The October 1967 Pentagon riot, the first national protest against the war, exemplified the agonizingly divisive debate over Vietnam.
October 6, 1967 (Friday)
Three students at Duke University became the first people to be certified as a physician assistant (PA).
17–18, 1967, as a precursor to a large national antiwar march the following weekend in Washington, D.C. The events of Oct. 17 played out peacefully — about 125 demonstrators picketed on the terrace of the Commerce Building, and 15 to 20 people protested quietly inside.
On October 2, 1967, Thurgood Marshall was sworn in as a United States Supreme Court justice. Long before President Lyndon Johnson appointed him the first African American Supreme Court justice, Marshall had established himself as the nation's leading legal civil rights advocate.
Sunday, October 22, 1967
In 1967 more than 600 people were arrested when thousands of protesters marched to the Pentagon to demand an end to U.S. involvement in the war in Vietnam. The tumultuous demonstration was seen as a turning point for the peace movement in America.
Australians vote yes to change the Constitution
On 27 May 1967, Australians voted to change the Constitution so that like all other Australians, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples would be counted as part of the population and the Commonwealth would be able to make laws for them.
The first handheld calculator invented. South African doctor Christiaan Barnard performed the first heart transplant. Rolling Stone began publication. The first issue sold about 5,000 copies.
Opposition to the Vietnam War had been building on college campuses for years when, on Oct. 18, 1967, UW–Madison students amassed to protest the recruiting efforts on campus of the Dow Chemical Company. The company made napalm, a flammable gel used on the battlefield by the U.S. government.
Moon Phase for Tuesday Oct 17th, 1967
The Moon phase for October 17th, 1967 is a Waxing Gibbous phase. This is the phase where the moon is more than 50% illuminated but has not yet reached 100% illumination (which would be a Full Moon).
The constitution is formally changed on 10 August 1967.
November 11, 1967 (Saturday)
Three American prisoners of war were released by the Viet Cong, and turned over to American antiwar activist Tom Hayden in a ceremony in Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia. Sgt. Daniel Lee Pitzer had been taken captive in South Vietnam more than four years earlier, while Master Sgt.
Apollo 4 Launches – Nov. 9, 1967 | NASA.
On September 12, 1967, President Lyndon B. Johnson and First Lady Claudia “Lady Bird” Johnson hosted a “Country Fair” celebration on the South Lawn of the White House for children and grandchildren of members of Congress, Cabinet members, and other government officials.
1967: Handheld calculator
Texas Instruments invented the first electronic handheld calculator in 1967.
Harold Holt was the Prime Minister of Australia from 1966 to 1967.
From the first federal electoral Act in 1902 to 1965, when the last state changed its law, tens of thousands of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people were subject to regulations which prohibited them from voting at federal and state elections.
Harold Edward Holt CH (5 August 1908 – 17 December 1967) was an Australian politician and lawyer who served as the 17th prime minister of Australia, from 1966 until his disappearance and presumed death in 1967, holding office as leader of the Liberal Party of Australia.
The Moon phase for October 22nd, 1967 is a Waning Gibbous phase. This is the first phase after the Full Moon where the illumination of the moon decreases each day until it reaches 50% (the Last Quarter phase).
This Day in History: October 22
On this day in 1962, President John F. Kennedy alerted Americans to the Cuban missile crisis, declaring a naval blockade to prevent further missile shipments to the island country 90 miles (145 km) off the coast of the U.S.
15 November 1967: Major Michael James Adams, United States Air Force, was killed in the crash of the number three North American Aviation X-15 hypersonic research rocketplane, 56-6672. Flight 191 of the X-15 program was Mike Adams' seventh flight in the rocketplane.