Entertainment: Beatles' Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band
Writers include Gore Vidal, Ira Levin (Rosemary's Baby), Thornton Wilder, William Golding,
Tom Stoppard (Rosencranz and Guildenstern are Dead), Arthur Miller, Bertrand Russell
Films include "Belle de Jour"(Bunuel) "Bonnie and Clyde" "The Chelsea Girls" (Warhol)
"Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" (K Hepburn and S Tracy), "The Taming of the Shrew"
Medicine: Retin-A acne cream developed
Science: First successful heart transplant Quasars discovered, Pulsar source detected
Dr. Irving S Cooper develops cryosurgery to treat Parkinson Low temp irradiation of hydrogen iodine mixtures leads to reassessment of mechanism
Sagan (Margulis) hypothesizes chloroplasts originated as cyanobacteria and mitochondria as bacteria endosymbiants
Leakey finds Homo sapiens at 195,000 years old
Technology: First cordless phones used
Travel: Francis Chichester finishes solo voyage around world
Deaths: Robert Oppenheimer, Robert J Van de Graaff, Rene Magritte, Jayne Mansfield, GW Pabst, Carl Sandburg,
Langston Hughes, Margaret Kennedy, Vivien Leigh, Spencer Tracy, Nelson Eddy, Woody Guthrie,
Africa
Afars and Issas: Taken by French as Somaliland to 1977 (Later Djibouti)
Biafra: Declares self independent from Nigeria
Botswana: Independence
Burundi: Independence
Gambia: Independence
Kenya: Independence
Lesotho: Independence
Malawi: Independence
Nigeria: Biafran civil war brings famine to East Nigeria to 1970
Rwanda: Independence
Sierra Leone: Independence
South Africa: First successful heart transplant
Swaziland: Independence
Tanzania: Independence
Uganda: Kingdom of Toro reincorporated to 1993 Independence
Zambia: Independence
Americas
Anguilla: Independent
Bolivia: Military captures and kills Che Guevara
Brazil: Free market econimic boom leads to violent opposition Tropical rains and cloudbursts inundate east
Canada: National Library opens in Ottawa Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip arrive for centennial
De Gaulle makes "Free Quebec" speech
Asia
China: Cultural revolution prevints revisionism but causes disruption Detonation of hydrogen bomb Expo '67 in Montreal
East Pakistan: Smallpox
Hong Kong: Britain rejects Chinese ultimatum demanding pro-Communist Hong Kong newspapers – British chancery in Peking sacked and burned
5000 persons riot in Hong Kong over Vietnam war
India: Smallpox Earthquake
North Vietnam: Peace talks fail Hanoi attacked by US bombers Soviet Union and Britian pledge to make peace
Singapore: Mass panic with mean fearing "penis disappearance disease" - several die trying to prevent penises from retracting using hooks and strings
West Java: Smallpox
Europe
General: Mass anti-war protests EEC becomes EC (European Community)
France: President de Gaulle vetoes UK entry to EEC In Paris three exhibitions – Picasso Ingres and the treasures of Tutankhamen
Military launches its first nuclear submarine Death of Jacques Heim French couturier
Great Britain: Attack on the Pound and run on "sterling" Harold Wilson reduces British cabinet from 23 to 21 members
Singer Gerry Dorsey changes name to Engelbert Humperdinck Astronomers at Cambridge thought they detected space signals – pulsar
Twiggy the British model takes fashion world
Greece: King Constantine and family flee from Greece to Rome after failing to overthrow military government
Iceland: Volcano First flower blooms on Surtsey – Icelandic volcanic island formed in 1963
Italy: Podgorny makes visit to Italy meets Pope Paul VI
Poland: Lucjan Staniak serial killer from Poland convicted of murders – may have killed 20
Soviet Union: Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva arrives in US from SWI Russia launches Luna 13 toward moon
Soviet cosmonaut Vladimir M Komarov killed during reentry of Soyuz I when chute fails
Sweden: Sweden switches all roads from left to right on Sep 3 1967 at 5 pm
Switzerland: Seven new mesons discovered at Cern
West Germany: Foreign Minister Brandt visits US Ilse Koch the German "beast (witch) of Buchenwald" who collected tattoos found hanged in prison - suicide
Middle East
General: Nasser and Hussein sign mutual defense pact
Iran: Shah of Iran crowns self and wife Empress Farah at Teheran
Israel: 6 Days War ends with israel holding Sinai Peninsula, Jerusalem, and territories four times its size
Arab refugees begin returning to homes on West Bank
Pakistan: Smallpox
South Yemen: Renamed from Protectorate of South Arabia to 1970
Syria: Israeli forces use tanks against Syria in worsening border conflict
Israeli Mirage fighter planes shoot down six Syrian Air Force MIG-21s
Turkey: Earthquake Pope Paul VI makes "peace pilgrimage" to Istanbul
Yemen: Protectorate of South Arabia leaves British control and becomes People's Republic of Yemen
Culture: "Summer of Love" Lynda Bird Johnson (daughter) marries
Education: US Office of Education publishes on impersonal manipulation and opinion management
Mention of God banned in Elementary schools
Entertainment: Last Hollywood newsreal Public television (PBS) broadcasts Phil Donahue starts talk show
"Family Affair" reaches top television Debut of Carol Burnett show Mel Brooks' "The Producers" released on film
Start of Smothers Brothers show to 1969 Popular songs: "Respect" "Light My Fire" "Purple Haze" "A Day in the Life" (Beatles),
Finance: Fear gold supply insufficient - movement to stop outflow and revamp Bretton Woods
Floating dollar suggested
Law: 25th amendment (presidential succession) passed Senate confirms Thurgood Marshall as first member of the supreme court with African ancestry
Medicine: Dow Chemical increases experimentation on prisoners with dioxin - allowed by US Army - blisters result CIA tests possibility of spiking drinking water of FDA
Pregnant women injected with radioactive cortisol
Military: CIA continues behavior modification drugs
Science: Death of astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger B. Chaffee in training exercise aboard Apollo I
Sports: Mickey Mantle hits 500th home run Peggy Fleming wins world figure skating championship
Billie Jean King wins Women's tennis titles First SuperBowl held Mohammed Ali (Cassius Clay) refuses to be inducted into US armed forces and is indicted in Houston
Deaths: Henry R Luce publisher of Time, Life, and Fortune magazines
East
Massachusetts: Albert H de Salvo the "Boston Strangler" sentenced to life
New Jersey: Race riots in Newark Black Power conference in Newark
New York: Barbra Streisand sings in Central Park Anti-vietnam march led by Martin Luther King
700,000 march in NY in support of US soldiers fighting in Vietnam Teenager and six friends in New York ride every inch of subway system in 227 minutes
Washington DC: 50,000 demonstrate against Vietnam War at Lincoln Memorial
Midwest
Illinois: F4 tornado hits Belvidere Lake Point Tower in Chicago becomes tallest apartment building
Iowa: Four tornadoes hit
Michigan: Race riots in Detroit
Ohio: Race riots in Cleveland
South
Tennessee: Anti-evolution law repealed
Virginia: American Nazi Party leader GL Rockwell shot and killed in Arlington
West and Pacific
California: Stanford U produces synthetic DNA San Francisco protests against Vietnam
Researchers paralyze 64 inmates in California – some against their will