1967

1967

• Rolling Stone Magazine is founded.
• Communist China announces the H Bomb.
• Dr. Christian Barnard performs the first heart transplant.
• Albert DeSalvo, the "Boston Strangler", is convicted of numerous crimes and sentenced to life in prison.
• Human Be-In takes place in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco; event sets the stage for the Summer of Love.
• The Doors' first album is released.
• In Houston, Texas, boxer Muhammad Ali refuses military service.
• Jimmy Hoffa begins his 8-year sentence for attempting to bribe a jury.
• Elvis Presley and Priscilla Beaulieu are married in Las Vegas.
• The album Are You Experienced is released by The Jimi Hendrix Experience in the United Kingdom.
• Pink Floyd releases their debut album "The Piper at the Gates of Dawn."
• 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.
• Love Is a Many Splendored Thing debuts on U.S. daytime television and is the first soap opera to deal with an interracial relationship. CBS censors find it too controversial and ask for it to be stopped, causing show creator Irna Phillips to quit.
• Walt Disney's full-length animated feature The Jungle Book, the last animated film personally supervised by Disney, is released and becomes an enormous box office and critical success. On a double bill with the film is the (now) much less well-known True-Life Adventure, Charlie the Lonesome Cougar.
• LSD declared an illegal by the United States government.