1967 in the United Kingdom
overview of United Kingdom-related events during the year of 1967
Events from the year 1967 in the United Kingdom.
Incumbents
Monarch – Elizabeth II
Prime Minister – Harold Wilson (Labour)
Events
January
1 January – England's 1966 World Cup winning manager Alf Ramsey receives a knighthood and Captain Bobby Moore receives an OBE in the New Year Honours.
2 January – Veteran actor Charlie Chaplin opens his last film, A Countess From Hong Kong, in the UK.
3 January – The stop motion children's television series Trumpton, first of the Trumptonshire trilogy, is first shown, on BBC1.
4 January – Racing driver and motorboat racer Donald Campbell's final attempt to break his own speed record ends in his death in a crash on Coniston Water in the Lake District.
7 January–1 July – The 26-part television series The Forsyte Saga is first shown, on BBC2.
15 January – The United Kingdom enters the first round of negotiations for European Economic Community membership in Rome; on 16 January Italy announces support for the UK's application.
18 January – Jeremy Thorpe becomes Leader of the Liberal Party.
23 January – Milton Keynes, a village situated in northern Buckinghamshire, is formally designated as a new town by the government, incorporating nearby towns and villages including Bletchley and Newport Pagnell. Intended to accommodate the overspill population from London – some fifty miles away – it will become the United Kingdom's largest new town, with the area's population multiplying during the 1970s and 1980s.
26 January – Parliament decides to nationalise 90% of the British steel industry.
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