WHAT ALL HAPPENED JUNE TO OCTOBER 1967
Find out what all happened June to October 1967

BBC Light Programme, Third Programme and Home Service are replaced with BBC Radio 2, 3 and 4 Respectively, BBC Radio 1 is also launched with Tony Blackburn presenting its first show. (30. September 1967)

The Khmer–Chinese Friendship Association is banned in Cambodia (1. September 1967)

The United States Supreme Court in Loving v. Virginia declares all U.S. state laws which prohibit interracial marriage to be unconstitutional. (12. June 1967)

Six-Day War: Israel captures the Golan Heights from Syria (9. June 1967)

The Vietnam War: The folk singer Joan Baez is arrested concerning a physical blockade of the U.S. Army's induction center in Oakland, California. (14. October 1967)

During the fourth day of celebrating its 400th anniversary, the city of Caracas, Venezuela is shaken by an earthquake, leaving approximately 500 dead. (29. July 1967)

A day after being captured, Marxist revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara is executed for attempting to incite a revolution in Bolivia. (9. October 1967)

Vietnam War: Operation Swift begins: U.S. Marines engage the North Vietnamese in battle in the Que Son Valley. (4. September 1967)

The first game in the history of the American Basketball Association is played as the Anaheim Amigos lose to the Oakland Oaks 134-129 in Oakland, California. (13. October 1967)

U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson nominates Solicitor-General Thurgood Marshall to become the first black justice on the U.S. Supreme Court. (13. June 1967)

Mariner program: Mariner 5 is launched towards Venus. (14. June 1967)

12th Street Riot: in Detroit, Michigan, one of the worst riots in United States history begins on 12th Street in the predominantly African American inner city. It will leave 43 killed, 342 injured and 1,400 buildings burned. (23. July 1967)

Venera program: Venera 4 is launched (it will become the first space probe to enter another planet's atmosphere and successfully return data). (12. June 1967)

Vietnam War: off the coast of North Vietnam the USS Forrestal catches on fire in the worst U.S. naval disaster since World War II, killing 134. (29. July 1967)

Thurgood Marshall is sworn in as the first African-American justice of United States Supreme Court. (2. October 1967)

Protests in West Berlin against the arrival of the Shah of Iran turn into riots, during which Benno Ohnesorg is killed by a police officer. His death results in the founding of the terrorist group Movement 2 June. (2. June 1967)

The People's Republic of China announces a successful test of its first thermonuclear weapon. (17. June 1967)

Cold War: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson meets with Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin in Glassboro, New Jersey for the three-day Glassboro Summit Conference. (23. June 1967)

The people of Gibraltar vote to remain a British dependency rather than becoming part of Spain. (10. September 1967)

London criminal Jack McVitie is murdered by the Kray twins, leading to their eventual imprisonment and downfall. (29. October 1967)

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