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Air force lt crash-lands MIG-17 near Hochstadt, W Ger; plane damaged, pilot unhurt; questioned by W Ger intelligence and taken into custody by US mil officials; US Embassy spokesman denies US has taken jurisdiction in case; map
Cumberland County (Pa) Common Pleas Ct Judge Weidner dismisses suit by daughter of H C Frick to suppress Dr S K Stevens book that contains unflattering refs to Frick; rules Stevens is protected by Fed and state consts; vindicates freedom of historians to judge subjects on basis of reasonable research; is more critical of Frick than book; holds criticisms not only true but milder than facts warrant; hints suit is frivolous; Stevens hails ruling; was defended by Amer Historical Assn and Soc of Amer Historians
set; Lindsay asks Emergency Control Bd to activate emergency service plan and asks McDonnell to press mediation efforts
Plymouth, Eng, set for Chichester arrival; Brit reactions to voyage discussed; ketch illus off Cornwall
SAIGON, South Vietnam, Friday, May 26 Fighting broke out anew yesterday inside the demilitarized zone between North and South Vietnam, United States military spokesmen disclosed today.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 24, 1967, covering May 26, 1967.
The Monkees
Aretha Franklin
Bill Cosby
The Mamas & The Papas
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1967Philip Treacy, Irish milliner, hat designer[†]
Philip Anthony Treacy is an Irish haute couture milliner, or hat designer, who has been mostly based in London for his career, and who was described by Vogue magazine as "perhaps the greatest living milliner". In 2000, Treacy became the first milliner in eighty years to be invited to exhibit at the Paris haute couture fashion shows. He has won British Accessory Designer of the Year at the British Fashion Awards five times, and has received public honours in both Britain and Ireland. His designs have been displayed at the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
1967Mika Yamamoto, Japanese journalist (died 2012)[†]
Mika Yamamoto was an award-winning Japanese video and photojournalist for the news agency Japan Press. Yamamoto was killed on 20 August 2012 while covering the ongoing Syrian Civil War in Aleppo, Syria. She was the first Japanese and fourth foreign journalist killed in the Syrian Civil War that began in March 2011. She was the fifteenth journalist killed in Syria in 2012. Yamamoto was a recipient of the Vaughn-Uyeda Memorial Prize of the Japanese Newspaper Publishers and Editors Association for her reporting of international affairs in 2004.
1967The Beatles' album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is released.[†]
The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960. The core lineup of the band comprised John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. They are widely regarded as the most influential band in Western popular music and were integral to the development of 1960s counterculture and the recognition of popular music as an art form. Rooted in skiffle, beat and 1950s rock 'n' roll, their sound incorporated elements of classical music and traditional pop in innovative ways. The band also explored music styles ranging from folk and Indian music to psychedelia and hard rock. As pioneers in recording, songwriting and artistic presentation, the Beatles revolutionised many aspects of the music industry and were often publicised as leaders of the era's youth and sociocultural movements.
In 1967, the world population was approximately 3,473,412,880 people[†]