WHAT ALL HAPPENED SEPTEMBER TO DECEMBER 1967
Find out what all happened September to 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 people of Gibraltar vote to remain a British dependency rather than becoming part of Spain. (10. September 1967)

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

The Outer Space Treaty, signed on January 27 by more than sixty nations, comes into force. (10. October 1967)

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

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

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

The first game in the history of the American Basketball Association is played as the Anaheim Amigos lose to the Oakland Oaks 134-129 in Oakland, California. (13. October 1967)

The Youth International Party, popularly known as the "Yippies", is founded. (31. December 1967)

Vietnam War: American General William Westmoreland tells news reporters: "I am absolutely certain that whereas in 1965 the enemy was winning, today he is certainly losing." (21. November 1967)

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

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)

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

The formal end of steam traction in the North East of England by British Railways. (8. September 1967)

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

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

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