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1967 in the United Kingdom
Summary
Events from the year 1967 in the United Kingdom.
Monarch – Elizabeth II
Prime Minister – Harold Wilson (Labour)
Parliament – 1966
1 January – England's 1966 World Cup winning manager Alf Ramsey received a knighthood and Captain Bobby Moore received an OBE in the New Year Honours.
2 January – Veteran actor Charlie Chaplin opened his last film, A Countess From Hong Kong, in England.
3 January – The stop motion children's television series Trumpton, first of the Trumptonshire trilogy, was first shown, on BBC One.
4 January – Racing driver and motorboat racer Donald Campbell was killed in a crash on Coniston Water in the Lake District while attempting to break his own speed record.
7 January–1 July – The television series The Forsyte Saga was first shown, on BBC Two.
15 January – The United Kingdom entered the first round of negotiations for European Economic Community membership in Rome; on 16 January Italy announced support for the UK's application.
18 January – Jeremy Thorpe became Leader of the Liberal Party.
23 January – Milton Keynes, a village situated in northern Buckinghamshire, was formally designated as a new town by the government, incorporating nearby towns and villages including Bletchley and Newport Pagnell. Intended to accommodate the overspill population from London – some fifty miles away – it would become the United Kingdom's largest new town, with the area's population multiplying during the 1970s and 1980s.
26 January – Parliament decided to nationalise 90% of the British steel industry.
27 January – The UK, Soviet Union and United States sign the Outer Space Treaty.
29 January – Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association founded in Belfast.
January – The London-set film Blowup was released in the UK.
6 February – Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin arrived in the UK for an eight-day visit. He met the Queen on 9 February.
7 February – The British National Front was founded by A. K. Chesterton (by an amalgamation of the British National Party and League of Empire Loyalists).
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