Events in History in October 1967

Oct 2 Thurgood Marshall sworn in as 1st black Supreme Court Justice

Oct 3 King Boudouin inaugurates world's biggest floodgate (Antwerp)
Oct 3 William 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 "Soldaten" premieres in West Berlin

Oct 8 Guerrilla leader Che Guevara and his men are captured in Bolivia.

Oct 10 Brendan Behan's "Borstal Boy" premieres in Dublin

Oct 11 Yoko Plus Me art exhibit opens in London (the me is John Lennon)
Oct 16 Joean Baez and 123 other anti-draft protesters are arrested in Oakland, California
Oct 17 "Hair" premieres on Broadway
Oct 17 Memorial service for Brian Epstein at New London Synagogue
Oct 17 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 22 Joe DiMaggio is hired as executive VP of A's by Charlie Finley
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 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

Oct 31 Nguyen Van Thieu took oath of office as 1st President of South Vietnam 2nd Rep