March 19 » Auguste and Louis Lumière record their first footage using their newly patented cinematograph.
June 11 » Paris–Bordeaux–Paris, sometimes called the first automobile race in history or the "first motor race", takes place.
June 20 » The Kiel Canal, crossing the base of the Jutland peninsula and the busiest artificial waterway in the world, is officially opened.
June 27 » The inaugural run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue from Washington, D.C., to New York City, the first U.S. passenger train to use electric locomotives.
October 22 » In Paris an express train derails after overrunning the buffer stop, crossing almost 30 metres (100ft) of concourse before crashing through a wall and falling 10 metres (33ft) to the road below.
December 28 » Wilhelm Röntgen publishes a paper detailing his discovery of a new type of radiation, which later will be known as x-rays.
Day of death January 20, 1967
The temperature on January 20, 1967 was between 2.5 °C and 7.4 °C and averaged 5.2 °C. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (2%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
January 29 » The "ultimate high" of the hippie era, the Mantra-Rock Dance, takes place in San Francisco and features Janis Joplin, Grateful Dead, and Allen Ginsberg.
May 13 » Dr. Zakir Husain becomes the third President of India. He is the first Muslim President of the Indian Union. He holds this position until August 24, 1969.
August 30 » Thurgood Marshall is confirmed as the first African American Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
November 14 » The Congress of Colombia, in commemoration of the 150 years of the death of Policarpa Salavarrieta, declares this day as "Day of the Colombian Woman".
November 21 » Vietnam War: American General William Westmoreland tells news reporters: "I am absolutely certain that whereas in 1965 the enemy was winning, today he is certainly losing."
November 29 » Vietnam War: U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara announces his resignation.
Day of cremation January 25, 1967
The temperature on January 25, 1967 was between 1.2 °C and 8.1 °C and averaged 4.9 °C. There was 1.0 mm of rain during 1.3 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 27 » Apollo program: Astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee are killed in a fire during a test of their Apollo 1 spacecraft at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida.
January 27 » Cold War: The Soviet Union, the United States, and the United Kingdom sign the Outer Space Treaty in Washington, D.C., banning deployment of nuclear weapons in space, and limiting use of the Moon and other celestial bodies to peaceful purposes.
May 30 » The Nigerian Eastern Region declares independence as the Republic of Biafra, sparking a civil war.
June 2 » Luis Monge is executed in Colorado's gas chamber, in the last pre-Furman execution in the United States.
November 21 » Vietnam War: American General William Westmoreland tells news reporters: "I am absolutely certain that whereas in 1965 the enemy was winning, today he is certainly losing."
November 30 » South Yemen becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
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