Talk about this article @ Wikipedia

1967

1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar.

Events

January

• January 4 - Algerian revolutionary Mohammed Khider is shot in Madrid.
  
  
• January 6 - Vietnam War: USMC and ARVN troops launch "Operation Deckhouse Five" in the Mekong River delta.
  
  
• January 10 - Segregationist Lester Maddox inaugurated as governor of Georgia.
  
  
• January 13 - Military coup in Togo under the leadership of Etienne Eyadema.
  
  
• January 14 - ''The New York Times'' reports that the US Army is conducting secret germ warfare experiments.
  
  
• January 15 - Louis Leakey announces that he has found prehuman fossils from Kenya - he names the species Kenyapitchecus Africanus.
  
  
• January 15 - United Kingdom enters the first round of negotiations for EEC membership in Rome.
  
  
• January 16 - Italy announces support for United Kingdom's EEC membership.
  
  
• January 18 - Albert DeSalvo, the "Boston Strangler," is convicted of numerous crimes and is sentenced to life in prison.
  
  
• January 18 - Jeremy Thorpe becomes leader of the Liberal Party
  
  
• January 23 - In Munich, trial begins against Wilhelm Harster, accused of murder of 82,856 Jews (including Anne Frank) when he led German security police during the German occupation of Netherlands. He is eventually sentenced to 15 years in prison.
  
  
• January 26 - Parliament of the United Kingdom decides to nationalize 90% of British steel industry.
  
  
• January 27 - Apollo 1: US astronauts Gus Grissom, Edward White, and Roger Chaffee are killed when fire erupts in their Apollo spacecraft during a test on the launch pad.
  
  
• January 27 - USA, Soviet Union and UK sign the Outer Space Treaty.
  
  
• January 31 - West Germany and Romania form diplomatic relations.
  
  

  February

  
  
  
• February 2 - The American Basketball Association is formed.
  
  
• February 3 - Ronald Ryan becomes the last man hanged in Australia, executed for the murder of a prison guard, which he committed while escaping from prison in December 1965
  
  
• February 4 - Soviet Union protests the demonstrations before its embassy in Peking
  
  
• February 5 - Lunar Orbiter 3 is launched.
  
  
• February 5 - Italy's first guided missile cruiser, the ''Vittorio Veneto (C550)'', is launched.
  
  
• February 5 - General Anastasio Somoza Debayle becomes president of Nicaragua.
  
  
• February 6 - Aleksei Kosygin arrives in the UK for an eight-day visit. He meets the Queen on the 9th.
  
  
• February 7 - Chinese government announces that it can no longer guarantee safety of Soviet diplomats outside the Soviet embassy building
  
  
• February 7 - Serious brush fires in southern Tasmania claim 62 lives
  
  
• February 10 - The 25th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified
  
  
• February 14 - King Constantine II of Greece flees the country when his coup attempt fails
  
  
• February 15 - Soviet Union announces that it has sent troops to near Chinese border
  
  
• February 18 - China sends three PLA divisions to Tibet
  
  
• February 18 - New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison claims he is going to solve the John F. Kennedy assassination and that it was planned in New Orleans
  
  
• February 22 - Suharto takes power from Sukarno in Indonesia.
  
  
• February 22 - Donald Sangster becomes the new Prime Minister of Jamaica, succeeding Alexander Bustamante.
  
  
• February 23 - Trinidad and Tobago are the first Commonwealth nation to join the OAS.
  
  
• February 24 - Moscow forbids its satellite states to form diplomatic relations to West Germany
  
  
• February 25 - Chinese government announces that it has ordered the army to help in the spring seeding.
  
  
• February 25 - Britain's second Polaris missile submarine, HMS ''Renown'', is launched.
  
  
• February 26 - Soviet nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan, Semipalitinsk.
  
  
• February 27 - Dutch government supports British EEC membership
  
  
• February 27 - Dominica gains independence from the United Kingdom.
  
  
• February 27 - The Outer Space Treaty was signed in Washington, London, and Moscow (entered into force October 10, 1967).
  
  

  March

  
  
  
• March 1 - The city Hatogaya, located in Saitama, Japan is founded
  
  
• March 1 - Brazilian police arrest Franc Paul Stangli, ex-commander of Treblinka and Sobibór concentration camps
  
  
• March 1 - Red Guards return to schools in China.
  
  
• March 1 - The Queen Elizabeth Hall is opened in London.
  
  
• March 4 - The first North Sea gas is pumped ashore at Easington Co Durham.
  
  
• March 4 - Dr. Mohammed Mossadegh, the disposed democratically elected prime minister of Iran, dies while under house arrest.
  
  
• March 7 - Jimmy Hoffa begins his 8-year sentence for attempted bribery of jury
  
  
• March 9 - Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva defects to USA via the US Delhi Embassy.
  
  
• March 12 - Indonesian State Assembly takes all presidential powers from Sukarno and names Suharto as acting president.
  
  
• March 13 - Moise Tshombe, ex-prime minister of Congo is sentenced to death in absentia
  
  
• March 14 - The body of President John F. Kennedy is moved to a permanent burial place at Arlington National Cemetery
  
  
• March 14 - Nine executives of the German pharmaceutical company Grunenthal are charged for breaking German drug laws because of thalidomide
  
  
• March 16 - In the Aspida case in Greece, 15 officers are sentenced to 2-18 years in prison accused of treason and intentions of coup
  
  
• March 18 - Supertanker ''Torrey Canyon'' runs aground in between Land's End and the Scilly Isles
  
  
• March 19 - Referendum in French Somaliland favors the connection to France
  
  
• March 21 - Military coup takes place in Sierra Leone.
  
  
• March 28 - Pope Paul VI issues the encyclical ''Populorum Progressio''.
  
  
• March 29 - 13-day TV strike begins in USA.
  
  
• March 29-March 30 - RAF planes bomb the ''Torrey Canyon'' and sink it
  
  
• March 29 - The First French nuclear submrine, ''Le Redoutable'', is launched.
  
  
• March 29 - The SEACOM cable system is inaugurated.
  
  
• March 31 - President Lyndon Johnson signs the Consular Treaty.
  
  

  April

  
  
  
• April 2 - UN delegation arrives in Aden due to approaching independence. They leave April 7 and accuse British authorities for lack of cooperation. British say the delegation did not contact them.
  
  
• April 4 - Martin Luther King, Jr denounces Vietnam War during a religous service in New York City
  
  
• April 6 - Georges Pompidou begins to form the next French government.
  
  
• April 7 - Six-Day War: Israeli fighters shoot down seven Syrian MIG-21s.
  
  
• April 9 - The first Boeing 737 (a 100 series) takes its maiden flight.
  
  
• April 13 - Conservatives win the Greater London Council elections.
  
  
• April 14 - 10,000 march against the Vietnam War in San Francisco.
  
  
• April 15 - Large demonstrations against the Vietnam War in New York City and San Francisco.
  
  
• April 20 - Surveyor 3 probe lands on the Moon.
  
  
• April 20 - A Swiss Britannia turboprop crashes at Toronto, Canada, killing 126.
  
  
• April 21 - Greece is taken over by military dictatorship led by George Papadopoulos, forcing King Constantine II to flee.
  
  
• April 23 - A group of young radicals are expelled from the Nicaraguan Socialist Party (PSN). This group goes on to found the Socialist Workers Party (POS).
  
  
• April 24 - Soviet cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov dies during reentry of Soyuz 1 after the spacecraft's parachutes fail to deploy properly.
  
  
• April 28 - Boxer Muhammad Ali refuses military service.
  
  
• April 28 - Montreal hosts Expo '67; it is to coincide with the centennial of Canadian Confederation.
  
  
• April 29 - Fidel Castro announces that all intellectual property belongs to all people and that Cuba intends to translate and publish technical literature without compensation.
  
  
• April 30 - Moscow's 537m-tall TV tower is finished.
  
  

  May

  
  
  
• May 2 - The Toronto Maple Leafs win the Stanley Cup.
  
  
• May 2 - Harold Wilson announces that United Kingdom has decided to apply for EEC membership
  
  
• May 3 - Big gold robbery in London.
  
  
• May 4 - Lunar Orbiter 4 launched.
  
  
• May 6 - Dr Zakir Hussain is the first Muslim to become president of India.
  
  
• May 6 - 400 students seize the administration building at Cheyney State College, Pennsylvania
  
  
• May 8 - The Philippine province of Davao is split into three: Davao del Norte, Davao del Sur, and Davao Oriental.
  
  
• May 10 - Greek military government accused Andreas Papandreou of treason
  
  
• May 11 - United Kingdom and Ireland apply officially for EEC membership
  
  
• May 12 - Linda Ronstadt launches her first single 'Different Drum' with band The Stone Ponies.
  
  
• May 17 - Syria mobilizes against Israel
  
  
• May 17 - President Gamal Abdal Nasser of Egypt demands withdrawal of the peacekeeping UN Emergency Force in Sinai. UN secretary-general U Thant complies (May 18). On May 23 Egypt closes the Straits of Tiran, blockading Israel's southern port of Eilat.
  
  
• May 18 - Tennessee Governor Ellington repeals the "Monkey Law" (see the Scopes Trial)
  
  
• May 18 - In Mexico, schoolteacher Lucio Cabañas begins a guerilla campaign in Atoyac de Alvarez, west of Acapulco in the state of Guerrero
  
  
• May 19 - The Soviet Union ratifies a treaty with the United States and United Kingdom banning nuclear weapons from outer space
  
  
• May 19 - Yuri Andropov becomes the chief of KGB
  
  
• May 22 - The ''Innovation'' department store in the centre of Brussels (Belgium) burns down. It is the most devastating fire in Belgian history, which results in 323 dead and missing and 150 wounded.
  
  
• May 22 - Nasser announces the closure of the Straits of Tiran to Israeli shipping.
  
  
• May 25 - Celtic F.C. become the first British team to reach a European Cup final and also to win it, beating Inter Milan 2-1 in normal time.
  
  
• May 27 - Naxalite Guerrilla War Beginning with a peasant uprising in the town of Naxalbari, this Marxist/Maoist rebellion sputters on in the Indian countryside. The guerrillas operate among the impoverished peasants and fight both the government security forces and the private paramilitary groups funded by wealthy landowners. Most fighting takes place in the states of Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Orissa and Madhya Pradesh.
  
  
• May 27 - The Australian referendum, 1967 passes with an overwhelming 90% support, allowing the Government of Australia to make special laws for Indigenous Australians.
  
  
• May 30 - Biafra, in eastern Nigeria, announces its independence.
  
  
• May 30 - At the Ascot Speedway in Gardena, California, daredevil Evel Knievel jumps his motorcycle over 16 cars lined up in a row.
  
  

  June

  
  
  

Left to right, Israeli generals Uzi Narkiss, Moshe Dayan and Yitzhak Rabin entering Jerusalem in June 1967]]

• June 1 - The Beatles release Sgt Pepper, one of rock's most acclaimed albums. The mythologised "Summer of Love" kicks into high gear.Moshe Dayan becomes Israel's Secretary of Defense.
  
  
• June 2 - Protests in West Berlin against the arrival of the Shah of Iran turn into fights, during which young Benno Ohnesorg is killed by a police officer. His death results in the founding of the terrorist group ''Movement 2 June''
  
  
• June 5-June 10 - Israel defeats Arab neighbours in Six-Day War, occupying West Bank, Gaza Strip, Sinai peninsula and Golan Heights
  
  
• June 5 - Murderer Richard Speck sentenced to death in electric chair for murder of nurses
  
  
• June 7 - Two Moby Grape members arrested for contributing to delinquency of minors
  
  
• June 8 - Six-Day War: The USS ''Liberty'' incident - Four Israeli fighter jets and four Israeli warships fire at ''USS Liberty'' off Gaza, killing 34 and wounding 171
  
  
• June 10 - Israel and Syria agree to observe a United Nations-mediated cease-fire.
  
  
• June 10 - Soviet Union severs diplomatic relations with Israel.
  
  
• June 10 - Margrethe, heir apparent to the throne of Denmark, marries French count Henri de Laborde de Monpezat.
  
  
• June 11 - A race riot in Tampa, Florida
  
  
• June 12 - The United States Supreme Court in ''Loving v. Virginia'' declares all U.S. state law which prohibit interracial marriage to be unconstitutional. http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/loving.html
  
  
• June 12 - Venera program: Venera 4 is launched (it will become the first space probe to enter another planet's atmosphere and successfully return data)
  
  
• June 13 - Solicitor General Thurgood Marshall is nominated as the first African American justice of the United States Supreme Court - http://www.supremecourthistory.org/02_history/subs_timeline/images_associates/082.html
  
  
• June 14 - Mariner program: Mariner 5 is launched toward Venus
  
  
• June 14 - The People's Republic of China tests its first hydrogen bomb.http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/china/nuke.htm
  
  
• June 17 - The People's Republic of China announces a successful hydrogen bomb test.
  
  
• June 23 - Cold War: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson meets with Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin in Glassboro, New Jersey for the three-day Glassboro Summit Conference. http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/johnson/archives.hom/diary/1967/670623.asp
  
  
• June 26 - Pope ordinates 276 new cardinals (one of them Karol Wojtyła).
  
  
• June 27 - First automatic cash machine (voucher-based) is installed in the office of the Barclays Bank in Enfield, England.
  
  
• June 27 - A race riot in Buffalo, New York - 200 arrested
  
  
• June 28 - Israel declares annexation of East Jerusalem.
  
  
• June 30 - Moise Tshombe, former prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is kidnapped to Algeria.
  
  

  July

  
  
  
• July 1 - Canada celebrates its first one hundred years of Confederation.
  
  
• July 1 - The first colour television broadcasts begin on BBC2 in UK on certain programmes. A full colour service began on BBC2 on December 2.
  
  
• July 1 - American Samoa's first constitution becomes effective.
  
  
• July 3 - A military rebellion led by a Belgian mercenary Jean Schramme begins in Katanga, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
  
  
• July 4 - British parliament decriminalizes homosexuality
  
  
• July 5 - Troops of Belgian mercenary commander Jean Schramme revolt against Mobutu and try to take control of Stanleyville, Congo
  
  
• July 5 - Israel annexes Gaza
  
  
• July 6 - Nigerian forces invade Biafra following latter's secession May 30: beginning of the Biafran War.
  
  
• July 12 - Greek military regime strips 480 Greeks of their citizenship
  
  
• July 13 - Newark, New Jersey race riots.
  
  
• July 15 - Detroit race riots.
  
  
• July 16 - Prison riot in Jay, Florida - 37 dead
  
  
• July 18 - United Kingdom announces closing of its military bases in Malaysia and Singapore. Australia and USA do not approve
  
  
• July 18 - Humberto Castelo Branco, ex-president of Brazil, dies in a plane accident near Fortaleza
  
  
• July 20 - Pablo Neruda receives the first Viareggio-Versile prize
  
  
• July 22 - The town of Winneconne, Wisconsin, announces secession from the United States because it is not included in the official maps and declares war. Secession is repealed the next day
  
  
• July 23 - 12th Street Riot: In Detroit, Michigan, one of the worst riots in United States history begins on 12th Street in the predominantly African American inner city (43 killed, 342 injured and ~1,400 buildings burned)
  
  
• 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, delighted many Quebecers but angered the Canadian government and many English Canadians.
  
  
• July 29 - Explosion and fire aboard the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier ''USS Forrestal'' in the Gulf of Tonkin leaves 134 dead.
  
  
• July 29 - Georges Bidault moves to Belgium where he gets an political asylum
  
  

  August

  
  
  
• August 1 - Race riots in the United States spread to Washington, D.C.
  
  
• August 1 - Israel annexes East Jerusalem.
  
  
• August 3 - Sweden switches to right-hand traffic.
  
  
• August 7 - Vietnam War: The People's Republic of China agrees to give North Vietnam an undisclosed amount of aid in the form of a grant.
  
  
• August 7 - General strike in the old quarter of Jerusalem protests Israel's unification of the city.
  
  
• August 8 - The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is founded.
  
  
• August 9 - Vietnam War: Operation Cochise initiated - United States Marines begin a new operation in the Que Son Valley.
  
  
• August 10 - Schramme's troops take border town of Bukavu.
  
  
• August 14 - UK Marine Broadcasting Offences Act declares participation in offshore pirate radio illegal.
  
  
• August 15 - British Labour Government bans pirate radio stations.
  
  
• August 19 - West Germany receives 36 East Germany prisoners it has "purchased" through the border posts of Herleshausen and Wartha.
  
  
• August 21 - Truce in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
  
  
• August 21 - The People's Republic of China announces that it has shot down American planes violating its airspace.
  
  
• August 25 - Leader of American Nazi Party, George Lincoln Rockwell, is shot dead.
  
  
• August 30 - Thurgood Marshall is confirmed as the first African American Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
  
  

  September

  
  
  
• September 1 - Ilse Koch, also known as the "Bitch of Buchenwald", commits suicide in the Bavarian prison of Aichach.
  
  
• September 2 - Roughs Tower claimed by Paddy Roy Bates and declared Principality of Sealand
  
  
• September 3 - Nguyen Van Thieu is elected President of South Vietnam
  
  
• September 3 - H-Day in Sweden. At 5:00 AM local time, all traffic in the country switched from left-hand traffic pattern to right-hand traffic.
  
  
• September 4 - Vietnam War: Operation Swift begins - The United States Marines launch a search and destroy mission in Quang Nam and Quang Tin Provinces. The ensuing 4-day battle in Que Son Valley kills 114 Americans and 376 North Vietnamese
  
  
• September 5 - Sweden changes to driving on the right
  
  
• September 10 - In Gibraltar, only 44 out of 12.182 voters support union with Spain.
  
  
• September 17 - Riot in a football match in Kaysei, Turkey - 44 dead, about 600 injured.
  
  
• September 17 - Jim Morrison and The Doors defy CBS censors on The Ed Sullivan Show when Morrison sang the word "higher" from their #1 hit Light My Fire when asked not to.
  
  
• September 27 - ''Queen Mary'' arrives Southampton at the end of her last transatlantic voyage
  
  
• September 30 - BBC Radio 1 launched.
  
  

  October

  
  
  
• October - Patterson-Gimlin film of a purported bigfoot taken.
  
  
• October 2 - Thurgood Marshall is sworn in as the first black justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
  
  
• October 3 - An X-15 research aircraft with test pilot Pete Knight establishes an unofficial world fixed-wing speed record of Mach 6.7
  
  
• October 8 - Guerrilla leader Che Guevara and his men are captured in Bolivia. The next day Guevara is executed for attempting to incite a revolution
  
  
• October 12 - Vietnam War: US Secretary of State Dean Rusk states during a news conference that proposals by the U.S. Congress for peace initiatives were futile because of North Vietnam's opposition
  
  
• October 17 - Premiere of the musical Hair Off-Broadway.
  
  
• October 19 - Mariner 5 probe flies by Venus.
  
  
• October 21 - Egyptian surface-to-surface missile sinks the Israeli destroyer ''Eilat'', killing 47 Israeli sailors. Israel retaliates by shelling Egyptian refineries along the Suez Canal.
  
  
• October 21 - Ten of thousands of Vietnam War protesters march in Washington, D.C.
  
  
• October 25 - Abortion bill passes in British parliament.
  
  
• October 26 - Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran is officially crowned.
  
  
• October 27 - Charles De Gaulle vetoes British entry into EEC – again.
  
  
• October 29 - Mobutu's trooops launch an offensive against mercenaries in Bukavu
  
  
• October 30 - British troops and Chinese demonstrators clash in the border of China and Hong Kong.
  
  
• October 30 - Mayor A.V. Sorensen of Omaha, Nebraska declares the following day to be Grace Bible Institute Day in the city of Omaha.
  
  

  November

  
  
  
• November 2 - Vietnam War: US President Lyndon B. Johnson holds a secret meeting with a group of the nation's most prestigious leaders ("the Wise Men") and asks them to suggest ways to unite the American people behind the war effort. They conclude that the American people should be given more optimistic reports on the progress of the war
  
  
• November 3 - Vietnam War: Battle of Dak To begins - Around Dak To (located about 280 miles north of Saigon near the Cambodian border) heavy casualties are suffered on both sides (the Americans narrowly won the battle on November 22).
  
  
• November 4-November 5 - Mercenaries of Jean Schramme and Jerry Puren withdraw from Bukavu over Shangugu Bridge to Rwanda
  
  
• November 5 - Hither Green rail crash - commuter train derails in South-East London - 40 dead, 80 injured
  
  
• November 6 - Rhodesian parliament passes pro-Apartheid laws.
  
  
• November 7 - US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, establishing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting
  
  
• November 7 - Carl B. Stokes is elected mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, becoming the first African American mayor of a major United States city
  
  
• November 9 - Apollo program: NASA launches a Saturn V rocket carrying the unmanned Apollo 4 test spacecraft from Cape Kennedy
  
  
• November 11 - Vietnam War: In a propaganda ceremony in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, three American prisoners of war are released by the Viet Cong and turned over to "new left" antiwar activist Tom Hayden
  
  
• November 15 - Cyprus conflict eye-witness account: "''In the afternoon of November 15 National Guard (Greek Cypriot Army) organised by General Grivas attacked two villages, Kophinou (Tr. Gecitkale) (a wholly Turkish Cypriot village) and Ayios Theodoros (Tr Bogazici) (a Greek/Turkish village) with an estimated 10000 men. The total T.Cypriot population in these villages was under 3000. 24 in all, some armed but mainly unarmed Turkish Cypriot civilians were killed - one 90 year old men in particular was wounded, and burnt to death in the front of his house where he fell. Women and children forced out of their houses were forced to pass by the burning corpse. In the morning of 16th of November, Turkey threatened invasion by bombing various Greek Cypriot army positions at which stage the National Guard withdrew releasing all civilians forcefully kept in various public places eg schools/cinemas in the two villages.''"
  
  
• November 17 - Vietnam War: Acting on optimistic reports he was given on November 13, US President Lyndon B. Johnson tells his nation that, while much remained to be done, "We are inflicting greater losses than we're taking...We are making progress." (two months later the Tet Offensive makes him regret his words)
  
  
• November 17 - French author Regis Debray is sentenced to 30 years in Bolivia
  
  
• November 19 - UK pound devalued from 1 GBP = 2.80 USD to 1 GBP = 2.40 USD.
  
  
• November 21 - Vietnam War: American General William Westmoreland tells news reporters: "I am absolutely certain that whereas in 1965 the enemy was winning, today he is certainly losing."
  
  
• November 22 - UN Security Council Resolution 242 is adopted by the UN Security Council, establishing a set of the principles aimed at guiding negotiations for an Arab-Israeli peace settlement
  
  
• November 24 - Cambodian triple agent Inchin Lam killed
  
  
• November 29 - Vietnam War: US Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara announces his pending resignation and that he will become president of the World Bank. This action was the result of US President Lyndon B. Johnson's outright rejection of McNamara's early November recommendations to freeze troop levels, stop bombing North Vietnam and hand over ground fighting to South Vietnam
  
  
• November 30- The People's Republic of South Yemen becomes independent from the United Kingdom
  
  

  December

  
  
  
• * December 4, 1850 hours - A volcano erupts on Deception Island in Antarctica.
  
  
• December 4 - Vietnam War: US and South Vietnamese forces engage Viet Cong troops in the Mekong Delta (235 of the 300-strong Viet Cong battalion were killed).
  
  
• December 5 - Benjamin Spock and Allen Ginsberg arrested for protesting against Vietnam War
  
  
• December 9 - Nicolae Ceauşescu becomes the Chairman of the Romanian State Council - that is, de-facto dictator of Romania.
  
  
• December 11 - The Concorde is unveiled in Toulouse, France
  
  
• December 15 - Silver Bridge over Ohio River in Point Pleasant, West Virginia, collapses - 46 dead. It has been linked to the so-called Mothman mystery.
  
  
• December 17 - Harold Holt, Australian prime minister, disappears when swimming at a beach 60 km from Melbourne.
  
  
• December 19 - Professor John Archibald Wheeler uses the term Black Hole for the first time.
  
  

  Unknown dates

  
  
  
• Jari project begins in the Amazon
  
  
• Ashleigh Brilliant begins to copyright pithy mottoes for a living
  
  
• In Albania the Enver Hoxha regime conducts a violent campaign against religion
  
  
• Influential science fiction anthology ''Dangerous Visions'' published.
  
  
• LSD declared a Schedule I drug by the United States government.
  
  
• University of Winnipeg founded.
  
  
• Lonsdaleite (the rarest allotrope of carbon) first discovered in the Barringer Crater, Arizona.
  
  
• Lost city discovered on the island of Thera, buried under volcanic debris. It has been suggested that Plato may have heard legends about this, and used them as the germ of his story of Atlantis.
  
  
• PAL first introduced in Germany.
  
  
• Summer of Love
  
  
• 25th Amendment of the United States Constitution enacted.
  
  
• First Pulsar discovered by Jocelyn Bell and Antony Hewish.
  
  
• First cryogenic corpsicles are placed in ice.
  
  
• Arno River floods in Florence.
  
  
• Desmond Morris publishes ''The Naked Ape''.
  
  
• Lech Wałęsa goes to work in Gdańsk shipyards.
  
  
• Benjamin Netanyahu joins Israeli army.
  
  
• Greek military junta exiles Melina Mercouri.
  
  
• Parker Morris Standards became mandatory for all housing built in New Towns in the UK.
  
  
• ''Love is a Many Splendored Thing'' debuts on US daytime television and is the first soap opera to deal with an interracial relationship. CBS censors find it too controversial and ask for it to be stopped, causing show creator Irna Phillips to quit.Also in this year, the Carrol Shelby Mustang GT-500 Fastback was released, and later made the star of the movie "Gone in 60 seconds". This car is Edwin's favorite.
  
  

  Births

  
  
  

January-March

• January 2 - Tia Carrere, American actress
  
  
• January 5 - Joe Flanigan, American actor
  
  
• January 8 - Michelle Forbes, American actress
  
  
• January 9 - Steven Harwell, American singer and musician (Smash Mouth)
  
  
• January 9 - Dave Matthews, South African-born musician
  
  
• January 14 - Kerri Green, American actress
  
  
• January 22 - Olivia d'Abo, English actress
  
  
• January 23 - Naim Suleymanoglu, Bulgarian-born weightlifter
  
  
• February 16 - John Valentin, baseball player
  
  
• February 17 - Chanté Moore, American singer
  
  
• February 18 - Roberto Baggio, Italian football player
  
  
• February 20 - Kurt Cobain, American musician (d. 1994)
  
  
• March 4 - Evan Dando, American musician
  
  
• March 11 - John Barrowman, Scottish-born actor
  
  
• March 17 - Billy Corgan, American musician and songwriter
  
  
• March 22 - Mario Cipollini, Italian cyclist
  
  
• March 24 - Douglas Harriman Kennedy, son of Robert F Kennedy and Ethel Skakel Kennedy.
  
  
• March 25 - Debi Thomas, American figure skater
  
  
• March 27 - Talisa Soto, American actress
  
  
• March 29 - Brian Jordan, baseball player
  
  

  April-June

  
  
  
• April 2 - Greg Camp, American guitarist and songwriter (Smash Mouth)
  
  
• April 2 - Helen Chamberlain, British television presenter
  
  
• April 2 - Glen Jacobs, American professional wrestler
  
  
• April 15 - Frankie Poullain, British bassist (The Darkness)
  
  
• April 15 - Dara Torres, American swimmer
  
  
• April 17 - Marquis Grissom, baseball player
  
  
• April 17 - Liz Phair, American singer and songwriter
  
  
• April 18 - Maria Bello, American actress
  
  
• April 19 - Steven H Silver, American science fiction editor
  
  
• April 19 - Dar Williams, American musician and songwriter
  
  
• April 20 - Raymond van Barneveld, Dutch darts player
  
  
• April 20 - Lara Jill Miller, American actress
  
  
• April 22 - Sheryl Lee, American actress
  
  
• April 23 - Melina Kanakaredes, American actress
  
  
• April 27 - Prince Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands
  
  
• April 29 - Curtis Joseph, Canadian hockey player
  
  
• April 29 - Master P, American rapper, composer, actor, athlete, and sports agent
  
  
• May 1 - Tim McGraw, American singer
  
  
• May 13 - Melanie Thornton, American singer (d. 2001)
  
  
• May 14 - Tony Siragusa, American football player
  
  
• May 15 - Madhuri Dixit, Indian actress
  
  
• May 15 - John Smoltz, baseball player
  
  
• May 21 - Chris Benoit, Canadian professional wrestler
  
  
• May 24 - Heavy D, American rapper
  
  
• May 24 - Steve McDonald, American bassist (Redd Kross)
  
  
• May 25 - Poppy Z. Brite, American author
  
  
• May 29 - Noel Gallagher, British musician (Oasis)
  
  
• June 3 - Anderson Cooper, American television journalist
  
  
• June 5 - Joe DeLoach, American athlete
  
  
• June 10 - Darren "Buffy, the Human Beatbox" Robinson, American rapper (The Fat Boys) (d. 1995)
  
  
• June 19 - Bjørn Dæhlie, Norwegian skier
  
  

  July-October

  
  
  
• July 4 - Vinny Castilla, Mexican Major League Baseball player
  
  
• July 4 - Andy Walker, Canadian television personality
  
  
• July 7 - Jackie Neal, American singer
  
  
• July 14 - Patrick Joseph Kennedy, son of Edward M. Kennedy and Joan Bennett Kennedy
  
  
• July 14 - Robin Ventura, baseball player
  
  
• July 18 - Vin Diesel, American actor
  
  
• July 25 - Matt LeBlanc, American actor
  
  
• July 25 - Chuck Paugh, American record company owner
  
  
• July 27 - Juliana Hatfield, American guitarist and songwriter
  
  
• July 27 - Kellie Waymire, American actress (d. 2003)
  
  
• July 31 - Minako Honda, Japanese singer and musical actress (d. 2005)
  
  
• August 4 - Mike Marsh, American athlete
  
  
• August 10 - Layne Staley, lead singer of Alice in Chains
  
  
• August 10 - Riddick Bowe, American boxer
  
  
• August 11 - Enrique Bunbury, Spanish singer and songwriter
  
  
• August 11 - Joe Rogan, American comedian and television host
  
  
• August 12 - Regilio Tuur, Dutch boxer
  
  
• August 16 - Pamela Smart, American murderer
  
  
• August 16 - Ulrika Jonsson, Swedish-born television personality
  
  
• August 21 - Carrie-Anne Moss, Canadian actress
  
  
• August 21 - Serj Tankian, Lebanese-born singer (System of a Down)
  
  
• September 5 - Jane Sixsmith, English field hockey player
  
  
• September 7 - Salvatore Cezar Pais, Romanian-born engineer and scientist
  
  
• September 11 - Harry Connick, Jr., American singer and actor
  
  
• September 13 - Michael Johnson, American athlete
  
  
• September 22 - Félix Savón, Cuban boxer
  
  
• September 27 - Alvin V. Cheeks, American businessman, minister, and conservative civic activist
  
  
• October 2 - Frankie Fredericks, Namibian athlete
  
  
• October 4 - Liev Schreiber, American actor
  
  
• October 19 - Amy Carter, daughter of U.S President Jimmy Carter and Rosalynn Carter
  
  
• October 27 - Scott Weiland, American musician
  
  
• October 28 - Julia Roberts, American actress
  
  

  November-December

  
  
  
• November 8 - Courtney Thorne-Smith, American actress
  
  
• November 14 - Letitia Dean, British actress
  
  
• November 16 - Lisa Bonet, American actress
  
  
• November 22 - Boris Becker, German tennis player
  
  
• November 22 - Bart Veldkamp, Dutch-born speed skater
  
  
• November 28 - Anna Nicole Smith, American model and actress
  
  
• December 9 - Joshua Bell, American violinist
  
  
• December 12 - John Randle, American football player
  
  
• December 13 - Jamie Foxx, American actor
  
  
• December 14 - Ewa Białołęcka, Polish writer
  
  
• December 16 - Donovan Bailey, Canadian athlete
  
  
• December 20 - Mikhail Saakashvili, President of Georgia
  
  
• December 22 - Dan Petrescu, Romanian footballer
  
  
• LTJ Bukem, English musician
  
  

  Dates unknown

  
  
  
• Steve Aylett, British writer
  
  
• Chico Science, Brazilian entertainer (d. 1997)
  
  

  Deaths

  
  
  

January-March

• January 3 - Jack Ruby, American killer of Lee Harvey Oswald (b. 1911)
  
  
• January 4 - Donald Campbell, English water and land speed record seeker (b. 1921)
  
  
• January 17 - Barney Ross, American boxer (b. 1909)
  
  
• January 19 - Kazimierz Funk, Polish biochemist (b. 1884)
  
  
• January 27 - Crew of Apollo 1
  
  
• • Edward White (b. 1930)
    
    
• • Gus Grissom (b. 1926)
    
    
• • Roger Chaffee (b. 1935)
    
    
• January 27 - Alphonse Juin, Marshal of France (b. 1888)
  
  
• January 31 - Eddie Tolan, American athlete (b. 1908)
  
  
• February 8 - Victor Gollancz, British publisher (b. 1893)
  
  
• February 16 - Smiley Burnette, actor (b. 1911)
  
  
• February 16 - Józef Hofmann, Polish pianist (b. 1876)
  
  
• February 18 - J. Robert Oppenheimer, American physicist (b. 1904)
  
  
• February 21 - Charles Beaumont, American writer (b. 1929)
  
  
• March 6 - John Haden Badley, English author (b. 1865)
  
  
• March 6 - Nelson Eddy, American singer and actor (b. 1901)
  
  
• March 6 - Zoltán Kodály, Hungarian composer (b. 1882)
  
  
• March 7 - Alice B. Toklas, American personality (b. 1877)
  
  
• March 11 - Geraldine Farrar, American soprano (b. 1882)
  
  
• March 27 - Jaroslav Heyrovský, Czech chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1890)
  
  

  April-August

  
  
  
• April 2 - Eddie Eagan, American sportsman (b. 1897)
  
  
• April 5 - Hermann Joseph Muller, American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1890)
  
  
• April 17 - Red Allen, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1908)
  
  
• April 19 - Konrad Adenauer, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1876)
  
  
• April 24 - Vladimir Komarov, cosmonaut (b. 1927)
  
  
• May 12 - John Masefield, English poet and novelist (b. 1878)
  
  
• May 22 - Langston Hughes, American writer (b. 1902)
  
  
• June 7 - Dorothy Parker, American writer (b. 1893)
  
  
• June 14 - Eddie Eagan, American sportsman (b. 1897)
  
  
• June 29 - Jayne Mansfield, American actress (b. 1933)
  
  
• July 7 - Vivien Leigh, English actress (b. 1913)
  
  
• July 17 - John Coltrane, American musician (b. 1926)
  
  
• July 21 - Jimmie Foxx, baseball player (b. 1907)
  
  
• July 21 - Albert Lutuli, South African politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
  
  
• July 22 - Carl Sandburg, American poet (b. 1878)
  
  
• July 30 - Alfred Krupp, German industrialist (b. 1907)
  
  
• August 1 - Richard Kuhn, Austrian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900)
  
  
• August 9 - Joe Orton, English playwright (b. 1933)
  
  
• August 15 - René Magritte, Belgian painter (b. 1898)
  
  
• August 19 - Hugo Gernsback, Luxembourg-born editor and publisher (b. 1884)
  
  
• August 24 - Henry J. Kaiser, American industrialist (b. 1882)
  
  
• August 25 - Stanley Bruce, eighth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1883)
  
  
• August 25 - Paul Muni, Polish actor (b. 1895)
  
  
• August 25 - George Lincoln Rockwell, American Nazi Party leader (b. 1918)
  
  
• August 27 - Brian Epstein, English band manager (The Beatles) (b. 1934)
  
  
• August 27 - Lam Bun, anti-Communist<