At A Glance

11 July 1967 at a glance

Day of the week
11 July 1967 was a Tuesday.
Billboard Hot 100 No. 1
The Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 was “Windy” by The Association.
Top Film of 1967
The highest-grossing film worldwide released in 1967 was The Jungle Book.
Bestselling Novel of 1967
“The Arrangement” by Elia Kazan was No. 1 on Publishers Weekly's US fiction list for 1967.
Top-Rated TV Show
“The Andy Griffith Show” (CBS) was No. 1 in the Nielsen ratings for the 1967–68 season.
Star sign
The star sign for 11 July is Cancer.
Chinese zodiac
In the Chinese zodiac, 11 July 1967 fell in the Year of the Goat.
Birthstone
The birthstone for July is Ruby.
Moon phase
The moon phase on 11 July 1967 was Waxing Crescent.

On this day: 11 July

  • 1960 France legislates for the independence of Dahomey (later Benin), Upper Volta (later Burkina Faso) and Niger.
  • 1962 First transatlantic satellite television transmission.
  • 1962 Project Apollo: At a press conference, NASA announces lunar orbit rendezvous as the means to land astronauts on the Moon, and return them to Earth.
  • 1971 The nationalization of all large copper mines in Chile is completed.
  • 1972 The first game of the World Chess Championship 1972 between challenger Bobby Fischer and defending champion Boris Spassky starts.

Famous people born on July 11

  • Yul Brynner, Russian-American actor and dancer (1920–1985)
  • Lisa Rinna, American actress and talk show host (born 1963)
  • John Quincy Adams, American lawyer and politician, 6th President of the United States (1767–1848)
  • Robert the Bruce, Scottish king (1274–1329)

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Events of 1967 in the United States

A selection from Wikipedia's '1967 in the United States'. Not a complete list.

  • April 9 – The first Boeing 737 (a 100 series) takes its maiden flight.
  • April 24 – 18 – year-old S. E. Hinton's coming-of-age novel The Outsiders is published.
  • June 2 – The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is released in the U.S.

Life in the US in 1967

President

Lyndon B. Johnson

Gas (per gallon)

$0.33

Loaf of Bread

$0.22

Average House

$15,900

Weekly Wage

$115

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