The 1967 NHL Expansion depended on securing votes from the then-current NHL owners ; to ensure that Pittsburgh would be selected for expansion, McGregor enlisted Rooney to petition votes from James D. Norris, owner of the Chicago Black Hawks, and his brother Bruce Norris, owner of the Detroit Red Wings.

On October 21, 1967, they became the first team from the expansion class to beat an Original Six team, as they defeated the Chicago Black Hawks 4 – 2.

In 1967, the last season of the six-team NHL, the Black Hawks finished first, breaking the supposed Curse of Muldoon, 23 years after the death of Frederic McLaughlin.

In 1967, the Black Hawks made a trade with the Boston Bruins that turned out to be one of the most one-sided in the history of the sport.

KPLR-TV has served as the home broadcaster of the St. Louis Cardinals baseball team ( two stints, 1959 – 1962 and 1988 – 2006 ), the NBA's St. Louis Hawks ( 1959 – 1968 ) and the NHL's St. Louis Blues ( three stints, 1967 – 1976, 1982 – 1983, and 1986 – 2009 ).

Wilkens placed second to Wilt Chamberlain in the 1967 – 1968 MVP balloting, his last with the Hawks.

After playing with the dismal California Golden Seals from 1967 – 71, where he set records in 1970 – 71 for both the most games played in a single season and most losses in a single season, his first success was sharing the 1971 – 72 Vezina Trophy with Tony Esposito while with the Chicago Black Hawks.

Wayne Smith ( born February 12, 1943 in Kamsack, Saskatchewan ) was a professional ice hockey defenceman who played for the Chicago Black Hawks in the National Hockey League from 1966 to 1967.

Subsequent studies and collections during the Plantation Era were made in 1885, 1905, 1939, and 1967.

From 1956 to 1967, DKW cars were made in Brazil by the local company Vemag ( Veículos e Máquinas Agrícolas S. A .).

Studying avant-garde theatre and mime under Lindsay Kemp, he was given the role of Cloud in Kemp's 1967 theatrical production Pierrot in Turquoise ( later made into the 1970 television film The Looking Glass Murders ).

Between 1967 and 1983, Detroit only made the playoffs twice, winning one series.

This was done by the Criminal Law Act 1967, which made all felonies ( except treason ) misdemeanours, and introduced a new system of classifying crimes as either " arrestable " and " non-arrestable " offences ( according to which a general power of arrest was available for crimes punishable by five years ' imprisonment or more ).

In 1967 the Holt government made the historic decision not to depreciate the Australian dollar in line with Britain's depreciation of the pound sterling, a custom that Australia had previously always followed, but this decision created considerable dissent within the Coalition ; Country Party leader John McEwen was particularly angered by the move — he saw it as a threat to Australia's balance of payments and feared that it would lead to increased production costs for primary industry.

Two days later, on 19 December 1967, the government made an official announcement that Holt was presumed dead.

The Ivory-billed Woodpecker was listed as an endangered species on 11 March 1967, though the only evidence of its existence at the time was a possible recording of its call made in East Texas.

* 1967 – Canada celebrates the 100th anniversary of the British North America Act, 1867, which officially made Canada its own federal dominion.

T. H. White's novel was adapted into the Lerner-Loewe stage musical Camelot ( 1960 ) and the Disney animated film The Sword in the Stone ( 1963 ); Camelot, with its focus on the love of Lancelot and Guinevere and the cuckolding of Arthur, was itself made into a film of the same name in 1967.

Soon afterwards with Poor Cow ( 1967 ) he started directing films for the cinema, and in 1969 made Kes, the story of a troubled boy and his kestrel, based on the novel A Kestrel for a Knave by Barry Hines.

"' Forever Changes ' made only a minor dent on the charts when it was first released in 1967, but years later it became recognized as one of the finest and most haunting albums to come out of the Summer of Love, which doubtless has as much to do with the disc's themes and tone as the music, beautiful as it is ," wrote Mark Deming in an entry for the online Allmusic guide.

During his retirement, he was called into the public spotlight one final time in 1967 for the inception of the award, he was made a Companion of the Order of Canada.

The first well-known public presentation of markup languages in computer text processing was made by William W. Tunnicliffe at a conference in 1967, although he preferred to call it generic coding.

Beginning with the limited-production Cosmo Sport of 1967 and continuing to the present day with the RX-8, Mazda has become the sole manufacturer of Wankel-type engines mainly by way of attrition ( NSU and Citroën both gave up on the design during the 1970s, and prototype Corvette efforts by General Motors never made it to production.

The single peaked at # 14 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the summer of 1967, when Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash also made the song their own.

Gerry Anderson made science fiction series for ITV using the puppet based ' Supermarionation ' technique including Fireball XL5 ( 1962 – 63 ), Thunderbirds ( 1965 – 66 ), Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons ( 1967 & 68 ), and Stingray ( 1964 – 65 ) which all retain a following.

Early shows made in the 1960s included The Interparis ( 1968 ) Vega 4 ( 1967 ), and Phoenix Five ( 1970 ).

Excavations starting in 1967 at the site called Akrotiri under the late Professor Spyridon Marinatos have made Thera the best-known " Minoan " site outside of Crete, the homeland of the culture.

Underwater cinematographer Jordan Klein, Sr. of Florida co-designed such a scuba in 1967, called " Mako ", and made at least a prototype.

This led to the Nigerian Civil War which would have been avoided if the Nigerian leaders had not violated the Aburi Accord 1967 made between the Biafrans and the Nigerians which guaranteed self-governance to the then four geopolitical regions.

Following the 1966 tour, the group moved with Dylan to Saugerties, New York, where they made the informal 1967 recordings that became The Basement Tapes, which forged the basis for their 1968 debut album Music from Big Pink.

THX 1138 was developed from Lucas ' student film Electronic Labyrinth: THX 1138 4EB, which he made in 1967 while attending the University of Southern California's film school.

Both these claims are however often rigorously disputed because the first Sony Portapak, the Videorover did not become commercially available until 1967, first in the US ( Fred Forest does not contradict this, saying it was provided to him by the manufacturers ) and that Andy Warhol is credited with showing underground video art mere weeks before Paik's papal procession screening, but here probably made on a pre-portable mains deck.

The 1967 release of Los Mac's album Kaleidoscope Men ( 1967 ) inspired bands such as Los Jaivas and Los Blops, the latter going on to collaborate with the iconic Chilean singer-songwriter Victor Jara on his 1971 album El derecho de vivir en paz.

* El lekaa el tani ( The Second Meeting ) ( 1967 ).

Among Loren's best-known films of this period are Samuel Bronston's epic production of El Cid ( 1961 ) with Charlton Heston, The Millionairess ( 1960 ) with Peter Sellers, It Started in Naples ( 1960 ) with Clark Gable, Vittorio De Sica's triptych Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow ( 1963 ) with Marcello Mastroianni, Peter Ustinov's Lady L ( 1965 ) with Paul Newman, the 1966 classic Arabesque with Gregory Peck, and Charlie Chaplin's final film, A Countess from Hong Kong ( 1967 ) with Marlon Brando.

Founded by Dominican flautist and band-leader Johnny Pacheco and impresario Jerry Masucci, Fania was launched with Willie Colón and Héctor Lavoe's El Malo in 1967.

The film was followed by three more Cantinflas-Delgado-Columbia productions: El analfabeto ( 1961 ), El padrecito ( 1964 ), and Su excelencia ( 1967 ).

* March 1: Fidel Sánchez Hernández, former president of El Salvador ( 1967 – 1972 )

* El especial de Corona ( variety specials ; first appearance by Otilio Warrington on television, 1967 )

* El Vagabundo / Una Ventura Mas ( 1965, re-released in 1967 )

* 1967 El Matador ( NCCS IV, A3 ), Devils Tower, WY.

While ruling El Salvador from 1967 to 1972, Sánchez Hernández faced war and economic turmoil.

It became Texas Western College in 1949, and The University of Texas at El Paso in 1967.

In 1967 the school's name changed to the University of Texas at El Paso ( UTEP ).

He entered San Josė State University, but interrupted his studies from 1965 to 1967 to serve in the United States Peace Corps in El Salvador, where he became fluent in Spanish.

El Hadj Omar Bongo Ondimba ( 30 December 1935 – 8 June 2009 ), born as Albert-Bernard Bongo, was a Gabonese politician who was President of Gabon for 42 years from 1967 until his death in office in 2009.

* El Bolero de Raquel ( Raquel's Bolero ) ( 1967 )-The movie star Cantinflas featuring a bootblack, who, in one episode, feebly joins a professional dancer during her performance to Ravel's Bolero producing both comical and highly artistic Spanish dance.

* Fiesta con El Gran Combo ( 1967 )

El Arish was under military occupation by Israel from 1967 to 1979 and briefly in 1956.

* Willie Colón, El Malo ( Fania, 1967 )

* El Gran Combo, Boogaloos ( Gema, 1967 )

* El Malo ( 1967 )

* Live at the Red Garter Vol. 2 ( 1967 ) song: " Noche " with Pete " El Conde " Rodríguez, Ismael Miranda, & Adalberto Santiago

He was the head coach at Texas Western College ( renamed the University of Texas at El Paso in 1967 ) from 1961 to 1999, including the 1966 season when his team won the NCAA Tournament over the Wildcats of the University of Kentucky, coached by coaching great Adolph Rupp.