The Year 1967
History and Politics
Isreali forces use tanks against Syria in worsening border conflict.
Jeremy Thorpe elected leader of Brit. Liberal Party.
Soviet Union and Britian pledge to make every possible effort to obtain peace in Vietnam.
France launches its first nuclear powered submarine, "La Redoutable".
Isreali Mirage fighter planes shoot down 6 Syian Air Force MIG-21s.
5,000 persons roit in Hong Kong; 700,000 persons march down 5th
Avenue, NY, in support of US soldiers fighting in Vietnam.
Hanoi attacked by US bombers.
Nassar and Hussein sign mutual defense pact.
Isreali Gen. Moshe Dayan appointed Defense Minister.
Six-day war between Isreal and Arab nations begins; Isreali forces move into Siani Desert
and Jordan; capture old city of jerusalem, gain control of Siani Peninsula approaches to
to Suez Canal; Nasser decides to resign, but UAR National Assembly rejects his decision;
Isreali forces penetrate into Syria; USSR severs dipolmatic relations with Isreal; Isreal and
Sypia agree to ceasefire; Arab antions reject Isreali proposal for negotiations; Nasser
names himself Prime minister of UAR; Jerusalem proclaimed united city under Isreali rule.
Arab refugees begin returning to their homes on West Bank of Jordan.
Nasser vows to continue struggle against Isreal.
Black Power conference held in Newark, N.J.
Britian rejects Chinese ultimatum demanding 3 pro-Communist Hong Kong
newspapers; Brit. chancery in Peking sacked and burned.
American Nazi Party leader G L Rockwell is shot to death in Arlington, Va.
50,000 persons demonstrate against Vietnam war at Lincoln Memorial, Wash. D.C.
The Shah of Iran crowns himself and his wife, Empress Farah, at Teheran.
King Constantine and his family flee from Greece to Rome after failing to overthrow military government.
President Johnson appoints Thurgood Marshall to Supreme Court.
25th Amendment of US Constitution is ratified; it provides for presidential appiontment of vice
president if that position is vacated and for appointment of the vice president as acting president
in the event of an inability of the president to perform his duties.
Martin Luther King leads anti-Vietnam war march in New York;
another protest march takes place in San Francisco.
Black riots in Cleveland, Newark, and Detroit.
Science, Technology, Growth
Soviet cosmonaut Vladimir M. Komarov killed during re-entry of Soyuz I.
Standford Univ. biochemists produce synthetic version of DNA, the substance that controls heredity.
Seventh international Congress of Biochemistry meets in Tokyo; special
symposium held to honor Sir Hans Krebs on his retirement from Oxford.
Low temperature irradiation of hydrogen iodine mixtures, carried out by J H Sullivan,
Los Alamos, N. Mexico, leads to reassessment of the mechanism of this reation.
The People's Republic of China explodes its first hydrogen bomb.
Dr. Christian N. Barnard performs world's first human heart transplant
operation at Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, S. Africa.
Dr. Irving S> Cooper (US) developes cryosurgery as a means of treating Parkinson's disease.
US has 74 nuclear powered submarines in commission.
Seven new mesons are discovered (Cern and Geneva)
Russia launches Luna 13 toward moon.
US manned space flights are suspended after death of 3 astronauts in fire on launching pad.
Daily Life
Expo 67 opens in Montreal
Heavyweight boxing champion Muhannad Ali (Cassius Clay) indicted in
Houston, Tex., for refusing to be inducted into US armed forces.
Ilse Koch, German war criminal, the "beast of Buchenwald"
found hanged in prison cell.
Mickey Mantle (New York Yankees) hits his 500th career home run.
Albert H. de Salvo (35) the "Boston Strangler", who admitted
13 murders, is sentenced to life inprisonment.
Lake Point Tower, Chicago, 645 ft., 70 stories, becomes the wolrd's
tallest reinforced concrete apartment building.
Lost Creek Dam, Utah, completed.
5.3 billion cans soda comsumed this year in US.
Toronto Maple Leaf hockey tean wins the Stanley Cup.
Peggy Fleming (US) wins world championship for women's figure skating, Vienna.
100 million telephones are in service in the US.
John Newcombe (Au) wins Wimbledon ans US Singles tennis titles.
3.6 milliom births registered in the US.
Sweden changes from left to right side driving.
Francis Chichester finishes his single handed voyage around the world in 226 days.
Twiggy, a Brit. model, takes the US fashion by storm.
"Damascus" wins the Preakness and Belmont Stakes.
US defeats Australia to win America's Cup yachting trophy.
Billie Jean King wins almost every American and international tennis match open to women.
Lynda Bird Johnson marries Capt. Charles Robb.
St Louis (NL) defeats Boston (AL) in Word Series, 4-3.
For the 3rd consecutive year and the 6th time in 8 years, the Green Bay
Packers, win the N F L National Conference championship,
and then go on to win the N F L championship.
Martha C. Webster lands a 410 lb. blue shark at Rockport, Mass.,
to tie record of Richard C. Webster set in 1960, also at Rockport.
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