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November 17, 1967

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Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 15, 1967, covering November 17, 1967.

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    Album cover for Diana Ross And The Supremes Greatest Hits by Diana Ross & The Supremes

    Diana Ross And The Supremes Greatest Hits

    Diana Ross & The Supremes

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    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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    22
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    Album cover for Strange Days by The Doors

    Strange Days

    The Doors

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    3
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    Album cover for The Doors by The Doors

    The Doors

    The Doors

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    35
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    Album cover for The Four Tops Greatest Hits by Four Tops

    The Four Tops Greatest Hits

    Four Tops

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    8

Notable Births

Tab Benoit

1967Tab Benoit, American singer-songwriter and guitarist[†]

Tab Benoit is an American blues guitarist, musician, and singer. His playing combines a number of blues styles, primarily Delta blues.

Ronnie DeVoe

1967Ronnie DeVoe, American singer, producer, and actor[†]

Ronald Boyd DeVoe Jr., is an American singer and rapper known as one of the members of the R&B/pop group New Edition, and the R&B/hip hop group Bell Biv DeVoe. He was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts.

Historical Events

Vietnam War

1967Vietnam War: Acting on optimistic reports that he had been given on November 13, U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson tells the nation that, while much remained to be done, "We are inflicting greater losses than we're taking...We are making progress."[†]

The Vietnam War was an armed conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia fought between North Vietnam and South Vietnam and their allies. North Vietnam was supported by the Soviet Union and China, while South Vietnam was supported by the United States and other anti-communist nations. The conflict was the second of the Indochina wars and a proxy war of the Cold War between the Soviet Union and US. The Vietnam War was one of the postcolonial wars of national liberation, a theater in the Cold War, and a civil war, with civil warfare a defining feature from the outset. Direct US military involvement escalated from 1965 until its withdrawal in 1973. The fighting spilled into the Laotian and Cambodian Civil Wars, which ended with all three countries becoming communist in 1975.

Historical Context for November 17, 1967

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