1967 In History

January 1 -

Canada begins a year-long celebration of the 100th anniversary of the British North America Act, 1867, featuring the Expo 67 World's fair.

January 2 -

Charlie Chaplin opens his last film, A Countess From Hong Kong, in England.

January 3 -

Jack Ruby, a Dallas businessman and nightclub owner, convicted of the November 24, 1963 murder of Lee Harvey Oswald, two days after Oswald's arrest for the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, died at Parkland Hospital, where Lee Harvey Oswald had died and President Kennedy had been pronounced dead after his assassination.

January 6 -

Vietnam War: USMC and ARVN troops launch "Operation Deckhouse Five" in the Mekong River delta.

January 8 -

Vietnam War: Operation Cedar Falls starts.

January 10 -

Segregationist Lester Maddox is sworn in as Governor of Georgia.

January 12 -

Dr. James Bedford becomes the first person to be cryonically preserved with the intent of future resuscitation.

January 14 -

• The beginning of the Summer of Love. In San Francisco's Golden Gate Park approximately 30,000 take part in a "Human Be-In". Among the participants are Allen Ginsberg, credited with creating the term "flower power", & Timothy Leary, fired Harvard professor and LSD guru, who calls on people to "Turn on, Tune in & Drop out". As many as 100,000 young people from around the world flocked to San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district, Berkeley and other San Francisco Bay Area cities to join in a popularized version of the hippie experience. Free food & free love were available in Golden Gate Park, a Free Clinic (whose work continues today) was established for medical treatment, and a Free Store gave away basic necessities to anyone who needed them.
• The New York Times reports that the U.S. Army is conducting secret germ warfare experiments.

January 15 -

The Rolling Stones appear on The Ed Sullivan Show. At Ed Sullivan's request, the band changed their lyrics from "Let's spend the night together" to "Let's spend some time together".

January 16 -

California's governor, Ronald Reagan, meets with FBI agents for information on Berkeley campus radicals.

January 18 -

Albert DeSalvo, the "Boston Strangler", is convicted of numerous crimes and sentenced to life in prison.

January 20 -

Evangelist Billy Graham describes some of the Crusaders for Christ at the Berkeley campus as "a bit zealous" but says he prefers that to "cold, frigid" efforts.

January 22 -

Simon & Garfunkel give live concert at Philharmonic Hall in New York City. While bits and pieces of this concert are released on October 4, 1997, on their box set Old Friends, the majority of this concert is not released until July 2002.

January 23 -

In Munich, trial begins against Wilhelm Harster, accused of the murder of 82,856 Jews (including Anne Frank) when he led German security police during the German occupation of the Netherlands. He is eventually sentenced to 15 years in prison.

January 27 -

• Apollo 1: U.S. astronauts Gus Grissom, Edward Higgins White, & Roger Chaffee are killed when fire erupts in their Apollo spacecraft during a launch pad test.
  
• The United States, Soviet Union & United Kingdom sign the Outer Space Treaty. The treaty prohibits use of space, the moon or other celestial body as a military base or for any purpose not peaceful.
  
• The Doors' self titled debut album is released.

February 2 -

The American Basketball Association is formed.

February 5 -

NASA launches Lunar Orbiter 3.

February 6 -

Micky Dolenz of The Monkees flies into London. On this trip he sees Til Death Us Do Part on British TV and uses the term "Randy Scouse Git" from the program for the title of The Monkees next single release, which is based on the programme, as well as Dolenz's visit to Paul McCartney. The British Censors force the title to be changed to "Alternate Title" in the U.K.

February 7 -

Micky Dolenz meets Paul McCartney at his home in St John's Wood, London and they pose together for the press.

February 10 -

The 25th Amendment to the United States Constitution (presidential succession) is ratified.

February 12 -

British police raid 'Redlands', the Sussex home of Keith Richards in the early hours of the morning following a tip-off about a party from the tabloid newspaper 'News of the World'; although no arrests are made at the time, Richards, Mick Jagger and art dealer Robert Fraser are subsequently charged with possession of drugs.

February 14 -

Respect is released by Aretha Franklin at the New York based Atlantic Studios.

February 15 -

In Vietnam, thirteen U.S. helicopters are shot down in one day.

February 16 -

"Aretha Franklin day" is declared in Detroit, Michigan.

February 17 -

Strawberry Fields Forever [backed with] Penny Lane is released in the USA.

February 18 -

• New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison claims he will solve the John F. Kennedy assassination, and that it was planned in New Orleans.
• J. Robert Oppenheimer, an American theoretical physicist, died. Known as "the father of the atomic bomb," for his role as the director of the Manhattan Project, the World War II effort to develop the first nuclear weapons.

February 24 -

The Soviet Union forbids its East European satellites to form diplomatic relations with West Germany.

February 27 -

Dominica gains independence from the United Kingdom.

February 28 -

Henry Luce, co-founder and past editor-in-chief of TIME, Inc., died. Luce penned a famous article in Life magazine in 1941, called "The American Century," which defined the role of American foreign policy for the remainder of the 20th century (and perhaps beyond).

March 3 -

The Animals refuse to perform a show in Ottawa, Ontario unless they are paid in advance. The audience of 3000 riots causing $5000 in damages to the auditorium.

March 4 -

• The first North Sea gas is pumped ashore at Easington, East Riding of Yorkshire.
• Dr. Mohammed Mossadegh, the deposed democratically elected prime minister of Iran, dies while under house arrest.

March 6 -

President Johnson announces his plan for a lottery for conscription into the military: "the draft".

March 7 -

• Jimmy Hoffa begins his 8-year sentence for attempting to bribe a jury.
• Alice B. Toklas, the life partner of writer Gertrude Stein, died. She was also famous for her 1954 book that mixed reminiscences and recipes under the title The Alice B. Toklas Cookbook.

March 9 -

Joseph Stalin's daughter, Svetlana Alliluyeva, defects to the USA via the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi.

March 11 -

A taped appearance by The Beatles on American Bandstand. The band premieres their new music videos for the songs "Penny Lane" & "Strawberry Fields Forever".

March 12 -

The Velvet Underground release their debut album, The Velvet Underground and Nico.

March 14 -

• The body of U.S. President John F. Kennedy is moved to a permanent burial place at Arlington National Cemetery.
• Nine executives of the German pharmaceutical company Grunenthal are charged for breaking German drug laws because of thalidomide.

March 25 -

The Who perform their first concert in the United States in New York.

March 22 -

Regarding Vietnam, Republican House Minority Leader, Gerald R Ford, alongside Republican Senator Dirksen, says that President Johnson "does not have sufficient resolution".

March 26 -

Subsequent to San Francisco's Human Be-In, and a prelude to the Summer of Love, 10,000 gathered in Central Park's Sheep Meadow on Easter Sunday.

March 27 -

Moon Mullican, an American country and western singer, songwriter, and pianist died. He was associated with the hillbilly boogie style, which greatly influenced rockabilly.

March 29 -

A 13-day TV strike begins in the U.S.

March 30 -

The Beatles are photographed with a photographic collage and wax figures from Madame Tussaud's famous museum for the cover artwork of their soon to be released Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album at Chelsea Manor Studios in London.

March 31 -

Kicking off a tour with The Walker Brothers, Cat Stevens & Engelbert Humperdinck at The Astoria London, Jimi Hendrix sets fire to his guitar on stage for the first time. He is taken to the hospital suffering burns to his hands. This guitar-burning act would later become a trademark of Hendrix's performances.

April 4 -

Martin Luther King, Jr. denounces the Vietnam War during a religious service in New York City.

April 5 -

Grayline bus service begins tours of the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco, its tourist riders to stare at so-called hippies who live there.

April 7 -

Lead-up to the Six Day War: Israeli fighters shoot down 7 Syrian MIG-21s.

April 9 -

The first Boeing 737 (a 100 series) takes its maiden flight.

April 14 -

• The Bee Gees release their first international single, New York Mining Disaster 1941 on ATCO Records. The song reaches #14 on the Billboard Hot 100.
• In San Francisco thousands protest President Johnson's policy in Vietnam by marching from the Ferry building to Kezar Stadium which they fill to capacity. A Vietnam veteran, David Duncan, gives the gathering's keynote speech.

April 15 -

Large demonstrations are held against the Vietnam War in New York City & San Francisco.

April 20 -

The Surveyor 3 probe lands on the Moon.

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 & Oak Lawn, Illinois, where 33 people are killed & 500 injured).

April 24 -

Soyuz 1: Soviet cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov dies during reentry when the spacecraft's parachutes fail to deploy properly.

April 27 -

Montreal, Quebec, Expo 67, a World's Fair to coincide with the Canadian Confederation centennial, officially opens with Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson igniting the Expo Flame in the Place des Nations.

April 28 -

• In Houston, Texas, boxer Muhammad Ali refuses military service and is stripped of his boxing title.
• General William Westmoreland tells the U.S. Congress that the United States will "prevail in Vietnam". His analysis of the war is that South Vietnam is one of those powers "market as a target for the Communist stratagem called 'War of National Liberation'." He says he sees "no evidence that this is an internal insurrection."

May 1 -

Elvis Presley & Priscilla Beaulieu are married in Las Vegas

May 2 -

In the United States, Capitol Records pulls the plug on the Beach Boys' mysterious Smile project. Brian Wilson, who had taken more than a year to compose and produce the album, could not bring himself to finish it.

May 3 -

A big gold robbery occurs in London.

May 4 -

Lunar Orbiter 4 is launched.

May 5 -

Col. James L Hughes shot down over Vietnam and became a POW.

May 6 -

• Four hundred students seize the administration building at Cheyney State College, Pennsylvania.
• Hong Kong 1967 riots: Clashes between striking workers & police kill 51 & injure 800.

May 12 -

• Linda Ronstadt launches her first single Different Drum, with the band The Stone Poneys.
• Pink Floyd stage the first ever rock concert with quadraphonic sound at Queen Elizabeth Hall, England.

May 16 -

Lead-up to the Six Day War: Egyptians have been interested in erasing the disgrace of their defeat by Israeli forces back in 1956. Egypt's president, Gamal Abdul Nasser, sends his tanks forward on Egyptian territory in the Sinai desert, closer to Israel.

May 17 -

• Lead-up to the Six Day War: Syria mobilizes against Israel.
• President Gamal Abdal Nasser of Egypt demands withdrawal of the peacekeeping UN Emergency Force in Sinai. U.N. Secretary-General U Thant complies (May 18).

May 18 -

• Tennessee Governor Ellington repeals the "Monkey Law".
• NASA announces crew members for the Apollo 7 space mission (first manned Apollo flight): Walter M. Schirra, Jr., Donn F. Eisele, & R. Walter Cunningham.

May 19 -

The Soviet Union ratifies a treaty with the United States & the United Kingdom, banning nuclear weapons from outer space.

May 23 -

Lead-up to the Six Day War: Egypt closes the Straits of Tiran to Israeli shipping, blockading Israel's southern port of Eilat.

May 24 -

Lead-up to the Six Day War: The UN forces have left the Sinai. Egypt has erected a blockade at the Strait of Tiran against Israel's access to shipping in the Red Sea. Egypt moves 9,000 men, 200 tanks and guns to positions at the edge of the Gaza Strip, near Rafah. A speech by Nasser gives his military officers confidence in victory.

May 25 -

25th Amendment added to the Constitution.

May 26 -

Lead-up to the Six Day War: Nasser postpones his military attack planned for the 28th. He is afraid of U.S. intervention and does not know whether he will have military support from the Soviet Union. Nasser's pilots are disappointed. One of them complains that they should "trust that Allah will aid us".

May 28 -

The Folk-Rock band Fairport Convention plays their first gig in London.

May 30 -

Lead-up to the Six Day War: Jordan signs a pact with Egypt, stipulating that Jordan's forces are to be placed under Egyptian military command. Iraq joins the pact.

June 1 -

The Beatles release Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, one of rock's most acclaimed albums.

June 1 -

• Rioting & looting erupt in the Roxbury section of Boston. Nearly 100 are arrested.
• Lead-up to the Six Day War: Nasser's strategy is now to let Israel strike first. He claims that he cannot risk alienating world opinion by attacking first. He assures his military commanders that they could manage a first strike from Israel and says that it will come by June 5 at the latest.

June 5 -

Murderer Richard Speck is sentenced to death in the electric chair for killing the Chicago nurses.

June 5-June 10 -

Israel defeats its Arab neighbors in the Six-Day War, occupying the West Bank, Gaza Strip, Sinai peninsula & Golan Heights.

• 5th - Egypt's air force is on alert and expecting air attacks at dawn. When the attack doesn't come the pilots relax and have breakfast, away from their planes. Israeli aircraft, employing the tactical element called "the unexpected," show up at nine in the morning, having avoided Egyptian radar by approaching from an unexpected direction. Within 100 minutes Egypt no longer has an air force. Egypt's 13 air bases, 23 radar stations, anti-aircraft sites & 107 aircraft are destroyed. The Israelis lose nine planes. In the United States, Secretary of State Dean Rusk is relieved that the Israelis have not been driven to the beaches, but he is angry with them for having struck first.
• 8th - The USS Liberty incident - Israeli fighter jets and Israeli warships fire at USS Liberty off Gaza, killing 34 & wounding 171.
• 9th - Israel turns around an attack by Egypt's ally, Syria. Israel attacks the Syrians on the Golan Heights - high ground from which the Syrians had been shelling Israel.
• 10th - Egypt has launched its tanks against Israel, but, with Israel ruling the skies and Egyptian troops suffering poor communications, Egypt's ground war fails.
  Israel & Syria agree to a United Nations-mediated cease-fire.

June 7 -

• Two Moby Grape members are arrested for contributing to the delinquency of minors.
• Dorothy Parker an American writer and poet dies. Best known for her caustic wit, wisecracks, and sharp eye for 20th century urban foibles.

June 10 -

Spencer Tracy died. He was a two-time Academy Award-winning American film and stage actor who appeared in 74 films from 1930 to 1967. Tracy is generally regarded as one of the finest actors in motion picture history.

June 11 -

• A race riot occurs in Tampa, Florida.
• In Egypt the fiction has arisen that British & American intervention is the cause of the poor performance of Egypt's military. From Cairo, a radio broadcast of "Voice of the Arabs" tells the Egyptian people that the United States is "the hostile force behind Israel ... the enemy of all peoples, the killer of life, the shedder of blood that is preventing you from liquidating Israel." The Soviet Union plays to Arab sentiment. It verbally attacks the U.S. and severs relations with Israel.

June 12 -

• Loving v. Virginia: The United States Supreme Court declares all U.S. state laws prohibiting interracial marriage to be unconstitutional.
• 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.

June 14

• Mariner program: Mariner 5 is launched toward Venus.
• The People's Republic of China tests its first hydrogen bomb.

June 16 -

The Monterey International Pop Festival, the world's first large scale outdoor rock music festival, opens in California for 3 days and is attended by over 200,000. Featured are Janis Joplin, The Jefferson Airplane, The Grateful Dead, Jimi Hendrix, The Who, Otis Redding, & many others.

June 17 -

• The People's Republic of China announces a successful hydrogen bomb test.
• John Coltrane, a hugely influential jazz saxophonist and composer, died from liver cancer at the age of 40.

June 19 -

On television, Paul McCartney of The Beatles repeats his admission that he has taken LSD.

June 23 -

Cold War: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson meets with Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin in Glassboro, New Jersey, for the 3-day Glassboro Summit Conference.

June 25 -

400 million viewers watch Our World, the first live, international, satellite television production. It features the live debut of The Beatles' song "All You Need is Love." Singing backup for the Beatles were a number of artists including Eric Clapton, and members of the Rolling Stones & The Who.

June 26 -

Pope Paul VI ordains 276 new cardinals (one of them Karol Wojtyła).

June 27 -

• The first automatic cash machine (voucher-based) is installed in the office of the Barclay's Bank in Enfield, England.
• A race riot in Buffalo, New York leads to 200 arrests and fourteen people are shot. The Buffalo riots will last five days.

June 28 -

• Israel declares the annexation of East Jerusalem.
• The Supremes perform for the first time as Diana Ross & the Supremes at the Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas. Florence Ballard is fired from the group after the first night, and on-hand stand-in Cindy Birdsong permanently takes Ballard's place in the group.

June 29 -

Jayne Mansfield, an American actress, Playboy centerfold, and one of the leading sex symbols of the 1950s, died in an automobile accident at the age of 34.

July 1 -

The first color television broadcasts begin on BBC2 in UK on certain programs. A full color service begins on BBC2 on December 2.

July 4 -

• The British Parliament decriminalizes homosexuality.
• The Freedom of Information Act becomes official. To withhold information, government agencies must show its need to be classified.

July 8 -

Two-time Academy Award winning English actress Vivien Leigh died of tuberculosis. She won two Oscars playing "southern belles": Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind (1939) and Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire (1951).

July 13 -

The Newark, New Jersey race riots occur.

July 15 -

The Detroit race riots occur.

July 16 -

A prison riot in Jay, Florida leaves 37 dead

July 17 -

The Cairo, Illinois race riots occur.

July 18 -

The Jimi Hendrix Experience is thrown off a support tour of The Monkees after complaints from the conservative Daughters of the American Revolution. Hendrix's manager Chas Chandler later admitted it was all for outrage publicity.

July 20 -

The Memphis, Tennessee race riots occur.

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 & 1,400 buildings burned).

July 27 -

President Johnson appoints the Kerner Commission to assess the causes of the violence. The report will be released in early 1968. It will conclude that the rioting of 1967 was the result of black frustration over a lack of economic opportunity.

July 29 -

An explosion & fire aboard the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Forrestal in the Gulf of Tonkin leaves 134 dead.

July 30 -

• A week of looting & burning in Detroit is quelled by the arrival of 4,700 paratroops dispatched by President Lyndon Johnson.
• The Milwaukee race riots occur. Four people are killed.
• General William Westmoreland claims both that he is winning the war in Vietnam and needs more troops.

Sometime during August >

The Black Panthers Party invades the city of New Haven, Connecticut setting people's lawns & houses on fire.

August 1

• Race riots in the United States spread to Washington, D.C..
• Israel acts on a threat made to Jordan at the beginning of the Six-Day War. Because Jordan did not stay out of the war, Israel takes control of the entire city of Jerusalem.

August 3 -

President Johnson announces plans to send 45,000 more troops to Vietnam.

August 5 -

Pink Floyd releases 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 -

A general strike in the old quarter of Jerusalem protests Israel's unification of the city.

August 9 -

Vietnam War: Operation Cochise is initiated - United States Marines begin a new operation in the Que Son Valley.

August 14 -

The United Kingdom Marine Broadcasting Offences Act declares participation in offshore pirate radio illegal. Most offshore radio stations (including Wonderful Radio London) close down. Only Radio Caroline would continue.

August 21 -

The People's Republic of China announces that it has shot down United States planes violating its airspace.

August 23 -

The album Are You Experienced is released by The Jimi Hendrix Experience in Canada & the United States.

August 25 -

American Nazi Party leader George Lincoln Rockwell is assassinated in Arlington, Virginia.

August 27 -

The Beatles are informed of manager Brian Epstein's death, while in Bangor, Wales with the Maharishi.

August 30 -

Thurgood Marshall is confirmed as the first African American Justice of the United States Supreme Court.

September 3 -

• Nguyen Van Thieu is elected President of South Vietnam.
• H-Day in Sweden: At 5:00 a.m. local time, all traffic in the country switches from left-hand traffic pattern to right-hand traffic.

September 4 -

During an interview for television, Michigan's governor, George Romney, says he was brainwashed by U.S. officials during his 1965 visit to Vietnam. It is to be seen as the end of his chances for the Republican presidential nomination for 1968.

September 4 -

Vietnam War: Operation Swift begins - The United States Marines launch a search & destroy mission in Quang Nam & Quang Tin Provinces. The ensuing 4-day battle in Que Son Valley kills 114 Americans & 376 North Vietnamese.

September 9 -

Fashion Island, one of California's first outdoor shopping malls, opens in Newport Beach.

September 17 -

Jim Morrison & 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 18 -

Love Is a Many Splendored Thing debuts on U.S. 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.

September 27 -

The RMS Queen Mary arrives in Southampton, at the end of her last transatlantic voyage.

September 30 -

BBC Radio 1 is launched.

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 William J. Knight establishes an unofficial world fixed-wing speed record of Mach 6.

October 8 -

The Summer of Love in San Francisco has turned into a nightmare. The "Diggers", recognized by their activism as leaders of "hippie" community in San Francisco, parade with a coffin in the Haight-Ashbury district to mark the "Death of Hip". Haight-Ashbury cultural radicals have been moving north into rural Mendocino County, where until recently young men with long hair had been beaten up. Mendocino County is about to be transformed.

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 are futile, because of North Vietnam's opposition.

October 14 -

Tammi Terrell faints and collapses into duet partner Marvin Gaye's arms onstage during a performance at the Hampton University homecoming in Virginia. She was later diagnosed with a brain tumor, and would die from brain cancer in 1970 at the age of 24.

October 17 -

• The musical Hair premieres Off-Broadway.
• President Johnson's draft has mobilized those who are threatened by it. In Oakland, California, young men subject to the draft join anti-war protesters from the Berkeley campus and overturn cars, block intersections and temporarily close down the Oakland city center. Anti-war demonstrations also take place outside draft boards in various cities.
• Vietnam War: The U.S. Army sends one of its battalions into a trap, killing sixty-one of them. This is not supposed to be happening, and the army will describe it to news people as a victory.

October 18 -

At the university in Madison, Wisconsin, hundreds of students protest recruiting by Dow Chemical, the maker of napalm & Agent Orange. Madison police turn violent. Dozens of students are beaten bloody and 19 police officers are treated for minor injuries at local hospitals. The violence by police politicize thousands of previously apathetic students.

October 19 -

The Mariner 5 probe flies by Venus.

October 20 -

In Meridian Mississippi, seven men are convicted of violating the civil rights of the three civil rights workers murdered in 1964.

October 21 -

Tens of thousands of Vietnam War protesters march in Washington, D.C.. Allen Ginsberg symbolically chants to 'levitate' The Pentagon.

October 26 -

• Vietnam War: John McCain bails from his damaged plane and falls into Hanoi’s Truc Bach Lake. He is viewed as a heinous criminal, beaten, bayoneted in the foot & groin and taken away for imprisonment & torture.
• The Government eliminates draft deferments for those who violate draft laws, including the burning draft cards or interfering with military recruitment for the war.
• In Iran, his imperial majesty, the King of Kings, the Shadow of God & Light of the Aryans, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, has his official coronation.

October 28 -

While going for food at four in the morning, Huey Newton is pulled over and hassled by sarcastic Oakland policemen. A shoot out results in the death of one of the officers, John Frey. Newton is taken to the police station, spit at and threatened with "an accidental shooting."

October 29 -

Montreal, Quebec Expo 67 closes, with over 50 Million attendees. Considered the most successful World's Fair of the 20th Century.

October 30 -

British troops & Chinese demonstrators clash on the border of China & Hong Kong during the Hong Kong 1967 riots.

November 2 -

Vietnam War: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson holds a secret meeting with a group of the nation's most prestigious leaders ("the Wise Men") and asks them to suggest ways to unite the American people behind the war effort. They conclude that the American people should be given more optimistic reports on the progress of the war.

November 3 -

Vietnam War: The Battle of Dak To begins - Around Dak To (located about 280 miles north of Saigon near the Cambodian border) heavy casualties are suffered on both sides (the Americans narrowly win the battle on November 22).

November 7 -

• U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, establishing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
• 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.
• First issue of Rolling Stone magazine is published. Today, four decades since its founding, the Rolling Stone record reviews section is regarded by many sources as still one of the most influential around.

November 11 -

Vietnam War: In a propaganda ceremony in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 3 United States prisoners of war are released by the Viet Cong and turned over to "New Left" antiwar activist Tom Hayden.

November 13 -

In Oakland, a county grand jury indicts Huey Newton on charges of first-degree murder, attempted murder, & kidnapping.

November 15 -

Civil rights activists in the US succeed in their campaign to extend the definition of murder to include the killing of blacks.

November 17 -

Vietnam War: Acting on optimistic reports he was given on November 13, U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson tells his nation that, while much remained to be done, "We are inflicting greater losses than we're taking...We are making progress." (2 months later the Tet Offensive makes him regret his words.)

November 19 -

The UK pound is devalued from 1 GBP = 2.80 USD to 1 GBP = 2.40 USD.

November 21 -

• President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the air quality act, allotting $428 million for the fight against pollution.
• Vietnam War: United States General William Westmoreland tells news reporters: "I am absolutely certain that whereas in 1965 the enemy was winning, today he is certainly losing."

November 26 -

Albert Warner, one of the founders of Warner Bros. Studios, died.

November 29 -

Vietnam War: U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara announces his resignation, to become president of the World Bank. This action is due to U.S. 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 -

U.S. Senator Eugene McCarthy (D-MN) announces his candidacy for the Democratic Party presidential nomination, challenging incumbent President Lyndon B. Johnson over the Vietnam War.

December 4

• Vietnam War: U.S. & South Vietnamese forces engage Viet Cong troops in the Mekong Delta (235 of the 300-strong Viet Cong battalion are killed).
• Tommy Bolin, guitarist best known for his work with Zephyr, The James Gang, Deep Purple & his solo work, died of a drug overdose at the age of 25.

December 5 -

In New York City, 1,000 antiwar protesters try to close a draft center, resulting in the arrest of 585, including Allen Ginsberg & Dr. Benjamin Spock.

December 10 -

Otis Redding dies in plane crash, two days after recording "(Sittin' On) the Dock of the Bay". He was 26 years old at the time of his death.

December 11 -

The Concorde is unveiled in Toulouse, France

December 15 -

The Silver Bridge over the Ohio River in Point Pleasant, West Virginia, collapses (46 dead). It has been linked to the so-called Mothman mystery.

December 19 -

Professor John Archibald Wheeler uses the term Black Hole for the first time.

December 31 -

• Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Paul Krassner, Dick Gregory, & friends pronounce themselves "Yippies", in other words the Youth International Party. These are young men who know about street theater attracting media attention. Rubin believes that pot smoking is going to end the war in Vietnam.
• Vietnam War: Some 474,300 US soldiers are now in Vietnam.

Undated

• Pickwick Records releases LP collection of ten 1950s A- and B-sides of singles by Simon & Garfunkel, recorded under their pseudonym Tom & Jerry, and tries to pass it off as current material by the duo. Simon & Garfunkel file legal challenge, and the record, now rare, is swiftly withdrawn from the market.
• Ashleigh Brilliant begins to copyright pithy mottoes for a living.
• The Who destroys their instruments during a performance on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour.
• LSD declared illegal by the United States government.
• University of Winnipeg founded.
• Lonsdaleite (the rarest allotrope of carbon) first discovered in the Barringer Crater, Arizona.
• Toots & the Maytals releases "54-46 That's My Number", one of the first reggae songs.
• 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.
• First Pulsar discovered by Jocelyn Bell & Antony Hewish. It first appeared in print in 1968: "An entirely novel kind of star came to light on Aug. 6 last year [...]". This does not necessarily mean that the Pulsar was discovered on the 6th of August. The discovery might have dated back several weeks or months.
• Desmond Morris publishes The Naked Ape.
• Lech Wałęsa goes to work in Gdańsk shipyards.
• Benjamin Netanyahu joins Israeli army.
• The Monkees become the best selling group of 1967, outselling the Beatles & the Rolling Stones combined.
• Donny Hathaway's musical career begins.
• Ted Nugent's musical career begins.
• George Clinton's musical career begins.
• Sly & the Family Stone's musical career begins.
• Blue Öyster Cult's musical career begins.
• Captain Beefheart's musical career begins.
• The Stooges musical career begins.
• Creedence Clearwater Revival, The First Edition (fronted by Kenny Rogers) and Chicago [Transit Authority] form.
• The progressive rock band Genesis is formed in Surrey, UK.
• Procol Harum's musical career begins with the song "A Whiter Shade of Pale".
• The Moody Blues re-form and release "Tuesday Afternoon" & "Nights in White Satin".