August 1967 calendar

Events

• 01 Aug 1967 WBRA TV channel 15 in Roanoke, VA (PBS) begins broadcasting
• 02 Aug 1967 New Orleans Saints' first pre-season game, they lose to Los Angeles Rams 16-77.
• 03 Aug 1967 45,000 US soldiers sent to Vietnam
• 04 Aug 1967 34th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Green Bay 27, All-Stars 0
• 05 Aug 1967 Bobby Gentry releases her only hit Ode to Billy Joe
• 06 Aug 1967 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open
• 07 Aug 1967 Vietnam War: the People's Republic of China agrees to give North Vietnam an undisclosed amount of aid in the form of a grant.
• 08 Aug 1967 Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand meet to form Association of South East Asian Nations
• 09 Aug 1967 Biafran offensive against Nigerian army
• 10 Aug 1967 Belgian mercenary Jean Schramme's troops take the Congolese border town of Bukavu.
• 11 Aug 1967 Al Downing becomes 12th to strike-out side on nine pitches.
• 12 Aug 1967 New Orleans Saints' first pre-season victory, beat Saint Louis Cardinals 23-14.
• 13 Aug 1967 WQLN TV channel 54 in Erie, PA (PBS) begins broadcasting
• 14 Aug 1967 Belgian embassy in Kinshasa, Congo, plundered
• 15 Aug 1967 Pope Paul VI publishes constitution Regimini Ecclesiae Universae
• 16 Aug 1967 Cin Red Jim Maloney retires 19 Pirates, then gets injured and leaves
• 18 Aug 1967 Red Sox Tony Conigliaro is beaned by Angels Jack Hamilton
• 19 Aug 1967 West Germany receives 36 East German prisoners it has quotpurchasedquot through the border posts of Herleshausen and Wartha.
• 21 Aug 1967 China reports downing of 2 US bombers
• 24 Aug 1967 Liberian flag designed.
• 25 Aug 1967 Beatles go to Wales to study TM with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
• 26 Aug 1967 Beatles, Mick Jagger and Marienne Faithful meet Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
• 27 Aug 1967 Naomi Sims is 1st black model on US cover
• 28 Aug 1967 Asif Iqbal and Intikhab Alam make 190 stand for 9th wkt vs. Eng
• 29 Aug 1967 Final TV episode of Fugitive
• 30 Aug 1967 Thurgood Marshall is confirmed as the first African American Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

Famous Birthday

• Layne Staley

  US rock singer / guitarist (Alice in Chains-Dirt).

• Frederique van der Wal

  Dutch model and actress.

• Joe Rogan

  American television host, comedian, commentator and actor.

• Carrie-Anne Moss

  Canadian actress.

• Serj Tankian

  Armenian-born singer (System of a Down).

• Mathieu Kassovitz

  French film director widely known for his controversal "La Haine" (Hate, with Vincent Cassel) and actor, born to Peter Kassovitz (film...

• David Conrad

  TV Actor.

• Gerard Love
• Julie Snyder

  Canadian talk show host and producer.

• Xavier Niel

  French entrepreneur and businessman, active in the telecommunications and technology industry and best known as founder and majority...

• Charb

  French caricaturist and journalist, director of Charlie Hebdo.

• Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh
• Cecilia Gutierrez
• Charlotte Lewis

  Kensington London, England -- Actress (Golden Child, Pirates).

• Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

  English model actor and screenwriter.

• Tom Hollander

  English actor producer and screenwriter.

• Pamela Smart

  American schoolteacher nicknamed "Pame," convicted of being an accomplice to the murder of her husband on 5/01/1990, around 7:45 PM in...

• Agnès Dhaussy
• Timothy Adams

  American model and actor.

• Laurent Luyat
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Famous Deaths

• Brian Epstein

  British discoverer and manager of The Beatles, famed from the early 1960s.

• George Lincoln Rockwell

  founder of the American Nazi Party (d. 1967).

• John Francis Larchet

  Composer, dies at 83.

• Carl W de Vries

  Dutch (Great-granddad King William III), dies at 84.

• Isaac Deutscher

  Polish / Eng Historian (Stalin-biography), dies at 60.

• Henry J Kaiser

  Industrialist (Boulder Dam, Liberty ship), dies at 85.

• Andres Sas

  Composer, dies at 67.

• Henri-Georges Adam

  French Painter / cartoonist / sculptor, dies at 63.

• Paul Muni [Muni Weisenfreund]

  Actor (Good Earth), dies at 71.

• Ilja G Ehrenburg

  Russian Poet / writer (9th wave), dies at 76.

• Michael Fitzmaurice

  Dies of lymphoma at 59.

• Richard Kuhn

  Austrian chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (Born 1900).

• Gregory Goodwin Pincus

  American endocrinologist (Born 1903).

• Claude A Barnett

  founded Associated Negro Press, dies at age 78.

• Walter Terence Stace

  British philosopher (Born 1886).

• Rene Magritte

  Belgian painter (Born 1898).

• Hugo Gernsback

  German-American businessman, editor, inventor and founder, and the world's first radio-supply-house dealer.

• Joe Orton

  England, United Kingdom -- Actor / dramatist (Prick Up Your Ears).

• Ilya Ehrenburg

  Russian journalist and author (d. 1967).

• Stanley Bruce

  Australian captain and politician 8th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1967).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. The Doors - Light My Fire
2. The Beatles - All You Need Is Love
3. Bobbie Gentry - Ode To Billie Joe
4. Stevie Wonder - I Was Made To Love Her
5. The Monkees - Pleasant Valley Sunday

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Scott Mckenzie - San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Some Flowers In Your Hair)
2. Engelbert Humperdinck - The Last Waltz
3. The Beatles - All You Need Is Love
4. Tom Jones - I'll Never Fall In Love Again
5. Dave Davies - Death Of A Clown