1964 - What happened in 1964 ?
January 1964
Wednesday 01:
The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is divided into the independent republics of Zambia and Malawi, and the British-controlled Rhodesia.
Thursday 09:
Several Panamanian youths put up the Panamanian flag, and are fired on from the Canal Zone, setting off four days of anti-imperialist insurrection around the country.
Monday 20:
Meet the Beatles, the first Beatles album in the United States, is released.
Wednesday 29:
1964 Winter Olympic Games open in Innsbruck, Austria.
Thursday 30:
Ranger 6 is launched by NASA. Its mission is to carry television cameras and to crash-land on the moon.
February 1964
Friday 07:
The Beatles arrived on their first visit to the United States.
Wednesday 19:
Paul Simon writes "The Sounds of Silence," the song which, in a year and a half, will catapult him and Art Garfunkel to stardom as Simon & Garfunkel.
Tuesday 25:
Ali versus Liston: Cassius Clay beat Sonny Liston in Miami Beach, Florida, and was crowned the heavyweight champion of the world.
Thursday 27:
The government of Italy asks for help to keep the Leaning Tower of Pisa from toppling over.
Saturday 29:
In Sydney, Australian swimmer Dawn Fraser sets a new world record in the 100-meter freestyle swimming competition (58.9 seconds).
March 1964
Friday 06:
Tom O'Hara sets a new world record for the indoor mile run by completing it in 3 minutes, 56.4 seconds.
Monday 09:
The first Ford Mustang rolls off the assembly line at Ford Motor Company.
Saturday 28:
The first pirate radio station, Radio Caroline, is established.
Monday 30:
The game show Jeopardy! debuts on television.
Tuesday 31:
The Dictatorship in Brazil, under the aegis of general Castello Branco, begins.
April 1964
Tuesday 07:
IBM announces the System/360
Tuesday 14:
A Delta rocket's third-stage motor prematurely ignites in an assembly room at Canaveral, killing 3.
Friday 17:
1964 - Jerrie Mock becomes the first woman to circumnavigate the world by air.
Wednesday 22:
The 1964-1965 New York World's Fair opens for its first season.
Sunday 26:
Tanganyika and Zanzibar merge to form Tanzania.
May 1964
Saturday 02:
Vietnam War: An explosion sinks the USS Card while docked at Saigon. Viet Cong forces are suspected of placing a bomb on the ship.
Monday 11:
Terence Conran opened the first Habitat store on London's Fulham Road.
Tuesday 19:
Vietnam War: The United States Air Force begins Operation Yankee Team.
Friday 22:
U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson announces the goals of his Great Society social reforms to bring an "end to poverty and racial injustice" in America.
Wednesday 27:
Prime Minister of India Jawaharlal Nehru dies in office.
June 1964
Saturday 06:
Under a temporary order, the rocket launches at Cuxhaven, Germany, are terminated, though they never resume.
Thursday 11:
World War II veteran Walter Seifert runs amok in an elementary school in Cologne, Germany, killing at least eight children and two teachers and seriously injuring several more with a home-made flamethrower and a lance.
Sunday 21:
Three civil rights workers, Andrew Goodman, James Chaney and Mickey Schwerner, are murdered in Neshoba County, Mississippi, United States, by members of the Ku Klux Klan.
Friday 26:
The Beatles release the album A Hard Day's Night.
Sunday 28:
Malcom X forms the Organization of Afro-American Unity.
July 1964
Friday 03:
President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits segregation in public places.
Monday 06:
Malawi declares its independence from the United Kingdom.
Sunday 19:
Vietnam War: At a rally in Saigon, South Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Khanh calls for expanding the war into North Vietnam.
Monday 27:
Vietnam War: 5,000 more American military advisers are sent to South Vietnam bringing the total number of United States forces in Vietnam to 21,000.
Friday 31:
Ranger program: Ranger 7 sends back the first close-up photographs of the moon, with images 1,000 times clearer than anything ever seen from earth-bound telescopes).
August 1964
Sunday 02:
North Vietnam allegedly fires on a US destroyer in the Gulf of Tonkin Incident.
Wednesday 05:
American aircraft from carriers USS Ticonderoga and USS Constellation bomb North Vietnam in retaliation for strikes attacked US destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin.
Friday 07:
Vietnam War: The U.S. Congress passes the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution giving US President Lyndon B. Johnson broad war powers to deal with North Vietnamese attacks on American forces.
Sunday 16:
Vietnam War: A coup d'état replaces Duong Van Minh with General Nguyen Khanh as President of South Vietnam. A new constitution is established with aid from the U.S. Embassy.
Friday 28:
The Philadelphia race riot began.
September 1964
Friday 04:
Scotland's Forth Road Bridge, near Edinburgh, officially opens.
Monday 14:
The opening of the third period of the Second Vatican Council.
Tuesday 15:
The Sun newspaper launches, replacing the Daily Herald.
Monday 21:
Malta becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
Tuesday 29:
Argentine cartoonist Quino publishes his first Mafalda comic strip.
October 1964
Thursday 01:
Japanese Shinkansen (or, "bullet trains") begin high-speed rail service from Tokyo to Osaka.
Friday 16:
People's Republic of China detonates its first nuclear weapon
Sunday 18:
The 1964-1965 New York World's Fair closes for its first season after a six-month run.
Saturday 24:
Northern Rhodesia gains independence from the United Kingdom and becomes the Republic of Zambia (Southern Rhodesia remained a colony)
Thursday 29:
A collection of irreplaceable gems, including the 565 carat (113 g) Star of India, is stolen from the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.
November 1964
Monday 02:
King Saud of Saudi Arabia was deposed by a family coup, and replaced by his half-brother King Faisal.
Tuesday 03:
U.S. presidential election, 1964: Incumbent US President Lyndon B. Johnson defeats Republican challenger Barry Goldwater, Sr with over 60 percent of the popular vote.
Saturday 21:
Second Vatican Council: The third period of the Catholic Church's ecumenical council closes.
Saturday 28:
Vietnam War: National Security Council members agree to recommend that US President Lyndon B. Johnson adopt a plan for a two-stage escalation of bombing in North Vietnam.
December 1964
Tuesday 01:
Vietnam War: US President Lyndon B. Johnson and his top-ranking advisers meet to discuss plans to bomb North Vietnam.
Thursday 03:
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 UC Regents' decision to forbid Vietnam War protests on UC property.
Saturday 05:
Vietnam War: For his heroism in battle earlier in the year, Captain Roger Donlon of Saugerties, New York is awarded the first Medal of Honor of the war.
Monday 14:
Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States 379 US 241 1964 decided by U.S. Supreme Court
Tuesday 22:
Comedian Lenny Bruce is convicted of obscenity
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