January fire • January 2 –
Ronald Reagan, past movie actor and future president of the U.S., is inaugurated governor of California. • January 4 –
The Doors' self-titled debut album is released. • January 6 –
Vietnam War:
United States Marine Corps and
Army of the Republic of Vietnam troops launch
Operation Deckhouse Five in the
Mekong Delta. • January 8 – Vietnam War:
Operation Cedar Falls starts. • January 11 –
Segregationist Lester Maddox is sworn in as Governor of
Georgia. • January 12 – Dr.
James Bedford becomes the first person to be
cryonically preserved with the intent of future resuscitation. • January 14 •
The New York Times reports that the U.S. Army is conducting secret
germ warfare experiments. • The
Human Be-In takes place in
Golden Gate Park, San Francisco; the event sets the stage for the
Summer of Love. • January 15 –
Super Bowl I: The Green Bay Packers defeat the Kansas City Chiefs 35–10 in football at the
Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. • January 18 –
Albert DeSalvo is convicted of numerous crimes and sentenced to life in prison. • January 27 •
Apollo 1: Astronauts
Gus Grissom,
Ed White and
Roger Chaffee are killed when fire breaks out in their
Apollo spacecraft during a launch pad test. • The United States, Soviet Union and the United Kingdom sign the
Outer Space Treaty. • January 28 – The
Mantra-Rock Dance, called the "ultimate high" of the hippie era, takes place in San Francisco, featuring
Swami Bhaktivedanta,
Janis Joplin,
The Grateful Dead and
Allen Ginsberg.
February • February 2 – The
American Basketball Association is formed. • February 5 –
NASA launches
Lunar Orbiter 3. • February 10 – The
Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution (presidential succession and disability) is ratified. • February 13 – American researchers discover the Madrid Codices by
Leonardo da Vinci in the
National Library of Spain. • February 14 – "
Respect" is recorded by
Aretha Franklin (to be released in April). • February 18 –
New Orleans District Attorney
Jim Garrison claims he will solve the John F. Kennedy assassination, and that a conspiracy was planned in New Orleans. • February 23 – The
Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution is enacted, outlining rules of succession of the presidency. • February 25 – The Human Be-In#2 is held in Griffith Park, Los Angeles, CA.
March • March 7 –
Jimmy Hoffa begins his 8-year sentence for attempting to bribe a jury. • March 9 –
Joseph Stalin's daughter,
Svetlana Alliluyeva, defects to the USA via the U.S. Embassy in
New Delhi. • March 14 – The body of President
John F. Kennedy is moved to a permanent burial place at
Arlington National Cemetery. • March 26 – 10,000 gather for the
Central Park be-in. • March 29 – 13-day strike by
American Federation of Television and Radio Artists television staff announcers and newsroom staff begins. • March 31 – President
Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Consular Treaty.
April • April 1 – The
Department of Transportation begins operation. The
Federal Aviation Administration is folded into the DOT. • April 4 –
Martin Luther King Jr. denounces the Vietnam War during a religious service in New York City. • April 9 – The first
Boeing 737 (a 100 series) takes its maiden flight. • April 10 – The
AFTRA strike is settled just in time for the
39th Academy Awards ceremony to be held, hosted by
Bob Hope at
Santa Monica Civic Auditorium.
Fred Zinnemann's
A Man for All Seasons wins the most awards with six, including
Best Picture and Zinnemann's second
Best Director award (his first since 1953).
Mike Nichols' ''
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?'' receives 13 nominations. • April 12 – The
Ahmanson Theatre opens in Los Angeles. • April 14 – In
San Francisco, 10,000 march against the
Vietnam War. • April 15 – Large demonstrations are held against the Vietnam War in New York City and San Francisco. • April 20 – The
Surveyor 3 probe lands on the Moon. • 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). • April 22 – The
McDonald's fast food restaurant chain introduces the
Big Mac hamburger, in
Uniontown, Pennsylvania. • April 24 – 18-year-old
S. E. Hinton's coming-of-age novel
The Outsiders is published. • April 28 • In
Houston, boxer
Muhammad Ali refuses military service. •
Expo 67 opens to the public in
Montreal, with over 310,000 people attending. Al Carter from Chicago is the first visitor, as noted by Expo officials. •
Aerospace manufacturer McDonnell Douglas is formed through a merger of
McDonnell Aircraft and
Douglas Aircraft.
May • May –
National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam established. • May 1 •
Elvis Presley and
Priscilla Beaulieu are married in Las Vegas. • The
United Network, an attempted
fourth television network founded by
Daniel H. Overmyer, launches. It will shut down a month later. • May 2 – Armed members of the
Black Panther Party enter the California state capital to protest a bill that would restrict the carrying of arms in public. • May 4 –
Lunar Orbiter 4 is launched. • May 6 – Four hundred students seize the administration building at Cheney State College, later
Cheyney University of Pennsylvania, the oldest institute for higher education for African Americans. • May 18 •
Tennessee Governor Ellington repeals the "Monkey Law" (officially the
Butler Act, as tested in the
Scopes Trial). •
NASA announces the crew for the
Apollo 7 space mission (first crewed Apollo flight):
Walter M. Schirra Jr.,
Donn F. Eisele and
R. Walter Cunningham. • May 19 – The Soviet Union ratifies a treaty with the United States and the United Kingdom, banning nuclear weapons from outer space. • May 25 – The
Twenty-fifth Amendment is added to the Constitution. • May 29 –
Afroyim v. Rusk, a
landmark decision of the
Supreme Court of the United States, rules that
citizens of the United States may not be deprived of their citizenship involuntarily.
June • June 2 •
Luis Monge is executed in
Colorado's
gas chamber, in the last
pre-Furman execution in the U.S. • The
Beatles' ''
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band'' is released in the U.S. • June 5 – Murderer
Richard Speck is sentenced to death in the electric chair for killing eight student nurses in
Chicago (subsequently commuted to life imprisonment). • June 7 – Two
Moby Grape members are arrested for contributing to the delinquency of minors. • June 8 –
Six-Day War:
USS Liberty incident – Israeli fighter jets and Israeli warships fire at the
USS Liberty off Gaza, killing 34 and wounding 171. • June 11 – A
race riot occurs in
Tampa, Florida after the shooting death of Martin Chambers by police while allegedly robbing a camera store. The unrest lasts until June 15. • June 12 –
Loving v. Virginia: The
United States Supreme Court declares all U.S. state laws prohibiting
interracial marriage to be unconstitutional. • June 13 – Solicitor General
Thurgood Marshall is nominated as the first
African American justice of the United States Supreme Court. • June 14 –
Mariner program:
Mariner 5 is launched toward
Venus. • June 14–15 –
Glenn Gould records
Prokofiev's Seventh Piano Sonata, Op. 83, in
New York City (his only recording of a Prokofiev composition). • June 16 – The
Monterey Pop Festival begins and is held for 3 days. • June 23 –
Cold War: U.S. President
Lyndon B. Johnson meets with Soviet Premier
Alexei Kosygin in
Glassboro, New Jersey, for the 3-day
Glassboro Summit Conference. Johnson travels to Los Angeles for a dinner at the Century Plaza Hotel where earlier in the day thousands of war protesters clashed with L.A. police. • June 26 – The
Buffalo Race Riot begins, lasting until July 1; leads to 200 arrests. • June 29 – Actress
Jayne Mansfield and two others die in an automobile crash near
Slidell, Louisiana. Mansfield's daughter,
Mariska Hargitay, is asleep in the back seat at the time of the crash and survives.
July • July 1 –
American Samoa's first constitution becomes effective. • July 2 –
Walt Disney's Carousel of Progress opens at
Disneyland. • July 5 –
Freedom of Information Act becomes effective. • July 12 – After the arrest of an African-American cab driver for allegedly illegally driving around a police car and gunning it down the road,
rioting breaks out in
Newark, New Jersey, and continues for five days. • July 14 – Near Newark, New Jersey, the
Plainfield riots also occur. • July 16 – A prison riot in
Jay, Florida leaves 37 dead. • July 18 – The United Kingdom announces the closing of its
military bases in
Malaysia and
Singapore. Australia and the U.S. disapprove. • 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. There will be two more such incidents in the following two weeks. • July 21 – 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 –
Long, hot summer of 1967: •
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. • Riots break out in
Rochester, New York and last until July 24. 2 people would die and $60,000 worth of damage would be cause. • July 29 – An explosion and fire aboard the U.S. Navy
aircraft carrier in the
Gulf of Tonkin leaves 134 dead. • July 30 •
Joni Eareckson breaks her neck in a diving accident, becoming a
quadriplegic. This leads to her starting 'Joni and Friends', a ministry for disabled people. • The
1967 Milwaukee race riots begin, lasting through August 2 and leading to a ten-day shutdown of the city from August 1.
August is confirmed as the first
African American Justice of the
Supreme Court • August 1 –
Race riots spread to Washington, D.C. • August 9 –
Vietnam War – Operation Cochise:
United States Marines begin a new operation in the Que Son Valley. • August 21 – The
People's Republic of China announces that it has shot down U.S. planes violating its airspace. • August 23 –
Jimi Hendrix's debut album
Are You Experienced is released. • August 25 –
American Nazi Party leader
George Lincoln Rockwell is assassinated in
Arlington, Virginia. • August 30 –
Thurgood Marshall is confirmed as the first African American Justice of the
Supreme Court of the U.S. September • 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. • September 9 –
Fashion Island, one of
California's first outdoor shopping malls, opens in
Newport Beach. • September 11 – Sketch comedy series
The Carol Burnett Show premieres on
CBS. It runs for 11 seasons, until March 1978. • 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. • September 18 –
Love Is a Many Splendored Thing debuts on U.S. 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.
October • October 1 – The
Boston Red Sox clinch the American League pennant in one of the most memorable pennant races of all time with Boston (92–70) beating out the
Minnesota Twins and
Detroit Tigers by one game;
Carl Yastrzemski wins the baseball's
Triple Crown. • October 2 –
Thurgood Marshall is sworn in as the first black justice of the
Supreme Court. • 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. • October 12 •
Vietnam War: U.S. Secretary of State
Dean Rusk states during a news conference that proposals by the
U.S. Congress for peace initiatives are futile, because of
North Vietnam's opposition. • The
St. Louis Cardinals defeat the
Boston Red Sox, 4 games to 3, to win their 8th World Series Title. • 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. • October 17 – The musical
Hair opens off-Broadway. It moves to Broadway the following April. • 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 (later) much less well-known true-life adventure,
Charlie, the Lonesome Cougar. • October 19 – The
Mariner 5 probe flies by
Venus. • October 20 – The
Patterson–Gimlin film is shot in Bluff Creek, California supposedly capturing a
Bigfoot on tape. • October 21 – Tens of thousands of Vietnam War protesters march in Washington, D.C.
Allen Ginsberg symbolically chants to 'levitate'
The Pentagon. • December 15 – The
Silver Bridge over the
Ohio River in
Point Pleasant, West Virginia, collapses, killing 46. • December 19 – Professor
John Archibald Wheeler uses the term
black hole for the first time. • December 28 – Businesswoman
Muriel Siebert becomes the first woman to own a seat on the
New York Stock Exchange.
Undated •
Lonsdaleite (the rarest
allotrope of
carbon) is discovered in the
Barringer Crater,
Arizona. • The
Summer of Love is held in San Francisco. •
Warner Bros. Pictures becomes a wholly owned subsidiary of
Seven Arts Productions, thus becoming
Warner Bros.-Seven Arts. •
Long, hot summer of 1967 (various riots around June, July, and August).
Ongoing •
Cold War (1947–1991) •
Space Race (1957–1975) •
Vietnam War, U.S. involvement (1964–1973) ==Births==