January February March April May June July August September October November December General 1967
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Universe 1967
Sylvia Hitchcock (U.S.A.) |
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1967 Eurovision Song Contest
 Winner: United Kingdom Sandie Shaw 'Puppet On A String' |
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1967 Academy Awards - The 'Oscars' Best Actor: Rod Steiger (
In The Heat Of The Night ) |
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1967 - General
The Average Wage: £21.7s.6d
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Superbowl is contested in American Football Laura Ashley opens her first shop in Kensington Cindy Birdsong replaces Florence Ballard in The Supremes The first all-British satellite, Ariel 3, is put into orbit The Dolby noise suppression system is invented |
Unemployment quoted
at 567,400 |
Muhammad Ali is stripped of his World Title and gets a 5 year sentence for draft evasion ( not served )
EXPO '67 held in Montreal, Canada, starring Richard Buckminster Fuller's geodesic dome
Jimi Hendrix and The Who appear at the Monterey International Pop Festival
Britain makes its second application to join the Common Market
Steam mainline passenger
trains are used for the last time
Grand Prix drivers Bob Anderson, Lorenzo Bandini, Giacomo Russo
and Ian Raby all perish in race accidents
Albert DeSalvo, the Boston Strangler, is sentenced to life imprisonment
Microwave cookers are seen for the first time
3rd Jack Ruby, killer of Lee Harvey Oswald, dies aged 55
3rd Carl Wilson of The Beach Boys is indicted for draft evasion
4th Donald Campbell dies attempting to break the world water speed record at Coniston Water
12th Plans are announced for a new town - Milton Keynes
12th
Singer Charles Aznavour marries Swedish model Ulla Thorssel in Las Vegas.
Petula Clark is matron of honour.
14th The first 'Human Be-in' event is held at Golden Gate Park, San Francisco
18th Jeremy Thorpe succeeds Jo Grimond as leader of the Liberal Party
21st American actress Ann Sheridan dies of cancer aged 51
27th Three astronauts die in a fire on the launch pad at Cape Kennedy in Apollo 1
Girl drummer Honey Lantree leaves The Honeycombs to go solo as a cabaret act
3rd Legendary record producer Joe Meek commits suicide on the 8th anniversary of Buddy Holly's death
5th The Musicians Union bans 'Let's Spend The Night Together' from Eamonn Andrews TV show
5th Dirk Rambo, 25 year old twin brother of Dack, dies in a Hollywood fire
7th The Bee Gees return to the U.K. after 9 years in Australia
8th Pop duo Peter and Gordon split up
12th Dougal Haston and Mike Burke are the first Britons to climb the North face of The Matterhorn
12th Mick Jagger and Keith Richard are arrested for drug offences
13th Teenagers 'take over' Heathrow Airport trying to catch a glimpse of The Monkees
18th Nuclear scientist J.Robert Oppenheimer dies aged 62
22nd Pirate radio station Britain Radio closes down
The 'star' grading for petrol is introduced
6th U.K. police begin using helicopters on a trial basis
6th American actor and singer Nelson Eddy dies of a stroke aged 65
7th
The first North Sea Gas is piped ashore at Easington, Co.Durham from the
West Sole field
9th Police raid the offices of the
'International Times' underground magazine
18th The oil tanker 'Torrey Canyon' runs aground on Seven Stones reef off the coast of Lands End
29th President DeGaulle launches France's first nuclear submarine
Mrs Shirley Preston becomes the first woman to drive a London taxi
The Cliff Richard fan club closes after 9 years although it still has 42,000 members
3rd Calder & Boyars is sent to trial for publishing the allegedly obscene 'Last Exit To Brooklyn'
9th The inquiry into the Apollo 1 disaster concludes that 'it was probably due to faulty wiring'
19th German statesman Konrad Adenauer dies
1st Ten men steal £700,000 in gold bars from a security van in the biggest ever bullion raid
1st Elvis Presley marries Priscilla Beaulieu
3rd The Walker Brothers split up to pursue solo careers
6th Three captured American pilots are displayed at the International Press Club in Hanoi
12th The Poet Laureate John Masefield dies
25th Glasgow Celtic become the first British team to win the European Cup, beating Internazionale
28th Francis Chichester completes his solo round the world voyage in Gypsy Moth IV
30th Actor Claude Rains dies
The Monterey pop festival takes place
1st
The Beatles' Sergeant Pepper album is released
5th The 'Six day war' begins in which
the Israelis oust the Arabs, reuniting Jerusalem
10th American actor Spencer Tracy dies
17th The first Chinese H-bomb is detonated
23rd The fastest mile of the Sixties is run by American Jim Ryun in 3minutes 51.1 seconds
23rd John Entwistle of The Who marries Alison Wise
27th The world's first cash dispenser is opened at Barclays, Enfield
28th American actress Jayne Mansfield dies in a car crash near New Orleans
29th Heavyweight boxer Primo 'The Ambling Alp' Carnera dies aged 60
31st
Rolling Stones Keith Richard and Mick Jagger
are sentenced for drug offences
( which were quashed on appeal )
July 1967
1st Regular colour
television broadcasting begins on B.B.C.2, mostly of Wimbledon
3rd The first 'News at Ten' is seen on television
8th Actress Vivien Leigh dies
16th Alec Rose sets off on his solo round the world voyage in 'Lively Lady'
16th A 'legalise pot' rally in Hyde Park is attended by over 5,000 people
21st Actor Basil Rathbone dies
28th Pirate radio station Radio 390 closes down
28th The British Steel Corporation is formed
The
'Festival of Flower Children' is held at Woburn Abbey
over the Bank Holiday
14th Pirate radio stations Radio
City and Radio Scotland close
down
14th The Marine Broadcasting Act becomes law, spelling the end for pirate radio
18th The liner 'Queen Mary' is sold to Long Beach in California
20th The U.S. embassy in London is attacked by three men with automatic rifles
27th Brian Epstein, The Beatles' manager, aged 32, is found dead of a drink and drugs overdose
29th Ex-child star Shirley Temple Black announces that she is going to stand for Congress
The first open air show of hippie fashions is held in the Fulham Road
3rd Traffic switches to driving on the right in Sweden
20th The Cunard liner Queen Elizabeth II is launched at Clydebank shipyard
27th The liner Queen Mary makes her last official transatlantic voyage
30th Radio 1 is launched by the B.B.C. - also Radios 2, 3 and 4
Britain suffers the start of a foot and mouth epidemic
Prince Charles starts at Trinity College, Cambridge
4th
Music legend Woody Guthrie dies
5th Juries are allowed to reach 'majority'
verdicts for the first time
6th 'The Death of Hippie' ceremony
is held at Haight-Ashbury
just as the movement starts to gain a hold in the U.K.
8th The first statutory breathalyser test is carried out
9th Ernesto 'Che' Guevara is killed in Bolivia
16th American singer Joan Baez is arrested at an anti-Vietnam war protest rally in California
25th The Abortion Bill is passed
BeeGee Robin Gibb is involved in the Hither Green train crash in which several people die
4th Actress June Thorburn, aged 36, is killed in a plane crash
8th Radio Leicester, the B.B.C.'s first local station, starts broadcasting
18th Harold Wilson's government devalues the pound by 14.3%
23rd The book 'Last Exit To Brooklyn' is found to be obscene by the High Court
28th All horse-racing is suspended due to the Foot and Mouth epidemic
30th The last British troops withdraw from Aden
December 1967
3rd
The first successful human heart transplant is made by Dr.
Christiaan Barnard
4th Bert Lahr, best remembered as the cowardly lion in 'The Wizard Of Oz' dies aged 72
10th Otis Redding and 4 of the 5 Bar-Kays die in a light aeroplane crash at Lake Monoma
11th Supersonic airliner 'Concorde' is put on display for the first time in Toulouse, France
26th The Beatles' T.V. film 'Magical Mystery Tour' premieres
27th The last original 'Juke Box Jury' programme is televised
