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 o...