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What happened in YOUR birthyear?

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  1. Gregory sagt:

    My Birth Year 1967

    January 1 – Canada begins a year-long celebration of the 100th anniversary of the British North America Act, 1867, featuring the Expo 67 World’s Fair.
    January 4 – The Doors’ self-titled debut album is released.
    January 6 – Vietnam War: USMC and ARVN troops launch Operation Deckhouse Five in the Mekong River Delta.
    January 12 – Dr. James Bedford becomes the first person to be cryonically preserved with the intent of future resuscitation.
    January 15 – Louis Leakey announces the discovery of pre-human fossils in Kenya; he names the species Kenyapitchecus africanus
    February 14 – Respect is recorded by Aretha Franklin (to be released in April).
    March 29 – A 13-day TV strike begins in the U.S.
    March 29 – The first French nuclear submarine, Le Redoutable, is launched.
    March 29 – The SEACOM telephone cable is inaugurated.
    April 4 – Martin Luther King, Jr. denounces the Vietnam War during a religious service in New York City.
    April 9 – The first Boeing 737 (a 100 series) takes its maiden flight.
    April 10 – The AFTRA strike is settled just in time for the 39th Academy Awards ceremony to be held, hosted by Bob Hope. Best Picture goes to A Man for All Seasons.
    April 27 – Montreal, Quebec, Expo 67, a World’s Fair to coincide with the Canadian Confederation centennial, officially opens with Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson igniting the Expo Flame in the Place des Nations
    May 1 – Elvis Presley and Priscilla Beaulieu are married in Las Vegas.
    May 1 – GO Transit, Canada’s first interregional public transit system, is established.
    May 2 – The Toronto Maple Leafs win the Stanley Cup. It was their last Stanley cup and last finals appearance to date. It would turn out to be the last game in the original six era. Six more teams would be added in the fall.
    May 12 I was born :) Ya Me :)
    May 22 – The Monkees release Headquarters, which is #1 on the album charts for one week, until the release of Sgt. Pepper by the Beatles.
    June 1 – The Beatles release Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, nicknamed “The Soundtrack of the Summer of Love”; it would be number one on the albums charts throughout the summer of 1967.
    June 2 – Protests in West Berlin against the arrival of the Shah of Iran turn into fights, during which young Benno Ohnesorg is killed by a police officer. His death results in the founding of the terrorist group Movement 2 June.
    June 14 – The People’s Republic of China tests its first hydrogen bomb
    June 25 – 400 million viewers watch Our World, the first live, international, satellite television production. It features the live debut of The Beatles’ song “All You Need is Love.”
    July 1 – Canada celebrates its first one hundred years of Confederation.
    July 1 – The first UK colour television broadcasts begin on BBC2. The first one is from the tennis championship at Wimbledon. A full colour service begins on BBC2 on December 2.
    July 4 – The British Parliament decriminalizes homosexuality.
    July 23 – 12th Street Riot/Detroit Race Riots: In Detroit, Michigan, one of the worst riots in United States history begins on 12th Street in the predominantly African American inner city: 43 are killed, 342 injured and 1,400 buildings burned.
    August 23 – Jimi Hendrix’s debut album Are You Experienced? is released in the United States.
    September 3 – H-Day in Sweden: At 5:00 a.m. local time, all traffic in the country switches from left-hand traffic pattern to right-hand traffic.
    September 18 – Love Is a Many Splendored Thing debuts on U.S. daytime television and is the first soap opera to deal with an interracial relationship. CBS censors find it too controversial and ask for it to be stopped, causing show creator Irna Phillips to quit.
    October 17 – The musical Hair opens off-Broadway. It moves to Broadway the following April.
    October 18 – Walt Disney’s 19th full-length animated feature The Jungle Book, the last animated film personally supervised by Disney, is released and becomes an enormous box-office and critical success. On a double bill with the film is the (now) much less well-known true-life adventure, Charlie the Lonesome Cougar.
    October 29 – The Montreal, Quebec Expo 67 closes, having received over 50 million attendees
    November 2 – Vietnam War: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson holds a secret meeting with a group of the nation’s most prestigious leaders (“the Wise Men”) and asks them to suggest ways to unite the American people behind the war effort. They conclude that the American people should be given more optimistic reports on the progress of the war.
    December 15 – The Silver Bridge over the Ohio River in Point Pleasant, West Virginia, collapses, killing 46 dead. It has been linked to the so-called Mothman mystery.
    Those are just a few of what happened the year I was born

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