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1967 FUN FACTS
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Summer of Love
takes place in the Haight-Ashbury district of San
Francisco |
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McDonald’s test-markets
the Big-Mac. |
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Carl Burton Stokes, lawyer
and politician, who became the first African
American to serve as mayor of a major U.S. city,
having been elected to that office in Cleveland,
Ohio, 1967 |
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The St. Louis Cardinals win
the World Series, defeating the Boston Red Sox
4 games to 3. |
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The Green Bay Packers of
the National Football League defeat the Kansas
City Chiefs of the American League 35 to 10 on
January 15 at Los Angeles in Super Bowl I. |
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Baseball great Mickey Mantle
hits his 500th home run. |
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Congress creates PBS.
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Rolling Stone and New York
Magazine debut, spawning the popularity of special-interest
and regional magazines. |
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Movies--The Graduate, Bonnie
and Clyde, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?, In
the Heat of the Night, Cool Hand Luke |
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Music--The Beatles, Sergeant
Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band |
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Jim Morrison and The Doors
defy CBS censors on The Ed Sullivan Show, when
Morrison sings the word "higher" from
their #1 hit Light My Fire, despite having been
asked not to. |
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