The third Arab / Israeli war is fought (a.k.a. "Six Day War").
Arab-Israeli "Six Day War"
Biafra declares its independence from Nigeria. Nigeria does not recognise this and invades Biafra, thus beginning a war.
China explodes its first hydrogen bomb.
H-Bomb
US and USSR enter talks on nuclear non-proliferation.
Vietnam war continues, so does widespread protest. People's Republic of China agrees to give North Vietnam an undisclosed amount of aid.
Rising dissatisfaction with the Vietnam War
Elvis Presley and Priscilla Beaulieu are married in Las Vegas.
Elvis Marriage
The United Kingdom and Ireland apply officially for European Economic Community membership.
The "Hippie" movement declares that summer of 1967 will be the "Summer of Love" with its epicentre being San Francisco.
Hippies
Israel annexes Jerusalem, thus initiating widespread protest.
Che Guevara is killed in Bolivia.
Che's body with CIA agents
Yemen gains independence.
Ronald Ryan is hanged in Pentridge Prison, Melbourne. He is the last person to be executed in Australia.
China's "Cultural Revolution" continues.
Cultural Revolution
Prithipal Singh and Shankar Lakshman (hockey players) are awarded the Padma Shri.
Dr. Zakir Hussain is the first Muslim to become president of India.
Zakir Hussain
Naxalite Guerrilla War begins. This Marxist/Maoist rebellion starts as an uprising in the in the town of Naxalbari in West Bengal.
Naxalbari after the Uprising
Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto founds the Pakistan People's Party and becomes its first chairman.
Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto
Nayyara Mirza is awarded the title "Miss India", in the Femina Miss India Pageant.
Nayyara Mirza
The Hindustani sitar player and composer Ravi Shankar is awarded Padma Bhushan
The Hindustani sarod player Ali Akbar Khan is awarded Padma Bhushan