What happened in 1967

“I'm A Believer”

The Monkees · 6 weeks at #1 in 1967

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1. Jan 7I'm A BelieverThe Monkees6 wks
2. Feb 18Kind Of A DragThe Buckinghams2 wks
3. Mar 4Ruby TuesdayThe Rolling Stones1 wk
4. Mar 11Love Is Here And Now You're GoneThe Supremes1 wk
5. Mar 18Penny LaneThe Beatles1 wk
6. Mar 25Happy TogetherThe Turtles3 wks
7. Apr 15Somethin' StupidNancy Sinatra & Frank Sinatra4 wks
8. May 13The HappeningThe Supremes1 wk
9. May 20Groovin'The Young Rascals4 wks
10. Jun 3RespectAretha Franklin2 wks
11. Jul 1WindyThe Association4 wks
12. Jul 29Light My FireThe Doors3 wks
13. Aug 19All You Need Is LoveThe Beatles1 wk
14. Aug 26Ode To Billie JoeBobbie Gentry4 wks
15. Sep 23The LetterThe Box Tops4 wks
16. Oct 21To Sir With LoveLulu5 wks
17. Nov 25Incense And PeppermintsStrawberry Alarm Clock1 wk
18. Dec 2Daydream BelieverThe Monkees4 wks
19. Dec 30Hello GoodbyeThe Beatles1 wk

Dates are the first chart week at #1 in 1967; weeks count only those in 1967.Find the #1 song on your birthday →

1. Jan 2Ronald Reagan began his career in government when he was sworn in as the 33rd governor of California.
2. Jan 15The Green Bay Packers defeated the Kansas City Chiefs in the American football championship game now known as Super Bowl I.
3. Mar 9Svetlana Alliluyeva, the daughter of former Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, defected to the United States.
4. Apr 28Vietnam War: Boxer Muhammad Ali refuses his induction into the United States Army and is subsequently stripped of his championship and license.
5. Jun 7Six-Day War: Israeli soldiers enter Jerusalem.
6. Jun 10The Six-Day War ends: Israel and Syria agree to a cease-fire.
7. Aug 8The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is founded by Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand.
8. Oct 2Thurgood Marshall was sworn in as the first African-American justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
9. Oct 9A day after his capture, Ernesto "Che" Guevara is executed for attempting to incite a revolution in Bolivia.
10. Oct 20Roger Patterson and Robert Gimlin filmed an unidentified subject, which they claimed was Bigfoot, at Six Rivers National Forest in California.
11. Nov 2Vietnam War: US President Lyndon B. Johnson and "The Wise Men" conclude that the American people should be given more optimistic reports on the progress of the war.
12. Nov 9The first issue of Rolling Stone, an American magazine focusing on music, politics and popular culture, was published.
13. Nov 17Vietnam War: Acting on optimistic reports that he had been given on November 13, U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson tells the nation that, while much remained to be done, "We are inflicting greater losses than we're taking...We are making progress."
14. Nov 29U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara announces his resignation.

Event summaries from Wikipedia’s “On this day”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Each links to its article.

• U.S. President

  Lyndon B. Johnson

• UK Prime Minister

  Harold Wilson

• Prime Minister of Canada

  Lester B. Pearson

• President of France

  Charles de Gaulle

• German Chancellor

  Kurt Georg Kiesinger

• Prime Minister of Japan

  Eisaku Satō

• Soviet leader

  Leonid Brezhnev

Everyone who held the office at some point in 1967, from Wikidata.

A selection of the best-documented titles on Wikidata, by first release year; not a box-office ranking.

• R. KellyAmerican singer-songwriter, producer, and sex offender · Jan 8
• Laura DernAmerican actress, director, and producer · Feb 10
• Kurt CobainAmerican musician (died 1994) · Feb 20
• Tim McGrawAmerican singer-songwriter and actor · May 1
• Anderson CooperAmerican journalist and author · Jun 3
• Nicole KidmanAmerican-Australian actress · Jun 20
• Will FerrellAmerican actor, comedian, and producer · Jul 16
• Vin DieselAmerican actor, director, producer, and screenwriter · Jul 18
• Philip Seymour HoffmanAmerican actor, director, and producer (died 2014) · Jul 23
• Joe RoganAmerican actor, comedian, and television host · Aug 11

From Wikipedia’s “On this day”, CC BY-SA 4.0.