel 5 in Henderson-Las Vegas, NV (IND) begins broadcasting |
Sep 11 |
A's drop grievance filed with Natl Labor Relations against C Finley |
Sep 11 |
Beatles' Magical Mystery Bus driven around England |
Sep 11 |
French president De Gaulle visits Poland |
Sep 11 |
Indian/Chinese border fights |
Sep 11 |
US Surveyor 5 makes 1st chemical analysis of lunar material |
Sep 11 |
WSRE TV channel 23 in Pensacola, FL (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Sep 11 |
WUNE TV channel 17 in Linville, NC (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Sep 11 |
WUNF TV channel 33 in Asheville, NC (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Sep 11 |
WUNG TV channel 58 in Concord, NC (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Sep 14 |
Melville Abrams Ball Field in Bronx named |
Sep 14 |
Thomas Pell Wildlife Refuge & Sanctuary opens in Bronx |
Sep 15 |
KPOB TV channel 15 in Poplar Bluff, MO (ABC) begins broadcasting |
Sep 16 |
Anni Pede runs female world record marathon (3:07:26) |
Sep 16 |
KPAZ TV channel 21 in Phoenix, AZ (IND) begins broadcasting |
Sep 16 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Sep 17 |
"Mission Impossible" premieres on CBS-TV |
Sep 17 |
Mount Washington cog railway train derails, kills 8 (NH) |
Sep 17 |
New Orleans Saints 1st NFL game, they lose to LA Rams 27-13 |
Sep 17 |
Shirley Englehorn wins LPGA Shirley Englehorn Golf Invitational |
Sep 18 |
Intrepid (US) beats Dame Pattie (Aust) in 21st America's Cup |
Sep 19 |
Nigeria begins offensive against Biafra |
Sep 20 |
Benin separates from Nigeria |
Sep 20 |
British liner Queen Elizabeth II launched at Clydebank Scotland |
Sep 20 |
Hurricane Beulah hits Texas-Mexican border, kills 38 |
Sep 20 |
WCAE TV channel 50 in St John, IN (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Sep 20 |
WCIX TV channel 6 in Miami, FL (CBS) begins broadcasting |
Sep 21 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Sep 22 |
Phillies release pitcher Dallas Green, their future manager |
Sep 22 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Sep 23 |
Greek Colonels' regime frees ex-premier Georgios Papandreou |
Sep 23 |
Radio Malta stops testing |
Sep 24 |
Cards Jim Bakken kicks 7 field goals vs Steelers |
Sep 24 |
Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Mickey Wright Golf Invitational |
Sep 25 |
WGBX TV channel 44 in Boston, MA (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Sep 26 |
Dmitri Shostakovitch's 2nd Violin concert premieres in Moscow |
Sep 27 |
Phillies Jim Bunning ties NL record of 5, 1-0 losses in a year |
Sep 27 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Sep 28 |
Walter Washington elected 1st mayor of Washington, DC |
Sep 29 |
-Oct 29] Rome: 1st bishop synod |
Sep 29 |
Gladys Knight & Pips releases "I Heard it Through the Grapevine" |
Sep 29 |
Intl Monetary Fund reforms world monetary system |
Sep 29 |
Mickey Hart joins the Grateful Dead & plays the Straightater |
Sep 30 |
BBC starts its own popular music radio station (Radio 1) |
Sep 30 |
Palace of Fine Arts reopens (1st time during 1915 exposition) |
Sep 30 |
USSR's Kosmos 186 & 188 complete 1st automatic docking |
Oct 1 |
KBFI (now KDAF) TV channel 33 in Dallas-Fort Worth, TX (IND) begins |
Oct 1 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Ladies' LA Golf Open |
Oct 1 |
Pink FLoyd's 1st US tour (arrives in NYC) |
Oct 2 |
Grateful Dead members arrested by narcotic agents |
Oct 2 |
Groundbreaking begins on Veteran Stadium in Philadelphia |
Oct 2 |
Mickey Wright wins LPGA Seven Lakes Golf Invitational |
Oct 2 |
Thurgood Marshall sworn in as 1st black Supreme Court Justice |
Oct 3 |
KGSC (now KICU) TV channel 36 in San Jose, CA (IND) begins |
Oct 3 |
King Boudouin inaugurates world's biggest floodgate (Antwerp) |
Oct 3 |
William Knight sets X-15 speed rec of 7,297 KPH/4,534 MPH/Mach 6.72 |
Oct 4 |
1st World Series since 1948 not to feature Yanks, Giants or Dodgers |
Oct 4 |
Omar Ali Saifuddin III of Brunei abdicates in favour of his son, His Majesty Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah. |
Oct 6 |
Haight-Ashbury hippies throw a funneral to mark end of hippies |
Oct 6 |
USSR performs nuclear test |
Oct 7 |
Beatles turn down $1 million NY concert offer by Sid Berstein |
Oct 7 |
Rolf Hochhuth's "Soldaten" premieres in West Berlin |
Oct 8 |
Guerrilla leader Che Guevara and his men are captured in Bolivia. |
Oct 10 |
Brendan Behan's "Borstal Boy" premieres in Dublin |
Oct 11 |
World Series record 3 consecutive HRs (Carl Yastremski, Reggie Smith, & Rico Petrocelli) by Red Sox |
Oct 11 |
Yoko Plus Me art exhibit opens in London (the me is John Lennon) |
Oct 12 |
St Louis Cards beat Boston Red Sox, 4 games to 3 in 64th World Series as Lou Brock steals a record 7 bases in 1 World Series |
Oct 13 |
CBS radio cancels "House Party" |
Oct 16 |
WETK TV channel 33 in Burlington, VT (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Oct 16 |
WGNO TV channel 26 in New Orleans, LA (ABC) begins broadcasting |
Oct 17 |
"Hair" premieres on Broadway |
Oct 17 |
Barbra Streisand stars on "Belle of 14th Street" special on CBS |
Oct 17 |
Memorial service for Brian Epstein at New London Synagogue |
Oct 17 |
Pete Knight in X-15 reaches 85 km |
Oct 17 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Oct 18 |
Nobel prize for physics awarded to Hans A Bethe |
Oct 18 |
Soviet Venera 4 becomes 1st probe to send data back from Venus |
Oct 18 |
Walt Disney's "Jungle Book" is released |
Oct 18 |
AL votes to allow Athletics to move from KC to Oakland & expand league to 12 teams in 1971 with KC & Seattle teams |
Oct 19 |
Igor Ter-Ovanesyan of USSR, sets then long jump record at 27' 4 3/4" |
Oct 19 |
Mariner 5 makes fly-by of Venus |
Oct 20 |
All white federal jury convicts 7 in murder of 3 civil rights workers in Meridan Mississippi |
Oct 20 |
Charlie Finley names Bob Kennedy 1st manager of Oakland A's |
Oct 20 |
KMXN (now KJTV) TV channel 34 in Lubbock, TX (IND) begins broadcasting |
Oct 20 |
A purported bigfoot is filmed by Patterson and Gimlin. |
Oct 21 |
Egypt sinks Israeli torpedo boat |
Oct 21 |
Thousands opposing Vietnam War try to storm Pentagon |
Oct 22 |
17th Ryder Cup: US wins 23½-8½ at Champions Golf Club (Houston, Texas, US) |
Oct 22 |
Ian Brayshaw (W Aus v Vic, Perth) takes all 10 cricket wkts |
Oct 22 |
Joe DiMaggio is hired as executive VP of A's by Charlie Finley |
Oct 22 |
Murle Lindstrom wins LPGA Carlsbad Jaycee Golf Open |
Oct 23 |
"Henry, Sweet Henry" opens at Palace Theater NYC for 80 performances |
Oct 23 |
NJ Americans (later NY/NJ Nets) play 1st ABA game |
Oct 26 |
Shah of Iran crowns himself after 26 years on Peacock Throne |
Oct 27 |
4 people from Baltimore pour blood on selective service records |
Oct 27 |
Expo '67 closes in Montreal, Canada |
Oct 27 |
NLF leaves People's Republic of South-Yemen |
Oct 29 |
Danny Abramowicz begins NFL streak of 105 consecutive game receptions |
Oct 29 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Alamo Ladies' Golf Open |
Oct 29 |
MacDermot, Ragni & Rado's musical "Hair" premieres in NYC |
Oct 29 |
London criminal Jack McVitie is murdered by the Kray twins, leading to their eventual imprisonment and downfall. |
Oct 30 |
Arthur Allyn says White Sox will play 9 games in Milwaukee in 1968 |
Oct 30 |
Ferdinand Bracke bicycles world record time (48,093 km) |
Oct 30 |
USSR Kosmos 186 & 188 make 1st automatic docking & Venmera 13 launch |
Oct 31 |
KIMO TV channel 13 in Anchorage, AK (ABC) begins broadcasting |
Oct 31 |
Nguyen Van Thieu took oath of office as 1st President of South Vietnam 2nd Rep |
Oct 31 |
SF's Mike McCormick wins NL Cy Young Award |
Nov 1 |
"Cool Hand Luke", starring Paul Newman, George Kennedy, and Strother Martin, is released |
Nov 3 |
Boston's Jim Lonborg wins AL Cy Young |
Nov 3 |
Vietnam War: The Battle of Dak To begins. |
Nov 5 |
ATS-3 launched by US to take first pictures of full Earth disc |
Nov 5 |
Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Corpus Christi Civitan Golf Open |
Nov 5 |
New Orleans Saints 1st NFL victory, beat Philadelphia Eagles 31-24 |
Nov 5 |
US troops conquer Loc Ninh South Vietnam |
Nov 5 |
Yemen president Sallal flees |
Nov 5 |
The Hither Green rail crash in the United Kingdom kills 49 people. The survivors include Bee Gee Robin Gibb. |
Nov 6 |
Bridge at Annabaai crashes on Willemstad, Curacao, kills 15 |
Nov 6 |
US launches Surveyor 6; makes soft landing on Moon Nov 9 |
Nov 7 |
Carl B Stokes elected first black mayor of a major US city - Cleveland, Ohio |
Nov 7 |
LBJ signs a bill establishing Corporation for Public Broadcasting |
Nov 7 |
Richard G Hatcher elected mayor of Gary, Indiana |
Nov 7 |
St Louis Cards Orlando Cepeda is 1st unanimous NL MVP |
Nov 7 |
Surveyor 6 launched for soft landing on Moon |
Nov 8 |
1st local British radio station begins broadcasting (Radio Leicester) |
Nov 8 |
Silver hits record $1.951 an ounce in London |
Nov 8 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Nov 9 |
1st unmanned Saturn V flight to test Apollo 4 reentry module |
Nov 9 |
Surveyor 6 soft lands on Moon |
Nov 9 |
The unmanned Saturn V rocket is launched on its first successful test flight into Earth orbit |
Nov 10 |
KXNE TV channel 19 in Norfolk, NB (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Nov 12 |
Margie Masters wins LPGA Quality Chekd Golf Classic |
Nov 12 |
Packers' Travis Williams returns 2 kickoffs for TDs against Browns, setting largest margin of Browns defeat (48), winning 55-7 |
Nov 13 |
Carl B Stokes sworn-in as 1st major city black mayor (Cleveland Oh) |
Nov 13 |
NL owners OK AL expansion to Seattle & Kansas City |
Nov 14 |
The Congress of Colombia in commemoration of the 150 years of the death of Policarpa Salavarrieta, declares this day as "Day of the Colombian Woman". |
Nov 15 |
Boston's Carl Yastrzemski wins AL MVP |
Nov 15 |
Michael Adams in X-15 reaches 80 km |
Nov 15 |
WLTV TV channel 23 in Miami, FL (IND) begins broadcasting |
Nov 15 |
The only fatality of the X-15 program occurs during the 191st flight when Air Force test pilot Michael J. Adams loses control of his aircraft which is destroyed mid-air over the Mojave Desert. |
Nov 17 |
Beatles Ltd & Apple Music Ltd swap names |
Nov 17 |
French author Régis Debray sentenced to 30 years in Bolivia |
Nov 17 |
Surveyor 6 becomes 1st man-made object to lift off Moon |
Nov 17 |
Davey Jones of the Monkees opens a boutique, Zilch I, in Greenwich Village, NY |
Nov 18 |
British government devalues pound from US equivalent of $2.80 to $2.40 |
Nov 19 |
Mickey Wright wins LPGA Pensacola Ladies' Golf Invitational |
Nov 19 |
The establishment of TVB, the first wireless commercial television station in Hong Kong. |
Nov 20 |
At 11 AM, Census Clock at Dept of Commerce ticks past 200 million |
Nov 20 |
Mets pitcher Tom Seaver (16-12) is named NL Rookie of Year |
Nov 21 |
Phillip & Jay Kunz fly a kite a record 28,000 feet |
Nov 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." |
Nov 22 |
BBC unofficially bans "I Am the Walrus" by Beatles |
Nov 22 |
Silver hits record $2.17 an ounce in New York |
Nov 22 |
UN Sec council passes resolut 242-Israel must give back occupied land |
Nov 22 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Nov 25 |
"Apple Tree" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 463 performances |
Nov 25 |
Puerto Rico placed on Atlantic Standard Time |
Nov 26 |
Browns' Carl Ward sets club record with a 104-yd kickoff return |
Nov 26 |
Cloud burst over Lisbon kills about 450 |
Nov 27 |
Beatles release "Magical Mystery Tour" |
Nov 27 |
Gold pool nations pledge support of $35 per ounce gold price |
Nov 27 |
French President Charles de Gaulle said 'Non!' to British entry to the European Common Market for the second time |
Nov 28 |
33rd Heisman Trophy Award: Gary Beban, UCLA (QB) |
Nov 28 |
1st pulsating radio source (pulsar) detected by postgraduate Jocelyn Burnell and her supervisor Antony Hewish |
Nov 29 |
British troops withdraw from Aden and South Yemen |
Nov 29 |
Robert McNamara elected president of World bank |
Nov 30 |
Julie Nixon & David Eisenhower announce their engagement |
Nov 30 |
Kuria Muria Islands ceded by Britain to Oman |
Nov 30 |
People's Democratic Republic of Yemen declares independence from the UK |
Nov 30 |
Senenator Eugene McCarthy begins run for US presidency |
Nov 30 |
The Pakistan Peoples Party is founded by Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto who becomes its first Chairman later as the Head of state and Head of government after the 1971 Civil War. |
Dec 1 |
Pacific Northwest Sports awarded AL expansion franchise (Seattle) |