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1967
• On 21 April, a military coup in Athens establishes the regime of the 'Greek colonels' (ends July 1974). • On 28 May, civil war begins in Nigeria as Colonel Odumegwu-Ojukwu declares an independent republic, called Biafra, in Iboland (ends 1970). • From 5 to 10 June, Israel defeats Egypt, Jordan and Syria in the Six-Day War, afterwards occupying Arab land. • The race riots in approximately 70 American cities in July accelerates the 'flight to the suburbs' by middle-class whites and blacks. • On 27 July in Britain, the Sexual Offences Act decriminalises homosexual acts between consenting males over 21. • On 9 October, Argentinian/Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara is executed in Bolivia. • On 3 December, Dr Christiaan Barnard performs the first heart transplant in Cape Town, South Africa. The patient, Louis Washkansky, dies after 18 days. • S Manabe and R T Wetherald warn that the increase in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, caused by human activity, is resulting in a 'greenhouse effect'. • French academic philosopher Jacques Derrida publishes De la grammatologie (On Grammatology) and L'écriture et la differènce (Writing and Difference), early examples of postmodernist literary deconstruction. • Colombian novelist Gabriel García Márquez publishes Cien anos de soledad (One Hundred Years of Solitude), an example of the emerging genre of magic realism. • British playwright Tom Stoppard's first play, the absurdist Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, is first performed. • Films include Arthur Penn's Bonnie and Clyde, Michelangelo Antonioni's Blow Up and Norman Jewison's In the Heat of the Night. |
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