December 1964 calendar

December 1964
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Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened in December 1964.
The US president was Lyndon B. Johnson (Democrat), the UK Prime Minister was Harold Wilson (Labour), Pope St Paul VI was leading the Catholic Church.

But much more happened on December 1964: find out below

Historical Events

Which were the important events of December 1964?

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
05 Dec 1964 Lloyd J. Old discovers the first linkage between the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) and disease—mouse leukemia—opening the way for the recognition of the importance of the MHC in the immune response.