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History of England in 1967:

January
January – The London-set film Blowup is released in the UK.
1 January – England's World Cup winning manager Alf Ramsey received a knighthood and captain Bobby Moore received an OBE in the New Year Honours.
2 January – Veteran actor Charlie Chaplin opened his last film, A Countess From Hong Kong, in England.
7 January–1 July – The television series The Forsyte Saga was first shown, on BBC Two.
15 January – The United Kingdom entered the first round of negotiations for EEC membership in Rome.
16 January – Italy announced support for the United Kingdom's EEC membership.
18 January – Jeremy Thorpe became leader of the Liberal Party.
23 January – Milton Keynes, a village in north Buckinghamshire, was formally designated as a new town by the government, incorporating nearby towns and villages including Bletchley and Newport Pagnell. Intended to accommodate the overspill population from London – some 50 miles away – it would become Britain's largest new town, with the area's population multiplying during the 1970s and 1980s.
26 January – Parliament decided to nationalize 90% of the British steel industry.
27 January – The UK, Soviet Union, and USA sign the Outer Space Treaty.

February
6 February – Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin arrived in the UK for an eight-day visit. He met The Queen on 9 February.
7 February – The British National Front was founded by A. K. Chesterton (by merger of the British National Party and League of Empire Loyalists).[4]
12 February – Police raided 'Redlands', the Sussex home of Rolling Stones musician Keith Richards, following a tip-off from the News of the World. No immediate arrests are made, but Richards, fellow band member Mick Jagger and art dealer Robert Fraser were later charged with possession of drugs.
25 February – Britain's second Polaris nuclear submarine, HMS Renown, was launched.
27 February – The Dutch government announced support for British EEC membership.

March
1 March – The Queen Elizabeth Hall was opened in London.
4 March
The first North Sea gas was pumped ashore[5] at Easington, East Riding of Yorkshire.
Queens Park Rangers became the first Football League Third Division side to win the League Cup at Wembley Stadium defeating West Bromwich Albion 3-2. It was also the first year of a one-match final in the competition, the previous six finals having been two-legged affairs.
5 March - Polly Toynbee reveals the existence of the "Harry" letters that allege the secret funding of Amnesty International by the British government.[6]
15 March – Manny Shinwell, 82, resigned as chairman of the Parliamentary Labour Party.
18 March – The supertanker Torrey Canyon ran aground between Land's End and the Scilly Isles.[5]
29 – 30 March – RAF planes bombed the Torrey Canyon and sunk it.[7]
9 July – Alan Ayckbourn's first major success, Relatively Speaking, had its West End opening at the Duke of York's Theatre with Richard Briers, Michael Hordern and Celia Johnson.
31 March – At the London Astoria, Jimi Hendrix set fire to his guitar on stage for the first time. He was taken to hospital suffering burns to his hands.

April
2 April – A UN delegation arrived in Aden because of the approaching independence. They leave 7 April, accusing British authorities of lack of cooperation. The British said the delegation did not contact them.
8 April – Puppet on a String performed by Sandie Shaw (music and lyrics by Bill Martin and Phil Coulter) won the Eurovision Song Contest for the UK.
11 April – Tom Stoppard's play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead received its Old Vic premiere.
13 April – Conservatives won the Greater London Council elections.

May
2 May – Harold Wilson announced that the United Kingdom had decided to apply for EEC membership
5 May
The British-designed satellite Ariel 3, the first to be developed outside the Soviet Union or United States is launched .
The first motorway project of the year was completed when the elevated motorway section of the A57 road was officially opened (by Harold Wilson) to form a by-pass around the south of Manchester city area. The M1 was also being expanded this month from both termini, meaning that there would now be an unbroken motorway link between North London and South Yorkshire.
6 May – Manchester United won the Football League First Division title.
11 May – The United Kingdom and Ireland officially applied for European Economic Community membership.
14 May – The Roman Catholic Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King was consecrated.
20 May – In the first all-London FA Cup final, Tottenham Hotspur defeated Chelsea 2-1 at Wembley Stadium.
24 May – The Royal Navy Leander-class frigate HMS Andromeda was launched at Portsmouth Dockyard, the last ship to be built there.
25 May
Celtic F.C. became the first British and Northern European team to reach a European Cup final and also to win it, beating Inter Milan 2-1 in normal time with the winning goal being scored by Steve Chalmers in Lisbon, Portugal.
Shadow cabinet Tory MP Enoch Powell described Britain as the "sick man of Europe" in his latest verbal attack on the Labour government.
28 May – Sir Francis Chichester arrived in Plymouth after completing his single-handed sailing voyage around the world in his yacht, Gipsy Moth IV, in nine months and one day.
29 May
The first Spring Bank Holiday occurred on a fixed date of the last Monday in May, replacing the former Whitsun holiday in England and Wales.
'Barbeque 67', a music festival, at the Tulip Bulb Auction Hall, Spalding, featured Jimi Hendrix, Cream, Pink Floyd and Zoot Money.

June
1 June – The Beatles released Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, one of rock's most acclaimed albums.
4 June – Stockport Air Disaster: British Midland flight G-ALHG crashed in Hopes Carr, Stockport, killing 72 passengers and crew.
27 June – The first automatic cash machine (voucher-based) was installed in the office of Barclays Bank in Enfield.
29 June – Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones was jailed for a year for possession illegal drugs. His bandmate Mick Jagger was sentenced to three months for the same offence.
[edit]July
1 July – The first scheduled colour television broadcasts from six transmitters covering the main population centres in England began on BBC2 for certain programmes,[5] the first being live coverage from the Wimbledon Championships.A full colour service (other than news programmes) began on BBC2 on 2 December.
4 July – Parliament decriminalised male homosexuality in England and Wales with the Sexual Offences Act.
7 July – In the last amateur Wimbledon tennis tournament, Australian John Newcombe beat German Wilhelm P. Bungert to win the Gentlemen's Singles championship. The next day, American Billie Jean King beat Briton Ann Haydon Jones to win the Ladies' Singles championship. The matches are also the first to be broadcast in colour.
13 July – English road racing cyclist Tom Simpson died of exhaustion on the slopes of Mont Ventoux during the 13th stage of the Tour de France.
18 July – The UK government announced the closing of its military bases in Malaysia and Singapore. Australia and the United States do not approve.
27 July – The Welsh Language Act allowed the use of Welsh in legal proceedings and official documents in Wales.
28 July – The British steel industry was nationalised.
July – Astronomers Jocelyn Bell Burnell and Antony Hewish became the first to observe a pulsar.

August
3 August – The inquiry into the Aberfan Disaster blamed the National Coal Board for the collapse of coal which claimed the lives of 164 people in South Wales in October last year.
5 August – Pink Floyd released their debut album The Piper at the Gates of Dawn.
8 August – Dunsop Valley entered the UK Weather Records with the Highest 90-min total rainfall at 117 mm. As of August 2010 this record remains.
14 August – The UK Marine Broadcasting Offences Act declared participation in offshore pirate radio illegal.
17 August – Jimmy Hill, manager of the Coventry City side who have been promoted to the Football League First Division for the first time in their history, announced that he is leaving management to concentrate on a television career.
28 August
The first Late Summer Holiday occurs on a fixed date of the last Monday in August, replacing the former August Bank Holiday on the first Monday in England and Wales.
Herbert Bowden was appointed chairman of the Independent Television Authority.

September
4 September – The inquest into the death of murdered playwright Joe Orton established that he was beaten to death by his lover Kenneth Halliwell, who then committed suicide.
9 September - Former prime minister Clement Attlee, 84, was hospitalised with an illness reported only as a "minor condition".
10 September – In Gibraltar, only 44 out of 12,182 voters supported union with Spain.
20 September – The QE2 was launched at Clydebank by Elizabeth II, using the same pair of gold scissors used by her mother and grandmother to launch the Queen Elizabeth and Queen Mary respectively.
21 September – The Conservatives captured Cambridge and Walthamstow from Labour in by-elections.
27 September – The RMS Queen Mary arrived in Southampton at the end of her last transatlantic voyage.
29 September – Cult television series The Prisoner was first broadcast in the UK on ITV.
30 September – BBC Radio 1 was launched.

October
5 October – A Court in Brighton was the first in the UK to decide a case by majority verdict (10 to 2) of the jury.
10 October – Simon Gray's first stage play, Wise Child, opened at the Wyndham's Theatre, London, with Alec Guinness, Gordon Jackson, Simon Ward and Cleo Sylvestre.
11 October – Prime Minister Harold Wilson won a libel action against rock group The Move in the High Court after they depicted him in the nude in promotional material for their record Flowers in the Rain.
25 October – The Abortion Act, passed in Parliament, legalising abortion on a number of grounds (with effect from 1968).
30 October – British troops and Chinese demonstrators clashed on the border of China and Hong Kong during the Hong Kong Riots.
October – St Pancras railway station in London was made a Grade I listed building, regarded as a landmark in the appreciation of Victorian architecture.

November
2 November – Winnie Ewing won the Hamilton by-election, the first success for the Scottish National Party in an election for the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
5 November – A Sunday evening express train from Hastings to London derailed in the Hither Green rail crash, killing 49 people.
7 November – Boxer Henry Cooper became the first to win three Lonsdale Belts outright.
18 November – Movement of animals was banned in England and Wales due to a foot-and-mouth disease outbreak.
19 November – The pound was devalued from 1 GBP = 2.80 USD to 1 GBP = 2.40 USD. Prime minister Harold Wilson defended this decision, assuring voters that it will tackle the "root cause" of the nation's economic problems.
27 November – Charles de Gaulle vetoed British entry into the European Economic Community again.
28 November – Horse racing events were called off due to the foot-and-mouth disease outbreak.
30 November – British troops left Aden, which they had occupied since 1839, enabling formation of the new republic of Yemen.

December
1 December – Tony O'Connor became the first black headmaster of a British school, in Warley, near Birmingham, Worcestershire.
5 December – The Beatles opened the Apple Shop in London.
10 December – Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, George Porter and the German Manfred Eigen won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for their studies of extremely fast chemical reactions, effected by disturbing the equlibrium by means of very short pulses of energy".
11 December – The Concorde supersonic aircraft was unveiled in Toulouse, France.
12 December – Rolling Stones guitarist Brian Jones, 25, won a High Court appeal against a nine-month prison sentence for possessing and using cannabis. He was instead fined £1,000 and put on probation for three years.
22 December – BBC Radio 4 panel game Just a Minute, chaired by Nicholas Parsons, waa first transmitted. It wwould still be running more than forty years later.

First stage of Cumbernauld town centre, the main shopping centre for the New town of Cumbernauld, Scotland, was completed, widely accepted as the UK's first shopping mall and the world's first multi-level covered town centre.
Parker Morris Standards became mandatory for all housing built in New Towns.
St Christopher's Hospice, the world's first purpose-built secular hospice specialising in palliative care of the terminally ill, was established in South London by Cicely Saunders.
The Passport Office moved to Newport and the Land Registry to Swansea, both in South Wales, as part of an effort to move government offices into the regions.
Reliance Controls factory, Swindon, the last design by Team 4 (Richard Rogers, Norman Foster and their respective wives), considered the first example of High-tech architecture in the UK, was opened (demolished 1991).
Peter Nichols' play A Day in the Death of Joe Egg premièred at the Citizens Theatre, Glasgow.
The Eel Pie Island Hotel was forced to retailer close by the police.
Car manufacturer Chrysler took full control of the Rootes Group.
Ford announced the end of Anglia production and replaced it with an all-new car called the Escort, which like its predecessor will be built at Dagenham and sold all over Europe.
Major changes were introduced to Scouting in the UK: the name of its organisation was changed from The Boy Scout Association to The Scout Association; the youngest section was renamed Cub Scouts; the Boy Scouts became the Scouts (with a new uniform including long trousers replacing shorts); and Senior Scouts (age 16–20) became Venture Scouts.

Publications
12 October – Desmond Morris' book The Naked Ape.
Agatha Christie's novel Endless Night.
Michael Holroyd's Lytton Strachey : a critical biography, volume 1: The unknown years (1880–1910).
Liverpool poets Roger McGough, Brian Patten and Adrian Henri's poetry anthology The Mersey Sound.
Alistair MacLean's wartime thriller and screenplay Where Eagles Dare.
Barry Unsworth's novel The Greeks Have a Word For It.
Boy's Own Paper, founded in 1879, publishes its final issue.



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