Editing 1967 (section)

===January===
{{Main|January 1967}}
* [[January 1]] – Canada begins a year-long celebration of the 100th anniversary of [[Canadian Confederation|Confederation]], featuring the [[Expo 67]] World's Fair.
* [[January 6]] – [[Vietnam War]]: [[United States Marine Corps]] and [[Army of the Republic of Vietnam]] troops launch ''[[Operation Deckhouse Five]]'' in the [[Mekong Delta]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Willbanks|first=James H.|title=Vietnam War Almanac|publisher=Checkmark Books|year=2010|isbn=978-0-8160-8248-3}}</ref>
* [[January 8]] – Vietnam War: [[Operation Cedar Falls]] starts, in an attempt to eliminate the [[Iron Triangle (Vietnam)|Iron Triangle]].
* [[January 13]] – A [[military coup]] occurs in [[Togo]] under the leadership of [[Étienne Eyadema]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/830774.stm |title=Obituary: Gnassingbe Eyadema|date=5 February 2005|website=BBC News|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191103151609/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/830774.stm |access-date=25 November 2024|archive-date=November 3, 2019 }}</ref>
* [[January 15]] – [[Louis Leakey]] announces the discovery of pre-human fossils in [[Kenya]]; he names the species ''[[Proconsul nyanzae|Kenyapithecus africanus]]''.{{cn|date=January 2025}}
* [[January 23]]
** In [[Munich]], the trial begins of [[Wilhelm Harster]], accused of the murder of 82,856 Jews (including [[Anne Frank]]) when he led German security police during the German occupation of the Netherlands. He is eventually sentenced to 15 years in prison.<ref>{{Cite news|date=24 January 1967|title=EX-NAZI ON TRIAL IN DUTCH KILLINGS|work=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1967/01/24/archives/exnazi-on-trial-in-dutch-killings-ss-aide-linked-to-deaths-of-80000.html|access-date=10 March 2021}}</ref>
** [[Milton Keynes]] in England is founded as a [[New towns in the United Kingdom|new town]] by [[Order in Council]], with a planning brief to become a city of 250,000 people. Its initial designated area encloses three existing towns and twenty one villages. The area to be developed is largely farmland, with [[History of Milton Keynes|evidence of permanent settlement]] dating back to the [[Bronze Age]].
* [[January 25]] &ndash; [[South Vietnam]]ese junta leader and Prime Minister [[Nguyen Cao Ky]] forces his rival, Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister [[Nguyen Huu Co]], into exile while overseas on a diplomatic visit.<ref>{{cite news|work=[[New York Times]] |author= Randal, Jonathan| title=Saigon Government Dismisses Deputy Premier|page=3 |date=26 January 1967}}</ref>
* [[January 26]]
** The [[Parliament of the United Kingdom]] decides to nationalise 90% of the nation's steel industry.
** [[1967 Chicago blizzard|The largest-ever blizzard]] to hit the US city of [[Chicago]] begins.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20160125/downtown/chicago-blizzard-of-1967-when-record-23-inches-of-snow-pounded-city |title=Chicago Blizzard of 1967: When Record 23 Inches of Snow Pounded The City |last=Breen |first=Justin |date=January 25, 2016 |access-date=January 25, 2017 |newspaper=DNA Info |location=Chicago |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170130164450/https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20160125/downtown/chicago-blizzard-of-1967-when-record-23-inches-of-snow-pounded-city |archive-date=30 January 2017 }}</ref>
* [[January 27]]
** [[Apollo 1]]: U.S. astronauts [[Gus Grissom]], [[Ed White (astronaut)|Ed White]] and [[Roger Chaffee]] are killed when fire breaks out in their [[Apollo program|Apollo]] spacecraft during a launch pad test.
** The United States, Soviet Union and United Kingdom sign the [[Outer Space Treaty]] (ratified by USSR May 19; comes into force October 10), prohibiting [[weapons of mass destruction]] from space.
* [[January 31]] – West Germany and [[Romania]] establish [[diplomatic relations]].