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This year in history
In the year 1967

	January 3rd	American, Jack Ruby, was born in Chicago, Illinois. He was a Dallas nightclub owner, who murdered John F. Kennedy's assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald.
	January 9th	Argentinian footballer, Claudio Caniggia, was born in Buenos Aires. He was one of the main players of the Argentinean national team during the 1990's.
	January 15th	The first ever Super Bowl of American football took place.
	January 18th	Serial killer, Albert DeSalvo, also known as the 'Boston Strangler' was sentenced to life imprisonment. He was a serial killer active in Boston, Massachusetts in the early 1960's.
	January 27th	A fire aboard the space capsule at Cape Kennedy, Florida, killed astronauts Virgil I. Grissom, Edward H. White, and Roger Chaffee.
	January 27th	The Outer Space Treaty was signed which stipulated the banning of deploying nuclear weapons in earth's orbit.
	February 18th	Italian footballer, Roberto Baggio, was born in Caldogno. He is widely acknowledged as one of the best and most revered football players of the 1990's.
	February 18th	American physicist, Robert Oppenheimer, died at the age of 62. He was a theoretical physicist, most known for having been the director of the Manhattan Project, which was responsible for developing the first nuclear weapons in history. After the atomic bombs were used to destroy the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, he became an advocate against the use of nuclear weapons as well as the arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union. He died of throat cancer.
	February 27th	Dominica became an independent nation. It is an island nation in the Caribbean sea which was previously a British colony.
	March 9th	Josef Stalin's daughter, Svetlana Alliluyeva, defected to the United States.
	April 21st	Colonel George Papadopoulos led a coup d'etat, establishing a military regime in Greece, that lasted for seven years.
	April 29th	The boxing champion of the world, Muhammad Ali, was stripped of his boxing title after refusing induction into the United States Army, citing religious reasons.
	June 5th	The Six-Day war began with the Israeli air force launching simultaneous attacks on the air forces of Egypt, Jordan, and Syria.
	June 8th	During the course of the Six-Day War, Israeli planes and submarines launched an accidental attack on the US naval vessel, Liberty. 34 people died in the incident and more than 150 were injured.
	June 9th	Israel captured the Golan Heights from Syria during the Six-Day War.
	June 10th	American actor, Spencer Tracy, died at the age of 66. He is widely considered as one of the greatest male stars in the history of cinema and along with fellow actor Laurence Olivier had the most "best actor" Oscar nominations in history.
	June 12th	The United States Supreme Court declared that all state laws which prohibited interracial marriages to be unconstitutional.
	June 20th	Australian actress, Nicole Kidman, was born in Honolulu, Hawaii. As of 2006 she became the highest paid female actor in the film industry.
	June 25th	The first global satellite television programme 'Our World' went on the air.
	June 27th	The world's first ATM was installed in Enfield, London.
	June 29th	American actress, Jayne Mansfield, died at the age of 34. She was one of the major sex symbols of the 1950s and died in a car crash.
	June 29th	Italian boxer, Primo Carnera, died at the age of 60.
	July 1st	Canadian model and actress, Pamela Anderson, was born in Ladysmith, British Columbia. She became famous after landing one of the leading roles in the hit television series, Baywatch.
	July 6th	Nigerian forces invaded Biafra, marking the beginning of the Biafran War. The war was prompted by the attempted secession of the south eastern provinces of Nigeria as the self-proclaimed Republic of Biafra. The war became notorious for the starvation that occurred in some of the war bound regions.
	July 8th	British actress, Vivien Leigh, died at the age of 53. She was one of the most successful performers of her era, who frequently collaborated with her husband, Laurence Olivier.
	July 12th	A series of race related riots took place in Newark, New Jersey. The riots lasted six days and claimed the lives of 27 people.
	July 16th	American comedian, Will Ferrell, was born in Irvine, California. He established himself as a member of the famous comedy show, Saturday Night Live.
	July 18th	American actor, Vin Diesel, was born in New York City. He worked as a bouncer before becoming an actor and it was in that profession he adopted the name Vin Diesel. His real name is Mark Sinclair Vincent.
	July 19th	A Piedmont Airlines passenger jet collided with a Cessna plane in mid-flight over North Carolina, USA. 82 died as a result of the crash.
	July 23th	American actor, Philip Seymour Hoffman, was born in Fairport, New York. His first major role was in the hit movie, Scent of a Woman. In 2005, Hoffman won widespread acclaim for his portrayal of writer Truman Capote in the film Capote.
	July 25th	American actor, Matt LeBlanc, was born in Newton, Massachusetts. He is best known for his role playing Joey Tribbiani, in the hit television series, Friends.
	August 21st	Canadian actress, Carrie-Anne Moss, was born in Burnaby, British Columbia. She became famous for her role as Trinity in the 1999 box office success The Matrix.
	September 2nd	The microstate Principality of Sealand declared its independence. Although not recognised by any nation, the Principality of Sealand is a micro nation which claims as its territory the artificial island of Roughs Tower, a Sea Fort, located off the coast of Suffolk, England.
	September 13th	American athlete, Michael Johnson, was born in Dallas, Texas. He was the first man to win both the 200m and 400m races in the Olympic games and also currently (2006) holds the world records on both events.
	September 28th	American actress, Mira Sorvino, was born in New Jersey, USA. She attended Harvard University, where she graduated magna cum laude in East Asian Studies. She got her breakthrough role in Woody Allen's 1995 film Mighty Aphrodite.
	October 8th	Revolutionary guerilla leader, Che Guevara, was captured along with his men in Bolivia. He was executed the next day by the Bolivian army.
	October 9th	Argentine revolutionary and guerilla leader, Che Guevara, was executed after being captured by the local army in Bolivia. After his death, Guevara became an icon of socialist revolutionary movements worldwide.
	October 28th	American actress, Julia Roberts, was born in Georgia, USA. She is one of the top selling actresses of the 1990's and 2000's and has the the record for highest paid actress of all time for her role in Mona Lisa Smile for which she received 25 million dollars.
	October 28th	American , John Romero, was born in Colorado. He is one of the worlds pioneering computer game designers with such credits to his name as the all time classics Doom and Quake titles.
	November 16th	American actress, Lisa Bonet, was born in San Francisco, California. She gained worldwide fame for her participation in the hit television series 'The Cosby Show'.
	November 30th	The People's Republic of South Yemen became independent from the United Kingdom. In 1990 it merged with the Yemen Arab Republic to form the country of Yemen.
	December 10th	American soul singer, Otis Redding, died at the age of 26. He was an influential singer who died along with most members of his band in a plane crash.
	December 19th	Prime Minister of Australia Harold Holt was officially presumed dead. He disappeared while swimming in a beach south of Melbourne and was never seen again.
	December 29th	American director, Andy Wachowski, was born in Chicago, Illinois. Along with his brother, Larry Wachowski, is the co-writer and co-director of the massively successful Matrix film trilogy.

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