South Yemen declared independence after the British withdrew from Aden, at first as the People's Republic of South Yemen, and in 1970 it became the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen, the only Marxist state in the Arab world, allied with the Soviet Union. Its capital was Aden. The country was torn by factional conflicts within its ruling party, culminating in a bloody civil conflict in January 1986, and had border wars with North Yemen in 1972 and 1979. With the end of the Cold War the two Yemens agreed to unify, and the Republic of Yemen was proclaimed in 1990. A southern attempt at secession led to a civil war in 1994 that the north won, but southern separatism has remained a political force.
Before and after
- 28 October 1967Birth of Julia Roberts
- November 1967Jocelyn Bell discovers pulsars
- from 3 November 1967 to 23 November 1967Battle of Dak To
- 9 November 1967Launch of Apollo 4
- from 30 November 1967 to 22 May 1990South Yemen
- 3 December 1967Christiaan Barnard performs the first human heart transplant
- 21 December 1967Birth of Mikheil Saakashvili
- 1968Prague Spring
- 1 January 1968Establishment of Comoé National Park
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The era
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