by Kayla and Mike

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1967 was a year full of rapid change and dispute in the country. This was a year in which Muhammad Ali was expelled from the National Wrestling League, Mickey Mantle hit his 500th home run(!) and the Red Sox lose the world series again- keeping the infamous curse alive! Also in 1967, the 6 Day War happened in the Gaza Strip, there were efforts made to stop to cold war, the race barrier is broken in the Supreme Court. 1967 was a classic turbulent 60's year full of peace, love, and drugs.

• Chevrolet starts selling Cameros for less than $2,500 in the U.S.
• On January 15, the Green Bay Packers of the N.F.L. beat the Kansas City Chiefs of the A.F.L. in Super Bowl I, held in L.A!
• On February 2, L.B.J. offers to halt the bombing of North Vietnam if the North Vietnamese stop infiltrating South Vietnam. Ho Chi Minh, the North Vietnam leader, refuses the offer.
• Anti-war expressions on April 15 in New York and San Francisco bring more of 100,000 in New York, 50,000 in San Francisco.
• On April 25 Muhammad Ali is arrested for refusing to be into the Army. The World Boxing Association strips him of his world heavyweight title on April 28.
• On May 14 Mickey Mantle of the New York Yankees hits his five-hundredth home run in league competition.
• On May 25, UCLA, coached by John Wooden, wins the first of seven consecutive National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) national basketball championships.
• On June 2, the Beatles Album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, which is thought to be the most influential and original rock album of all time, makes it debut today.
• Israel's population toped 3.5 million with some 2.4 million Jews and more than 1 million Arabs as the Six Day War (June 5-10) expanded Israeli territory.
• Also in July, U.S. runner Jim Ryun sets a new 1,500-meters world record of 3 minutes 33.1 seconds, an improvement of 2.5 seconds on the existing record set by the Australian runner Herb Elliott in 1960.
• The Monterey Pop Festival in Monterey, California, June 16, 17 and 18 is the first large rock music gathering.
• On July 23, a race riot erupts in Newark, New Jersey after the police beat a black man who was stopped for a traffic violation. The National Guard is called in to restore order, 26 people die, 1,300 are injured, and millions of dollars worth of property is destroyed.
• July – September U.S. tennis player Billie Jean King emulates fellow U.S. player Alice Marble's 1939 achievement of winning the singles, doubles, and mixed doubles at both the U.S. and Wimbledon tennis championships in the same year
• Thurgood Marshall becomes the first African American appointed to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court. He was appointed by President Johnson and was sworn in on October 2.
• The St. Louis Cardinals defeat the Boston Red Sox by four games to three to win the World Series on October 12. The curse lives on in the hearts and minds of Red Sox fans everywhere.
• The Public Broadcasting Act is signed into law by President Johnson November 7 creates a Corporation for Public Broadcasting to broaden the scope of noncommercial radio and TV beyond its educational role.
• Rolling Stone magazine begins publication in November.
• South African surgeon, Christian Barnard, performs the world’s first heart transplant December 3.
• Summer of Love in San Francisco. 300,000 "flower children" are in the Height-Asbury district.
• Bonnie & Clyde and The Graduate are hits at the box office.
• The first compact microwave oven for U.S. home use is introduced by “Amana” Refrigeration.
• The game Battleship is introduced.
• Broadway and off-Broadway musical Charlie Brown debuts.
• U.S. bombers pound targets around Hanoi.
• Smoking-withdrawal clinics show up across the country but Americans buy 572.6 billion cigarettes, 210 packs per adult.
• Chicago’s John Hancock Center goes up. It is 1,107 feet tall, the skyscraper is second in highest to New York’s Empire State Building.

40th Annual Academy Awards:
Best Actor: Rod Steiger in the Heat of the Night
Best Actress: Katharine Hepburn in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?
Best Picture: In the Heat of the Night

The Emmy Awards:
Outstanding Dramatic Series: Mission: Impossible TV (CBS)
Outstanding Comedy Series: The Monkees (NBC)

10th Grammy Awards Ever:
Record of the Year: “Up, Up and Away,” 5th Dimension
Album of the Year: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, The Beatles
Song of the Year: “Up, Up and Away”
Best New Artist: Bobbie Gentry

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