The Principality of Sealand is a self-declared micronation on Roughs Tower, a former British anti-aircraft fort built in the Second World War in the North Sea, about ten kilometres off the coast of Suffolk. The retired British army officer Paddy Roy Bates occupied the abandoned platform, first for a pirate radio station and then as a claimed independent state, with himself as prince. In 1968 a British court held that it had no jurisdiction because the fort stood outside the then three-mile territorial limit, which Bates took as support for his claim. Britain extended its territorial waters to twelve miles in 1987. Sealand is not recognised by any country, though it has issued stamps and coins.
Before and after
- 23 July 1967Birth of Philip Seymour Hoffman
- from 23 July 1967 to 28 July 19671967 Detroit riot
- 29 July 19671967 USS Forrestal fire
- 8 August 1967Founding of ASEAN
- 2 September 1967Construction of Principality of Sealand
- 3 September 1967Dagen H
- from 11 September 1967 to 1 October 1967Nathu La and Cho La clashes
- 11 September 1967Birth of Sung Jae-gi
- 7 October 1967Birth of María Corina Machado
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