1967 CE

The Apollo 1 fire kills astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger B. Chaffee; the Six-Day War reshapes the Middle East; the Beatles release Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, a landmark of 1960s counterculture; the Nigerian Civil War begins as Biafra declares independence; the 1967 March on the Pentagon draws tens of thousands in protest of the Vietnam War; Che Guevara is captured and executed in Bolivia; the 1967 Detroit riot becomes one of the deadliest U.S. uprisings; the 1967 Hong Kong riots bring months of unrest; the Green Bay Packers defeat the Kansas City Chiefs in the inaugural Super Bowl.

In the 1960s, the 20th century.

Geopolitics & Diplomacy

1 January - 1967 Laotian parliamentary electionLaos source
3 January – The coalition agreement between the CSV and LSAP is renewed and a cabinet reshuffle performed. Madeleine Frieden-Kinnen becomes the first woman in the cabinet.Luxembourg source
January 23 – Milton Keynes in England is founded as a new town by Order in Council, with a planning brief to become a city of 250,000 people. Its initial designated area encloses three existing towns and twenty one villages. The area to be developed is largely farmland, with evidence of permanent settlement dating back to the Bronze Age.source
January 27 – The United States, Soviet Union and United Kingdom sign the Outer Space Treaty (ratified by USSR May 19; comes into force October 10), prohibiting weapons of mass destruction from space.source
February 10 – The Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution (presidential succession and disability) is ratified.source
February 22 – Donald Sangster becomes the new prime minister of Jamaica, succeeding Alexander Bustamante.source
February 22 – Suharto takes power from Sukarno in Indonesia (see Transition to the New Order and Supersemar).source
February 23 – The Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution is enacted.source
February 24 – Moscow forbids its satellite states to form diplomatic relations with West Germany.source
March 14 – The body of U.S. President John F. Kennedy is moved to a permanent burial place at Arlington National Cemetery.source
May 6 – Zakir Husain is the first Muslim to become president of India.source
May 27 – The Australian referendum, 1967 passes with an overwhelming 90% support, removing, from the Australian Constitution, 2 discriminatory sentences referring to Indigenous Australians. It signifies Australia's first step in recognising Indigenous rights.source
May 30 – Biafra, in eastern Nigeria, announces its independence, which is not recognized.source
June 8 – Egypt severs diplomatic relations with the United States.source
6-29- King Bhumibol Adulyadej and Queen Sirikit visits the United States for a second time.Thailand source
July 1 – The EEC joins with the European Coal and Steel Community and the European Atomic Community, to form the European Communities (from the 1980s usually known as European Community [EC]).source
July 24 – During an official state visit to Canada, French President Charles de Gaulle declares to a crowd of over 100,000 in Montreal: Vive le Québec libre! (Long live free Quebec!). The statement, interpreted as support for Quebec independence, delights many Quebecers but angers the Canadian government and many English Canadians.source
August 8 – The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is founded in Bangkok, Thailand.source
26 August — 1966–67 Balkans Cup: Albania defeats Turkey 2-0 at Selman Stërmasi Stadium, TiranaAlbania source
August 30 – Thurgood Marshall is confirmed as Justice of the United States Supreme Court. He is the first African American to hold the position.source
1 September – Bahasa Malaysia (Malay Language) became the National Language of Malaysia. The National Language Act 1967 was gazetted.Malaysia source
September 10 – In a Gibraltar sovereignty referendum, only 44 voters out of 12,182 in the British Crown colony of Gibraltar support union with Spain.source
19 September - Republic of Benin establishedNigeria source
October 4 – Omar Ali Saifuddin III of Brunei abdicates in favour of his son, His Majesty Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah.source
October 14 – Quebec Nationalism: René Lévesque leaves the Liberal Party.source
October 25 – The Abortion Act 1967 passes in the British Parliament and receives royal assent two days later.source
November 22 – UN Security Council Resolution 242 is adopted by the UN Security Council, establishing a set of principles aimed at guiding negotiations for an Arab–Israeli peace settlement.source
November 25 – 1967 Australian Senate election: The Liberal/Country Coalition government led by Prime Minister Harold Holt lost two seats, while the Labor Party led by Gough Whitlam failed to make any gains. The Democratic Labor Party won the two seats from the Liberals and gained the sole balance of power in the Senate.source
November 30 – Zulfikar Ali Bhutto founds the Pakistan People's Party and becomes its first chairman. It has gone on to become one of Pakistan's major political parties (alongside the Pakistan Muslim League) that is broken into many factions, bearing the same name under different leaders, such as the Pakistan's Peoples Party Parliamentarians (PPPP).source
30 November – The Pakistan People's Party is founded in Lahore, and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto is chosen as its chairman.Pakistan source
December 9 – Nicolae Ceaușescu becomes the Chairman of the Romanian State Council, making him the de facto leader of Romania.source
1967 North Korean parliamentary electionNorth Korea source

Conflict & Security

13 January – Cross-Strait conflict: Republic of China Air Force Lockheed F-104G Starfighters engage People's Liberation Army Naval Air Force Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-19s in the final direct confrontation between China and Taiwan.Taiwan source
January 25 – South Vietnamese junta leader and Prime Minister Nguyen Cao Ky forces his rival, Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Nguyen Huu Co, into exile while overseas on a diplomatic visit.source
March 9 – Joseph Stalin's daughter, Svetlana Alliluyeva, defects to the United States via the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi.source
March 11 – The first phase of the Cambodian Civil War begins between the Kingdom of Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge.source
March 21 – Vietnam War: In ongoing campus unrest, Howard University students protesting the Vietnam War, the ROTC program on campus and the draft, confront Gen. Lewis Hershey, then head of the U.S. Selective Service System, and as he attempts to deliver an address, shout him down, with one protester chanting "America is the Black man's battleground."source
April 7 – Six-Day War (approach): Israeli fighters shoot down 7 Syrian MIG-21s.source
April 15 – Large demonstrations are held against US involvement in the Vietnam War in New York City and San Francisco. The march, organized by the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam, from Central Park to the United Nations drew hundreds of thousands of people, including Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Harry Belafonte, James Bevel, and Dr. Benjamin Spock, who marched and spoke at the event. A simultaneous march in San Francisco is attended by Coretta Scott King.source
May 6 – Hong Kong 1967 riots: Clashes between striking workers and police kill 51 and injure 800.source
May 8 – The Philippine province of Davao is split into three: Davao del Norte, Davao del Sur, and Davao Oriental.source
May 17 – President Gamal Abdal Nasser of Egypt demands withdrawal of the peacekeeping UN Emergency Force in the Sinai. U.N. Secretary-General U Thant complies (May 18).source
May 18 – In Mexico, schoolteacher Lucio Cabañas begins guerrilla warfare in Atoyac de Alvarez, west of Acapulco, in the state of Guerrero.source
June 5 – Six-Day War begins: Israel launches Operation Focus, an attack on Egyptian Air Force airfields; the allied armies of Egypt, Syria, Iraq, and Jordan invade Israel. Battle of Ammunition Hill, start of the Jordanian campaignsource
June 7 – East Jerusalem is captured in a battle conducted by Israeli forces, without the use of artillery, in order to avoid damage to the Holy City.source
June 8 – USS Liberty incident: a United States Navy spy ship is attacked by Israeli forces, allegedly in error, killing 34 crew.source
June 10 – Six-Day War ends: Israel and Syria agree to a United Nations-mediated cease-fire.source
22 June – A law is passed abolishing compulsory military service.Luxembourg source
June 23 – Cold War: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson meets with Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin in Glassboro, New Jersey, for the 3-day Glassboro Summit Conference. Johnson travels to Los Angeles for a dinner at the Century Plaza Hotel where earlier in the day thousands of war protesters clashed with L.A. police.source
July 5 – Troops of Belgian mercenary commander Jean Schramme revolt against Mobutu Sese Seko, and try to take control of Stanleyville, Congo.source
July 6 – Nigerian Civil War: Nigerian forces invade the secessionist Biafra May 30.source
July 12 – 1967 Newark riots: After the arrest of an African-American cab driver for allegedly illegally driving around a police car and gunning it down the road, race riots break out in Newark, New Jersey, lasting 5 days and leaving 26 dead.source
29 July-1 August - 1967 Opium WarLaos source
July – The first batch of the army is drafted for National Service.Singapore source
3 September — 1966–67 Balkans Cup: Albania is defeated by Turkey 3-2 at Şükrü Saracoğlu Stadium, IstanbulAlbania source
September 4 – Vietnam War – Operation Swift: The United States Marines launch a search and destroy mission in Quảng Nam and Quảng Tín provinces. The ensuing 4-day battle in Que Son Valley kills 114 Americans and 376 North Vietnamese.source
7 October - Asaba massacre took place when federal troops of Nigeria entered Asaba, rounded up as many as 500 Igbo men of Asaba and shot them.Nigeria source
October 18 – Vietnam War: Students at the University of Wisconsin–Madison protest over recruitment by Dow Chemical on the university campus; 76 are injured in the resulting riot.source
October 21 – Approximately 70,000 Vietnam War protesters march in Washington, D.C. and rally at the Lincoln Memorial; in a successive march that day, 50,000 people march to the Pentagon, where Allen Ginsberg, Abbie Hoffman, and Jerry Rubin symbolically chant to "levitate" the building and "exorcise the evil within."source
October 21 – Tens of thousands of Vietnam War protesters march in Washington, D.C. Allen Ginsberg symbolically chants to 'levitate' The Pentagon.United States source
November 3 – Vietnam War – Battle of Dak To: Around Đắk Tô (located about 280 miles north of Saigon near the Cambodian border), heavy casualties are suffered on both sides; U.S. troops narrowly win the battle on November 22.source
November 11 – Vietnam War: In a ceremony in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 3 United States prisoners of war are released by the Viet Cong and turned over to American "New Left" antiwar activist Tom Hayden.source
15 November – The Cyprus crisis of 1967 broke out.Cyprus source
November 17 – Vietnam War: Acting on optimistic reports he was given on November 13, U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson tells the nation that, while much remains to be done, "We are making progress [...] We are inflicting greater losses than we're taking." (Two months later the Tet Offensive by the Viet Cong is widely reported as a Viet Cong victory by the U.S. press and thus as a major setback to the U.S.)source
November 21 – Vietnam War: United States General William Westmoreland tells news reporters: "I am absolutely certain that whereas in 1965 the enemy was winning, today he is certainly losing."source
December – The National Awami Party splinters into two groups, the pro-China National Awami Party (Bhashani) and the pro-Moscow National Awami Party (Wali).Pakistan source

Exploration & Expansion

9 February - The Pudahuel airport is officially inaugurated, replacing Los Cerrillos airport.Chile source
13 February: The Cruzeiro Novo, equivalent to one thousand old Cruzeiros, begins to circulate.Brazil source
May 1 – GO Transit, Canada's first interregional public transit system, is established.source
June 5: Geoffrey Hattersley-Smith becomes the first person to climb Barbeau Peak, the highest point in the Arctic CordilleraCanada source
19 June – Bjørn Dæhlie, cross-country skier and businessman.Norway source
July 20 – Chilean poet Pablo Neruda receives the first Viareggio-Versile prize.source
13 September – An agreement about transporting a group of Turks living in the island Adakale in Romania.Turkey source
September 27 – The RMS Queen Mary arrives in Southampton at the end of her last transatlantic crossing.source
December unknown - Nitori Furniture Wholesale Center, as predecessor of furniture retailer Nitori was established in Kita-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido.Japan source
Lonsdaleite (the rarest allotrope of carbon) is first discovered in the Barringer Crater, Arizona.source
The Australian cricket team, captained by Bob Simpson toured South Africa in 1966–67, losing the Test series 3–1Australia source
23–26 January – The Prime Minister of South Vietnam, Air Marshall Nguyễn Cao Kỳ, tours New Zealand.New Zealand source

Religion & Belief

March 1 - City of Hatogaya, Saitama founded.Japan source
March 28 – Pope Paul VI issues the encyclical Populorum progressio.source
April 17: The Order of Canada is createdCanada source
June 13 – Solicitor General Thurgood Marshall is nominated as the first African American justice of the United States Supreme Court.source
17 June – The Israeli government transfers day-to-day control of the Temple Mount site to the Islamic Waqf.Israel source
June 26 – Pope Paul VI ordains 27 new cardinals (one of whom is the future Pope John Paul II).source
October 23 – Charles de Gaulle becomes the first French Co-Prince of Andorra to visit his Andorran subjects. In addition to being President of France, de Gaulle is a joint ruler (along with Spain's Bishop of Urgel) of the tiny nation located in the mountains between France and Spain, pursuant to the 1278 agreement creating the nation.source
30 October - The Science Council of Singapore is formed to develop Singapore's capabilities in science and technology.Singapore source
17 November – Mons Ivar Mjelde, footballerNorway source
St Christopher's Hospice, the world's first purpose-built secular hospice specialising in palliative care of the terminally ill, is established in South London by Dame Cicely Saunders with the support of Albertine Winner.source
Albania is officially declared an atheist state by its leader, Enver Hoxha.source
The newly founded Cronulla-Sutherland team finish in last position in the New South Wales Rugby League competition, claiming the wooden spoon.Australia source
Sultan of Kelantan: Sultan Yahya PetraMalaysia source
The Chatham Cup is won by North Shore United who beat Christchurch City 2–1 in the final.New Zealand source

Economy & Finance

20 January - Decree 40 of the Ministry of Finance creates the Unidad de Fomento (UF) as a way of revaluing mortgage loans according to variations in inflation.Chile source
February 1 – Higashiosaka city start by three cities, Fuse (布施), Kawachi (河内) and Hiraoka (枚岡) mergered in Osaka Prefecture.Japan source
12 June – The Malaysian ringgit (Malaysian dollar) was officially introduced, replacing the Malaya and British Borneo dollar.Malaysia source
12 June – The first currency notes, known as the Orchid series were issued, as well as the Marine Series.Singapore source
July 10 – New Zealand decimalises its currency from pound to dollar at £1 to $2 ($1 = 10/-).source
10 July – The nation's currency is decimalised, with the New Zealand dollar replacing the New Zealand pound at a rate of two dollars to a pound.New Zealand source
3 The first Krugerrand is minted to promote the nation's gold industrySouth Africa source
20 October – Australia unlinks the Australian dollar from British currency, when the British government makes a decision to devalue the pound sterling.Australia source
October 27 – French President Charles de Gaulle vetoes British entry into the European Economic Community for the second time in the decade.source
November 18 – The UK pound is devalued from £1 = US$2.80 to £1 = US$2.40.source
November 29 – Vietnam War: U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara announces his resignation to become president of the World Bank. McNamara's resignation follows U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson's outright rejection of McNamara's early November recommendations to freeze troop levels, stop the bombing of North Vietnam, and hand over ground fighting to South Vietnam.source
December 29 – Korean automobile manufacturer Hyundai Motor is founded.source
Warner Bros. becomes a wholly owned subsidiary of Seven Arts Productions, thus becoming Warner Bros.-Seven Arts.source
Date unknown - In 1967, a majority share of the German company Braun AG was acquired by the Boston, Massachusetts-based conglomerate Gillette Group.Germany source

Technology & Infrastructure

3 January – Anadol, the first Turkish made carTurkey source
27 January – The Chartered Industries of Singapore is established to produce ammunition for the Singapore Armed Forces.Singapore source
March 4 – The first North Sea gas is pumped ashore at Easington, East Riding of Yorkshire, UK.source
April 9 – The first Boeing 737 (A-100 series) takes its maiden flight.source
April 28 – Expo 67 opens to the public, with over 310,000 people attending. Al Carter from Chicago is the first visitor as noted by Expo officials.source
April 28 – The U.S. aerospace manufacturer McDonnell Douglas is formed through a merger of McDonnell Aircraft and Douglas Aircraft (it becomes part of The Boeing Company three decades later).source
April 30 – Moscow's 537 m tall TV tower is finished.source
2 May – US-made Sikorsky S-61 military transport helicopter renamed Nuri was used by the Royal Malaysian Air Force for the first time.Malaysia source
4 May: Alicante–Elche Miguel Hernández Airport was foundedSpain source
15 May – In the midst of Israel's Independence Day celebrations, Egyptian ground forces cross the Suez Canal and enter the Sinai peninsula. This move led Israel to an emergency state, known as the "waiting period".Israel source
16 May – The groundbreaking ceremony for the construction of Fo Guang Shan in Dashu Township, Kaohsiung County.Taiwan source
May 23 – A significant worldwide geomagnetic flare unfolded. Radio emissions coming from the Sun jammed military surveillance radars.source
June 17 – Project 639: The People's Republic of China tests its first hydrogen bomb.source
June 27 – The first automatic cash machine (voucher-based) is installed, in the office of Barclays Bank in Enfield, UK.source
July 1 – Seaboard Air Line Railroad merges with Atlantic Coast Line Railroad to become Seaboard Coast Line Railroad, first step to today's CSX Transportation.source
August 1 – The UAC TurboTrain makes its first journey.source
August 15 – The United Kingdom Marine, &c., Broadcasting (Offences) Act 1967 declares participation in offshore pirate radio illegal. Radio Caroline defies the act and continues broadcasting.source
6 September - Myrina is launched from the Musgrave Yard slipway at Harland and Wolff in Belfast, the first supertanker and (at around 192000 DWT) largest ship built in the United Kingdom up to this date.Northern Ireland source
September 30 – In the United Kingdom, BBC Radio completely restructures its national programming: the Light Programme is split between new national pop station Radio 1 (modelled on the successful pirate station Radio London) and Radio 2; the cultural Third Programme is rebranded as Radio 3; and the primarily-talk Home Service becomes Radio 4.source
October 3 – An X-15 research aircraft with test pilot William J. Knight establishes an unofficial world fixed-wing speed record of Mach 6.7.source
November 4–5 – In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, mercenaries of Jean Schramme and Jerry Puren withdraw from Bukavu, over the Shangugu Bridge, to Rwanda.source
November 7 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, establishing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.source
November 19 – The establishment of TVB, the first wireless commercial television station in Hong Kong.source
23 November – Mangla Dam, built for irrigation and power generation, is inaugurated.Pakistan source
December 15 – The Silver Bridge over the Ohio River in Point Pleasant, West Virginia, collapses, killing 46 people.source
PAL is first introduced in Germany.source

Science & Discovery

January 15 – Louis Leakey announces the discovery of pre-human fossils in Kenya; he names the species Kenyapithecus africanus.source
February 5 – Italy's first guided missile cruiser, the Vittorio Veneto, is launched.source
February 5 – NASA launches Lunar Orbiter 3.source
February 11 – Burgess Ice Rise, lying off the west coast of Alexander Island, Antarctica, is first mapped by the British Antarctic Survey (BAS).source
February 13 – American researchers discover the Madrid Codices by Leonardo da Vinci in the National Library of Spain.source
15 February – Rasmus Sørnes, inventor, clockmaker and radio technician (b.1893).Norway source
February 25 – Britain's second Polaris missile submarine, HMS Renown, is launched.source
February 26 – A Soviet nuclear test is conducted at the Semipalatinsk Test Site, Eastern Kazakhstan.source
March 29 – The first French nuclear submarine, Le Redoutable, is launched.source
5 April – An emperor penguin is found at Oreti Beach, Southland, becoming the first recorded sighting of an emperor penguin in New Zealand. The following day, it is released into Foveaux Strait.New Zealand source
April 20 – The Surveyor 3 probe lands on the Moon.source
April 27: Expo 67 Official Opening Ceremony broadcast in colour live via satellite to an estimated worldwide audience of 700 million viewers and listeners.Canada source
April 29 – Fidel Castro announces that all intellectual property belongs to the people and that Cuba intends to translate and publish technical literature without compensation.source
May 4 – Lunar Orbiter 4 is launched by the United States.source
May 18 – NASA announces the crew for the Apollo 7 space mission (the first in the Apollo series with a crew): Wally Schirra, Donn F. Eisele, and R. Walter Cunningham.source
June 12 – Venera program: Venera 4 is launched by the Soviet Union (the first space probe to analyze another planet's atmosphere and successfully return data).source
June 14 – Mariner program: Mariner 5 is launched toward Venus.source
June 14–15 – Glenn Gould records Prokofiev's Seventh Piano Sonata, Op. 83, in New York City (his only recording of a Prokofiev composition).United States source
June 25 – 400 million viewers watch Our World, the first live, international, satellite television production. It features the live debut of The Beatles' song "All You Need Is Love".source
28 June – Judy Pollock breaks Ann Packer's world record (2:04.3) in the women's 800 metres, clocking 2:01.0 at a meet in Helsinki, Finland.Australia source
The first edition of Paula magazine appears. The first issue is one hundred pages long and costs E°3.Chile source
October 18 – The Venera 4 probe descends through the Venusian atmosphere.source
October 19 – The Mariner 5 probe flies by Venus.source
October 20 – Patterson–Gimlin film: Roger Patterson and Robert Gimlin's famous film of an unidentified animate cryptid, thought to be Bigfoot or Sasquatch, is recorded at Bluff Creek, California.source
November 9 – Apollo program: NASA launches the first Saturn V rocket, successfully carrying the Apollo 4 test spacecraft from Cape Kennedy into Earth orbit.source
November 13 – The first of its many UFO sightings is made at Pudasjärvi, Finland.source
November 28 – The first pulsar to be discovered by Earth observers is found in the constellation of Vulpecula by astronomers Jocelyn Bell Burnell and Antony Hewish, and is given the name PSR B1919+21.source
December 11 – Supersonic airliner Concorde is unveiled in Toulouse, France.source
11 December – The Concorde aircraft is unveiled in Toulouse.France source
December 19 – The Rescue Agreement setting forth rights and obligations in outer space is voted into consensus by the United Nations General Assembly.source
December 26 – The Beatles' film Magical Mystery Tour receives its world première on BBC Television in the UK.source
Rhys Davies wins an Edgar Allan Poe Award for his story "The Chosen One", originally published in The New Yorker.Wales source

Health & Medicine

February – Free milk in schools (a half pint daily for each primary school pupil) was stopped, it had been distributed since 1937. Some schools continued it with parents paying.New Zealand source
March 14 – Nine executives of the German pharmaceutical company Grunenthal are charged with breaking German drug laws because of thalidomide.source
June 17 – The municipality of Quirino, in the province of Isabela is established through the enacted Republic Act No. 4901.Philippines source
23 June – The government bans the broadcast on Radio Pakistan of Tagore Songs, angering the country's Bengali population, who consider the songs part of their cultural identity.Pakistan source
1 July – Full immigration control at Malaysia-Singapore border imposed.Malaysia source
August 5: A man with schizophrenia, Victor Hoffman, kills nine near Shell Lake, SaskatchewanCanada source
August 23 - A power outage affects a large part of the country. Its cause is the fall of a pole in the Ictinos neighborhood of Peñalolén, currently Ñuñoa, which caused an overload and caused a blackout between the cities of Copiapó and Puerto Montt.Chile source
September 1 – The Khmer–Chinese Friendship Association is banned in Cambodia.source
16 September – South Sydney defeats Canterbury Bankstown 12–10 in front of 56,358 people to win the 1967 New South Wales Rugby League Grand Final.Australia source
October 29 – Expo 67 closes in Montreal, after having attracted more than 50 million visitors in six months.source
November 20 – The "population clock" of the United States Census Bureau records the U.S. population at 200 million people at 11:03 a.m. Washington, D.C. time.source
December 3 – Christiaan Barnard carries out the world's first heart transplant at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa.source
December 3 – Professor Christiaan Barnard carries out the world's first heart transplant at Groote Schuur Hospital.South Africa source

Crime & Justice

January 23 – In Munich, the trial begins of Wilhelm Harster, accused of the murder of 82,856 Jews (including Anne Frank) when he led German security police during the German occupation of the Netherlands. He is eventually sentenced to 15 years in prison.source
February 3 – Ronald Ryan becomes the last man hanged in Australia, for murdering a guard while escaping from prison in December 1965.source
March 1 – Brazilian police arrest Franz Stangl, ex-commander of Treblinka and Sobibór extermination camps.source
1 March: Police arrest Franz Stangl, ex-commander of Treblinka and Sobibór extermination camps.Brazil source
March 13 – Moise Tshombe, ex-prime minister of Congo, is sentenced to death in absentia.source
March 21 – Charles Manson is released from Terminal Island. Telling the authorities that prison had become his home, he requested permission to stay. Upon his release, he relocates to San Francisco where he spends the Summer of Love.source
March 26 – Jim Thompson, co-founder of the Thai Silk Company, disappears from the Cameron Highlands.source
May 18 – Tennessee Governor Ellington repeals the "Monkey Law" (officially the Butler Act; see the Scopes Trial).source
June 26 – The Buffalo Race Riot begins, lasting until July 1, and leads to over 180 arrests.source
June 30 – Moise Tshombe, former president of Katanga and former prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is kidnapped and taken to Algeria.source
August 11 - In the midst of the student takeover, the phrase «Chilean: El Mercurio lies » on a canvas hanging in the Central House of the Catholic University.Chile source
October 16 – Thirty-nine people, including singer-activist Joan Baez, are arrested in Oakland, California, for blocking the entrance of that city's military induction center.source
October 26 – U.S. Navy pilot John McCain is shot down over North Vietnam and taken prisoner. His capture is confirmed two days later, and he remains a prisoner of war for more than five years.source
31 October – Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktaş was arrested by the Greek CypriotsTurkey source
October - Ñancahuazú Guerrilla defeated by Government of Bolivia with CIA assistance. Che Guevara captured and executedBolivia source
November 17 – French author Régis Debray is sentenced to 30 years imprisonment in Bolivia. (He will be released in 1970 after less than three years imprisonment.)source
December 5 – In New York City, Benjamin Spock and Allen Ginsberg are arrested for protesting against the Vietnam War.source
December 9 – Jim Morrison is arrested on stage in New Haven, Connecticut for attempting to spark a riot in the audience during a concert.source
Gunsmoke, after 12 seasons and with declining ratings, almost gets cancelled, but protests from viewers, network affiliates and even members of Congress and especially William S. Paley, the head of the network, lead the network to move the series from its longtime late Saturday time slot to early Mondays for the fall—displacing Gilligan's Island, which initially had been renewed for a fourth season but is cancelled instead. Gunsmoke would remain on CBS until 1975.source
Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 1967Germany source
Sultan of Pahang: Sultan Abu BakarMalaysia source
Benue-Plateau State: Police Commissioner Joseph GomwalkNigeria source
The first treasure from the Spanish Armada wreck Girona is recovered.Northern Ireland source

Disasters & Accidents

January 6 – Two pilgrimage buses fall into a ravine in Indang, Cavite, killing more than 84 passengers.Philippines source
19 January – A gas explosion in the Strongman coal mine near Greymouth kills 19 miners.New Zealand source
February 7 – Serious bushfires in southern Tasmania claim 62 lives and destroy 2,642.7 square kilometres (653,025.4 acres) of land.source
13 February – Nocturnal explosion at the law courts on Burg Square damages the stained glass windows of the Basilica of the Holy Blood.Belgium source
March 18 – Torrey Canyon oil spill: The supertanker SS Torrey Canyon runs aground between Land's End and the Scilly Isles off the coast of Britain, causing the biggest oil spill in history up to that point.source
March 29 – Torrey Canyon oil spill: British Fleet Air Arm and Royal Air Force aircraft bomb and sink the grounded supertanker SS Torrey Canyon.source
April 20 – A Globe Air Bristol Britannia turboprop crashes at Nicosia, Cyprus, killing 126 people.source
20 April – A Bristol Britannia of the Swiss airline Globe Air flew into the ground 3.5 kilometres (2.2 mi) south of Nicosia Airport, killing all 126 passengers and crew on board.Cyprus source
April 24 – Soyuz 1: Vladimir Komarov becomes the first Soviet cosmonaut to die, when the parachute of his space capsule fails during re-entry.source
May 22 – The Innovation department store in the centre of Brussels, Belgium, burns down. It is the most devastating fire in Belgian history, resulting in 323 dead and missing and 150 injured.source
May 23 – Egypt closes the Straits of Tiran to Israeli shipping, blockading Israel's southern port of Eilat, and Israel's entire Red Sea coastline.source
23 May – President Nasser closes the Straits of Tiran to Israeli shipping, blockading Israel's southern port of Eilat, and Israel's entire Red Sea coastline.Israel source
June 4 – Stockport air disaster: British Midland flight G-ALHG crashes in Hopes Carr, Stockport, killing 72 passengers and crew.source
July 6 – Langenweddingen level crossing disaster: A level crossing collision between a train loaded with children and a tanker-truck near Magdeburg, East Germany, kills 94 people, mostly children.source
July 19 – A race riot breaks out in the North Side of Minneapolis on Plymouth Street during the Minneapolis Aquatennial Parade; businesses are vandalized and fires break out in the area, although the disturbance is quelled within hours. However, the next day a shooting sets off another incident in the same area that leads to 18 fires, 36 arrests, 3 shootings, 2 dozen people injured, and damages totaling 4.2 million. Two more such incidents occur during the following two weeks.source
July 29 – An explosion and fire aboard the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Forrestal in the Gulf of Tonkin leaves 134 dead.source
September 5–22 miners die after two trucks carrying detonating material exploded in a sector of the Chuquicamata mine.Chile source
October 21 – An Egyptian surface-to-surface missile sinks the Israeli destroyer Eilat, killing 47 Israeli sailors. Israel retaliates by shelling Egyptian refineries along the Suez Canal.source
December 1 – The RMS Queen Mary is retired. Her place is taken by the Queen Elizabeth 2.source
17 December – Prime Minister Harold Holt disappears while swimming in heavy surf at Cheviot Beach, near Portsea, Victoria.Australia source
December 31 – Motorcycle daredevil Evel Knievel attempts to jump 141 feet over the Caesars Palace Fountains on the Las Vegas Strip in the United States. Knievel crashes on landing and the accident is caught on film.source
Thor Alex Kappfjell, offshore worker and BASE jumper (died 1999).Norway source

Climate & Environment

January 26 – The largest-ever blizzard to hit the US city of Chicago begins.source
June 24 – Flooding kills six cavers in Mossdale Caverns in the United Kingdom, the single deadliest incident in British caving.source
July 10 – Heavy massive rains and a landslide at Kobe and Kure, Hiroshima, Japan, kill at least 371.source
22 July – The 7.1 Ms Mudurnu earthquake affected the Bolu Province with high intensity shaking, killing 86.Turkey source
July 29 – An earthquake in Caracas, Venezuela leaves 240 dead.source
14-15 Snow falls in the Transvaal. The Northern Transvaal records its first snowfall.South Africa source
August 16 – Taal Volcano experiences another phreatomagmatic eruption, originating from Mount Tabaro, further indicating heightened volcanic activity during this period.Philippines source
August 29 - A heavy torrential rain and mudslide occur in Murakami, Shibata and Oguni area, part of Niigata Prefecture and Yamagata Prefecture, according to Fire and Disaster Management Agency of Japan confirmed report, 142 person lost to lives.Japan source
September-October: A large fire hits the Rio Doce State Park in Minas Gerais. Around 9,000 hectares (approximately one third of the reserve) were consumed by fire and 12 people died. This would be the second largest forest fire in Brazil in terms of number of fatalities; second only to the fire in Paraná in 1963, which left 110 dead.Brazil source
November 26 – Major floods hit Lisbon, Portugal, killing 462.source
December 4 – At 6:50 PM, a volcano erupts on Deception Island in Antarctica.source
December 4 - A volcanic eruption —which occurred on Deception Island, South Shetland Islands, in the Antarctic—destroys the President Pedro Aguirre Cerda Station and the Cabo Gutiérrez Vargas Shelter.Chile source
11 December – The 6.6 Mw Koynanagar earthquake shook western India with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), killing 177–180 and injuring 2,272.India source
December 17 – Harold Holt, 17th Prime Minister of Australia, disappears when swimming at Cheviot Beach, 60 km from Melbourne. He was briefly replaced as prime minister by John McEwen, until the Liberal Party elected Minister for Education and Science John Gorton as leader.source
Sultan of Johor: Sultan IsmailMalaysia source

Culture & Society

January 15 – Super Bowl I: The Green Bay Packers defeat the Kansas City Chiefs 35–10 in football at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.United States source
February 6 – Alexei Kosygin arrives in the UK for an 8-day visit. He meets The Queen on February 9.source
March 4 – Queens Park Rangers become the first 3rd Division side to win the English Football League Cup at Wembley Stadium, defeating West Bromwich Albion 3–2.source
11 March – The opening of Land Reform Museum in Songshan District, Taipei City.Taiwan source
18 March – Shin Min Daily News is launched.Singapore source
April 8 – Puppet on a String by Sandie Shaw (music and lyrics by Bill Martin and Phil Coulter) wins the Eurovision Song Contest 1967 for the United Kingdom.source
April 10 – The AFTRA strike is settled just in time for the 39th Academy Awards ceremony to be held, hosted by Bob Hope. Best Picture goes to A Man for All Seasons.source
April 23 – A group of young leftist radicals are expelled from the Nicaraguan Socialist Party (PSN). This group goes on to found the Socialist Workers Party (POS).source
April 27 – Montreal, Quebec, Expo 67, a World's Fair to coincide with the Canadian Confederation centennial, officially opens with Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson igniting the Expo Flame in the Place des Nations.source
May 1 – Elvis Presley and Priscilla Beaulieu are married in Las Vegas.source
17 May – Luxembourg adopts the International Labour Organization's regulations on gender equality in wages.Luxembourg source
25 May – Celtic F.C. defeat Inter Milan 2–1 in Lisbon to win the European Cup, becoming the first British football club to win the competition. The team, later nicknamed the Lisbon Lions, was composed entirely of players born within 30 miles of Glasgow.source
May 26 – The Beatles release the groundbreaking album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band in the United Kingdom. It becomes one of the most influential albums in popular music history.source
June 10 – Margrethe, heir apparent to the throne of Denmark, marries French count Henri de Laborde de Monpezat.source
June 12 – Loving v. Virginia: The United States Supreme Court declares all U.S. state laws prohibiting interracial marriage to be unconstitutional.source
July 1 – Canada celebrates its first one hundred years of Confederation.source
July 1 – The first UK colour television broadcasts begin on BBC2. The first one is from the Wimbledon tennis championships. A full colour service begins on BBC2 on December 2.source
August 6 – A pulsar is noted by Jocelyn Bell and Antony Hewish. The discovery is first recorded in print in 1968: "An entirely novel kind of star came to light on Aug. 6 last year [...]".source
August 7 – A general strike in the old quarter of Jerusalem protests Israel's unification of the city.source
September 3 – At 5:00 a.m. local time, all road traffic in Sweden switches from left-hand traffic pattern to right-hand traffic.<source
8 September – Centenary of Sarawak Council celebrated.Malaysia source
September 17 – Jim Morrison and The Doors defy CBS censors on The Ed Sullivan Show, when Morrison sings the word "higher" from their #1 hit Light My Fire, despite having been asked not to.source
October 18 – Walt Disney's 19th full-length animated feature The Jungle Book, the last animated film personally supervised by Disney, is released and becomes an enormous box-office and critical success. On a double bill with the film is the (now) much less well-known true-life adventure, Charlie the Lonesome Cougar.source
October 26 – The coronation ceremony of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran, ruler of the nation since 1941, takes place.source
November 7 – The 50th anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution is celebrated in the Soviet Union.source
November 7 – Carl B. Stokes is elected Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, becoming the first African American elected mayor of a major United States city.source
November 27 – The Beatles release Magical Mystery Tour in the U.S. as a full album. The songs added to the original six songs on the double EP include "All You Need Is Love", "Penny Lane", "Strawberry Fields Forever", "Baby, You're a Rich Man" and "Hello, Goodbye". Release as a double EP will not take place in the UK until December.source
1 December – Modhumita cinema hall opens in Dacca, screening the 1963 Hollywood epic Cleopatra.Pakistan source
December 8 – Magical Mystery Tour is released by The Beatles as a double EP in the UK, while the only psychedelic rock album by The Rolling Stones, Their Satanic Majesties Request, is released in the UK and in the US.source
December 12 – Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, one of the seminal race relations films of the 1960s, is released to theaters.source
23 December — 1967–68 Balkans Cup: Albania defeats Bulgaria 4-0 at Loro Boriçi Stadium, ShkodërAlbania source
Académica do Mindelo won the Cape Verdean Football ChampionshipCape Verde source
Gradual introduction of five-day workweek was finished (started in 1966).Estonia source

Births

January 30: Toni Duarte, footballerCape Verde source
February 18 – Roberto Baggio, Italian football playersource
February 20 – Kurt Cobain, American musician (Nirvana) (died 1994)source
April 20 – Raymond van Barneveld, Dutch darts playersource
27 April - Iyabo Obasanjo-Bello, politicianNigeria source
June 16 – Jürgen Klopp, German former footballer and former manager of Liverpool F.C.source
June 20 – Nicole Kidman, American-born Australian actresssource
21 June - Yingluck Shinawatra, Former Thai Prime MinisterThailand source
July 23 – Philip Seymour Hoffman, American actor, director, and producer (died 2014)source
August 13 – Jeanine Áñez, President of Boliviasource
September 9 – Akshay Kumar, Indian actorsource
11 September - Sung Jae-gi, anti-feminist (died 2013)South Korea source
September 12 – Louis C.K., American comedian and actorsource
October 9 – Eddie Guerrero, Mexican-American professional wrestler (died 2005)source
October 10 – Gavin Newsom, American politician, 40th Governor of Californiasource
October 11 – Peter Thiel, German-American entrepreneur and venture capitalistsource
November 1 – Tina Arena, Australian singer-songwritersource
November 2 – Scott Walker, American legislator and politician; 45th Governor of Wisconsin (2011–2019)source

Deaths

January 27 – Apollo 1: U.S. astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee are killed when fire breaks out in their Apollo spacecraft during a launch pad test.source
February 18 – J. Robert Oppenheimer, American physicist (born 1904)source
April 19 – Konrad Adenauer, German statesman, first Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany (born 1876)source
June 2 – Protests in West Berlin against the arrival of the Shah of Iran turn into fights, during which 27-year-old student Benno Ohnesorg is killed by a police officer. His death results in the founding of the terrorist group 2 June Movement.source
2 June – Lee Kong Chian, businessman, philanthropist and Chinese community leader (born 1893).Malaysia source
July 14 – Tudor Arghezi, Romanian writer (born 1880)source
July 23–31 – 12th Street Riot: In Detroit, one of the worst riots in United States history begins on 12th Street in the predominantly African American inner city: 43 are killed, 342 injured and 1,400 buildings burned.source
19 August – Hugo Gernsback, inventorLuxembourg source
August 25 – Stanley Bruce, 8th Prime Minister of Australia (born 1883)source
September 1 – Ilse Koch, known as the "Witch of Buchenwald", commits suicide in the Bavarian prison of Aichach.source
September - Christopher Okigbo, poet, 37, killed during Nigerian Civil WarNigeria source
October 3 – Woody Guthrie, American folk musician (born 1912)source
October 8 – Guerrilla leader Che Guevara and his men are captured in Bolivia; they are executed the following day.source
October 8 – Clement Attlee, British politician, 60th Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1883)source
October 9 – Che Guevara, Argentine communist revolutionary (born 1928)source
October 9 – Che Guevara, Argentine-born Marxist revolutionary involved in Cuban Revolution and Simba Rebellion in Republic of the Congo (Léopoldville) (now Democratic Republic of the Congo)Bolivia source
October 17 – Puyi, last Emperor of China (born 1906)source
November 15 – General Georgios Grivas and his 10,000 strong Greek Army division are forced to leave Cyprus, after 24 Turkish Cypriot civilians are killed by the Greek Cypriot National Guard in the villages of Kophinou and Ayios Theodhoros; relations sour between Nicosia and Athens. Turkey flies sorties into Greek territory, and masses troops in Thrace on her border with Greece.source
December 6 – Vice President Jorge Pacheco Areco is sworn in as President of Uruguay after President Oscar Gestido dies in office.source