WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO FEBRUARY 1967
Find out what all happened January to February 1967

Vietnam War: United States Marine Corps and ARVN troops launch "Operation Deckhouse Five" in the Mekong River delta. (6. January 1967)

Lunar Orbiter program: Lunar Orbiter 3 lifts off from Cape Canaveral's Launch Complex 13 on its mission to identify possible landing sites for the Surveyor and Apollo spacecraft. (4. February 1967)

Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Côte d'Ivoire are established. (23. January 1967)

Ronald Ryan, the last person to be executed in Australia, is hanged in Pentridge Prison, Melbourne. (3. February 1967)

American researchers discover the Madrid Codices by Leonardo da Vinci in the National Library of Spain. (13. February 1967)

The 25th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified. (10. February 1967)

The "ultimate high" of the hippie era, the Mantra-Rock Dance, takes place in San Francisco and features Janis Joplin, Grateful Dead, and Allen Ginsberg. (29. January 1967)

Albert DeSalvo, the "Boston Strangler", is convicted of numerous crimes and is sentenced to life imprisonment. (18. January 1967)

Dr. James Bedford becomes the first person to be cryonically preserved with intent of future resuscitation. (12. January 1967)

Ronald Reagan sworn in as Governor of California (2. January 1967)

Counterculture of the 1960s: The Human Be-In, takes place in San Francisco, California's Golden Gate Park, launching the Summer of Love. (14. January 1967)

The first Super Bowl is played in Los Angeles, California. The Green Bay Packers defeat the Kansas City Chiefs 35–10. (15. January 1967)

The United States, United Kingdom, and Soviet Union sign the Outer Space Treaty in Washington, D.C., banning deployment of nuclear weapons in space, and limiting use of the Moon and other celestial bodies to peaceful purposes. (27. January 1967)

Astronauts Gus Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee are killed in a fire during a test of their Apollo 1 spacecraft at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida. (27. January 1967)

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