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Events relating to america
Woody Allen makes his screen debut with What's New Pussycat?
Neil Simon's play The Odd Couple is produced in New York
Ralph Nader begins a long career in consumer protection with Unsafe at Any Speed, attacking the US automobile industry
18-year-old Austrian body-builder Arnold Schwarzenegger becomes Junior Mr Europe (on his way to Mr World and Mr Universe)
An exhibition in New York, 'The Responsive Eye', puts op art on the map
President Johnson introduces affirmative action as a legislative policy to redress social inequalities
US choreographer Robert Joffrey founds a new company that becomes known (from 1977) as the Joffrey Ballet
US author Randall Jarrell's poem The Lost World provides the title for his last published book
Riots break out in the Watts area of Los Angeles
Based on interviews given to Alex Haley in 1964, a life of Malcolm X is published soon after his assassination
Scientists at the US Geological Survey develop the theory of plate tectonics as the explanation of continental drift
Real-life husband and wife Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor star as the married couple in the film of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Joaquin Balaguer, a close associate of Trujillo, is elected president of the Dominican Republic
The US tennis player Billie Jean King wins the first of six Wimbledon singles titles
Construction work begins on the twin towers for the World Trade Center in New York, designed by US architect Minoru Yamasaki
The Black Panther Party is founded in Oakland, California, to launch a more aggressive campaign for civil rights
US author Susan Sontag publishes her first collection of essays, Against Interpretation
Che Guevara arrives in Bolivia in the hope of fomenting a left-wing revolution
Mike Nicholls directs Anne Bancroft and Dustin Hoffman in the film The Graduate
US poet Anne Sexton publishes Live or Die, a collection containing a poem to her dead friend Sylvia Plath
Canada mounts the world exhibition Expo 67 as the centrepiece of its centennial celebrations
The US pavilion at Expo 67 in Montreal is a geodesic dome by the architect Buckminster Fuller
Colombian novelist Gabriel García Márquez publishes a classic of magic realism, One Hundred Years of Solitude
Thurgood Marshall, appointed by President Johnson, becomes the first African American member of the US Supreme Court
President de Gaulle, visiting Montreal for Expo 67, proclaims Vive le Quebec libre ('Long Live Free Quebec')
