1967 facts for kids

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Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	19th century – 20th century – 21st century
Decades:	1930s 1940s 1950s – 1960s – 1970s 1980s 1990s
Years:	1964 1965 1966 – 1967 – 1968 1969 1970

1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar.

Contents

Events
Births
Deaths
Nobel Prizes
Movies released
Popular songs
New Books
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Events

February 1 - The Loud House franchise by Mel Brooks.
February 2 – The American Basketball Association is formed.
February 15 – Chicago, a musical group forms
March 13 – Indira Gandhi becomes prime minister of India.
April 28 – Montreal hosts Expo '67.
May 1 – Elvis Presley married Priscilla Beaulieu.
June 5 – June 10 – The Six-Day War
November 30 – Pakistan Peoples Party is founded by Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto
December 3 – Dr. Christiaan Barnard transplanted the first heart.
The Summer of Love
Blue Öyster Cult forms.
Jethro Tull forms.

Births

February 10 – Laura Dern, American actress
February 20 – Kurt Cobain, rock musician (d. 1994)
March 17 – Debi Derryberry, American actress
June 19 – Mia Sara, American actress
June 20 – Nicole Kidman, American-Australian actress
July 23 - Philip Seymour Hoffman, American actor (d. 2014)
October 16 – Davina McCall, English television presenter
October 28 – Julia Roberts, American actress
November 7 – David Guetta, French DJ
November 16 – Lisa Bonet, American actress
November 22 – Boris Becker, tennis player
November 28 – Anna Nicole Smith, American actress (d. 2007)
December 17 – Gigi D'Agostino, Italian musician and DJ
December 19 – Criss Angel, American illusionist

Deaths

January 3 – Jack Ruby, killer of Lee Harvey Oswald
January 4 – Donald Campbell, waterspeed/landspeed record seeker.
April 19 – Konrad Adenauer, German statesman
July 8 – Fatimah Jinnah, Pakistani Mother of the Nation.
October 9 – Che Guevara, Argentinian Marxist revolutionary (b. 1928)
December 10 – Otis Redding, American singer

Nobel Prizes

Nobel Prize in Physics – Hans Albrecht Bethe, American physicist
Chemistry – Manfred Eigen, Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, George Porter
Medicine – Ragnar Granit, Haldan Keffer Hartline, George Wald
Literature – Miguel Angel Asturias, Guatemalan writer
Peace – not awarded

Movies released

Bonnie and Clyde
The Dirty Dozen
Fearless Vampire Killers
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
The Graduate
To Sir With Love
In the Heat of the Night

Popular songs

All You Need is Love – The Beatles
Daydream Believer – The Monkees
Groovin' – The Young Rascals
Happy Together – The Turtles
Hello Goodbye – The Beatles
I'm A Believer – The Monkees
Incense And Peppermints – Strawberry Alarm Clock
The Letter – The Box Tops
Light My Fire – The Doors
Ode to Billy Joe – Bobbie Gentry
Ooh Baby – Bo Diddley
Penny Lane – The Beatles
Respect – Aretha Franklin
Ruby Tuesday – The Rolling Stones
To Sir With Love – Lulu
Windy – The Association

New Books

003½: The Adventures of James Bond Junior – R.D. Mascott (Arthur Calder-Marshall)
The Arrangement – Elia Kazan
The Chosen – Chaim Potok
Christy – Catherine Marshall
The Confessions of Nat Turner – William Styron
The Crows of Pearblossom – Aldous Huxley
Death of a President – William Manchester
Down These Mean Streets – Piri Thomas
The Eighth Day – Thornton Wilder
The Exhibitionist – Henry Sutton
The Gabriel Hounds – Mary Stewart
Go to the Widow-Maker – James Jones
Ice – Anna Kavan
I Heard the Owl Call My Name – Margaret Craven
Jerusalem the Golden – Margaret Drabble
Killing Time – Thomas Berger
Miramar – Naguib Mahfouz
One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel García Márquez
Rosemary's Baby- Ira Levin
The Silent Cry- Oe Kenzaburo
Topaz – Leon Uris
Where Eagles Dare – Alistair MacLean
Wild Season – Allan W. Eckert

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