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1967

January 1
  • CRU becomes the CAFA and turns over the Grey Cup trophy to the Canadian Football League. [1]
  • Day's play in the Calcutta Test vs West Indies cancelled by riots. [1]
  • Green Bay Packers beat Dallas Cowboys 34-27 in NFL championship game. [1]
  • Kansas City Chiefs beat Buffalo Bills 31-7 in AFL championship game. [1]
  • Maurice Leyland, cricketer (41 Tests for England, 2764 runs), dies. [1]
January 6
  • Johnny Keane, baseball player/manager (Saint Louis Cardinals, New York Yankees), dies at age 55. [1]
January 7
  • Sid Emery, cricket leg-spinner (New South Wales and Australia, five wicket in 1912 series), dies. [1]
January 9
  • The NFL New Orleans franchise takes the name "Saints". [1]
January 12
  • Louisville, Kentucky, draft board refuses exemption for boxer Muhammad Ali. [1]
January 15
  • Super Bowl I: Green Bay Packers beat Kansas City Chiefs, 35-10 in Los Angeles, California; Most Valuable Player: Bart Starr, quarterback. [1]
January 18
  • 20th NHL All-Star Game: Montréal beats All-Stars 3-0 at Montréal, Quebec, Canada. [1]
  • Barney Ross, Welterweight Boxing Champ (1934), dies at age 57. [1]
  • Reese "Goose" Tatum, basketballer (Harlem Globetrotters), dies at age 45. [1]
January 21
  • AFL Pro Bowl: East beats West 30-23. [1]
  • US female Figure Skating championship won by Peggy Fleming. [1]
  • US male Figure Skating championship won by Gary Visconti. [1]
January 22
  • NFL Pro Bowl: East beats West 20-10. [1]
January 23
  • Stan Musial is named general manager of Saint Louis Cardinals. [1]
January 27
  • New Orleans Saints sign their first player (Paige Cothren-kicker). [1]
January 28
  • Stanley Coen, cricket (two Tests for South Africa, hs 41 not out, avg 50), dies. [1]
January 29
  • Branch Rickey and Lloyd Waner elected to Baseball Hall of Fame. [1]
  • Kees Verkerk becomes European skating champ. [1]
February 1
  • Ernie Bromley, cricketer (two Tests for Australia 1933-34), dies. [1]
February 2
  • Formation of the American Basketball Association is announced. [1]
February 6
  • Heavyweight Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay) TKOs Ernie Terrell in 15 rounds in Houston, Texas, USA for heavyweight boxing title. [1]
February 8
  • Longest losing streak in Toronto Maple Leaf history (ten games). [1]

February 12
  • Kees Verkerk becomes world champion all-round skater. [1]
February 16
  • Red Ruffing selected to baseball Hall of Fame. [1]
February 18
  • Bob Seagren sets pole vault record at 17 feet 3 inches. [1]
  • Softball pitcher Eddie Feigner strikes out six straight major league players. [1]
February 19
  • Stien Kaiser becomes world champion lady's skater. [1]
February 22
  • Sling-shot goal post and 6-feet wide border around field are standard in NFL. [1]
February 23
  • Ted Workman replaces Senator Keith Davey as Canadian Football League commissioner. [1]
February 28
  • Wilt Chamberlain sinks NBA record 35th consecutive field goal. [1]
March 3
  • Chicago White Sox given permission to use semi-designated hitter in training camp with home club permission (use of pinch hitter twice in same game). [1]
March 4
  • World Ice Dance Championship in Vienna, Austria won by Diane Towler and Bernard Ford (Great Britain). [1]
  • World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Vienna, Austria won by Ljudmila Belousova and Oleg Protopopov (USSR). [1]
  • World Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Vienna won by Peggy Fleming (USA). [1]
  • World Men's Figure Skating Championship in Vienna won by Emmerich Danzer (Austria). [1]
March 8
  • New Orleans Saints begin selling season tickets (20,000 sold first day). [1]
March 12
  • Austria's Reinhold Bachler ski jumps 505 feet. [1]
March 13
  • Frank Worrell, West Indian cricketer, dies. [1]
March 14
  • First NFL-AFL common draft, Baltimore Colts pick Bubba Smith. [1]
March 19
  • Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Saint Petersburg Orange Golf Classic. [1]
March 22
  • Muhammad Ali [Cassius Clay] knocks out Zora Folley in 7 innings for heavyweight boxing title in first Madison Square Garden fight. [1]
March 25
  • 29th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA beats Dayton 79-64. [1]
  • UCLA wins its third national basketball championship in four years. [1]
March 26
  • Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Venice Ladies' Golf Open. [1]

End of 1967 January-March. Next: 1967 April.
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Other web pages of interest:

  • Chronology of Gambling
  • Chronology of World History
  • Chronology of Notable Births
  • Chronology of Notable Deaths
  • Ken P's Today in History
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