WHAT ALL HAPPENED MARCH TO MAY 1967
Find out what all happened March to May 1967

Suharto takes over from Sukarno to become Acting President of Indonesia. (12. March 1967)

Dr. Zakir Hussain becomes the third President of India. He is the first Muslim President of the Indian Union. He holds this position until August 24, 1969. (13. May 1967)

Gnassingbé Eyadéma overthrows President of Togo Nicolas Grunitzky and installs himself as the new president, a title he would hold for the next 38 years. (14. April 1967)

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

Soviet space program: Soyuz 1 (Russian: Союз 1, Union 1) a manned spaceflight carrying cosmonaut Colonel Vladimir Komarov is launched into orbit. (23. April 1967)

Joseph Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva defects to the United States. (6. March 1967)

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

Celtic F.C. from Glasgow, Scotland, becomes the first ever Northern European team to win the European Cup; with previous winners being from Spain, Italy and Portugal. (25. May 1967)

The L'Innovation department store in the center of Brussels, Belgium, burns down. It is the most devastating fire in Belgian history, resulting in 323 dead and missing and 150 injured. (22. May 1967)

Vietnam War: Vinh Xuan massacre. (22. May 1967)

The body of U.S. President John F. Kennedy is moved to a permanent burial place at Arlington National Cemetery. (14. March 1967)

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

Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers his "Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence" speech in New York City's Riverside Church. (4. April 1967)

Expo 67 officially opens in Montreal, Canada with a large opening ceremony broadcast around the world. It opens to the public the next day. (27. April 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)

The Nigerian Eastern Region declares independence as the Republic of Biafra, sparking a civil war. (30. May 1967)

Trans World Airlines Flight 553, a Douglas DC-9-15, crashes in a field in Concord Township, Ohio following a mid-air collision with a Beechcraft Baron, killing 26. (9. March 1967)

The first Boeing 737 (a 100 series) makes its maiden flight. (9. April 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)

The Aldene Connection opened in Roselle Park, NJ, shutting down the CNJ's Jersey City waterfront terminal and transferring commuters to Newark Penn Station. (30. April 1967)