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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBreak-time.. If you were born in 1967, this is what was happening
http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/1967.htmleven if you were NOT born then, it was still happening....note the last "sample"
a sample:
U.S.
Race Riots break out in a number of Cities in the United States Cleveland, Newark and Detroit
U.S.
Interracial Marriage is declared constitutional by The Supreme Court in the "Loving v. Virginia" case and barred Virginia and by implication other states from making interracial marriage a crime
U.S.
The first Super Bowl played between Green Bay Packers ( win 35-10 ) and the Kansas City Chiefs
UK
The Foot and Mouth epidemic in Britain is the worst this century and the British government has issued additional guidelines to help stop the spread of the disease including stopping all Horse Racing
Sweden
Sweden changes to driving on the right on September 5th
Canada
Expo 67 opens in Montreal, Canada
U.S.
Jimmy Hoffa begins an 8 year prison term for defrauding the union and jury tampering
U.S.
Series of tornadoes strike the Chicago area killing more than 60 and creating millions of dollars worth of damage.
U.S.
The 25th Amendment to the constitution is ratified which deals with succession to the Presidency Available as a downloadable image on our US Constitution Public Domain Images Page
U.S.
Strikes by teaching staff throughout country for pay increases to keep pace with inflation
U.S.
Thurgood Marshall becomes the first black justice on the Supreme Court.
U.S.
Muhammad Ali is stripped of his heavyweight title for refusing induction into US army
President Johnson asks for a 6 percent increase on taxes to support the Vietnam War
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Break-time.. If you were born in 1967, this is what was happening (Original Post)
SoCalDem
Aug 2012
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B Calm
(28,762 posts)1. and B Calm got his first drivers license. .
2 yrs later he was in the US Navy trying to avoid Vietnam.
RebelOne
(30,947 posts)2. I was born long before all that happened.
Must have been a better world then.
Tikki
(14,556 posts)3. Twas the Summer of Love they called it...
U.S.
Robbie H and Ari Tikki get married on a hot August 1967 afternoon and still...
The Tikkis
cr8tvlde
(1,185 posts)4. First year in Jr. (Community) College...Whittier, CA
... thanks for the memories...at least some of them...LOL
Greybnk48
(10,167 posts)5. And I went to Alaska
and married my first husband at 18 years old. He was stationed in Ketchikan in the Coast Guard. What a once in a lifetime adventure that was (pre-pipeline Alaska).