• the song "Nights in White Satin," largely ignored on its first release in 1967, reached #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 when it was re-released in 1972?
• the University Students' African Revolutionary Front was a political student group formed in 1967 at the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania?
• on Dagen H, or H Day, (Sunday September 3, 1967) at 5:00 am, Swedes switched from driving on the left to the right?
• conductor and Beethoven scholar Elliot Forbes led the Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society on a tour around the world in 1967?

Facts on topics related to 1967

1966

• Phil Spector considered the song "River Deep - Mountain High", his 1966 production for Ike & Tina Turner, his best work, despite its commercial failure in the United States?
• Wite-Out correction fluid was invented in 1966?
• the Beaumont Children disappeared without a trace from a beach near Adelaide, Australia in 1966?

1970

• Dave Burrell's operatic live jazz album Windward Passages was his response to land development in Hawaii during the late 1970's?
• Harold E. Martin, a newspaper publisher and editor, won a Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting in 1970 and served for twenty years on the board of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association?
• Typhoon Patsy (1970) was the deadliest tropical cyclone to strike Manila since the establishment of the Philippine Weather Bureau in 1865?
• despite wild differences in subject matter, 1970s Japanese science fiction television series Akumaizer 3 features frequent allusions to Alexander Dumas' famous novel The Three Musketeers?
• former California representative Allan O. Hunter was appointed as the president and chairman of Fannie Mae by President Richard Nixon in 1970?
• former National Hockey League rookie Michel Briere's career was tragically cut short following an automobile accident in 1970?
• openly gay novelist Gordon Merrick's book The Lord Won't Mind spent 16 weeks on the New York Times best-seller list in 1970, at a time when most authors would not write about homosexual themes for a mass audience?
• the British Rail flying saucer was an unbuilt nuclear fusion powered space craft, proposed and patented in the 1970s by British Rail?
• the Sri Lanka National Pharmaceuticals Policy was established in the 1970s to ensure that Sri Lankans could get high-quality, reasonably priced medications at correct dosages, and later became a model for national drug policies worldwide?

1965

• Bob Dylan's infamous performance of "Maggie's Farm" at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival was seen by his band's organist Al Kooper as "sort of a disaster"?
• Indonesian women's rights organisation Gerwani was banned when General Suharto became President in 1965?
• Democrats Abroad began with two small committees in London and Paris in 1965, and has grown to be a large international organization?
• Teatro Campesino or "farmworkers theater" began perfoming in 1965 on flat bed trucks in the fields with the United Farm Workers in Delano, California and still puts on performances today?
• American activist Nelson Cruikshank is considered the most important non-legislator responsible for the enactment of the U.S. Social Security Disability Insurance in 1956 and Medicare in 1965?
• the Havengore is a ceremonial vessel that was used to carry the body of Winston Churchill during his state funeral on 30 January 1965?
• when the Toledo Harbor Lighthouse was automated with solar cells by the United States Coast Guard in 1965, it was staffed by a uniformed mannequin officer in order to prevent vandalism?

1964

• The Tanganyika Rifles mutinied in 1964, seizing control of Tanganyika for days before surrendering to the Royal Marines?
• Ye Htoon was the final director-general of the Burmese Scout Movement before the military junta disbanded it in 1964?
• on January 13, 1964, a B-52 bomber containing two 24-megaton nuclear weapons crashed on Savage Mountain in Garrett County, Maryland?
• the movie I Am Cuba was filmed in 1964 as Cold War Soviet propaganda but only became widely viewed internationally when it was shown to audiences in the United States in 1994?

1968

• Robert L. Howard received his Congressional Medal of Honor while part of a Hatchet Force operating near the Laos–Cambodia border during the Vietnam War in 1968?
• labor leader Victor Kamber created playing cards with public figures in 1968 and the "Rappin' Ronnie" music video depicting a rapping Ronald Reagan in 1984?
• John Brown's Fort in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, was built there in 1848, moved to Chicago in 1891, and then returned to its original site in 1968?
• Pat "Gravy" Patterson, the head coach of the Louisiana Tech University from 1968 to 1990, was the winningest baseball coach in the state's history?
• a Jacksnipe is a two-man racing sailing dinghy created in 1968 by prolific boat designer Jack Holt?
• on September 29, 1968 a global horizontal sounding technique superpressure balloon became the first balloon to fly for a full year?
• on 28 November 1968 the Finnish ferries MS Ilmatar and MS Botnia collided in the Åland archipelago, resulting in the death of six people?
• the largest earthquake ever recorded in the U.S. state of Illinois took place at approximately 11:02 a.m. on November 9, 1968?
• the Florida Education Association led the first statewide teachers' strike in American history in 1968?
• the National Black Law Students Association was formed to serve the needs and goals of black law students in 1968 and is one of the the largest student organizations in the United States?

1969

• Boston Red Sox pitcher Mike Nagy was selected as American League rookie pitcher of the year in 1969, but never pitched another full season due to injury?
• Prince Charles was created Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester in 1958, though his actual investiture did not take place until 1 July 1969?
• "I Want You Back", the 1969 debut single by The Jackson 5, was originally intended for both Gladys Knight & the Pips and Diana Ross, and has been sampled by Blackstreet, Jay-Z, and Lil' Romeo?
• American Zoetrope was originally housed in a warehouse in San Francisco in 1969?
• capital punishment in the Vatican City was legal (but not carried out) between 1929 and 1969?
• Charles S. Joelson resigned from the United States House of Representatives on September 4, 1969 in order to become a judge in the New Jersey Superior Court?
• in 1969 noted writer Norman Mailer ran for Mayor of New York City advocating New York City secession?
• on Christmas Eve 1969, when California lawyer and noted political activist Ricardo Cruz was a law student at Loyola Law School, he was arrested for leading a march of several hundred demonstrators protesting the newly constructed, $4 million St. Basil's Cathedral?
• on December 26 and 27, 1969 during the War of Attrition the elite special forces unit Sayeret Matkal kidnapped a whole Egyptian P-12 radar system in a mission called Operation Rooster 53?

1995

• French lighthouse Phare de la Vieille (pictured) was operated manually as late as 1995?
• Pakistani general Zahirul Islam Abbasi plotted a coup d'etat against then-Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto in 1995?
• Chandra Prakash Mainali, who led an armed Maoist revolt in eastern Nepal in 1971, later served as Minister of Local Development in 1994-95?
• Marcelo Piñeyro's second film, Wild Horses, was the second-highest-attended film in Argentina during 1995, and was screened at the Museum of Modern Art in New York?
• fourteen people died in the Cave Creek disaster when a scenic viewing platform collapsed in New Zealand in 1995?
• in 1995, André Dallaire attempted to assassinate the Prime Minister of Canada, Jean Chrétien after breaking into his residence at 24 Sussex Drive?
• on September 21, 1995, statues of the Hindu pantheon (Ganesha pictured) in countries around the world were reported to be drinking spoonfuls of milk offered to them by worshippers?
• the 1995 documentary film Anne Frank Remembered contains the only known film footage of the young diarist?

1989

• 47 people were killed in a gun turret explosion (pictured) onboard USS Iowa on April 19, 1989?
• American feminist magazine Ms. has not carried advertisements since 1989?
• Garry Parker ran the full length of the pitch at Wembley Stadium to score a goal for Nottingham Forest in the final of the Simod Cup against Everton in 1989, which Forest won 4-3?
• Irish pirate radio is a general consequence of the lack of commercial radio until 1989?
• Taiwan professional baseball was started in 1989, and the two leagues merged in 2003?
• Rose is the first new episode of Doctor Who to be shown since 1989?
• a group of rock stars formed a supergroup in 1989 called Rock Aid Armenia and re-recorded Deep Purple's hit song Smoke on the Water to benefit the victims of the 1988 Leninakan Earthquake?
• despite not being the most favored version of the three Mazda AZ-550 concept cars unveiled at the 1989 Tokyo Motor Show, the "Type A" ended up being selected for production?
• over 58,000 Paleo-Indian artifacts were unearthed at Lake Ilo National Wildlife Refuge in North Dakota when lake waters were lowered on the lake in 1989 to reconstruct a dam?
• the 1989 Glasnost Bowl was an attempt to schedule an American college football game in the Soviet Union?

1986

• Chetan Sharma, a former Indian cricketer, was the first Indian ever to get a ten wicket haul overseas, taking 10/188 against England in a Test Series in 1986?
• David Penhaligon (1944–1986) was a promising Liberal Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom but was killed in a car crash at the age of 42?
• the Isles of Scilly and the Netherlands fought the Three Hundred and Thirty Five Years' War from 1651 to 1986, and that not a single shot was fired during this war?

2006

• Indian-American teenager Gaurav Raja memorized 10,980 digits of pi in 2006 to break the North American pi memorization record?
• Internet entrepreneur Pete Ashdown is running against incumbent Orrin Hatch for the 2006 U.S. Senate race in Utah?
• Jackson Pollock 's No. 5, 1948 was sold by David Geffen to David Martinez for the inflation adjusted price of $140 million dollars, making it the world's most expensive painting sold at an auction as of November, 2006?
• Hurricane Sergio in 2006 was the strongest Pacific hurricane on record in the month of November?
• Scieno Sitter, a content-control software package created by the Church of Scientology, was referred to in the 2006 fictional film The Bridge?
• national legislative elections will be held in Thailand on April 2, 2006, following the decision by Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra to dissolve the lower house of the Thai legislature, the House of Representatives?
• The Berghoff restaurant in Chicago will close on 28 February 2006 after 107 years of operation by three generations of the Berghoff family?
• Super Typhoon Chanchu of 2006 (pictured) was only the second super typhoon recorded in the South China Sea?
• WildlifeDirect was established in 2006 to support wildlife protection in Africa via the use of weblogs?
• a new free trade agreement called the Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership between Brunei, Chile, New Zealand and Singapore will come into effect on 1 January 2006?

1962

• "The fate of the language", a radio lecture in Welsh by Saunders Lewis on February 13, 1962, was the catalyst for the formation of the pressure group Welsh Language Society?
• Wiley W. Hilburn was in 1962 among the youngest editorial writers for major daily newspapers in the U.S.?
• MANual Enterprises v. Day 370 U.S. 478 (1962) was the first case in which the U.S. Supreme Court engaged in plenary review of a Post Office Department order holding obscene materials "nonmailable"?
• a postage stamp the United States Department of the Treasury issued in 1962 that commemorated the centennial of the Homestead Act featured art based on a photograph by Fred Hultstrand?
• a congressional reporter mistranscribed testimony about a U.S. nuclear test from 1962 named Sedan nuclear test, leading to fears that a nuclear weapon had actually been tested in the Sudan?
• although Were Ilu served as an organizing point for the Ethiopian army at the beginning of the First Italo-Abyssinian War, as late as 1962 this settlement was connected to nearby towns by only trails?
• the Motown recording "Do You Love Me" by The Contours became a Billboard Hot 100 Top 20 hit twice; once in 1962 and again in 1987?
• the film David and Lisa, shot in black-and-white for just $183,000, was nominated for the 1962 Academy Award for Directing?
• the last ever train on the Plymouth to Launceston line failed to complete its journey on 29 December 1962 due to heavy snow?

1963

• American Jesuit priest Walter Ciszek was imprisioned by the Soviet Union between 1941 and 1963, and sentenced to 15 years hard labor, six of which were spent in Moscow's infamous Lubyanka prison?
• 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, site of the 1963 church bombing, was designed in 1911 by noted African American architect Wallace Rayfield?
• Alevtina Kolchina was the first female Nordic skier and first person from the Soviet Union (now Russia) to receive the Holmenkollen medal in 1963?
• King's College in Newcastle-upon-Tyne left Durham University in 1963 to form the new Newcastle University, following a narrowly defeated proposal to rename the university the "University of Durham and Newcastle" in 1952?
• Frank Sinatra, Jr.'s kidnapping in 1963 led his father to habitually carry a roll of dimes?
• Lantian Man, who was discovered in China in 1963, preceded Peking Man by several hundred thousand years?
• Pakistan Television Corporation (PTV) signed an agreement in 1963 with Japanese company NEC which gave the latter partial ownership of PTV's network?
• Pulau Senang was a penal settlement in Singapore but shut down after only three years when a riot broke out in 1963?
• Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater, which ran on CBS from 1956–1961, had five spin-off series, the most successful having been Chuck Connors' The Rifleman, which ran on ABC from 1958–1963?
• the 1963 Hotel Roosevelt fire was the worst fire Jacksonville, Florida had witnessed since the Great Fire of 1901?