March 1967

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March 11, 1967: American national symbol placed on the endangered species list
March 10, 1967: The world's new "largest airliner", the Il-62, begins passenger service
March 15, 1967: Southwest Airlines founded

The following events occurred in March 1967:

March 1, 1967 (Wednesday)

  • Óscar Gestido was sworn in as President of Uruguay, ending a 15-year experiment in "collegiate government" (el colegiado) in which the South American republic was administered by a nine-member Consejo Nacional de Gobierno, with a different member selected each year to preside over meetings.[1] During the council's reign, Uruguay had functioned as a socialist state with a 30-hour work week, retirement at age 55 with full pay, and government jobs for 40% of the work force, but had also been plagued by inflation, frequent labor strikes, low productivity and widespread discontent. Gestido was sworn in for a five-year term, and the nine councilors (including council president Alberto Héber) stepped down.[2]
  • Clay Shaw, the former director of the International Trade Mart in New Orleans, became the first person since 1963 to be arrested on accusations of the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy. The New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison had ordered that Shaw be charged with conspiracy to commit murder. After posting a bond of $10,000 Shaw was released. Garrison told reporters, "There will be more arrests," and added, "If you want to bet against me, you will lose."[3]
  • The U.S. House of Representatives voted 248 to 176 to bar New York Congressman Adam Clayton Powell Jr. from taking his seat in the House. An earlier resolution that would have censured Powell, but would have allowed him to serve, failed 202–222. Powell had been accused of diverting more than $56,000 in taxpayer funds for his personal use.[4]
  • Ernesto Miranda, whose original conviction for kidnapping and rape had been reversed after the 1963 decision by the U.S. Supreme Court that gave rise to the "Miranda warning" that bears his name, was found guilty on retrial and was given a sentence of 20 to 30 years in the Arizona State Prison.[5]
  • The
    Australian White Ensign.[6]
  • The Japanese railway system opened the new ]
  • The city of Hatogaya, in the Saitama Prefecture of Japan, was founded.[citation needed]
  • The Queen Elizabeth Hall was opened in London.[8]

March 2, 1967 (Thursday)

March 3, 1967 (Friday)

March 4, 1967 (Saturday)

  • A U.S. presidential commission recommended a reform to the American selective service system, in what was described as a "youngest first by random selection procedure". While the existing method was for local draft boards to fill their quotas starting with 26-year-old men, the new system would eliminate the 4,100 community draft boards and randomly select registered 19-year-old men. "If a man is not drafted at 19," a reporter noted, "chances are good under the new proposal that he would never be drafted short of total war."[18]
  • League Cup, defeating 1st Division side West Bromwich Albion 3–2, at the final at Wembley Stadium in front of 97,952 fans. As a 3rd Division team, QPR was ranked below the 22 first division and the 22 second division sides. Despite being behind, 2–0, at halftime, the Rangers scored three goals in the second half, including the winning kick by Mark Lazarus in the 81st minute.[19]
  • Former film and television actress Betty Furness was appointed by U.S. President Johnson to the newly created post of Special Assistant for Consumer Affairs. Despite initial concerns that she had been chosen solely for her celebrity status, Mrs. Furness would quickly prove to be a knowledgeable and effective consumer protection advocate.[20]
  • Wasfi al-Tal.[21][22]
  • Born:

March 5, 1967 (Sunday)

March 6, 1967 (Monday)

March 7, 1967 (Tuesday)

  • CBS Reports aired the first television news documentary in U.S. history to report on gay and lesbian issues. Hosted by Mike Wallace, and viewed by 40 million people,[44] "The Homosexuals" "reflected the bias of the American Psychological Association... labeling homosexuality a mental illness" but also showed gays and lesbians as individuals whose civil rights were deprived. TV critics reacted differently, with Chicago Tribune columnist Clay Gowran, who called the show "garbage" and said that "it was permitted... not only to justify the aberration but, it seemed, to glorify it",[45] while Tribune columnist Herb Lyon wrote that it "was one of the most intelligent, mature, incisive shows ever produced."[46]
  • Manuel Apud, a former official of Cuba's Ministry of Industry, testified before a U.S. Senate subcommittee that the Soviet Union had resumed placement of intermediate-range ballistic missiles in Cuba, four years after the Cuban Missile Crisis had ended with a Soviet pledge that it would not put nuclear missiles on the Caribbean island nation. Apud said that he had viewed the missiles and said that they were identical to the FROG (Free Range On Ground) missiles that could be transported on a mobile launcher.[47]
  • You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, a musical comedy based on the comic strip Peanuts, was first performed, appearing as an "off-Broadway" musical at Theatre 80 in New York's East Village.[48] With music and lyrics by Clark Gesner, the musical launched the career of Gary Burghoff, who appeared as the title character. Continuing to be performed at colleges and high schools, it is credited with being "the most produced musical in history".[48]
  • Jimmy Hoffa, President of the International Teamsters Union, began an 8-year federal prison sentence at the United States Penitentiary near Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, three years after his conviction for attempting to bribe a jury.[49]
  • Died: Alice B. Toklas, 89, American-born resident of Paris, author, and life partner of American author Gertrude Stein[50]

March 8, 1967 (Wednesday)

  • In Anguilla, a person or persons who were unhappy about the British colony's incorporation into Saint Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla burned down the Government House in the island's capital, The Valley. The St. Kitts Warden for Anguilla, resident administrator Vincent F. Byron, had been the only person inside the building at the time and was able to escape uninjured, but "lost all his personal effects and a car" in the blaze.[51] Byron would be forced to leave Anguilla on May 31, along with the police force from the rest of the West Indies, with the Anguillans severing relations with St. Kitts and Nevis.[52][53]
  • The
    U.S. Department of Defense announced that American forces in the Vietnam War had suffered their heaviest casualties since the start of the war, with 232 men killed and 1,381 wounded during the week ending March 4.[54] The single bloodiest day was Tuesday, February 28, when 61 American servicemen died.[55]

March 9, 1967 (Thursday)

  • U.S. Navy Lt. (jg) Frank Prendergast became "the only American aviator to escape after being captured in North Vietnam", after bailing out of his plane and coming down off the coast of North Vietnam's
    Thanh Hoa Province. After inflating his life preserver, Prendergast was forced to surrender when a party of NVA soldiers waded out toward him. As he and they slowly marched back toward shore, several U.S. Navy planes strafed the beach, and all but two of the soldiers fled. With each strafing run, the two soldiers would dive underwater while Prendergast remained standing; when he saw an SH-3 rescue helicopter, he waited for his two captors to go underwater again, pulled a small .25 caliber automatic from his flight suit and shot the first guard to surface, while the SH-3's door gunner killed the other one. Prendergast was safely flown back to the USS Kitty Hawk.[56]
  • TWA Flight 553, a DC-9 jet flying from Pittsburgh to Dayton, Ohio, collided in mid-air with a small Beechcraft Baron executive plane over Concord Township, 5 miles (8.0 km) from Urbana, Ohio.[57] All 25 people on the DC-9 (which was only one-third occupied) were killed, along with the Beechcraft's sole occupant. An investigation determined that the TWA jet, which was preparing to enter the holding pattern prior to a landing at the Dayton airport, descended onto the slower Beechcraft plane, whose pilot was flying from Detroit to a business conference in Springfield, Ohio.[58] The accident would lead the Federal Aviation Administration to place speed restrictions on aircraft flying below 10,000 feet (3,048 m) and would contribute to its decision to create terminal control areas (TCAs).[59]
  • Joseph Stalin's daughter, Svetlana Alliluyeva, defected to the United States via the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi, which then flew her to Rome, and helped her find refuge in Geneva, Switzerland.[60]

March 10, 1967 (Friday)

March 11, 1967 (Saturday)

March 12, 1967 (Sunday)

Sukarno
Suharto
  • The Indonesian State Assembly took all presidential powers from Sukarno and named Suharto as acting president.[72] Suharto would be elected President of Indonesia on March 27, 1968, and would serve 30 years, resigning on May 21, 1998, after an economic collapse.[73]
  • The Chicago Blackhawks finally broke the "Curse of Muldoon" that had supposedly been placed upon them in 1927 when coach Pete Muldoon was fired. The 40-year curse was that the Blackhawks would never again finish in first place in the one-division National Hockey League, though it had not prevented the Hawks from winning the Stanley Cup in 1934, 1938 and 1961, and the story was not reduced to print until a Toronto sportswriter had popularized it. Well before the end of the 1966–1967 season, Chicago had clinched the Prince of Wales Trophy (for best regular season record), and would finish with 84 points (37 wins, 10 ties and 14 losses), far ahead of the New York Rangers' 65 points (27–11–23).[74]
  • Deputies were elected for the legislatures of nine of the Soviet Union's 15 constituent republics, including the Russian SFSR. All candidates were unopposed, but voters had the right to cross out names of persons whom they did not want. In the Russian Republic balloting, "Only 203,461 of the 81,445,729 voters crossed out the names of official candidates" for the 884 people on the ballot, and "the pattern was the same" in the other elections.[75]
  • The second round of
    Union des Démocrates pour la République (UDR) Party, nicknamed "the Gaullists", emerged with 244 of the seats, one more than the 243 needed for a majority, after candidate Paul Valentino won a close race for the seat for the French Overseas Territory of Guadeloupe.[76]
  • The Velvet Underground's groundbreaking first album, The Velvet Underground & Nico, was released. Initially a commercial failure, it would receive widespread critical and commercial acclaim in later years.
  • Born: Massimiliano Frezzato, Italian comic book author; in Turin
  • Died:

March 13, 1967 (Monday)

  • heart attack because he had earlier reported "symptoms suggestive of cardio-vascular trouble" and that his co-pilot, Brian Trenwith, might have had difficulty in regaining control of the plane.[78]
  • The Indian state of
  • Congo, was sentenced to death in absentia. On June 30, Tshombe's plane would be hijacked and flown to Algeria, where he would remain in prison for the rest of his life, dying on June 30, 1969.[80]
  • Born: Andrés Escobar, Colombian soccer football defender, with 51 appearances for the national team from 1988 to 1994; in Medellín (murdered, 1994)

March 14, 1967 (Tuesday)

March 15, 1967 (Wednesday)

  • Southwest Airlines, which would become one of the four largest airlines in the United States by the 21st century, was founded in Texas as Air Southwest Company, Inc., by Herb Kelleher and Kenneth B. Ragsdale.[85] On June 17, 1971, the company would assume its present name and inaugurate low cost jet service between Dallas, Houston and San Antonio.[86][87]
  • General
    Humberto Castelo Branco.[88] Costa e Silva would serve until October 30, 1969, being removed from office following a cerebral hemorrhage.[89]
  • Born: Naoko Takeuchi, Japanese manga artist who created the Sailor Moon series; in Kōfu

March 16, 1967 (Thursday)

  • In the
    coup. ASPIDA (Axiomatikí Sósate Patrída Idaniká Dimokratía Axiokratía), literally "officers united to save our nation's democratic ideals" was an acronym using the Greek word for "shield" (aspida), and the group consisted of 33 junior Greek Army officers who were working together to advance their careers; the scandal would lead to the resignation of Prime Minister Ioannis Paraskevopoulos.[90]
  • The first of two unexplained incidents happened at Malmstrom Air Force Base, near Great Falls, Montana, where the U.S. Air Force had missile silos for its Minuteman ICBMs. According to later accounts, crews in the areas had seen unidentified objects hovering near or over the silos of the Echo Flight section, and starting at 8:45, the launch facilities of ten missiles began going offline and inoperable. Eight days later, at the Oscar Flight section of Malmstrom AFB, another set of missiles went offline after a UFO was seen.[91][92][93]
  • Sardar Hukam Singh completed his term as speaker of the 3rd Lok Sabha of India. He was succeeded by future Indian President Neelam Sanjiva Reddy as the 4th Lok Sabha began its five-year parliamentary session. Hukam Singh would become Governor of Rajasthan state a month later.[94]
  • Singapore amended its National Service Act, requiring all male citizens to begin two years of service in the Singapore Armed Forces upon reaching their 18th birthdays.[95]
  • Born: Lauren Graham, American TV actress and star of Gilmore Girls; in Honolulu

March 17, 1967 (Friday)

March 18, 1967 (Saturday)

Unidentified decedent "Miss X"
  • A female crime victim identified in social media as "Miss X" was found dead on a road between the towns of Glasgow and Bear, Delaware. The young woman, estimated to be three months pregnant, had apparently died after receiving an illegal abortion by introduction of a chemical and developing sepsis, and her partially-clothed body was dumped on the side of a road with the lower half in a laundry bag.[103] The identity of "Miss X" would remain unknown more than 50 years later.[104]
  • The supertanker
    crude oil. The oil was being shipped by BP Trading Ltd. from Kuwait to a refinery at Milford Haven in Pembrokeshire, Wales,[106] and was reportedly trying to avoid a collision with fishing vessels when it struck the reef.[107] Initially, six of the 18 tanks on the Torrey Canyon were split open, releasing 30,000 tonnes of oil.[108] Ultimately, the vessel would release 32 million gallons of oil, much of which washed up on the Cornish coast.[109]
  • The first demonstration of "
    ABC Wide World of Sports who had tuned in to see the finals of the "World Series of Skiing" at Vail, Colorado. The repeating of a scene at its original speed had been shown as early as December 7, 1963, but the Ampex HS-100 made it possible to slow down, freeze, or reverse the action for analysis by television commentators.[110][111]
  • Judy Hashman, a former American from Baltimore who had emigrated to the United Kingdom, won her 10th All-England singles title in badminton, defeating Noriko Takagi of Japan in the 1967 All England Badminton Championships, opened at Wembley Arena, London.[112][113] In the men's championship, Erland Kops of Denmark defeated Tan Aik Huang of Malaysia to win the title for the seventh time.[114]
  • "Pirates of the Caribbean", a theme park ride that would become the basis for a successful series of films 35 years later, was opened as a featured attraction at the Disneyland theme park in Anaheim, California.

March 19, 1967 (Sunday)

March 20, 1967 (Monday)

March 21, 1967 (Tuesday)

  • A military coup took place in
    Henry Lightfoot Boston. Stevens, whose party had won a majority in parliament in elections four days earlier, was preparing to take the oath at the State House in Freetown, when troops led by Sierra Leone Army General David Lansana arrested him and Boston.[122] "If the army had not intervened," a historian would write later, "Sierra Leone would have been an example of the first peaceful transfer of political power in independent Africa, with a propensity to nourish democratic principles. The presumption of the military established a dangerous precedent for subsequent civil-military relations."[97]
    Lansana would be overthrown in a counter-coup two days later.
  • Charles Manson was released from the Terminal Island prison in California after being incarcerated since 1960 and ordered to complete a 1957 prison sentence. Telling the authorities that "prison had become his home", that he had nowhere to go, and that he "didn't think he could adjust to the world outside", Manson asked to stay, but was released on schedule at 8:15 in the morning. Upon his release, he relocated to San Francisco, settled in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood, and spent 1967's "Summer of Love" forming the group of followers known as "The Manson Family".[123]
  • Born:

March 22, 1967 (Wednesday)

March 23, 1967 (Thursday)

  • NASA halted further training for three scheduled U.S. crewed space missions and disbanded their three-member crews, pending an overhaul of the
    Apollo 2, and Frank Borman, Michael Collins and William Anders would have been on Apollo 3 in the autumn.[128] Schirra, Eisele and Cunningham would go up together on Apollo 7 in 1968; McDivitt, Scott and Schweickart would test the Apollo Lunar Module on Apollo 9 in 1969; Borman and Anders would orbit the Moon (with Jim Lovell) on Apollo 8 in 1968; and Collins would remain in lunar orbit on the Apollo 11 mission in 1969 with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin
    .
  • Brigadier General David Lansana, who had led the coup to depose Sierra Leone's new Prime Minister Siaka Stevens, was arrested at 2:00 in the morning by three of his officers, Major Charles Blake, and Majors Bockarie Kai-Simba and Sandi B. Jumu. Major Blake then seized the Freetown radio station and declared that the West African country would be ruled by a new 8-member "National Reformation Council", to be led by Lt. Colonel Ambrose T. Genda, a Sierra Leonean representative to the United Nations.[129] Genda told reporters the next day that he was "very surprised" about the appointment and did not say whether he would accept.[130]
  • Rebel guerrillas commanded by
    Ñancahuazú in southeastern Bolivia. In addition to killing seven soldiers and taking two officers and nine soldiers prisoner, Guevara's men captured an arsenal of 16 Mauser rifles, three 60-mm mortars, a 30 caliber machine gun, two submachine guns and two Uzi machine pistols, 2,500 rounds of ammunition, 64 mortar shells, and the Bolivian Army's operations plan.[131]
  • The
    St. Paul, Minnesota, at 8:45 in the morning on the way back to Winnipeg, Manitoba.[132][133]
  • Died:

March 24, 1967 (Friday)

  • The U.S. Department of Defense released its weekly list of American casualties in the Vietnam War, showing 211 servicemen killed in action during the week of March 12 to March 18; according to the Associated Press tabulations, "American deaths from all causes in Vietnam since 1961 passed the 10,000 mark," based on unofficial tabulations that as of the latest report "8,306 Americans were killed in action and 1,788 died from accidents and other nonhostile causes," bringing the total to 10,094.[135]
  • Rao Birender Singh was sworn in as the second Chief Minister of the recently created Indian state of Haryana after forming a coalition government dominated by the United Front party that had recently taken control of the state from the Congress Party. Birender Singh replaced the first Chief Minister, B. D. Sharma, who had assumed office when Haryana became a state on November 1.[136]
  • A milestone in the development of the California wine industry took place as, for the first time, sales in the U.S. of the lighter "table wine", produced in California, exceeded those of "fortified wine" that included the addition of brandy or another distilled spirit. Author Charles Sullivan would make the calculation in an article (titled "March 24, 1967") for the industry journal Wines & Vines.[137]
  • Zakir Husain (who would win election) to be the best person for the job.[138]
  • The Canadian coaster SS Myalls caught fire and sank off Shelburne, Nova Scotia.[139]

March 25, 1967 (Saturday)

  • The beaches of Cornwall received their first oil from the spill from the Torrey Canyon, coming ashore on the peninsula known as "The Lizard", the southernmost portion of Great Britain. The lake of oil, which had started spilling a week earlier, was driven ashore by high winds from a storm.[140]
  • Martin Luther King Jr. declared in a speech in Chicago that "we must combine the fervor of the civil rights movement with the peace movement", and expanded his outreach to an audience to all people living in poverty beyond African-Americans.[141][142]
  • Pat Casey of Norwalk, California, broke the world record for heaviest weight lifted in bench press competition, becoming the first person to bench press more than 600 pounds (270 kg).[143][144]
  • Born:

March 26, 1967 (Sunday)

March 27, 1967 (Monday)

March 28, 1967 (Tuesday)

  • population explosion was strong, but that any governmental measures on birth control had to be "in conformity with moral law". Other subjects covered by the encyclical included a statement on poverty that "help for those who lack basic needs" must come before free commerce and private property rights, called on the world's nations to divert money from building weapons to relieving misery, condemned unlimited reliance on profit as a means of economic progress, and suggested higher taxes on the wealthy in order to aid the poor. The encyclical was issued two days after Easter.[156][157] On April 18, the Vatican's official newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, would clarify that the encyclical must not be misinterpreted as a change in the Church's position against birth control other than by abstinence.[158]
  • In what was described as "one of history's most stunning elections", the U.S. state of Florida became "the first two-party state in the south" as the Republican Party won 20 of the 48 seats in the state senate, and 40 of the 119 in the state house of representatives. Before the election, Democrats held 37 senate seats and Republicans held 11; the Democrats formerly held 97 house seats while the GOP held 26. The shift meant that Governor Claude Kirk, a Republican, had veto power over state legislation because the opposing party no longer had the necessary 2/3rds majority to override his actions.[159]
  • The
    Lew Alcindor— who would later change his name to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar— had an unfair advantage over the defense.[160]
    The ban would not be lifted until the 1976–77 season.
  • Eight jet bombers and 20 jet fighters from the Fleet Air Arm (of the Royal Navy) and the Royal Air Force dropped firebombs and tanks of aviation fuel on the wreckage of the supertanker Torrey Canyon and the mile-wide carpet of oil that had been leaking into the sea for the past ten days, in an effort to prevent further befouling of the beaches of Cornwall. "The greatest of all fires at sea" burned the floating oil and sent an up a thick black column of smoke that reached altitudes of ten miles and more.[161]
  • Twenty-seven schoolchildren were killed, and another 29 injured, in Saint-Denis on the Indian Ocean island of Réunion when their bus went out of control and fell into a river.[162]

March 29, 1967 (Wednesday)

Le Redoutable
  • The first French nuclear submarine, Le Redoutable, was launched from Cherbourg, and would soon be armed with 16 MSBS nuclear missiles.[163][164]
  • At 5:00 a.m. Eastern Time, the employees of all three television networks (ABC, CBS and NBC) and their radio networks went on strike. Announcers, newscasters, actors, and other performers who were members of the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA) walked off the job for the first time in AFTRA's history, after being unable to agree on a new collective bargaining agreement to replace the contract that had expired on November 15.[165] The strike would be settled after 13 days and would end on April 10 in time for CBS to host the Academy Awards telecast.[166]
  • Ecuador became an oil-producing nation as a drilling consortium jointly operated by the Texaco and Gulf Oil corporations struck oil in at the Lago Agrio oil field in the Amazon jungle, at the Sucumbíos Province.[167]
  • The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit voted, 8 to 4, to affirm a decision ordering the integration of any remaining racially segregated public schools in the six southern states in its jurisdiction, and to do so in time for the opening of the 1967–68 school year. The ruling directly affected Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas, and served as precedent for segregated schools elsewhere in the United States.[168] The case specifically involved a December 29 district court order brought to desegregate school systems in the Caddo, Bossier, Jackson and Claiborne parishes of Louisiana, Jefferson County, Alabama, and the Alabama cities of Fairfield and Bessemer.[169]
  • The nation of
    Harry S Truman a 2,500-year old helmet that had been worn by an Athenian soldier, "in everlasting recognition of a great debt" on the 20th anniversary of the 1947 proclamation of the Truman Doctrine that the U.S. would protect Greece (and Turkey) from communist aggression. Alexander A. Matsas, the Greek ambassador to the United States, handed what he described as "one of the most significant relics that has ever been yielded by the ancient soil of Greece" to U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk, commenting that the gift for Truman was "the helmet of an Athenian citizen who fell in defending democracy and freedom."[170]
  • The
    1967 World Ice Hockey Championships, held in Vienna, Austria, were won by the Soviet Union for the fifth year in a row. The Soviet team won all seven of its games, defeating Czechoslovakia 4–2 in a game marked by fist fights; at one point in the game, "seven players were in the penalty box at one time", leaving only one Russian skater and two Czechoslovakian skaters, and each side's goaltenders, on the ice. The Soviet team also beat Sweden, Canada, the U.S., Finland, East Germany and West Germany. Sweden defeated Canada, 6–0, in the other game to be awarded second place.[171] After the game, 56 of the spectators from Czechoslovakia asked for political asylum, as well as nine from Hungary and two from Poland.[172]
  • Born: Brian Jordan, American athlete who played two seasons as a defensive back in the NFL and 15 seasons as an outfielder in Major League Baseball; in Baltimore

March 30, 1967 (Thursday)

  • SEACOM, the South-East Asia Commonwealth telephone cable, inaugurated service at 3:00 p.m. local time in a ceremony at the Wentworth Hotel in Sydney,[173] making it possible for direct calls between Australia and its neighbors in the Pacific, which in turn allowed calls to the rest of the world.[174] Speaking from Buckingham Palace at 5:00 in the morning London time, Queen Elizabeth II opened for two minutes to the crowd. Deputy Prime Minister of Australia John McEwen then hosted a series of conversations between other prime ministers, beginning with Keith Holyoake of New Zealand chatting with Tunku Abdul Rahman of Malaysia.[175] The 7,070 nautical mile undersea cable connected from Sydney to Kuala Lumpur and Singapore "via Cairns, Madang, Guam, Hong Kong and Kota Kinabulu"[176] and has been described as "the greatest single Commonwealth achievement in communications".[177]
  • A Delta Air Lines DC-8 jet crashed into the Hilton Inn and three neighboring houses in New Orleans, after taking off from the airport to begin a training flight. Flight 9877 was turning to make a practice landing when it stalled and then plummeted into the residential neighborhood at 12:50 in the morning, killing 13 people on the ground and all six of the crew on the plane.[178] Nine of the victims were girls from Union High School in Juda, Wisconsin, who were on a senior class trip during spring break.[179][180] The Federal Aviation Administration would later conclude that the crash had been caused by the crew's decision to lower the flaps to full landing position (50 degrees down) "while the plane was still a mile from the airport", slowing the airspeed, halting rudder and aileron control and allowing the plane to roll.[181]
  • Madame Tussaud's famous museum for the cover artwork of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album at Chelsea Manor Studios in London
    .
  • Born: Albert-László Barabási, Romanian-born Hungarian and American physicist; in Cârța, Harghita County
  • Died: Jean Toomer, 72, African-American novelist and poet in the "Harlem Renaissance"

March 31, 1967 (Friday)

  • The Chinese Communist Party made its first official attack against President Liu Shaoqi, as the journal Red Flag condemned Liu's 1939 book, How to Be a Good Communist. The official journal wrote that the book "takes a roundabout route to push bourgeois individualism and slavery" and that "its bad influence must be thrown out."[182]
  • Kicking off a tour with The Walker Brothers, Cat Stevens and Engelbert Humperdinck at The Astoria London, Jimi Hendrix set fire to his guitar on stage for the first time. He was taken to hospital suffering burns to his hands. The guitar-burning act would later become a trademark of Hendrix's performances.
  • U.S. President
    Lyndon Johnson signed the instrument of ratification of the consular treaty between the United States and the Soviet Union. Representatives of both nations had signed the bilateral agreement on June 1, 1964, but the U.S. Senate did not ratify it until March 16, 1967. The convention, which addressed "procedures to be followed in nondiplomatic relations", would go into effect later in the year.[183]
  • Died: Marshal Rodion Malinovsky, 68, Defense Minister of the Soviet Union since 1957

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