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1964
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Here is what was happening in the world.
January
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January 1 - Federation of
Rhodesia and
Nyasaland is dissolved.
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January 3 - U.S. Senator
Barry Goldwater announces that he will seek the Republican
nomination for President.
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January 5 - In the first
meeting between leaders of the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches
since the
15th century, Pope
Paul VI
and Patriarch
Athenagoras I meet in Jerusalem.
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January 7 - A British firm, the
Leyland Motor Corp., announces the sale of 450 buses to the Cuban
government, challenging the
United States blockade of
Cuba.
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January 8 - In his first
State-of-the-Union address, President
Lyndon Johnson declares a "War
on Poverty" in the United States.
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January 9 -
Martyr's Day: Armed clashes between United States troops and
Panamanian civilians in the
Canal Zone precipitate a major international crisis and result in
the deaths of 21 Panamanians and 4 U.S. soldiers.
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January 11 -
United States Surgeon General
Luther Leonidas Terry reports that smoking may be hazardous to one's
health. First such statement from the U.S. government.
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January 12 - The predominantly
Arab government of
Zanzibar is overthrown by African nationalist rebels. A U.S.
destroyer evacuates 61 U.S. citizens.
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January 12 - Routine naval
patrols of the
South China Sea begin.
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January 16 -
Hello Dolly! opens in
New York City's St. James Theatre.
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January 16 -
John Glenn, the first American to orbit the
earth,
resigns from the space program and announces the next day that he will
seek the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senator from
Ohio.
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January 18 - Plans to build the
World Trade Center announced.
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January 20 -
Meet the Beatles, the first Beatles album in the United States,
is released.
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January 22 -
Kenneth Kaunda inaugurated as the first President of
Northern Rhodesia.
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January 23 - Thirteen years
after its proposal and nearly two years after the measure had been
passed by the
United States Senate 77-16, the
24th Amendment to the
United States Constitution, prohibiting the use of
poll
taxes in national elections, is ratified.
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January 23 -
Arthur Miller's After the Fall opens on Broadway. A
semi-autobiographical work, it will arouse controversy over his
portrayal of late ex-wife Marilyn Monroe.
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January 27 -
France
and the
People's Republic of China announce their decision to establish
diplomatic relations.
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January 27 - Senator
Margaret Chase Smith (R-Me.), 66, announces her candidacy for the
Republican nomination for President.
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January 28 - A U.S. Air Force
jet training plane that strays into
East Germany is shot down by Soviet fighters near
Erfurt.
All three crew men are killed.
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January 29 -
1964 Winter Olympics open in
Innsbruck and concludes on
February 9. The
Soviet Union launches two scientific
satellites, Elektron I and II, from a single ger 6 is launched by
NASA. Its
mission is to carry
television cameras and to crash-land on the
moon.
February
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February 1 -
The Beatles vault to the #1 spot on the US singles charts for the
first time, with "I
Want to Hold Your Hand," forever changing the way rock-and-roll
music sounded.
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February 3 - In protests
against alleged de-facto school
racial segregation, black and Puerto Rican groups in
New York City boycott
public school.
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February 6 -
Cuba cuts
off the normal water supply to the United States naval base at
Guantanamo Bay in reprisal for U.S. seizure 4 days earlier of 4
Cuban fishing boats off the coast of
Florida.
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February 7 - A jury trying
Byron De La Beckwith for the murder of
Medgar Evers in June
1963
reports in
Jackson, Mississippi that it was unable to agree on a verdict,
resulting in a mistrial.
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February 7 -
The Beatles land in
New York City.
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February 9 -
The Beatles and new world record breaker and the only gold medalist
of the U.S.A Richard Terrance McDermott make their first appearances on
the Ed Sullivan Show. The
1964 Winter Olympics concludes.
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February 11 - Greeks & Turks
begin fighting in
Limassol,
Cyprus.
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February 11 - The
Republic of China (Taiwan)
drops diplomatic relations with France because of French recognition of
the
People's Republic of China.
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February 17 - In
Wesberry v. Sanders 376 US 1 1964, the
Supreme Court of the United States rules that
congressional districts have to be approximately equal in
population.
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February 26 -
John Glenn slips on a bathroom rug in his
Columbus, Ohio apartment and hits his head on the bathtub, injuring
his left inner ear, and prompting him (later that week) to withdraw from
the race for the Senate nomination.
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February 27 - The government of
Italy
asks for help to keep the
Leaning Tower of Pisa from toppling over.
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February 29 -
President Johnson announces that the United States had developed a
jet airplane (the A-11), capable of sustained flight at more than 2,000
MPH and of altitudes of more than 70,000 feet.
March
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March 4 -
Jimmy Hoffa, President of the
Teamsters, is convicted by a Federal jury of tampering with a
Federal jury in
1962.
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March 4 –
Malta
gains independence.
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March 6 -
Constantine II becomes King of
Greece.
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March 8 -
Malcolm X, suspended from the
Nation of Islam, says in New York City that he is forming a black
nationalist party.
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March 9 - In
New York Times Co. v Sullivan 376 US 254 1964, the Supreme Court
of the United States rules that under the First Amendment, speech
criticizing political figures cannot be censored.
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March 9 - The first
Ford Mustang rolls off the
assembly line at
Ford Motor Company.
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March 10 -
Soviet Union military forces shoot down an unarmed reconnaissance
bomber that had strayed into
East Germany; the three U.S. flyers parachute to safety.
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March 10 - The
New Hampshire primary is won by
Henry Cabot Lodge, Ambassador to
South Vietnam.
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March 12 -
Malcolm X withdraws from the
Nation of Islam
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March 13 - 38 residents of a
neighborhood in Queens, New York City fail to respond to the cries of
Kitty Genovese, 28, as she is being stabbed to death. The incident
will become notorious.
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March 14 - A jury in
Dallas, Texas finds
Jack
Ruby guilty of killing
John F. Kennedy assassin
Lee Harvey Oswald.
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March 20 - The precursor of the
European Space Agency,
ESRO
(European Space Research Organization) is established per an agreement
signed on
June 14,
1962.
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March 26 - Defense Secretary
Robert McNamara delivers an address that reiterated the United
States determination to give South Vietnam increased military and
economic aid in its war against
Communist insurgency.
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March 27 - The
Good Friday Earthquake, the most powerful earthquake in U.S. history
at a
magnitude of 9.2, strikes
South Central Alaska killing 125 people and inflicting massive
damage to the city of
Anchorage.
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March 29 -
Radio Caroline becomes
England's
first
pirate radio station from a ship anchored just outside of
UK
territorial waters.
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March 30 -
Merv Griffin's game show
Jeopardy! debuts on
NBC.
Art Fleming was its first host.
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March 31 - The military
overthrows
Brazilian President
João Goulart in a
coup, starting 21 years of
dictatorship in
Brazil.
April
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April 2 - Mrs. Malcolm Peabody,
72, mother of Governor Endicott Peabody of
Massachusetts, is released on $450 bond after spending two days in
jail in St. Augustine, Florida, because of her participation in an
anti-segregation demonstration there.
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April 4 -
The Beatles hold the top five positions in the Billboard Top 40
singles in America, an unprecedented accomplishment. Owing mostly to the
explosive growth, fragmentation, and marketing of popular music since,
this is certain to never happen again. The top songs in America as
listed on April 4, in order, were: "Can't Buy Me Love," "Twist and
Shout," "She Loves You," "I Want to Hold Your Hand," and "Please Please
Me."
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April 4 - Three high school
friends in Hoboken N.J. open the first
BLIMPIE
on Washington St.
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April 5 - Jigme Dorfi, Premier
of the Himalayan kingdom of
Bhutan
is shot dead by an unidentified assassin in Puncholing, near the Indian
border.
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April 5 -
General Douglas Macarthur dies at
Walter Reed Army Medical Center in
Washington, DC.
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April 7 -
IBM announces the
System/360.
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April 8 - Four of five
railroad operating
unions strike against the Illinois Central Railroad without warning
to bring to a head the five-year dispute over railroad work rules.
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April 9 - The
United Nations
Security Council adopts by a 9-0 vote a resolution deploring a
British air attack on a fort in
Yemen 12
days earlier in which 25 persons were reported killed.
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April 11 - The Brazilian
Congress elects General
Humberto Castelo Branco as President of
Brazil.
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April 12 -
Malcolm X delivers speech "The Ballot or the Bullet."
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April 14 - A
Delta rocket's third stage motor ignites prematurely in an assembly
room at
Cape Canaveral, killing 3.
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April 16 - Sentences totalling
307 years were passed on 12 men who stole £2.6m in used bank notes after
holding up the night mail train travelling from
Glasgow
to London
in August of 1963 - a heist that became known as the
Great Train Robbery.
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April 17 - In the
United States, the
Ford Mustang is officially unveiled to the public.
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April 17 -
Shea Stadium opens in
Flushing, New York.
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April 19 - The coalition
government of
Laos, headed by Prince
Souvanna Phouma, is deposed by a right-wing military group led by
Brig. Gen.
Kouprasith Abhay.
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April 20 - President Lyndon
Johnson in New York and Soviet Premier
Nikita Khrushchev in
Moscow
announce simultaneously plans to cut back production of materials for
making
nuclear weapons.
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April 20 -
Nelson Mandela makes his "I Am Prepared to Die" speech at the
opening of the
Rivonia Trial, a classic of the anti-apartheid movement.
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April 20 -
BBC2 starts
broadcasting in the
UK.
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April 22 - British businessman
Greville Wynn, who had been imprisoned in Moscow since 1963 accused of
spying,
is exchanged for Soviet spy
Gordon Lonsdale.
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April 22 -
NY World's Fair opens to celebrate the 300th anniversary of New
Amsterdam being taken over by British forces under the command of the
Duke of York (later King James II) and being renamed New York in 1664.
It will run until Oct. 18, 1964 and will reopen April 21, 1965, finally
closing Oct. 17 of that year. Because there can only be one official
world's fair in any one country within ten years and the previous
officially sanctioned World's Fair was held in Seattle in 1962, this
fair was never officially recognized and many countries declined to be
represented.
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April 25 - Thieves steal the
head of the
Little Mermaid statue in
Copenhagen (Henrik Bruun confesses in
1997).
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April 26 -
Tanganyika and
Zanzibar merge to form
Tanzania.
May
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May 2 - Senator
Barry Goldwater receives more than 75% of the votes in the
Texas
Republican Presidential primary.
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May 7 - A Pacific Air Lines
Fairchild F-27 crashes near
San Ramon, California, killing all 44 aboard; the
FBI later
reports that a cockpit recorder tape indicates that the pilot and
co-pilot had been shot by a suicidal passenger.
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May 7 - At a demonstration of
mail rockets by
Gerhard Zucker on the Hasselkopf mountain near
Braunlage (Lower Saxonia, Germany) three persons were killed by the
explosion of a rocket.
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May 9 -
South Korean President
Chung Hee Park reshuffles his Cabinet after a series of student
demonstrations against his efforts to restore diplomatic and trade
relations with
Japan.
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May 11 -
Terence Conran opened the first
Habitat store on
London's
Fulham Road.
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May 19 - The
United States State Department says that more than 40 hidden
microphones have been found embedded in the walls of the U.S. Embassy in
Moscow.
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May 23 - Mrs. Madeline Dassault,
63, wife of a French plane manufacturer and politician, is kidnapped
while leaving her car in front of her
Paris
home; she is found unharmed the next day in a farmhouse 27 miles from
Paris.
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May 23 - Pablo Picasso painted
his fourth Head of a Bearded Man.
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May 24-25
- The crowd at a
football
match in Lima,
Peru riot
over a referee's decision in Peru-Argentina
game - 319 dead, 500 injured in a riot.
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May 27 - Prime Minister
Nehru of
India dies; he is succeeded by
Lal Shastri.
June
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June 2 - Senator Barry
Goldwater wins the
California Republican Presidential primary, making him the
overwhelming favorite for the nomination.
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June 2 - Five million shares of
stock in the Communications Satellite Corporation (Comsat) are offered
for sale at $20 a share, and the issue is quickly sold out.
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June 3 -
South Korean President
Park Chung Hee declares
martial law in
Seoul
after 10,000 student demonstrators overpower police.
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June 7 - The
Beatles
travel the canals of
Amsterdam.
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June 6 - With a temporary order
the
rocket launches at Cuxhaven are terminated.
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June 9 - In Federal Court in
Kansas City, Kansas, army deserter George John Gessner, 28, is
convicted of passing United States secrets to the Soviet Union.
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June 11 -
Greece
rejects direct talks with
Turkey
over Cyprus.
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June 11 - In
Cologne,
Germs,
Walter Seifert attacks students and teachers in elementary school
with a
flamethrower - kills 10 and injures 21
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June 12 -
Pennsylvania Governor
William Scranton announces his candidacy for the Republican
Presidential nomination, as part of a 'stop-Goldwater' movement.
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June 12 -
Nelson Mandela and seven others are sentenced to life imprisonment
in
South Africa and sent to the
Robben Island prison.
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June 19 - Senator
Edward Kennedy, 32, is seriously injured in a private plane crash at
Southampton, Massachusetts; the pilot is killed.
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June 21 - Three civil rights
workers,
Michael Schwerner,
Andrew Goodman, and
James Chaney, are murdered near
Philadelphia, Mississippi, by local segregationist law enforcement
officials.
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June 21 -
Spain beat the
Soviet Union 2-1 to win the
1964 European Championship.
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June 25 - The
Vatican condemns the female
contraceptive pill.
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June 26 –
Moise Tshombe returns to
Congo from his exile from Spain.
July
August
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August 1 - The Final
Looney Tune, "Senorella and the Glass Huarache" is released before
the Warner Bros. Cartoon Division is shut down by Jack Warner
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August 4 -
American civil rights movement:
Civil rights workers
Michael Schwerner,
Andrew Goodman and
James Chaney found dead in
Mississippi after disappearing on
June 21.
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August 4 -
Vietnam War: United States destroyers
USS
Maddox and
USS C. Turner Joy are attacked in the
Gulf of Tonkin. Air support from the carrier
USS Ticonderoga sinks two, possibly three North Vietnamese
gunboats.
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August 5 - Vietnam War:
Operation Pierce Arrow - aircraft from carriers
USS Ticonderoga and
USS Constellation bomb
North Vietnam in retaliation for strikes against US destroyers in
the
Gulf of Tonkin.
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August 5 – Simba rebel army in
Congo capture
Stanleyville and takes 1000 western hostages.
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August 7 - Vietnam War: The
United States Congress passes the
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution giving U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson
broad war powers to deal with North Vietnamese attacks on U.S. forces.
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August 8 - A
Rolling Stones
gig in
Scheveningen gets out of control. Riot police end the gig after
about 15 minutes, upon which spectators start to fight the riot police.
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August 13 - Murderers
Gwynne Owen Evans and
Peter Anthony Allen are executed. They are the last people to be
executed in the
United Kingdom.
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August 16 - Vietnam War: In a
coup,
General
Nguyen Khanh replaces
Duong Van Minh as South Vietnam's chief of state and establishes a
new
constitution, which the U.S. Embassy helped draft.
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August 22 -
Fannie Lou Hamer, civil rights activist and Vice Chair of the
Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, addresses the Credentials
Committee of the
Democratic National Convention, to challenge the all-white
Mississippi delegation.
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August 24-27
- The
Democratic National Convention in
Atlantic City nominates incumbent President
Lyndon B. Johnson for a full term, and US Senator
Hubert H. Humphrey of
Minnesota as his running mate.
September
October
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October 5 - Twenty-three men
and 31 women escape to
West Berlin through a narrow tunnel under the
Berlin Wall.
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October 5 -
Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Phillip begin an 8-day visit to
Canada.
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October 10 -
1964 Summer Olympics open in
Tokyo.
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October 12 - The Soviet Union
launches the
Voskhod 1 into Earth
orbit as
the first spacecraft with a multi-person crew and the first flight
without
space suits.
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October 14 - American civil
rights movement leader Dr.
Martin Luther King, Jr. becomes the youngest recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize, which was awarded to him for leading non-violent
resistance to end
racial
prejudice in the United States.
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October 14 -
15
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Nikita Khrushchev is deposed as leader of the Soviet Union;
Leonid Brezhnev and
Alexei Kosygin assume power.
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October 15 -
United Kingdom's
Labour Party wins the parliamentary elections in the
United Kingdom, ending 13 years of Conservative Party rule.
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October 15 - Craig Breedlove's
jet-powered car Spirit of America goes out of control in
Bonneville Salt Flats in
Utah and
makes skid marks 9.6 km long.
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October 15 - The
St. Louis Cardinals defeated the visiting
New York Yankees, 7-5 to win the
World Series in seven games (4-3), ending a long run of 29 World
Series appearances in 44 seasons for the Bronx Bombers (also known as
the Yankee Dynasty).
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October 16 -
Harold Wilson becomes British Prime Minister.
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October 16 -
People's Republic of China explodes an
atomic bomb in
Sinkiang.
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October 18 -
NY World's Fair closes for the year. It will reopen April 21, 1965.
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October 22 -
Canada:
A Federal Mult-Party Parliamentary Committee selects a design to become
the new official
Flag of Canada.
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October 24 - Northern
Rhodesia, a former British protectorate, becomes the independent
Republic of
Zambia, ending 73 years of British rule.
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October 24 -
1964 Summer Olympics close in
Tokyo.
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October 27 - In
Congo, rebel leader Christopher Gbenye takes 60 Americans and 800
Belgians as
hostages.
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October 29 - A collection of
irreplaceable
gemstones, including the 565
carat
(113 g)
Star of India, is stolen from the
American Museum of Natural History in
New York City.
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October 31 - Campaigning at
Madison Square Garden, New York, President Lyndon Johnson pledges
the creation of the
Great Society.
November
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November 1 - Mortar fire from
North Vietnamese forces rains on the
USAF base
at Bein Hoa, South Vietnam, killing 4 U.S. servicemen and wounding 72,
and destroying five
B-57 jet
bombers and other planes.
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November 3 - The
Bolivian
government of President
Victor Paz Estenssoro is overthrown by a military rebellion led by
General
Alfredo Ovando Candía, commander-in-chief of the armed forces.
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November 3 -
U.S. presidential election, 1964: Incumbent U.S. President Lyndon B.
Johnson defeats
Republican challenger
Barry Goldwater with over 60 percent of the
popular vote.
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November 5 -
Mariner program:
Mariner 3, a U.S. space probe, intended for
Mars is launched from
Cape Kennedy, but fails.
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November 9 -
British House of Commons votes to abolish the death penalty for
murder in Britain.
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November 10 -
Australia partially reintroduces
compulsory military service due to
Indonesian Confrontation.
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November 13 -
Bob
Pettit (St.
Louis Hawks) becomes 1st
NBA player to
score 20,000 points.
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November 19 - The
U.S. Defense Department announced the closing of 95 military bases
and facilities, including the
Brooklyn Navy Yard, the Brooklyn Army Terminal, and
Fort
Jay, New York.
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November 21 -
Second Vatican Council: The third period of the
Catholic Church's
ecumenical council closes.
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November 21 - The
Verrazano Narrows Bridge opens to traffic (at the time it was the
world's longest
suspension bridge).
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November 24 - Belgian
paratroopers and mercenaries capture
Stanleyville but a number of
hostages
die in the fighting, among them
Covenant missionary Dr.
Paul Carlson.
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November 28 -
Mariner program: NASA launches the
Mariner 4 space probe from Cape Kennedy toward Mars to take
television pictures of that
planet
in July 1965.
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November 28 - Vietnam War:
National Security Council members, including
Robert McNamara,
Dean
Rusk, and
Maxwell Taylor agree to recommend that U.S. President Lyndon B.
Johnson adopt a plan for a two-stage escalation of bombing in North
Vietnam.
December
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December 1 - Vietnam War: U.S.
President Lyndon B. Johnson and his top-ranking advisers meet to discuss
plans to bomb North Vietnam (after some debate, they agreed to enact a
two-phase bombing plan).
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December 3 -
Berkeley Free Speech Movement: Police arrest over 800 students at
the
University of California, Berkeley, following their takeover and
massive sit-in at the administration building protesting the U. C.
Regents' decision to forbid Vietnam War protests on U. C. property.
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December 10 -
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is awarded the
Nobel Peace Prize in
Oslo, Norway.
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December 14 - The Supreme Court
of the United States rules, in
Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States 379 US 241 1964, that,
in accordance with the
Civil Rights Act of 1964, establishments providing public
accommodations must refrain from racial discrimination.
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December 15 - The
Washington Post publishes an article about
James Hampton, who had built a glittering religious throne out of
recycled materials
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December 18 - In the wake of
deadly riots in January over control of the
Panama Canal, the US offers to negotiate a new canal treaty.
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December 23 -
Wonderful Radio London commences transmissions with American
top 40
format broadcasting from a ship anchored off the south coast of England.
Date Unknown
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7000 residents of
New Hanover Island, at the time part of
Australia, refuse to pay taxes and found a
fund to
purchase
Lyndon B. Johnson.[1]
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Jerome Horowitz synthesizes
zidovudine, an
antiviral
drug used in treating
HIV.
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The
Vishwa Hindu Parishad is founded.
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John George Kemeny and
Thomas Eugene Kurtz create
BASIC (Beginners' All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code), an easy to
learn high level
programming language that has been included on many
computers and even some games consoles.
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First
Moog synthesizer designed by
Robert Moog.
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Roald Dahl composes the book
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, which would yield two
film-adaptations: a
1971 film starring
Gene Wilder, and a
2005 film starring
Johnny Depp.
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The
Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids (OBOD) is founded in
England.
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October - In
Photoplay magazine,
Hedda Hopper announces that
Sophia Loren and
Paul Newman will star in the film version of
Arthur Miller's play, After the Fall, with Loren in the role
that was written about
Marilyn Monroe. However, the film was never made.
Famous Boomer Birthdays
January
February
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April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
Deaths
January-April
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January 1 -
Bechara El Khoury,
President of Lebanon (b.
1890)
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January 15 -
Jack Teagarden, American jazz trombonist (b.
1905)
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January 17 -
T.H.
White, British author (b.
1906)
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January 29 -
Alan
Ladd, American actor (b.
1913)
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February 5 -
Matilde Moisant, American pilot (b.
1878)
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February 8 -
Ernst Kretschmer, German psychiatrist (b.
1888)
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February 10 -
Eugen Sänger, Austrian aerospace engineer (b.
1905)
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February 25 -
Grace Metalious, American writer (b.
1924)
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February 26 -
F. F. E. Yeo-Thomas, English World War II hero (b.
1901)
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February 27 -
Orry-Kelly, Australian-born costume designer (b.
1897)
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March 9 -
Paul Erich von Lettow-Vorbeck, German general (b.
1870)
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March 18 -
Sigfrid Edström, Swedish sports official (b.
1870)
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March 18 -
Norbert Wiener, American mathematician (b.
1894)
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March 23 -
Peter Lorre, Hungarian-born actor (b.
1904)
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April 5 -
Douglas MacArthur, U.S. Army general (b.
1880)
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April 14 -
Rachel Carson, American biologist and environmental writer (b.
1907)
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April 24 -
Gerhard Domagk, German bacteriologist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (declined) (b.
1895)
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April 26 -
E. J. Pratt, Canadian poet born Newfoundland (b.
1882)
May-August
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May 2 -
Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor, American-born politician (b.
1879)
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May 21 -
James Franck, German-born physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1882)
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May 27 -
Jawaharlal Nehru,
Prime Minister of India (b.
1889)
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June 3 -
Frans Eemil Sillanpää, Finnish writer,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1888)
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June 9 -
Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, Canadian-born newspaper publisher
and politician (b.
1879)
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June 25 -
Gerrit Rietveld, Dutch architect (b.
1888)
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June 25 -
James A. Hawken, School Teacher (b.
1870)
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July 1 -
Pierre Monteux, French conductor (b.
1875)
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July 2 -
Glenn "Fireball" Roberts, American race car driver (b.
1929)
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July 7 -
Lillian Copeland, American athlete (b.
1904)
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July 31 -
Jim
Reeves, American singer (b.
1923)
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August 21 -
Palmiro Togliatti, Italian communist leader (b.
1893)
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August 27 -
Gracie Allen, American actress and comedienne
September-December
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September 2 -
Glenn Albert Black, American archaeologist (b.
1900)
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September 3 -
Stewart Holbrook, American author (b.
1893)
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September 18 -
Clive Bell, English art critic (b.
1881)
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September 18 -
Sean O'Casey, Irish writer (b.
1880)
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September 28 -
Harpo Marx, American comedian (b.
1888)
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October 15 -
Cole Porter, American composer (b.
1891)
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October 20 -
Herbert Hoover, 31st
President of the United States (b.
1874)
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November 6 -
Hans von Euler-Chelpin, German-born chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1873)
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December 1 -
J. B. S. Haldane, British geneticist (b.
1892)
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December 6 -
Consuelo Vanderbilt, Duchess of Marlborough (b.
1877)
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December 11 -
Sam
Cooke, American singer (b.
1931)
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December 11 -
Alma Schindler Mahler Gropius Werfel, Austrian wife of
Gustav Mahler,
Walter Gropius, and
Franz Werfel (b.
1879)
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December 14 -
Francisco Canaro, Uruguayan-born composer (b.
1888)
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December 17 -
Victor Franz Hess, Austrian-born physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1883)
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December 31 -
Ólafur Thors,
Prime Minister of Iceland (b.
1892)
Nobel Prizes
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