Directory

1967 CE

The Apollo 1 fire kills astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger B. Chaffee; the Six-Day War reshapes the Middle East; the Beatles release Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, a landmark of 1960s counterculture; the Nigerian Civil War begins as Biafra declares independence; the 1967 March on the Pentagon draws tens of thousands in protest of the Vietnam War; Che Guevara is captured and executed in Bolivia; the 1967 Detroit riot becomes one of the deadliest U.S. uprisings; the 1967 Hong Kong riots bring months of unrest; the Green Bay Packers defeat the Kansas City Chiefs in the inaugural Super Bowl.

Geopolitics & Diplomacy

  • January 23 – Milton Keynes in England is founded as a new town by Order in Council, with a planning brief to become a city of 250,000 people. Its initial designated area encloses three existing towns and twenty one villages. The area to be developed is largely farmland, with evidence of permanent settlement dating back to the Bronze Age.source
  • January 27 – The United States, Soviet Union and United Kingdom sign the Outer Space Treaty (ratified by USSR May 19; comes into force October 10), prohibiting weapons of mass destruction from space.source
  • February 10 – The Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution (presidential succession and disability) is ratified.source
  • February 22 – Donald Sangster becomes the new prime minister of Jamaica, succeeding Alexander Bustamante.source
  • February 22 – Suharto takes power from Sukarno in Indonesia (see Transition to the New Order and Supersemar).source
  • February 23 – The Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution is enacted.source
  • March 12 – The Indonesian State Assembly takes all presidential powers from Sukarno and names Suharto as acting president (Suharto resigned in 1998).source
  • May 6 – Zakir Husain is the first Muslim to become president of India.source
  • May 27 – The Australian referendum, 1967 passes with an overwhelming 90% support, removing, from the Australian Constitution, 2 discriminatory sentences referring to Indigenous Australians. It signifies Australia's first step in recognising Indigenous rights.source
  • May 30 – Biafra, in eastern Nigeria, announces its independence, which is not recognized.source
  • June 8 – Egypt severs diplomatic relations with the United States.source
  • July 1 – American Samoa's first constitution becomes effective.source
  • July 1 – The EEC joins with the European Coal and Steel Community and the European Atomic Community, to form the European Communities (from the 1980s usually known as European Community [EC]).source
  • July 4 – The British Parliament decriminalizes homosexuality.source
  • 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, delights many Quebecers but angers the Canadian government and many English Canadians.source
  • August 8 – The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is founded in Bangkok, Thailand.source
  • August 30 – Thurgood Marshall is confirmed as Justice of the United States Supreme Court. He is the first African American to hold the position.source
  • October 4 – Omar Ali Saifuddin III of Brunei abdicates in favour of his son, His Majesty Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah.source
  • October 14 – Quebec Nationalism: René Lévesque leaves the Liberal Party.source
  • October 25 – The Abortion Act 1967 passes in the British Parliament and receives royal assent two days later.source
  • November 22 – UN Security Council Resolution 242 is adopted by the UN Security Council, establishing a set of principles aimed at guiding negotiations for an Arab–Israeli peace settlement.source
  • November 25 – 1967 Australian Senate election: The Liberal/Country Coalition government led by Prime Minister Harold Holt lost two seats, while the Labor Party led by Gough Whitlam failed to make any gains. The Democratic Labor Party won the two seats from the Liberals and gained the sole balance of power in the Senate.source
  • November 30 – Zulfikar Ali Bhutto founds the Pakistan People's Party and becomes its first chairman. It has gone on to become one of Pakistan's major political parties (alongside the Pakistan Muslim League) that is broken into many factions, bearing the same name under different leaders, such as the Pakistan's Peoples Party Parliamentarians (PPPP).source
  • December 9 – Nicolae Ceaușescu becomes the Chairman of the Romanian State Council, making him the de facto leader of Romania.source

Conflict & Security

  • January 25 – South Vietnamese junta leader and Prime Minister Nguyen Cao Ky forces his rival, Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Nguyen Huu Co, into exile while overseas on a diplomatic visit.source
  • March 11 – The first phase of the Cambodian Civil War begins between the Kingdom of Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge.source
  • April 7 – Six-Day War (approach): Israeli fighters shoot down 7 Syrian MIG-21s.source
  • April 15 – Large demonstrations are held against US involvement in the Vietnam War in New York City and San Francisco. The march, organized by the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam, from Central Park to the United Nations drew hundreds of thousands of people, including Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Harry Belafonte, James Bevel, and Dr. Benjamin Spock, who marched and spoke at the event. A simultaneous march in San Francisco is attended by Coretta Scott King.source
  • May 2 – The Toronto Maple Leafs win the Stanley Cup. It is their last Stanley Cup and last finals appearance to date. It will turn out to be the last game in the Original Six era. Six more teams will be added in the fall.source
  • May 8 – The Philippine province of Davao is split into three: Davao del Norte, Davao del Sur, and Davao Oriental.source
  • May 17 – President Gamal Abdal Nasser of Egypt demands withdrawal of the peacekeeping UN Emergency Force in the Sinai. U.N. Secretary-General U Thant complies (May 18).source
  • May 18 – In Mexico, schoolteacher Lucio Cabañas begins guerrilla warfare in Atoyac de Alvarez, west of Acapulco, in the state of Guerrero.source
  • June 5 – Six-Day War begins: Israel launches Operation Focus, an attack on Egyptian Air Force airfields; the allied armies of Egypt, Syria, Iraq, and Jordan invade Israel. Battle of Ammunition Hill, start of the Jordanian campaignsource
  • June 7 – East Jerusalem is captured in a battle conducted by Israeli forces, without the use of artillery, in order to avoid damage to the Holy City.source
  • June 8 – USS Liberty incident: a United States Navy spy ship is attacked by Israeli forces, allegedly in error, killing 34 crew.source
  • June 10 – Six-Day War ends: Israel and Syria agree to a United Nations-mediated cease-fire.source
  • July 5 – Troops of Belgian mercenary commander Jean Schramme revolt against Mobutu Sese Seko, and try to take control of Stanleyville, Congo.source
  • July 6 – Nigerian Civil War: Nigerian forces invade the secessionist Biafra May 30.source
  • July 12 – 1967 Newark riots: After the arrest of an African-American cab driver for allegedly illegally driving around a police car and gunning it down the road, race riots break out in Newark, New Jersey, lasting 5 days and leaving 26 dead.source
  • August 19 – West Germany receives 36 East German prisoners it has "purchased" through the border posts of Herleshausen and Wartha.source
  • September 4 – Vietnam War – Operation Swift: The United States Marines launch a search and destroy mission in Quảng Nam and Quảng Tín provinces. The ensuing 4-day battle in Que Son Valley kills 114 Americans and 376 North Vietnamese.source
  • October 12 – Vietnam War: U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk states during a news conference that, because of North Vietnam's opposition, proposals by the U.S. Congress for peace initiatives are futile.source
  • October 18 – Vietnam War: Students at the University of Wisconsin–Madison protest over recruitment by Dow Chemical on the university campus; 76 are injured in the resulting riot.source
  • October 21 – Approximately 70,000 Vietnam War protesters march in Washington, D.C. and rally at the Lincoln Memorial; in a successive march that day, 50,000 people march to the Pentagon, where Allen Ginsberg, Abbie Hoffman, and Jerry Rubin symbolically chant to "levitate" the building and "exorcise the evil within."source
  • November 3 – Vietnam War – Battle of Dak To: Around Đắk Tô (located about 280 miles north of Saigon near the Cambodian border), heavy casualties are suffered on both sides; U.S. troops narrowly win the battle on November 22.source
  • November 11 – Vietnam War: In a ceremony in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 3 United States prisoners of war are released by the Viet Cong and turned over to American "New Left" antiwar activist Tom Hayden.source
  • November 21 – Vietnam War: United States General William Westmoreland tells news reporters: "I am absolutely certain that whereas in 1965 the enemy was winning, today he is certainly losing."source
  • November 30 – U.S. Senator Eugene McCarthy announces his candidacy for the Democratic Party presidential nomination, challenging incumbent President Lyndon B. Johnson over the Vietnam War.source

Exploration & Expansion

  • May 1 – GO Transit, Canada's first interregional public transit system, is established.source
  • July 20 – Chilean poet Pablo Neruda receives the first Viareggio-Versile prize.source
  • September 27 – The arrives in Southampton at the end of her last transatlantic crossing.source
  • Lonsdaleite (the rarest allotrope of carbon) is first discovered in the Barringer Crater, Arizona.source

Religion & Belief

  • March 28 – Pope Paul VI issues the encyclical Populorum progressio.source
  • June 13 – Solicitor General Thurgood Marshall is nominated as the first African American justice of the United States Supreme Court.source
  • June 26 – Pope Paul VI ordains 27 new cardinals (one of whom is the future Pope John Paul II).source
  • October 23 – Charles de Gaulle becomes the first French Co-Prince of Andorra to visit his Andorran subjects. In addition to being President of France, de Gaulle is a joint ruler (along with Spain's Bishop of Urgel) of the tiny nation located in the mountains between France and Spain, pursuant to the 1278 agreement creating the nation.source
  • St Christopher's Hospice, the world's first purpose-built secular hospice specialising in palliative care of the terminally ill, is established in South London by Dame Cicely Saunders with the support of Albertine Winner.source
  • Albania is officially declared an atheist state by its leader, Enver Hoxha.source

Economy & Finance

  • July 10 – New Zealand decimalises its currency from pound to dollar at £1 to $2 ($1 = 10/-).source
  • October 27 – French President Charles de Gaulle vetoes British entry into the European Economic Community for the second time in the decade.source
  • November 18 – The UK pound is devalued from £1 = US$2.80 to £1 = US$2.40.source
  • November 29 – Vietnam War: U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara announces his resignation to become president of the World Bank. McNamara's resignation follows U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson's outright rejection of McNamara's early November recommendations to freeze troop levels, stop the bombing of North Vietnam, and hand over ground fighting to South Vietnam.source
  • December 29 – Korean automobile manufacturer Hyundai Motor is founded.source
  • Warner Bros. becomes a wholly owned subsidiary of Seven Arts Productions, thus becoming Warner Bros.-Seven Arts.source

Technology & Infrastructure

  • March 4 – The first North Sea gas is pumped ashore at Easington, East Riding of Yorkshire, UK.source
  • April 9 – The first Boeing 737 (A-100 series) takes its maiden flight.source
  • April 28 – Expo 67 opens to the public, with over 310,000 people attending. Al Carter from Chicago is the first visitor as noted by Expo officials.source
  • April 28 – The U.S. aerospace manufacturer McDonnell Douglas is formed through a merger of McDonnell Aircraft and Douglas Aircraft (it becomes part of The Boeing Company three decades later).source
  • April 30 – Moscow's 537 m tall TV tower is finished.source
  • May 23 – A significant worldwide geomagnetic flare unfolded. Radio emissions coming from the Sun jammed military surveillance radars.source
  • June 17 – Project 639: The People's Republic of China tests its first hydrogen bomb.source
  • June 27 – The first automatic cash machine (voucher-based) is installed, in the office of Barclays Bank in Enfield, UK.source
  • July 1 – Seaboard Air Line Railroad merges with Atlantic Coast Line Railroad to become Seaboard Coast Line Railroad, first step to today's CSX Transportation.source
  • August 1 – The UAC TurboTrain makes its first journey.source
  • August 15 – The United Kingdom Marine, &c., Broadcasting (Offences) Act 1967 declares participation in offshore pirate radio illegal. Radio Caroline defies the act and continues broadcasting.source
  • September 30 – In the United Kingdom, BBC Radio completely restructures its national programming: the Light Programme is split between new national pop station Radio 1 (modelled on the successful pirate station Radio London) and Radio 2; the cultural Third Programme is rebranded as Radio 3; and the primarily-talk Home Service becomes Radio 4.source
  • October 3 – An X-15 research aircraft with test pilot William J. Knight establishes an unofficial world fixed-wing speed record of Mach 6.7.source
  • November 4–5 – In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, mercenaries of Jean Schramme and Jerry Puren withdraw from Bukavu, over the Shangugu Bridge, to Rwanda.source
  • November 7 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, establishing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.source
  • November 19 – The establishment of TVB, the first wireless commercial television station in Hong Kong.source
  • December 15 – The Silver Bridge over the Ohio River in Point Pleasant, West Virginia, collapses, killing 46 people.source
  • PAL is first introduced in Germany.source

Science & Discovery

  • January 15 – Louis Leakey announces the discovery of pre-human fossils in Kenya; he names the species Kenyapithecus africanus.source
  • January 27 – Apollo 1: U.S. astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee are killed when fire breaks out in their Apollo spacecraft during a launch pad test.source
  • February 5 – Italy's first guided missile cruiser, the Vittorio Veneto, is launched.source
  • February 5 – NASA launches Lunar Orbiter 3.source
  • February 11 – Burgess Ice Rise, lying off the west coast of Alexander Island, Antarctica, is first mapped by the British Antarctic Survey (BAS).source
  • February 13 – American researchers discover the Madrid Codices by Leonardo da Vinci in the National Library of Spain.source
  • February 25 – Britain's second Polaris missile submarine, HMS Renown, is launched.source
  • February 26 – A Soviet nuclear test is conducted at the Semipalatinsk Test Site, Eastern Kazakhstan.source
  • March 29 – The first French nuclear submarine, Le Redoutable, is launched.source
  • April 20 – The Surveyor 3 probe lands on the Moon.source
  • April 29 – Fidel Castro announces that all intellectual property belongs to the people and that Cuba intends to translate and publish technical literature without compensation.source
  • May 18 – NASA announces the crew for the Apollo 7 space mission (the first in the Apollo series with a crew): Wally Schirra, Donn F. Eisele, and R. Walter Cunningham.source
  • June 12 – Venera program: Venera 4 is launched by the Soviet Union (the first space probe to analyze another planet's atmosphere and successfully return data).source
  • June 14 – Mariner program: Mariner 5 is launched toward Venus.source
  • June 25 – 400 million viewers watch Our World, the first live, international, satellite television production. It features the live debut of The Beatles' song "All You Need Is Love".source
  • October 18 – The Venera 4 probe descends through the Venusian atmosphere.source
  • October 19 – The Mariner 5 probe flies by Venus.source
  • October 20 – Patterson–Gimlin film: Roger Patterson and Robert Gimlin's famous film of an unidentified animate cryptid, thought to be Bigfoot or Sasquatch, is recorded at Bluff Creek, California.source
  • November 9 – Apollo program: NASA launches the first Saturn V rocket, successfully carrying the Apollo 4 test spacecraft from Cape Kennedy into Earth orbit.source
  • November 13 – The first of its many UFO sightings is made at Pudasjärvi, Finland.source
  • November 28 – The first pulsar to be discovered by Earth observers is found in the constellation of Vulpecula by astronomers Jocelyn Bell Burnell and Antony Hewish, and is given the name PSR B1919+21.source
  • December 11 – Supersonic airliner Concorde is unveiled in Toulouse, France.source
  • December 19 – The Rescue Agreement setting forth rights and obligations in outer space is voted into consensus by the United Nations General Assembly.source
  • December 26 – The Beatles' film Magical Mystery Tour receives its world première on BBC Television in the UK.source

Health & Medicine

  • March 14 – Nine executives of the German pharmaceutical company Grunenthal are charged with breaking German drug laws because of thalidomide.source
  • April 21 – An outbreak of tornadoes strikes the upper Midwest section of the United States (in particular the Chicago area, including the suburbs of Belvidere and Oak Lawn, Illinois where 33 people are killed and 500 injured).source
  • September 1 – The Khmer–Chinese Friendship Association is banned in Cambodia.source
  • October 29 – Expo 67 closes in Montreal, after having attracted more than 50 million visitors in six months.source
  • November 20 – The "population clock" of the United States Census Bureau records the U.S. population at 200 million people at 11:03 a.m. Washington, D.C. time.source
  • December 3 – Christiaan Barnard carries out the world's first heart transplant at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa.source

Crime & Justice

  • January 23 – In Munich, the trial begins of Wilhelm Harster, accused of the murder of 82,856 Jews (including Anne Frank) when he led German security police during the German occupation of the Netherlands. He is eventually sentenced to 15 years in prison.source
  • February 3 – Ronald Ryan becomes the last man hanged in Australia, for murdering a guard while escaping from prison in December 1965.source
  • March 1 – Brazilian police arrest Franz Stangl, ex-commander of Treblinka and Sobibór extermination camps.source
  • March 13 – Moise Tshombe, ex-prime minister of Congo, is sentenced to death in absentia.source
  • March 21 – Charles Manson is released from Terminal Island. Telling the authorities that prison had become his home, he requested permission to stay. Upon his release, he relocates to San Francisco where he spends the Summer of Love.source
  • March 26 – Jim Thompson, co-founder of the Thai Silk Company, disappears from the Cameron Highlands.source
  • May 18 – Tennessee Governor Ellington repeals the "Monkey Law" (officially the Butler Act; see the Scopes Trial).source
  • June 2 – Protests in West Berlin against the arrival of the Shah of Iran turn into fights, during which 27-year-old student Benno Ohnesorg is killed by a police officer. His death results in the founding of the terrorist group 2 June Movement.source
  • June 26 – The Buffalo Race Riot begins, lasting until July 1, and leads to over 180 arrests.source
  • June 30 – Moise Tshombe, former president of Katanga and former prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is kidnapped and taken to Algeria.source
  • September 1 – Ilse Koch, known as the "Witch of Buchenwald", commits suicide in the Bavarian prison of Aichach.source
  • October 8 – Guerrilla leader Che Guevara and his men are captured in Bolivia; they are executed the following day.source
  • October 16 – Thirty-nine people, including singer-activist Joan Baez, are arrested in Oakland, California, for blocking the entrance of that city's military induction center.source
  • October 26 – U.S. Navy pilot John McCain is shot down over North Vietnam and taken prisoner. His capture is confirmed two days later, and he remains a prisoner of war for more than five years.source
  • November 15 – General Georgios Grivas and his 10,000 strong Greek Army division are forced to leave Cyprus, after 24 Turkish Cypriot civilians are killed by the Greek Cypriot National Guard in the villages of Kophinou and Ayios Theodhoros; relations sour between Nicosia and Athens. Turkey flies sorties into Greek territory, and masses troops in Thrace on her border with Greece.source
  • November 17 – French author Régis Debray is sentenced to 30 years imprisonment in Bolivia. (He will be released in 1970 after less than three years imprisonment.)source
  • December 5 – In New York City, Benjamin Spock and Allen Ginsberg are arrested for protesting against the Vietnam War.source
  • December 9 – Jim Morrison is arrested on stage in New Haven, Connecticut for attempting to spark a riot in the audience during a concert.source
  • Gunsmoke, after 12 seasons and with declining ratings, almost gets cancelled, but protests from viewers, network affiliates and even members of Congress and especially William S. Paley, the head of the network, lead the network to move the series from its longtime late Saturday time slot to early Mondays for the fall—displacing Gilligan's Island, which initially had been renewed for a fourth season but is cancelled instead. Gunsmoke would remain on CBS until 1975.source

Disasters & Accidents

  • February 7 – Serious bushfires in southern Tasmania claim 62 lives and destroy 2,642.7 square kilometres (653,025.4 acres) of land.source
  • March 18 – Torrey Canyon oil spill: The supertanker runs aground between Land's End and the Scilly Isles off the coast of Britain, causing the biggest oil spill in history up to that point.source
  • March 29 – Torrey Canyon oil spill: British Fleet Air Arm and Royal Air Force aircraft bomb and sink the grounded supertanker .source
  • April 20 – A Globe Air Bristol Britannia turboprop crashes at Nicosia, Cyprus, killing 126 people.source
  • April 24 – Soyuz 1: Vladimir Komarov becomes the first Soviet cosmonaut to die, when the parachute of his space capsule fails during re-entry.source
  • May 22 – The Innovation department store in the centre of Brussels, Belgium, burns down. It is the most devastating fire in Belgian history, resulting in 323 dead and missing and 150 injured.source
  • May 23 – Egypt closes the Straits of Tiran to Israeli shipping, blockading Israel's southern port of Eilat, and Israel's entire Red Sea coastline.source
  • June 4 – Stockport air disaster: British Midland flight G-ALHG crashes in Hopes Carr, Stockport, killing 72 passengers and crew.source
  • July 6 – Langenweddingen level crossing disaster: A level crossing collision between a train loaded with children and a tanker-truck near Magdeburg, East Germany, kills 94 people, mostly children.source
  • July 19 – A race riot breaks out in the North Side of Minneapolis on Plymouth Street during the Minneapolis Aquatennial Parade; businesses are vandalized and fires break out in the area, although the disturbance is quelled within hours. However, the next day a shooting sets off another incident in the same area that leads to 18 fires, 36 arrests, 3 shootings, 2 dozen people injured, and damages totaling 4.2 million. Two more such incidents occur during the following two weeks.source
  • July 19 – Eighty-two people are killed in a collision between Piedmont Airlines Flight 22 and a Cessna 310 near Hendersonville, North Carolina, United States.source
  • July 23–31 – 12th Street Riot: In Detroit, one of the worst riots in United States history begins on 12th Street in the predominantly African American inner city: 43 are killed, 342 injured and 1,400 buildings burned.source
  • July 29 – An explosion and fire aboard the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier in the Gulf of Tonkin leaves 134 dead.source
  • October 21 – An Egyptian surface-to-surface missile sinks the Israeli destroyer Eilat, killing 47 Israeli sailors. Israel retaliates by shelling Egyptian refineries along the Suez Canal.source
  • November 15 – Test pilot Michael Adams is killed when his X-15 rocket plane tumbles out of control during atmospheric re-entry and disintegrates.source
  • December 1 – The RMS Queen Mary is retired. Her place is taken by the Queen Elizabeth 2.source
  • December 31 – Motorcycle daredevil Evel Knievel attempts to jump 141 feet over the Caesars Palace Fountains on the Las Vegas Strip in the United States. Knievel crashes on landing and the accident is caught on film.source

Climate & Environment

  • January 26 – The largest-ever blizzard to hit the US city of Chicago begins.source
  • June 24 – Flooding kills six cavers in Mossdale Caverns in the United Kingdom, the single deadliest incident in British caving.source
  • July 10 – Heavy massive rains and a landslide at Kobe and Kure, Hiroshima, Japan, kill at least 371.source
  • July 29 – An earthquake in Caracas, Venezuela leaves 240 dead.source
  • November 26 – Major floods hit Lisbon, Portugal, killing 462.source
  • December 4 – At 6:50 PM, a volcano erupts on Deception Island in Antarctica.source
  • December 17 – Harold Holt, 17th Prime Minister of Australia, disappears when swimming at Cheviot Beach, 60 km from Melbourne. He was briefly replaced as prime minister by John McEwen, until the Liberal Party elected Minister for Education and Science John Gorton as leader.source

Culture & Society

  • February 6 – Alexei Kosygin arrives in the UK for an 8-day visit. He meets The Queen on February 9.source
  • March 4 – Queens Park Rangers become the first 3rd Division side to win the English Football League Cup at Wembley Stadium, defeating West Bromwich Albion 3–2.source
  • April 8 – Puppet on a String by Sandie Shaw (music and lyrics by Bill Martin and Phil Coulter) wins the Eurovision Song Contest 1967 for the United Kingdom.source
  • April 10 – The AFTRA strike is settled just in time for the 39th Academy Awards ceremony to be held, hosted by Bob Hope. Best Picture goes to A Man for All Seasons.source
  • April 23 – A group of young leftist radicals are expelled from the Nicaraguan Socialist Party (PSN). This group goes on to found the Socialist Workers Party (POS).source
  • April 27 – Montreal, Quebec, Expo 67, a World's Fair to coincide with the Canadian Confederation centennial, officially opens with Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson igniting the Expo Flame in the Place des Nations.source
  • May 1 – Elvis Presley and Priscilla Beaulieu are married in Las Vegas.source
  • 25 May – Celtic F.C. defeat Inter Milan 2–1 in Lisbon to win the European Cup, becoming the first British football club to win the competition. The team, later nicknamed the Lisbon Lions, was composed entirely of players born within 30 miles of Glasgow.source
  • May 26 – The Beatles release the groundbreaking album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band in the United Kingdom. It becomes one of the most influential albums in popular music history.source
  • June 10 – Margrethe, heir apparent to the throne of Denmark, marries French count Henri de Laborde de Monpezat.source
  • June 12 – Loving v. Virginia: The United States Supreme Court declares all U.S. state laws prohibiting interracial marriage to be unconstitutional.source
  • July 1 – Canada celebrates its first one hundred years of Confederation.source
  • July 1 – The first UK colour television broadcasts begin on BBC2. The first one is from the Wimbledon tennis championships. A full colour service begins on BBC2 on December 2.source
  • August 6 – A pulsar is noted by Jocelyn Bell and Antony Hewish. The discovery is first recorded in print in 1968: "An entirely novel kind of star came to light on Aug. 6 last year [...]".source
  • August 7 – A general strike in the old quarter of Jerusalem protests Israel's unification of the city.source
  • September 3 – At 5:00 a.m. local time, all road traffic in Sweden switches from left-hand traffic pattern to right-hand traffic.<source
  • September 17 – Jim Morrison and The Doors defy CBS censors on The Ed Sullivan Show, when Morrison sings the word "higher" from their #1 hit Light My Fire, despite having been asked not to.source
  • October 18 – Walt Disney's 19th full-length animated feature The Jungle Book, the last animated film personally supervised by Disney, is released and becomes an enormous box-office and critical success. On a double bill with the film is the (now) much less well-known true-life adventure, Charlie the Lonesome Cougar.source
  • October 26 – The coronation ceremony of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran, ruler of the nation since 1941, takes place.source
  • November 7 – The 50th anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution is celebrated in the Soviet Union.source
  • November 7 – Carl B. Stokes is elected Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, becoming the first African American elected mayor of a major United States city.source
  • November 27 – The Beatles release Magical Mystery Tour in the U.S. as a full album. The songs added to the original six songs on the double EP include "All You Need Is Love", "Penny Lane", "Strawberry Fields Forever", "Baby, You're a Rich Man" and "Hello, Goodbye". Release as a double EP will not take place in the UK until December.source
  • December 8 – Magical Mystery Tour is released by The Beatles as a double EP in the UK, while the only psychedelic rock album by The Rolling Stones, Their Satanic Majesties Request, is released in the UK and in the US.source
  • December 12 – Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, one of the seminal race relations films of the 1960s, is released to theaters.source

Births

  • January 8 – R. Kelly, American R&B singer, songwriter, and convicted sex offendersource
  • February 14 – Mark Rutte, Dutch politician, 50th Prime Minister of the Netherlands (2010-present) and NATO Secretary Generalsource
  • June 7 – Dave Navarro, American guitarist and singer (Jane's Addiction, Red Hot Chili Peppers)source
  • June 16 – Jürgen Klopp, German former footballer and former manager of Liverpool F.C.source
  • August 13 – Jeanine Áñez, President of Boliviasource
  • August 22 – Layne Staley, American rock musician (Alice in Chains) (d. 2002)source
  • August 29 – Neil Gorsuch, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court since 2017source
  • September 13 – Tim "Ripper" Owens, American rock singer (Judas Priest, Iced Earth, Yngwie Malmsteen)source
  • October 7 – María Corina Machado, Venezuelan politician, winner of the Nobel Peace Prizesource
  • October 9 – Eddie Guerrero, Mexican-American professional wrestler (d. 2005)source
  • October 10 – Gavin Newsom, American politician, 40th Governor of Californiasource
  • October 11 – Peter Thiel, German-American entrepreneur and venture capitalistsource
  • November 2 – Scott Walker, American legislator and politician; 45th Governor of Wisconsin (2011–2019)source
  • December 21 – Mikheil Saakashvili, Georgian politician, 3rd President of Georgia and Governor of Odessa Oblastsource

Deaths

  • January 3 – Jack Ruby, American nightclub owner, best known as the killer of Lee Harvey Oswald (b. 1911)source
  • February 6 – Henry Morgenthau Jr., United States Secretary of the Treasury during World War II (b. 1891)source
  • February 13 – Abelardo L. Rodríguez, substitute president of Mexico (1932–1934) (b. 1889)source
  • February 18 – J. Robert Oppenheimer, American physicist (b. 1904)source
  • February 22 – David Ferrie, American pilot and anti-communist activist who was alleged by New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison to have been involved in a conspiracy to assassinate President John F. Kennedy.source
  • March 5 – Mohammad Mosaddegh, Iranian politician, 35th Prime Minister of Iran (b. 1882)source
  • May 22 – Langston Hughes, American writer, novelist, playwright, and columnist (b. 1901)source
  • June 16 – Eugénie Cotton, French physicist, socialist, women's rights advocate (b. 1881)source
  • July 20 – Lewis H. Brereton, American aviation pioneer and air force general (b. 1890)source
  • July 21 – Albert Luthuli, South African politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1898)source
  • July 21 – Jimmie Foxx, American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics) and member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1907)source
  • August 27 – Brian Epstein, English band manager (The Beatles) (b. 1934)source
  • October 20 – Shigeru Yoshida, Japanese diplomat and politician, 32nd Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1878)source
  • November 7 – John Nance Garner, 32nd Vice President of the United States (b. 1868)source