December 1967 calendar

Events

• 01 Dec 1967 Seattle awarded one of the 2 AL expansion franchise teams
• 02 Dec 1967 55th CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Tiger-Cats defeats Saskatchewan, 24-1
• 03 Dec 1967 1st human heart transplant performed
• 04 Dec 1967 Vietnam War: US and South Vietnamese forces engage Viet Cong troops in the Mekong Delta.
• 05 Dec 1967 Benjamin Spock and Allen Ginsberg arrested protesting Vietnam war
• 06 Dec 1967 Adrian Kantrowitz performed the first human heart transplant in the United States.
• 07 Dec 1967 How Now, Dow Jones opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC for 220 performances
• 09 Dec 1967 Jim Morrison, arrested on stage for disturbing the peace
• 11 Dec 1967 SST prototype Concorde 1st shown
• 12 Dec 1967 US launches Pioneer 8 into solar orbit.
• 13 Dec 1967 Unsuccessful coup against Greek King Constantine II.
• 14 Dec 1967 DNA created in a test tube.
• 15 Dec 1967 Beatles release Christmas Time is Here Again
• 16 Dec 1967 Wilt Chamberlain of NBA Philadelphia 76ers scores 68 points versus Chicago Bulls.
• 17 Dec 1967 WEDW TV channel 49 in Bridgeport, CT (PBS) begins broadcasting
• 19 Dec 1967 Prime Minister of Australia Harold Holt is officially presumed dead.
• 20 Dec 1967 Graduate, starring Dustin Hoffman and Anne Bancroft, premieres
• 23 Dec 1967 Brussels: NATO-Council accept Flexible Response-strategy
• 24 Dec 1967 Pirate Radio Pegasus starts broadcasting off New Zealand
• 25 Dec 1967 Paul McCartney and Jane Asher get engaged
• 26 Dec 1967 BBC broadcasts Magical Mystery Tour
• 28 Dec 1967 KTSB (now KSNT) TV channel 27 in Topeka, KS (NBC) begins broadcasting
• 29 Dec 1967 Turkish-Cypriot government forms in Cyprus.
• 30 Dec 1967 Great Western Forum opens in Los Angeles, California.
• 31 Dec 1967 Henry, Sweet Henry closes at Palace Theater NYC after 80 performances

Famous Birthday

• Carla Bruni Sarkozy
• Laurent Gerra

  French TV personality, actor, and impersonator.

• Jamie Foxx

  American award winning actor whose brilliant performance as Ray Charles in the film "Ray" clinched his reputation as a fine actor and won an...

• Criss Angel

  American illusionist.

• Carole Rousseau
• NeNe Leakes
• Teresa May
• Ilsa Strix
• Mo'Nique

  American actress/comedienne.

• Judd Apatow

  American film director, and screenwriter.

• Andy Wachowski

  American film director, screenwriter and producer.

• Heather Kahn

  American television news anchor and medical reporter in the Boston area.

• Richey Edwards

  Welsh singer-songwriter and guitarist (Manic Street Preachers) (d. 1995).

• Miranda Otto

  Australian actress, well known for playing Éowyn in Peter Jackson's "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy (2001-2003).

• Mikheil Saakashvili

  Georgian lawyer and politician 3rd President of Georgia.

• Nestor Carbonell

  TV Actor.

• Wendy Hamilton

  Detroit, Michigan -- Playmate (Dec, 1991).

• Hacine Cherifi

  French boxer; 50 years after the championship of Marcel Cerdan, he won the world middleweight championship on 5/02/1998 in Villeurbanne.

• Amanda Lepore

  Model.

• Zep
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Famous Deaths

• Otis Redding

  singer ("Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay"), dies in plane crash at age 26.

• Harold Holt

  Australian politician, Prime Minister of Australia 1966-1967.

• Brazilio da Cunha Luz Itibere

  Composer, dies at 71.

• Victor De Sabata

  Composer, dies at 75.

• [Francis] Barry Byrne

  Chicago Ill, architect, dies at 83.

• Louis Washkansky

  the first man to undergo a heart transplant, dies in Cape Town, South Africa, after living for 18 days after the transplant.

• Lee Krieger

  Actor (Clambake, One Way Wahini), dies at 48.

• Karen Verne

  Actress (Ships of Fools, Underground), dies at 49.

• Richard Flury

  Composer, dies at 71.

• Howard Freeman

  actor (Double Dynamite), dies after illness, in New York City, New York.

• Richard Stemp

  cricket player (Yorkshire and England A left-arm spinner).

• Fred Engelen

  Flemish actor/director (Kritisch Theater), dies at age 54.

• Robert H Lawrence

  US Air Force/astronaut, dies at age 32.

• Phalin Jones

  rocker (Bar-kays), dies in plane crash.

• Carl Cunningham

  rocker (Bar-kays), killed in a plane crash.

• Jimmy King

  rocker (Bar-kays), dies in a plane crash.

• Ron Caldwell

  rocker (Bar-kays), dies in a plane crash.

• Alfred Courtens

  Belgian sculptor, dies at age 78.

• Ruth Fuller Sasaki

  head of first Zen Institute of America, dies at age 75.

• Bert Berns

  US songwriter/producer ("Twist and Shout"), dies at about age 38.

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. The Monkees - Daydream Believer
2. The Beatles - Hello Goodbye
3. The Cowsills - The Rain, The Park & Other Things
4. Gladys Knight & the Pips - I Heard It Through The Grapevine
5. Strawberry Alarm Clock - Incense And Peppermints

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. The Beatles - Hello Goodbye
2. Tom Jones - Green Green Grass Of Home
3. Long John Baldry - Let The Heartaches Begin
4. The Seekers - Morningtown Ride
5. Dave Clark Five - Everybody Knows