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July 19, 1967

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Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 19, 1967, covering July 19, 1967.

  1. 1
    Album cover for Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band by The Beatles

    Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

    The Beatles

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    Album cover for Headquarters by The Monkees

    Headquarters

    The Monkees

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    7
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    Album cover for Sounds Like... by Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass

    Sounds Like...

    Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass

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    8
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    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

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    16
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    Album cover for Revenge by Bill Cosby

    Revenge

    Bill Cosby

    Last week
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    Peak
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    11

Notable Births

Yael Abecassis

1967Yael Abecassis, Israeli model and actress[†]

Yael Abecassis is an Israeli actress and model.

Jean-François Mercier

1967Jean-François Mercier, Canadian comedian, screenwriter, and television host[†]

Jean-François Mercier is a comedian, screenwriter and television host from Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Mercier's comedy features his scruffy appearance and mixes social criticism with vulgarity, curse words and expressions of anger.

Notable Deaths

John McNaughton (government official)

1967John T. McNaughton, United States Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs and an advisor to Robert McNamara (born 1921)[†]

John Theodore McNaughton was an American government official who was United States Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs and Robert S. McNamara's closest advisor. He died in a plane crash at age 45, just before he was to become Secretary of the Navy.

1967Odell Shepard, American poet and politician, 66th Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut (born 1884)[†]

Odell Shepard was an American professor, poet, and politician who was the 86th Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut from 1941 to 1943. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1938.

Historical Events

Piedmont Airlines Flight 22

1967Piedmont Airlines Flight 22, a Piedmont Airlines Boeing 727-22 and a twin-engine Cessna 310 collided over Hendersonville, North Carolina, USA. Both aircraft were destroyed and all passengers and crew were killed, including John T. McNaughton, an advisor to Robert McNamara.[†]

Piedmont Airlines Flight 22 was a Piedmont Airlines Boeing 727-22 that collided with a twin-engine Cessna 310 on July 19, 1967, over Hendersonville, North Carolina, United States. Both aircraft were destroyed and all passengers and crew were killed, including John T. McNaughton, an advisor to U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara. The aircraft were both operating under instrument flight rules and were in radio contact with the Asheville control tower, though on different frequencies. The accident investigation was the first of a major scale conducted by the newly created National Transportation Safety Board. A review of the investigation conducted 39 years after the accident upheld the original findings that had placed primary responsibility on the Cessna pilot.

Historical Context for July 19, 1967

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