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June 5, 1967

Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.

Historical Context for June 5, 1967

In 1967, the world population was approximately 3,473,412,880 people[†]

Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 31, 1967, covering June 5, 1967.

  1. 1
    Album cover for More Of The Monkees by The Monkees

    More Of The Monkees

    The Monkees

    Last week
    1
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    18
  2. 2
    Album cover for I Never Loved A Man The Way I Love You by Aretha Franklin

    I Never Loved A Man The Way I Love You

    Aretha Franklin

    Last week
    2
    Peak
    2
    Weeks
    9
  3. 3
    Album cover for Revenge by Bill Cosby

    Revenge

    Bill Cosby

    Last week
    3
    Peak
    3
    Weeks
    4
  4. 4
    Album cover for The Mamas & The Papas Deliver by The Mamas & The Papas

    The Mamas & The Papas Deliver

    The Mamas & The Papas

    Last week
    4
    Peak
    2
    Weeks
    12
  5. 5
    Album cover for Doctor Zhivago by Soundtrack

    Doctor Zhivago

    Soundtrack

    Last week
    5
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    64
  6. 6
    Album cover for The Sound Of Music by Soundtrack

    The Sound Of Music

    Soundtrack

    Last week
    6
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    116
  7. 7
    Album cover for Surrealistic Pillow by Jefferson Airplane

    Surrealistic Pillow

    Jefferson Airplane

    Last week
    10
    Peak
    7
    Weeks
    11
  8. 8
    Album cover for The Best Of The Lovin' Spoonful by The Lovin' Spoonful

    The Best Of The Lovin' Spoonful

    The Lovin' Spoonful

    Last week
    8
    Peak
    3
    Weeks
    12
  9. 9
    Album cover for The Monkees by The Monkees

    The Monkees

    The Monkees

    Last week
    7
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    35
  10. 10
    Album cover for Born Free by Andy Williams

    Born Free

    Andy Williams

    Last week
    22
    Peak
    10
    Weeks
    4

Notable Births

1967Joe DeLoach, American sprinter[†]

Joseph ("Joe") Nathaniel DeLoach is an American former sprinter who was the 1988 Olympic champion in the 200 m.

Ron Livingston

1967Ron Livingston, American actor[†]

Ronald Joseph Livingston is an American actor. He is best known for playing Peter Gibbons in Office Space (1999) and Captain Lewis Nixon III in the miniseries Band of Brothers (2001). Livingston's other roles include the films Swingers (1996), Adaptation (2002), The Conjuring (2013), James White (2015), Tully (2018); and the television series Loudermilk (2017–2020), and Boardwalk Empire (2013).

Notable Deaths

Arthur Biram

1967Arthur Biram, Israeli philologist, philosopher, and academic (born 1878)[†]

Arthur Yitzhak Biram was a German-born Israeli philosopher, philologist, and educator. He was the founder of the Reali School in Haifa.

1967Harry Brown, Australian public servant (born 1878)[†]

Sir Harry Percy Brown was a senior Australia public servant. He was Director-General of the Postmaster-General's Department from 1923 until 1939.

Historical Events

Six-Day War

1967The Six-Day War begins: Israel launches surprise strikes against Egyptian air-fields in response to the mobilisation of Egyptian forces on the Israeli border.[†]

The Six-Day War, also known as the June War, 1967 Arab–Israeli War or Third Arab–Israeli War, was fought between Israel and a coalition of Arab states, primarily Egypt, Syria, and Jordan from 5 to 10 June 1967.

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Headlines from June 5, 1967

Senate Unit Assails The Army's Policy On Rifle Purchases; SENATORS ASSAIL ARMY ON RIFLES

By Unknown Author

Sen Armed Services subcom issues rept scoring Army's rifle procurement program since World War II and particularly during '60s; accuses Army and Defense Dept of indecision, vacillation and change; says Army spent $500-million on M-14, then because of unidentified 'influential people in Pentagon' suddenly shifted to M-16; holds M-14 was inferior to M-1 which it replaced; Sec Resor defends Army policy; subcom rejects stand

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SOVIET NOVELIST ASSAILS CENSORS; Letter to Writers' Session Urges the Abolition of All Restraints on Fiction

By Theodore Shabad

Novelist A I Solzhenitsyn issues bold and eloquent plea for abolition of censorship, lr circulated in Moscow and addressed to Soviet Writers Union cong; urges union demand end of controls; says secret police confiscated some of his writings in '65 and uses them now in campaign to defame him; lists 24 Russian writers, past and present, who have been censored; other details

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