1967
Some of the News That Might Be Fit For Something

CONTENTS

A few statistics to get you in the mood-

• Lyndon Johnson & Hubert Humphrey were in the White House.
• Pope was Paul VI
• US population - 198,712,056
• US Budget-$157.46b, National Debt-$340.4b
• 1st Class stamp - $0.05
• Gas (avg) - $0.33 per gallon
• Movie ticket (avg) - $1.35

WORLD EVENTS

• Arab-Israeli Six Day War
• China explodes its first H-bomb
• US, USSR, UK sign Outer Space Treaty banning nuclear weapons in space
• 1st North Sea gas pumped in England
• Expo 67 opens in Montreal
• Queen Mary's last voyage
• Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran officially crowned
• Former Sec Defense McNamara becomes Presidenet of World Bank

• Marshall appointed first Black Supreme Court Justice
• Edward Brooke 1st Black Senator
• Race riots in NYC, Newark, Washington (DC), Buffalo, Detroit, Birmingham, Rochester, and 120 other cities.
• Fire in Apollo 1 kills thee astronauts aboard
• Congress creates PBS
• VietNam War protests Washington (DC), Chicago, Philadelphia, NY, Oakland
• Eugene McCarthy announces Presidential campaign
• 1st mayor of Washington DC swoen in
• 1st national convention of NOW
• Mohammed Ali refuses draft

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SCIENCE & HEALTH

• 1st successful heart transplant
• Pulsars and quarks discovered
• 1st cyronic preservation
• Mariner 5 launched
• LSD declared illegal (Federal)
• 1st Earth Day celebration
• Breathalyser introduced in England
• Torry Canyon runs aground
• 1st consumer microwave ovens offered for sale

• Elvis Presley married
• 1st colour TV broadcasts in England
• Super Bowl I
• Sesame Street 1st broadcast
• Movies 1st sold on video tape
• Twiggy
• Evel Knievel cleared 16 cars
• Monterey Pop Festival
• QE2 launched
• Rolling Stone and New York Magazine launched