On this day
Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
In 1967, the world population was approximately 3,473,412,880 people[†]
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 17, 1967, covering May 22, 1967.
The Monkees
The Mamas & The Papas
Soundtrack
The Lovin' Spoonful
Aretha Franklin
Soundtrack
The Monkees
Ed Ames
The Temptations
The Temptations
1967Langston Hughes, American poet, social activist, novelist, and playwright (born 1902)[†]
James Mercer Langston Hughes was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri. An early innovator of jazz poetry, Hughes is best known as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance.
1967Charlotte Serber, American Librarian of the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos site (born 1911)[†]
Charlotte Serber was an American journalist, statistician and librarian. She was the librarian of the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos Laboratory during World War II, and the laboratory's only female group leader. After the war she attempted to secure a position as a librarian at the Radiation Laboratory in Berkeley, but was rejected for lack of a security clearance; the likely reason was due to her political views. She later became a production assistant for the Broadway Theatre, and an interviewer for Louis Harris.
1967Egypt closes the Straits of Tiran to Israeli shipping.[†]
The Straits of Tiran are the narrow sea passages between the Sinai and Arabian peninsulas that connect the Gulf of Aqaba and the Red Sea. The distance between the two peninsulas is about 13 km. The Multinational Force and Observers monitors the compliance of Egypt in maintaining freedom of navigation of the straits, as provided under the Egypt–Israel peace treaty.
1967L'Innovation department store in Brussels, Belgium, burns down, resulting in 323 dead or missing and 150 injured, the most devastating fire in Belgian history.[†]
The L'Innovation fire was a fire that took place at the À L'Innovation department store on the Rue Neuve/Nieuwstraat in central Brussels, Belgium, on 22 May 1967. More than 150 firefighters were mobilised to fight it, 251 people were killed, 62 injured, and the department store itself, the work of the Art Nouveau architect Victor Horta, was destroyed.
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Constantine announces junta has committed itself to 6-mo timetable for producing const, to be submitted to plebiscite; Eur socialist parties sending 3-man mission, headed by Austrian Vice Chancellor Pittermann, to inquire into detention of pol prisoners; Foreign Min issues statement scoring E Eur protests against govt
H W Baldwin repts Defense Dept presses plans to merge Army Reserve into Guard despite Cong and mil opposition; repts Army's 21-member Gen Staff Reserve policy com, by 1 vote, approved plan to drop 15 lower priority Guard divs, reform them as brigades and shift all Army Reserve combat units to Guard; plan would also eliminate all corps hq that now supervise Army Reserve; Regular Army and Army Reserve officers oppose plan, particularly during Vietnam war; many fear influence of state pol; cite 28th Div case
The city's 101-year-old Health Department, hobbled by the mass evacuation of key personnel, has curtailed its services and now is fighting for its life.
Johnson meets with some of most 'luminous intellectuals' in Adm to find out why he has trouble with intellectuals, luncheon; list; is told that Vietnam war is main reason; relations seen hampered also by communication problem influenced by his personal style
Bolshoi Ballet: S Hurok arranges 4-wk engagement, NYC, May-June '68, to follow Bolshoi Opera engagement at Met Opera
21 NYC rabbis and Prot mins form Clergymen's Consultation Service on Abortion to aid women; spokesman Rev H R Moody admits project involves 'legal risk' but declines to term it illegal; orgn statement pledges drive to liberalize NYS law; repudiates RC Ch stand on issue; clergymen listed
Donovan and Giardino warn CORE effort to raise 'black teacher ratio' and oust certain principals in Bedford-Stuyvesant hinders Educ Bd's efforts to improve system and complicates problem of getting dedicated teachers and principals to serve in these areas, TV int: Bklyn CORE organizer R Carson says group considers all but 5 of 32 area principals fired; notes only 10% of area teachers are Negro; seeks 50-50 Negro-white teacher balance; Donovan bars any threats over system
allied troops kill 300 N Vietnamese regulars in heavy fighting; close in on 2,000 of enemy; casualty figures for new fighting and entire operation; other allied activity noted; map
press confs, City Hall
article by Alliluyeva on feelings about leaving USSR, on spirit of Russian people and on yearnings of Russian writers under restrictions of present regime to be pub in Atlantic Monthly (J Reston rept); was in spired by B Pasternak's book Dr Zhivago, which she read in Rome and on way to Switzerland; is in effect a message to her children; held to reveal exceptional literary talent
UAR Field Marshal Amer orders total mobilization of 100,000-man reserves: other war-like preparations, including testing of Cairo air-raid sirens, and movement of troops, apparently toward Suez Canal, continue; movement of UAR warships through canal seen key element in build up, may be aimed at blocking Aqaba Gulf; UAR repts UNEF will relinquish Sharm el Sheikh, post dominating mouth of gulf at Tiran Strait; Al Ahram repts Yahia offers to send army and air units to bolster UAR forces; Shukairy repts terrorist drive set, news conf, Cairo; sees accident or incident sparking war; warns US intervention in war would create '2d Vietnam'; new US Amb Nolte in Cairo; says situation seems nearer to being normal than being crisis
charges IRS tries to 'get me' in retaliation for probe of IRS use of wiretapping, int; concedes he accepted fees from Shenker but denies wrongdoing; says payments were for corporate estate and personal damage cases he referred to Shenker; denies that money came from Hoffa or that he is personal friend of Hoffa; says he thinks Shenker made modest contribution to his election campaign and that Hoffa contributed to state com, which may have indirectly aided campaign; Shenker also denies charges