1967 Events

World Events

• Biafra secedes from Nigeria (May).
  
• Israeli and Arab forces battle; Six-Day War ends with Israel occupying Sinai Peninsula, Golan Heights, Gaza Strip and West Bank (June 5). Background: Arab-Israeli Wars
  
• Right-wing military coup deposes King Constantine II of Greece.
  
• Communist China announces explosion of its first hydrogen bomb (June 17).
  
• The US and USSR propose a nuclear nonproliferation treaty. Background: nuclear disarmament
  World Statistics
  
  Population: 3.485 billion

U.S. Events

• Racial violence in Detroit; 7,000 National Guardsmen aid police after night of rioting. Similar outbreaks in New York City’s Spanish Harlem, Rochester, N.Y., Birmingham, Ala., and New Britain, Conn. (July 23).
  
• Thurgood Marshall sworn in as first black US Supreme Court justice (Oct. 2).
  
• Astronauts Col. Virgil I. Grissom, Col. Edward White II, and Lt. Cmdr. Roger B. Chaffee killed in fire during test launch (Jan. 27).
  U.S. Statistics
  
  President: Lyndon B. Johnson
  Vice President: Hubert H. Humphrey
  Population: 198,712,056
  Life expectancy: 70.5 years
  Violent Crime Rate (per 1,000): 29.9
  Property Crime Rate (per 1,000): 27.4
  Homicide Rate (per 100,000): 6.8

Economics

US GDP (1998 dollars):   $833.6 billion
Federal spending:   $157.46 billion
Federal debt:   $340.4 billion
Median Household Income
(current dollars):  $7,143
Consumer Price Index:   33.4
Unemployment:   3.8%
Cost of a first-class stamp:   $0.05

Sports

Super Bowl
Green Bay d. Kansas City (35-10)

World Series
St. Louis Cardinals d. Boston Red Sox (4-3)

NBA Championship
Philadelphia 76ers d. SF Warriors (4-2)

Stanley Cup
Toronto d. Montreal (4-2)

Wimbledon
Women: Billie Jean King d. A. Jones (6-3 6-4)
Men: John Newcombe d. W. Bungert (6-3 6-1 6-1)

Kentucky Derby Champion
Proud Clarion

NCAA Basketball Championship
UCLA d. Dayton (79-64)

NCAA Football Champions
USC (10-1-0)

Entertainment

Events

• Congress creates PBS.
  
• Rolling Stone and New York Magazine debut, spawning the popularity of special-interest and regional magazines.
  

Movies

• The Graduate, Bonnie and Clyde, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?, In the Heat of the Night, Cool Hand Luke
  

Music

• The Beatles, Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
  

Books

• Donald Barthelme, Snow White
  
• Elizabeth Bishop, Selected Poems
  
• Robert Bly, The Light Around the World
  
• Richard Brautigan, Trout Fishing in America
  
• Stanley Elkin, A Bad Man
  
• W. S. Merwin, Lice
  
• Marianne Moore, Complete Poems
  
• Joyce Carol Oates, A Garden of Earthly Delights
  
• William Styron, The Confessions of Nat Turner
  

Entertainment Awards

Pulitzer Prizes
Fiction: The Fixer, Bernard Malamud
Music: Quartet No. 3, Leon Kirchner
Drama: A Delicate Balance, Edward Albee

Oscars awarded in 1967
Academy Award, Best Picture: A Man for All Seasons, Fred Zinnemann, producer (Columbia)

Nobel Prize for Literature: Miguel Angel Asturias (Guatemala)

1967 Emmy Awards

1967 Tony Awards

Grammys awarded in 1967
Record of the Year: “Strangers in the Night,” Frank Sinatra
Album of the Year: Sinatra: A Man and His Music, Frank Sinatra (Reprise)
Song of the Year: “Michelle,” John Lennon and Paul McCartney, songwriters

Miss America: Jane Anne Jayroe (OK)

Science

• Antony Hewish and Jocelyn Bell Burnel (UK) discover pulsars. Background: Astronomy
  
• Jerome Friedman, Henry Kendall, Richard Taylor (US) discover protons and neutrons to be composed of even smaller particles called quarks.
  
• The MIRV (Multiple Indepenently Targetable Reetry Vehicle), which allows one missile to carry several nuclear warheads, is developed. Background: nuclear weapons
  
• Dr. Christiaan N. Barnard and team of South African surgeons perform world’s first successful human heart transplant (Dec. 3). The patient dies 18 days later.
  

Nobel Prizes in Science

Chemistry: Manfred Eigen (Germany), Ronald G. W. Norrish, and George Porter (both UK), for work in high-speed chemical reactions

Physics: Hans A. Bethe (US), for work on energy production of stars

Physiology or Medicine: Haldan K. Hartline, George Wald, and Ragnar Granit (all US), for work on human eye

Deaths

• Ernesto “Che” Guevara
  
• Upton Sinclair
  
• Spencer Tracy

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