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resigns; named Home Sec
analyzes puzzling factors in timing of apptmt, McNamara and Johnson versions of background
SAIGON, South Vietnam, Nov. 29--Martha Raye, the comedienne, was rescued under fire by a helicopter from the top of a mountain when Vietcong ...
Sen, 85-2, approves pay-rise bill
McNamara formally receives and accepts apptmt to take effect in '68; Johnson, McNamara rev background on apptmt
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 29, 1967, covering November 30, 1967.
The Monkees
Diana Ross & The Supremes
The Doors
The Beatles
The Doors
1967Joseph Corré, English fashion designer and businessman, co-founded Agent Provocateur[†]
Joseph Ferdinand Corré is a British activist and businessman, who co-founded Agent Provocateur in 1994.
1967Rajiv Dixit, Indian author and activist (died 2010)[†]
Rajiv Dixit was an Indian social activist who founded the Azadi Bachao Andolan.
1967Richard Harry, Australian rugby player[†]
Richard Lewis Lloyd Harry is an Australian former rugby union player who played as a prop.
1967Patrick Kavanagh, Irish poet and author (born 1904)[†]
Patrick Kavanagh was an Irish poet and novelist. His best-known works include the novel Tarry Flynn, and the poems "On Raglan Road" and "The Great Hunger". He is known for his accounts of Irish life through reference to the everyday and commonplace.
1967The People's Republic of Southern Yemen gains its independence from the United Kingdom[†]
South Yemen, officially the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen, abbreviated to Democratic Yemen, was a country in South Arabia that existed in what is now southeast Yemen from 1967 until its unification with the Yemen Arab Republic in 1990. The sole communist state in the Middle East and the Arab world, it comprised the southern and eastern governorates of the present-day Republic of Yemen, including the Socotra Archipelago. It bordered the Yemen Arab Republic to the northwest, Saudi Arabia to the north, Oman to the east, the Arabian Sea to the southeast, and the Gulf of Aden to the south. Its capital and largest city was Aden.
1967The Pakistan Peoples Party is founded by Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, who becomes its first chairman.[†]
The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) is a political party in Pakistan and one of the three major Pakistani political parties alongside the Pakistan Muslim League (N) and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf. With a centre-left political position, it is currently the largest party in the federal Senate, and second-largest in the National Assembly; and is in government in Sindh and Balochistan. The party was founded in 1967 in Lahore, when a number of prominent left-wing politicians in the country joined hands against the rule of Ayub Khan, under the leadership of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. It is affiliated with the Socialist International. The PPP's platform was formerly socialist, and its stated priorities continue to include transforming Pakistan into a social-democratic state, promoting egalitarian values, establishing social justice, and maintaining a strong military.
1967Pro-Soviet communists in the Philippines establish Malayang Pagkakaisa ng Kabataan Pilipino as its new youth wing.[†]
The Partido Komunista ng Pilipinas-1930 (PKP-1930), also known as the Philippine Communist Party, is a communist party in the Philippines that was established on November 7, 1930. It uses the aforementioned appellation in order to distinguish itself from its better known splinter group, the Communist Party of the Philippines.
In 1967, the world population was approximately 3,473,412,880 people[†]