THIS WEEK IN AMERICA: THE BILLBOARD HOT 100! SEPTEMBER 23, 1967

Compiled by the Music Popularity Chart Dept. of Billboard, from national retail store and one-stop sales reports, and radio airplay reports.

September 1
- The Khmer–Chinese Friendship Association is banned in Cambodia.
- Ilse Koch, known as the “Witch of Buchenwald”, commits suicide in the Bavarian prison of Aichach.
September 3
- Nguyễn Văn Thiệu is elected President of South Vietnam.
- At 5:00 a.m. local time, all road traffic in Sweden switches from left-hand traffic pattern to right-hand traffic.
September 4 – Vietnam War – Operation Swift: The United States Marines launch a search and destroy mission in Quảng Nam and Quảng Tín provinces. The ensuing 4-day battle in Que Son Valley kills 114 Americans and 376 North Vietnamese.
September 5 – The television series The Prisoner has its world broadcast premiere on the CTV Television Network in Canada.
September 10 – In a Gibraltar sovereignty referendum, only 44 voters out of 12,182 in the British Crown colony of Gibraltar support union with Spain.
September 17
- A riot during a football match in Kayseri, Turkey leaves 44 dead, about 600 injured.
- Jim Morrison and The Doors defy CBS censors on The Ed Sullivan Show, when Morrison sings the word “higher” from their #1 hit Light My Fire, despite having been asked not to.
September 18 – Love Is a Many Splendored Thing debuts on U.S. daytime television and is the first soap opera to deal with an interracial relationship. CBS censors find it too controversial and ask for it to be stopped, causing show creator Irna Phillips to quit.
September 27 – The RMS Queen Mary arrives in Southampton at the end of her last transatlantic crossing.
September 29
- Tangerine Dream is founded by Edgar Froese in West-Berlin.
- The classic sci-fi TV series Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons broadcasts on ITV.
September 30 – In the United Kingdom, BBC Radio completely restructures its national programming: the Light Programme is split between new national pop station Radio 1 (modeled on the successful pirate station Radio London) and Radio 2; the cultural Third Programme is rebranded as Radio 3; and the primarily-talk Home Service becomes Radio 4.

Source Credit: 1967 (September) Wikipedia

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