January February March April May June July August September October November December General 1967
1967 - General The Average Wage: £21.7s.6d
Muhammad Ali is stripped of his World Title and gets a 5 year sentence for draft evasion ( not served ) EXPO '67 held in Montreal, Canada, starring Richard Buckminster Fuller's geodesic dome Jimi Hendrix and The Who appear at the Monterey International Pop Festival Britain makes its second application to join the Common Market Steam mainline passenger
trains are used for the last time
Albert DeSalvo, the Boston Strangler, is sentenced to life imprisonment Microwave cookers are seen for the first time 3rd Jack Ruby, killer of Lee Harvey Oswald, dies aged 55 3rd Carl Wilson of The Beach Boys is indicted for draft evasion 4th Donald Campbell dies attempting to break the world water speed record at Coniston Water 12th Plans are announced for a new town - Milton Keynes 12th
Singer Charles Aznavour marries Swedish model Ulla Thorssel in Las Vegas. 14th The first 'Human Be-in' event is held at Golden Gate Park, San Francisco 18th Jeremy Thorpe succeeds Jo Grimond as leader of the Liberal Party 21st American actress Ann Sheridan dies of cancer aged 51 27th Three astronauts die in a fire on the launch pad at Cape Kennedy in Apollo 1 Girl drummer Honey Lantree leaves The Honeycombs to go solo as a cabaret act 3rd Legendary record producer Joe Meek commits suicide on the 8th anniversary of Buddy Holly's death 5th The Musicians Union bans 'Let's Spend The Night Together' from Eamonn Andrews TV show 5th Dirk Rambo, 25 year old twin brother of Dack, dies in a Hollywood fire 7th The Bee Gees return to the U.K. after 9 years in Australia 8th Pop duo Peter and Gordon split up 12th Dougal Haston and Mike Burke are the first Britons to climb the North face of The Matterhorn 12th Mick Jagger and Keith Richard are arrested for drug offences 13th Teenagers 'take over' Heathrow Airport trying to catch a glimpse of The Monkees 18th Nuclear scientist J.Robert Oppenheimer dies aged 62 22nd Pirate radio station Britain Radio closes down The 'star' grading for petrol is introduced 6th U.K. police begin using helicopters on a trial basis 6th American actor and singer Nelson Eddy dies of a stroke aged 65 7th
The first North Sea Gas is piped ashore at Easington, Co.Durham from the
West Sole field 18th The oil tanker 'Torrey Canyon' runs aground on Seven Stones reef off the coast of Lands End 29th President DeGaulle launches France's first nuclear submarine
Mrs Shirley Preston becomes the first woman to drive a London taxi The Cliff Richard fan club closes after 9 years although it still has 42,000 members 3rd Calder & Boyars is sent to trial for publishing the allegedly obscene 'Last Exit To Brooklyn' 9th The inquiry into the Apollo 1 disaster concludes that 'it was probably due to faulty wiring' 19th German statesman Konrad Adenauer dies
1st Ten men steal £700,000 in gold bars from a security van in the biggest ever bullion raid 1st Elvis Presley marries Priscilla Beaulieu 3rd The Walker Brothers split up to pursue solo careers 6th Three captured American pilots are displayed at the International Press Club in Hanoi 12th The Poet Laureate John Masefield dies 25th Glasgow Celtic become the first British team to win the European Cup, beating Internazionale 28th Francis Chichester completes his solo round the world voyage in Gypsy Moth IV 30th Actor Claude Rains dies
The Monterey pop festival takes place 1st
The Beatles' Sergeant Pepper album is released 10th American actor Spencer Tracy dies 17th The first Chinese H-bomb is detonated 23rd The fastest mile of the Sixties is run by American Jim Ryun in 3minutes 51.1 seconds 23rd John Entwistle of The Who marries Alison Wise 27th The world's first cash dispenser is opened at Barclays, Enfield 28th American actress Jayne Mansfield dies in a car crash near New Orleans 29th Heavyweight boxer Primo 'The Ambling Alp' Carnera dies aged 60 31st
Rolling Stones Keith Richard and Mick Jagger
are sentenced for drug offences
3rd The first 'News at Ten' is seen on television 8th Actress Vivien Leigh dies 16th Alec Rose sets off on his solo round the world voyage in 'Lively Lady' 16th A 'legalise pot' rally in Hyde Park is attended by over 5,000 people 21st Actor Basil Rathbone dies 28th Pirate radio station Radio 390 closes down 28th The British Steel Corporation is formed
The
'Festival of Flower Children' is held at Woburn Abbey
over the Bank Holiday 14th The Marine Broadcasting Act becomes law, spelling the end for pirate radio 18th The liner 'Queen Mary' is sold to Long Beach in California 20th The U.S. embassy in London is attacked by three men with automatic rifles 27th Brian Epstein, The Beatles' manager, aged 32, is found dead of a drink and drugs overdose 29th Ex-child star Shirley Temple Black announces that she is going to stand for Congress
The first open air show of hippie fashions is held in the Fulham Road 3rd Traffic switches to driving on the right in Sweden 20th The Cunard liner Queen Elizabeth II is launched at Clydebank shipyard 27th The liner Queen Mary makes her last official transatlantic voyage 30th Radio 1 is launched by the B.B.C. - also Radios 2, 3 and 4
Britain suffers the start of a foot and mouth epidemic Prince Charles starts at Trinity College, Cambridge 4th
Music legend Woody Guthrie dies 8th The first statutory breathalyser test is carried out 9th Ernesto 'Che' Guevara is killed in Bolivia 16th American singer Joan Baez is arrested at an anti-Vietnam war protest rally in California 25th The Abortion Bill is passed
BeeGee Robin Gibb is involved in the Hither Green train crash in which several people die 4th Actress June Thorburn, aged 36, is killed in a plane crash 8th Radio Leicester, the B.B.C.'s first local station, starts broadcasting 18th Harold Wilson's government devalues the pound by 14.3% 23rd The book 'Last Exit To Brooklyn' is found to be obscene by the High Court 28th All horse-racing is suspended due to the Foot and Mouth epidemic 30th The last British troops withdraw from Aden
4th Bert Lahr, best remembered as the cowardly lion in 'The Wizard Of Oz' dies aged 72 10th Otis Redding and 4 of the 5 Bar-Kays die in a light aeroplane crash at Lake Monoma 11th Supersonic airliner 'Concorde' is put on display for the first time in Toulouse, France 26th The Beatles' T.V. film 'Magical Mystery Tour' premieres 27th The last original 'Juke Box Jury' programme is televised
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