May 1967 in History

Events in History

Event of Interest

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 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, Pennsylvania
May 6 Zakir Husain elected 1st Muslim President of India
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 Gijs van Hall resigns as mayor of Amsterdam
May 10 Stockholm Vietnam Tribunal declares US aggression in Vietnam and Cambodia
May 10 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
May 11 100,000,000th US phone connected
May 11 Great Britain, Ireland & Denmark apply for membership of the EEC
May 12 H. Rap Brown replaces Stokely Carmichael as chairman of Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
May 12 Provo disbands in Neth Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
May 13 Zakir Husain is elected the third President of India
May 15 "In re Gault", US Supreme Court rules juveniles accused of crimes should be given same legal rights as adults
May 16 Philalphia 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 18 Silver hits record $1.60 an ounce in London
May 18 Tennessee Governor Ellington approves repeal of the Butler Act (or "Monkey Law") - prohibiting the teaching of evolution, upheld in 1925 Scopes Trial
May 19 USSR ratifies treaty with Britain & US banning nuclear weapons in space
May 20 10,000 demonstrate against war in Vietnam

Event of Interest

May 22 Egyptian President Nasser closes the Straits of Tiran to Israel

May 22 Fire at L'Innovation department store kills 322 (Brussels, Belgium)
May 23 Government bans submarines near South Africa
May 26 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
May 27 Australians vote in favor of a constitutional referendum granting the Australian government the power to make laws to benefit Indigenous Australians and count them in the national census
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

Evel Knievel Jumps 16 Cars

May 30 American motorcycle daredevil Robert "Evel" Knievel's motorcycle jumps 16 automobiles in Gardena, California

One Hundred Years of Solitude

May 30 Argentinian author Gabriel García Márquez's most important work "One Hundred Years of Solitude" is published in Buenos Aires

May 30 King Hussein of Jordan visits Cairo
May 30 Republic of Biafra, a predominantly Igbo secessionist state in eastern Nigeria, is founded by Lt. Col. Odumegwu Ojukwu

Birthdays in History

May 10 Jon Ronson, British journalist and author
May 10 Scott Brison, Canadian politician
May 19 Massimo Taccon, Italian painter and sculptor
May 20 Ramzi Yousef, Kuwaiti-born Pakistani terrorist
May 23 Anna Ibrisagic, Swedish politician
May 25 Poppy Z. Brite [Billy Martin], American author (Lost Souls, Drawing Blood), born in Bowling Green, Kentucky
May 26 Phil Doyle, Australian writer

Deaths in History

May 2 Ernst Friedrich, German pacifist and anarchist (War Against War!), dies at 73
May 6 Zhou Zuoren, Chinese writer (b. 1885)

Elmer Rice (1892-1967)

May 8 American playwright (Pulitzer-Street Scene) and novelist, dies at 74

May 9 Elmar Berkovich, Hungarian-Dutch industrial designer (Eindhoven theater), dies at 69
May 12 John Masefield, British writer and poet (Salt-Water Ballads), Poet Laureate (1930-67), dies at 88
May 15 Edward Hopper, American painter (House by Railroad), dies at 84
May 22 Josip Plemelj, Slovenian mathematician, dies at 93
May 23 Sanne Sannes, photographer, dies at 30
May 26 Antoon Spinoy, Belgian politician, dies at 60
May 27 Ernst Niekisch, German politician (b. 1889)