Event of August 1967
August [ edit ] Main article: August 1967 August 1 - UAC TurboTrain maiden voyage. August 1 – Race riots in the United States spread to Washington, D.C.. August 2 - The movie, In the Heat of the Night , starring Sidney Poitier, is released and is later named the best picture of the year. August 2 – The Turkish football club Trabzonspor is established in Trabzon . August 5 – Pink Floyd releases their debut album The Piper at the Gates of Dawn in the United Kingdom. August 6 – A pulsar is noted by Jocelyn Bell and Antony Hewish . The discovery is first recorded in print in 1968: "An entirely novel kind of star came to light on Aug. 6 last year [...]". The date of the discovery is not recorded. [ citation needed ] [20] August 7 Vietnam War : The People's Republic of China agrees to give North Vietnam an undisclosed amount of aid in the form of a grant. A general strike in the old quarter of Jerusalem protests Israel's unification of the cit