Timeline June 1967

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• 1893 – 1967 Dorothy Parker (1893-1967) Died 7 June 1967, aged 73 The American writer and critic was celebrated for her caustic wit as a founding member of the Algonquin Round Table. She died of a heart attack in New York City.
• 1900 – 1967 Spencer Tracy (1900-1967) Died 10 June 1967, aged 67 The American actor won two Academy Awards and was nominated nine times over a four-decade film career. He died just weeks after completing his final film, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, alongside longtime partner Katharine Hepburn.
• 1933 – 1967 Jayne Mansfield (1933-1967) American actress and sex symbol of the 1950s, star of The Girl Can't Help It.
• 1942 – 1967 Hepburn and Tracy begin a 26-year relationship Never acknowledged in public while he lived Tracy was Catholic and never divorced. They made nine films together.
• 1967 Bill Monroe starts his Bean Blossom festival Indiana His own annual bluegrass festival.
• 1967 French Open 1967 Men: Roy Emerson · Women: Françoise Dürr
• 1967 Monterey Pop Festival — the awakening Davis attends the Monterey International Pop Festival in June 1967 — the first major rock festival, featuring Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, The Who, Ravi Shankar and Otis Redding. He is electrified. He signs Janis Joplin (with Big Brother and the Holding Company) on the spot and returns to New York determined to transform Columbia. He tells his staff: 'We have to sign rock acts or we will become irrelevant.' He signs Blood, Sweat & Tears, Santana and Laura Nyro in rapid succession. The Monterey revelation transforms Davis from a corporate lawyer into a talent visionary.
• 1967 See Emily Play -- Top 10 hit 'See Emily Play,' released in June 1967, reaches Number 6 in the UK charts -- Pink Floyd's highest chart position during the Barrett era. The song, written by Barrett about a girl who lives in a dream, is the definitive statement of his psychedelic vision: melodically beautiful, lyrically surreal and instrumentally innovative. The band performs it three times on Top of the Pops. John Lennon, watching at home, says Barrett is the most interesting new talent in British music. The single's success puts pressure on the band to produce a follow-up album immediately.
• 1967 Van Morrison releases Brown Eyed Girl First solo hit His first solo single, still his best-known song.
• 1967 Paul McCartney leads Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band His concept The album concept was his idea.
• 1967 Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band Eighth album — June 1, 1967 Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band was released on June 1, 1967 and spent 27 weeks at number 1 in the UK. Considered the pinnacle of the 1960s counterculture, it was the first album to print its lyrics on the sleeve and won four Grammy Awards including Album of the Year.
• 1967 Summer of Love Tens of thousands of young people converge on San Francisco A countercultural gathering centered on the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood drew an estimated 100,000 young people espousing peace, free love, and psychedelic music. It became a defining symbol of the 1960s hippie movement.
• 1967 Operation Focus Six-Day War Israeli strikes destroy most of Egypt's air force, including its MiG-21s, on the ground in the opening hours of the Six-Day War.
• 1967 Six-Day War Israel fights four Arab states in six days Israel launched pre-emptive strikes against Egypt, Jordan, and Syria, decisively defeating their combined forces. Israel captured the Sinai Peninsula, Gaza, the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and the Golan Heights, reshaping the region's borders and politics for decades.
• 1967 You Only Live Twice — Sean Connery Bond fakes his own death, is sent to Japan and infiltrates Blofeld's secret volcano base — a set so large it was the most expensive film set ever built at the time. The script, by Roald Dahl, is the first to depart significantly from the Fleming source novel. Donald Pleasence's Blofeld directly inspires Dr. Evil in the Austin Powers series. Budget: $9.5 million. Box office: $111.6 million.
• 1967 Monterey Pop Festival Landmark rock festival launches the Summer of Love The three-day festival in California featured breakout performances by Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and The Who, and is widely regarded as the event that brought countercultural rock music to mainstream attention. It served as a template for later festivals including Woodstock.
• 1967 – present Montreux Jazz Festival Claude Nobs One of the world's most prestigious music festivals, held annually on the shores of Lake Geneva.
• 1967 Simon & Garfunkel play the Monterey Pop Festival Opening night Close the first night of the festival.
• 1967 China detonates its first hydrogen bomb Test at Lop Nur makes China a thermonuclear power China successfully tested a thermonuclear weapon at its Lop Nur test site, becoming the fourth nation to develop a hydrogen bomb. The test came just 32 months after China's first atomic bomb test, a notably fast progression.
• 1967 Janis Joplin sings Ball and Chain at Monterey Breakthrough A performance that makes her a star overnight.
• 1967 Otis Redding plays the Monterey Pop Festival Love crowd His set wins over the hippie audience — his breakthrough beyond soul.
• 1967 The Byrds play the Monterey Pop Festival Monterey Crosby's stage speeches anger the others.
• 1967 Jimi Hendrix sets his guitar on fire at Monterey Monterey Pop Festival His American breakthrough, introduced by Brian Jones.
• 1967 Ravi Shankar plays the Monterey Pop Festival Afternoon set A rapt audience at the pop festival.
• 1967 The Who play the Monterey Pop Festival American breakthrough Their instrument-destroying finale stuns the American audience.
• 1967 First cash-dispensing ATM installed Barclays opens Britain's first automated teller machine Barclays Bank installed the world's first cash machine at a branch in Enfield, north London, allowing customers to withdraw money using paper vouchers. The device, developed by John Shepherd-Barron, launched the global spread of automated banking.
• 1967 Jayne Mansfield dies in near New Orleans Jayne Mansfield dies aged 34.
• 1967 – 1975 Marriage to Robert Stephens -- two actor sons Smith marries actor Robert Stephens on 29 June 1967. They have two sons, both of whom become actors: Chris Larkin (born 1967) and Toby Stephens (born 1969). The marriage is dissolved on 6 April 1975 -- a turbulent union between two formidable theatrical personalities.