Editing 1967 (section)

===November===
{{Main|November 1967}}
* November – [[Islamabad]] officially becomes [[Pakistan]]'s political capital.<ref name=McGarr>{{cite book |last=McGarr |first=Paul |date=2013 |title=The Cold War in South Asia: Britain, the United States and the Indian subcontinent, 1945-1965 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NdGaAAAAQBAJ&pg=PR9 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=9781107008151 |access-date=24 December 2020 |archive-date=18 February 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230218090937/https://books.google.com/books?id=NdGaAAAAQBAJ&pg=PR9 |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[November 2]]
** [[Vietnam War]]: U.S. President [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] holds a secret meeting with a group of the nation's most prestigious leaders ("the Wise Men") and asks them to suggest ways to unite the American people behind the war effort. They conclude that the American people should be given more optimistic reports on the progress of the war.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/31/opinion/lyndon-johnson-vietnam-war.html|title=Opinion {{!}} When the Wise Men Failed|last=Kirshner|first=Jonathan|date=2017-10-31|work=The New York Times|access-date=2019-01-14|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190115023452/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/31/opinion/lyndon-johnson-vietnam-war.html|archive-date=January 15, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref>
** A non-central [[Solar eclipse of November 2, 1967|total solar eclipse]] took place.
* [[November 3]] – [[Vietnam War]] – [[Battle of Dak To]]: Around [[Đắk Tô]] (located about 280&nbsp;miles north of [[Saigon]] near the [[Cambodia]]n border), heavy casualties are suffered on both sides; U.S. troops narrowly win the battle on [[November 22]].
* [[November 4]]–[[November 5|5]] – In the [[Democratic Republic of the Congo]], mercenaries of [[Jean Schramme]] and Jerry Puren withdraw from Bukavu, over the Shangugu Bridge, to [[Rwanda]].
* [[November 6]] – The [[Rhodesia]]n parliament passes pro-[[Apartheid]] laws.
* [[November 7]]
** U.S. President [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] signs the [[Public Broadcasting Act of 1967]], establishing the [[Corporation for Public Broadcasting]].
** [[Carl B. Stokes]] is elected [[Mayor of Cleveland|Mayor]] of [[Cleveland]], [[Ohio]], becoming the first [[African American]] elected mayor of a major United States city.
** The 50th anniversary of the [[Great October Socialist Revolution]] is celebrated in the [[Soviet Union]].
* [[November 9]] – [[Apollo program]]: [[NASA]] launches the first [[Saturn V]] rocket, successfully carrying the [[Apollo 4]] test spacecraft from [[Cape Kennedy]] into Earth orbit.
* [[November 11]] – [[Vietnam War]]: In a ceremony in [[Phnom Penh]], [[Cambodia]], 3 United States prisoners of war are released by the [[Viet Cong]] and turned over to American "New Left" antiwar activist [[Tom Hayden]].
* [[November 14]] – The [[Congress of Colombia]], in commemoration of the 150-year anniversary of the death of [[Policarpa Salavarrieta]], declares this day as the "Day of the Colombian Woman".
* [[November 15]]
** General [[Georgios Grivas]] and his 10,000 strong Greek Army division are forced to leave Cyprus, after 24 [[Turkish Cypriot]] civilians are killed by the [[Greek Cypriot National Guard]] in the villages of Kophinou and Ayios Theodhoros; relations sour between Nicosia and Athens. Turkey flies sorties into Greek territory, and masses troops in Thrace on her border with Greece.{{citation needed|date=June 2018}}
** Test pilot [[Michael J. Adams|Michael Adams]] is killed when his [[X-15]] rocket plane tumbles out of control during atmospheric re-entry and disintegrates.
* [[November 17]]
** Vietnam War: Acting on optimistic reports he was given on [[November 13]], U.S. President [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] tells the nation that, while much remains to be done, "We are inflicting greater losses than we're taking ... We are making progress." (Two months later the [[Tet Offensive]] by the Viet Cong is widely reported as a Viet Cong victory by the U.S. press and thus as a major setback to the U.S.)<ref>{{Cite web |title=The President's News Conference {{!}} The American Presidency Project |url=https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/the-presidents-news-conference-1199 |access-date=2025-04-05 |website=www.presidency.ucsb.edu}}</ref>
** French author [[Régis Debray]] is sentenced to 30 years imprisonment in [[Bolivia]]. (He will be released in 1970 after less than three years imprisonment.)
* [[November 18]] – The UK [[pound sterling|pound]] is devalued from £1 = [[United States dollar|US$]]2.80 to £1 = US$2.40.
* [[November 19]] – The establishment of [[TVB]], the first wireless commercial [[television station]] in Hong Kong.
* [[November 20]] – The "[[U.S. and World Population Clock|population clock]]" of the [[United States Census Bureau]] records the U.S. population at 200&nbsp;million people at 11:03&nbsp;a.m. Washington, D.C. time.<ref>"Nation Reaches 200 Million, And Then Some", ''Salt Lake (UT) Tribune'', November 21, 1967, pg. 1</ref>
* [[November 21]] – [[Vietnam War]]: United States General [[William Westmoreland]] tells news reporters: "I am absolutely certain that whereas in 1965 the enemy was winning, today he is certainly losing."<ref>{{cite book|last=Perkinson|first=Henry J.|date=January 1, 1995|title=Getting Better: Television and Moral Progress|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OF9U0KFFVIQC|publisher=Transaction Publishers, 1995|page=130|isbn=9781412824576}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/westmoreland-tells-media-the-communists-are-losing|title=Westmoreland tells media the communists are losing|date=November 16, 2009|publisher=A&E Television Networks|access-date=January 5, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181130090653/https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/westmoreland-tells-media-the-communists-are-losing|archive-date=November 30, 2018}}</ref>
* [[November 22]] – [[UN Security Council Resolution 242]] is adopted by the [[UN Security Council]], establishing a set of principles aimed at guiding negotiations for an [[Arab]]–[[Israel]]i peace settlement.
* [[November 25]] – [[1967 Australian Senate election]]: The [[Liberal Party of Australia|Liberal]]/[[National Party of Australia|Country]] [[Coalition (Australia)|Coalition]] [[Holt government|government]] led by [[Prime Minister of Australia|Prime Minister]] [[Harold Holt]] lost two seats, while the [[Australian Labor Party|Labor Party]] led by [[Gough Whitlam]] failed to make any gains. The [[Democratic Labor Party (Australia, 1955)|Democratic Labor Party]] won the two seats from the Liberals and gained the sole balance of power in the [[Australian Senate|Senate]].
* [[November 26]] – Major floods hit [[Lisbon]], Portugal, killing 462.
* [[November 27]] – [[The Beatles]] release ''[[Magical Mystery Tour (album)|Magical Mystery Tour]]'' in the U.S. as a full album. The songs added to the original six songs on the double EP include "[[All You Need Is Love]]", "[[Penny Lane]]", "[[Strawberry Fields Forever]]", "[[Baby, You're a Rich Man]]" and "[[Hello, Goodbye]]". Release as a double EP will not take place in the UK until December.<ref>{{cite magazine|author=Billboard staff|date=25 November 1967|title=Beatles' 13th Cap. LP Due Mid-December|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PigEAAAAMBAJ&q=Beatles|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]|page=6}}</ref>
* [[November 28]] – The first [[pulsar]] to be discovered by Earth observers is found in the constellation of [[Vulpecula]] by astronomers [[Jocelyn Bell Burnell]] and [[Antony Hewish]], and is given the name [[PSR B1919+21]].
* [[November 29]] – [[Vietnam War]]: U.S. Secretary of Defense [[Robert McNamara]] announces his resignation to become president of the [[World Bank]]. McNamara's resignation follows U.S. President [[Lyndon B. Johnson]]'s outright rejection of McNamara's early November recommendations to freeze troop levels, stop the bombing of [[North Vietnam]], and hand over ground fighting to [[South Vietnam]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Wilson Center Digital Archive|url=https://digitalarchive.wilsoncenter.org/resource/cold-war-history/robert-mcnamara|website=digitalarchive.wilsoncenter.org|access-date=2020-05-19}}</ref>
* [[November 30]]
** [[Zulfikar Ali Bhutto]] founds the [[Pakistan People's Party]] and becomes its first chairman. It has gone on to become one of Pakistan's major political parties (alongside the ''[[Pakistan Muslim League]]'') that is broken into many factions, bearing the same name under different leaders, such as the Pakistan's Peoples Party Parliamentarians (PPPP).
** The [[Yemen|People's Republic of South Yemen]] becomes independent of the United Kingdom.
** Pro-Soviet communists in the Philippines establish [[Malayang Pagkakaisa ng Kabataan Pilipino]] as its new youth wing.
** U.S. Senator [[Eugene McCarthy]] announces his candidacy for the [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]] presidential nomination, challenging incumbent President [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] over the [[Vietnam War]].