Editing 1967 (section)

===February===
{{Main|February 1967}}
* [[February 3]] – [[Ronald Ryan]] becomes the last man hanged in Australia, for murdering a guard while escaping from prison in December 1965.
* [[February 5]]
** [[NASA]] launches ''[[Lunar Orbiter 3]]''.
** Italy's first [[guided missile cruiser]], the ''[[Italian cruiser Vittorio Veneto (550)|Vittorio Veneto]]'', is launched.
** General [[Anastasio Somoza Debayle]] becomes president of [[Nicaragua]].
* [[February 6]] – [[Alexei Kosygin]] arrives in the UK for an 8-day visit. He meets [[Elizabeth II|The Queen]] on [[February 9]].
* [[February 7]] – Serious [[Bushfires in Australia|bushfires]] in southern [[Tasmania]] claim 62 lives and destroy 2,642.7 square kilometres (653,025.4&nbsp;acres) of land.
* [[February 10]] – The [[Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution]] (presidential succession and disability) is ratified.
* [[February 11]] – [[Burgess Ice Rise]], lying off the west coast of [[Alexander Island]], Antarctica, is first mapped by the [[British Antarctic Survey]] (BAS).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/gaz/scar/display_name.cfm?gaz_id=108019|title=Burgess Ice Rise|website=SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica|access-date=22 January 2025}}</ref>
* [[February 13]] – American researchers discover the Madrid Codices by [[Leonardo da Vinci]] in the [[Biblioteca Nacional de España|National Library of Spain]].<ref>[http://192.220.96.166/leonardo/leonardo.html The Controversial Replica of Leonardo da Vinci's Adding Machine] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110529140741/http://192.220.96.166/leonardo/leonardo.html|date=May 29, 2011}}</ref>
* [[February 22]]
** [[Suharto]] takes power from [[Sukarno]] in [[Indonesia]] (see [[Transition to the New Order]] and [[Supersemar]]).
** [[Donald Sangster]] becomes the new prime minister of [[Jamaica]], succeeding [[Alexander Bustamante]].
* [[February 23]]
** [[Trinidad and Tobago]] is the first [[Commonwealth of Nations|Commonwealth]] nation to join the [[Organization of American States]].
** The [[Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution]] is enacted.
* [[February 24]] – Moscow forbids its [[satellite state]]s to form diplomatic relations with West Germany.
* [[February 25]] – Britain's second [[Polaris missile]] submarine, [[HMS Renown (S26)|HMS ''Renown'']], is launched.
* [[February 26]] – A Soviet nuclear test is conducted at the [[Semipalatinsk Test Site]], Eastern [[Kazakhstan]].