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1967
 
    
Colombian novelist Gabriel García Márquez publishes a classic of magic realism, One Hundred Years of Solitude       
1967
 
   
A pre-emptive air strike by Israel destroys almost all Egypt's aircraft and launches the Six-Day War      
1967
 
     
Israel captures the Gaza Strip and Sinai peninsula from Egypt        
1967
 
     
Israel captures East Jerusalem and the West Bank from Jordan        
1967
 
    
Israel captures the Golan Heights from Syria in the Six-Day War       
1967
 
     
British research student Jocelyn Bell and her Cambridge supervisor Antony Hewish identify the first known pulsar        
1967
 
     
Thurgood Marshall, appointed by President Johnson, becomes the first African American member of the US Supreme Court        
1967
 
    
Pope Paul VI visits the Patriarch Athenagoras in Istanbul, shocking some Catholics that this visit has preceded one by the Patriarch to Rome       
1967
 
     
President de Gaulle, visiting Montreal for Expo 67, proclaims Vive le Quebec libre ('Long Live Free Quebec')        
1967
 
     
British composers Harrison Birtwistle and Peter Maxwell Davies found the Pierrot Players