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1967 |
| January
27th |
 |
The
first American deaths in the NASA space program when Gus
Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee were killed
during a 'plugs out' dress rehearsal for a launch for Apollo-Saturn
1. |
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| February
18th |
|
US
physicist Robert J. Oppenheimer died. Oppenheimer worked on
the Manhattan
Project during WWII. The project's success led to the
Trinity test, and the bombs used at Hiroshima
and Nagasaki. |
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| April
24th |
|
Soviet
cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov was killed during the Soyuz
1 mission. The disaster happened during the re-entry. |
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| June 5th |
|
Israel
and Arab states of Egpyt, Jordan and Syria clashed in the 'Six-Day
War' in the Middle East. Israel's pre-emptive strike and swift
victory captures huge amounts of land including the Sinai, Golan
Heights, the West Bank including Jerusalem. |
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| June 17th |
|
Communist
China exploded their first Hydrogen bomb. |
|
| July. |
|
SIx
weeks after the outcome of the 'Six-Day War' in the Middle East,
the PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization) was formed to oppose
the Jewish state of Israel. |
|
| July. |
|
Riots
broke out in Newark, NJ and Detroit, MI, USA. The riots killed
66 and injuried 3,500; fires, violence and looting left more
than 5,000 people homeless. |
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| October 2nd |
|
Thurgood
Marshall was sworn in as first Black African-American justice
on the Supreme Court. |
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| October
5th |
|
NASA
astronaut Clifton Williams was killed near Tallahassee,
Florida, in the crash of a T-38 jet. He served as back-up pilot
for the Gemini 10 mission. |
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South
African surgeon Christiaan Barnard performed the first human
heart transplant in Cape Town, South Africa. |
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The
King Constantine II of Greece was deposed and went into exile. |
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Englishman
Francis Charles Chichester sailed solo around the world in the
'Gipsy Moth IV', during 1966, and completed the voyage in 1967. |
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