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| 1967 |
| | | Mike Nicholls directs Anne Bancroft and Dustin Hoffman in the film The Graduate | |
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| 1967 |
| | | Flann O'Brien's novel The Third Policeman has a great success when published posthumously | |
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| 1967 |
| | | US poet Anne Sexton publishes Live or Die, a collection containing a poem to her dead friend Sylvia Plath | |
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| 1967 |
| | | A coup in Greece brings in an incompetent and repressive military junta that becomes known as the 'Greek colonels' | |
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| 1967 |
| | | Luis Buñuel directs Catherine Deneuve in Belle de Jour, a film about a bored housewife who takes a day job as a prostitute | |
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| 1967 |
| | | A Bigger Splash, by English painter David Hockney, casts a new light on sunlit swimming pools | |
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| 1967 |
| | | The Ibo of eastern Nigeria claim independence for their region – as the republic of Biafra | |
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| 1967 |
| | | Canada mounts the world exhibition Expo 67 as the centrepiece of its centennial celebrations | |
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| 1967 |
| | | The US pavilion at Expo 67 in Montreal is a geodesic dome by the architect Buckminster Fuller | |
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| 1967 |
| | | English yachtsman Francis Chichester completes a record round-the-world voyage, sailing 29,600 miles solo in 226 days | |
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| 1967 |
| | | Colombian novelist Gabriel García Márquez publishes a classic of magic realism, One Hundred Years of Solitude | |
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| 1967 |
| | | A pre-emptive air strike by Israel destroys almost all Egypt's aircraft and launches the Six-Day War | |
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| 1967 |
| | | Israel captures the Gaza Strip and Sinai peninsula from Egypt | |
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| 1967 |
| | | Israel captures East Jerusalem and the West Bank from Jordan | |
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| 1967 |
| | | Israel captures the Golan Heights from Syria in the Six-Day War | |
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| 1967 |
| | | British research student Jocelyn Bell and her Cambridge supervisor Antony Hewish identify the first known pulsar | |
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| 1967 |
| | | Thurgood Marshall, appointed by President Johnson, becomes the first African American member of the US Supreme Court | |
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| 1967 |
| | | Pope Paul VI visits the Patriarch Athenagoras in Istanbul, shocking some Catholics that this visit has preceded one by the Patriarch to Rome | |
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| 1967 |
| | | President de Gaulle, visiting Montreal for Expo 67, proclaims Vive le Quebec libre ('Long Live Free Quebec') | |
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| 1967 |
| | | British composers Harrison Birtwistle and Peter Maxwell Davies found the Pierrot Players | |
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| 1967 |
| | | Congress passes a Freedom of Information Act, giving the public an important new right in the USA | |
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| 1967 |
| | | Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara is captured and executed in Bolivia | |
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| 1967 |
| | | Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty star in the film Bonnie and Clyde | |
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| 1967 |
| | | English author Angela Carter wins recognition with her quirky second novel, The Magic Toyshop | |
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| 1967 |
| | | English playwright Alan Ayckbourn has his first success with Relatively Speaking | |
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| 1967 |
| | | Three young Liverpool poets publish a shared anthology under the title The Mersey Sound | |
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| 1967 |
| | | Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras issue a joint declaration, emphasizing mutual respect for each other's traditions | |
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| 1967 |
| | | A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, by English dramatist Peter Nichols, has its premiere in London | |
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| 1967 |
| | | US author William Styron's novel The Confessions of Nat Turner describes a historical slave revolt in 1831 | |
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| 1967 |
| | | English cellist Jacqueline du Pré marries Israeli pianist Daniel Barenboim | |
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| 1967 |
| | | Nicolae Ceauşescu becomes president of the State Council of Romania | |
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| 1967 |
| | | South African surgeon Christiaan Barnard, in Cape Town, transplants the heart of a young woman into a 55-year-old grocer, Louis Washkansky | |
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| 1967 |
| | | The Beatles release an immensely successful album, Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, with a cover by British pop-artist Peter Blake | |
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| 1967 |
| | | Australian prime minister Harold Holt swims in heavy surf near Portsea, south of Melbourne, and is never seen again | |
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| 1968 |
| | | Alexander Dubcek becomes first secretary of the Czechoslovak Communist party, following pressure for reform from party intellectuals | |
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| 1968 |
| | | The Vietcong launch widespread attacks on South Vietnamese cities during the Tet (lunar new year) holiday | |
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