Top News Stories from 1967
World Events
- Biafra secedes from Nigeria (May).
- Israeli and Arab forces battle; Six-Day War ends with Israel occupying Sinai Peninsula, Golan Heights, Gaza Strip and West Bank (June 5). Background: Arab-Israeli Wars
- Right-wing military coup deposes King Constantine II of Greece.
- Communist China announces explosion of its first hydrogen bomb (June 17).
- The US and USSR propose a nuclear nonproliferation treaty. Background: nuclear disarmament
U.S. Events
U.S. Statistics
President:
Lyndon B. Johnson
Vice President:
Hubert H. Humphrey
Population:
198,712,056
Life expectancy:
70.5 years
Violent Crime Rate (per 1,000):
29.9
Property Crime Rate (per 1,000)
27.4
Homicide Rate (per 100,000):
6.8
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- Racial violence in Detroit; 7,000 National Guardsmen aid police after night of rioting. Similar outbreaks in New York City's Spanish Harlem, Rochester, N.Y., Birmingham, Ala., and New Britain, Conn. (July 23).
- Thurgood Marshall sworn in as first black US Supreme Court justice (Oct. 2).
- Astronauts Col. Virgil I. Grissom, Col. Edward White II, and Lt. Cmdr. Roger B. Chaffee killed in fire during test launch (Jan. 27).
Economics
US GDP (1998 dollars):
$833.6 billion
Federal spending:
$157.46 billion
Federal debt
$340.4 billion
Median Household Income(current dollars):
$7,143 billion
Consumer Price Index:
$33.4
Unemployment:
3.8%
Cost of a first-class stamp:
$0.05
Sports
Super Bowl
Green Bay d. Kansas CityWorld Series
St. Louis Cardinals d. Boston Red Sox (4-3)NBA Championship
Philadelphia 76ers d. SF WarriorsStanley Cup
Toronto d. MontrealWimbledon
Women: Billie Jean King d. A. Jones (6-3 6-4)Men: John Newcombe d. W. Bungert (6-3 6-1 6-1)
Kentucky Derby Champion
Proud ClarionNCAA Basketball Championship
UCLA d. DaytonNCAA Football Champions
USC (10-1-0)Entertainment
Entertainment Awards
Pulitzer Prizes
Fiction:
The Fixer, Bernard Malamud
Music:
Quartet No. 3, Leon Kirchner
Drama:
A Delicate Balance, Edward Albee
Academy Award, Best Picture:
A Man for All Seasons, Fred Zinnemann, producer (Columbia)
Nobel Prize for Literature:
Miguel Angel Asturias (Guatemala)
Record of the Year:
"Strangers in the Night," Frank Sinatra
Album of the Year:
Sinatra: A Man and His Music, Frank Sinatra (Reprise)
Song of the Year:
"Michelle," John Lennon and Paul McCartney, songwriters
Miss America:
Jane Anne Jayroe (OK)
More Entertainment Awards...
Events
- Congress creates PBS.
- Rolling Stone and New York Magazine debut, spawning the popularity of special-interest and regional magazines.
Movies
- The Graduate, Bonnie and Clyde, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?, In the Heat of the Night, Cool Hand Luke
Music
- The Beatles, Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Books
- Donald Barthelme, Snow White
- Elizabeth Bishop, Selected Poems
- Robert Bly, The Light Around the World
- Richard Brautigan, Trout Fishing in America
- Stanley Elkin, A Bad Man
- W. S. Merwin, Lice
- Marianne Moore, Complete Poems
- Joyce Carol Oates, A Garden of Earthly Delights
- William Styron, The Confessions of Nat Turner
Science
Nobel Prizes in Science
Chemistry:
Manfred Eigen (Germany), Ronald G. W. Norrish, and George Porter (both UK), for work in high-speed chemical reactions
Physics:
Hans A. Bethe (US), for work on energy production of stars
Physiology or Medicine:
Haldan K. Hartline, George Wald, and Ragnar Granit (all US), for work on human eye
More Nobel Prizes in 1998...
- Antony Hewish and Jocelyn Bell Burnel (UK) discover pulsars. Background: Astronomy
- Jerome Friedman, Henry Kendall, Richard Taylor (US) discover protons and neutrons to be composed of even smaller particles called quarks.
- The MIRV (Multiple Indepenently Targetable Reetry Vehicle), which allows one missile to carry several nuclear warheads, is developed. Background: nuclear weapons
- Dr. Christiaan N. Barnard and team of South African surgeons perform world's first successful human heart transplant (Dec. 3). The patient dies 18 days later.
Death
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