March 1967 calendar

Events

• 01 Mar 1967 WMET (now WHSW) TV channel 24 in Baltimore, Maryland (IND) 1st broadcast
• 02 Mar 1967 9th Grammy Awards: "Strangers in Night" and Michele win.
• 03 Mar 1967 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
• 04 Mar 1967 Ice Dance Championship at Vienna won by Towler and Ford
• 05 Mar 1967 WEDN TV channel 53 in Norwich, CT (PBS) begins broadcasting
• 06 Mar 1967 2nd Academy of Country Music Awards
• 07 Mar 1967 American actor/singer Nelson Eddy dies at age 65 in hospital in Miami, Florida, after suffering a stroke while performing onstage at the Doral Country Club in Miami the previous day.
• 08 Mar 1967 New Orleans Saints begin selling season tickets (20,000 sold first day).
• 09 Mar 1967 Svetlana Allilueva, Josef Stalin's daughter, defects to the West in New York City.
• 11 Mar 1967 Pink Floyd rock group releases their first song ("Arnold Layne").
• 12 Mar 1967 Indonesian congress deprives President Sukarno of authority.
• 13 Mar 1967 Moise Tshombe, ex-prime minister of Congo, is sentenced to death in absentia.
• 14 Mar 1967 The late US President John Kennedy's body moved from temporary grave to a permanent memorial.
• 15 Mar 1967 AFCENT-headquarter moves to Brunssum
• 16 Mar 1967 Pirate Radio Station 333 (Radio Britain) ship breaks down
• 18 Mar 1967 Oil tanker Torrey Canyon hits a rock and spills oil
• 19 Mar 1967 Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Saint Petersburg Orange Golf Classic.
• 20 Mar 1967 Supremes release The Happening
• 21 Mar 1967 A military coup takes place in Sierra Leone.
• 22 Mar 1967 Muhammad Ali [Cassius Clay] knocks out Zora Folley in 7 innings for heavyweight boxing title in first Madison Square Garden fight.
• 24 Mar 1967 University of Michigan holds first "Teach-in" after bombing of North Vietnam.
• 26 Mar 1967 Pope Paul VI publishes encyclical Populorum progressio
• 28 Mar 1967 Sherry! opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 65 performances
• 29 Mar 1967 WCMU TV channel 14 in Mt. Pleasant, MI (PBS) begins broadcasting
• 31 Mar 1967 1st time Jimi Hendrix burns his guitar

Famous Birthday

• Billy Corgan

  American musician, lead singer, guitarist and composer for his group "Smashing Pumpkins", 1988-2000.

• Olivier Minne

  Belgian born French television presenter, actor and producer.

• Lauren Graham

  American actress.

• Cathy Guetta

  Senegalese-French businesswoman.

• André Bouchet
• John Barrowman

  Scottish-American versatile actor of stage, West End musicals, TV children's shows and U.S.

• Isabelle Patissier

  French mountain climber, two times world champion and many times champion of France.

• Jean-Michel Tinivelli
• Nathalie Marquay
• Georges Eads
• Nathalie Cardone
• Philippe Poutou

  French far left political figure and trade unionist, and worker in a car factory.

• Pascal Elbé
• Mario Cipollini

  Italian professional cyclist, placing in the Tour de France three times.

• Matthew Barney

  American sculptor and photographer.

• Talisa Soto

  American model and actress.

• Connie Britton

  American actress, singer and producer.

• Sam Taylor-Wood

  English conceptual artist.

• John Wayne Bobbitt
• Maxim Reality

  British MC (The Prodigy).

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Famous Deaths

• Mohammad Mossadegh

  Iranian Prime Minister (Born 1882).

• Nelson Eddy

  American baritone singer and actor, a heartthrob of his day, particularly in musicals with soprano Jeannette MacDonald in the '30s and '40s.

• Don Alvarado

  Actor (Morning Glory, Big Steal), dies at 62.

• Geraldine Farrar

  American singer with a powerful operatic voice, a lyric soprano.

• Marc Lavry

  Composer, dies at 63.

• Gordon Harker

  Actor (Inspector Hornleigh), dies at 81.

• Richard Reeves

  Actor (Murph-Date With an Angel), dies at 54.

• Oscar Shaw

  Actor (Rhythm on the River, Marianne), dies at 76.

• Frank Wisbar

  Director (Fireside Theater), dies at 67.

• John Haden Badley

  English author and educator (Born 1865).

• Alice B Toklas

  American companion to Gertrude Stein (Born 1877).

• Jaroslav Heyrovsky

  Czech chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (Born 1890).

• Mohammed H Mossadeq

  premier of Persia (1951-53), dies.

• Jimmy Blaine

  singer ("Stop the Music"), dies at age 42.

• A J

  F Moody is first US Army General to die in Vietnam.

• Gerardus H de Vet the Bold

  bishop of Breda (1962-67), dies at age 49.

• Jose Martinez Ruiz

  Spanish poet and writer (Born 1873).

• Michel Plancherel

  Swiss mathematician (Born 1885).

• Yiorgos Batis

  Greek composer and musician (Born 1885).

• Renato Cellini

  Italian conductor (Bornc.

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. The Rolling Stones - Ruby Tuesday
2. The Supremes - Love Is Here And Now You're Gone
3. The Beatles - Penny Lane
4. The Turtles - Happy Together
5. The Mama's & The Papa's - Dedicated To The One I Love

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Engelbert Humperdinck - Release Me
2. Nancy Sinatra & Frank Sinatra - Somethin' Stupid
3. The Beatles - Penny Lane / Strawberry Fields Forever
4. Sandie Shaw - Puppet On A String
5. Vince Hill - Edelweiss