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1967
Summary
January 1967
January 1 – Canada begins a year-long celebration of the 100th anniversary of Confederation, featuring the Expo 67 World's Fair.
January 5
Spain and Romania sign an agreement in Paris, establishing full consular and commercial relations (not diplomatic ones).
Charlie Chaplin launches his last film, A Countess from Hong Kong, in the UK.
January 6 – Vietnam War: USMC and ARVN troops launch Operation Deckhouse Five in the Mekong Delta.
January 8 – Vietnam War: Operation Cedar Falls starts.
January 13 – A military coup occurs in Togo under the leadership of Étienne Eyadema.
January 14 – The Human Be-In takes place in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco; the event sets the stage for the Summer of Love.
January 15
Louis Leakey announces the discovery of pre-human fossils in Kenya; he names the species Kenyapithecus africanus.
American football: The Green Bay Packers defeat the Kansas City Chiefs 35–10 in the First AFL-NFL World Championship Game at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.
January 18 – Albert DeSalvo is convicted of numerous crimes and sentenced to life in prison.
January 23
In Munich, the trial begins for Wilhelm Harster, accused of the murder of 82,856 Jews (including Anne Frank) when he led German security police during the German occupation of the Netherlands. He is eventually sentenced to 15 years in prison.
Milton Keynes (England) is founded as a new town by Order in Council, with a planning brief to become a city of 250,000 people. Its initial designated area enclosed three existing towns and twenty one villages. The area to be developed was largely farmland, with evidence of permanent settlement dating back to the Bronze Age.
January 25 – South Vietnamese junta leader and Prime Minister Nguyen Cao Ky fires his rival, Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Nguyen Huu Co, while the latter is overseas on a diplomatic visit.
January 26
The Parliament of the United Kingdom decides to nationalise 90% of the nation's steel industry.
Chicago's largest-ever blizzard begins.
January 27
Apollo 1: U.
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