Friday, June 2, 1967

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The Headlines

Egyptians Bar U.S. Consul From Ships at Suez Canal; EGYPTIANS CURB U.S. AIDE AT CANAL

#1 on the Billboard Hot 100

Respect

Aretha Franklin

#1 at the box office

The must-have

Battleship

On This Day

• Protests in West Berlin against the arrival of the Shah of Iran are brutally suppressed, during which Benno Ohnesorg is killed by a police officer. His death results in the founding of the terrorist group Movement 2 June.

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• Luis Monge is executed in Colorado's gas chamber, in the last pre-Furman execution in the United States.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Pope Pius X (1835)
• Thomas Hardy (1840)
• Marquis de Sade (1740)
• Karl Adolph Gjellerup (1857)
• Pope Leo XI (1535)

Slang

Tech Check

ATM (Cash Machine), Heart Transplant Tech & Dolby Noise Reduction.

Style of 1967

Silhouette: Flowing and bohemian (Hippie)

Material: Tie-dye and hemp

• Bell bottoms
• Fringe vests
• Flower crowns

Cost of Living (1960)