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 October 4, 1967, covering October 9, 1967.
The Beatles
Bobbie Gentry
The Doors
The Rolling Stones
Aretha Franklin
The Monkees
The Byrds
The Rascals
Jefferson Airplane
Jimi Hendrix
1967Carling Bassett-Seguso, Canadian tennis player[†]
Carling Kathrin Bassett-Seguso is a former Canadian professional tennis player, fashion model and actress. Bassett is the daughter of John F. Bassett and Susan Carling, and the granddaughter of media baron John W. H. Bassett and politician and brewery executive John Carling. She was inducted into the Ontario Sports Hall of Fame in 2003.
1967Eddie Guerrero, American wrestler (died 2005)[†]
Eduardo Gory Guerrero Llanes was an American professional wrestler. He was best known for his tenures in World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) and World Championship Wrestling (WCW). A prominent member of the Guerrero wrestling family, being the son of first-generation wrestler Gory Guerrero, he is widely considered to be one of the greatest and most influential professional wrestlers of all time.
1967Gheorghe Popescu, Romanian footballer[†]
Gheorghe "Gică" Popescu is a Romanian former professional football player who played as a defender.
1967Che Guevara, Argentinian-Cuban physician, politician and guerrilla leader (born 1928)[†]
Ernesto "Che" Guevara was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, guerrilla leader, diplomat, and military theorist. A major figure of the Cuban Revolution, his stylized visage has become a ubiquitous countercultural symbol of rebellion and global insignia in popular culture.
1967Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1897)[†]
Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood was a British physical chemist and expert in chemical kinetics. His work in reaction mechanisms earned the 1956 Nobel Prize in chemistry.
1967André Maurois, French soldier and author (born 1885)[†]
André Maurois was a French author.
1967Joseph Pilates, German-American fitness trainer, developed Pilates (born 1883)[†]
Joseph Hubertus Pilates was a German physical trainer, writer, and inventor. He is credited with inventing and promoting the Pilates method of physical fitness. He patented a total of 26 apparatuses in his lifetime.
1967A day after his capture, Ernesto "Che" Guevara is executed for attempting to incite a revolution in Bolivia.[†]
Ernesto "Che" Guevara was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, guerrilla leader, diplomat, and military theorist. A major figure of the Cuban Revolution, his stylized visage has become a ubiquitous countercultural symbol of rebellion and global insignia in popular culture.
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US and W Ger to unveil MBT-70 tank with gun capable of firing missiles and arty shells, reptdly fastest and most advanced tank ever devised; development took 4 yrs, cost some $200-million; troubles with weapons system caused 1-yr setback in schedule; yr-long tests in US and W Ger set; illus
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Portugal awaits Paris ct ruling on request for extraditing of I Palma who participated in $1-million robbery, May, at Bank of Portugal Figueira da Foz branch; pol motivations behind theft revd
wins 4th game, 6-0
To be site of Dem Natl Conv, '68
survey of scientists views on safety of marijuana
US planes bomb major MIG airfield at Catbi 4 mi SE of Haiphong for 1st time; US planes have now attacked 4 of 6 MIG bases; 3 US planes downed; US planes raid in other areas; N Vietnam denounces recent US raids; map
NY Times series on 50th anniv of Bolshevik Revolution; C Curtis article on changing role of women in soc, increasing femininity; illus
Fitzpatrick, L; J Hutchinson: found beaten to death in basement of East Village slum tenement; Hutchinson reptdly known as cheap source of LSD; pors
AID aide J P Grant says that 5 to 6% of goods agency ships to S Vietnam is diverted to corrupt purposes, TV int; says new Govt faces problem of corruption in lower officialdom
Gallup poll says 28% of Amers approve of Johnson's handling of war, 57% disapprove and 15% have no opinion; figures on other issues in current survey noted; recent Harris poll on Johnson policy noted