WHAT ALL HAPPENED OCTOBER TO DECEMBER 1967
Find out what all happened October to December 1967

The Congress of Colombia, in commemoration of the 150 years of the death of Policarpa Salavarrieta, declares this day as "Day of the Colombian Woman". (14. November 1967)

Vietnam War: The Battle of Dak To begins. (3. November 1967)

The People's Democratic Republic of Yemen becomes independent from the United Kingdom. (30. November 1967)

Carl B. Stokes is elected as Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, becoming the first African American mayor of a major American city. (7. November 1967)

Harold Holt, the Prime Minister of Australia, is officially presumed dead. (19. December 1967)

London criminal Jack McVitie is murdered by the Kray twins, leading to their eventual imprisonment and downfall. (29. October 1967)

Vietnam War: Acting on optimistic reports that he had been given on November 13, U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson tells the nation that, while much remained to be done, "We are inflicting greater losses than we're taking...We are making progress." (17. November 1967)

US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, establishing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. (7. November 1967)

The Vietnam War: The folk singer Joan Baez is arrested concerning a physical blockade of the U.S. Army's induction center in Oakland, California. (14. October 1967)

Vietnam War: US Secretary of State Dean Rusk states during a news conference that proposals by the U.S. Congress for peace initiatives are futile because of North Vietnam's opposition (12. October 1967)

Adrian Kantrowitz performs the first human heart transplant in the United States. (6. December 1967)

A Pennsylvania Railroad Budd Metroliner exceeds 155 mph on their New York Division, also present day Amtrak's Northeast Corridor. (20. December 1967)

The Soviet probe Venera 4 reaches Venus and becomes the first spacecraft to measure the atmosphere of another planet. (18. October 1967)

A day after being captured, Marxist revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara is executed for attempting to incite a revolution in Bolivia. (9. October 1967)

The only fatality of the North American X-15 program occurs during the 191st flight when Air Force test pilot Michael J. Adams loses control of his aircraft which is destroyed mid-air over the Mojave Desert. (15. November 1967)

The Beatles begin recording their last 1967 single, Hello, Goodbye. (2. October 1967)

Vietnam War: In a propaganda ceremony in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, three American prisoners of war are released by the Viet Cong and turned over to "new left" antiwar activist Tom Hayden. (11. November 1967)

At Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa, a transplant team headed by Christiaan Barnard carries out the first heart transplant on a human (53-year-old Louis Washkansky). (3. December 1967)

UN Security Council Resolution 242 is adopted by the UN Security Council, establishing a set of the principles aimed at guiding negotiations for an Arab-Israeli peace settlement. (22. November 1967)

The Hither Green rail crash in the United Kingdom kills 49 people. Survivors include Robin Gibb of the Bee Gees. (5. November 1967)