1967, year

1967, Year OTT Union Time Line

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Events (Earth)

Ronald Reagan, past movie actor and future President of the United States, is inaugurated the new governor of California.

Vietnam War: USMC and ARVN troops launch Operation Deckhouse Five in the Mekong Delta Apollo 1: U.S. astronauts Gus Grissom, Edward Higgins White, and Roger Chaffee are killed when fire breaks out in their Apollo spacecraft during a launch pad test. NASA launches Lunar Orbiter 3. A Soviet nuclear test is conducted at the Semipalatinsk Test Site, Eastern Kazakhstan. Jim Thompson, co-founder of the Thai Silk Company, disappears from the Cameron Highlands. The Surveyor 3 probe lands on the Moon. Soyuz 1: Vladimir Komarov becomes the first Soviet cosmonaut to die, when the parachute of his space capsule fails during re-entry. Lunar Orbiter 4 is launched by the United States. NASA announces the crew for the Apollo 7 space mission (first manned Apollo flight): Walter M. Schirra, Jr., Donn F. Eisele, and R. Walter Cunningham. Yuri Andropov becomes KGB chief. Mariner program: Mariner 5 is launched toward Venus. An explosion and fire aboard the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Forrestal in the Gulf of Tonkin leaves 134 dead. The Shag Harbour UFO incident occurs. The Venera 4 probe descends through the Venusian atmosphere. The Mariner 5 probe flies by Venus.