Britain and the World 1967

	1967
Jan12	The Labour Government announces that a new town will be built around the village of Milton Keynes
Jan27	Lt. Col. Virgil I. “Gus” Grissom, Lt. Cmdr. Roger B. Chaffee, and White die in a command module fire in ground test
Jan18	Jeremy Thorpe is elected Leader of the Liberal Party succeeding Jo Grimond.
Jan30	50,000 Vietcong and North Vietnamese forces launched a ferocious surprise attack on Saigon and 30 provincial capitals in South Vietnam, penetrating the U.S. embassy grounds in Saigon at one point. The attack brought into serious question the reports of progress from U.S. officials and military commanders in Vietnam.
Feb3	In Holloway Road, London, the record producer Joe Meek murders his landlady and then commits suicide
Feb14	King Constantine of Greece flees the country after his attempted coup d'etat fails
	UK Prime Minister Harold Wilson predicts impending peaceful settlement of Vietnamese conflict
Mar4	The first North Sea gas is pumped ashore at Easington Co Durham
Mar9	Svetlana Alliluyeva the daughter of Stalin defects to the West
Mar14	The body of President Kennedy was moved from a temporary grave to a permanent memorial site at Arlington National Cemetery.
Mar18	Torrey Canyon oil tanker runs aground off Lands End causing massive pollution. It was bombed to destruction on Mar30
Apr8	Sandie Shaw wins the Eurovision Song Contest in Vienna with "Puppet on a String"
Apr9	First Boeing 737 rolls out
Apr21	Military coup in Greece led by Papadopolous and General Patakos
Apr28	Muhammad Ali refuses induction into army and is stripped of the Heavyweight Championship. On May 8 he is indicted for draft evasion
May22	Fire at the Brussels department store"L'Innovation" killed more than 320 people.
May25	Glasgow Celtic became the first British football club to win the European Cup beating Inter Milan 2-1 in the final in Lisbon
May30	Biafara declares independence from Nigeria
May28	Francis Chichester arrives in Plymouth after solo nonstop circumnavigation (knighted 7 Jul)
Jun4	Donald Campbell dies on Coniston Water during an attempt on the world water speed record
Jun5	Six Day War between Israel and Arab neighbors Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Iraq and Lebanon began.
Jun16	Monterey, California: Monterey Pop Festival opens with the Association, the Paupers, Beverly, Lou Rawls, Eric Burdon and the New Animals, and Simon and Garfunkel
Jul1	First Colour TV transmission in Britain
Jul13	Public Record Act-records now closed for only 30 years (but census still closed for 100 years)
Jul15	Roberto DeVicenzo of Argentina wins golf's British Open
Jul18	Withdrawal from East of Suez by mid 1970s announced
Jul23 - Jul30	After a police raid on an illegal bar, a devastating riot occurs in Detroit. 45 people are killed, 7,000 arrested with 2,500 stores burned to the ground amid widescale looting. Governor George Romney sent 8,000 National Guardsmen to the city to restore order Many white Detroiters say the race riots compelled them to abandon the city for good The flight to the suburbs meant that Detroit has never really recovered. In every sense, the riot really did destroy a city.
Aug8	ASEAN founded with the founder members being Indonesia, Malaysia,Singapore, Philippines and thailand
Aug15	A Bill is passed by the Labour Government banning pirate radio stations in Britain
Aug25	Leader of the American Nazi Party, George Lincoln Rockwell, was shot dead.
Aug26	The death of Brian Epstein the Beatles manager from an drug overdose
Sep3	Sweden changes the rule of road to drive on right
Sep20	QE2 launched on Clydebank
Sep27	Queen Mary arrives Southampton at end of her last transatlantic voyage
Sep30	Radio 1 starts broadcasing the first record being The Move's "Flowers In The Rain"
Oct5	Introduction of majority verdicts in English courts
Oct9	Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara is shot and killed by in Bolivia by regular soldiers
Oct21	Tens of thousands of Vietnam War protesters marched inWashington.
Oct25	Abortion Bill is passed by Parliament
Nov5	One of the worst British Rail crashes occurs at Hither Green when 49 people were killed and 78 hurt
Nov9	John Wenner launches the Rolling Stone magazine in San Francisco
Nov15	BBC Radio Sheffield comes on air on 88.6 Sheffield 95.05 Rotherham
Nov18	UK devaluation against the dollar to $2.40 - Wilson, fresh from predicting an early end to the Vietnam War (Feb14) now states that the devaluation "will not affect the pound in your pocket"
Nov27	French President Charles de Gaulle vetos British entry into the Common Market
Dec3	First human heart transplant is performed in Groote Schurr Hospital Capetown South Africa by Dr Christain Barnard. The patient Louis Washansky received the heart of a young girl (Davall) who had died earlier that day in a road accident. Unforunately the patient only lived a further 18 days
Dec5	Apple clothing store opens at 94 Baker Street London
Dec9	Nicolea Ceausescu becomes President (dictator) of Romania
Dec17	Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt disappeared while swimming at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. His body was never recovered. Without determining the cause of Holt's death, a joint report by Commonwealth and Victoria Police, submitted in January 1968, concluded that, ‘...there has been no indication that the disappearance of the late Mr Holt was anything other than accidental’.
Dec26	BBC broadcast the Beatles film "The Magical Mystery Tour" to a "mixed response"