December 1964 calendar

Events

• 01 Dec 1964 Houston Colt .45s change name to Houston Astros.
• 03 Dec 1964 Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer 1st airs on TV
• 04 Dec 1964 Baseball approves a free-agent draft
• 06 Dec 1964 KTVR TV channel 13 in La Grande, OR (PBS) begins broadcasting
• 10 Dec 1964 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Dr Martin Luther King Jr.
• 11 Dec 1964 Sam Cooke, American singer ("You Send Me", "Sad Moon"), slain at a motel at age 33.
• 12 Dec 1964 Shooting starts for Star Trek pilot The Cage
• 13 Dec 1964 In El Paso, Texas, US President Lyndon Johnson and Mexican President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz set off an explosion diverting Rio Grande, to reshape US-MTxico border.
• 14 Dec 1964 Michael Brown meets Rene Fladen, then writes Walk Away Rene
• 15 Dec 1964 Canada adopts maple leaf flag
• 16 Dec 1964 US performs nuclear test in the Pacific Ocean.
• 18 Dec 1964 I Had a BaIl opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 199 performances
• 19 Dec 1964 The South Vietnamese military junta of Nguyen Khanh dissolved the High National Council and arrested some of the members.
• 20 Dec 1964 Levi Eshkol forms Israeli government.
• 21 Dec 1964 The James Bond film ''Goldfinger'' begins its run in U.S. theaters. It becomes one of the most successful and popular Bond films ever made.
• 22 Dec 1964 Lockheed SR-71 spy aircraft reaches 3,530 kph (record for a jet).
• 23 Dec 1964 India and Ceylon hit by cyclone, about 4,850 killed.
• 24 Dec 1964 Shooting begins on The Cage the pilot for Star Trek
• 25 Dec 1964 Goldfinger premieres in US
• 26 Dec 1964 Moors Murderers claim last victim
• 27 Dec 1964 Cleveland Browns beat Baltimore Colts 27-0 in NFL championship game.
• 28 Dec 1964 Principal filming of Dr Zhivago, begins
• 30 Dec 1964 United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) established as a permanent organ of the UN General Assembly.
• 31 Dec 1964 Indonesia proclaims expelled from the UN

Famous Birthday

• Eddie Vedder

  American musician (Pearl Jam).

• Béatrice Dalle

  French actress and model.

• Teri Hatcher

  American actress most notable for her roles as Lois Lane in the TV version of "Superman" and for her role in the hit series "Desperate...

• Marisa Tomei

  Movie Actress.

• David Pujadas

  French television presenter and journalist, an anchorman on France 2's weeknight newscast, Le Journal de 20 Heures, at 20:00 CET in...

• Roberta Close

  Brazilian transvestite since he was 13, when he first followed his natural gender inclinations toward being female.

• 1988 Spitak earthquake
• Steve Austin (Stone Cold)
• Valérie Payet

  French TV and radio presenter, and occasionally singer.

• Bobby Flay

  American celebrity chef and restaurateur.

• Christophe Miossec

  French singer and songwriter who has released nine albums as of 2014.

• Robson Green

  British actor, consummately skilled in his craft and a current English sensation and heart-throb.

• Michel Courtemanche

  French Canadian comedian.

• Rebecca Gibney

  New Zealand-Australian actress and producer.

• Chelsea Noble

  American actress.

• Mark Valley

  American actor.

• Arvydas Sabonis

  Lithuanian basketball player.

• Yves Camdeborde

  French chef, specializing in bistro cuisine.

• Noémie Lvovsky
• Frédéric Deban
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Famous Deaths

• Sam Cooke

  American performer with incredible singing talent, whose mixture of pop and gospel laid the foundations for the rise of modern soul music.

• Sam Cooke

  American performer with incredible singing talent, whose mixture of pop and gospel laid the foundations for the rise of modern soul music.

• William Bendix

  actor (Life of Riley), dies in Los Angeles, California at age 58.

• Arrigo Pedrollo

  Composer, dies at 86.

• Cheerio Meredith

  Actress (One Happy Family), dies at 74.

• Bernard von Brentano

  German writer (Big Cats), dies at 63.

• Miroslav Krejci

  Composer, dies at 73.

• Remy Angenot

  Flemish actor (Tailor Wibbel), dies at 70.

• J B S Haldane

  Scottish geneticist (Born 1892).

• Dame Edith Sitwell

  English poet and critic (Born 1887).

• Consuelo Vanderbilt

  American socialite (Born 1877).

• Victor Franz Hess

  Austrian-born American physicist, Nobel laureate (Born 1883).

• Olafur Thors

  Prime Minister of Iceland (Born 1892).

• Carl Van Vechten

  American writer and photographer (Born 1880).

• Bobby Byrne

  American baseball and soccer player (d. 1964).

• Ernst Ginsberg

  Writer.

• Percy Kilbride

  Actor (Ma & Pa Kettle), dies at 76.

• Edith L Sitwell

  English Poet / Author (Wheels), dies at 77.

• Bonifacio Gil Garcia

  Composer, dies at 66.

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Lorne Greene - Ringo
2. Bobby Vinton - Mr. Lonely
3. The Supremes - Come See About Me
4. The Beatles - I Feel Fine
5. The Zombies - She's Not There

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. The Supremes - Baby Love
2. The Beatles - I Feel Fine
3. Georgie Fame - Yeh Yeh
4. Roy Orbison - Oh Pretty Woman
5. Petula Clark - Downtown