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| ARAB-ISRAELI CRISIS. Tensions between Israel and its neighboring Arab states increased significantly in the early months. The UN Emergency Force was withdrawn from Sinai. The SIX-DAY WAR in June between Israel and the Arabs resulted in a major victory for Israel and the Israeli occupation of Sinai, the Golan Heights, the Gaza Strip, and the West Bank territories. United Nations played a major role in organizing international discussions. At the Khartoum Conference, Arab heads of state agreed on a position of “no negotiation” with Israel. UN SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION 242 provided an agreed-upon base, with international support, for a general peace settlement. Little progress was made in actual peace negotiations undertaken by the UN special envoy Gunnar Jarring in 1967–69. | 1 |
| EXPO 67, the world exposition in Montreal, celebrated the centennial of Canada's dominion status. | 2 |
| The People's Republic of China exploded its first hydrogen bomb. | 3 |
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| Treaty of Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space was negotiated by the United States and the Soviet Union and signed by 62 states. It prohibited orbiting weapons of mass destruction and forbade separate claims to celestial territories. | 4 |
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| The completion of the KENNEDY ROUND of negotiations under the GATT provided for significant tariff reductions and greater awareness of the trade problems of developing countries. | 5 |
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| July |
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| French president Charles de Gaulle promised French support for the separatist movement in Quebec during a state visit to Canada. | 6 |
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| Nov |
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| UN General Assembly unanimously adopted a declaration on the elimination of discrimination against women. | 7 |
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| Dec |
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| Dr. Christiaan Barnard in South Africa performed the first human heart transplant operation. The patient lived for 18 days. In 1968 another heart transplant patient of Barnard's lived for 19 months. | 8 |
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