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World's timeline 1967
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1967 Jan 1, Pope Paul VI announced his Apostolic Constitution (Indulgentiarum Doctrina). He also established this day as World Peace Day.
(http://tinyurl.com/ah8ck9)(SFC, 1/2/99, p.C12)
1967 Jan 3, Mary Garden (b.1874), Scottish opera star, died in Inverurie, Scotland.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Garden)
1967 Jan 3, Jack Ruby (55), the man who shot accused presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, died in a Dallas hospital.
(AP, 1/3/98)
1967 Jan 5, Ronald Reagan was sworn in as Gov. of California.
(SSFC, 6/9/02, p.F7)
1967 Jan 6, Some 16,000 US and 14,000 South Vietnamese troops started their biggest attack on the Iron Triangle, northwest of Saigon. They launched Operation Deckhouse V, an offensive in the Mekong River delta.
(AP, 1/6/98) (HN, 1/6/99)
1967 Jan 10, National Educational Television (forerunner of Public Broadcasting Service) operated as a true network for the 1st time as it carried Pres. Johnson's State of the Union address.
(AP, 1/10/07)
1967 Jan 10, Edward W. Brooke, R-Mass., the first black elected to the U.S. Senate by popular vote, took his seat.
(AP, 1/10/98)
1967 Jan 11, Segregationist Lester Maddox (1915-2003) was inaugurated as governor of Georgia.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lester_Maddox)
1967 Jan 12, HAL, the Heuristically Programmed Algorithmic Computer, from the 1968 Arthur C. Clark and Stanley Kubrick movie/book, became operational at the HAL plant in Urbana, Illinois. The book "HAL’s Legacy: 2001’s Computer as Dream and Reality" was published in 1997 by MIT Press. The birthday in the movie was 1/12/92.
(SFEC, 1/12/97, p.C14)(SFC, 1/25/97, p.E1)(SFEC, 3/16/97, Par p.31)(WSJ, 10/3/97, p.A8)
1967 Jan 13, In Togo Lt. Col. Etienne Eyadama (29) led an army coup and overthrew Pres. Grunitzky. Eyadama suspended the constitution and instituted direct military rule.
(EWH, 1st ed., p.1172)
1967 Jan 14, Sonny and Cher’s "The Beat Goes On" peaked at #6 on the pop charts. In 1999 the TV special “And the Beat Goes On: The Sonny and Cher Story,” written by Sonny Bono (1935-1998), was produced.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beat_Goes_On)(www.imdb.com/title/tt0185155/)
1967 Jan 14, NY Times reported that the US Army was conducting secret germ warfare experiments.
(www.economicexpert.com/a/1967.htm)
1967 Jan 14, The great Human Be-In was held in Golden Gate Park and drew national attention to the Haight-Ashbury scene. Allen Cohen, editor of a paper called the Oracle, came up with the idea. It was here that Timothy Leary proclaimed "Turn on, Tune in, Drop out." At the Gathering of the Tribes Allen Ginsberg is credited with coining the term "Flower Power."
(SFC, 5/19/96,City Guide, p.5)(SFEC, 4/6/97, p.A11)(SSFC, 1/14/07, p.A10)
1967 Jan 15, The Rolling Stones appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show.
(www.crazyabouttv.com/edsullivanshow.html)
1967 Jan 15, The first Super Bowl was played as the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League defeated the Kansas City Chiefs of the American Football League, 35-10 in Los Angeles. The matchup was officially called the AFL-NFL World Championship Game.
(WSJ, 1/28/97, p.A16)(AP, 1/15/98)
1967 Jan 15, Some 462 Yale faculty members called for an end to the bombing in North Vietnam.
(HN, 1/15/99)
1967 Jan 16, Alan S. Boyd was sworn in as the first US secretary of transportation.
(AP, 1/16/98)
1967 Jan 16, Gov. Reagan met with FBI agents at his governor’s mansion in Sacramento, Ca., for information on UC campus radicals.
(SSFC, 6/9/02, p.F1)
1967 Jan 17, Barney Ross (1909), Jewish boxer born as Dov-Ber Rasofsky, died. He won the lightweight title in 1933 and the welterweight crown in 1934. In 2006 Douglas Century authored the biography “Barney Ross.”
(www.ibhof.com/ross.htm)(WSJ, 3/17/06, p.W7)
1967 Jan 18, Albert DeSalvo, who claimed to be the "Boston Strangler," was convicted in Cambridge, Mass., of armed robbery, assault and sex offenses. Sentenced to life, DeSalvo was killed by a fellow inmate in 1973. DeSalvo had confessed to being the Boston Strangler and killing 13 women. He was never convicted of murder. A portrait of him with police interviews was made in 1996 for TV show Biography. In 1999 DNA evidence was sought to confirm DeSalvo's claims.
(SFC, 6/6/96, E9)(AP, 1/18/98)(SFC, 7/10/99, p.A4)
1967 Jan 19, North Korean artillery batteries fired on and sank ROKN PCE-56 off the north Korean east coast killing 39 South Korean sailors.
(AP, 3/27/10)(www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/dmz-list.htm)
1967 Jan 20, Clark Kerr, president of the UC system, was fired by Gov. Reagan and the UC Regents for being too soft on student protesters at Berkeley. In 2003 Kerr authored vol. 2 of his memoir: "The Gold and the Blue: A Personal Memoir of the Univ. of California.
(SSFC, 2/17/02, p.M6)(SSFC, 6/9/02, p.F6)
1967 Jan 27, During a launch pad test of the Apollo I (AS-204) mission at Cape Kennedy, a flash fire suddenly broke out in the vehicle's command module and killed its crew, Lt. Col. Edward White, II (U.S. Air Force), Lt. Col. Virgil "Gus" Grissom (U.S. Air Force) and Lt. Cmdr. Roger Chaffee (U.S. Navy). The fire consumed the command module mere seconds after the crew had reported it.
(AP, 1/27/98)(HNPD, 1/27/99)
1967 Jan 27, The US signed the Outer Space Treaty with Russia. More than 60 nations signed a treaty banning the orbiting of nuclear weapons. All weapons of mass destruction were banned from orbit, as was military activity on the moon and other celestial bodies.
(SFC, 1/28/67, p.A1)(AP, 1/27/98)(SSFC, 7/15/07, p.D1)
1967 Jan 27, Luigi Tenco (29), one of Italy's most famous modern singers, was found dead in his hotel room with a single gunshot wound to the head, hours after learning that his song had been eliminated from a national music competition. In 2006 prosecutors exhumed his body and said they had laid to rest suspicions that he had been murdered.
(Reuters, 2/16/06)
1967 Jan 29, Thirty-seven civilians were killed by a U.S. helicopter attack in Vietnam.
(HN, 1/29/99)
1967 Jan, Ernesto "Che" Guevara began organizing the National Liberation Army in Bolivia.
(SFC, 5/12/96, Z1p.4)
1967 Feb 1, The US Federal Hourly Minimum Wage was set at $1.40 an hour.
(www.dol.gov/ESA/minwage/chart.htm)
1967 Feb 2, The American Basketball Association (ABA) was officially born as the brainchild of promoter Dennis Murphy. He later founded the World Football League, the World Hockey Association, and World Team Tennis.
(www.hoophall.com/genrel/070307aaa.html)
1967 Feb 3, Ronald Ryan (b.1925) was the last person executed in Australia.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Ryan)
1967 Feb 5, “The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour” premiered on CBS TV.
(AP, 2/5/07)
1967 Feb 6, Muhammad Ali (b.1942) TKO’d Ernie Terrell (b.1939) in 15 for the heavyweight boxing title.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernie_Terrell)
1967 Feb 7, Henry Morgenthau (b.1891), 52nd US secretary of the treasury, died. He served under President Franklin D. Roosevelt from January 1, 1934 to July 22, 1945.
(www.ustreas.gov/education/history/secretaries/hmorgenthaujr.html)
1967 Feb 10, The 25th Amendment to the Constitution, dealing with presidential disability and succession, went into effect as Minnesota and Nevada adopted it.
(HFA, '96, p.22)(AP, 2/10/08)
1967 Feb 14, Ramparts Magazine published an ad in the NY Times and Washington Post saying: “In its March issue, Ramparts magazine will document how the CIA has infiltrated and subverted the world of American student leaders over the past fifteen years.”
(WSJ, 1/23/08, p.D8)(www.nytimes.com/books/first/m/mackenzie-secrets.html)
1967 Feb 15, Thirteen US helicopters were shot down in one day in Vietnam.
(HN, 2/15/98)
1967 Feb 15, The 1st anti-bootleg recording laws were enacted.
(www.historyorb.com/events/date/1967)
1967 Feb 15, France launched its Diademe-D satellite into Earth orbit. This followed the launch of Diademe-C on Feb 8. These satellites were magnetically stabilized which limited their trackability in the southern hemisphere.
(http://ilrs.gsfc.nasa.gov/satellite_missions/list_of_satellites/di1c_general.html)
1967 Feb 17, Beatles released "Penny Lane" & "Strawberry Fields." Strawberry Fields was a children’s home run by the Salvation Army. It was closed in 2005.
(http://www.jpgr.co.uk/r5570.html)(SFC, 6/2/05, p.E8)
1967 Feb 18, The National Art Gallery in Washington agreed to buy a Da Vinci for a record $5 million.
(HN, 2/18/98)
1967 Feb 18, Robert Oppenheimer (62), theoretical physicist and leader of atomic bomb development, died. His work included outlining processes by which old stars of sufficient mass might collapse beyond the Schwarzschild radius and become black holes. Physicist John Wheeler named the phenomena black holes. In 2005 Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin authored “American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer,” and Priscilla J. McMillan authored “The Ruin of J. Robert Oppenheimer.”
(SFC, 12/19/98, p.C3)(SSFC, 4/10/05, p.B1)(SSFC, 7/31/05, p.F2)
1967 Feb 20, Kurt Cobain, Nirvana grunge band musician, was born in Aberdeen, Washington. He was found dead at his Lake Washington home on April 8, 1994, of suicide committed about April 5.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Cobain)
1967 Feb 20, Elvis Presley released his album "How Great Thou Art." The song “How Great Thou Art” is a Christian hymn based on a Swedish poem written by Carl Gustav Boberg (1859-1940) in Sweden in 1885.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_Great_Thou_Art_(album))
1967 Feb 21, Ford recalled 217,000 cars to check brakes and steering.
(HN, 2/21/98)
1967 Feb 22, Barbara Garson's "MacBird!," a notorious counterculture drama, premiered in NYC. It satirically depicted President Lyndon Johnson as Macbeth and his wife, Lady Bird Johnson, as Lady Macbeth.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacBird)
1967 Feb 22, A report from Africa indicated that the world's first white gorilla had been found.
(HN, 2/22/98)
1967 Feb 22, More than 25,000 US and South Vietnamese troops launched Operation Junction City, aimed at smashing a Vietcong stronghold near the Cambodian border. In order to deny the Vietcong cover, and allow men to see through the dense vegetation, herbicides were dumped on the forests near the South Vietnamese borders as well as Cambodia and Laos. The operation continued to May 14.
(HN, 2/22/99)(AP, 2/22/07)(HN, 2/23/98)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Junction_City)
1967 Feb 24, Franz Waxman (b.1906), German born composer, died in Los Angeles. In 1947 he founded the Los Angeles International Music Festival. Waxman won the Academy Award in 1950 for Billy Wilder's "Sunset Boulevard" and in 1951 for George Steven's "A Place in the Sun." He is the only composer to have won the award for Best Score in two successive years.
(www.franzwaxman.com/about.html)
1967 Feb 26, USSR performed an underground nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan, Semipalitinsk, USSR.
(http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/res/pi/Monitoring/Arch/sts-table/sts-table.html)
1967 Feb 28, In Mississippi 19 were indicted in the slayings of three civil rights workers in 1964. Samuel H. Bowers and 6 others were convicted on federal charges in 1970. Bowers was released in 1976.
(HN, 2/28/98)(SFC, 8/18/98, p.A5)
1967 Feb 28, Art Davidson, Ray Genet and Dave Johnston completed the first winter ascent of Mount McKinley. On their descent they became trapped by a storm for 6 days at 18,500 feet in an ice-cave. In 1969 Art Davidson authored “Minus 148°.”
(WSJ, 4/28/07, p.P8)(www.summitpost.org/parent/150199/mount-mckinley-denali.html)
1967 Feb 28, Henry Luce (68), American publisher, died in Phoenix. He and Briton Hadden (1898-1929) published the first issue of Time magazine on March 3, 1923. In 2010 Alan Brinkley authored “The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century.”
(AP, 2/28/07)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Luce)(Econ, 1/9/10, p.82)
1967 Feb, The song Georgy Girl reached the top of the US charts making The Seekers the first Australian group to top the US charts. The song was used in the 1966 British film of the same title.
(www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/alley/4567/)
1967 Mar 1, US Rep. Adam Clayton Powell (1908-1972) of New York City, accused of misconduct, was denied his seat in the 90th Congress. The House of Representatives voted 307 to 116 to expel Powell. The Supreme Court ruled in 1969 that Powell had to be seated.
(AP, 3/1/98)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Clayton_Powell_Jr.)
1967 Mar 1, Queen Elizabeth Hall (South Bank Center) opened in London.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Elizabeth_Hall)(http://tinyurl.com/md43c3)
1967 Mar 1, Dominica became a West Indies associated state with Edward Oliver LeBlanc as premier. Full independence was attained on Nov. 03, 1978.
(www.chiefacoins.com/Database/Countries/Dominica.htm)
1967 Mar 1, St. Lucia became a West Indies associated state with John Compton as Premier. It gained full independence on Feb 22, 1979.
(www.stlucia1979.com/page3.htm)
1967 Mar 2, At the 9th Grammy Awards: “Strangers in Night” by Frank Sinatra won Record of the Year and “Michele” by the Beatles won Song of the Year.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammy_Awards_of_1967)
1967 Mar 2, The US performed a nuclear test at its Nevada Test Site. The Rivet III test was part of Operation Latchkey.
(www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Operation_Latchkey)
1967 Mar 3, The US performed a nuclear test at its Nevada Test Site. The Mushroom test was part of Operation Latchkey.
(www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Operation_Latchkey)
1967 Mar 3, Grenada became an associated state of Britain. Full independence came on Feb 7, 1974.
(http://dosfan.lib.uic.edu/ERC/bgnotes/wha/grenada9011.html)
1967 Mar 5, Mohammed H. Mosaddeq (b.1882), former prime minister of Iran (1951-53), died in Iran following a period of house arrest. He had been ousted in a military coup organized by the CIA and British intelligence.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad_Mossadegh)
1967 Mar 6, US Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson announced his plan to establish a draft lottery.
(www.historynet.com/tdih0306.htm)
1967 Mar 6, Elijah Muhammad, Nation of Islam sect leader, gave a radio address in which he declared the name Cassius Clay lacked a "divine meaning." He gave Clay the Muslim name "Muhammad Ali." Muhammad meant one worthy of praise, and Ali was the name of a cousin of the prophets.
(http://espn.go.com/sportscentury/features/00014063.html)
1967 Mar 6, The daughter of Josef Stalin, Svetlana Alliluyeva, appeared at the US Embassy in India and announced her intention to defect to the West.
(AP, 3/6/07)
1967 Mar 6, Nelson Eddy (b.1901), US baritone and actor, died. “Rose Marie” (1936) is probably his most-remembered film. Eddy sang "Song of the Mounties" and "Indian Love Call" by Rudolf Friml. His definitive portrayal of the steadfast Mountie became a popular icon.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Eddy)
1967 Mar 6, Zoltan Kodaly (b.1882), Hungarian composer, died. His major works, notably the comic opera Hary Janos, the Psalmus hungaricus, the Peacock Variations for orchestra and the Dances of Marosszek and Galanta drew on Magyar folk music.
(www.malaspina.org/kodalyz.htm)
1967 Mar 7, The Los Angeles-based Doors made their 2nd trip to SF and performed for a mid-week engagement at the Matrix ahead of a weekend performance at the Avalon. Peter Abrams, co-owner of the Matrix, recorded the show with a recently installed tape recorder.
(SFC, 11/17/08, p.E1)(http://tinyurl.com/mxky7j)
1967 Mar 7, Clark Gesner's musical "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown” premiered in NYC.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You%27re_a_Good_Man,_Charlie_Brown)
1967 Mar 7, Convicted Teamster boss Jimmy Hoffa began an eight-year prison term at Lewisburg Federal Prison in Pennsylvania for defrauding the union and jury tampering. The sentence was commuted by President Nixon Dec 23, 1971.
(HN, 3/7/98)(www.moldea.com/One-9.html)
1967 Mar 7, Alice B. Toklas (b.1877), the life partner of writer Gertrude Stein, died In Paris, France. Her work included “The Alice B. Toklas Cookbook” (1954). In 2007 Janet Malcolm authored “Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice.”
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_B._Toklas)(WSJ, 9/25/07, p.D6)
1967 Mar 6, Svetlana Alliluyeva, the daughter of Josef Stalin, appeared at the US Embassy in India and announced her intention to defect to the West. She arrived at New York in April and held a press conference during which she denounced her father's regime.
(AP, 3/6/07)(www.economicexpert.com/a/Svetlana:Alliluyeva.htm)
1967 Mar 11, British psychedelic group Pink Floyd released “Arnold Layne,” their 1st single song.
(http://pinkfloydhyperbase.dk/albums/arnold.htm)(SFC, 9/26/06, p.D6)
1967 Mar 14, The body of President Kennedy was moved from a temporary grave to a permanent memorial site at Arlington National Cemetery.
(AP, 3/14/98)(HN, 3/14/98)
1967 Mar 23, Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. called the Vietnam War the biggest obstacle to the civil rights movement.
(HN, 3/23/98)
1967 Mar 24, In Vietnam B Battery was replaced at Gio Linh and returned to base camp at JJ Carroll. The entire battalion had been involved in Operation High Rise, the first Operation involving heavy artillery firing at targets in North Vietnam. The firing into North Vietnam proceeded with an intense rate in an effort to stifle the enemy supply channels from the North.
(www.willpete.com/history2nd94th.htm)
1967 Mar 26, The 21st Tony Awards were held at the Schubert Theater in NYC. “The Homecoming” won for Best Play and “Cabaret” won for Best Musical.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/21st_Tony_Awards)
1967 Mar 26, Herbert von Karajan founded the Salzburg Easter Festival with the idea of staging his ideal Ring of the Nibelung with his own Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.
(WSJ, 4/12/96, p.A-12)
1967 Mar 26, Jim Thompson, American ex-serviceman, disappeared while on holiday in the Cameron Highlands of Northern Malaysia. He revived the Thai silk industry after WW II. He was one of the first to adopt a classic Thai house to the requirements of modern life, and his home is now a museum in Bangkok, Thailand.
(Hem, Mar. 95, p.63)(SFEC, 7/16/00, p.T14)
1967 Mar 26, Pope Paul VI published encyclical Populorum Progressio (On the Development of Peoples).
(www.ewtn.com/library/ENCYC/P6DEVELO.HTM)
1967 Mar 27, A North Vietnamese spokesman unequivocally rejected a new peace plan proposed by UN Sec. General U Thant (1907-1974) on March 14.
(http://www.nybooks.com/articles/12091)
1967 Mar 29, The first nationwide strike in the 30-year history of the American Federation of Television occurred and lasted for 13 days.
(www.aftra.org/aftra/history.htm)
1967 Mar 29, France launched its first nuclear submarine. It did not enter operational service until 1972, when it began its first patrol on 28 January.
(http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/France/FranceOrigin.html)
1967 Mar 31, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Consular Treaty, the first bi-lateral pact with the Soviet Union since the Bolshevik Revolution.
(http://travel.state.gov/law/legal/treaty/treaty_1508.html)
1967 Apr 1, Sir Edward Compton, who had been appointed as Ombudsman-designate in September 1966, began work as Britain’s Parliamentary Ombudsman.
(www.ombudsman.org.uk/about_us/our_history/timeline.html)
1967 Apr 5, Pres. Johnson appointed Ellsworth Bunker (1894-1984) as the new ambassador to Saigon, South Vietnam. Bunker replaced Lodge and continued as ambassador to 1973.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Ambassador_to_South_Vietnam)
1967 Apr 7, A, Israeli-Syrian minor border incident escalated into a full-scale aerial battle over the Golan Heights, resulting in the loss of six Syrian MiG-21s to Israeli Air Force (IAF) Dassault Mirage IIIs, and the latter's flight over Damascus.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six-Day_War)
1967 Apr 9, The 1st Boeing 737-100 made its maiden flight.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_737)
1967 Apr 10, In the 39th Academy Awards "A Man For All Seasons" won for Best Picture; Elizabeth Taylor won as Best Actress for “Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”; and Paul Scofield won as Best Actor for “A Man For All Seasons.”
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/39th_Academy_Awards)
1967 Apr 11, Tom Stoppard's "Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead," was performed by the Royal National Theater at London’s Old Vic Theater. It had premiered on Aug 26, 1966, in Edinburgh, Scotland.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosencrantz_and_Guildenstern_Are_Dead)
1967 Apr 11, Harlem, NYC, voters defied Congress and reelected Adam Clayton Powell Jr. (1908-1972). In January, 1967, the House Democratic Caucus had stripped Powell of his committee chairmanship following allegations that Powell had misappropriated Committee funds for his personal use and other charges. In June, 1969, the Supreme Court ruled that the House had acted unconstitutionally when it excluded Powell, a duly elected member. He returned to the House, but without his seniority.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Clayton_Powell_Jr.)
1967 Apr 11, In the Vietnam War, US planes bombed two thermal power plants in Haiphong, North Vietnam.
(www.pownetwork.org/bios/e/e031.htm)
1967 Apr 14, In San Francisco thousands marched from the Ferry building to Kezar Stadium against the Vietnam war. The marchers filled the 40,000 capacity stadium.
(SFEC, 5/23/99, Z1 p.4)
1967 Apr 17, In Vietnam Lt. Col. Leo Thorsness and “backseater” Harry Johnson shot down 2 MiG fighters. Both men were captured on Apr 28, and spent 6 years as POWs.
(WSJ, 12/30/08, p.A9)
1967 Apr 19, Conrad Adenauer (b.1876), West Germany chancellor (1949-63), died.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konrad_Adenauer)
1967 Apr 20, U.S. planes bombed Haiphong for first time during the Vietnam War.
(HN, 4/20/98)
1967 Apr 21, Northern Illinois was struck by 17 tornadoes, including several in the Chicago metropolitan area. One violent tornado moved through Belvidere (east of Rockford), killing 24 people and injuring another 450, including 13 deaths at the local high school. Damage to Belvidere totaled about $20 million, including destruction of 400 cars at the local Chrysler plant. A second violent tornado touched down in Elgin and moved northeast to Lake Zurich, causing $10 million damage. A third violent tornado touched down near Palos Hills and moved across the south side of Chicago to Lake Michigan. This tornado struck during Friday rush hour, and many of the 33 deaths and 500 injuries occurred in vehicles stopped at traffic lights. Over $50 million damage was reported from the tornado outbreak.
(www.crh.noaa.gov/ilx/trivia/aprtriv.php)
1967 Apr 21, In Greece "The Colonels" led by Colonel George Papadopoulos (1919-1999) took power in a bloodless military coup. Papadopoulos, Stylianos Pattakos, and Nikolaos Makarezos (1919-2009) imposed martial law and cracked down heavily on political opponents, imprisoning or exiling thousands of mostly left-wing supporters, many of whom were tortured by military police.
(SFC, 4/23/98, p.B4)(SFC, 6/28/99, p.A19)(AP, 8/6/09)
1967 Apr 23, Soyuz 1 was launched, and Vladimir Komarov became the first in-flight casualty.
(AP, 4/23/98)
1967 Apr 24, Frank Overton (b.1918), American film and TV actor, died. His films included “The Dark At the Top of the Stairs” (1960).
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Overton)
1967 Apr 25, Britain granted internal self-government to Swaziland.
(http://flagspot.net/flags/sz.html)
1967 Apr 27, Expo '67 was officially opened in Montreal by Canadian Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson. The urban theme park, La Ronde, was built on the Ile Sainte-Helene for the exposition and continues on to today. The Expo featured the big-screen, multi-projector film Polar Life. This led to the formation of Multiscreen Corporation and eventually IMAX in 1970.
(Hem., 7/95, p.129)(Hem., 3/97, p.81)(AP, 4/27/97)
1967 Apr 27, Rocky Marciano (1923-1969), American heavyweight champion, retired as the undefeated boxing champ.
(http://tinyurl.com/nqhtzs)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_Marciano)
1967 Apr 28, Heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali refused to be inducted into the Army and was stripped of his boxing title.
(AP, 4/28/97)(HN, 4/28/98)
1967 Apr 28, Gen. William C. Westmoreland told Congress the United States "would prevail in Vietnam."
(AP, 4/28/97)
1967 Apr 28, Lt. Col. Leo Thorsness and “backseater” Harry Johnson ejected over North Vietnam following an attack by an enemy MiG fighter. They were released along with other POWs in 1973. In Oct, 1973, Thorsness received a Medal of Honor. In 2008 he authored “Surviving Hell: A POWs Journey.”
(WSJ, 12/30/08, p.A9)
1967 Apr, French author Regis Debray (b.1940) was imprisoned in Bolivia shortly before the capture of Che Guevara [see Nov 17].
(www.tamilnation.org/ideology/debray.htm)
1967 Apr-1967 May, The US military conducted chemical warfare tests, Red Oak, Phase 1, in the Upper Waiakea Forest Reserve of Hawaii using shells and rockets filled with sarin gas.
(SFC, 11/1/02, p.A3)
1967 May 1, Elvis Presley (32) married Priscilla Beaulieu (20) in Las Vegas at the Aladdin Hotel. They divorced in 1973. They had met when she was 14 in West Germany.
(AP, 5/1/97)(SFEM, 1/25/98, p.66)
1967 May 1, Anastasio Somoza Debayle became president of Nicaragua.
(AP, 5/1/97)
1967 May 2, The Stockholm Vietnam Tribunal opened and continued to May 10. The formation of this investigative body immediately followed the 1966 publication of Bertrand Russell's book, “War Crimes in Vietnam.” It condemned US aggression in Vietnam and Cambodia. A 2nd session of the tribunal was held at Roskilde, Denmark, Nov 20 – Dec 1, 1967.
(www.vietnamese-american.org/contents.html)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Tribunal)
1967 May 6, The body of Keith Lyon (12) of Brighton, England, was found clad in his school uniform on a grass bank near a rural bridle path between the nearby villages of Ovingdean and Woodingdean, about 56 miles south of London. He had left home to buy a geometry set and never returned. Lyon had been stabbed 11 times in the chest, back and abdomen with a serrated kitchen knife. In 2006 2 suspects were arrested.
(AP, 8/1/06)
1967 May 8, Boxer Muhammad Ali (b.1942) was indicted for refusing induction in US Army.
(www.cyberboxingzone.com/boxing/alirec.htm)
1967 May 9, Marine Sgt. James Neil Tycz (22) and three other US servicemen were killed on Hill 665 near Khe Sanh, Vietnam, close to the Laos border. In 2005 three of the men were buried at Arlington National Cemetery on the 38th anniversary of their deaths.
(AP, 5/8/05)
1967 May 11, The United Kingdom re-applied to join the European Community. It is followed by Ireland and Denmark and, a little later, by Norway. General de Gaulle is still reluctant to accept British accession.
(http://europa.eu.int/abc/history/1967/index_en.htm)
1967 May 11, French President Charles de Gaulle for a second time said he will veto Britain's application to join the Common Market.
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/27/newsid_4187000/4187714.stm)
1967 May 11, David Galula (b.1919), Tunisia-born French military officer and scholar, died in France. He was influential in developing theories of counterinsurgency. He wrote his experiences in two books, later published by the RAND Corporation: “Pacification in Algeria” (1963), and “Counterinsurgency Warfare: Theory and Practice” (1964).
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Galula)(WSJ, 3/14/09, p.W9)
1967 May 12, H. Rap Brown (b.1943) replaced Stokely Carmichael (1941-1968) as chairman of Student Nonviolating Coordinating Committee and announced that the organization will continue its commitment to black power.
(www.shmoop.com/civil-rights-black-power/timeline.html)
1967 May 12, English poet laureate John Masefield died.
(AP, 5/12/07)
1967 May 13, NY Yankee Mickey Mantle (b.1931) hit career HR #500 off Stu Miller.
(www.baseball-almanac.com/boxscore/05141967.shtml)
1967 May 15, Edward Hopper (b.1882), US painter (House by Railroad), died in NYC. He studied in Paris but never painted in the abstract. He often used his wife, artist Josephine Nivison (d.1968), as his model. He was the first artist to paint the American scene as a desolate, vacant place. A biography of Mr. Hopper and his 44 years with Josephine was published in 1995 by Gail Levin titled “Edward Hopper.” In 1998 the Whitney Museum published: "Edward Hopper: A Journal of His Work."
(www.fact-index.com)(WSJ, 10/4/95, p.A-12)(SFEC, 3/15/98, BR p.7)(HN, 7/22/02)
1967 May 18, Tennessee Gov. Buford Ellington signed a measure repealing the "Monkey Law" against teaching evolution that was used to prosecute John T. Scopes in 1925.
(AP, 5/18/07)(SC, 5/18/02)
1967 May 18, Richard Ainley (b.1910), English stage and film actor, died. His films included “Above Suspicion” (1943).
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Ainley)
1967 May 18, Andy Clyde (75), Scottish movie and TV actor, died. He is remembered for his roles as a comic sidekick, usually teaming with William Boyd in the Hopalong Cassidy series.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Clyde)
1967 May 18, In Mexico schoolteacher Lucio Cabanas began a guerilla campaign in Atoyac de Alvarez, west of Acapulco in the state of Guerrero. The government responded with widespread repression and hundreds of civilians were killed or disappeared.
(SFEC, 9/30/96, p.A12)
1967 May 19, The Soviet Union ratified a treaty with the United States and Britain banning nuclear weapons from outer space: "Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, including the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies." The Int’l. Outer Space Treaty barred nations from appropriating celestial bodies but did not mention individuals.
(AP, 5/19/97)(SFC, 6/25/97, p.A15)(SFEC, 7/13/97, Par p.8)
1967 May 19, Aircraft from the US carriers Enterprise, Kitty Hawk, and Bon Homme Richard conducted air strikes against three targets in the vicinity of Hanoi.
(www.virtualwall.org/dp/PattersonJK01a.htm)
1967 May 20, A 2-day Spring Mobilization Conference opened in Washington D.C. The gathering of 700 antiwar activists was called to evaluate the antiwar demonstrations that had taken place on April 15, 1967 in New York City and San Francisco. The conference set another antiwar action for the fall of 1967 and created an administrative committee to plan it. That committee was the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam (MOBE).
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Mobilization_Committee_to_End_the_War_in_Vietnam)
1967 May 20, BBC disc jockey Kenny Everett gave the official preview of Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band on the radio show Where It's At, broadcast on the BBC Light Program. He was unable to play the final track "A Day in the Life," which the BBC had banned a day earlier due to drug references.
(www.beatlesbible.com/1967/05/20/the-bbc-bans-a-day-in-the-life/)
1967 May 22, Egyptian president Nasser closed the Straits of Tiran to Israel.
(www.palestinefacts.org/pf_1948to1967_sixday_backgd.php)
1967 May 22, J. Langston Hughes (b.1902), poet laureate, US author (Tambourines to Glory), died of complications following surgery at NY Polyclinic Hospital.
(SSFC, 7/25/04, p.F3)
1967 May 25, John Lennon took delivery of his psychedelic painted Rolls Royce. He had acquired the Phantom V on June 3, 1965.
(www.blogcatalog.com/blog/jinxi-boo/cc59e352cc28925ddae7f1497e6cd46c)
1967 May 26, California State Senator J. Eugene McAteer (b.1916) died during his campaign for mayor of SF. Joseph Alioto, the co-chairman of the campaign, ran in his place and overcame his rival, Harold Dobbs.
(SFC, 1/30/98, p.A10)(www.joincalifornia.com/candidate/5668)
1967 May 27, Australians approved a referendum to amend the constitution to allow the federal government to make laws for indigenous Australians and to include them in the national census. The referendum became law on August 10.
(Econ, 6/2/07, p.43)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_referendum,_1967_(Aboriginals))
1967 May 28, Francis Chichester (1901-1972), English aviator and sailor, arrived home at Plymouth from a round-the-world, one man sailboat trip.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Chichester)
1967 May 29, Pope Paul VI named 27 new cardinals, including Karol Wojtyla, archbishop of Krakow, who later became Pope John Paul II.
(SSFC, 4/3/05, p.A13)
1967 May 29, Geronimo Baqueiro Foster (b.1898), Mexican musicologist and composer, died.
(www.dolmetsch.com/cdefsb.htm)
1967 May 30, Robert "Evel" Knievel (1938-2007) on his motorcycle jumped 16 cars in Gardena, Ca.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evel_Knievel)
1967 May 30, Biafra declared independence from Nigeria.
(http://flagspot.net/flags/ng-biaf.html)
1967 May, The American organization known as CORDS (Civil Operations and Revolutionary Development Support) was formed to coordinate the US civil and military pacification programs in Vietnam.
(www.historynet.com/cords-winning-hearts-and-minds-in-vietnam.htm)
1967 May, The Olympic Committee banned a number of substances including narcotics, steroids and amphetamines and announced that small-scale drug-testing would begin at the 1968 Olympics in Grenoble and Mexico City.
(WSJ, 8/7/06, p.B1)(www.steroid.com/)
1967 Jun 1, "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band," was released in the U.K. and the following day in the U.S. and was certified "gold" the same day of release. It topped the charts all over the world, holding the number one slot in Britain for 27 weeks and for 19 in America. It received four Grammys including Best Album.
(AP, 6/1/97)
1967 Jun 1, In Israel pressure from the army and a threat by some parties to quit the governing coalition forced PM Levi Eshkol to bring in Moshe Dayan as defense minister.
(www.britannica.com/ebc/article-9029562)(Econ, 5/26/07, p.43)
1967 Jun 2, Race riots took place in the Roxbury section of Boston.
(http://ksgaccman.harvard.edu/hotc/DisplayPlace.asp?id=11607)
1967 Jun 2, Zamah Cunningham (b.1892), actress, died. Her films included “Here Come the Girls” (1953).
(http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0192476/)
1967 Jun 2, In Germany Benno Ohnesorg, a newly wed student of literature, was shot in the back of the head during a protest in West Berlin against the visiting shah of Iran. Police officer Karl-Heinz Kurras, who claimed he was threatened by knife-wielding protesters, was acquitted of manslaughter charges on Nov 23. The led to the formation of the Red Army Faction, also known as the Baader-Meinhof gang. In 2009 Kurras was found to have been a long-time agent of East Germany’s secret police, the Stasi.
(Econ, 5/30/09, p.52)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gudrun_Ensslin)
1967 Jun 3, Arthur Ransome (b.1884), English author of children’s adventure stories, died. He is best known for writing the “Swallows and Amazons” series of children's books. It is believed that he served as a double agent and worked in the Russian service after the collapse of the Czarist regime. In 1918 he wrote a propaganda pamphlet titled: “On Behalf of Russia: An Open Letter to America.” In 2009 Roland Chambers authored “The Last Englishman: The Double Life of Arthur Ransome.”
(Econ, 8/29/09, p.73)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Ransome)
1967 Jun 4, American actor and comedian Bill Cosby (b.1937) received an Emmy Award for his work in the television series "I Spy." Cosby won three consecutive Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actor in the Drama Series in 1966, 1967 and 1968. In the 19th Emmy Awards: Mission Impossible, Monkees, Don Knotts & Lucy Ball were among the winners.
(HN, 6/4/00)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Spy)
1967 Jun 5, Murderer Richard Speck (1941-1991) was sentenced to death in electric chair for the murder of 8 student nurses on July 14, 1966. The Illinois Supreme Court upheld his conviction and death sentence on November 22, 1968.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Speck)
1967 Jun 5, The Six Day War erupted in the Middle East as Israel, convinced an Arab attack was imminent, raided Egyptian military targets. Syria, Jordan and Iraq entered the conflict. Jordan lost the West Bank, an area of 2,270 sq. miles. War broke out as Israel reacted to the removal of UN peace-keeping troops, Arab troop movements and the barring of Israeli ships in the Gulf of Aqaba.
(AP, 6/5/97)(HN, 6/5/98)(NG, 5/93, p.58)(HNQ, 5/22/00)
1967 Jun 5-1967 Jun 10, Israel fought the Six-Day War against Syria and captured the Golan Heights, the Gaza Strip, the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Allegations that Israeli soldiers killed hundreds of Egyptian prisoners with the knowledge of national leaders were made by Israeli historians in 1995. Israel occupied Syrian territory. The Gaza Strip and the West Bank were captured by Israel. Israel annexed the largely Arab East Jerusalem, which included the Old City, and has since ringed it with Jewish neighborhoods.
(WSJ, 8/17/95, p.A-1)(WSJ,11/24/95, p.A-1)(WSJ, 5/6/96, p.A-13)(SFC, 6/25/96, p.A10)(SFC, 1/22/98, p.B12)(SFC, 4/24/98, p.A17)
1967 Jun 6, Israeli troops occupied Gaza on the 2nd day of the 6-day war.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six-Day_War)
1967 Jun 7, The Haight Ashbury Free Medical Clinic opened in San Francisco. Dr. David E. Smith (28) founded the SF Free Clinic. The first clinic opened at 509 Clayton St. with $500 in seed money from Rev. Leon Harris, pastor of All Saints Episcopal Church. The facility spawned a nationwide movement. Smith resigned in 2006.
(SFC, 6/7/97, p.A16)(SFC, 3/6/06, p.B5)(AP, 6/7/07)
1967 Jun 7, Three Moby Grape members were arrested on Mt. Tamalpais, following a concert at the Avalon Ballroom in SF, for having sex with underage girls.
(www.rockument.com/scenes_sf1.html)
1967 Jun 7, Author-critic Dorothy Parker (b.1893), famed for her caustic wit, died in NYC. The 1994 film "Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle" starred Jennifer Jason Leigh as the poet Dorothy Parker. It covered 25 years of Parker's life. She left most of her estate to Martin Luther King, Jr.
(AP, 6/7/97)(SFEC, 8/23/98, DB p.43)(SFEC, 9/19/99, Z1 p.3)
1967 Jun 7, Israel captured the Wailing Wall in East Jerusalem. 3rd day of the 6-day war.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six-Day_War)
1967 Jun 8, On the 4th day of the Six-Day War Israel captured the Gaza Strip and Sinai Peninsula from Egypt, as well as the West Bank and Eastern Jerusalem from Jordan. Israel’s occupation of Gaza continued for the next 38 years.
(SSFC, 6/3/07, p.E6)(Econ, 1/10/09, p.9)
1967 Jun 8, Israeli forces raided the USS Liberty, a US Navy ship stationed in the Mediterranean. Israel called the attack a tragic mistake. The Israeli Air Force attack on the intelligence gathering auxiliary ship Liberty killed 34 crewmen and wounded 171. The attack took place on the 4th day of the Six-Day War in international waters off the coast of Israel. While still a controversy, the official explanation was that Israel believed the Liberty was an Egyptian vessel. Commander William L. McGonagle (d.1999 at 73) was awarded the Medal of Honor for keeping Liberty afloat and remaining on the bridge for 17 hours despite his own wounds. Israel apologized and paid over $12 million in compensation.
(AP, 6/8/97)(SFC, 3/9/99, p.A22)(WSJ, 5/9/01, p.A24)(WSJ, 5/16/01, p.A23)
1967 Jun 10, Israel completed its final offensive in the Golan Heights in the 6-Day Middle East War. The next day Israel and Syria agreed to observe a United Nations-mediated cease-fire. Israel took Gaza and the Sinai from Egypt, Old Jerusalem and the West Bank from Jordan, and the Golan Heights from Syria. In 2002 Michael B. Oren authored "Six Days of War: June 1967 and the making of the Modern Middle East." Israeli military historian Arieh Yitzhaki later said that his research showed Israeli troops killed 300 Egyptian prisoners of war. Israel said soldiers on both sides committed atrocities. In 2007 Tom Segev authored “1967: Israel, the War and the Year that Transformed the Middle East.”
{Israel, Palestine, Syria, Egypt}
(AP, 6/10/97)(WSJ, 6/5/02, p.D7)(AP, 3/6/07)(Econ, 5/26/07, p.97)
1967 Jun 11, There was a race riot in Tampa Florida and the National Guard was mobilized. Martin Chambers (19) was suspected of robbing a camera store. Chambers ran from police near Nebraska and Harrison Streets and was shot in the back and died. Several days of riots around Central Avenue followed.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tampa_Riots)
1967 Jun 11, Israel and Syria accepted a UN cease-fire. The UN brokered a cease-fire between Israel and the defeated Egypt, Syria, and Jordan, ending the Six-Day War with Israel occupying the Sinai, West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights. Israel annexed the largely Arab East Jerusalem, which included the Old City, and has since ringed it with Jewish neighborhoods.
(HN, 6/11/98)(AP, 6/11/03)(SFC, 6/25/96, p.A10)
1967 Jun 12, The US Supreme Court, in Loving v. Virginia, struck down state laws prohibiting interracial marriages. Mildred Loving (1940-2008) and her white husband, Richard (d.1975), married in 1958, had been arrested in Virginia within weeks of arriving from Washington DC and convicted on charges of "cohabiting as man and wife.
(AP, 6/12/97)(HN, 6/12/98)(AP, 5/5/08)(Econ, 5/17/08, p.105)
1967 Jun 13, President Johnson nominated Solicitor-General Thurgood Marshall to become the first black justice on the U.S. Supreme Court. The seat on the court formerly held by Justice Tom Clark was filled by the first African-American Supreme Court Justice, Thurgood Marshall. In 1967, President Lyndon Johnson convinced Clark, a fellow Texan who had served on the court since 1949, to resign so he could name Marshall to the bench. Marshall, a leading civil rights lawyer, had been the U.S. Solicitor General since 1965. He served on the court until he resigned in 1991.
(AP, 6/13/97)(HNQ, 2/16/99)
1967 Jun 14, The movie "To Sir, with Love," starring Sidney Poitier, was first released.
(AP, 6/14/07)
1967 Jun 14, The space probe Mariner 5 was launched from Cape Kennedy on a flight that took it past Venus.
(AP, 6/14/97)
1967 Jun 15, Gov. Reagan signed the Therapeutic Abortion Act, which permitted abortions in the first 20 weeks of pregnancy if a woman's life or health was threatened or the pregnancy was the result of rape or incest.
(SFC, 12/27/99, p.A10)(AP, 6/15/07)
1967 Jun 16, The three-day Monterey International Pop Music Festival opened in northern California.
(AP, 6/16/07)
1967 Jun 17, China detonated its 1st hydrogen bomb and became the world's 4th thermo-nuclear power.
(SSFC, 6/9/02, p.F6)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teller%E2%80%93Ulam_design)
1967 Jun 18, The 3-day Monterey Pop Festival featured Pete Townshend and The Who on the Sunday finale. They nearly stopped the show with the destruction of guitars, drums and microphones on stage. They were immediately followed by Jerry Garcia and The Grateful Dead. The festival also featured Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and Otis Redding.
(WSJ, 8/11/95, p.A-7)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monterey_Pop_Festival)
1967 Jun 19, Beatle Paul McCartney, having admitted in Queen Magazine that he had taken LSD, repeated the admission on television.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_McCartney)
1967 Jun 20, Boxer Muhammad Ali was convicted in Houston of violating Selective Service laws by refusing to be drafted. He was soon sentenced to five years in prison but was released on appeal. His conviction was overturned three years later by the US Supreme Court.
(AP, 6/20/97)(www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-3404700148.html)
1967 Jun 23, President Johnson and Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin held the first of two meetings in Glassboro State College in New Jersey.
(AP, 6/23/07)
1967 Jun 23, The US Senate voted to censure Democrat Thomas J. Dodd of Connecticut for using campaign money for personal uses.
(AP, 6/23/07)
1967 Jun 24, Pope Paul VI published his encyclical Sacerdotalis Caelibatus (priestly celibacy).
(http://tinyurl.com/n5pq3)
1967 Jun 25, The Beatles performed their new song, "All You Need Is Love," during a live international telecast from the Abbey Road studio.
(AP, 6/25/97)(Sky, 9/97, p.54)
1967 Jun 27, There was a race riot in Buffalo, NY, and 200 were arrested.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_riot_of_1967)
1967 Jun 27, The first recognizably automated teller machine (ATM) was placed outside the Barclays PLC branch in Enfield, a north London suburb.
(AP, 6/27/07)
1967 Jun 28, Fourteen people were shot in race riots in Buffalo, New York.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_riot_of_1967)
1967 Jun 28, Israel formally declared Jerusalem reunified under its sovereignty following its capture of the Arab sector in the June 1967 war.
(AP, 6/28/98)
1967 Jun 29, Jayne Mansfield (b.1933), stage and film actress, was beheaded in a car crash in Louisiana. Her 3 children survived in the back seat of the 1966 Buick Electra. Daughter Mariska Hargitay was 3 and began a film career at 19.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jayne_Mansfield)(SFEC, 7/13/97, Par p.18)(SFEC, 4/5/98, p.A22)
1967 Jun 29, Jerusalem was reunified as Israel removed barricades separating the Old City from the Israeli sector.
(AP, 6/29/97)(HN, 6/29/98)
1967 Jul 1, "Funny Girl" closed at Winter Garden Theater in NYC after 1348 performances.
(MC, 7/1/02)
1967 Jul 1, Beatles' "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band," went #1 for 15 weeks.
(MC, 7/1/02)
1967 Jul 2, The U.S. Marine Corps launches Operation Buffalo in response to the North Vietnamese Army's efforts to seize the Marine base at Con Thien.
(HN, 7/2/98)
1967 Jul 3, North Vietnamese soldiers attacked South Vietnam’s only producing coal mine at Nong Son.
(HN, 7/3/98)
1967 Jul 4, The Freedom of Information Act became official, making government information more readily available. To withhold information, the government must prove its need to be classified.
(IB, Internet, 12/7/98)
1967 Jul 5, Bruce Barton (b.1886), advertising king and former US Congressman from NY (1937-1941), died in NYC. In 1925 he authored “The Man Nobody Knows,” in which he argued that Jesus was a pre-eminent business executive. In 2005 Richard M. Fried authored “”The Man Everybody Knew,” a biography of Bruce Barton.
(www.infoplease.com/biography/us/congress/barton-bruce.html)(WSJ, 10/25/05, p.D8)
1967 Jul 6, The Biafran War erupted. The war, which lasted more than two years, claimed some 600,000 lives. The Republic of Biafra was proclaimed when the eastern region of Nigeria, the homeland of the Igbo people, seceded. This was followed by civil war. The federal troops of Nigeria held most of rebellious Biafra by the end of 1968 but the Igbos attempted to hold out in a small and crowded area. The war broke out when the Igbos, led by Colonel Emeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu of the Nigerian army, launched a rebellion to form a separate state following allegations of ethnic cleansing, neglect and marginalization against federal forces.
(AP, 7/6/97)(HNQ, 5/27/98)(AFP, 1/10/07)
1967 Jul 7, Beatles' "All You Need is Love" was released.
(MC, 7/7/02)
1967 Jul 7, Vivian Leigh (53), actress (Scarlet-Gone with the Wind), died.
(MC, 7/7/02)
1967 Jul 12, Blacks in Newark rioted. 26 were killed, 1500 injured and over 1000 arrested.
(MC, 7/12/02)
1967 Jul 12, Greek regime deprived 480 Greeks of their citizenship.
(MC, 7/12/02)
1967 Jul 13, Race-related rioting broke out in Newark, N.J.; by the time the violence ended four days later, 27 people had been killed.
(AP, 7/13/97)
1967 Jul 13, Tommy Simpson, British cyclist, died as he competed in the Tour de France. Traces of amphetamine and cognac were found in his blood.
(WSJ, 8/7/06, p.B1)
1967 Jul 14, The Convention Establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization, or WIPO Convention, was signed at Stockholm, Sweden, and entered into force on April 26, 1970. As its name suggests, it established the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). WIPO Convention has 184 Contracting Parties. The Convention is written in English, French, Russian and Spanish, all texts being equally authentic. The Convention was amended on September 28, 1979.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Intellectual_Property_Organization)
1967 Jul 15, In Alaska a major blizzard caught 7 climbers high on Mount McKinley (Denali). Five of 12 climbers managed to reach safety, but 7 were caught and froze to death. In 2007 James M. Tabor’s: “Forever on the Mountain: The Truth Behind One of Mountaineering's Most Controversial and Mysterious Disasters,” was published.
(WSJ, 1/17/07, p.D6)
1967 Jul 16, A prison brawl ignited barracks, killing 37 in Jay, Florida.
(MC, 7/16/02)
1967 Jul 17, Race riots took place in Cairo, Illinois.
(MC, 7/17/02)
1967 Jul 17, John Coltrane (b.1926), jazz composer-musician died in Huntington, N.Y. He gained attention through recordings as part of Miles Davis’ quintet in the 50s. By 1960, following critical acclaim, Coltrane was leading his own quartet that eventually dissolved in 1965. He worked with various musicians for the next two years until succumbing to liver cancer in 1967. Coltrane’s style, developed over the years from influences ranging from Miles Davis’ forms of modal improvisation to Eastern musical theory, has influenced and been imitated by numerous jazz musicians since. His album’s included "Kulu Se Mama" written by Juno Lewis (d.2002). In 2002 Ashley Kahn authored "A Love Supreme: The Story of John Coltrane’s Signature Album.” In 2007 Ben Ratliff authored “Coltrane: The Story of Sound.”
(SFC, 4/23/02, p.A18)(SSFC, 12/8/02, p.M5)(AP, 7/17/07)(Econ, 11/10/07, p.104)
1967 Jul 19, The 1st air conditioned NYC subway car was R-38 on the F line.
(MC, 7/19/02)
1967 Jul 19, Race riots took place in Durham, NC.
(MC, 7/19/02)
1967 Jul 20, Race riots took place in Memphis, Tenn.
(MC, 7/20/02)
1967 Jul 20, Pablo Neruda received the 1st Viareggio-Versile prize.
(MC, 7/20/02)
1967 Jul 21, Basil Rathbone (75), actor (Sherlock Holmes), died of heart attack.
(MC, 7/21/02)
1967 Jul 21, In South Africa ANC president Albert Luthuli died after being hit by a train in what was widely thought to have been an assassination operation. The anti-apartheid icon received the 1960 Nobel prize for his role in the struggle against whites-only rule.
(AP, 7/11/07)
1967 Jul 22, Carl Sandburg (89), historian and poet (Abraham Lincoln: Prairie Years), died in North Carolina.
(AP, 7/22/07)
1967 Jul 23-30, Racial riots in the city of Detroit left 40 dead, 2,000 injured and 5,000 homeless in the worst riot of the summer. The rioting, looting and burning was quelled with the arrival of 4,700 paratroops dispatched by President Lyndon Johnson. Nearly all of America's large cities were wracked by racial violence during the 1965-'68 period. The event inspired Rev. William Cunningham (d.1997 at 67) to found Focus: Hope, a volunteer project that grew to become one of the largest programs in the country dedicated to feeding and teaching job skills to the urban poor.
(SFC, 5/29/97, p.C4)(HNQ, 7/11/98)
1967 Jul 24, Race riots took place in Cambridge, Maryland.
(MC, 7/24/02)
1967 Jul 24, Race riots in Detroit forced the postponement of a Tigers-Orioles baseball game. [see Jul 23-30]
(MC, 7/24/02)
1967 Jul 24, French President Charles de Gaulle stirred controversy during a visit to Montreal, Canada, when he declared, ''Vive le Quebec libre!'' (Long live free Quebec!).
(AP, 7/24/07)
1967 Jul 25, Construction began on SF MUNI Metro (Market Street subway).
(SC, 7/25/02)
1967 Jul 25, US Navy Lt. Commander Donald Davis crashed his jet on the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Searchers later recovered fragments of his remains for return to the US.
(SFC, 5/25/98, p.A4)
1967 Jul 27, In the wake of urban rioting, President Johnson appointed the Kerner Commission to assess the causes of the violence. The same day, black militant H. Rap Brown said violence was "as American as cherry pie."
(AP, 7/27/97)
1967 Jul 28, Pirate Radio Station 390 (Radio Invicta) in England, closed down.
(SC, 7/28/02)
1967 Jul 29, Fire swept the USS Forrestal in the Gulf of Tonkin, off the coast of Vietnam, killing 134 servicemen with $100 million in damage. One survivor was Navy Lt. Cmdr. John McCain, who later became a US senator.
(AP, 7/29/07)
1967 Jul 30, General William Westmoreland claimed that he was winning the war in Vietnam but needed more men.
(HN, 7/30/98)
1967 Jul 30, There was a race riot in Milwaukee and 4 people were killed.
(MC, 7/30/02)
1967 Jul 30, Alfred Krupp (59), German industrialist, died.
(MC, 7/30/02)
1967 Jul, Maxine Hartman Nellen became the first woman to earn her Golden Wings when she jumped out of a hot-air balloon for her 1,000th free-fall parachute jump over Lumberton N.J.
(SFC, 6/19/98, p.B6)
1967 Jul, In the wake of the Six Day War some 2,000 Jews in Libya were compelled to leave the country.
(WSJ, 1/10/07, p.A19)
1967 Jul, In Somalia Mohamed Ibrahim Egal (d.2002) served as the prime minister until 1969.
(SFC, 5/4/02, p.A21)
1967 Jul, A 6.7 earthquake hit Caracas, Venezuela, and left 300 dead and 2,000 injured.
(SFC, 7/10/97, p.E3)
1967 Aug 2, The crime and race drama "In the Heat of the Night," starring Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger, opened in New York.
(AP, 8/2/07)
1967 Aug 3, John Femia, actor (Square Pegs, Hello Larry), was born in Brooklyn, NY.
(SC, 8/3/02)
1967 Aug 3, President Lyndon B. Johnson announced plans to send 45,000 more troops to Vietnam.
(HN, 8/3/98)
1967 Aug 7, In China a speech by Wang Li to the Red Guards led their violent takeover of the Foreign Ministry building. In the weeks that followed they rampaged among foreign diplomats and often beat envoys.
(SFC, 10/23/96, p.C2)
1967 Aug 8, The Association of Southeast Asian Nations or ASEAN was established in Bangkok by the five original Member Countries, namely, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand. Brunei Darussalam joined on 8 January 1984, Vietnam on 28 July 1995, Laos and Myanmar on 23 July 1997, and Cambodia on 30 April 1999.
(www.aseansec.org/64.htm)
1967 Aug 8, Jaromir Weinberger (71), Czech-US composer (Czech Rhapsody), died.
(MC, 8/8/02)
1967 Aug 9, Joe Orton (34), English actor, playwright (What the Butler Saw, Loot), was murdered (bludgeoned with a hammer) while he slept by his male lover. In 1978 John Lahr authored “Prick Up Your Ears,” a biography of Orton.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Orton)(WSJ, 1/13/06, p.P8)
1967 Aug 11, Roy M. Wheat (20) led a team from Company K, 3rd Battalion, 7th Marines, providing security for a Navy construction crew on the Liberty Road in Quang Nam Province, Vietnam. Lance Corporal Roy Wheat accidentally triggered a well-concealed, bounding type anti-personnel mine. He yelled for team members Lance Corporals Vernon Sorenson and Bernard Cannon to run. Then he flung himself onto the mine as it exploded, absorbing the tremendous impact with his body. Roy Wheat was killed, but his companions were spared certain injury and possible death. Marine Roy M. Wheat was the only Mississippian to earn the Medal of Honor during the Vietnam War.
(HN, 9/19/01)
1967 Aug 13, The movie "Bonnie and Clyde," starring Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway, had its US premiere.
(AP, 8/13/07)
1967 Aug 19, Beatles' "All You Need is Love," single went #1.
(MC, 8/19/02)
1967 Aug 21, Michael Bendetti, actor (Officer Tony McCann-21 Jump Street), was born.
(SC, 8/21/02)
1967 Aug 22, The British Mission in Beijing surrendered to the Red Guards.
(Econ, 2/13/10, p.87)
1967 Aug 24, Abbie Hoffman and the Yippies tossed fistfuls of paper money onto the floor of the NY Stock Exchange. Plexiglas screens were soon installed to prevent such displays.
(SFEC, 6/21/98, p.T4)(www.metroactive.com/papers/sonoma/02.13.97/bk-raskin-9707.html)
1967 Aug 24, Henry J. Kaiser (85), industrialist (Boulder Dam, Liberty ship), died.
(MC, 8/24/02)
1967 Aug 25, Beatles went to Wales to study TM with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
(MC, 8/25/02)
1967 Aug 25, George Lincoln Rockwell (b.1918), founder of the American Nazi Party, was shot to death in the parking lot of a shopping center in Arlington, Va. Former party member John Patler (29) was later convicted of the killing. In 1999 Frederick J. Simonelli authored “American Fuehrer” George Lincoln Rockwell and the American Nazi Party.”
(AP, 8/25/07)(AH, 2/06, p.60,64)
1967 Aug 25, Paraguay accepted its constitution.
(chblue.com, 8/25/01)
1967 Aug 29, Charles Darrow (b.1889), self-claimed inventor of Monopoly, died.
(www.todayinsci.com/8/8_29.htm)
1967 Aug 30, The U.S. Senate confirmed the appointment of Thurgood Marshall as the first black justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
(AP, 8/30/97)
1967 Aug 31, Haydee Tamara Bunke Bider, aka Tania the Guerrilla, was killed when her guerrilla column was ambushed by Bolivian soldiers. The remains of Bider, who was born in Argentina, were uncovered in Sep. 1998 in Vallegrande and returned to Cuba, her adopted homeland.
(SFC, 12/15/98, p.A17)
1967 Aug 31, Ilya G. Ehrenburg (76), Russian poet and propagandist ("Russians, get your German!"), died.
(MC, 8/31/01)
1967 Sep 1, James Dunn (65), actor (Uncle Earl-It's a Great Life), died.
(SC, 9/1/02)
1967 Sep 1, Siegfried Sassoon (b.1886), WW I English soldier poet, died. His books included “Memoirs of a Fox Hunting Man” (1928). In 2005 Max Egremont authored the biography: “Siegfried Sassoon.”
(WSJ, 12/1/05, p.D9)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siegfried_Sassoon)
1967 Sep 2, Paddy Roy Bates, retired British army major, landed on the island of Sealand, a WW II military fortress 6 miles off the coast of England, and declared it a sovereign nation, the Principality of Sealand.
(SFEC, 6/4/00, p.A4)(www.sealandgov.com/history.html)
1967 Sep 3, The original version of the television game show "What's My Line?," hosted by John Charles Daly, broadcast its final episode after more than 17 years on CBS.
(AP, 9/3/97)
1967 Sep 3, James Dunn, actor (Tree Grows in Brooklyn, 6 Gun Law), died at age 61.
(MC, 9/3/01)
1967 Sep 3, Muhammad Bin Laden (b.1908), a Yemeni immigrant to Saudi Arabia, died in a plane crash. He made a fortune in the construction business and left King Faisal in charge of some 55 of his children.
(Econ, 4/12/08, p.92)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_bin_Laden)
1967 Sep 3, Motorists in Sweden began driving on the right-hand side of the road instead of the left.
(AP, 9/3/97)
1967 Sep 3, Lieutenant General Nguyen Van Thieu was elected president of South Vietnam under a new constitution.
(AP, 9/3/97)(HN, 9/3/98)
1967 Sep 4, Michigan Gov. George Romney told a TV interview he'd undergone a "brainwashing" by U.S. officials during a 1965 visit to Vietnam, a comment that apparently damaged Romney's bid for the Republican presidential nomination.
(AP, 9/4/97)
1967 Sep 9, "Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In" aired as a one-time special on NBC; its success led to a regular series beginning in January 1968. The show folded in 1973.
(AP, 9/9/07)(SSFC, 5/25/08, p.B6)
1967 Sep 10, Gibraltar voted 12,138 to 44 to remain British and not Spanish.
(MC, 9/10/01)
1967 Sep 11, Harry Connick Jr. was born. He became a Grammy Award-winning singer: We are in Love; actor: Copycat, When Harry Met Sally.
(MC, 9/11/01)
1967 Sep 11, Charles Manson (b.1934) recorded his album "Lie," which was produced by Dennis Wilson (b.1944), drummer for the Beach Boys.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lie:_The_Love_and_Terror_Cult)
1967 Sep 11, "The Carol Burnett Show" premiered on CBS.
(AP, 9/11/97)
1967 Sep 11, The Beatles drove their Magical Mystery Bus around England.
(MC, 9/11/01)
1967 Sep 16, The TV series "Mannix," starring Mike Connors, premiered on CBS.
(AP, 9/16/07)
1967 Sep 17, "Mission Impossible" premiered on CBS-TV. [see Sep 17, 1966]
(MC, 9/17/01)
1967 Sep 19, Nigeria began an offensive against Biafra. [see Jul 6]
(MC, 9/19/01)
1967 Sep 20, The 963-foot passenger ship Queen Elizabeth II was launched.
(www.cunard.co.uk)
1967 Sep 23, The regime of Greek Colonels freed ex-premier Georgios Papandreou. [see Dec 24]
(MC, 9/23/01)
1967 Sep 23, Soviets signed a pact to send more aid to Hanoi.
(HN, 9/23/98)
1967 Sep 25, Stuff Smith (b.1909), jazz violinist, died in Munich, Germany.
(http://nfo.net/calendar/sep25.htm)
1967 Sep 26, Hanoi rejected a U.S. peace proposal.
(HN, 9/26/99)
1967 Sep 27, Felix F. Yussupov, litigious Russian monarchist and slayer of Rasputin, died at 80.
(MC, 9/27/01)
1967 Sep 28, Moon Zappa, singer, was born. Valley Girl, actress: Dark Side of Genius, Heartstopper, Spirit of '76, The Boys Next Door; daughter of the famous singer, Frank Zappa.
(MC, 9/28/01)
1967 Sep 28, Walter E. Washington (d.2003) took office as the first mayor of the District of Columbia. He had been appointed mayor-commissioner by Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson and won by election in 1974.
(AP, 9/28/97)(SFC, 11/1/03, p.A20)
1967 Sep 29, Author Carson McCullers died in Nyack, N.Y., at age 50.
(AP, 9/29/07)
1967 Sep, The government delegations of China, Tanzania and Zambia held talks in Beijing and formally signed the "Agreement of the Government of the People's Republic of China, the Government of the United Republic of Tanzania and the Government of the Republic of Zambia on the Construction of the Tanzania-Zambia Railway".
(www.fmprc.gov.cn/eng/ziliao/3602/3604/t18009.htm)
1967 Sep, The British, French and German governments signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to start development of the 300 seat Airbus A300 in order to compete with American companies. Airbus Industrie was formally set up in 1970.
(www.absoluteastronomy.com/reference/airbus)
1967 Oct 2, Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American Supreme Court justice, was sworn in as an associate justice of he U.S. Supreme Court. Marshall had previously been the solicitor general, the head of the legal staff of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and a leading American civil rights lawyer.
(TMC, 1994, p.1967)(AP, 10/2/97)(HN, 10/2/98)
1967 Oct 3, William J. Knight (d.2004), US Air Force test pilot, set a speed record in a rocket-powered X-15-2A that reached 4,520 mph. Knight later served as a California state senator (1996-2004).
(SSFC, 5/9/04, p.B7)
1967 Oct 3, Woody Guthrie (b.1912), born as Woodrow Wilson Guthrie, folksinger, died from Huntington’s disease. In 1998 Billy Bragg and the band Wilco released a new album based on Guthrie’s lyrics: "Mermaid Avenue." In 1998 a Woody Guthrie archive was opened on W. 57th St. in NYC. In 2002 Elizabeth Partridge authored "This Land Was made for You and Me: The Life and Songs of Woody Guthrie." In 2004 Ed Cray authored "Ramblin' Man: The Life and Times of Woody Guthrie."
(SFC,12/26/97, p.C22)(SFEC, 6/21/98, DB p.38)(SFC, 11/27/98, p.C11)(SFC, 11/23/00, p.C5)(SSFC, 6/2/02, p.M3)(SFC, 3/30/04, p.E1)
1967 Oct 3, Malcolm Sargent, English conductor (Last Night of Proms), died at 72.
(MC, 10/3/01)
1967 Oct 5, Haji Hassanal Bolkiah Mu’Izzaddin Waddaulah, the 29th Sultan of Brunei, ascended to the throne.
(www.brunei.gov.bn/government/)
1967 Oct 8, Che Guevara was captured by US trained Bolivian Rangers near Vado del Yeso.
(SFC, 5/12/96, Z1p.4)(SFEC, 7/13/97, p.A10)
1967 Oct 8, Clement R. Attlee (84), former premier of Great Britain (1945-51), died.
(AP, 10/8/07)
1967 Oct 9, The British Road Safety Act, providing for use of the "breathalyser" (or breathalyzer) to detect intoxicated motorists, went into effect.
(AP, 10/9/07)
1967 Oct 9, Latin American guerrilla leader Che Guevara (b.1928), Ernesto Serna, was executed while attempting to incite revolution in Bolivia. Guevara was captured the previous day and executed on the orders of Bolivia’s Pres. Gen. Rene Barrientos. Guevara believed that a man of action could revolutionize a people and strove to fight what he perceived as the American domination of Latin America. ”Pueblo unido jamas sera vencido.” (A United people will never be overcome.)
(AP, 10/9/97)(SFC, 12/23/04, p.A18)(SFC, 10/9/07, p.A17)
1967 Oct 10, The Outer Space Treaty, which prohibits the placing of weapons of mass destruction on the moon or elsewhere in space, entered into force.
(AP, 10/10/07)
1967 Oct 10, Sargent Johnson (b.1888), Boston-born and SF-based African-American painter and sculptor, died.
(SFC, 5/4/09, p.E3)(http://www.aaregistry.com/detail.php?id=1195)
1967 Oct 10, Brendan Behan's "Borstal Boy," premiered in Dublin.
(MC, 10/10/01)
1967 Oct 10, The body of Che Guevara was laid out at the Lord of Malta Hospital in Villegrande, Bolivia, 300 miles from the site of capture. The next day his body vanished. His body was found in a common grave on Jun 28, 1997. Two biographies were later written: "Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life," by Jon Lee Anderson, and "Companero: The Life and Times of Che Guevara by Jorge G. Castaneda.
(SFC, 5/12/96, Z1p.1)(SFEC, 7/13/97, p.A10)(WSJ, 10/1/97, p.A20)
1967 Oct 12, In India a massive cyclone struck the rural Orissa state consisting of small villages. Basically all life (human and animal) and each structure was wiped out; the precise number of fatalities and destruction is unknown.
(www.emergency-management.net/cyclone.htm)
1967 Oct 17, "Hair," subtitled The American Tribal Love/Rock Musical, premiered off Broadway at the Public Theater. It moved to the Biltmore Theater on Broadway on April 29, 1968, where it stayed for 1,873 performances.
(http://www.new-age-guide.com/new_age/hair_(musical).htm)
1967 Oct 29, MacDermot, Ragni & Rado's counter-culture musical "Hair" opened off-Broadway. [see Oct 17]
(AP, 10/29/97)(MC, 10/29/01)
1967 Oct 17, American forces of the black Lion battalion walked into an ambush set by NV commander Vo Minh Triet and 61 were killed. In 2003 David Maraniss authored "They Marched Into Sunlight: War and Peace, Vietnam and America," which centered on this battle and a protest in Wisconsin on Oct 18.
(Econ, 11/22/03, p.82)(SSFC, 12/28/03, p.M3)
1967 Oct 17, Aisin-Gioro Henry Puyi (61), the last emperor of China, died of cancer. Official reports said his death occurred while under persecution from ultra-leftists of the Cultural Revolution.
(SFC, 6/11/97, p.C16)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Puyi)
1967 Oct 18, Walt Disney's "Jungle Book" was released.
(MC, 10/18/01)
1967 Oct 18, A protest in Madison, Wisc., against recruiting by Dow Chemical, the maker of napalm and Agent Orange, turned violent. In 2003 David Maraniss authored "They Marched Into Sunlight: War and Peace, Vietnam and America." It centered on an Oct 17 battle in Vietnam and the Wisconsin protest.
(Econ, 11/22/03, p.82)(SSFC, 12/28/03, p.M3)
1967 Oct 18, A Russian unmanned spacecraft made the first landing on the surface of Venus.
(HN, 10/18/98)
1967 Oct 19, Amy Carter, Pres Carter's daughter and peace activist, was born.
(MC, 10/19/01)
1967 Oct 19, The US space probe Mariner V flew past Venus.
(AP, 10/19/07)
1967 Oct 20, Seven men were convicted in Meridian, Miss., of violating the civil rights of three murdered civil rights workers.
(AP, 10/20/97)
1967 Oct 21, Tens of thousands of Vietnam War protesters marched in Washington, D.C. 35,000 people assembled outside the Pentagon to protest the war in Vietnam. The "March on the Pentagon," protesting American involvement in Vietnam , drew 50,000 protesters.
(TMC, 1994, p.1967)(AP, 10/21/97)(HN, 10/21/98)
1967 Oct 21, The Israeli destroyer INS Eilat was sunk by Egyptian missile boats near Port Said; 47 Israeli crew members were lost.
(AP, 10/21/07)
1967 Oct 23, A secret US State Dept. cable reported that covert Guatemalan security operations included "kidnapping, torture and summary executions."
(SFC, 3/11/99, p.A12)
1967 Oct 26, US Navy pilot John McCain, later US Senator, was shot down in his A-4 over North Vietnam and spent 5 1/2 years in prison, two in solitary confinement. He signed a confession following torture admitting to being a war criminal and in 1999 published the family saga "Faith of My Fathers." The 1995 book "The Nightingale's Song" by Robert Timberg was about McCain.
(SFC, 8/16/99, p.A1,4) (WSJ, 9/8/99, p.A24)
1967 Oct 26, The Shah of Iran crowned himself and his Queen after 26 years on the Peacock Throne.
(AP, 10/26/97)
1967 Oct 27, 4 people from Baltimore poured blood on selective service records.
(MC, 10/27/01)
1967 Oct 29, In Oakland, Ca., police made a traffic stop on Black Panther leader Huey Newton (d.1989). In a gun battle Newton was wounded and police officer John Frey was killed. Newton was convicted of voluntary manslaughter but the conviction was overturned. Gene McKinney (d.2000 at 58) and Newton had driven out for takeout feed following a Black Panther Party fundraiser when they were pulled over. McKinney commandeered a passing car to get Newton to a hospital.
(SFC,10/24/97, p.A15)(SFC, 9/23/00, p.A19)
1967 Oct 29, Expo 67 in Montreal closed after six months.
(AP, 10/29/07)
1967 Oct 31, Nguyen Van Thieu took the oath of office as the first president of South Vietnam's second republic.
(AP, 10/31/97)
1967 Oct, Pres. Johnson named Edward M. Korry (d.2003 at 81) to serve as the US ambassador to Chile. Korry served until 1971 and was kept ignorant by the Nixon administration of plans for a coup.
(SFC, 2/1/03, p.A19)
1967 Oct, In California John Lion staged "The Lesson" by Eugene Ionesco as his UC thesis project. The play moved to the Steppenwolf Bar in Berkeley and inspired Lion to open his Magic Theater, later housed in SF’s Fort Mason.
(SFEC, 10/5/97, DB p.43)
1967 Oct, US Capt. John McCain, bomber pilot, bailed out from his damaged plane and fell into Hanoi’s Truc Bach Lake. He was rescued by Main Van On of the People’s Army of Vietnam. McCain later became a US senator.
(SFC, 11/14/96, p.A11)
1967 Oct, TV journalist Charles Kuralt (1934-1997) hit the nation’s roads with a 3-person crew for a trial run of what would become the "On the Road" series.
(SFC, 7/5/97, p.A5)
1967 Nov 5, US troops conquered Loc Ninh South Vietnam.
(MC, 11/5/01)
1967 Nov 7, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed a bill establishing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
(AP, 11/7/97)(HN, 11/7/98)
1967 Nov 7, Carl Stokes (1927-1996) was elected the first black mayor of a major city -- Cleveland, Ohio. He served two terms as mayor from 1967 to 1971 and was a leading advocate for increased federal aid to American cities. After serving as mayor, Stokes became a television commentator and later a judge in Cleveland.
(AP, 11/7/97)(HNQ, 1/9/03)
1967 Nov 7, John Nance Garner (98), (VP-D, 1933-41), died.
(MC, 11/7/01)
1967 Nov 7, Juan Tomas Perez (71), composer, died.
(MC, 11/7/01)
1967 Nov 9, NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) launched Apollo 4 into orbit from Cape Kennedy with the first successful test of a Saturn V rocket.
(AP, 11/9/97)(HN, 11/9/98)
1967 Nov 9, Rolling Stone Magazine, co-founded by Jann Wenner in SF, published its debut issue with a press run of 40,000 copies. Ralph J. Gleason, SF jazz critic, helped Wenner fund the 1st issue. In 1998 "Rolling Stone: The Complete Covers 1967-1997" was edited by Holly George-Warren. In 1977 the company moved its headquarters to NYC.
(SFC,10/28/97, p.E1)(SFEC, 6/21/98, BR p.12)(SFC, 12/23/04, p.E16)(SFC, 4/18/09, p.C1)
1967 Nov 13, The first US African-American mayor was elected. Carl Stokes became the first black US mayor of a major US city.
(HFA, '96, p. 42)(TMC, 1994, p.1967)
1967 Nov 13, In SF 3 attackers opened fire on Officer Herman George at the Hunters Point Project Station. George later died from his wounds and the case remained unsolved.
(SFC, 1/27/07, p.A8)
1967 Nov 14, Barney Kilgore (b.1908), WSJ columnist and Chairman of Dow Jones & Co., died. He is credited as the visionary who made The Wall Street Journal into a national newspaper. In 2009 Richard J. Tofel authored “Restless Genius: Barney Kilgore, The Wall Street Journal, and the Invention of Modern Journalism.”
(www.nassauchurch.org/cemetery/docs/bernard_kilgore.htm)(WSJ, 3/9/09, p.A17)
1967 Nov 16, Haiphong shipyard in North Vietnam was hit by U.S. planes for the first time.
(HN, 11/16/98)
1967 Nov 17, Surveyor 6 made a six-second flight on moon, the first lift off on lunar surface.
(HN, 11/17/98)
1967 Nov 17, French author Regis Debray (b.1940) was sentenced to 30 years in Bolivia. Debray (b.1940) was jailed in Bolivia shortly before Che Guevara was captured and was convicted of having been part of Guevara's guerrilla group. He was released in 1970 after an international campaign for his release which included Jean-Paul Sartre, André Malraux, General De Gaulle and Pope Paul VI.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regis_Debray)
1967 Nov 18, A Detroit newspaper strike began and shut down both daily papers for 267 days. The strike ended on August 9, 1968.
(SFC, 9/18/97, p.C2)(www.loc.gov/rr/news/chronological/exception_report.html)
1967 Nov 18, A photograph of the planet Earth was made from a space vehicle, the ATS-III Satellite.
(E&IH, 1973, p.1)
1967 Nov 19, In Vietnam, the Tiger Force, an elite US Army unit of the 101st Airborne Division, achieved their 327th kill. The unit had killed hundreds of civilians in Hanh Thien, a Central Highland area, over the last seven months. US Army Lt. Col. Gerald Morse had called for 327 kills to match the name of the 327th infantry regiment. In 2006 Michael Sallah and Mitch Weiss authored “Tiger Force: A True Story of Men and War.” It was based on secret documents from Henry Tufts (d.2002), former head of the Army’s Criminal Investigations Command (CID).
(AP, 10/25/03)(SSFC, 5/14/06, p.M1)
1967 Nov 20, The Census Clock at the US Commerce Department ticked past 200 million.
(AP, 11/20/97)
1967 Nov 21, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Air Quality Act, allotting $428 million for the fight against pollution.
(HN, 11/21/98)(AP, 11/21/07)
1967 Nov 22, Boris Becker, tennis player (Wimbledon 1985, 86, 89), was born in West Germany.
(MC, 11/22/01)
1967 Nov 22, BBC unofficially banned "I Am the Walrus" by Beatles.
(MC, 11/22/01)
1967 Nov 22, The U.N. Security Council approved Resolution 242, which called for Israel to withdraw from territories it captured in 1967, and implicitly called on adversaries to recognize Israel's right to exist.
(AP, 11/22/97)
1967 Nov 24, Cambodian triple agent Inchin Lam was murdered. Special Forces Captain John J. McCarthy was accused and later tried for the murder in a court in Vietnam. [see Jan 29, 1968]
(HN,11/24/98)(http://www.copvcia.com/Mac.htm)(www.geocities.com/larryjodaniel/17.html)
1967 Nov 26, Cloudburst over Lisbon, Portugal, killed 250-450.
(MC, 11/26/01)(AP, 11/26/02)
1967 Nov 27, The Beatles' "Magical Mystery Tour," album was released in Britain.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magical_Mystery_Tour_(album))
1967 Nov 27, Lyndon Johnson appointed Robert McNamara to the presidency of the World Bank. McNamara served 2 terms from 1968-1981.
(HN, 11/27/98)(SFC, 9/28/99, p.C16)
1967 Nov 27, Charles DeGaulle vetoed Britain’s entry into the Common Market again.
(HN, 11/27/98)
1967 Nov 27, Ettore Panizza (92), opera conductor, died.
(MC, 11/27/01)
1967 Nov 28, Actress-model Anna Nicole Smith (d.2007) was born Vickie Lynn Hogan in Houston.
(AP, 11/28/07)
1967 Nov 28, The first pulsating radio source (pulsar) was detected.
(DTnet, 11/28/97)
1967 Nov 28, Yemen gained independence from Britain. British troops withdrew and the People's Republic of Yemen was declared with Qahtan ash-Sha'abi as the country's first President.
(www.atlapedia.com/online/countries/yemen.htm)
1967 Nov 29, Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara announced he was leaving the Johnson administration to become president of the World Bank.
(AP, 11/29/97)
1967 Nov 30, Sen. Eugene McCarthy began a run for US presidency.
(MC, 11/30/01)
1967 Nov, At SF State a dozen members of the Black Student Union stormed the offices of The Gator, the campus newspaper. They were upset over remarks against Mohammad Ali. They left the 21-year-old editor badly beaten.
(SFEC, 3/1/98, p.W3)
1967 Nov, a task force from the 4th Battalion, 31st Infantry, under Maj. Gilbert Dorland, fought a fierce three-day battle at Hill 63 with the North Vietnamese Army’s 2nd Battalion, 3rd Regiment. Early in the battle, Dorland was thrown off the APC he was riding on, and then run over by that same vehicle. Because the ground was soft and mushy, Dorland was not crushed instantly, but was injured severely and in great pain. Nonetheless, he remained in command for almost another 24 hours. He later received the Distinguished Service Cross for his heroism.
(HNQ, 2/4/02)
1967 Dec 1, Queen Elizabeth inaugurated the 98-inch (249-cm) Isaac Newton telescope.
(MC, 12/1/01)
1967 Dec 2, Cardinal Francis Spellman died in New York City at age 78.
(AP, 12/2/97)
1967 Dec 2, In Gabon Pres. Omar Bongo began ruling upon the death of Leon M'Ba. Jacques Foccart, architect of French policy in Africa, helped to handpick Omar Bongo.
(WSJ, 12/10/96, p.A22)(SFC, 3/20/97, p.A24)(AP, 11/30/05)
1967 Dec 3, The 20th Century Ltd., the famed luxury train, completed its final run from New York City to Chicago.
(AP, 12/3/97)
1967 Dec 3, Surgeons in Cape Town, South Africa, led by Dr. Christiaan Barnard, performed the first human heart transplant at the Groote Shur Hospital. Louis Washkansky lived 18 days with the new heart. The first heart transplant operation in the U.S. was on December 6, 1967, in New York City.
(AP, 12/3/97)(HNQ, 1/9/99)
1967 Dec 4, Bert Lahr (72), [Irving Lahrheim], US comic (Wizard of Oz), died.
(MC, 12/4/01)
1967 Dec 5, Benjamin Spock and Allen Ginsberg were arrested for protesting Vietnam war.
(MC, 12/5/01)
1967 Dec 6, Dr. Adrian Kantrowitz (1918-2008) performed the first US human heart transplant on a baby in Brooklyn, who died 6 hours later.
(SFC, 11/21/08, p.B6)
1967 Dec 8, In the biggest battle yet in the Mekong Delta, 365 Vietcong were killed.
(HN, 12/8/98)
1967 Dec 8, Major Robert Lawrence Jr. was killed in the crash of an F-104 fighter during a training exercise, six months after being named to the Air Force’s manned orbiting laboratory program. in 1997 he was recognized as a full-fledged astronaut, the first black astronaut.
(SFC,12/897, p.A6)
1967 Dec 9, Nicolae Ceausescu became president (dictator) of Romania.
(MC, 12/9/01)
1967 Dec 10, Singer Otis Redding (26) and 6 others died in the crash of his private plane in Lake Monona, Wisconsin. He had recently recorded “Sittin’ on the Dock of the Bay,” which became a big hit in 1968.
(SFC, 4/25/06, p.B5)(AP, 12/10/07)
1967 Dec 11, The Concorde, a joint British-French venture and the world’s first supersonic airliner, was unveiled in Toulouse, France.
(HN, 12/11/98)
1967 Dec 12, The U.S. ended the airlift of 6,500 men in Vietnam.
(HN, 12/12/98)
1967 Dec 14, DNA was created in a test tube.
(MC, 12/14/01)
1967 Dec 14, Israel submitted to the United Nations a five-year plan to solve the Arab refugee problem conditioned on a general peace settlement between Israel and the Arab states.
(AP, 12/14/02)
1967 Dec 15, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the meat bill in the presence of Upton Sinclair the author of the controversial book "The Jungle."
(HN, 12/15/98)
1967 Dec 15, The US Age Discrimination Employment Act became public law.
(www.dotcr.ost.dot.gov/documents/ycr/adea67.htm)
1967 Dec 15, John Patler (b.1938) was convicted for the August 25 murder of George Lincoln Rockwell, head of the American Nazi Party. He was sentenced top 20 years, but served only 4 before being paroled in August, 1975.
(AH, 2/06, p.66)
1967 Dec 15, In Point Pleasant, West Virginia, it took less than 30 seconds for the Silver Bridge to tumble into the Ohio River, killing 46 people and leaving towns on either side stunned and bereft. The bridge had linked Point Pleasant and Kanauga, Ohio, since 1928.
(AP, 12/15/07)
1967 Dec 17, Australia’s PM Harold Holt (59) plunged into the surf at Victoria during a stroll on the beach and vanished. In 2005 a coroner officially confirmed that Holt had drowned.
(SFEM, 10/11/98, p.26)(AP, 9/2/05)
1967 Dec 20, Ian Anderson & Glenn Cornick formed the rock group Jethro Tull.
(MC, 12/20/01)
1967 Dec 20, "Graduate," starring Dustin Hoffman and Anne Bancroft, premiered.
(MC, 12/20/01)
1967 Dec 20, Some 474,300 US soldiers were stationed in Vietnam.
(MC, 12/20/01)
1967 Dec 21, Louis Washkansky (55) died in South Africa 18 days after undergoing the 1st heart transplant.
(AP, 12/3/97)(HNQ, 1/9/99)
1967 Dec 23, President Johnson, on his way home from a visit to Southeast Asia, held an unprecedented meeting with Pope Paul VI at the Vatican.
(AP, 12/23/07)
1967 Dec 23, US Navy SEALs were ambushed during an operation southeast of Saigon.
(HN, 12/23/98)
1967 Dec 24, Burt Baskin (b.1913) co-founder of the Baskins-Robbins ice cream chain, died. He and Irvine Robbins (1917-2008) had become partners in 1948.
(WSJ, 5/10/08, p.A8)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burt_Baskin)
1967 Dec 24, Greek Junta freed ex-Premier Papandreou.
(HN, 12/24/98)
1967 Dec 26, The BBC broadcasted the Beatle’s "Magical Mystery Tour."
(MC, 12/26/01)
1967 Dec 26, Atlantic Richfield oil workers struck oil on Alaska’s North Slope at Prudhoe Bay.
(AH, 10/04, p.42)
1967 Dec 27, Singer Bob Dylan (b.1941 as Robert Allen Zimmerman) released his "John Wesley Harding" album.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wesley_Harding_(album))
1967 Dec 29, Star Trek's "Trouble With Tribbles" 1st aired.
(MC, 12/29/01)
1967 Dec 29, Paul Whiteman (77), US orchestra leader (Fabulous Dorseys), died.
(MC, 12/29/01)
1967 Dec 29, A Turkish-Cypriot government formed in Cyprus.
(MC, 12/29/01)
1967 Dec 30, Beatles' "Hello Goodbye," single went #1 for 3 weeks.
(MC, 12/30/01)
1967 Dec 31, Evel Knievel (1938-2007) failed in his attempt to jump Caesar's Palace Fountain.
(www.evelknievel.com/ek-timeline.html)
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