Dec 15 The Silver Bridge across the Ohio River collapsed during rush hour. Dozens of cars fell into the icy water. Forty-six people lost their lives in the accident, and many others were injured.

Dec 09 Nicolea Ceausescu becomes president (dictator) of Romania

Dec 11 SST prototype "Concorde" first shown (France)

Dec 03 Final run of "20th Century Limited," famed New York-Chicago luxury train

Dec 18 The British traitor Kim Philby made a 'Hero of the Soviet Union' in Moscow

Dec 12 US launches Pioneer 8 into solar orbit

Dec 29 Parliament drops death penalty for murder, except policemen or prison guards; for five-year trial period.

Dec 05 Beatles clothing store "Apple" on 94 Baker Street, London, opens

Aug 01 US's Lunar Orbiter 5 launched; enters lunar orbit Aug 5

Aug 25 Paraguay accepts its constitution

Aug 15 England's Marine Offense Bill making pirate radio stations a crime goes into effect, pirate station Radio 355 closes down

Aug 19 Operation Coronado IV begins in Mekong Delta

Aug 24 Liberian flag designed

Aug 19 Beatles' "All You Need is Love," single goes #1

Aug 27 The Beatles' manager, Brian Epstein, is found dead in his London flat from an overdose of sleeping pills.

Aug 18 Rolling Stones release "We Love You"

Aug 04 British pirate radio station Radio 355 goes off the air

Aug 30 US Senate confirm Thurgood Marshall as first black justice

Aug 13 In the Pyrenees a 5.3 quake resulted in numerous buildings were destroyed in Arette, Oloron, and Montory; one person was killed and 80 were injured

Aug 02 US's Lunar Orbiter 5 launched; enters lunar orbit Aug 5

Aug 24 Mobs from China repeatedly attack British positions along 27km Hong Kong border and are driven off with tear gas.

Aug 30 The US Senate confirms Thurgood Marshall as the first black US Supreme Court Justice.

Aug 29 Final TV episode of "The Fugitive"

Oct 31 Nguyen Van Thieu took oath of office as First pres of S Vietnam 2nd Republic

Oct 03 William Knight sets X-15 speed rec of 7,297 KPH/4,534 MPH/Mach 6.72

Oct 27 4 people from Baltimore pour blood on selective service records

Oct 30 USSR Kosmos 186 &188 make first automatic docking &Venmera 13 launch

Oct 06 Haight-Ashbury hippies throw a funeral to mark the end of hippies

Oct 19 Mariner 5 makes fly-by of Venus

Oct 20 All white federal jury convicts 7 in murder of 3 civil rights workers

Oct 21 Thousands opposing Vietnam War try to storm the Pentagon

Oct 11 Yoko Plus Me art exhibit opens in London (the me is John Lennon)

Oct 11 Operation Coronado VI began in Rung Sat Zone

Oct 09 Che Guevara executed in Bolivia

Oct 27 Expo '67 closes in Montreal, Canada.

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