WHAT ALL HAPPENED MAY TO NOVEMBER 1967
Find out what all happened May to November 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)

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

Stockport Air Disaster: British Midland flight G-ALHG crashes in Hopes Carr, Stockport, killing 72 passengers and crew. (4. June 1967)

The Pakistan Peoples Party is founded by Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, who becomes its first chairman. (30. November 1967)

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is founded by Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand. (8. August 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)

Thurgood Marshall is sworn in as the first African-American justice of United States Supreme Court. (2. October 1967)

During the fourth day of celebrating its 400th anniversary, the city of Caracas, Venezuela is shaken by an earthquake, leaving approximately 500 dead. (29. July 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)

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

UK Marine Broadcasting Offences Act declares participation in offshore pirate radio illegal. (14. August 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)

The European Community is formally created out of a merger with the Common Market, the European Coal and Steel Community, and the European Atomic Energy Commission. (1. July 1967)

Montreal's World Fair, Expo 67, closes with over 50 million visitors. (29. October 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)

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

The first issue of Rolling Stone Magazine is published. (9. November 1967)

Vietnam War: More than 100,000 war protesters gather in Washington, D.C.. A peaceful rally at the Lincoln Memorial is followed by a march to The Pentagon and clashes with soldiers and United States Marshals protecting the facility. Similar demonstrations occurred simultaneously in Japan and Western Europe. (21. October 1967)

The people of Gibraltar vote to remain a British dependency rather than becoming part of Spain. (10. September 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)

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