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Top Song(s)
• Procol Harum - A Whiter Shade of Pale
• The Monkees I'm a Believer
• The Beatles - All You Need is Love
• The Box Tops - The Letter
• The Doors - Light My Fire
Top Film(s)
• Cool Hand Luke
• The Graduate
• Bonnie and Clyde
• In the Heat of the Night
• Playtime
Best Selling Book(s)
• One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez
• The Outsiders - S.E. Hinton
• Rosemary’s Baby - Ira Levin
• The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
• The Chosen - Chaim Potok
Famous Deaths
• January 14 – Miklos Kállay, 34th Prime Minister of Hungary
• February 7 – David Unaipon, Australian author and inventor
• March 27 – Jaroslav Heyrovsky, Czech chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
• April 27 – William Douglas Cook, New Zealand founder of Eastwoodhill Arboretum and Pukeiti
• May 20 – Bosman di Ravelli, South African concert pianist, composer, and writer
• June 5 – Arthur Biram, Israeli philosopher and educator, and Israel Prize recipient
• July 18 – Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco, 26th President of Brazil
• August 15 - Manuel Prado Ugarteche, 50th & 54th President of Peru
• October 8 – Clement Attlee, British politician, 60th Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
• November 7 – John Nance Garner, 32nd Vice President of the United States
Medical/Science/Technology
• Mariner 5 probe flies by Venus.
• Chimpanzee Washoe begins to learn American Sign Language.
• CDC 7600 supercomputer released.
• The electroweak interaction theory is introduced by Steven Weinberg.
• The Toda lattice is introduced by Morikazu Toda.
• The body of American psychologist Dr James Bedford becomes the first to undergo cryopreservation.
• 1967 Marburg virus outbreak in West Germany leads to identification of Marburg virus.
• Dr Christiaan Barnard and a team perform the first successful human heart transplantation.
• Thomas Starzl performs the first successful human liver transplantation.
• Charles Kelman introduces phacoemulsification for cataract surgery.
Political
• January 2 – Ronald Reagan, past movie actor and future president of the U.S., is inaugurated governor of California.
• February 10 – The Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified.
• March 31 – President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Consular Treaty.
• April 1 – The Department of Transportation begins operation.
• May 18 - Tennessee Governor Ellington repeals the "Monkey Law" (officially the Butler Act).
• May 25 – The Twenty-fifth Amendment is added to the Constitution.
• June 12 – The U.S. Supreme Court declares all U.S. state laws prohibiting interracial marriage to be unconstitutional.
• October 2 – Thurgood Marshall is sworn in as the first black justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
• June 23 – Cold War: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson meets with Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin in Glassboro, New Jersey.
• November 7 - President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967.
National
• January 14 - The New York Times reports that the U.S. Army is conducting secret germ warfare experiments.
• February 2 – The American Basketball Association is formed.
• March 14 – The body of President John F. Kennedy is moved to a permanent burial place at Arlington National Cemetery.
• April 15 – Large demonstrations are held against the Vietnam War in New York City and San Francisco.
• April 22 – The Big Mac is introduced, in Uniontown, Pennsylvania.
• July 2 – Walt Disney's Carousel of Progress opens at Disneyland.
• August 1 – Race riots in the United States spread to Washington, D.C.
• September 11 – Sketch comedy series The Carol Burnett Show premieres on CBS.
• October 20 – The Patterson–Gimlin film is shot in Bluff Creek, California supposedly capturing a Bigfoot on tape.
• December 7 – The U.S. Public Health Service studies potential ray leakage from color TVs.
Worldwide
• January 15 – Louis Leakey announces the discovery of pre-human fossils in Kenya.
• February 4 – The Soviet Union protests the demonstrations before its embassy in Beijing.
• March 21 - A military coup takes place in Sierra Leone.
• April 20 – A Globe Air Bristol Britannia turboprop crashes at Nicosia, Cyprus, killing 126 people.
• May 1 - GO Transit, Canada's first interregional public transit system, is established.
• June 4 – British Midland flight G-ALHG crashes in Hopes Carr, Stockport, killing 72 passengers and crew.
• July 10 - Heavy massive rains and a landslide at Kobe and Kure, Hiroshima, Japan, kill at least 371.
• August 8 – The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is founded in Bangkok, Thailand.
• September 27 – The RMS Queen Mary arrives in Southampton at the end of her last transatlantic crossing.
• December 4 - At 6:50 PM, a volcano erupts on Deception Island in Antarctica.