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Year 1964 (MCMLXIV) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar) of the 1964 Gregorian calendar.

Contents:
Events of 1964 - Jan. ^. Feb. ^. March ^. April - May ^. June ^. July ^. Aug. - Sept. ^. Oct. ^. Nov. ^. Dec. - Undated ^. Ongoing Births Deaths Nobel prizes Ship events See also - Notes - External links

[ Events of 1964

[ January

January - The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is dissolved.
January 3 - U.S. Senator Barry Goldwater announces that he will seek the Republican nomination for President.
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.
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.
January 8 - In his first State of the Union Address, U.S. President Lyndon Johnson declares a "War on Poverty".
January 9 -Martyr's Day: Armed clashes between United States troops and Panamanian civilians in the Panama Canal Zone precipitate a major international crisis, resulting in the deaths of 21 Panamanians and 4 U.S. soldiers.

January 8: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson's War on Poverty

January 11 - United States Surgeon General Luther Leonidas Terry reports that smoking may be hazardous to one's health (the first such statement from the U.S. government).
January 12 - The predominantly Arab government of Zanzibar is overthrown by African nationalist rebels; a U.S. destroyer evacuates 61 U.S. citizens.
January 12 - Routine U.S. naval patrols of the South China Sea begin.
January 13 - In Manchester, NH 14-year-old Pamela Mason is murdered. Edward Coolidge is tried and convicted of the crime, but the conviction is set aside by the landmark 4th Amendment Case "Coolidge vs. New Hamphire (1971)."
January 16 - Hello, Dolly! opens in New York City's St. James Theatre.
January 16 - John Glenn, the first American to orbit the earth, resigns from the space program
January 17 - John Glenn announces that he will seek the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senator from Ohio.
January 18 - Plans to build the New York World Trade Center are announced.
January 20 - Meet the Beatles!, the first Beatles album in the United States, is released.
January 22 - Kenneth Kaunda is inaugurated as the first President of Northern Rhodesia.
January 22 - Marc Blitzstein dies in Martinique, where he has gone to work on an opera commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera, Sacco and Vanzetti, which is left incomplete.
January 23 - Thirteen years after its proposal and nearly 2 years after its passage by the United States Senate, the 24th Amendment to the United States Constitution, prohibiting the use of poll taxes in national elections, is ratified.
January 23 - Arthur Miller's After the Fall opens on Broadway. A semi-autobiographical work, it arouses controversy over his portrayal of late ex-wife Marilyn Monroe.
January 27 - France and the People's Republic of China announce their decision to establish diplomatic relations.
January 27 - U.S. Senator Margaret Chase Smith (R-ME), 66, announces her candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination.
January 28 - A U.S. Air Force jet training plane that strays into East Germany, is shot down by Soviet fighters near Erfurt; all 3 crew men are killed.
January 29-February 9 - The 1964 Winter Olympics are held in Innsbruck, Austria.
January 29 - The Soviet Union launches 2 scientific satellites, Elektron I and II, from a single rocket.
January 29 - Ranger 6 is launched by NASA, on a mission to carry television cameras and crash-land on the Moon.
January 30 - General Nguyen Khanh leads a bloodless military coup d'état, replacing Duong Van Minh as Prime Minister of South Vietnam.

[ February

February 1 - The Beatles vault to the #1 spot on the U.S. singles charts for the first time, with "I Want to Hold Your Hand," forever changing the way popular music sounds, also starting the British Invasion in America.
February 3 - Protesting against alleged de-facto school racial segregation, Black, Yellow and Prince Edward Islander groups in New York City boycott public school.
February 4 - The Government of the United States authorized the Twenty-fourth Amendment outlawing the poll tax.
February 6 - Cuba cuts off the normal water supply to the United States Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, in reprisal for the U.S. seizure 4 days earlier of 4 Cuban fishing boats off the coast of Florida.
February 7 - A Jackson, Mississippi jury, trying Byron De La Beckwith for the murder of Medgar Evers in June 1963, reports that it can not reach a verdict, resulting in a mistrial.
February 7 - The Beatles arrive from England at New York City's JFK International Airport, receiving a tumultuous reception from a throng of screaming fans, marking the first occurrence of "Beatlemania" in the United States.
February 9 - The Beatles appear on The Ed Sullivan Show, marking their first live performance on American television. Seen by an estimated 73 million viewers, the appearance becomes the catalyst for the mid-1960s "British Invasion" of American popular music.
February 11 - Greeks & Turks begin fighting in Limassol, Cyprus.
February 11 - The Republic of China (Taiwan) drops diplomatic relations with France because of French recognition of the People's Republic of China.
February 17 - 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.
February 25 - Cassius Clay beats Sonny Liston in Miami Beach, Florida, and is crowned the heavyweight champion of the world.
February 26 - U.S. politician 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 Democratic Party Senate nomination.
February 27 - The government of Italy asks for help to keep the Leaning Tower of Pisa from toppling over.
February 29 - U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson announces that the United States has developed a jet airplane (the A-11), capable of sustained flight at more than 2,000 miles per hour and of altitudes of more than 70,000 feet.

[ March

March 4 - Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa is convicted by a Federal jury of tampering with a Federal jury in 1962.
March 6 - Constantine II becomes King of Greece, upon the death of his father King Paul .
March 8 - Malcolm X, suspended from the Nation of Islam, says in New York City that he is forming a black nationalist party.
March 9 - New York Times Co. v Sullivan (376 US 254 1964): The United States Supreme Court rules that under the First Amendment, speech criticizing political figures cannot be censored.
March 9 - The first Ford Mustang rolls off the assembly line at Ford Motor Company.
March 10 - Soviet military forces shoot down an unarmed reconnaissance bomber that had strayed into East Germany; the 3 U.S. flyers parachute to safety.
March 10 - Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., Ambassador to South Vietnam, wins the New Hampshire Republican primary.
March 12 - Malcolm X leaves the Nation of Islam.
March 13 - In a notorious incident, 38 of her neighbors in Queens, New York City fail to respond to the cries of Kitty Genovese, 28, as she is being stabbed to death.
March 14 - A Dallas, Texas jury finds Jack Ruby guilty of killing John F. Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald.
March 20 - The precursor of the European Space Agency, ESRO (European Space Research Organization) is established per an agreement signed on June 14, 1962.
March 21 - Non ho l'età by Gigliola Cinquetti (music by Nicola Salerno, text by Mario Panzeri) wins the Eurovision Song Contest 1964 for Italy.
March 26 - U.S. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara delivers an address that reiterates American determination to give South Vietnam increased military and economic aid, in its war against the Communist insurgency.
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, Alaska.
March 29 - Radio Caroline becomes England's first pirate radio station from a ship anchored just outside UK territorial waters.
March 30 - Merv Griffin's game show Jeopardy! debuts on NBC; Art Fleming is its first host.
March 31 - The military, backed by the USA, overthrow Brazilian President João Goulart in a coup, starting 21 years of dictatorship in Brazil.

[ April

April 2 - Mrs. Malcolm Peabody, 72, mother of Massachusetts Governor Endicott Peabody, is released on $450 bond after spending 2 days in a St. Augustine, Florida jail, for participating in an anti-segregation demonstration there.
April 4 - The Beatles hold the top 5 positions in the Billboard Top 40 singles in America, an unprecedented achievement. The top songs in America as listed on April 4, in order, are: Can't Buy Me Love, Twist and Shout, She Loves You, I Want to Hold Your Hand, and Please Please Me.
April 4 - Three high school friends in Hoboken, N.J., open the first BLIMPIE on Washington St.

April 8: Gemini 1 launched.

April 5 - Jigme Dorfi, Premier of the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, is shot dead by an unidentified assassin in Puncholing, near the Indian border.
April 7 - IBM announces the System/360.
April 8 - Four of 5 railroad operating unions strike against the Illinois Central Railroad without warning, to bring to a head the 5-year dispute over railroad work rules.
April 8 - Gemini 1 is launched on the first unmanned test of the 2-man spacecraft.
April 8 - From Russia With Love is shown in U.S. theaters.
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.
April 11 - The Brazilian Congress elects Field Marshal Humberto de Alencar Castello Branco as President of Brazil.
April 12 - In Detroit, Michigan, Malcolm X delivers a speech entitled "The Ballot or the Bullet."
April 13 - 36th Academy Awards ceremony
April 14 - A Delta rocket's third stage motor ignites prematurely in an assembly room at Cape Canaveral, killing 3.
April 16 - The Rolling Stones release their debut album, The Rolling Stones.
April 16 - Sentences totalling 307 years are 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.
April 17 - In the United States, the Ford Mustang is officially unveiled to the public.
April 17 - Shea Stadium opens in Flushing, New York.
April 19 - In Laos, the coalition government of Prince Souvanna Phouma is deposed by a right-wing military group, led by Brig. Gen. Kouprasith Abhay.
April 20 - U.S. President Lyndon Johnson in New York, and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev in Moscow, simultaneously announce plans to cut back production of materials for making nuclear weapons.
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.
April 20 - BBC2 starts broadcasting in the UK.
April 22 - British businessman Greville Wynne, imprisoned in Moscow since 1963 for alleged spying, is exchanged for Soviet spy Gordon Lonsdale.

April 22: 1964 New York World's Fair

April 22 - The 1964 New York World's Fair opens to celebrate 300th anniversary of New Amsterdam being taken over by British forces under the Duke of York (later King James II) and being renamed New York in 1664. The fair runs until Oct. 18, 1964 and reopens April 21, 1965, finally closing October 17, 1965. (Not sanctioned, due to being within 10 years of the Seattle fair in 1962, some countries declined, but many countries had pavilions with exotic crafts, art & food.)
April 25 - Thieves steal the head of the Little Mermaid statue in Copenhagen, Denmark (Henrik Bruun confesses in 1997).
April 26 - Tanganyika and Zanzibar merge to form Tanzania.

[ May

May 1 - At 4:00 a.m., John George Kemeny and Thomas Eugene Kurtz run the first program written in BASIC (Beginners' All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code), an easy to learn high level programming language which they have created. BASIC will eventually be included on many computers and even some games consoles.
May 2 - Senator Barry Goldwater receives more than 75% of the votes in the Texas Republican Presidential primary.
May 2 - Some 400-1,000 students march through Times Square, New York and another 700 in San Francisco, in the first major student demonstration against the Vietnam War. Smaller marches also occur in Boston, Seattle, and Madison, Wisconsin.
May 2 - Henry Hezekiah Dee and Charles Eddie Moore, hitchhiking in Meadville, Mississippi, are kidnapped and beaten by members of the Ku Klux Klan. Their badly decomposed bodies are found by chance two months later in July, during the search for three civil rights workers - Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner.
May 7 - Pacific Air Lines Flight 773 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.
May 7 - At a mail rockets demonstration by Gerhard Zucker on Hasselkopf Mountain near Braunlage (Lower Saxonia, Germany), 3 persons are killed by a rocket explosion.
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.
May 11 - Terence Conran opens the first Habitat store on London's Fulham Road.
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.
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.
May 23 - Pablo Picasso paints his fourth 'Head of a Bearded Man'.
May 24-May 25 - The crowd at a football match in Lima, Peru riots over a referee's decision in the Peru-Argentina game (319 dead, 500 injured).
May 26 - Nelson Rockefeller defeats Barry Goldwater in the Oregon Republican primary, slowing but not stalling Goldwater's drive toward thee nomination.
May 27 - Prime Minister JaSource: this wikipedia article, under GFDL.
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