Henkels & McCoy Timeline: 1967
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| 1967 |
 All Engineering functions
(communications, corrosion control and power) are consolidated into the new
Henkels & McCoy Engineering Division. Henkels & McCoy completes its
largest project to date, a multi-million dollar 220 kV overbuild on the
Reading Railroad, stretching from Jenkintown, Pa. to North Wales, Pa.
... Henkels & McCoy forms a new underwater division, consisting of four
expert divers, for use in a variety of marine-related projects... Henkels &
McCoy engineers design a brand new vibratory plow for use in a grueling
plowing project in extremely rocky terrain in Portland, Oregon for
Northwestern Natural Gas Company.
January 15
Super Bowl I, held in Los Angeles Coliseum. Both CBS and NBC broadcast the
game. Green Bay Packers decisively defeat the Kansas City Chiefs 35-10. The
victors take home $15,000 per player while the vanquished lick their wounds
with a $7,500 balm.
January 27
Tragedy strikes NASA for the first time as Astronauts Col. Virgil I.
Grissom, Col. Edward White II, and Lt. Cmdr. Roger B. Chaffee are killed in
a fire during test launch.
May
American combat pilots shoot down 26 North Vietnamese jets, decreasing
the North's pilot strength by half. Desperate air battles rage in the skies
over the North Vietnam capital, Hanoi and the major northern port of
Haiphong.
June 5
The Six-Day War between Israel and its Arab neighbors (primarily Syria and
Egypt) ends in a stunning victory as Israel takes and occupies the Sinai
Peninsula, Golan Heights, Gaza Strip and the West Bank.
June 17
Communist China announces explosion of its first hydrogen bomb.
July 23
Violent rioting erupts in southeast Detroit, following a police raid on an
after-hours drinking club in a densely populated, poor black neighborhood.
Unable to handle the large scale looting which follows the arrest of 80
patrons, local police are eventually aided by untested units of the Michigan
National Guard, bringing assault troops and tanks into an urban setting. By
the end of the five-day riot some 43 people will die, with almost 1,200
injured. Nearly 80% of fatalities are black. Just a few weeks prior to the
Detroit riots, Newark is the scene of 23 deaths -- including six women and
two children, in street rioting in that economically depressed New Jersey
city. There are similar outbreaks in New York City's Spanish Harlem, in
Rochester, New York, in Birmingham, Alabama, and in New Britain,
Connecticut.
 October
The St. Louis Cardinals defeat Boston in a 7-game World Series.
November 1
US population reaches 200 million.
December 1
There are approximately 500,000 US troops stationed in South Vietnam.
December 3
Dr. Christiaan Barnard performs the world's first heart transplant in
South Africa. His patient survives for 18 days.
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ALSO IN 1967:
Expo 67, in Montreal, Canada features a geodesic
dome designed by R. Buckminster Fuller.
Radio astronomers discover the first pulsar.
Groovy! Tie-dyed t-shirts and turtle-neck sweaters
are in fashion.
Mickey Mantle hits his 500th
career home run.
Thurgood Marshall becomes the first black Supreme Court justice.
The Beatles release their milestone album, Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely
Hearts Club Band.
PLUS...
Amana introduces the first compact microwave oven
for home use "the Radar-Range" selling for $495.
The technology was first developed in the
1940s... The Twenty-fifth Amendment to the US Constitution clarifies
 issues
of presidential succession...
The World Boxing Association takes away Muhammad
Ali's title
because of his refusal to enter the military...The Academy award for Best Picture goes to In the
Heat of the Night. Katherine Hepburn wins for Best Actress in Guess
Who's Coming to Dinner...
What's On TV
The
Andy Griffith Show finally grabs the top slot... Saturday Night at
the Movies stands at Number 10, The CBS Friday Night Movie is tied at
Number 15, and Tuesday Night at the Movies at Number 20 signal
a need for new and different programming. Many of the top 20 spots are held by
aging programs such as Bonanza, The Lucy Show, Gunsmoke,
The Lawrence Welk Show and Red Skelton....
Sports
World Series: St. Louis Cardinals
beat the Boston Red Sox (4-3)... in the NBA Championship it's the
Philadelphia 76ers over the San francisco Warriors (4-2)... in the Stanley
Cup, Toronto beats Montreal (4-2)...at Wimbledon Billie Jean King defeats
A. Jones (6-3 6-4) in the Women's Singles, John Newcombe beats W. Bungert
(6-3 6-1 6-1) in the Men's tourney... In College sports, the NCAA
Basketball Championship goes to UCLA who defeat Dayton (79-64)... the NCAA
Football Champions are USC (10-1-0).
At the Movies
It's a memorable year for films:
The Graduate, Bonnie and Clyde, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?, In the Heat
of the Night, Cool Hand Luke all grace movie screens this year.
At the '67 Grammys...
Record of the Year: Strangers in the Night, Frank
Sinatra
Album of the Year: Sinatra: A Man and His Music, Frank Sinatra
Song of the Year: Michelle, John Lennon and Paul McCartney,
songwriters
Books
Richard Brautigan, Trout Fishing in America
Joyce Carol Oates, A Garden of Earthly Delights
William Styron, The Confessions of Nat Turner
Deaths
Upton Sinclair, author
Spencer Tracy, actor. His last film, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner,
was completed just before his death.
Ernesto "Che" Guevara, Marxist revolutionary
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