March 1967 calendar

March 1967
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Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened in March 1967.
The US president was Lyndon B. Johnson (Democrat), the UK Prime Minister was Harold Wilson (Labour), Pope St Paul VI was leading the Catholic Church.

But much more happened on March 1967: find out below

Historical Events

Which were the important events of March 1967?

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
12 Mar 1967 Suharto takes power from Sukarno when the People's Consultative Assembly inaugurate him as Acting President of Indonesia.