After years of ethnic friction culminating in the massacre of the Ibos in the Northern and Western Nigeria between 1966 and 1967 in which an estimated population of 500, 000 Easterners were killed in a planned pogrom, the Eastern Region headed by Lt Col Odumegwu Ojukwu started a secessionist movement in Nigeria which resulted in the creation of the Republic of Biafra to protect the Easterners from annihilation.

Nevertheless, deadly guerrilla attacks particularly by the NLF soon resumed against British forces once again, with the British being defeated and driven from Aden by the end of November 1967, earlier than had been planned by British Prime Minister Harold Wilson and without an agreement on the succeeding governance.

Before its planned February 21, 1967 launch, the Command Module interior caught fire and burned on January 27, 1967 during a pre-launch test on Launch Pad 34 at Cape Kennedy, killing all three men.

The mission, which the men named Apollo 1 in June, was originally planned for late 1966 ( perhaps concurrent with the last Gemini mission ), but delays in the spacecraft development pushed the launch into 1967.

Launch of Apollo 1 was planned for February 21, 1967, when the crew entered the spacecraft on January 27, mounted atop its Saturn IB booster on Launch Pad 34 at Cape Kennedy, for a " plugs-out " test of the spacecraft, which included a rehearsal of the launch countdown procedure.

On January 27, 1967, Grissom, White and Chaffee were participating in a " plugs-out " countdown demonstration test at Cape Kennedy in preparation for the planned February 21 launch, when a fire broke out in the cabin, killing all three men.

According to a press conference held in Winter Park, Florida, on February 2, 1967, by Disney Vice President Donn Tatum, the Improvement District and Cities were created to serve " the needs of those residing there ", and the company needed its own government to " clarify the District's authority to services within the District's limits " and because of the public nature of the planned development.

The county is also home to Columbia, a major planned community of 100, 000 founded by developer James Rouse in 1967.

The album was originally slated for release in the summer of 1967, but the record label opted to scrap the planned cover and repackage it with a new psychedelic cover, designed by artist Martin Sharp, and the resulting changes delayed its release for several months.

In October and November 1967 the Snouffer / Cotton / Handley / French line – up recorded material for what was planned to be the second album.

In 1967 the Group of Eighteen was formed: it was a think-tank of six prominent politicians per party that planned the future cooperation of the three parties.

Borman was selected in late 1966 to command the third manned Apollo mission, planned as an elliptical medium Earth orbit test of the second manned Lunar Module ( LM ) on the first manned launch of the Saturn V lunar rocket sometime in 1967 or early 1968.

The programme was initiated by the UK and the first launch was planned for November 1966, but the first two stage launch occurred in August 1967, with three stages ( Europa 1 ) in November 1968.

Two stage testing was planned for June 1967.

However, this freeway was canceled by 1967 as it closely paralleled the planned Route 60 freeway, which itself was never built.

Spring Hill was founded in 1967 as a planned community, which was developed by the Deltona Corporation and the Mackle Brothers who built the community.

In this planned city, which began construction in 1967, a system of ten horizontal and eleven vertical roads at 1 km intervals was used with roundabouts at each intersection.

It was not until 1967 that the Wright Report planned four towns in County Dublin.

Nichols planned to leave Star Trek in 1967 after its first season, but a conversation with Martin Luther King, Jr. persuaded her to stay, stating that she was a role model for the black community.

The house was planned starting in 1965 and completed in 1967.

In 1967, the show's 12th season, CBS planned to cancel the series, but widespread viewer reaction ( including a mention in Congress and the behind-the-scenes pressure from the wife of CBS's president ) prevented its demise.

Soon after his Christmas show in Saigon in 1967, he learned that the Vietcong had planned a terrorist attack at his hotel against him and his entire troupe, missing him by ten minutes.

It was not until 1967 that the Wright Report planned four towns in County Dublin.

The launch of AS-501 was originally planned for late 1966, but was pushed back by stage development problems to April, 1967.

In 1967 the then National Capital Development Commission adopted the " Y Plan " which laid out future urban development in Canberra around a series of central shopping and commercial area known as the ' town centres ' linked by freeways, the layout of which roughly resembled the shape of the letter Y, with Tuggeranong at the base of the Y and Belconnen and Gungahlin located at the ends of the arms of the Y.

In 1967, the Chambers of Commerce of Lille, Roubaix and Tourcoing were joined, and in 1969 the Communauté urbaine de Lille ( Lille urban community ) was created, linking 87 communes with Lille.

In 1967 an urban renewal program demolished a residential block east of the main building to create a running track and various athletic fields.

On his 1967 masterpiece " Waterloo Sunset ", the singer finds a fleeting sense of contentment in the midst of urban drabness and solitude.

However most of the village was razed after the citizens of East Haddam controversially voted in 1967 to accept urban renewal funding to build a new commercial district for Moodus a quarter mile east, along CT 149.

The city has expanded since 1967 when I-69 was completed in the area to incorporate the urban sprawl at exit 13.

Starting in 1967, the City of Huron embarked on a controversial urban renewal program with funding from the U. S. federal government.

In 1967 Linderås was amalgamated with the City of Tranås, which in 1971 was made a municipality of unitary type when all differences between rural and urban municipalities were abolished.

The agricultural minimum wage was also raised to the same level as its urban equivalent, and an agrarian reform law signed by Frei in July 1967 made all farms of more than eighty “ basic ” hectares liable to expropriation.

In 1967, Carnegie Mellon President H. Guyford Stever, Richard M. Cyert, Dean of the Tepper School of Business, and Professors William W. Cooper and Otto Davis met and formed a university-wide committee to discuss creating a school that would train leaders to address complex problems in American urban communities.

Stamford was declared a conservation area in 1967 ( the first urban conservation area ) and has over 600 listed buildings, more than half of the total for the County of Lincolnshire.

The origins of the Mass Rapid Transit ( MRT ) are derived from a forecast by city planners in 1967 which stated the need for a rail-based urban transport system by 1992.

In 1965, Ong received an Colombo Plan scholarship to pursue a master's degree in urban planning at the University of Liverpool and graduated in 1967.

The Niagara Frontier Transit System was replaced by the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority Corp. ( NFTA ) in 1967, as part of New York State's efforts in the late 1960s and early 1970s at creating public agencies that would oversee the development and continuation of public transportation in a number of key urban areas of the state ; other such agencies include the Rochester Genesee Regional Transportation Authority ( RGRTA ), the Central New York Regional Transportation Authority ( Centro ), and the Capital District Transportation Authority ( CDTA ).

The triangle bounded by Lake Gwelup, Porter Street and North Beach Road is the oldest residential section, having been opened up by the Metropolitan Region Planning Authority in 1967 for urban development-other parts were built and settled in the late 1990s when the swamps were drained.

On 13 December 1967, the Metropolitan Region Planning Authority decided to rezone as urban all land bounded by Hepburn Avenue, Marmion Avenue, North Perimeter Highway and Wanneroo Road, on the condition that subdivision would be approved when " Town Planning ( Development ) Scheme ( s ) have been approved with the general object of serving the best possible development at the least cost to the community ".

* Paul Lester Wiener ( 1895 – 1967 ), American architect and urban planner

Originally called the Husky Tower, it was conceived as a joint venture between Marathon Realty Company Limited and Husky Oil as part of an urban renewal plan and to celebrate Canada's centennial of 1967.

When Marathon Realty and Husky Oil built their new head offices in Calgary, they proposed building the tower both to honour Canada's centennial year of 1967 and to encourage urban renewal and growth of the downtown core.

The urban guerrillas were active in Brazil between 1968 and 1971 while in the rural areas the 2 main movements subdued by the Army were respectively, one in the region where are today the Caparaó National Park ( 1967 ) and the other one in the region of Araguaya River ( 1972 – 74 ).

The designers of the Toronto-Dominion Centre, the first of Toronto's major urban developments in the 1960s and completed in 1967, were the first to include underground shopping in their complex, with the possibility of future expansion built in.

States relations programs, including categorical grants-in-aid to state health departments, were revamped along the lines of urban planning, as the Comprehensive Health Planning Act ( also known as the Partnership For Health Act of 1966 and its 1967 Amendments ) bypassed state health departments to award grants directly to local government and community not-for-profits, coordinated through state ( so-called " section 314a ") and nongovernmental (" section 314b ") planning agencies.

In 1967, Dunham opened the Performing Arts Training Center ( PATC ) in East St. Louis as an attempt to use the arts to combat poverty and urban unrest.