Events from the year 1967 in the United States.
Incumbents
Federal government President: Lyndon B. Johnson (D-Texas) Vice President: Hubert Humphrey (D-Minnesota) Chief Justice: Earl Warren (California) Speaker of the House of Representatives: John William McCormack (D-Massachusetts) Senate Majority Leader: Mike Mansfield (D-Montana) Congress: 89th (until January 3), 90th (starting January 3)
State governments Governors and lieutenant governors Governors
Lieutenant governors
Events
January
January 2 – Ronald Reagan, past movie actor and future president of the U.S., is inaugurated governor of California. January 4 – The Doors' self-titled debut album is released. January 6 – Vietnam War: United States Marine Corps and Army of the Republic of Vietnam troops launch Operation Deckhouse Five in the Mekong Delta. January 8 – Vietnam War: Operation Cedar Falls starts. January 11 – Segregationist Lester Maddox is sworn in as Governor of Georgia. January 12 – Dr. James Bedford becomes the first person to be cryonically preserved with the intent of future resuscitation. January 14 The New York Times reports that the U.S. Army is conducting secret germ warfare experiments. The Human Be-In takes place in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco; the event sets the stage for the Summer of Love. January 15 – Super Bowl I: The Green Bay Packers defeat the Kansas City Chiefs 35–10 in football at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. January 18 – Albert DeSalvo is convicted of numerous crimes and sentenced to life in prison. January 27 Apollo 1: Astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee are killed when fire breaks out in their Apollo spacecraft during a launch pad test. The United States, Soviet Union and the United Kingdom sign the Outer Space Treaty. January 28 – The Mantra-Rock Dance, called the "ultimate high" of the hippie era, takes place in San Francisco, featuring Swami Bhaktivedanta, Janis Joplin, The Grateful Dead and Allen Ginsberg.
February February 2 – The American Basketball Association is formed. February 5 – NASA launches Lunar Orbiter 3. February 10 – The Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution (presidential succession and disability) is ratified. February 13 – American researchers discover the Madrid Codices by Leonardo da Vinci in the National Library of Spain.The Controversial Replica of Leonardo da Vinci's Adding Machine February 14 – "Respect" is recorded by Aretha Franklin (to be released in April). February 18 – New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison claims he will solve the John F. Kennedy assassination, and that a conspiracy was planned in New Orleans. February 23 – The Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution is enacted, outlining rules of succession of the presidency. February 25 – The Human Be-In#2 is held in Griffith Park, Los Angeles, CA.
March March 7 – Jimmy Hoffa begins his 8-year sentence for attempting to bribe a jury. March 9 – Joseph Stalin's daughter, Svetlana Alliluyeva, defects to the USA via the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi. March 14 – The body of President John F. Kennedy is moved to a permanent burial place at Arlington National Cemetery. March 26 – 10,000 gather for the Central Park be-in. March 29 – 13-day strike by American Federation of Television and Radio Artists television staff announcers and newsroom staff begins. March 31 – President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Consular Treaty.
April April 1 – The Department of Transportation begins operation. The Federal Aviation Administration is folded into the DOT. 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 at Santa Monica Civic Auditorium. Fred Zinnemann's A Man for All Seasons wins the most awards with six, including Best Picture and Zinnemann's second Best Director award (his first since 1953). Mike Nichols' Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? receives 13 nominations. April 12 – The Ahmanson Theatre opens in Los Angeles. April 14 – In San Francisco, 10,000 march against the Vietnam War. April 15 – Large demonstrations are held against the Vietnam War in New York City and San Francisco. April 20 – The Surveyor 3 probe lands on the Moon. April 21 – An outbreak of tornadoes strikes the upper Midwest section of the United States (in particular the Chicago area, including the suburbs of Belvidere and Oak Lawn, Illinois, where 33 people are killed and 500 injured). April 22 – The McDonald's fast food restaurant chain introduces the Big Mac hamburger, in Uniontown, Pennsylvania. April 24 – 18-year-old S. E. Hinton's coming-of-age novel The Outsiders is published. April 28 In Houston, boxer Muhammad Ali refuses military service. Expo 67 opens to the public in Montreal, with over 310,000 people attending. Al Carter from Chicago is the first visitor, as noted by Expo officials. Aerospace manufacturer McDonnell Douglas is formed through a merger of McDonnell Aircraft and Douglas Aircraft.
May May – National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam established. May 1 Elvis Presley and Priscilla Beaulieu are married in Las Vegas. The United Network, an attempted fourth television network founded by Daniel H. Overmyer, launches. It will shut down a month later. May 2 – Armed members of the Black Panther Party enter the California state capital to protest a bill that would restrict the carrying of arms in public. May 4 – Lunar Orbiter 4 is launched. May 6 – Four hundred students seize the administration building at Cheney State College, later Cheyney University of Pennsylvania, the oldest institute for higher education for African Americans. May 18 Tennessee Governor Ellington repeals the "Monkey Law" (officially the Butler Act, as tested in the Scopes Trial). NASA announces the crew for the Apollo 7 space mission (first crewed Apollo flight): Walter M. Schirra Jr., Donn F. Eisele and R. Walter Cunningham. May 19 – The Soviet Union ratifies a treaty with the United States and the United Kingdom, banning nuclear weapons from outer space. May 25 – The Twenty-fifth Amendment is added to the Constitution. May 29 – Afroyim v. Rusk, a landmark decision of the Supreme Court of the United States, rules that citizens of the United States may not be deprived of their citizenship involuntarily..
June June 2 Luis Monge is executed in Colorado's gas chamber, in the last pre-Furman execution in the U.S. The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is released in the U.S. June 5 – Murderer Richard Speck is sentenced to death in the electric chair for killing eight student nurses in Chicago (subsequently commuted to life imprisonment). June 7 – Two Moby Grape members are arrested for contributing to the delinquency of minors. June 8 – Six-Day War: USS Liberty incident – Israeli fighter jets and Israeli warships fire at the USS Liberty off Gaza, killing 34 and wounding 171. June 11 – A race riot occurs in Tampa, Florida after the shooting death of Martin Chambers by police while allegedly robbing a camera store. The unrest lasts until June 15. June 12 – Loving v. Virginia: The United States Supreme Court declares all U.S. state laws prohibiting interracial marriage to be unconstitutional. June 13 – Solicitor General Thurgood Marshall is nominated as the first African American justice of the United States Supreme Court. June 14 – Mariner program: Mariner 5 is launched toward Venus. June 14–15 – Glenn Gould records Prokofiev's Seventh Piano Sonata, Op. 83, in New York City (his only recording of a Prokofiev composition). June 16 – The Monterey Pop Festival begins and is held for 3 days. June 23 – Cold War: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson meets with Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin in Glassboro, New Jersey, for the 3-day Glassboro Summit Conference. Johnson travels to Los Angeles for a dinner at the Century Plaza Hotel where earlier in the day thousands of war protesters clashed with L.A. police. June 26 – The Buffalo Race Riot begins, lasting until July 1; leads to 200 arrests. June 29 – Actress Jayne Mansfield and two others die in an automobile crash near Slidell, Louisiana. Mansfield's daughter, Mariska Hargitay, is asleep in the back seat at the time of the crash and survives.
July July 1 – American Samoa's first constitution becomes effective. July 2 – Walt Disney's Carousel of Progress opens at Disneyland. July 5 – Freedom of Information Act becomes effective. July 12 – After the arrest of an African-American cab driver for allegedly illegally driving around a police car and gunning it down the road, rioting breaks out in Newark, New Jersey, and continues for five days. July 14 – Near Newark, New Jersey, the Plainfield riots also occur. July 16 – A prison riot in Jay, Florida leaves 37 dead. July 18 – The United Kingdom announces the closing of its military bases in Malaysia and Singapore. Australia and the U.S. disapprove. July 19 – A race riot breaks out in the North Side of Minneapolis on Plymouth Street during the Minneapolis Aquatennial Parade. Businesses are vandalized and fires break out in the area, although the disturbance is quelled within hours. However, the next day, a shooting sets off another incident in the same area that leads to 18 fires, 36 arrests, 3 shootings, 2 dozen people injured, and damages totaling $4.2 million. There will be two more such incidents in the following two weeks. July 21 – The town of Winneconne, Wisconsin, announces secession from the United States because it is not included in the official maps and declares war. Secession is repealed the next day. July 23 – Long, hot summer of 1967: 12th Street Riot: In Detroit, 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. Riots break out in Rochester, New York and last until July 24. 2 people would die and $60,000 worth of damage would be cause. July 29 – An explosion and fire aboard the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier in the Gulf of Tonkin leaves 134 dead. July 30 Joni Eareckson breaks her neck in a diving accident, becoming a quadriplegic. This leads to her starting 'Joni and Friends', a ministry for disabled people. The 1967 Milwaukee race riots begin, lasting through August 2 and leading to a ten-day shutdown of the city from August 1.
August
August 1 – Race riots spread to Washington, D.C. August 9 – Vietnam War – Operation Cochise: United States Marines begin a new operation in the Que Son Valley. August 21 – The People's Republic of China announces that it has shot down U.S. planes violating its airspace. August 23 – Jimi Hendrix's debut album Are You Experienced is released. August 25 – American Nazi Party leader George Lincoln Rockwell is assassinated in Arlington, Virginia. August 30 – Thurgood Marshall is confirmed as the first African American Justice of the Supreme Court of the U.S.
September September 4 – Vietnam War – Operation Swift: The United States Marines launch a search and destroy mission in Quảng Nam and Quảng Tín Provinces. The ensuing 4-day battle in Que Son Valley kills 114 Americans and 376 North Vietnamese. September 9 – Fashion Island, one of California's first outdoor shopping malls, opens in Newport Beach. September 11 – Sketch comedy series The Carol Burnett Show premieres on CBS. It runs for 11 seasons, until March 1978. September 17 – Jim Morrison and The Doors defy CBS censors on The Ed Sullivan Show, when Morrison sings the word "higher" from their #1 hit "Light My Fire", despite having been asked not to.