This was the year I was born. What about the rest of the world?

In January 3 airplanes disappear in the area of a so-called Bermuda triangle

January 3 - Jack Ruby, who shot Lee Harvey Oswald, dies of cancer in Parkland hospital in Dallas, Texas.

January 4 - British motorboat racer Donald Campbell dies in Coniston Lake during his water speed record attempt

January 8 - US forces in Vietnam begin Operation Cedar Falls, which is intended to drive Vietkong forces from the so-called Iron Triangle - encounter no heavy resistance. Operation takes 19 days.

January 10 - Dutch princess Margriet and Pieter van Vollenhoven married

January 11 - USA removes 50% toll for Swiss clocks.

January 11 - In Hessen, Germany, Karl Tausch writes a will in Czech - ”vse zene” ("everything to wife")

January 13 - Military coup in Togo under the leadership of Etienne Eyadema

January 14 - New York Times reports that US Army continues its germ warfare experiments.

January 14 - Large crowd of hippies gather together in Golden Gate Park; Timothy Leary announces "Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out"

January 15 - 462 Yale faculty members call for an end to the bombing of North Vietnam.

January 15 - S.B.Leakey announces that he had found prehuman fossils from Kenya - he gives them a name Kenyapitchecus Africanus

January 23 - Trial against Wilhelm Harster, former leader of German security police in occupied Netherlands. He is accused of murder of 82.856 Jews (including Anne Frank). He is eventually sentenced to 15 years in prison.

January 26 - Parliament of United Kingdom decides to nationalize 90% of British steel industry.

January 27 - Three US astronauts (Edward White, Virgil Grissom and Roger Chaffee) die in a fire during a training exercise.

January 27 - USA, Soviet Union and UK accept a treaty that bans placement of nuclear weapons in Earth orbit.

January 30 - 50.000 North Vietnamese launch a surprise attack against Saigon and 30 provincial capitals

February 2 - Kosygin visits UK

February 4 - Demonstrations before the Soviet Embassy in Beijing

February 5 - Lunar orbiter 3 launched

February 5 - General Anastasio Somoza Debayle becomes a president of Nicaragua.

February 7 - Chinese government announces that it can no longer guarantee safety of Soviet diplomats outside the Soviet Embassy building.

February 7 - Massive brush fires in South Tasmania - 62 dead

February 11 - Chinese army pacifies the situation in Beijing, defeating the Red Guards.

February 12 - British police raids the house of Keith Richards, member of Rolling Stones. Some rather wild rumors abound afterwards...

February 14 - King Constantine of Greece flees the country after his coup attempt fails

February 18 - J. Robert Oppenheimer dies in Princeton

February 20 - DDR gives their residents a citizenship separate from West Germany. BRD still consider all Germans as potential citizens

February 20 - Kurt Cobain is born

February 21 - In Vietnam, 240 helicopters sweep over Tay Ninh province, beginning Operation Junction City. Operation takes 72 days.

February 21 - Ford recalls 217.000 cars for faulty brakes and steering.

February 22 - First white gorilla found

February 26 - Soviet nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan, Semipalitinsk

February 28 - US Air Force begins to mine the rivers of North Vietnam.

February 28th - Stormy weather in Europe

March 1 - Brazilian police arrest Franc Paul Stangli, ex-xommander of Treblinka and Sobibor concentration camps

March 1 - Red Guards return to school

March 2-3 - US nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

March 3 - Grenada gains partial independence from United Kingdom

March 4 - The first North Sea gas pumped ashore at Easington Co Durham

March 5 -- Mohammed Mossadegh dies

March 6-7 - Jimmy Hoffa is jailed in Lewisburg Federal Prison - sentence is eight years due to attempted bribery of jury

March 6-9 - Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva defects to USA by US Delhi Embassy.

March 9 - Kennedy's body is moved from a temporary grave to a permanent memorial site at Arlington National Cemetery

March 12 - Indonesian State Assembly takes all presidential powers from Akhmed Sukarno and names Bemusu Suharto as acting president.

March 13 - Indira Gandhi becomes chairman of the Congress Party in India and the prime minister

March 18 - Supertanker Torey Canyon runs aground off Lands End, English Channel. March 21 it catches fire and March 30th RAF sinks it to prevent worse oil catastrophe.

March 21 - Military coup in Sierra Leone

March 21st - Charles Manson released on parole from Terminal Island prison in California (years before he founds his "family")

March 23 - Martin Luther King calls Vietnam War the biggest obstacle to the civil rights movement.

March 24 - Military coup in Sierra Leone

March 26 - Pope Paul VI publishes encyclical Populorum progressio

March 29 - TV strike begins in USA and lasts for 13 days

March 29 - France launches its first nuclear submarine

March 31 - US president Johnson signs a Consular Treaty with Soviet Union

April 7 - Clashes between Syrian and Israeli border troops

April 9 - First Boeing 737

April 13 - Rolling Stones concert in Warsaw - the first time behind the Iron Curtain. Riot police has its hands full.

April 14-15 - Large demonstrations againts the Vietnam War in New York City and San Francisco.

April 17-20 - Blizzards in Southern Alberta

April 19 - Konrad Adenauer dies.

April 20 - Surveyor 3 probe lands on the Moon

April 21 - Military Junta of colonel Georgi Papadopoulos and general Patakos takes over in Greece. King Constantine II flees.

April 23 - Soviet cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov is killed during the landing of Soyuz 1 - first person to die during spacelight

April 24 - American attacks on North Vietnam's airfields begin.

April 25 - Britain gives Swaziland internal self-gocernment

April 27 - Prince Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands is born.

April 27-29 - Second blizzard in Southern Alberta.

April 28th - Boxer Mohammed Ali refuses military service and May 9th both WBA and WBC strip him of his world champion title. In June 25th, he is sentenced to five years in prison for draft evasion.

April 28th - *Montreal hosts Expo '67 to coincide with the centennial of Canadian Confederation.

April 30 - Moscow's 537m-tall TV tower is finished

In May, air battles rage in the skies over Hanoi and Haiphong. American pilots shoot down 26 North Vietnamese jets.
In late May, in the Central Highlands of South Vietnam, Americans intercept North Vietnamese Army units moving in from Cambodia. Nine days of continuous battles.

May 1 - Elvis Presley marries Priscilla Beaulieu at the Aladdin Hotel in Las Vegas.

May 2 - Harold Wilson announces that Britain has decided to apply for EEC membership.

May 3 - Big gold robbery in London.

May 3 - Black students take over the finance building in Northeastern University

May 4 - Lunar Orbiter 4 launched.

May 6 - Zakir Husain is the first muslim to become president of India.

May 6 - 400 students seize the administration building at Cheyney State College, Pensylvania

May 10 - The Stockholm Vietnam Tribunal condemns US aggression in Vietnam and Cambodia

May 11 - Britain, Denmark and Ireland apply for EEC membership

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 18th. Syria mobilizes against Israel.

May 18 - Tennessee Governor Ellington repeals the "Monkey Law", upheld in the 1925 Scopes Trial.

May 18 - Mexican schoolteacher Lucio Cabanas begins a guerilla campaign in Atoyac de Alvarez, west of Acapulco in the state of Guerrero. State retaliation is severe.

May 19 - Yuri Andropov becomes the chief of KGB

May 19 - International Outer Space Treaty ratified by US, UK and Soviet Union

May 22 - Fire in L'Innovation department store in Brüssels - 322 dead.

May 23 - Nasser announces that the Akaba Bay is closed for Isreal-bound traffic. Strait of Tiran is also closed, blockading Israel's southern port of Eilat.

May 28 - Vivien Leigh is diagnosed with both-lung tuberculosis infection.

May 28 - Sir Francis Chichester returns to Plymouth after 119-day circumnavigation (knighted July 7th)

May 30 - Biafra, in Eastern Nigeria, announces independence, against the wishes of Nigeria's government.

June 1 - Moshe Dayan becomes Israel's Secretary of Defense.

June 2 - Shah of Iran visits West Germany. The visit incites left-wing student demonstrations. Overzealous riot police shoots student Benno Ohnesorg - left wing radicals gain a martyr.

June 2 - Race riots in Roxbury, Boston

June 4 - Plane crashes in to Stockport town center - 72 dead

June 5 - Egypt closes the Suez Canal by sinking ships into it.

June 5-10 - Six Day War; Isreal conquers West Bank, rest of Jerusalem (June 28), Gaza strip, and occupies the hills of Golan and Sinai.

June 8 - Israeli warplanes attack US intelligence-gathering ship USS Liberty in Mediterranean. 34 crewmen killed, 171 wounded. Israel later claimed they took the vessel to be Egyptian (various parties still do not believe it)

June 10 - Soviet Union severs diplomatic relations to Israel.

June 10 - Spencer Tracy dies of lung cancer (due to smoking) and cardiac failure.

June 10 - Margarethe, crown princess of Denmark, marries French count Henri de Laborde de Monpezat

June 11 - Race riots in Tampa, Florida. National Guard gets involved.

June 12 - US Supreme Court declares state lawsthat prohibit interracial marriages, illegal

June 14 - Mariner 5 space probe launched

June 17 - China announces a successfull hydrogen bomb test.

June 22nd - Judy Garland dies - allegedly on drug overdose

June 24 - Pope Paul VI publishes encyclical Sacerdotalis coelibatus (priestly celibacy)

June 26 - Pope ordinates 276 new cardinals (one of them the archbishop of Krakow, Karol Wojtyla)

June 27 - Race riot in Buffalo, New York - 400 arrested

June 27 - First automatic cash machine (voucher-based) is installed in the office of the Barclay's Bank in Enfield, England

June 28 - Israel declares Jerusalem reunified under its sovereignty

June 29th - Jayne Mansfield dies in a car accident (but is not decapitated)

June 29th - Rollings Stones members jailed for drug possession

June 30 - Moise Tsombe, former prime minister of Kongo, is kidnapped to Algeria. In July 21st, Algerian supreme court decides to extradite him to Congo

July - 6.7 Richter scale earthquake in Venezuela. 300 dead, 4000 injured.

July 1 - First colour TV transmission in Britain

July 3 - A military rebellion lead by a Belgian mercenary Jean Schramme begins in Katanga, Congo. It is directed against the central government of Congo, lead by Joseph Mobutu.

July 4 - British parliament decriminalizes homosexuality

July 4 - Freedom of Information Act in USA

July 6 - Train accident in DDR - 94 dead.

July 6 - Nigerian federal troops attack Biafra - Biafran war begins.

July 7, Friday - Vivien Leigh is found dead in her home

July 7 - Austrian army sends troops to Italian border to protect it from terrorist activities

July 13 - Greek military government deprives 480 Greeks of citizenship - one of them Melina Mercouri.

July 12-16 - Newark race riots - 26-27 dead in 4 days, 1500 injured and over 1000 arrested

July 13th - In Britain, Public Records Act - records now closed for only 30 years.

July 15th - Detroit race riots - 31 dead

July 16 - Prison riot in Jay, Florida - 37 dead

July 17 - Race riots in Cairo, Illinois

July 17 - British defense minister Dennis Healey announces a decision to pull out British troops from Singapore and Malaysia.

July 18 - Humberto Castelo Branco, ex-president of Brazil, dies in a plane accident near Fortaleza.

July 18 - Withdraval from East of Suez in mid-70's announced

July 19 - Race riots in Durham, North Carolina

July 20 - Race riots in Mephis, Tennessee

July 23-30 - Detroit race riots erupt again after a police raid in an illegal bar. In the 3rd day army troops are brought in. 45 dead, 7000 arrested, 1300 buildings destroyed, 2000 businesses looted.

July 24 - in the beginning of his visit to Canada, De Gaulle supports Quebec's separation attempts, angering Canadian government - he has to leave prematurely at 26th

July 27 - US President Johnson appoints the Kerner Commission to assess the causes of racial violence

July 29 - Explosion and fire in U.S. navy carrier Forrestall in Tonkin bay - 134 dead

In August, record-breaking hails and floods in Finland

August 1st - Race riots in USA spread to Washington DC

August 3 - US president Johnson announced plans to send 45,000 more troops to Vietnam

August 7th - General strike in the old quarter of Jerusalem protests Israel's unification of the city.

August 8th - ASEAN formed. Original signatories Indonesia,Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines and Thailand.

August 15th - Rene Magritte dies.

August 15th - British labour Government bans pirate radio stations

August 17th - Chinese demonstrators attack Soviet embassy in Beijing

August 19th - West Germany receives 36 East German prisoners it has "purchased" through the border posts of Herleshausen and Wartha.

August 19 - Hugo Gernsback dies

August 21st - Truce in Congo

August 21st - China announces that it has shot down American planes violating its airspace.

August 25th - Nigeria begins a massive offensive against Biafra

August 25th - Leader of American Nazi Party, George Lincoln Rockwell, is shot dead.

August 29th - Brian Epstein, the original manager for Beatles, dies of overdose of barbiturates - ruled an accident.

August 30 - US Supreme court confirms the appointment of Thurgood Marshall to US Supreme Court

Aug 31 - Haydee Tamara Bunke Bider (Tania the Guerrilla) is killed in a fight against Bolivian soldiers.

September 1st - Ilse Koch, also called the Bitch of Buchenwald, commits suicide in the Bavarian prison of Aichach. She had been imprisoned for murder of concentration camp inmates from 1947.

September 2 - Paddy Roy Bates claims Roughs Towers and declares Principality of Sealand

September 3 - Sweden switches to right-hand traffic. At midnight, couple of thousand drivers go to "change a track".

September 3 - In Vietnam, Nguyen Van Thieu and his allies claim they have won the election.

September 6 - De Gaulle visits Poland.

September 10 - In Gibraltar, only 44 out of 12.182 voters support union with Spain

September 17 - Riot in a football match in Kaysei, Turkey - 44 dead, about 600 injured.

September 20 - Passenger liner Queen Elizabeth II launched.

September 23 - Soviet Union signs a pact to aid North Vietnam.

September 26 - North Korea rejects US peace proposal

September 26 - Regis Debray, a French journalist, is accused of participation of anti-government guerilla activities in Bolivia - he had left Guevara's guerilla group in April - in November 17 he is sentenced for 30 years in prison.

September 27 - Feliks Feliksovits Yusupov, who had Rasputin killed, dies in Paris

September 30 - BBC Radio 1 launched

October 2nd - Thurgood Marshall is sworn in as he first black member of the U.S. Supreme Court

October 3rd - The X-15 research aircraft establishes a speed record of Mach 6.7

October 5th - Introduction of majority verdicts in English courts.

October 8th- Clement Attlee, former British prime minister, dies

October 8th - Che Guevara is captured in Bolivia - October 9th he is executed. Accounts differ somewhat.

October 17th - Pu Yi, the last emperor of China, dies in Beijing in the age of 61.

October 17 - Hair hippie musical premieres on Broadway

October 18th - British pound is devalued, despite of continued denials beforehand. Support of the Labour government decreases.

October 18th - Soviet probe Venera 4 lands on Venus.

October 19 - Mariner 5 probe flies by Venus.

October 21st - Ten of thousands of Vietnam War protesters march in Washington

October 21 - Egyptian surface-to-surface missile sinks the Israeli destroyer Eilat, killing 47 Israeli sailors. Israel retaliates by shelling Egyptian refineries along the Suez Canal.

October 25 - Abortion bill passes in British parliament.

October 26 - Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi is crowned officially in Iran.

October 26 - John McCain, US Navy pilot (and future US senator) is shot down over North Vietnam and captured.

October 26 - Shah of Iran crowns himself

October 27 - De Gaulle vetos British entry into EEC - again

October 27 - 4 people from Baltimore USA pour blood on selective service records

October 30 - British troops and Chinese demonstrators clash in the border of China and Hong Kong

In November, Vatican declares that a woman with a mini-skirt resembles an ape. As an alternative, a trouser suit becomes popular

November 4 - Congolese army takes the rebel HQ in Bukavu and drives the rebels to Rwanda

November 5 - Military coup in Yemen

November 6 - Rhodesian parliament passes pro-Apartheid laws.

November 9 - First launch of Saturn V, Apollo 4 mission

November 17 - Surveyor 6 flies onthe moon for 6 seconds

November 22 - The U.N. Security Council approves Resolution 242. It calls Israel to withdraw from territories captured during the Six-Day War

November 27 - De Gaulle vetos British entry into EEC again

November 28 - First pulsar detected

November 28 - Aden gains indepedence from Britain

November 30 - Last British troops leave Aden. The country becomes the People's Republic of Yemen - purge of British allies begins.

December 1 - So-called Russell Tribunal in Sweden condemns US for a mass murder in Vietnam.

December 3 -Christiaan Barnaard makes the first heart transplant in Capetown, South Africa, with his 30-person team.

December 4, 1850 hours - Volcano erupts on the island of Deception in Antartica

December 5 - Benjamin Spock and Timothy Leary arrested for protesting against the Vietnam War

December 9 - Ceaucescu becomes the Chairman of the Romanian State Council - that is, de-facto dictator of Romania

December 11 - Concorde unveiled in Toulouse, France

December 12 - Finland celebrates 50 years of independence

December 13 - King Constantine of Creece attempts to restore his reign with a radio speech but does not receive much support. December 14th he moves to Rome.

December 15 - Silver Bridge over Ohio River in Point Pleasant, West Virginia, collapses - 46 dead. Conspiracy theorists somehow link it to so-called Mothman mystery.

December 17 - Harold Holt, Australian prime minister, disappears when swimming 100 km off Melbourne.

December 19 - Professor John Archibald Wheeler use the term Black Hole for the first time

December 21 - Louis Washansky, the first heart transplant donor, dies

December 23rd - President Johnson meets the Pope.

December 26th - I was born

December 26th - BBC broadcasts the Beatles film The Magical Mystery Tour to a "mixed response"

Winter freeze record in Finland is -37°C ( -34.6°F)

No Nobel Peace Prize was selected for this year

Britain abolishes capital punishment

The North American Soccer League is found

Patterson-Gimlin film of a purported bigfoot.

LSD declared a Schedule I drug by the United States government due to its connection to hippie counterculture.

Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger star in the film In the Heat of the Night

Lost city discovered on the island of Thera, buried under volcanic debris.

Gabriel Carcia Marquez - One Hundred Years of Solitude

Music Days of Savonlinna are a forerunner of Opera Festival of Savonlinna

Finnish mark is devalued 32%

Guinness Book of Records is published in Danish, Japanese, Norwegian and Spanish

Charles P.Hall invents a water bed

Movie Bonnie and Clyde starts a "gangster fashion"

First cryogenic corpsicles are placed in ice

Amana company begins to sell microwave ovens for domestic use - not very popular

Cassette recorders begin to sell wordwide

Floods of Arno River in Florence

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Finnish police receives 58 new patrol cars - the project is mainly funded by the Finnish commercial TV channel MTV

Citizens of New South Wales in Australia vote for the equality of aboriginals

U.S. Army begins to publish its casualty figures from Vietnam

209 pounds of heroin is captured in Georgia

Desmond Morris - The Naked Ape

Peacekeepers of New Zealand leave Cyprus

Floods in Portugal - 250 dead

Military junta of Nguyen Van Thieun takes over in South Vietnam and, with the aid of CIA, systematically rounds up suspected Vietkong supporters.

Lech Walesa goes to work in Gdansk shipyards

Finnish parliament degrees that the political parties in the house of representatives are given monetary support based of their representation.

French gangster Mesrine kills a group of pimps of one of his mistresses and buries them in a forest

Binjamin Netanjahu joins Israeli army

Aboriginals of Australia are finally given a citizenship

Strongman mine explosion kills 19 in New Zealand

Herbert von Karajan founds Salzburg Easter Festival