1967
University of Idaho
President Hartung breaks ground for the Buchanan Engineering Laboratory building.
Chairman Furgason of Chemical Engineering helps develop an active chapter of the Society of Women Engineers (SWE).
U.S. Events and Scientific Advances
Cost of a U.S. stamp is $0.05
The American Basketball Association is formed.
Elvis Presley marries Priscilla Beaulieu in Las Vegas.
10,000 march in San Francisco against the Vietnam War.
General Thurgood Marshall is sworn in as the first African American justice of the United State Supreme Court.
World Events and Scientific Advances
"Summer of Love"
Maiden flight of the first Boeing 737 takes place.
Dr. James Bedford becomes the first person to be cryonically preserved.
The Beatles release Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
Professor John Archibald Wheeler introduces the term "Black Hole".
The Soviet Union ratifies a treaty with the United States and the United Kingdom, banning nuclear weapons from outer space.
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