1967

Israeli and Arab forces engage in the "Six-Day War"
Dr. Christiaan N. Barnard and team of South African surgeons perform world's first successful human heart transplant
Democratic experiment in Czechoslovakia begins
Svetlana Alliluyeva (Stalin's daughter) defects to the West
"Che" Guevara killed
Sir Francis Chichester (65 years of age) sails solo around the world
Three Apollo astronauts - Col. Virgil I. Grissom, Col. Edward White II, and Lt. Cmdr. Roger B. Chaffee - killed in spacecraft fire
March on Pentagon to protest Vietnam War
Thurgood Marshall sworn in as first black U.S. Supreme Court justice
Muhammed Ali refuses induction into the military - is stripped of his boxing title and convicted of draft evasion
Continued race riots in US
US population surpasses 200 million
Elvis Presley and Priscilla Beaulieu married
8-track tape players appear in Ford cars
Nehru jackets
Tom Stoppard's "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead"
Handheld calculators
1st coronary bypass
1st microwave oven
Music - "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band", "Ruby Tuesday", "Groovin'"
Films - " "The Taming of the Shrew", "Blow Up", "The Graduate", "Bonnie and Clyde", "In the Heat of the Night",
TV - "The Carol Burnett Show"
Boris Becker, Riddick Bowe, Sinead O'Conner, Julia Roberts, and Heinz-Harald Frentzen born
Robert Oppenheimer, Claude Rains, Spencer Tracy, Basil Rathbone, Woody Guthrie, and Carl Sandburg die