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== Events == * January 13 - [[Gnassingbé Eyadéma]] comes to power in Togo following a successful military coup. * January 25 - [[Spiro Agnew]] is elected Governor of Maryland. * February 7 - The [[National Front]] is founded. * March 11 - Beginning of the Cambodian Civil War. * March 12 - [[Sukarno]] is overthrown as President of Indonesia by General [[Suharto]] and a group of Army officers. Sukarno is subsequently placed under house arrest and Suharto is declared president by the Indonesian parliament. * March 15 - [[Artur da Costa e Silva]] is named President of Brazil, succeeding [[Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco]]. * April 4 to 8 - The Kapsan Faction incident: [[Kim Il-sung]] conducts a purge of the [[Workers' Party of Korea]] after uncovering a plot by a group of pro-Japanese Party members (known as the "Kapsan faction") to overthrow him. * April 7 - The Air France robbery is carried out by [[Henry Hill]], [[Tommy DeSimone]], Robert McMahon, and and Montague Montemurro, who steal $420,000 from the Air France cargo terminal at New York City's JFK International Airport. * April 21 - A group of Greek military officers, lead by Colonel [[Georgios Papadopoulos]], stages a military coup and overthrows the Kingdom of Greece, subsequently establishing the military junta known as the Regime of the Colonels. * May 1 - [[Anastasio Somoza Deybale]] is elected President of Nicaragua for the first time. * June 5 to 10 - The [[Six-Day War]] is fought. * July 1 - Beginning of the War of Attrition. * July 6 - Beginning of the Nigerian Civil War. * July 23 to 28 - The [[1967 Detroit riots]] take place following a police raid on an unlicensed bar. Widespread [[looting]], property damage, [[arson]] attacks, [[police brutality]], and arrests take place over the next six days until U.S. Army and Michigan National Guard troops are sent in to restore order. By the time riots end, 43 people are dead, 1,189 are injured, over 7,200 are arrested, and more than 400 buildings are destroyed. * August 1 - [[Valerie Solanas]] publishes ''SCUM Manifesto''. * August 25 - [[American Nazi Party]] leader [[George Lincoln Rockwell]] is assassinated in Arlington County, Virginia by former Party member [[John Patler]]. * October 9 - [[Che Guevara]] is captured and executed in Bolivia after being tracked down by Bolivian special forces, with assistance from the CIA. * December 2 - [[Omar Bongo]] is named President of Gabon following the death of previous president [[Léon M'ba]]. * December 5 - The Đắk Sơn massacre is perpetrated by the [[Viet Cong]] in Đắk Lắk, South Vietnam. Between 114 and 252 are killed. * Unknown - The [[Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine]] is founded by [[George Habash]].
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