February 1967 calendar

Events

• 01 Feb 1967 WCLP TV channel 18 in Chatsworth, Georgia (PBS) begins broadcasting
• 02 Feb 1967 Formation of the American Basketball Association is announced.
• 03 Feb 1967 Purple Haze recorded by Jimi Hendrix
• 04 Feb 1967 Wild Thing hits #20 on the pop singles chart by Senator Bobby
• 05 Feb 1967 Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour premieres on CBS
• 06 Feb 1967 Muhammad Ali TKOs Ernie Terrell in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
• 08 Feb 1967 Pirate Radio UKGM (England) closes down
• 10 Feb 1967 25th Amendment to US Constitution (Presidential Disability and Succession) in effect.
• 11 Feb 1967 Burgess Ice Rise lying off the west coast of Alexander Island, Antarctica is first mapped by the British Antarctic Survey (BAS).
• 12 Feb 1967 Keith Richards, Mick Jagger and Marianne Faithful busted for drugs
• 13 Feb 1967 American researchers discover the Madrid Codices by Leonardo da Vinci in the National Library of Spain.
• 14 Feb 1967 Aretha Franklin records Respect
• 15 Feb 1967 1st anti-bootleg recording laws enacted
• 16 Feb 1967 Red Ruffing selected to baseball Hall of Fame.
• 17 Feb 1967 Kosmos 140 (Soyuz test) launches into Earth orbit.
• 18 Feb 1967 Softball pitcher Eddie Feigner strikes out six straight major league players.
• 22 Feb 1967 25,000 American and South Vietnamese troops launch Operation Junction City, offensive to smash Viet Cong stronghold near Cambodian border.
• 23 Feb 1967 Ted Workman replaces Senator Keith Davey as Canadian Football League commissioner.
• 24 Feb 1967 Moscow forbids its satellite states to form diplomatic relations with West Germany.
• 26 Feb 1967 Verne Gagne beats Mad Dog Vachon in St. Paul, to become NWA champ
• 27 Feb 1967 Pink Floyd release their 1st single Arnold Layne
• 28 Feb 1967 Wilt Chamberlain sinks NBA record 35th consecutive field goal.

Famous Birthday

• Kurt Cobain

  musician (Nirvana) (Born 1967).

• Kurt Cobain

  musician (Nirvana) (Born 1967).

• Benicio Del Toro

  Movie Actor.

• Laura Dern

  American actress and noted family, the daughter of Diane Ladd and Bruce Dern, both Oscar-nominated actors, and related on her mother's side...

• Roberto Baggio

  Italian footballer.

• Raphaëlle Ricci
• Lili Taylor

  Actress (Ransom, Short Cuts).

• Lorena Herrera
• Hélène Darroze

  French chef, who was the first woman to obtain two Michelin stars.

• Chante Moore

  American singer.

• Jean-Charles Gicquel

  French athlete, a high jumper who set his personal best (2.

• Marc Dal Maso

  French rugby player, a member of the French rugby team 1999, playing as hooker.

• Bentley Mitchum

  American minor actor, best known for his performance as Ricky in "Ruby in Paradise," 1993, with Ashley Judd.

• András Stohl
• Michael Easton

  Actor (Ally McBeal).

• Jacky Durand

  French road bicycle racer, who won the Tour of Flanders in 1992 after a 217 kilometre (135 mi) breakaway, and three stages in the Tour de...

• Steve Broussard

  American football player, a running back and kick returner for the Seattle Seahawks who was signed by the team on 6/13/1995.

• Loy Vaught
• Jane Child

  Canadian singer-songwriter and producer.

• Kate Radley
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Famous Deaths

• Martine Carol

  French actress, popular, tantalizing leading lady of the '50s in several films made by her husband, (one of four), Christian Faque, but most...

• Antonio Moreno

  Spanish actor / director (It, Careers), dies at 79.

• Violeta Parra

  Violeta del Carmen Parra Sandoval (best knows as Violeta Parra) was a Chilean composer, songwriter, folklorist, ethnomusicologist and visual...

• Manuel Palau Boix

  Composer, dies at 74.

• Leon Leonwood Bean

  American department store founder (Born 1872).

• J Robert Oppenheimer

  American physicist (Born 1904).

• Charles Beaumont

  American writer (Born 1929).

• Herman Teirlinck

  Belgian writer (Jokaste against God), dies at age 87.

• William C Bullitt

  first US ambassador in USSR, dies at age 76.

• Robert J Oppenheimer

  creator of atomic bomb, dies at age 62.

• Wilmer King

  first casuality on Tappan Zee Bridge in New York, dies.

• Fritz Erler

  German politician (SDP), dies at age 53.

• Harry McNaughton

  comedian (It Pays to be Ignorant), dies at age 70.

• AJ Muste

  American peace activist (Born 1885).

• Dragisa Cvetkovic

  Kingdom of Yugoslavia prime minister (Born 1893).

• Henry Luce

  American publisher, born in China.

• Joe Meek

  Rocker (Tornados) / producer (Telstar), commits suicide.

• Albert Orsborn

  English 6th General of The Salvation Army (d. 1967).

• Franz Waxman

  German composer (Day at the races), dies at age 60.

• Antonio Moreno

  Spanish-born actor (Born 1887).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. The Monkees - I'm A Believer
2. The Buckinghams - Kind Of A Drag
3. The Rolling Stones - Ruby Tuesday
4. The Seekers - Georgy Girl
5. The Supremes - Love Is Here And Now You're Gone

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. The Monkees - I'm A Believer
2. Engelbert Humperdinck - Release Me
3. Petula Clark - This Is My Song
4. The Beatles - Penny Lane / Strawberry Fields Forever
5. Vince Hill - Edelweiss