Historical Events in 1967 (Part 4)

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• Oct 20 A purported bigfoot is filmed at Bluff Creek by Roger Patterson and Robert Gimlin in Northern Califonia
• Oct 21 Egypt sinks Israeli torpedo boat
• Oct 21 Tens of thousands of anti-Vietnam War protesters march on the Pentagon, besieging the military headquarters for two days

• 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 Denny Hulme becomes first New Zealander to win the F1 World Drivers Championship with 3rd place in the Mexican Grand Prix at Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez; wins title by 5 points from team leader Jack Brabham
• 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 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 SF Giants Mike McCormick wins NL Cy Young Award

• Nov 3 Vietnam War: The Battle of Dak To begins, becoming one of the bloodiest battles of the war
• Nov 5 ATS-3 launched by US to take first pictures of full Earth disc
• 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 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 African American mayor of a major US city - Cleveland, Ohio

• 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 Radio Leicester begins broadcasting on VHF, the 1st of 8 local British radio stations (now 40)
• Nov 8 Silver hits record $1.951 an ounce in London
• Nov 8 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• Nov 9 Surveyor 6 soft lands on Moon
• Nov 9 The 1st 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 Packers' Travis Williams returns 2 kickoffs for TDs against Browns, setting largest margin of Browns defeat (48), winning 55-7
• Nov 13 Carl Stokes sworn-in as 1st major city black mayor (Cleveland, Ohio)
• 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 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 descending from 81km, causing its mid air destruction 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 18 British government devalues pound from US equivalent of $2.80 to $2.40
• Nov 19 The establishment of TVB, the first wireless commercial television station in Hong Kong
• Nov 20 At 11 AM, Census Clock at Department 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 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 Security council passes resolution 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 The Beatles release their album "Magical Mystery Tour"
• Nov 27 Gold pool nations pledge support of $35 per ounce gold price

• Nov 28 33rd Heisman Trophy Award: Gary Beban, UCLA (QB)
• Nov 28 1st radio pulsars detected by British postgraduate Jocelyn Burnell and her supervisor Antony Hewish at Cambridge University
• Nov 29 British troops withdraw from Aden and South Yemen
• Nov 29 Robert McNamara elected president of World bank
• Nov 30 Julie Nixon and 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 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 Queen Elizabeth inaugurates 98-inch (249-cm) Isaac Newton telescope
• Dec 1 Seattle awarded one of the 2 AL expansion franchise teams

• Dec 1 Pacific Northwest Sports, Inc. is awarded one of the 2 American League baseball expansion franchises; new team named the Seattle Pilots
• Dec 2 CFL Grey Cup, Landsdowne Park, Ottawa: Hamilton Tiger-Cats defeat Saskatchewan Roughriders, 24-1; Alan Ford's 87 yard punt, on a quick kick, is the longest in Grey Cup history
• Dec 2 32nd Iron Bowl: Alabama beats Auburn 7-3 in Birmingham
• Dec 3 1st human heart transplant performed in South Africa by Dr Christiaan Barnard on Louis Washkansky
• Dec 3 Australian Derek Clayton runs world marathon record 2:09:36.4 at the Fukuoka Marathon in Japan

• Dec 3 Final run of "20th Century Limited" famed NY-Chicago luxury train

• Dec 6 USSR performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan USSR
• Dec 7 The Beatles' clothing store "Apple Boutique" opens at 94 Baker Street, London
• Dec 7 "How Now, Dow Jones" opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC for 220 performances
• Dec 7 Otis Redding records "Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay"
• Dec 8 The Beatles' "Magical Mystery Tour" album is released in UK
• Dec 8 NHL California Seals change name to Oakland Seals

• Dec 11 6.5 earthquake in West India, 170 killed
• Dec 11 Beatles' Apple Music signs its 1st group - Grapefruit
• Dec 11 People's Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) established
• Dec 11 Supersonic airliner prototype "Concorde" 1st shown (France)

• Dec 12 US launches Pioneer 8 into solar orbit
• Dec 13 United Soccer Association & National Pro Soccer League merge into NASL
• Dec 13 Unsuccessful coup against Greek King Constantine II
• Dec 13 San Diego, CA records snow at a zero elevation after temperatures plunge 19 degrees (F) in eight hours.
• Dec 14 DNA created in a test tube

• Dec 15 The Beatles release "Christmas Time is Here Again"
• Dec 15 Joe Garagiola joins "Today" show panel
• Dec 15 The Silver Bridge collapses over the Ohio River in the US, killing 46 people
• Dec 16 Wilt Chamberlain of NBA Philadelphia 76ers scores 68 points vs Chicago
• Dec 16 "Playtime", French film directed by Jacques Tati, starring himself, is released
• Dec 17 WEDW TV channel 49 in Bridgeport, Connecticut (PBS) begins broadcasting
• Dec 17 Harold Holt, Prime Minister of Australia, vanishes in mysterious circumstances while swimming near Melbourne
• Dec 19 Prime Minister of Australia Harold Holt is officially presumed dead.
• Dec 20 474,300 US soldiers in Vietnam
• Dec 20 Ian Anderson & Glenn Cornick form rock group Jethro Tull

• Dec 23 Brussels: NATO Council accept "Flexible Response" strategy
• Dec 24 China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC
• Dec 24 Pirate Radio Pegasus starts broadcasting off New Zealand

• Dec 26 BBC broadcasts "Magical Mystery Tour"
• Dec 26 Dave Brubeck Quartet formally disbands
• Dec 26 Ballon d'Or: Ferencváros forward Flórián Albert wins award for best European football player ahead of Manchester United midfielder Bobby Charlton and Celtic winger Jimmy Johnstone

• Dec 28 KTSB (now KSNT) TV channel 27 in Topeka, KS (NBC) begins broadcasting
• Dec 28 Muriel Siebert is 1st woman to own a seat on New York Stock Exchange
• Dec 28 56th Davis Cup: Australia beats Spain in Brisbane (4-1)
• Dec 29 Star Trek's "Trouble With Tribbles" 1st airs
• Dec 29 Turkish-Cypriot government forms in Cyprus
• Dec 30 Beatles' "Hello Goodbye" single goes #1 & stays #1 for 3 weeks
• Dec 30 Great Western Forum opens in LA
• Dec 31 "Henry, Sweet Henry" closes at Palace Theater NYC after 80 performances
• Dec 31 1st NBA game at Great Western Forum, LA Lakers beat Houston 147-118

• Dec 31 NFL Championship, Lambeau Field, Green Bay: Green Bay Packers beat Dallas Cowboys, 21-17; "The Ice Bowl", -13°F

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