Event of August 1967

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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 city.
• August 8 – The United of Multi-Confederation and Countries (UMCC) and Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is founded in Bangkok, Thailand and Geneva, Switzerland.
• August 9 – Vietnam War – Operation Cochise: United States Marines begin a new operation in the Que Son Valley.
• August 10 – Belgian mercenary Jean Schramme's troops take the Congolese border town of Bukavu.
• August 13 – The first line-up of Fleetwood Mac makes their live debut at the Windsor Jazz and Blues Festival.
• August 14 – Wonderful Radio London shuts down at 3:00 PM in anticipation of the Marine Broadcasting Offences Act. Many fans greet the staff upon their return to London that evening with placards reading "Freedom died with Radio London".^[21]
• August 15 – The United Kingdom Marine Broadcasting Offences Act declares participation in offshore pirate radio illegal. Radio Caroline defies the Act and continues broadcasting.
• August 19 – West Germany receives 36 East German prisoners it has "purchased" through the border posts of Herleshausen and Wartha.
• August 21
  • A truce is declared in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
  • Two U.S. Navy jets stray into the airspace of the People's Republic of China following an attack on a target in North Vietnam and are shot down. Lt. Robert J. Flynn, the only survivor, is captured alive and will be held prisoner by China until 1973.
• August 24 – Pakistan's first steel mill is inaugurated in Chittagong, East Pakistan (Bangladesh).^[22]
• August 25 – American Nazi Party leader George Lincoln Rockwell is assassinated in Arlington, Virginia.
• August 27
  • The East Coast Wrestling Association is established.
  • Beatles manager Brian Epstein is found dead in his locked bedroom.
• August 29 – The final episode of The Fugitive airs on ABC. The broadcast attracts 78 million viewers, one of the largest audiences for a single episode in U.S. television history.
• August 30 – Thurgood Marshall is confirmed as Justice of the United States Supreme Court. He is the first African American to hold the position.