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1967 in the United Kingdom

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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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