Events
DateEvent
1964 Marco Ambrosini Was Born
1964 Ángel Barrios Died
1964 Marguerite Béclard d'Harcourt Died
1964 Luca Belcastro Was Born
1964 Marc Blitzstein Died
July 13 1964 Andreas Boltz Was Born
1964 Nacio Herb Brown Died
1964 Francisco Canaro Died
1964 George Dyson Died
1964 Julia Gomelskaya Was Born
1964 Louis Gruenberg Died
1964 Sigurd Islandsmoen Died
1964 Yoko Kanno Was Born
1964 Joseph Marx Died
1964 Otto Olsson Died
1964 Cole Porter Died
1964 Emil Reesen Died
1964 Richard Rijnvos Was Born
1964 Jean Rogister Died
1964 Matthew Taylor Was Born
1964 Ernst Toch Died
1964 Ian Wilson Was Born
January 01 1964 Zambia, Malawi Gain Independence From Rhodesia Federation
1964 Willem Andriessen Died
January 08 1964 President Johnson Declares ""War On Poverty"
January 09 1964 Martyrs' Day Was An Anti-American Riot In Panama
January 11 1964 U.S. Says Smoking Hazardous To Health
January 12 1964 Zanzibar Revoloution Leads To A Republic
January 13 1964 Calcutta Anti-Muslim Riots: 100 Dead
January 13 1964 Future Pope Appointed Archbishop Of Krakow, Poland
January 16 1964 Hello Dolly Starring Channing Opened On Broadway
January 23 1964 The 24th Amendment Ends The Poll Tax
January 28 1964 USAF Plane Shot Down By Soviet MiG-19
January 30 1964 Ranger 6 Is Launched
January 30 1964 South Vietnamese Government Overthrown Bloodlessly
February 01 1964 Beatles Take Number One Hit In US
February 07 1964 The Beatles Arrived In The US
February 09 1964 The Beatles Perform On The Ed Sullivan Show
February 10 1964 HMAS Melbourne And Voyager Collide Killing 82
February 11 1964 Greeks And Turks Fight In Cyprus
February 17 1964 Supreme Court Rules: Congressional District Population Equality
February 17 1964 Aubame Becomes Gabonese President After Coup
February 25 1964 Kim Il-sung Calls For State-run Farms
February 25 1964 U.S. Launches A Satellite In California
February 27 1964 Italian Government Seeks Help In Saving Pisa Tower
February 29 1964 Australian Swimmer Sets New World Record
March 01 1964 Conaripe Town Destroyed By Villarrica Volcano's Eruption
March 06 1964 Constantine II Becomes King Of Greece
March 06 1964 Boxer Clay Takes Islamic Name Muhammad Ali
March 13 1964 Woman Murdered While Others Reportedly Fail To Help
March 14 1964 Jack Ruby Is Found Guilty For Assassin's Murder
March 20 1964 Agreement Establishes ESRO On June 14, 1962
March 27 1964 Earthquake Hits Alaska, Kills 125
March 30 1964 Jeopardy!, Hosted By Art Fleming Debuts
March 31 1964 Coup D'état In Brazil Establishes A Military Government
April 04 1964 The Beatles: Top 5 Billboards Pop Hits
April 07 1964 IBM Announces The System/360
April 08 1964 Gemini 1 (unamanned Test Flight) Launched
April 13 1964 Poitier Becomes First African-American To Win Best Actor In 1963
April 15 1964 Ford Mustang Showcased Two Days Before Premiere
April 17 1964 Jerrie Mock Circumavigate World By Air
April 17 1964 Ford Mustang Is Introduced To North American Markets
April 20 1964 Fire At Battersea Power Station
April 21 1964 Satellite Fails And Disperses Radioactivity Into The Atmosphere
April 22 1964 First New York World's Fair Opens
April 26 1964 Tanganyika And Zanzibar Merge
May 02 1964 The USS Card Is Sunk In Saigon's Harbor
May 02 1964 Shishapangma Mountain's First Ascent
May 05 1964 May 5th Declared Europe Day
May 07 1964 Passenger Causes Airliner Crash That Kills 44
May 09 1964 De Facto Ruler Of Vietnam Executed
May 20 1964 Wilson And Penzias Discover Cosmic Microwaves
May 22 1964 President Johnson Announces Great Society Social Reform
May 28 1964 Palestinians Form Liberation Organization
May 29 1964 Arab League To Discuss Palestinian Question
June 05 1964 DSV Alvin Is Commissioned
June 06 1964 Rocket Launches End Permanently In Cuxhaven, Germany
June 10 1964 Senate Breaks 75 Day Civil Rights Impasse
June 11 1964 Seifert Kills 10 In Cologne School Attack
June 12 1964 Mendela Sentenced To Life In South Africa
June 19 1964 The Senate Approves Civil Rights Act
June 21 1964 Civil Rights Workers Murdered By Klan
June 28 1964 Malcolm X Forms Afro-American Unity
July 02 1964 Johnson Signs Civil Rights Act 1964 Desegregates
July 06 1964 Malawi Declares Independence From UK
July 19 1964 Rally In Saigon
July 20 1964 Viet Cong Attack Capital, Killing 51
July 27 1964 Military Advisers Sent To Vietnam
July 31 1964 Ranger 7 Sends Back Photographs Of Moon
August 01 1964 Democratic Republic Of The Congo Begins
August 02 1964 Gulf Of Tonkin Was Started By North Vietnamese
August 04 1964 Civil Rights Workers Found Dead In Mississippi
August 04 1964 Gulf Of Tonkin Incident
August 05 1964 Vietnam War: Operation Pierce Arrow
August 06 1964 Prometheus, World's Oldest Tree, Cut Down
August 07 1964 Congress Passes Tonkin Gulf Resolution
August 12 1964 South Africa Banned From Olympic Games
August 12 1964 Wilson Escapes From Prison In Birmingham
August 13 1964 UK: Allen And Evans Hanged For West Murder
August 16 1964 Minh Replaced By Khanh S. Vietnam; New Constitution
August 19 1964 First Geostationary Communication Satellite Launched
August 27 1964 South Vietnamese Coup Ended By Agreement
August 28 1964 The Philadelphia Race Riot Begins
September 04 1964 Edinburgh: Forth Road Bridge Opens
September 12 1964 Canyonlands National Park Becomes A National Park
September 13 1964 Generals Fail In South Vietnam Coup
September 18 1964 Constantine II Marries Princess Anne-Marie
September 18 1964 North Vietnamese Begin Southern Infiltration
September 21 1964 Malta Gains Independence From United Kingdom
September 21 1964 First Mach 3 Bomber Makes Maiden Flight
September 25 1964 Mozambique War Against Portugal Begins
September 27 1964 British Aircraft Maiden Flight
September 29 1964 Mafalda Comic Published First Time
October 01 1964 UC Berkeley: Free Speech Movement Launched
October 01 1964 Japan Starts Bullet Trains
October 10 1964 New Technology In Tokyo Olympics Telecast
October 12 1964 Soviet Union Launches Voskhod 1
October 14 1964 King, Jr. Receives Nobel Peace Prize
October 14 1964 Leonid Brezhnev Becomes General Secretary
October 16 1964 China Detonates Its First Nuclear Weapon
October 16 1964 Collective Leadership Established In USSR
October 16 1964 End premiership of sir Alec Douglas-Home
October 16 1964 Start premiership of Harold Wilson
October 17 1964 Lake Burley Griffin Opens In Canberra
October 18 1964 The World's Fair Closed In 1964
October 22 1964 Sartre Turns Down Nobel Literature Prize
October 22 1964 New Official Flag Of Canada Selected
October 24 1964 Zambia Gains Independence From U.K
October 26 1964 Cooke Last Person Executed In Australia
October 27 1964 Reagan's Political Career Is Launched
October 28 1964 U.S. Denies Involvement In Vietnam Bombing
October 29 1964 Tanganyika And Zanzibar Renamed United Republic Of Tanzania
October 29 1964 Gems Stolen From New York City Museum
November 02 1964 Saud Deposed And Replaced By Faisal
November 03 1964 D.C. Residents Finally Vote In Election
November 21 1964 Longest Suspension Bridge Verrazano-Narrows Opens
November 21 1964 The Second Vatican Council Closes
November 28 1964 NASA Launches Mariner 4 Probe Towards Mars
November 28 1964 NSC Recommends Lyndon For Boming Escalation
December 01 1964 Meeting Of U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson And Advisers
December 01 1964 Malawi, Malta And Zambia Join United Nations
December 03 1964 Police Arrest 800 At UC-Berkeley
December 05 1964 Vietnam Captain Donlon First War Medal Of Honor
December 11 1964 NYC: Guevara Addresses UN
December 12 1964 Kenyatta Becomes President Of Republic Of Kenya
December 14 1964 Supreme Court Rules Congress Can Fight Discrimination
December 19 1964 South Vietnamese Junta Dissolve Council
December 22 1964 Test Flight Of SR-71 Took Place
December 24 1964 Viet Cong Bomb Saigon, South Vietnam Strikes Capital