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| 01 - In Britain, Alf Ramsey
is knighted and Bobby Moore gets an OBE in the New Years Honours |
| 02 - Ronald Reagan sworn in
as Governor of California |
| 03 - Jack Ruby, killer of
Lee Harvey Oswald, dies of a blood clot in the lung |
| 03 -
The Beach Boys' Carl
Wilson refuses to comply with a draft notice enlisting him into the
armed forces. A five year legal battle ensues with Wilson eventually
being acquitted of draft evasion |
| 04 - Donald Campbell dies
as his Bluebird speedboat crashes at 300mph on Coniston Water in the Lake
District of England. His body is never found |
| 09 - Open rebellion against
Mao breaks out in China |
| 10 - Anti-segregationist
Lester Maddox sworn in as Governor of Georgia |
| 17 - Jeremy Thorpe becomes
leader of the British Liberal Party on the resignation of Jo Grimond |
| 27 - Maltese Premier
Olivier tells Britain to "get out" |
| 27 - Lone British yachtsman
Francis Chichester is awarded a knighthood |
| 27 - Flash fire kills three
astronauts - Col. Virgil "Gus" Grissom, Col. Edward White II, and Lt.
Cmdr. Roger B. Chaffee - in Apollo 1 while still on launch pad |
| 27 - A space demilitarization treaty, forbidding the orbiting of nuclear weapons
and territorial claims on celestial bodies, is signed by the US and
USSR |
| 03 - Ronald Ryan goes to
gallows in Melbourne, Australia |
| 03 - Visionary British record
producer Joe Meek shoots his landlady then turns the gun on himself.
His suicide occurs on the 8th anniversary of
Buddy Holly's death (3
Feb 1959) which is no coincidence given Meek's fascination with Holly |
| 08 - Gough Whitlam is new
Australian Labor Party leader |
| 11 - Red Army takes over
Peking |
| 12 - Police raid
Rolling Stones' Keith Richards' house in Sussex and arrest Richards, Mick
Jagger and Marianne
Faithfull |
| 18 - Robert Oppenheimer,
father of the Atom Bomb, dies |
| 25 - 'Boston Strangler' is recaptured after escaping from
a mental hospital |
| 01 - Prince Philip visits
Australia |
| 09 - Brian
Jones of The Rolling Stones enters hospital with respiratory problems |
| 10 - US steps up Vietnam
bombing raids |
| 12 - Indira Gandhi
re-elected as Indian PM |
| 30 - RAF drops bombs and
napalm on stricken giant tanker Torrey Canyon off the Cornish
coast in an attempt to halt a giant oil spill. 30,000 tonnes of oil
spread over 270 square miles after the tanker broke in half during
salvage attempts |
| 04 - The Australian
government says it will not ban the contraceptive pill (which may
cause thrombosis), as the risk is "very slight" |
| 08 -
Sandie Shaw becomes
the first UK performer to win the
Eurovision Song Contest, with
Puppet on a String |
| 15 - More than 200,000
protest in New York and San Francisco against the Vietnam War |
| 17 - President Liu Shao-chi
of China is accused of leading a coup against Mao in February |
| 21 - Stalin's daughter ,
Svetlana Alliluyeva Stalin, defects to the West and arrives in the US
to "seek self-expression" |
| 24 - Soviet cosmonaut,
Vladimir Komarov becomes first space fatality when he plunges to his
death in Soyuz I a day after it was launched |
| 30 - Muhammad Ali is
stripped of his World heavyweight boxing title for refusing draft |
| 01 -
Elvis Presley marries
Priscilla Beaulieu in Las Vegas |
| 10 - Compulsory alcohol
breath testing introduced in UK |
| 10 - Mick Jagger, Keith
Richards and Brian Jones of The Rolling Stones appear in
court on drugs charges (again) |
| 13 - 70,000 people attend a pro-Vietnam
War parade in New York City |
| 27 - Australia gives
Aborigines the vote |
| 28 - British yachtsman
Francis Chichester, 65, completes solo round-the-world voyage |
| 29 - Five dollar note goes
into circulation in Australia |
| 30 - Ibo leader Colonel
Ojukwu declares the independence of Nigeria's Eastern Region as the
Republic of Biafra |
| 01 - The
Beatles' Sgt
Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band LP is released |
| 02 - David
Bowie releases his first album, simply titled David Bowie |
| 05 - Israeli air strikes
spark Six-Day War with Arab states |
| 10 - Israel triumphs in 6
day war with Arab neighbors. Israel have captured extensive
territory from Egypt, Jordan and Syria, including all of Jerusalem,
the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and the Golan Heights |
| 16 -
Monterey International
Pop Festival in US |
| 17 - China announces
explosion of its first hydrogen bomb |
| 25 - 26 countries and 400
million people are linked by satellite to witness
The Beatles and
friends perform All You Need Is Love broadcast from the Abbey
Road studios in London in a television spectacular |
| 07 - Nigeria invades Biafra |
| 08 - Actress Vivien Leigh
dies of tuberculosis. Aged 53 |
| 18 - Australia introduces
Postcodes |
| 23 - Race riots in Detroit;
7,000 National Guardsmen aid police after a night of rioting in which
43 people are killed. Similar outbreaks occur in New York City's
Spanish Harlem, Rochester (NY), Birmingham, Alabama, and New Britain,
Connecticut. During the summer, race riots occur in 127 different
cities |
| 01 - Canadian PM Lester
Pearson dismisses de Gaulle's challenge on Quebec |
| 02 - £8 million Dartford
Tunnel under River Thames in London opens |
| 03 - Inquiry into the Welsh
Aberfan disaster blames the Coal Board |
| 03 - Liza Minnelli begins a
nightclub season in Sydney, Australia |
| 12 - LBJ authorizes a new list of bombing
targets in North Vietnam |
| 15 - Belgian artist Rene
Francois-Ghislain Magritte dies (b. 1898) |
| 15 - The British Marine
Offences Bill is passed banning
Pirate Radio stations |
| 17 - Muhammad Ali marries
an orthodox Muslim and reaffirms his commitment to Islam |
| 20 - Three gunmen attack
the US embassy in London with automatic rifles |
| 25 - George Rockwell,
founder of the US Nazi Party, is shot dead by a sniper |
| 27 -
The Beatles' manager Brian
Epstein is found dead |
| 29 - Ex-child film star
Shirley Temple Black announces she is standing for Congress |
| 03 - Sweden changes from
driving on the left side of the road, to the right |
| 10 - Gibraltar votes
overwhelmingly to remain British: 12,138 votes for British rule and
44 for Spanish rule |
| 11 - Harry Connick Junior
is born |
| 12 - Ronald Reagan calls for
escalation of Vietnam War (hopefully not as a result of the birth of
Harry Connick Junior!) |
| 20 - The Queen launches the
Cunard liner
QE2 at Clydebank, Scotland |
| 30 - BBC Radio One,
Britain's long-awaited national pop network, begins broadcasting.
The first single played on the station is Flowers In The Rain
by The Move |
| 02 - Thurgood Marshall
sworn in as first black Supreme Court justice |
| 03 - US musician Woody
Guthrie dies |
| 09 - Cuban revolutionary
hero (and Fidel Castro's right-hand man in the Cuban revolution)
Ernesto "Che" Guevara is shot dead in Bolivia |
| 20 - Australia breaks with
British currency |
| 21 - Israeli destroyer
Eilat is sunk by Egyptian missiles |
| 21/22 - Anti-war protesters
clash with police outside the Pentagon. 647 are arrested |
| 24 - Israeli artillery
destroys a petrol refinery at Port Suez |
| 25 - British Parliament
passes Abortion Bill |
| 26 - The Shah of Iran and
his Queen are crowned in Teheran |
| 29 - The international
exhibition EXPO 67 is opened in Montreal |
| 08 - Britain's first local
radio station, Radio Leicester, goes on the air |
| 27 - General de Gaulle says
he is not prepared at present to negotiate the entry of Great Britain
into the Common Market |
| 29 - First Australian
satellite launched at Woomera |
| 01 - The Isaac Newton
telescope, the largest in Western Europe, is inaugurated at the Royal
Greenwich Observatory in London |
| 03 - A 53-year-old man,
Louis Washansky, is given a new heart in a revolutionary transplant
by Dr Christiaan Barnard in Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, South
Africa |
| 04 - Britain announces a
ban on meat from countries with foot and mouth disease |
| 09 - Nicolae Ceaucescu
becomes premier of Rumania |
| 10 - Soul star Otis Redding
dies when his plane crashes into Lake Monoma in Madison, Wisconsin |
| 11 - The prototype of the
supersonic airliner Concorde is shown for the first time in
Toulouse, France |
| 17 - Australian PM Harold
Holt, disappears at sea while swimming (b. 1908) |
| 18 - USSR hails British
"Third Man" spy Kim Philby a hero |
| 19 - John McEwen sworn in
as acting Australian Prime Minister |
| 20 - McEwen says he won't
serve under McMahon |
| 21 - Heart transplant
recipient Louis Washnasky dies as a result of lung complications |
| 22 - Holt memorial service
held in Melbourne, Australia |
| 26 -
The Beatles'
Magical Mystery Tour screens on the BBC to disappointing reviews.
Even devoted Beatles fans are confused by the seemingly plotless film |
| 30 - Ho Chi Minh sends a
new year greeting from Hanoi to US anti-war protesters |
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Jan 04 - Donald Campbell dies as Bluebird crashes at 300mph
on Coniston Water
Jan 27 - Flash fire kills three astronauts in Apollo 1
while still on launch pad
Mar 10 - US steps up Vietnam bombing raids
May 01 - Elvis Presley marries Priscilla Beaulieu
May 10 - Compulsory breath testing introduced in Britain
Aug 27 - Beatles manager, Brian Epstein, found dead
Oct 02 - Thurgood Marshall sworn in as first black Supreme Court justice
in US
Oct 09 - "Che" Guevara is shot dead in Bolivia
Dec 03 - First heart transplant performed by Dr Christiaan Barnard
Dec 17 - Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt goes missing in surf
 'Red Handed'
wins Melbourne Cup in Australia
US casualty
reports show that over 17,000 soldiers have died in Vietnam since 1961
Quote of the Year
"No Viet Cong ever called me nigger"
Muhammad Ali, refusing to fight in Vietnam
1967 - Time of your Life
All Regions PAL DVD
Ships from UK
1967 FA Cup Final Tottenham vs Chelsea
All Regions PAL DVD
Ships from UK
England vs Scotland
Region 2 (UK) DVD
1967 League Cup Final
QPR vs West
Bromwich Albion
All Regions PAL DVD
Ships from UK
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