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A referendum on the status of the island was held in Puerto Rico on July 23, 1967. [35] Voters were given the choice between being a Commonwealth, statehood or independence. The majority of voters voted for Commonwealth status while around 40% showed support for joining as a state, with a voter turnout of 65.9%. [36] [37]
In 1967, the Legislative Assembly tested the political interests of the Puerto Rican people by passing a local Plebiscite Act that allowed a vote on the status of Puerto Rico. This constituted the first referendum by the Legislature for a choice on three status options. At 60.4% percent of the vote, the commonwealth option won the majority vote.
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Sykes, who died in 2010, was the first Black Australian to study at Harvard, and fought for a Yes vote in the 1967 Referendum. That referendum, to count Indigenous people in Australia’s Census ...
1967 Australian referendum; 1967 Roe state by-election; See also This page was last edited on 1 August 2024, at 02:58 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...
Greenland and Danish officials also remain skeptical about Trump’s proposals. The U.S. Constitution solely gives Congress the authority to create a new state and establishes guidelines for doing so.
U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, establishing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Carl B. Stokes is elected mayor of Cleveland, Ohio , becoming the first African American mayor of a major United States city.
1967 United States Senator Frank Church of Idaho was the subject of an unsuccessful recall effort. [83] Courts ruled that a federal official is not subject to state recall laws. 1988 Evan Mecham , Governor of Arizona , was scheduled for a recall election on May 17 of that year, after a successful petition drive (301,000 signatures).