Timeline January 1967

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• 1915 – 1967 Ann Sheridan (1915-1967) American actress, Warner Bros.' Oomph Girl, known for Kings Row and I Was a Male War Bride.
• 1921 – 1967 Donald Campbell (1921-1967) Died 4 January 1967, aged 45 The British speed record holder died when his boat Bluebird K7 flipped and disintegrated on Coniston Water during an attempt to break his own water speed record. He remains the only person to set both land and water speed records in the same year.
• 1967 Australian Open 1967 Men: Roy Emerson · Women: Nancy Richey
• 1967 1967: Denny Hulme Brabham New Zealander Hulme beat his boss Jack Brabham to the title, becoming the only New Zealand-born World Champion.
• 1967 Bedazzled and Fathom Played Lust in the comedy Bedazzled with Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, and starred as a glamorous secret agent in the spy spoof Fathom.
• 1967 Casino Royale and Alfie Composed scores for the James Bond spoof Casino Royale and the Michael Caine drama Alfie, demonstrating his range as a film composer.
• 1967 – 1969 Happenings and Anti-War Protests Organised a series of provocative happenings in Central Park, the Brooklyn Bridge and at the MoMA Sculpture Garden, painting polka dots on naked participants to protest the Vietnam War. Wrote an open letter to President Nixon offering to have sex with him if he would stop the war. The nudity scandalised her family in Japan; her high school removed her name from its alumni list.
• 1967 Hello, I'm Dolly and The Porter Wagoner Show Released her debut album Hello, I'm Dolly on Monument Records, featuring the hit singles Dumb Blonde and Something Fishy. In September, she was invited to join The Porter Wagoner Show as a regular performer, replacing Norma Jean, and signed to RCA Victor.
• 1967 – 1979 Marriage, Family and Education Married Ernest Hegi in 1967 and had two sons. After their divorce in 1984, she would marry Gordon Gagliano in 1998. Earned both a bachelor's and a master's degree in English from the University of New Hampshire in 1979.
• 1967 Pulitzer Prize Won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning at the age of 31, becoming one of the youngest recipients. The award recognised his work at The Denver Post.
• 1967 The Joke Published his first novel, The Joke, a satirical exploration of life under Communist rule that became a sensation in Czechoslovakia.
• 1967 – 1968 The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour Moved to Los Angeles and was hired as the announcer for The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour on CBS, his big break in Hollywood. Appeared in 32 episodes.
• 1967 Operation Bolo Robin Olds' MiG trap USAF F-4s led by Colonel Robin Olds pose as bomb-laden F-105s, lure North Vietnamese MiG-21s into combat and shoot down seven of them without loss.
• 1967 Debut album "The Doors" released January 1967 Released their self-titled debut album "The Doors" in January 1967 — featuring "Break On Through (To the Other Side)", "Light My Fire" and the eleven-minute Oedipal epic "The End", it became one of the most acclaimed debut albums in rock history.
• 1967 The Doors release their debut album Break On Through With Light My Fire and The End.
• 1967 – 2020 Irrfan Khan (1967-2020) Died 29 April 2020, aged 53 Irrfan Khan was an Indian actor acclaimed for roles in Indian cinema and international films including Life of Pi, Slumdog Millionaire and Jurassic World. He died on 29 April 2020 after a battle with a neuroendocrine tumor.
• 1967 Grateful Dead play the Human Be-In Golden Gate Park A key gathering of the San Francisco counterculture.
• 1967 Between the Buttons Fifth UK album — January 20, 1967 Between the Buttons, released on January 20, 1967, showed the band experimenting with psychedelia and music hall. It reached number 3 in both the UK and US, though it has been seen as a transitional album.
• 1967 Ann Sheridan dies in Los Angeles Ann Sheridan dies aged 51.
• 1967 Aretha Franklin records at FAME Studios, Muscle Shoals I Never Loved a Man One session in Alabama produces the song that makes her a star.
• 1967 Apollo 1 fire A launch pad fire kills three astronauts A flash fire swept through the Apollo 1 command module during a launch rehearsal test at Cape Kennedy, killing astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee. The disaster halted crewed Apollo missions for over a year and led to a major redesign of the spacecraft.