page_title: April 1967
section_title: April 5, 1967 (Wednesday)
hierarchical_section_title: April 1967 / April 5, 1967 (Wednesday)
caption_attribution_description: Nederlands: Jong, P.J.S. de (KVP). Minister De Jong legt een verklaring af na een ministerberaad over de situatie rond de invasie in Tsjecho-Slowakije. Nederland, Den Haag, 21 augustus 1968.
context_page_description: The following events occurred in April 1967:
context_section_description: Piet de Jong formed a coalition government as the new Prime Minister of the Netherlands, replacing Jelle Zijlstra after the February parliamentary elections.
  Police in West Berlin arrested 11 people, most of them students, on accusations they planned to assassinate U.S. Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey during his April 6 visit.  The Spassguerrilla group, dedicated to humorous protests, would be released 34 hours later, after Humphrey's departure and after a search of their apartments showed that they were harmless and that their attack on the Humphrey motorcade would consist of wheat flour, soluble paint, pies and the Vice President's favorite dessert, pudding.
  Corazon Amurao, the only eyewitness to Richard Speck's murder of eight nurses on July 13, 1966, testified in his criminal trial in Peoria, Illinois, and pointed him out as the man who had killed her roommates.  Miss Amurao had seen Speck when she opened the door to the bedroom she shared with two fellow nurses, but had been able to hide under a bed during the killings.
  Born: Anu Garg, Indian-born American writer and creator of wordsmith.org site, in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh
  Died: Hermann Joseph Muller, 76, American geneticist, recipient of the 1946 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
caption: de Jong
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