What Happened in 1967

What Happened in 1967?
Let’s have a look at what was going on in 1967, shall we? Here’s what made the news in 1967.
Lyndon B. Johnson is President and Hubert Humphrey is Vice President.
IN THE NEWS 1967
Thurgood Marshall is confirmed as the first African American Supreme Court Justice.
Race riots break out in several U.S. cities.
Muhammad Ali refuses military service.
10,000 protest the Viet Nam war and racism in Central Park.
The Boston Strangler gets life in prison.
The first person is cryonically preserved.
The first hand-held calculator is introduced by Texas Instruments.
ENTERTAINMENT IN 1967
A Man for All Seasons wins Best Picture Oscar.
Paul Scofield wins Best Actor Oscar.
Elizabeth Taylor wins Best Actress Oscar.
Born Free wins Best Song Oscar.
Record of the Year is Strangers in the Night by Frank Sinatra.
The largest selling single of the year is I’m a Believer by The Monkees.
Album of the Year is A Man and His Music by Frank Sinatra.
Elvis marries Priscilla.
The three day Monterey Pop Festival is held.
SPORTS IN 1967
The St. Louis Cardinals win The World Series.
The Packers beat the Chiefs in Superbowl I.
The Philadelphia 76ers win the NBA Championship.
The Toronto Maple Leafs win the Stanley Cup.
Packers beat The Cowboys in the “Ice Bowl”.
Muhammad Ali banned from boxing for resisting the draft.
Gay Brewer wins The Masters.
A.J. Foyt wins the Indy 500.
Grace Slick and Jefferson Airplane

List of Oscar Awards Hosts

YEAR 2016 HOST Chris Rock 2015 Neil Patrick Harris 2014 Ellen DeGeneres 2013 Seth MacFarlane 2012 Billy Crystal 2011 James Franco and Anne Hathaway 2010 Steve Martin, Alec Baldwin 2009 Hugh Jackman 2008 Jon Stewart 2007 Ellen Degeneres 2006 Jon Stewart 2005 Chris Rock 2004 Billy Crystal 2003 Steve Martin 2002 Whoopi Goldberg 2001 Steve Martin 2000 Billy Crystal 1999 Whoopi Goldberg 1998 Billy Crystal 1997 Billy Crystal 1996 Whoopi Goldberg 1995 David Letterman 1994 Whoopi Goldberg 1993 Billy Crystal 1992 Billy Crystal 1991 Billy Crystal 1990 Billy Crystal 1989 No Host 1988 Chevy Chase 1987 Chevy Chase, Goldie Hawn,Paul Hogan 1986 Alan Alda, Jane Fonda,Robin Williams 1985 Jack Lemmon 1984 Johnny Carson 1983 Liza Minnelli, Dudley Moore,Richard Pryor,Walter Matthau 1982 Johnny Carson 1981 Johnny Carson 1980 Johnny Carson 1979 Johnny Carson 1978 Bob Hope 1977 Warren Beatty, Ellen Burstyn, Jane Fonda,Richard Pryor 1976 Goldie Hawn, Gene Kelly,Walter Matthau, George Segal, Robert Shaw 1975 Sammy Davis Jr.,Bob Hope,Shirley MacLaine,Frank Sinatra 1974 John Huston, Burt Reynolds, David Niven,Diana Ross 1973 Carol Burnett, Michael Caine, Charlton Heston,Rock Hudson 1972 Helen Hayes, Alan King,Sammy Davis Jr., Jack Lemmon 1971 No Host 1970 No Host 1969 No Host 1968 Bob Hope 1967 Bob Hope 1966 Bob Hope 1965 Bob Hope 1964 Jack Lemmon 1963 Frank Sinatra 1962 Bob Hope 1961 Bob Hope 1960 Bob Hope 1959 Bob Hope, David Niven,Tony Randall, Mort Sahl,Laurence Olivier, Jerry Lewis 1958 Bob Hope, David Niven,James Stewart,Jack Lemmon,Rosalind Russell,Donald Duck 1957 Jerry Lewis, Celeste Holm 1956 Jerry Lewis,Claudette Colbert,Joseph L. Mankiewicz 1955 Bob Hope, Thelma Ritter 1954 Donald O’Connor, Fredric March 1953 Bob Hope, Conrad Nagel 1952 Danny Kaye 1951 Fred Astaire 1950 Paul Douglas 1949 Robert Montgomery 1948 Agnes Moorehead, Dick Powell 1947 Jack Benny 1946 Bob Hope, James Stewart 1945 Bob Hope, John Cromwell 1944 Jack Benny 1943 Bob Hope 1942 Bob Hope 1941 Bob Hope 1940 Bob Hope 1939 No Host 1938 Bob Burns 1937 George Jessel 1936 Frank Capra 1935 Irvin S. Cobb 1934 Will Rogers 1933 NO AWARDS THIS YEAR 1932 Lionel Barrymore, Conrad Nagel 1931 Lawrence Grant April : 1930 Conrad Nagel November :1930 William C. deMille 1929 Douglas Fairbanks,William C. deMille

Cast of The Titanic Film (1997)

Starring
Leonardo DiCaprio
Kate Winslet
Billy Zane
Kathy Bates
Frances Fisher
Bernard Hill
Jonathan Hyde
Danny Nucci
David Warner
Bill Paxton

Walt Disney

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Won the Most Grammys

Georg Solti, 31
Quincy Jones, 27
Alison Krauss, 27
Pierre Boulez, 26
Vladimir Horowitz, 25
Stevie Wonder, 25
John Williams, 24
Beyonce, 22

Oscar Winners for Best Actor

Year Awarded - Actor - Movie
2020 Anthony Hopkins The Father
2019 Joaquin Phoenix Joker
2018 - Rami Malek, "Bohemian Rhapsody"
2017 - Gary Oldman, "Darkest Hour"
2016 - Casey Affleck, “Manchester by the Sea”
2015 - Leonardo DiCaprio, “The Revenant”
2014 - Eddie Redmayne, “The Theory of Everything”
2013 - Matthew McConaughey, “Dallas Buyers Club”
2012 - Daniel Day-Lewis, “Lincoln”
2011 - Jean Duhardin, “The Artist”
2011 Colin Firth The King’s Speech
2010 Jeff Bridges Crazy Heart
2009 Sean Penn Milk
2008 Daniel Day Lewis There Will Be Blood
2007 Forrest Whitaker The Last King of Scotland
2006 Philip Seymour Hoffman Capote
2005 Jamie Foxx Ray
2004 Sean Penn Mystic River
2003 Adrien Brody The Pianist
2002 Denzel Washington Training Day
2001 Russell Crowe Gladiator
2000 Kevin Spacey American Beauty
1999 Roberto Benigni Life Is Beautiful
1998 Jack Nicholson As Good As It Gets
1997 Geoffrey Rush Shine
1996 Nicolas Cage Leaving Las Vegas
1995 Tom Hanks Forrest Gump
1994 Tom Hanks Philadelphia
1993 Al Pacino Scent of a Woman
1992 Anthony Hopkins The Silence Of The Lambs
1991 Jeremy Irons Reversal of Fortune
1990 Daniel Day Lewis My Left Foot
1989 Dustin Hoffman Rain Man
1988 Michael Douglas Wall Street
1987 Paul Newman The Color Of Money
1986 William Hurt Kiss Of The Spider Woman
1985 F. Murray Abraham Amadeus
1984 Robert Duvall Tender Mercies
1983 Ben Kingsley Gandhi
1982 Henry Fonda On Golden Pond
1981 Robert De Niro Raging Bull
1980 Dustin Hoffman Kramer vs. Kramer
1979 Jon Voight Coming Home
1978 Richard Dreyfuss The Goodbye Girl
1977 Peter Finch Network
1976 Jack Nicholson One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest
1975 Art Carney Harry And Tonto
1974 Jack Lemmon Save The Tiger
1973 Marlon Brando The Godfather
1972 Gene Hackman The French Connection
1971 George C. Scott Patton
1970 John Wayne True Grit
1969 Cliff Robertson Charly
1968 Rod Steiger In the Heat of the Night
1967 Paul Scofield A Man for all Seasons
1966 Lee Marvin Cat Ballou
1965 Rex Harrison My Fair Lady
1964 Sidney Poitier Lillies Of The Field
1963 Gregory Peck To Kill A Mocking Bird
1962 Maximilian Schell Judgment At Nuremburg
1961 Burt Lancaster Elmer Gantry
1960 Charlton Heston Ben Hur