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1967 - a year of many happenings

World Events

• 1967 found Israeli and Arab forces battle; Six-Day War ends with Israel occupying Sinai Peninsula, Golan Heights, Gaza Strip and West Bank.
• Right-wing military coup deposes King Constantine II of Greece.
• Communist China announces explosion of its first hydrogen bomb.
• The US and USSR propose a nuclear nonproliferation treaty.
  

US Events

• Three Apollo astronauts, Col. Virgil I. Grissom, Col. Edward White II, and Lt. Cmdr. Roger B. Chaffee are killed in spacecraft fire during simulated launch.
• USS Liberty is accidently attacked by Israeli military forces on 8 June.
• Racial violence in Detroit; 7,000 National Guardsmen aid police after night of rioting. Similar outbreaks occur in New York City's Spanish Harlem, Rochester, N.Y., Birmingham, Ala., and New Britain, Conn.
• Thurgood Marshall sworn in as first black US Supreme Court justice .
• Earth Day is celebrated for the first time.
• March on the Pentagon - 22 October - Protesters burning Draft Cards

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
Consumer Price Index: 33.4
Unemployment: 3.8%
Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.05

Sports

• First Super Bowl - 15 January 1967
  Green Bay d. Kansas City (35-10)

• World Series
  St. Louis Cardinals d. Boston Red Sox (4-3)

• NBA Championship
  Philadelphia 76ers d. SF Warriors (4-2)

• Stanley Cup
  Toronto d. Montreal (4-2)

• Wimbledon
  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 Clarion

• NCAA Football Championship
  UCLA d. Dayton (79-64)

• NCAA Basketball Championship
  USC (10-1-0)

Entertainment

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

Entertainment Awards

Pulitzer Prizes
• Fiction The Fixer, Bernard Malamud
• Music Quartet No. 3, Leon Kirchner
• Drama A Delicate Balance, Edward Albee