WHAT ALL HAPPENED MARCH TO JULY 1967
Find out what all happened March to July 1967

Australians vote in favor of a constitutional referendum granting the Australian government the power to make laws to benefit Indigenous Australians and to count them in the national census. (27. May 1967)

Ten thousand people gather for one of many Central Park be-ins in New York City (26. March 1967)

Egypt imposes a blockade and siege of the Red Sea coast of Israel. (24. May 1967)

Six-Day War: President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt demands dismantling of the peace-keeping UN Emergency Force in Egypt. (17. May 1967)

Nigerian Civil War: Nigerian forces invade Biafra, beginning the war. (6. July 1967)

Egypt closes the Straits of Tiran and blockades the port of Eilat at the northern end of the Gulf of Aqaba to Israeli shipping. (23. May 1967)

12th Street Riot: in Detroit, Michigan, one of the worst riots in United States history begins on 12th Street in the predominantly African American inner city. It will leave 43 killed, 342 injured and 1,400 buildings burned. (23. July 1967)

The supertanker Torrey Canyon ran aground off the Cornish coast. (18. March 1967)

Mariner program: Mariner 5 is launched towards Venus. (14. June 1967)

U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson nominates Solicitor-General Thurgood Marshall to become the first black justice on the U.S. Supreme Court. (13. June 1967)

The United States Supreme Court in Loving v. Virginia declares all U.S. state laws which prohibit interracial marriage to be unconstitutional. (12. June 1967)

Film critic Roger Ebert published his very first film review in the Chicago Sun-Times. (7. April 1967)

The Popular Movement of the Revolution political party is established in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. (20. May 1967)

Vietnam War: American General William Westmoreland says in a news conference that the enemy had "gained support in the United States that gives him hope that he can win politically that which he cannot win militarily." (24. April 1967)

After refusing induction into the United States Army the day before (citing religious reasons), Muhammad Ali is stripped of his boxing title. (29. April 1967)

Israeli soldiers entered Jerusalem during the Six-Day War. (7. June 1967)

The People's Republic of China tests its first hydrogen bomb. (14. June 1967)

The Newark riots begin in Newark, New Jersey. (12. July 1967)

Protests in West Berlin against the arrival of the Shah of Iran turn into riots, during which Benno Ohnesorg is killed by a police officer. His death results in the founding of the terrorist group Movement 2 June. (2. June 1967)

Israel annexes East Jerusalem. (28. June 1967)