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3 children killed, mother critically injured by hit-and-run driver, Prospect Av and 169th St, Bronx; A Knox held for homicide, drunken driving and driving without license
CBS newsmen K Kay, B Quint and J Laurence covering anti-Govt demonstration, Saigon, beaten by police
NYC Health Dept smoking control exec Dr Frederickson deplores smoking by heroes of children's TV-radio shows
NYS Human Rights Comm sets up Special Investigating Unit to initiate complaints of bias in employment and other fields
Johnson Adm holds US-Brit arms sales will be ended by HR-approved amendment barring cash sales of some $800-million of US mil equipment annually to W Eur nations if their carriers, even technically, are engaged in trade with N Vietnam
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 27, 1967, covering October 2, 1967.
The Beatles
Bobbie Gentry
The Doors
The Rolling Stones
The Monkees
1967Frankie Fredericks, Namibian sprinter[†]
Frank "Frankie" Fredericks is a former track and field athlete from Namibia. Running in the 100 metres and 200 metres, he won four silver medals at the Olympic Games, making him Namibia's only Olympic medalist until Christine Mboma's silver medal at the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo. He also won gold medals at the World Championships, World Indoor Championships, All-Africa Games and Commonwealth Games. He is the world indoor record-holder for 200 metres, with a time of 19.92 seconds set in 1996.
1967Thomas Muster, Austrian tennis player[†]
Thomas Muster is an Austrian former professional tennis player. He was ranked as the world No. 1 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP). Muster won 44 ATP Tour-level singles titles, including the 1995 French Open and eight Masters titles. One of the world's leading clay court players in the 1990s, at his peak he was called "The King of Clay". He is the first Austrian to win a major singles title, followed by Dominic Thiem at the 2020 US Open.
1967Gillian Welch, American singer-songwriter and guitarist[†]
Gillian Howard Welch is an American singer-songwriter. She performs with her musical partner, guitarist David Rawlings. Their sparse and dark musical style, which combines elements of Appalachian music, bluegrass, country and Americana, is described by The New Yorker as "at once innovative and obliquely reminiscent of past rural forms."
1967Thurgood Marshall is sworn in as the first African-American justice of the United States Supreme Court.[†]
Thoroughgood "Thurgood" Marshall was an American civil rights lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1967 until 1991. He was the Supreme Court's first African-American justice. Prior to his judicial service, he was an attorney who fought for civil rights, leading the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. Marshall was a prominent figure in the movement to end racial segregation in American public schools. He won 29 of the 32 civil rights cases he argued before the Supreme Court, culminating in the Court's landmark 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education, which rejected the separate but equal doctrine and held segregation in public education to be unconstitutional. President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed Marshall to the Supreme Court in 1967. A staunch liberal, he frequently dissented as the Court became increasingly conservative.
In 1967, the world population was approximately 3,473,412,880 people[†]