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November 30, 1967

On November 30, 1967, the People's Republic of Southern Yemen gains its independence from the United Kingdom The year's #1 song was "To Sir With Love" by Lulu. Dana Barros, Olga Tañón, Lara Jill Miller would arrive in the same year.

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1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1967th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 967th year of the 2nd millennium, the 67th year of the 20th century, and the 8th year of the 1960s decade.

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On November 30, 1967

  1. 1967 The People's Republic of Southern Yemen gains its independence from the United Kingdom

    1967–1990 state in Western Asia

    South Yemen, officially the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (PDRY), abbreviated to Democratic Yemen, was a country in South Arabia that existed in what is now southeast Yemen from 1967 until its unification with the Yemen Arab Republic in 1990. The sole communist state in the Middle East and the Arab world, it comprised the southern and eastern governorates of the present-day Republic of Yemen, including the islands of Perim, Kamaran, and the Socotra Archipelago. It bordered the Yemen Arab Republic to the northwest, Saudi Arabia to the north, Oman to the east, the Arabian Sea to the southeast, and the Gulf of Aden to the south.

  2. 1967 The Pakistan Peoples Party is founded by Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, who becomes its first chairman.

    Pakistani social democratic political party

    The Pakistan People's Party (PPP) is a social democratic political party in Pakistan. It is one of the three major mainstream political parties alongside the Pakistan Muslim League (N) and the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf. It currently holds the most seats in the Senate, and second-most in the National Assembly; alongside leading a majoritarian government in Sindh and a coalition government in Balochistan.

  3. 1967 Pro-Soviet communists in the Philippines establish Malayang Pagkakaisa ng Kabataan Pilipino as its new youth wing.

    Communist party in the Philippines

    The Partido Komunista ng Pilipinas-1930 (PKP-1930), also known as the Philippine Communist Party, is a communist party in the Philippines that was established on November 7, 1930. It uses the aforementioned appellation in order to distinguish itself from its better known splinter group, the Communist Party of the Philippines.

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Others born in 1967

Dana Barros 1967– American basketball player and coach
Olga Tañón 1967– Puerto Rican singer-songwriter
Lara Jill Miller 1967– American actress
Mike Portnoy 1967– American drummer and songwriter
David J. C. MacKay 1967– English physicist, engineer, and academic (died 2016)
Sherri Shepherd 1967– American actress, comedian, and television personality

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