1967
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Years: | 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 |
Contents |
[edit] Events
- February 2 - The American Basketball Association is formed.
- February 15 - Chicago, a musical group forms
- March 13 - Indira Gandhi becomes prime minister of India.
- April 28 - Montreal hosts Expo '67.
- May 1 - Elvis Presley married Priscilla Beaulieu.
- June 5 - June 10 - The Six-Day War
- December 3 - Dr. Christiaan Barnard transplanted the first heart.
- The Summer of Love
- The Blue Oyster Cult forms.
- Jethro Tull forms.
[edit] Births
- February 20 - Kurt Cobain, rock musician (d. 1994)
- June 20 - Nicole Kidman, actress
- October 28 - Julia Roberts, actress
- November 16 - Lisa Bonet, actress
- November 22 - Boris Becker, tennis player
- December 17 - Gigi D'Agostino, Italian musician and DJ
[edit] Deaths
- January 3 - Jack Ruby, killer of Lee Harvey Oswald
- January 4 - Donald Campbell, waterspeed/landspeed record seeker.
- April 19 - Konrad Adenauer, German statesman
- December 10 - Otis Redding, American singer
[edit] Nobel Prizes
- Nobel Prize in Physics - Hans Albrecht Bethe, American physicist
- Chemistry - Manfred Eigen, Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, George Porter
- Medicine - Ragnar Granit, Haldan Keffer Hartline, George Wald
- Literature - Miguel Angel Asturias, Guatemalan writer
- Peace - not awarded
[edit] Films released
- The Dirty Dozen
- Fearless Vampire Killers
- To Sir With Love
- In the Heat of the Night
[edit] Hit songs
- All You Need is Love - The Beatles
- Daydream Believer - The Monkees
- Groovin' - The Young Rascals
- Happy Together - The Turtles
- Hello Goodbye - The Beatles
- I'm A Believer - The Monkees
- Incense And Peppermints - Strawberry Alarm Clock
- The Letter - The Box Tops
- Light My Fire - The Doors
- Ode to Billy Joe - Bobby Gentry
- Penny Lane - The Beatles
- Respect - Aretha Franklin
- Ruby Tuesday - The Rolling Stones
- To Sir With Love - Lulu
- Windy - The Association
[edit] New Books
- 003½: The Adventures of James Bond Junior - R.D. Mascott (Arthur Calder-Marshall)
- The Arrangement - Elia Kazan
- The Chosen - Chaim Potok
- Christy - Catherine Marshall
- The Confessions of Nat Turner - William Styron
- The Crows of Pearblossom - Aldous Huxley
- Death of a President - William Manchester
- Down These Mean Streets - Piri Thomas
- The Eighth Day - Thornton Wilder
- The Exhibitionist - Henry Sutton
- The Gabriel Hounds - Mary Stewart
- Go to the Widow-Maker - James Jones
- Ice - Anna Kavan
- I Heard the Owl Call My Name - Margaret Craven
- Jerusalem the Golden - Margaret Drabble
- Killing Time - Thomas Berger
- Miramar - Naguib Mahfouz
- One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez
- Rosemary's Baby- Ira Levin
- The Silent Cry- Oe Kenzaburo
- Topaz - Leon Uris
- Where Eagles Dare - Alistair MacLean
- Wild Season - Allan W. Eckert