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TIME CAPSULE: 50 YEARS AGO, 1967
Significant Events
Feb 22: 25,000 US & South Vietnamese troops launch Operation Junction City against Viet Cong. Largest US airborne assult since WWII.
Apr 24: Vietnam War: American General William Westmoreland says in a news conference that the enemy had “gained support in the United States that gives him hope that he can win politically that which he cannot win militarily.”
Jun 5: Six-day war begins between Israel and the neighboring Arab states of Egypt, Jordan and Syria
Jul 6: Nigerian Civil War erupts as Nigerian forces invade the secessionist state of Biafra
Nov 28: 1st radio pulsars detected by British postgraduate Jocelyn Burnell and her supervisor Antony Hewish at Cambridge University
Dec 31st: human heart transplant performed in South Africa by Dr Christiaan Barnard on Louis Washkansky
1967 in Film & TV
Jan 7: “Newlywed Game” premieres on ABC TV
Aug 13: “Bonnie and Clyde”, directed by Arthur Penn and starring Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway, is released
Aug 29: Final TV episode of “The Fugitive” starring David Janssen watched by 78 million people
Dec 11: “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner”, directed by Stanley Kramer, starring Spencer Tracy, Sidney Poitier and Katharine Hepburn, premieres in NYC (Hepburn - Academy Award for Best Actress 1968)
Dec 16: “Playtime”, French film directed by Jacques Tati, starring himself, is released
1967 in Music
Mar 31: 1st time Jimi Hendrix burns his guitar (London)
May 26: EMI releases “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” a few days early in the UK; it would go to number one for 15 weeks in the US and 22 weeks in the UK
Nov 27: The Beatles release their album “Magical Mystery Tour”