1967
Centuries: Year in Review 20th Century (19th century - 20th century - 21st century)
Decades: 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s - 1960s - 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s
Years: 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 - 1967 - 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972
Events
- January 27 - Apollo 1 destroyed in a fire on the launchpad.
- The first open heart transplantation performed by Christiaan Barnard in Capetown, South-Africa.
- April - Surveyor 3 probe lands on the Moon
- May 12 - Pink Floyd stages the first ever quadrophonic rock concert at Queen Elizabeth Hall, England
- May 17 - President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt demands withdrawal of the peace-keeping UN Emergency Force in Sinai. UN secretary-general U Thant complies (May 18). On May 23 Egypt closes the Strait of Tiran, blockading Israel's southern port of Eilat.
- June 5-June 10 - Israel defeats Arab neighbours in Six-Day War, occupying West Bank, Gaza Strip and Golan Heights.
- June 23-June 24 - U.S. president Lyndon Johnson and Soviet premier [[Alexei Kosygin confer at Glassboro, New Jersey.
- July 6 - Nigerian forces invade Biafra following latter's secession (May 30): beginning of the Biafran War.
- June 28 - Israel declares annexation of East Jerusalem
- September 2 - Roughs Tower claimed by Paddy Roy Bates, declared Principality of Sealand
- September 30 - BBC Radio 1 launched
- October - Patterson-Gimlin film of a purported bigfoot taken.
- October 17 - Premiere of the musical Hair on Broadway.
- October 19 - Mariner 5 probe flies by Venus
- October 21 - Egyptian surface-to-surface missile sinks the Israeli destroyer "Eilat", killing 47 Israeli sailors. Israel retaliated by shelling Egyptian refineries along the Suez Canal.
- November 9 - first launch of Saturn V, Apollo 4 mission
- Britain withdraws from Yemen.
- Greece taken over by military dictatorship, forcing the king to flee.
- Influential science fiction anthology Dangerous Visions published.
- LSD declared a Schedule I drug by the United States government.
- Lonsdaleite (the rarest allotrope of carbon) first discovered in Barringer Crater, Arizona.
- lost city discovered on the island of Thera, buried under volcanic debris. It has been suggested that Plato may have heard legends about this, and used them as the germ of his story of Atlantis.
- PAL first introduced in Germany
- Summer of Love
- The Beatles air the Magical Mystery Tour on British TV
- 25th Amendment of the United States Constitution enacted
- First Pulsar discovered by Jocelyn Bell and Antony Hewish
Births
- February 11 - Barbara Byrne, American rower.
- February 11 - Chris Reohr, American fencer.
- February 11 - John Patterson US baseball player.
- February 18 - Roberto Baggio, Italian football player
- May 15 - Madhuri Dixit
- May 24 - Heavy D
- May 24 - Margaret Crowley
- May 24- Steve McDonald
- June 20 - Nicole Kidman, actress
- July 27 - Juliana Hatfield, guitarist/songwriter
- July 1 - Pamela Anderson, actress
- September 11 - Harry Connick, Jr.
- October 28 - Julia Roberts
- November 22 - Boris Becker, tennisman
- LTJ Bukem
- Prince Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands
Deaths
- January 4 - Donald Campbell, boat racer
- January 27 - Edward White, Virgil Grissom and Roger Chaffee, Apollo 1 crew.
- April 19 - Konrad Adenauer
- June 19 - Jayne Mansfield, actress
- July 7 - Vivien Leigh, actress
- July 22 - Carl Sandburg, poet
- August 19 - Hugo Gernsback, editor, publisher
- October 3 - Woody Guthrie, folk musician.
- December 10 - Otis Redding, singer
- Daniel Jones, phonetician
- Scrooge McDuck, billionaire businessduck.
- Joe Orton, satirical modern playwright.
- Kazimierz Funk, biochemist
- Alfried Krupp, head of the Krupp business empire
Sport
- January 15 - Super Bowl I Green Bay Packers (35) def. Kansas City Chiefs (10)
- Physics - Hans Albrecht Bethe
- Chemistry - Manfred Eigen, Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, George Porter
- Medicine - Ragnar Granit, Haldan Keffer Hartline, George Wald
- Literature - Miguel Angel Asturias
- Peace - Not Awarded.