News and Events of 1967

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
  
  

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).
  
  

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

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.

Deaths

• Ernesto "Che" Guevara
  
  
• Spencer Tracy
  
  
• Woody Guthrie
  
  
• Langston Hughes
  
  
• Alice B. Toklas
  
  
• John Coltrane