Chronology of World History

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1967

January 1
  • Saint Helena adopts constitution. [1]
  • Tonga revises constitution. [1]
  • In his annual New Year's column of predictions, the great Criswell writes (and announces on TV) that there will be a one-week war with Egypt and Russia against Israel, and that actress Jayne Mansfield would die during the year. (War breaks out in the Mideast in June: The Arab-Israeli 6-Day War. Jayne Mansfield dies June 29 at age 34 in a car crash.) [457]
January 6
  • Two homemade buses collide on a mountain road in Terpate, Philippines, plunging off a cliff, killing 84, injuring 140. [1]
January 11
  • Romeinse Curie installs Council for Pontifical Study commission. [1]
January 13
  • Coup in Togo. [1]
January 14
  • 20,000 attend the Human Be-In, San Francisco, California, USA. [1]
  • Earthquake in Sicily kills 231. [1]
January 18
  • Yellowknife replaces Ottawa as capital of North West Territories, Canada. [1]
January 26
  • USSR performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan. [1]
January 27
  • At Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, a fire breaks out during a manned launch-pad test of the Apollo spacecraft and Saturn rocket, killing astronauts Virgil I Grissom, Lieutenant-Colonel US Air Force Edward Higgins White II, and Roger B Chaffee. [1] [129] [452.94]
  • Treaty banning military use of nuclear weapons in space is signed. [1]
February 1
  • Severe brush fires in Tasmania destroy $11 million and 60 lives. [1]
February 2
  • Bolivia adopts its constitution. [1]
February 5
  • Anastasio Somoza elected President of Nicaragua. [1]
  • Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Robert Penn Warren. [1]

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February 6
  • Cultural Revolution in Albania. [1]
February 8
  • French Diadème D-1C satellite is launched into Earth orbit. [1]
February 9
  • In Colombia, a magnitude 6.8 earthquake occurs. 98 people killed and widespread property damage was sustained. Hundreds of landslides occur on the slopes of the two Cordilleras facing the Magdalena Valley. [53]
February 14
  • Latin American nuclear-free zone proposal drawn up. [1]
February 15
  • French Diadème 1-D satellite launches into Earth orbit. [1]
February 17
  • Kosmos 140 (Soyuz test) launches into Earth orbit. [1]
February 22
  • 25,000 American and South Vietnamese troops launch Operation Junction City, offensive to smash Viet Cong stronghold near Cambodian border. [1]
February 23
  • US troops begin largest offensive of Vietnam War. [1]
February 26
  • USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk. [1]
February 27
  • Saint Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla gains independence. [278.798]
March 1
  • Dominica and Saint Lucia gain independence from Britain. [1]
  • Queen Elizabeth Hall (South Bank Center) opens in London, England. [1]
March 3
  • Grenada gains partial independence from Britain. [1]
March 6
  • Josef Stalin's daughter Svetlana Allilujeva asks for political asylum in US. [1]
March 9
  • Svetlana Allilueva, Josef Stalin's daughter, defects to the West in New York City. [1]
March 12
  • Indonesian congress deprives President Sukarno of authority. [1]
March 13
  • Congo sentences ex-premier Moïse Tsjombe to death. [1]
March 15
  • Marshal Arturo da Costa e Silva sworn in as President of Brazil. [1]
March 18
  • The oil tanker Torrey Canyon runs aground off Corwell, UK, spilling 93.2-146 million litres of crude oil. [1] [522]
March 19
  • French Somaliland (Djibouti) votes to continue association with France. [1]
  • The Somali Coast changes its name to the French Territory of the Afars and Issas. [285.29]
March 20
  • A J F Moody is first US Army General to die in Vietnam. [1]
March 25
  • USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk. [1]
March 26
  • Pope Paul VI publishes encyclical Populorum progressio. [1]
March 28
  • United Nations Secretary General U Thant makes public proposals for peace in Vietnam. [1]
April 1
  • First British ombudsman sir Edward Compton begins work. [1]
April 4
  • Dutch De Young government forms. [1]
April 6
  • Premier Pompidou forms new French government. [1]
April 7
  • Israeli/Syrian border fights. [1]
  • Tom Donahue, San Francisco disc jockey, begins new radio format - Progressive (KMPX-FM). [1]
April 14
  • General Gnassingbe Eyadema becomes President of Togo. [1]
  • In the Vietnam War, US planes bomb Haiphong for first time. [1]
April 20
  • French author Régis Debray caught in Bolivia. [1]
  • USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk. [1]
April 21
  • EO, Evangelical Broadcasting, begins in Netherlands. [1]
  • Military coup in Greece, Konstantinos Kollias becomes premier. [1]
April 22
  • Martial Law goes into effect in Greece. [1]
April 23
  • Soviet Soyuz 1 launched. [1]
April 24
  • Vladimir M Komarov, cosmonaut (Voshkod I), is first to die in space, aboard Soyuz 1 at age 40. [1]
April 25
  • Britain grants internal self-government to Swaziland. [1]
April 26
  • San Marco 2 satellite launch (first Equatorial launch). [1]
April 28
  • Expo 67 opens in Montréal, Quebec, Canada. [1]
April 30
  • Highest tower in the world finished, 537 metres (USSR). [1]
May 1
  • Anastasio Somoza Debayle becomes President of Nicaragua. [1]
  • In the mountainous area of northern Arta Province, Greece, a magnitude 5.9 earthquake occurs. 9 killed, 56 injured, and over 100 houses destroyed. Extensive earthslides in the Ioannina (Jannina) District. [53]
  • Pulitzer prize awarded to Bernard Malamud (The Fixer). [1]
May 6
  • Zakir Hussain elected first Muslim President of India. [1]
May 9
  • First flight of Fokker F-28 Fellowship. [1]
May 10
  • Stockholm Vietnam-Tribunal declares US aggression in Vietnam/Cambodia. [1]
May 11
  • Great Britain, Ireland, and Denmark apply for European Community membership. [1]
May 18
  • Silver on London exchange hits record US$1.60 per troy ounce. The US government stops selling stockpile at $1.2929, and bans export of silver coins. [1] [406.88] [588.72] [618.77] [639.12]
  • US Treasury bans the private melting or export of US silver coins. (The ban is lifted on April 11, 1969.) [388.B20] [433.1] [582.51]
May 19
  • US bombs Hanoi, Vietnam. [1]
  • USSR ratifies treaty with England and US banning nuclear weapons in space. [1]
May 22
  • Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser closes Straits of Tiran to Israel. [1]
  • Fire at L'Innovation department store kills 322 (Brussels, Belgium). [1]
May 23
  • Government bans submarines near South Africa. [1]
May 28
  • USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk. [1]
May 29
  • Pope Paul VI names 27 new cardinals, including Karol Wojtyla, archbishop of Krakow (later becomes Pope John Paul II). [1]
May 30
  • Biafra declares independence from Nigeria. [1] [686.15]
  • Groundbreaking begins in Florida for Walt Disney World. [6]
June 5
  • For three hours, waves of Israeli fight-bombers attack Egyptian airfields, destroying almost all of 340 planes, killing 100 combat pilots. [885.22]
June 6
  • Six-day war between Israel and Arab neighbors begins. [1]
June 7
  • Israel captures Wailing Wall in East Jerusalem. [1]
June 8
  • Israel attacks USS Liberty in Mediterranean, killing 34 US crewmen. [1]
June 12
  • Brunei and Singapore agree to allow both nations' currencies to co-circulate. [413.50] [434.46]
  • USSR launches Venera 4; will become the first space probe to enter another planet's atmosphere (Venus) and successfully return data. [1] [5]
  • Israel, Syria, Jordan, Iraq, and Egypt end "Six Day War" with United Nations' help. [1]
June 14
  • Launch of Mariner V for Venus fly-by. [1]
  • USSR launches Kosmos 166 for observation of Sun from Earth orbit. [1]
June 17
  • China becomes world's fourth thermonuclear (hydrogen bomb) power. [1]
June 23
  • US President Lyndon Johnson and Alexei Kosygin hold first of two summit meetings in Glassboro, New Jersey. [1]
June 27
  • The world's first automated teller machine (ATM) is installed in Enfield, London. [5]
June 29
  • Israel removes barricades, re-unifying Jerusalem. [1]
(month unknown)
  • A cruise ship of Princess Cruises is the first cruise ship to pass through the Panama Canal. [1436.8]

End of 1967 January-June. Next: 1967 July.

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