page_title: 1967
section_title: December
hierarchical_section_title: 1967 / Events / December
caption_attribution_description: The heart surgeon Christiaan Barnard, sitting on a sofa; he is in Italy to participate in the international congress on the origins of sudden death and resuscitation therapies. Florence (Italy), January 1969.
context_page_description: 1967 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1967th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 967th year of the 2nd millennium, the 67th year of the 20th century, and the 8th year of the 1960s decade.
context_section_description: December 1
  The Jimi Hendrix Experience releases Axis: Bold as Love.
  The RMS Queen Mary is retired. Her place is taken by the RMS Queen Elizabeth 2.
  December 3 – Christiaan Barnard carries out the world's first heart transplant at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa.
  December 4
  At 6:50 PM, a volcano erupts on Deception Island in Antarctica.
  Vietnam War: U.S. and South Vietnamese forces engage Viet Cong troops in the Mekong Delta (235 of the 300-strong Viet Cong battalion are killed).
  December 5 – In New York City, Benjamin Spock and Allen Ginsberg are arrested for protesting against the Vietnam War.
  December 6 – Vice President Jorge Pacheco Areco is sworn in as President of Uruguay after President Oscar Gestido dies in office.
  December 8 – Magical Mystery Tour is released by The Beatles as a double EP in the UK, while the only psychedelic rock album by The Rolling Stones, Their Satanic Majesties Request, is released in the UK and in the USA.
  December 9
  Nicolae Ceaușescu becomes the Chairman of the Romanian State Council, making him the de facto leader of Romania.
  Jim Morrison is arrested on stage in New Haven, Connecticut for attempting to spark a riot in the audience during a concert.
  December 11 – Supersonic airliner Concorde is unveiled in Toulouse, France.
  December 12 – Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, one of the seminal race relations films of the 1960s, is released to theaters.
  December 13 – King Constantine II of Greece flees the country when his coup attempt fails.
  December 15 – The Silver Bridge over the Ohio River in Point Pleasant, West Virginia, collapses, killing 46 people.
  December 17 – Harold Holt, 17th Prime Minister of Australia, disappears when swimming at Cheviot Beach, 60 km from Melbourne. He was briefly replaced as Prime Minister by John McEwen, until the Liberal Party elected Minister for Education and Science John Gorton as leader.
  December 19 – Professor John Archibald Wheeler coined the astronomical term black hole.
  December 26 – The Beatles' film Magical Mystery Tour receives its world première on BBC Television in the UK.
  December 29 – Hyundai Motor founded in South Korea.
  December 31
  The Green Bay Packers become the first team in the modern era to win their third consecutive NFL Championship, 21–17 over the Dallas Cowboys in what became known as "The Ice Bowl".
  Motorcycle daredevil Evel Knievel attempts to jump 141 feet over the Caesars Palace Fountains on the Las Vegas Strip. Knievel crashes on landing and the accident is caught on film.
caption: December 3: Dr. Christiaan Barnard carries out first heart transplant
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