1967 in History (Part 4)

Events in History

Events 301 - 400 of 409

• Sep 28 Walter Washington elected 1st mayor of Washington, D.C.
• Sep 29 -Oct 29] Rome: 1st bishop synod

• Sep 29 Gladys Knight & Pips releases "I Heard it Through the Grapevine"
• Sep 29 Intl Monetary Fund reforms world monetary system
• Sep 30 Palace of Fine Arts reopens (1st time during 1915 exposition)
• Sep 30 USSR's Kosmos 186 & 188 complete 1st automatic docking
• Oct 2 Groundbreaking begins on Veteran's Stadium in Philadelphia

• Oct 3 King Boudouin inaugurates world's biggest floodgate (Antwerp)
• Oct 3 William "Pete" Knight sets X-15 speed rec of 7,297 KPH/4,534 MPH/Mach 6.72
• Oct 4 Omar Ali Saifuddin III of Brunei abdicates in favour of his son, His Majesty Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah
• Oct 6 Haight-Ashbury (San Francisco) hippies throw a funeral for "Hippie" to mark end of "the summer of love".
• Oct 6 USSR performs nuclear test
• Oct 7 Rolf Hochhuth's play "Soldaten" premieres in West Berlin

• Oct 16 Joean Baez and 123 other anti-draft protesters are arrested in Oakland, California
• Oct 17 "Hair" premieres on Broadway

• Oct 17 William "Pete" Knight in X-15 reaches 85 km
• Oct 17 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
• Oct 18 Nobel prize for physics awarded to Hans A Bethe
• Oct 18 Soviet Venera 4 becomes 1st probe to send data back from Venus
• Oct 19 Mariner 5 makes fly-by of Venus
• Oct 20 All white federal jury convicts 7 in murder of 3 civil rights workers in Meridan Mississippi
• 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 27 4 people from Baltimore pour blood on selective service records
• Oct 27 NLF leaves People's Republic of South-Yemen
• Oct 29 Expo 67 closes in Montreal, Canada
• Oct 29 London criminal Jack McVitie is murdered by the Kray twins, leading to their eventual imprisonment and downfall.
• Oct 30 USSR Kosmos 186 & 188 make 1st automatic docking & Venmera 13 launch

• 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 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 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 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 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 20 At 11 AM, Census Clock at Department of Commerce ticks past 200 million
• Nov 21 Phillip & Jay Kunz fly a kite a record 28,000 feet

• 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 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 Gold pool nations pledge support of $35 per ounce gold price

• 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 Seattle awarded one of the 2 AL expansion franchise teams
• Dec 3 1st human heart transplant performed in South Africa by Dr Christiaan Barnard on Louis Washkansky

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

• Dec 6 USSR performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan USSR

• Dec 11 6.5 earthquake in West India, 170 killed
• 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 Silver Bridge collapses over the Ohio River in the US, killing 46 people
• 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.

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