The year 1967 saw Ronald Reagan, past movie actor and future president of the United States inaugurated the new governor of California, and Ronald Ryan as the last man hanged in Australia.
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In March, Australian rugby league footballer, Mark Carroll was born, and in April, Martin Luther King Jr. denounced the Vietnam War during his sermon at the Riverside Church in New York City.
Elvis Presley and Priscilla Beaulieu married in Las Vegas in May and in June, murderer Richard Speck was sentenced to death in the electric chair for killing eight student nurses in Chicago.
July saw Canada celebrate its first one hundred years of Confederation, and on August 5, Pink Floyd releases their debut album “The Piper at the Gates of Dawn” in the United Kingdom.
The RMS Queen Mary arrived in Southampton at the end of her last transatlantic crossing in September, and in October the Mariner 5 probe flew by Venus.
NASA launched the first Saturn V rocket, successfully carrying the unmanned Apollo 4 test spacecraft from Cape Kennedy into Earth orbit in November, and in December, Australian prime minister, Harold Holt disappeared when swimming at Cheviot Beach, 60 km from Melbourne.
