What happened in 1967

World15

• Jan 27The 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.
• Apr 20The Surveyor 3 probe lands on the Moon.
• May 4Lunar Orbiter 4 is launched by the United States.
• May 6Hong Kong 1967 riots: Clashes between striking workers and police kill 51 and injure 800.
• May 9A partial solar eclipse took place.
• May 15The Waiting period leading up to the Six-Day War begins.
• Jun 14Mariner program: Mariner 5 is launched toward Venus.
• Aug 1The UAC TurboTrain makes its first journey.
• Oct 18The Venera 4 probe descends through the Venusian atmosphere.
• Oct 19The Mariner 5 probe flies by Venus.
• Oct 30Hong Kong 1967 riots: British troops and Chinese demonstrators clash on the border of China and Hong Kong.
• Nov 2A non-central total solar eclipse took place.
• Nov 19The establishment of TVB, the first wireless commercial television station in Hong Kong.
• Dec 19The Rescue Agreement setting forth rights and obligations in outer space is voted into consensus by the United Nations General Assembly.
• Dec 29Korean automobile manufacturer Hyundai Motor is founded.

Japan1

• Jun 25400 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".

North America22

• Jan 27Apollo 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.
• Feb 5NASA launches Lunar Orbiter 3.
• Mar 21Charles Manson is released from Terminal Island. Telling the authorities that prison had become his home, he requests permission to stay. Upon his release, he relocates to San Francisco where he spends the Summer of Love.
• Apr 9The first Boeing 737 (A-100 series) takes its maiden flight.
• Apr 10The 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.
• Apr 27Montreal, 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.
• Apr 28The 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).
• Apr 28Expo 67 opens to the public, with over 310,000 people attending. Al Carter from Chicago is the first visitor as noted by Expo officials.
• May 1GO Transit, Canada's first interregional public transit system, is established.
• May 18NASA 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.
• Jun 12Loving v. Virginia: The United States Supreme Court declares all U.S. state laws prohibiting interracial marriage to be unconstitutional.
• Oct 18Walt 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.
• Oct 29Expo 67 closes in Montreal, after having attracted more than 50 million visitors in six months.
• Nov 9Apollo program: NASA launches the first Saturn V rocket, successfully carrying the Apollo 4 test spacecraft from Cape Kennedy into Earth orbit.
• Dec 31Motorcycle 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.

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Europe12

• Mar 28Pope Paul VI issues the encyclical Populorum progressio.
• Apr 8Puppet 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.
• Apr 21Greece suffers a military coup by a group of military officers, who establish a military dictatorship led by Georgios Papadopoulos; future-Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou remains a political prisoner till December 25. The dictatorship ends in 1974.
• May 26The 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.
• Jun 2Protests 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.
• Jun 4Stockport air disaster: British Midland flight G-ALHG crashes in Hopes Carr, Stockport, killing 72 passengers and crew.
• Jul 24During 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.
• Sep 1Ilse Koch, known as the "Witch of Buchenwald", commits suicide in the Bavarian prison of Aichach.
• Sep 3At 5:00 a.m. local time, all road traffic in Sweden switches from left-hand traffic pattern to right-hand traffic.<
• Sep 10In a Gibraltar sovereignty referendum, only 44 voters out of 12,182 in the British Crown colony of Gibraltar support union with Spain.
• Sep 30In 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.
• Dec 8Magical 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.

USSR / Russia3

• Apr 24Soyuz 1: Vladimir Komarov becomes the first Soviet cosmonaut to die, when the parachute of his space capsule fails during re-entry.
• Apr 30Moscow's 537 m tall TV tower is finished.
• Jun 12Venera program: Venera 4 is launched by the Soviet Union (the first space probe to analyze another planet's atmosphere and successfully return data).

Asia7

• Jan 8Vietnam War: Operation Cedar Falls starts, in an attempt to eliminate the Iron Triangle.
• Mar 11The first phase of the Cambodian Civil War begins between the Kingdom of Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge.
• May 8The Philippine province of Davao is split into three: Davao del Norte, Davao del Sur, and Davao Oriental.
• Aug 8The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is founded in Bangkok, Thailand.
• Oct 17Vietnam War: The Battle of Ong Thanh takes place.
• Nov 3Vietnam 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.
• Nov 30Zulfikar 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).

Middle East5

• Apr 7Six-Day War (approach): Israeli fighters shoot down 7 Syrian MIG-21s.
• Jun 5Six-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 campaign
• Jun 8USS Liberty incident: a United States Navy spy ship is attacked by Israeli forces, allegedly in error, killing 34 crew.
• Jun 8Ras Sedr massacre in the Sinai Peninsula: a mass killing of dozens of Egyptian prisoners of war by the Israel Defense Forces.
• Jun 10Six-Day War ends: Israel and Syria agree to a United Nations-mediated cease-fire.

Latin America5

• Feb 22Donald Sangster becomes the new prime minister of Jamaica, succeeding Alexander Bustamante.
• Mar 1Óscar Gestido is sworn in as President of Uruguay after 15 years of collegiate government.
• Jul 29An earthquake in Caracas, Venezuela leaves 240 dead.
• Oct 8Guerrilla leader Che Guevara and his men are captured in Bolivia; they are executed the following day.
• Dec 6Vice President Jorge Pacheco Areco is sworn in as President of Uruguay after President Oscar Gestido dies in office.

Africa2

• May 30Biafra, in eastern Nigeria, announces its independence, which is not recognized.
• Jul 6Nigerian Civil War: Nigerian forces invade the secessionist Biafra May 30.

Oceania3

• Jul 10New Zealand decimalises its currency from pound to dollar at £1 to $2 ($1 = 10/-).
• Nov 251967 Australian Senate election: The Liberal/Country Coalition government led by Prime Minister Harold Holt loses two seats, while the Labor Party led by Gough Whitlam fails to make any gains. The Democratic Labor Party wins the two seats from the Liberals and gains the sole balance of power in the Senate.
• Dec 17Harold 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.