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Date	Event
January 2, 1967	Ronald Reagan, past movie actor and future President of the United States, is sworn in as Governor of California.
January 5, 1967	Cultural Revolution: The Shanghai People's Commune is established following the seizure of power from local city officials by revolutionaries.
January 6, 1967	Vietnam War: United States Marine Corps and ARVN troops launch "Operation Deckhouse Five" in the Mekong River delta.
January 12, 1967	Dr. James Bedford becomes the first person to be cryonically preserved with intent of future resuscitation.
January 14, 1967	Counterculture of the 1960s: The Human Be-In takes place in San Francisco, California's Golden Gate Park, launching the Summer of Love.
January 15, 1967	The first Super Bowl is played in Los Angeles. The Green Bay Packers defeat the Kansas City Chiefs 35–10.
January 18, 1967	Albert DeSalvo, the "Boston Strangler", is convicted of numerous crimes and is sentenced to life imprisonment.
January 22, 1967	Between dozens and hundreds of anti-Somocista demonstrators are killed by the Nicaraguan National Guard in Managua.
January 23, 1967	Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Ivory Coast are established.
January 23, 1967	Milton Keynes (England) is founded as a new town by Order in Council, with a planning brief to become a city of 250,000 people. Its initial designated area enclosed three existing towns and twenty-one villages. The area to be developed was largely farmland, with evidence of continuous settlement dating back to the Bronze Age.
January 25, 1967	South Vietnamese junta leader and Prime Minister Nguyen Cao Ky fires rival, Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Nguyen Huu Co, while the latter is overseas on a diplomatic visit.
January 27, 1967	Apollo program: Astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee are killed in a fire during a test of their Apollo 1 spacecraft at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida.
January 27, 1967	Cold War: The Soviet Union, the United States, and the United Kingdom sign the Outer Space Treaty in Washington, D.C., banning deployment of nuclear weapons in space, and limiting the usage of the Moon and other celestial bodies to peaceful purposes.
February 4, 1967	Lunar Orbiter program: Lunar Orbiter 3 lifts off from Cape Canaveral's Launch Complex 13 on its mission to identify possible landing sites for the Surveyor and Apollo spacecraft.
February 5, 1967	Cultural Revolution: The Shanghai People's Commune is formally proclaimed, with Yao Wenyuan and Zhang Chunqiao being appointed as its leaders.
February 10, 1967	The 25th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified.
February 13, 1967	American researchers discover the Madrid Codices by Leonardo da Vinci in the National Library of Spain.
February 24, 1967	Cultural Revolution: Zhang Chunqiao announces the dissolution of the Shanghai People's Commune, replacing its local government with a revolutionary committee.
March 6, 1967	Cold War: Joseph Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva defects to the United States.
March 7, 1967	The Majelis Permusyawaratan Rakyat Sementara (MPRS), Indonesia's provisional parliament, revoked Sukarno's mandate as President of Indonesia.
March 9, 1967	Trans World Airlines Flight 553 crashes in a field in Concord Township, Ohio following a mid-air collision with a Beechcraft Baron, killing 26 people.
March 12, 1967	Suharto takes power from Sukarno when the People's Consultative Assembly inaugurate him as Acting President of Indonesia.
March 14, 1967	The body of U.S. President John F. Kennedy is moved to a permanent burial place at Arlington National Cemetery.
March 18, 1967	The supertanker Torrey Canyon runs aground off the Cornish coast.
March 26, 1967	Ten thousand people gather for one of many Central Park be-ins in New York City.
March 30, 1967	Delta Air Lines Flight 9877 crashes at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport, killing 19.
April 4, 1967	Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence" speech in New York City's Riverside Church.
April 9, 1967	The first Boeing 737 (a 100 series) makes its maiden flight.
April 14, 1967	Gnassingbé Eyadéma overthrows Nicolas Grunitzky and installs himself as the new President of Togo, a title he will hold for the next 38 years.
April 21, 1967	A few days before the general election in Greece, Colonel George Papadopoulos leads a coup d'état, establishing a military regime that lasts for seven years.
April 23, 1967	Soviet space program: Soyuz 1 (Russian: Союз 1, Union 1) a crewed spaceflight carrying cosmonaut Colonel Vladimir Komarov is launched into orbit.
April 24, 1967	Cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov dies in Soyuz 1 when its parachute fails to open. He is the first human to die during a space mission.
April 24, 1967	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".
April 27, 1967	Expo 67 officially opens in Montreal, Quebec, Canada with a large opening ceremony broadcast around the world. It opens to the public the next day.
April 28, 1967	Vietnam War: Boxer Muhammad Ali refuses his induction into the United States Army and is subsequently stripped of his championship and license.
April 29, 1967	After refusing induction into the United States Army the previous day, Muhammad Ali is stripped of his boxing title.
May 8, 1967	The Philippine province of Davao is split into three: Davao del Norte, Davao del Sur, and Davao Oriental.
May 10, 1967	The Northrop M2-F2 crashes on landing, becoming the inspiration for the novel Cyborg and TV series The Six Million Dollar Man.
May 13, 1967	Dr. Zakir Husain becomes the third President of India. He is the first Muslim President of the Indian Union. He holds this position until August 24, 1969.
May 17, 1967	Six-Day War: President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt demands dismantling of the peace-keeping UN Emergency Force in Egypt.
May 20, 1967	The Popular Movement of the Revolution political party is established in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
May 22, 1967	Egypt closes the Straits of Tiran to Israeli shipping.
May 22, 1967	L'Innovation department store in Brussels, Belgium, burns down, resulting in 323 dead or missing and 150 injured, the most devastating fire in Belgian history.
May 24, 1967	Egypt imposes a blockade and siege of the Red Sea coast of Israel.
May 24, 1967	Belle de Jour, directed by Luis Buñuel, is released.
May 26, 1967	The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is released.
May 27, 1967	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 27, 1967	The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy is launched by Jacqueline Kennedy and her daughter Caroline.
May 30, 1967	The Nigerian Eastern Region declares independence as the Republic of Biafra, sparking a civil war.
June 2, 1967	Luis Monge is executed in Colorado's gas chamber, in the last pre-Furman execution in the United States.
June 2, 1967	Protests in West Berlin against the arrival of the Shah of Iran are brutally suppressed, during which Benno Ohnesorg is killed by a police officer. His death results in the founding of the terrorist group Movement 2 June.
June 4, 1967	Seventy-two people are killed when a Canadair C-4 Argonaut crashes at Stockport in England.
June 5, 1967	The Six-Day War begins: Israel launches surprise strikes against Egyptian air-fields in response to the mobilisation of Egyptian forces on the Israeli border.
June 7, 1967	Six-Day War: Israeli soldiers enter Jerusalem.
June 8, 1967	Six-Day War: The USS Liberty incident occurs, killing 34 and wounding 171.
June 9, 1967	Six-Day War: Israel captures the Golan Heights from Syria.
June 10, 1967	The Six-Day War ends: Israel and Syria agree to a cease-fire.
June 12, 1967	The United States Supreme Court in Loving v. Virginia declares all U.S. state laws which prohibit interracial marriage to be unconstitutional.
June 13, 1967	U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson nominates Solicitor-General Thurgood Marshall to become the first black justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
June 14, 1967	Mariner program: Mariner 5 is launched towards Venus.
June 17, 1967	Nuclear weapons testing: China announces a successful test of its first thermonuclear weapon.
June 23, 1967	Cold War: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson meets with Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin in Glassboro, New Jersey for the three-day Glassboro Summit Conference.
June 26, 1967	Karol Wojtyła (later John Paul II) made a cardinal by Pope Paul VI.
July 1, 1967	Merger Treaty: The European Community is formally created out of a merger between the Common Market, the European Coal and Steel Community, and the European Atomic Energy Commission.
July 3, 1967	The Aden Emergency: The Battle of the Crater in which the British Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders retake the Crater district following the Arab Police mutiny.
July 6, 1967	Nigerian Civil War: Nigerian forces invade Biafra, beginning the war.
July 12, 1967	Riots begin in Newark, New Jersey.
July 19, 1967	Piedmont Airlines Flight 22, a Piedmont Airlines Boeing 727-22 and a twin-engine Cessna 310 collided over Hendersonville, North Carolina, USA. Both aircraft were destroyed and all passengers and crew were killed, including John T. McNaughton, an advisor to Robert McNamara.
July 23, 1967	Detroit Riots: In Detroit, one of the worst riots in United States history begins on 12th Street in the predominantly African American inner city. It ultimately kills 43 people, injures 342 and burns about 1,400 buildings.
July 24, 1967	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 angered the Canadian government and many Anglophone Canadians.
July 29, 1967	Vietnam War: Off the coast of North Vietnam the USS Forrestal catches on fire in the worst U.S. naval disaster since World War II, killing 134.
July 29, 1967	During the fourth day of celebrating its 400th anniversary, the city of Caracas, Venezuela is shaken by an earthquake, leaving approximately 500 dead.
August 8, 1967	The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is founded by Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand.
August 13, 1967	Two young women became the first fatal victims of grizzly bear attacks in the 57-year history of Montana's Glacier National Park in separate incidents.
August 14, 1967	UK Marine Broadcasting Offences Act declares participation in offshore pirate radio illegal.
August 24, 1967	Led by Abbie Hoffman, the Youth International Party temporarily disrupts trading at the New York Stock Exchange by throwing dollar bills from the viewing gallery, causing trading to cease as brokers scramble to grab them.
August 25, 1967	George Lincoln Rockwell, founder of the American Nazi Party, is assassinated by a former member of his group.
August 30, 1967	Thurgood Marshall is confirmed as the first African American Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
September 1, 1967	Six-Day War: The Khartoum Resolution is issued at the Arab Summit, and eight countries adopt the "three 'no's against Israel".
September 3, 1967	Dagen H in Sweden: Traffic changes from driving on the left to driving on the right overnight.
September 4, 1967	Vietnam War: Operation Swift begins when U.S. Marines engage the North Vietnamese in battle in the Que Son Valley.
September 10, 1967	The people of Gibraltar vote to remain a British dependency rather than becoming part of Spain.
September 11, 1967	China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) launched an attack on Indian posts at Nathu La, Sikkim, India, which resulted in military clashes.
September 15, 1967	U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson, responding to a sniper attack at the University of Texas at Austin, writes a letter to Congress urging the enactment of gun control legislation.
September 20, 1967	The Cunard Liner Queen Elizabeth 2 is launched in Clydebank, Scotland.
October 2, 1967	Thurgood Marshall is sworn in as the first African-American justice of the United States Supreme Court.
October 4, 1967	Omar Ali Saifuddien III of Brunei abdicates in favour of his son.
October 8, 1967	Guerrilla leader Che Guevara and his men are captured in Bolivia.
October 9, 1967	A day after his capture, Ernesto "Che" Guevara is executed for attempting to incite a revolution in Bolivia.
October 10, 1967	The Outer Space Treaty comes into force.
October 12, 1967	A bomb explodes on board Cyprus Airways Flight 284 while flying over the Mediterranean Sea, killing 66.
October 18, 1967	The Soviet probe Venera 4 reaches Venus and becomes the first spacecraft to measure the atmosphere of another planet.
October 21, 1967	The National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam organizes a march of fifty thousand people from the Lincoln Memorial to the Pentagon.
October 26, 1967	Mohammad Reza Pahlavi crowns himself Emperor of Iran.
October 27, 1967	Catholic priest Philip Berrigan and others of the 'Baltimore Four' protest the Vietnam War by pouring blood on Selective Service records.
October 29, 1967	Montreal's World Fair, Expo 67, closes with over 50 million visitors.
November 2, 1967	Vietnam War: US President Lyndon B. Johnson and "The Wise Men" conclude that the American people should be given more optimistic reports on the progress of the war.
November 3, 1967	Vietnam War: The Battle of Dak To begins.
November 4, 1967	Iberia Flight 062 crashes in Blackdown, West Sussex, killing all 37 people on board including British actress June Thorburn.
November 7, 1967	Carl B. Stokes is elected as Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, becoming the first African American mayor of a major American city.
November 7, 1967	US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, establishing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
November 9, 1967	Apollo program: NASA launches the unmanned Apollo 4 test spacecraft, atop the first Saturn V rocket, from Florida's Cape Kennedy.
November 11, 1967	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 14, 1967	The Congress of Colombia, in commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the death of Policarpa Salavarrieta, declares this day as "Day of the Colombian Woman".
November 14, 1967	American physicist Theodore Maiman is given a patent for his ruby laser systems, the world's first laser.
November 15, 1967	The only fatality of the North American 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.
November 17, 1967	Vietnam War: Acting on optimistic reports that he had been given on November 13, U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson tells the nation that, while much remained to be done, "We are inflicting greater losses than we're taking...We are making progress."
November 19, 1967	The establishment of TVB, the first wireless commercial television station in Hong Kong.
November 21, 1967	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, 1967	UN Security Council Resolution 242 is adopted, establishing a set of the principles aimed at guiding negotiations for an Arab–Israeli peace settlement.
November 28, 1967	The first pulsar (PSR B1919+21, in the constellation of Vulpecula) is discovered by two astronomers Jocelyn Bell Burnell and Antony Hewish.
November 29, 1967	U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara announces his resignation.
November 30, 1967	Decolonization: South Yemen becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
November 30, 1967	The Pakistan Peoples Party is founded by Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, who becomes its first chairman.
November 30, 1967	Pro-Soviet communists in the Philippines establish Malayang Pagkakaisa ng Kabataan Pilipino as its new youth wing.
December 3, 1967	At Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa, a transplant team headed by Christiaan Barnard carries out the first heart transplant on a human (53-year-old Louis Washkansky).
December 4, 1967	Vietnam War: U.S. and South Vietnamese forces engage Viet Cong troops in the Mekong Delta.
December 6, 1967	Adrian Kantrowitz performs the first human heart transplant in the United States.
December 13, 1967	Constantine II of Greece attempts an unsuccessful counter-coup against the Regime of the Colonels.
December 17, 1967	Harold Holt, Prime Minister of Australia, disappears while swimming near Portsea, Victoria, and is presumed drowned.
December 19, 1967	Harold Holt, the Prime Minister of Australia, is officially presumed dead.
December 20, 1967	A Pennsylvania Railroad Budd Metroliner exceeds 249 kilometres per hour (155 mph) on their New York Division, also present-day Amtrak's Northeast Corridor.
December 21, 1967	Louis Washkansky, the first man to undergo a human-to-human heart transplant, dies in Cape Town, South Africa, having lived for 18 days after the transplant.
December 28, 1967	American businesswoman Muriel Siebert becomes the first woman to own a seat on the New York Stock Exchange.
December 30, 1967	Aeroflot Flight L-51 crashes near Liepāja International Airport in Liepāja, Latvia, killing 43.