 | President: Lyndon B Johnson, Vice President: Hubert H. Humphrey |
 | The population of the United States is 197,457,000 |
| National Debt is 340.4 Billion (+11.9 billion) |
| Unemployment is 3.8% |
| Life Expectancy: 70.5 years |
| Family median income = $7,143 (down $257. from 1966) |
| Academy Award : A Man for All Seasons (click to buy)  (Best Picture) |
| Grammy Award : Michelle (click to buy)  (Best Song); Strangers In The Night (click to buy)  (Best Album) |
| Pulitzer Prize : The Fixer (click to buy)  (Fiction) |
| The Fixer (click to buy) (Fiction) |
| Lester Maddox is elected Governor of Georgia on a segregationist platform |
| The first cryogenic preservation of Dr. James Bedford with the intent of future resuscitation. |
| Super Bowl I is played with the Green Bay Packers defeating the Kansas City Chiefs 35–10 (click for more on, Sports) |
| A Fistful of Dollars (click to buy)  , the first significant “spaghetti Western” film is debuted in the U.S. |
| U.S. astronauts Gus Grissom, Edward Higgins White, and Roger Chaffee are killed aboard the Apollo 1 spacecraft during a launch pad test. |
| The Outer Space Treaty is signed by the U.S., Soviet Union and the United Kingdom banning nuclear weapons from outer space |
| The 25th Amendment to the United States Constitution (presidential succession and disability) is ratified by Congress |
| Israeli fighters shoot down 7 Syrian MIG-21s setting the stage for the Six Day War |
| Israeli mounts “preemptive” strikes against Egyptian, Syrian and Jordanian positions flanking Israel and fight a mostly victorious Six Day War |
| Muhammad Ali, after converting to Islam, refuses military service on religious grounds |
| Elvis Presley and Priscilla Beaulieu are married in Las Vegas. |
| The first automatic cash machine (ATM) is installed, at Barclays Bank in England |
| Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 is enacted, establishing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (PBS) |
| Rolling Stone and New York Magazine debut, spawning the popularity of special-interest and regional magazines |
| Lurleen Wallace is sworn in as governor of Alabama and replaces her husband George Wallace who can’t run again because of term limits |
| Race riots rock 127 U.S. cities, killing at least 77 and injuring at least 4,000 some lasting days |
| The National Organization for Women (NOW)is formed and holds its first national conference |
| The world’s first heart transplant is performed in Cape Town S. Africa by Christiaan Barnard the patient lived 18 days |
| The waterbed as we know it today was created by a design student at San Francisco State University |
| High-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) development is pioneered by Clinton Corn Processing Co |
| The following TV shows debuted: The Flying Nun, High Chaparral, Carol Burnett Show, Ironside, Mannix, The Smothers Brothers and Phil Donahue (click show title for more info) |
See also Celebrity Birthdays 1967
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