At A Glance

22 July 1967 at a glance

Day of the week
22 July 1967 was a Saturday.
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 22 July is Cancer.
Chinese zodiac
In the Chinese zodiac, 22 July 1967 fell in the Year of the Goat.
Birthstone
The birthstone for July is Ruby.
Moon phase
The moon phase on 22 July 1967 was Waning Gibbous.

On this day: 22 July

  • 1962 Mariner program: Mariner 1 spacecraft flies erratically several minutes after launch and has to be destroyed.
  • 1963 Crown Colony of Sarawak gains self-governance.
  • 1976 Japan completes its last reparation to the Philippines for war crimes committed during imperial Japan's conquest of the country in the Second World War.
  • 1977 Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping is restored to power.
  • 1981 The first game of the 1981 South Africa rugby union tour of New Zealand and the United States is held in Gisborne, New Zealand.

Famous people born on July 22

  • Skyler Gisondo, American actor (born 1996)
  • Willem Dafoe, American actor (born 1955)
  • Selena Gomez, American singer and actress (born 1992)
  • George Santos, American politician (born 1988)

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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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