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President: Lyndon B Johnson, Vice
President: Hubert H. Humphrey |
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The population of the United States
is 197,457,000 |
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National Debt is 340.4 Billion
(+11.9 billion) |
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Unemployment is 3.8% |
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Life Expectancy: 70.5 years |
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Family median income = $7,143 (down
$257. from 1966) |
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Inflation rate = 3.46% |
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Academy Award : A Man for All Seasons (click to
buy)  (Best
Picture) |
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Grammy Award : Michelle (click to buy)
 (Best Song);
Strangers In The Night (click to
buy)  (Best
Album) |
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Pulitzer Prize : The Fixer (click to buy)
(Fiction) |
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Lester Maddox is elected Governor
of Georgia on a segregationist platform |
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The first cryogenic preservation of
Dr. James Bedford with the intent of future resuscitation. |
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Super Bowl I is played with the
Green Bay Packers defeating the Kansas City Chiefs
35–10 (click for more on, Sports) |
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A Fistful of Dollars (click to
buy)  , the first
significant "spaghetti Western" film is debuted in the
U.S. |
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U.S. astronauts Gus Grissom, Edward
Higgins White, and Roger Chaffee are killed aboard the Apollo 1
spacecraft during a launch pad test. |
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The Outer Space Treaty is signed by
the U.S., Soviet Union and the United Kingdom banning nuclear
weapons from outer space |
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The 25th Amendment to the United
States Constitution (presidential succession and disability) is
ratified by Congress |
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Israeli fighters shoot down 7
Syrian MIG-21s setting the stage for the Six Day War |
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Israeli mounts
"preemptive" strikes against Egyptian, Syrian and
Jordanian positions flanking Israel and fight a mostly victorious
Six Day War |
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Muhammad Ali, after converting to
Islam, refuses military service on religious grounds |
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Elvis Presley and Priscilla
Beaulieu are married in Las Vegas. |
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The first automatic cash machine
(ATM) is installed, at Barclays Bank in England |
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Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 is
enacted, establishing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting
(PBS) |
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Rolling Stone and New York Magazine
debut, spawning the popularity of special-interest and regional
magazines |
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Lurleen Wallace is sworn in as
governor of Alabama and replaces her husband George Wallace who
can't run again because of term limits |
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Race riots rock 127 U.S. cities,
killing at least 77 and injuring at least 4,000 some lasting
days |
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The National Organization for Women
(NOW)is formed and holds its first national conference |
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The world's first heart
transplant is performed in Cape Town S. Africa by Christiaan
Barnard the patient lived 18 days |
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The waterbed as we know it today
was created by a design student at San Francisco State
University |
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High-fructose corn syrup (HFCS)
development is pioneered by Clinton Corn Processing Co |
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The following TV shows debuted:
The
Flying Nun, High Chaparral, Carol Burnett Show, Ironside, Mannix,
The Smothers Brothers and
Phil Donahue (click show title for more
info) |
Pop History
/ 1967
