Born in August 1967 - Zodiac Signs, Personality and Horoscopes

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August 1967 Tropical Ephemeris

What happened in August 1967

• August 1, 1967: UAC TurboTrain maiden voyage. This was the first high-speed passenger train in Canada and was capable of speeds up to 160 mph.
• August 2, 1967: The Turkish football club Trabzonspor is established in Trabzon. It has won six Turkish Super Lig titles and nine Turkish Cups, making it one of the most successful clubs in Turkey.
• August 5, 1967: Pink Floyd releases their debut album The Piper at the Gates of Dawn in the United Kingdom. The album was a commercial success and helped to establish Pink Floyd as one of the leading psychedelic rock bands of the 1960s.
• August 6, 1967: A pulsar is noted by Jocelyn Bell and Antony Hewish. The discovery of pulsars, rapidly rotating neutron stars, was a major breakthrough in astrophysics and helped to confirm the existence of neutron stars.
• August 7, 1967: Vietnam War: The People's Republic of China agrees to give North Vietnam an undisclosed amount of aid in the form of a grant. This aid was a significant boost to North Vietnam's war effort.
• August 8, 1967: The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is founded in Bangkok, Thailand. ASEAN is a regional organization that promotes economic, political, and security cooperation among its member states.
• August 9, 1967: Operation Cochise: United States Marines begin a new operation in the Que Son Valley. This operation was part of the larger Operation Starlite, which was a major offensive against the Viet Cong in the Que Son Valley.
• August 10, 1967: Belgian mercenary Jean Schramme's troops take the Congolese border town of Bukavu. This event was part of the Congo Crisis, a period of political instability and civil war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
• August 13, 1967: The first line-up of Fleetwood Mac makes their live debut at the Windsor Jazz and Blues Festival. Fleetwood Mac went on to become one of the most successful rock bands of all time, selling over 100 million albums worldwide.
• August 14, 1967: Wonderful Radio London shuts down at 3:00 PM in anticipation of the Marine Broadcasting Offences Act. Many fans greet the staff upon their return to London that evening with placards reading "Freedom died with Radio London".
• August 15, 1967: The United Kingdom Marine Broadcasting Offences Act declares participation in offshore pirate radio illegal. Radio Caroline defies the Act and continues broadcasting. The Marine Broadcasting Offences Act was a controversial piece of legislation that effectively outlawed offshore pirate radio in the United Kingdom.
• August 19, 1967: West Germany receives 36 East German prisoners it has "purchased" through the border posts of Herleshausen and Wartha. This was part of a larger program of prisoner exchanges between East and West Germany.
• August 21, 1967: A truce is declared in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. This truce helped to end the Congo Crisis, which had caused widespread death and destruction in the country.
• August 24, 1967: Pakistan's first steel mill is inaugurated in Chittagong, East Pakistan (Bangladesh). This steel mill was a major industrial development for Pakistan and helped to boost the country's economy.
• August 25, 1967: American Nazi Party leader George Lincoln Rockwell is assassinated in Arlington County, Virginia. Rockwell was a prominent white supremacist and neo-Nazi who was responsible for spreading hate and violence in the United States.
• August 27, 1967: The East Coast Wrestling Association is established. This wrestling promotion was a major force in the independent wrestling scene in the United States and helped to launch the careers of many successful wrestlers.
• August 29, 1967: The final episode of The Fugitive airs on ABC. The broadcast attracts 78 million viewers, one of the largest audiences for a single episode in U.S. television history. The Fugitive was a popular television series that ran from 1963 to 1967 and starred David Janssen as Dr. Richard Kimble, a fugitive from justice who is wrongly accused of murdering his wife.
• August 30, 1967: Thurgood Marshall is confirmed as Justice of the United States Supreme Court. He is the first African American to hold the position. Marshall was a civil rights pioneer who served on the Supreme Court for 24 years and wrote many important decisions that advanced the cause of civil rights in the United States.