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A coup in Greece brings in an incompetent and repressive military junta that becomes known as the 'Greek colonels'
Luis Buñuel directs Catherine Deneuve in Belle de Jour, a film about a bored housewife who takes a day job as a prostitute
A Bigger Splash, by English painter David Hockney, casts a new light on sunlit swimming pools
The Ibo of eastern Nigeria claim independence for their region – as the republic of Biafra
Canada mounts the world exhibition Expo 67 as the centrepiece of its centennial celebrations
The US pavilion at Expo 67 in Montreal is a geodesic dome by the architect Buckminster Fuller
English yachtsman Francis Chichester completes a record round-the-world voyage, sailing 29,600 miles solo in 226 days
Colombian novelist Gabriel García Márquez publishes a classic of magic realism, One Hundred Years of Solitude
A pre-emptive air strike by Israel destroys almost all Egypt's aircraft and launches the Six-Day War
Israel captures the Gaza Strip and Sinai peninsula from Egypt
Israel captures East Jerusalem and the West Bank from Jordan
Israel captures the Golan Heights from Syria in the Six-Day War
British research student Jocelyn Bell and her Cambridge supervisor Antony Hewish identify the first known pulsar
Thurgood Marshall, appointed by President Johnson, becomes the first African American member of the US Supreme Court
President de Gaulle, visiting Montreal for Expo 67, proclaims Vive le Quebec libre ('Long Live Free Quebec')
British composers Harrison Birtwistle and Peter Maxwell Davies found the Pierrot Players
Congress passes a Freedom of Information Act, giving the public an important new right in the USA
Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara is captured and executed in Bolivia
Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty star in the film Bonnie and Clyde
An exhibition in Genoa launches the Italian movement arte povera ("poor art"), challenging the fashionable styles of the day
English author Angela Carter wins recognition with her quirky second novel, The Magic Toyshop
English playwright Alan Ayckbourn has his first success with Relatively Speaking
Three young Liverpool poets publish a shared anthology under the title The Mersey Sound
A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, by English dramatist Peter Nichols, has its premiere in London
US author William Styron's novel The Confessions of Nat Turner describes a historical slave revolt in 1831
