page_title: May 1967
section_title: May 30, 1967 (Tuesday)
hierarchical_section_title: May 1967 / May 30, 1967 (Tuesday)
caption_attribution_description: English: Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser addressing the 1965 Arab League Summit in Casablanca, Morocco
context_page_description: The following events occurred in May 1967:
context_section_description: In Cairo, King Hussein of Jordan made the fateful decision to sign a five-year mutual defense pact with Egypt, placing Jordan's regular army, the Arab Legion, under President Nasser's command in the event of a war with Israel.  Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban would say later that King Hussein's trip to Cairo was "the final step that ensured the inevitability of war", and that until then, Israel had planned to leave Jordan (including the West Bank and East Jerusalem) out of the conflict.  Eban would write that "Hussein had now thoughtlessly renounced this immunity." 
  At 2:00 in the morning, Lt. Colonel Odumegwu Ojukwu of the Nigerian Army addressed civilian and military leaders, diplomats, and journalists at the State House in the regional capital of Enugu and announced that he was proclaiming "that the territory and region known as and called Eastern Nigeria, together with her continental shelf and territorial waters, shall henceforth be an independent and sovereign state of the name and title of the Republic of Biafra."  An announcement on the radio followed three hours later to the 14,000,000 residents "whose lives would soon be ravaged by one of the most violent conflicts in African history."  
  On the small West Indies island of Anguilla, local residents who were angry about the assignment of their colony to the administration of neighboring Saint Kitts and Nevis invaded police headquarters in the island's capital, The Valley, and fired the 13 policemen from St. Kitts and the resident colonial administrator, Vincent F. Byron.  Byron and the police were sent back to St. Christopher on a boat the next day.   "This 'act of revolution'", a writer would note later, "was dealt with in typically heavy-handed fashion by the British government" 
  At the United States Penitentiary outside of Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, according to FBI files, an inmate informer reportedly heard former Teamsters Union boss Jimmy Hoffa tell two other inmates that he had arranged a contract for murder on Senator Robert F. Kennedy and that Hoffa said "if he ever gets in the primaries or ever gets elected, the contract will be fulfilled within six months."    Kennedy would be assassinated a little more than a year later after winning the California presidential primary.
caption: President Nasser
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