1967

1950–1980	UK [television]	Watch With Mother, a series for young children featuring favourite characters such as Andy Pandy, the Flowerpot Men, Rag, Tag, and Bobtail, and the Woodentops, is shown on British television.
1960–1969	UK [popular music]	The Beatles' song ‘She Loves You’ is the best-selling single of the 1960s in Britain. The Beatles are responsible for five out of the top six singles in Britain in the 1960s.
1967	UK [public health]	The National Health Service (Family Planning) Act permits local authorities in Britain to provide contraceptives and family planning advice.
1967	USA [ecology]	US scientists Syukuvo Manabe and Richard T Wetherald warn that the increase in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, produced by human activities, is causing a ‘greenhouse effect’, which will raise atmospheric temperatures and cause a rise in sea levels.
1967	UK, USA [clothing and fashion]	Hippie clothes, as sported at open-air rock festivals, influence mainstream fashion, with Afghan jackets, Paisley patterned fabric and beads all becoming popular.
1967	Colombia [fiction]	The Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez publishes his novel Cien años de soledad/One Hundred Years of Solitude.
1967	Egypt [fiction]	The Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz publishes his novel Miramar.
1967	UK [gay rights]	The Sexual Offences Act (affecting England and Wales) permits homosexual acts in private between consenting adults over the age of 21.
1967	UK [radio]	The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) replaces its Light, Home, and Third Programme radio services with four numbered stations.
1967	England [solo and chamber music]	The English composer Benjamin Britten completes his Cello Suite No. 2.
1967	UK [music]	The British rock group the Beatles releases Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, considered their most innovative album to date. They also release the singles ‘All You Need Is Love’ and ‘Hello Goodbye’.
1967	Germany [music]	The German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen completes his electronic work Hymnen/Hymns.
1967	USA [music]	Elvis Presley marries Priscilla Beaulieu in the USA.
1967	Japan [orchestral music]	The Japanese composer Toru Takemitsu completes his orchestral work November Steps.
1967	Poland [orchestral music]	The Polish composer Witold Lutoslawski completes his Symphony No. 2.
1967	Germany [plays]	The play Soldaten/Soldiers, by the German dramatist Rolf Hochhuth, is first performed in Berlin, Germany.
1967	USA [popular music]	The US rock group the Doors releases the single ‘Light My Fire’ and the album The Doors.
1967	USA [popular music]	The US rock group the Jimi Hendrix Experience releases the albums Are You Experienced? and Axis: Bold As Love, and the single ‘Purple Haze’.
1967	UK [popular music]	The British pop singer Sandie Shaw releases the single ‘Puppet on a String’, Britain's winning entry for the Eurovision Song Contest.
1967	UK [television]	On British television, a colour service officially starts on 2 December, and first-night programmes on BBC2 include Billy Smart's Circus. The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has been broadcasting trial transmissions since 1962, but disagreement over standardizing the colour system throughout Europe has delayed development.
1967	UK [television]	ITN's News at Ten, the first extended news programme to appear on a commercial channel, starts on British television.
1967	Denmark [taxation]	Denmark is the first country to introduce VAT (Value Added Tax) on retail products.
1967	Switzerland [technology]	Quartz watches are launched in the USA, costing from $550. They have been developed by a group of Swiss watch manufacturers.
1967	USA [technology]	Amana Refrigeration markets the first microwave oven for home use in the USA.
15 January 1967	USA [American football]	The first Super Bowl American football match is held (between the winners of the National Football League and the American Football League); the Green Bay Packers beat the Kansas City Chiefs 35–10 before 61,496 spectators in Los Angeles, California.
27 January 1967	USA [space exploration]	Three US astronauts, Gus Grissom, Edward White, and Roger B Chaffee, die in a fire during a countdown rehearsal on the Apollo 1 spacecraft at Cape Kennedy, Florida. They are the first human casualties of the US space programme.
18 February 1967	USA [births and deaths]	J Robert Oppenheimer, US theoretical physicist and director of the Los Alamos laboratory which built the first atomic bomb, dies in Princeton, New Jersey (62).
18 March 1967	UK [transport disasters]	The Liberian-registered 120,000 tonne tanker Torrey Canyon strikes a submerged reef runs aground on the Seven Stones Isles of Scilly, off the southwest coast of Britain, and spills 860,000 barrels (around 119,000 tonnes) of crude oil into the sea. It is the biggest oil spill to date.
17 April 1967	USA [space exploration]	The US spacecraft Surveyor 3 is launched and soft lands on the Moon where it conducts sampling experiments on the lunar soil. It is subsequently visited by astronauts from the Apollo 12 mission.
28 April 1967	USA [boxing]	The World Boxing Association strips Muhammad Ali (formerly Cassius Clay) of his world heavyweight title for refusing to be drafted into the US army.
16 May 1967	France, UK [diplomacy]	The French president Charles de Gaulle, in a press conference, virtually vetoes British entry into the European Economic Community (EEC).
27 May 1967	UK [popular music]	The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) bans the Beatles' single ‘A Day in the Life’, as it is seen to be encouraging drug-taking.
30 May 1967	Nigeria [revolution]	The secession from Nigeria of the province of Biafra, under Colonel Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, provokes civil war in Nigeria.
June 1967	USA [popular music]	The Summer of Love begins in San Francisco, California, with the Monterey Pop Festival. From this atmosphere emerge alternative lifestyles that are established particularly in San Francisco. Acts include the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, and Janis Joplin.
5 June 1967	Israel, Syria, Jordan, Egypt, Lebanon, Iraq [Six Day War (1967)]	The Six Day War breaks out between Israel and the Arab states of the United Arab Republic (UAR) Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, and Iraq. In pre-emptive air strikes Israel destroys over 300 enemy aircraft.
10 June 1967	Israel, USSR [Six Day War (1967)]	The Six Day War ends with Israeli victory, and the USSR breaks off diplomatic relations with Israel.
27 June 1967	UK [business and economics]	Barclays Bank opens the world's first automatic cash machine at Enfield in London, England.
30 June 1967	world [treaties]	Forty-six nations sign the Final Acts of the ‘Kennedy round’ of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT).
7 July 1967	USA [astronomy]	British astronomers Jocelyn Bell and Anthony Hewish, at the Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory, Cambridge, England, discover the first pulsar (announced in 1968).
13 July 1967	France [cycling]	The English cyclist Tommy Simpson collapses and dies during the Tour de France cycle race. After large traces of illegal stimulants are found in his body, the Fédération Internationale de Cyclisme Professional introduces new antidrug regulations, many of which are also adopted by other sports.
August 1967	USA [law and government]	In the face of continuing racial injustice and widespread urban rioting, the civil-rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr, exhorts his followers to inaugurate a massive campaign of nonviolent civil disobedience.
15 August 1967	UK [radio]	The British government introduces legislation outlawing pirate radio stations. Radio Caroline continues to broadcast.
3 September 1967	Sweden [transport]	Sweden changes to driving on the right.
20 September 1967	Nigeria, Dahomey [decolonization]	The mid-west of Nigeria proclaims itself independent as Dahomey (now Benin).
30 September 1967	UK [radio]	The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) launches a national pop music station, Radio 1. The first programme is The Breakfast Show, presented by Tony Blackburn, and the first record played is ‘Flowers in the Rain’ by the Move.
October 1967	Bolivia, Cuba, South America [births and deaths]	Che (Ernesto) Guevara, Cuban and South American communist guerrilla, is shot dead in Bolivia by the Bolivian army (39).
8 October 1967	England [births and deaths]	Clement Attlee, Earl Attlee, British prime minister 1945–51, a member of the Labour Party, dies in Westminster, London, England (84).
10 October 1967	UK [legislation]	The Road Safety Act introduces breathalyser tests in Britain to check the blood alcohol level of drivers.
18 October 1967	USSR [space exploration]	The Soviet spacecraft Venera 4 (launched 12 June) lands on Venus. The first soft landing on another planet, its instrument-laden capsule transmits information about Venus' atmosphere.
25 October 1967	UK [legislation]	The Abortion Bill is passed in Britain, permitting abortion on medical and psychological grounds.
November 1967	USA [magazines]	The first national US rock music magazine, Rolling Stone, is published by Jann Wenner in San Francisco, California.
8 November 1967	UK [radio]	The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) launches local radio stations. The first is Radio Leicester.
26 November 1967	UK, Aden, South Yemen [decolonization]	Aden becomes independent as the People's Republic of South Yemen, and the last British troops leave on 29 November.
3 December 1967	South Africa [surgery]	South African surgeon Christiaan Barnard performs the first heart transplant operation. The patient, Louis Washkansky, survives for 18 days.