What happened in 1967, the year our Triumph TR4a was built?

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January 1 A blanket 70 mph speed limit was introduced on Britain ’s roads following a four month trial held in 1965
January The British Government gave approval for Chrysler to purchase a majority shareholding in the Rootes Group.
January 27 Astronauts Virgil Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee were killed in a fire in their Apollo capsule on their launch pad
March The Leyland Motor Corporation takes over Rover, following a first approach being made in December 1966.
April 26 Our TR4A was built
May United Kingdom and Ireland apply officially for EEC membership
June 5 - 10 Israel defeats Arab neighbours in Six-Day War, occupying West Bank, Gaza Strip, Sinai peninsula and Golan Heights
July 4 British parliament decriminalizes homosexuality
August 15 British Labour Government bans pirate radio stations.
September 29 The Last Alvis, a TF21 was built.
October 2 First US Black Supreme Court Judge sworn in – Thurgood Marshall
October 9 The breathalyzer was introduced set at a level of 80mg of alcohol per 100 ml of blood.
October 24 TR4A registered as RWP 400F
November 19 UK pound devalued from 1 GBP = 2.80 USD to 1 GBP = 2.40 USD.
December 3 At Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa, 53-year-old Lewis Washkansky becomes the first human to receive a heart transplant (however he died 18 days later from double pneumonia).

The transplant team was headed by Christiaan Barnard

Total UK Car Production 1,522,013
World Population 3.485 Billion
Nigeria Biafra secedes from Nigeria
Middle East Six day war between Israel and Egypt
Greece King Constantine deposed
China Announces explosion of its first Hydrogen bomb
Medicine/Science Antony Hewish and Jocelyn Burnel discover Pulsars  

Friedman, Kendall and Taylor of the US discovered Quarks

Wimbledon Champions Billie Jean King beat Ann Jones  

John Newcome beat W Bungent

Films The Graduate  

Bonnie and Clyde  

Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?  

In The Heat of The Night  

Cool Hand Luke

Music The Beatles - Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band

 

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