Articles related to "1967"

Jim Clark and Lotus were the fastest combination in Grand Prix racing, but failed to challenge for the title due to poor reliabilty.

At Zandvoort the Ford DFV engine was used for the first time. Clark used it to win the Dutch Grand Prix.

The Formula 1 title fight went down to the last race of the season. Hulme beat his employer Brabham to the crown.

The Monaco Grand Prix was a tragic race, as Lorenzo Bandini lay trapped in his burning Ferrari.

Forty years ago, Oscar's top honor went to this acclaimed racial thriller - and the long tradition of rewarding message films officially began.

From 1948 until June 1967, Jerusalem had been a divided city with West Jerusalem part of the Israeli sector and East Jerusalem part of the Jordanian side.

Lance Hahn of beloved Austin-based J Church passed following a bout with ongoing illnesses, prompting an outpouring of support from the punk community.

In 1967, Pink Floyd recorded their first album, 'The Piper at the Gates of Dawn', helping to define London's Summer of Love. One track in particular, Bike, is discussed.

From the outset, Point Blank with Lee Marvin and John Vernon, makes it clear that this isn't going to be a conventional crime movie.

Jean-Luc Godard's 1967 film La Chinoise provides an oblique critique of leftist politics in France in the lead up to the events of May 1968.

Sean Connery was picked by producers Broccoli and Saltzman as the first screen incarnation of Ian Fleming's James Bond. Superstar success, it would seem, came overnight.

The 'Summer of Love' refers to a few months in 1967, focused on San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district, when new styles of music, art, and literature changed the world.

Due to a desire to keep space peaceful, the Outer Space Treaty 1967 was created to provide a basic framework of international space law.

They come and go, but fastbacks are practical. Dodge offered its interpretation in the 1966 Charger, barely tweaked it for 1967 and always focused on performance.

The 1951 race to the pennant between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the New York Giants was as great a pennant race as there has ever been. Ever.

1967 was a special year in the rock history, as numerous influential rock bands were formed, and new opportunities were introduced to the rock world.

Bo Pittard was a carefree young racing driver during the swinging sixties. He lost his life in excruciating circumstances after an accident on the Italian GP circuit.

Andrea de Adamich, like so many F1 drivers from Italy, endured a torrid time at Ferrari. Away from Grand Prix racing he found success in sports car competition.

Lorenzo Bandini achieved his ambition in 1966, becoming F1 team leader at Ferrari. It was to be a brief time in the limelight before his death during the 1967 Monaco GP.

During 1970, Jordan, its monarch King Hussein and the Hasemite regime stood on the brink of disaster as the country slid towards civil war.

Israel fought four wars with its Arab neighbors. Every time Israel's very survival was at stake.

In 1967 Jim Clark received an offer to compete in NASCAR, which the Formula 1 legend enthusiastically accepted.

The concept of 'peace' has been at the forefront of space exploration from the very beginning.

The Toronto Maple Leafs may have missed the National Hockey League playoffs for a third-straight season, but fans of the franchise have little reason to hang their heads.

It is not only Article IV of the Outer Space Treaty that regulates man's activities in space.

Rock is more than music, as it has its own culture. In 1960s, the tendency for the creation of a new music style (rock) turned to an independent genre with a new culture.

Pink Floyd's first album is one of the most influential albums of 1960s, though it is different from the famous albums of Pink Floyd released during1970s.

In the spring of 1967 Arab and Israeli forces clashed. The result was an astonishing Israeli victory in which Israel defeated three Arab armies in just six days.

Beatlemania may have grown too fast for a group of highly individualistic and creative young musicians who burst onto the global pop music scene.

The Canadian Grand Prix will return to Formula One in 2010 after a five-year deal was struck between the sport's supremo Bernie Ecclestone and the Quebec government.

As with San Francisco, Swinging London also experienced a 'Summer of Love' in 1967. The musical and social revolution changed Britain forever.

The era of Clark and Chapman, Brabham does it himself, Stewart wins first title and the tobacco companies arrive.

James Dickey's poem about an illicit affair explores the meaning and impact of guilt upon men, women, and society as a whole; and what may lie beneath.

It's tough to win a batting title, a home run crown, or an RBI championship, but it's much harder to win all three in one season. Here are the 12 players who've done it.

F1 of the sixties was a very different sport compared to now. Bob Anderson became a regular thorn in the side of works teams on the Grand Prix circuit in his old Brabham.

In July of 1959, less than a year after the Cuban Revolution, Ernesto "Che" Guevara landed in Japan in his signature olive green military outfit. He was 31 years-old.

In recent Southeast Asian History, at least three important influences in particular have had a profound effect on the region's development.

Nicknamed "Workhorse of the North", the versatile and ruggedly functional DHC2-Beaver made history as an essential part of aircraft fleets in Canada and the world.

Honda have a rich heritage in F1 motor racing. It all began in 1964 with a single Grand Prix car for unknown American driver Ronnie Bucknum.

Truman Capote's famous 1966 novel In Cold Blood was adapted into an Academy Award nominated 1967 film of the same name.

These five best picture winners from the first half of the 1960s included two musicals, an historical epic, a racial drama, and the only X-Rated film to win an Oscar.

The 1968 Pontiac GTO is among the legends of muscle. Four years earlier, the 1964 model burst on the scene and made a mark that it would hold against fierce competition.

Log Cabin and Honeycomb are two of the many quilting patterns that tell the stories of the people who made them, and the settlement of Canada.

The Toronto Maple Leafs are having another dismal season. But just a few blocks away, the AHL Marlies are winning - And local hockey fans are taking notice.

For their third release the Electric Prunes were partnered with hit producer David Axelrod to create one of the most bizarre pop concepts of the sixties- Mass in F Minor

In 2004, the Red Sox broke an 86-year "curse." In 2005, the White Sox ended a 99-year dry spell. Going into the postseason, the Cubs seemed like their turn was next.

Prohibition and bootleggers, health care, citizenship and standard time were a few of the announcements made on the first day of the new year over the decades.

The Dallas Cowboys struggled to win games during their first six years of existence in the NFL but, by the end of their first decade, they had risen to the top of league.

The Doors, one of the most influential rock bands, released some legendary rock albums during five years of their musical career.

If a player thinks he will be sent to a contender at the trading deadline, will his play against that team be affected before the trade?