Timeline March 1967

Events in March 1967 13

• 1882 – 1967 Zoltan Kodaly (1882-1967) Died 6 March 1967, aged 84 The Hungarian composer and ethnomusicologist developed the influential Kodaly Method of music education, still widely used worldwide. He also collected and preserved thousands of Hungarian folk songs with fellow composer Bela Bartok.
• 1901 – 1967 Nelson Eddy (1901-1967) American baritone and actor, Jeanette MacDonald's partner in eight operetta films.
• 1966 – 1967 The Green Hornet Bruce Lee plays Kato in Hollywood TV series Bruce Lee played Kato, sidekick to the Green Hornet, in the ABC television series from 1966-67. Running for 26 episodes, it was his breakthrough in American entertainment and the first popular US show featuring Asian-style martial arts.
• 1967 Otis Redding tours Europe with the Stax/Volt Revue Hit the Road Stax A triumphant European tour with Booker T. & the M.G.'s.
• 1967 Nelson Eddy dies in Miami Beach Nelson Eddy dies aged 65.
• 1967 Svetlana Alliluyeva defects to the West Stalin's daughter seeks asylum Svetlana Alliluyeva, the only daughter of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, walked into the US embassy in New Delhi and requested political asylum. Her defection was a major propaganda embarrassment for the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
• 1967 Aretha Franklin releases I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You Atlantic debut Her breakthrough album, with Respect and Do Right Woman.
• 1967 Arnold Layne -- first single Pink Floyd releases 'Arnold Layne' -- a song about a man who steals women's underwear from washing lines, inspired by a real local figure in Cambridge -- as their debut single on 11 March 1967. It reaches Number 20 in the UK charts despite being banned by several radio stations for its subject matter. Barrett's whimsical, surrealist lyric writing and his distinctive guitar tone -- using a Zippo lighter as a slide -- are immediately recognisable. The single establishes Pink Floyd as the leading band of the British psychedelic underground.
• 1967 Suharto becomes Acting President of Indonesia General consolidates power after Sukarno's ouster General Suharto was appointed Acting President by Indonesia's legislature, formally displacing founding president Sukarno after the political upheaval of 1965-66. Suharto's "New Order" government would rule Indonesia for the next three decades.
• 1967 The Velvet Underground release The Velvet Underground & Nico The banana album Warhol's banana cover — a commercial flop and a hugely influential album.
• 1967 Grateful Dead release their debut album The Grateful Dead Recorded in four days.
• 1967 Torrey Canyon oil spill Supertanker wreck causes Britain's worst spill The tanker Torrey Canyon ran aground off Cornwall, spilling roughly 120,000 tonnes of crude oil into the sea. The disaster killed tens of thousands of seabirds and prompted the first widespread use of detergent dispersants, later shown to worsen the ecological damage.
• 1967 – present Mario Cipollini The Lion King Greatest sprinter of the 90s; famous for his flamboyant kits and speed.