January 1964 calendar

January 1964
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Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened in January 1964.
The US president was Lyndon B. Johnson (Democrat), the UK Prime Minister was Sir Alec Douglas-Home (Conservative), Pope St Paul VI was leading the Catholic Church.

But much more happened on January 1964: find out below

Historical Events

Which were the important events of January 1964?

Events

01 Jan 1964 KTVS TV channel 3 in Sterling, CO (CBS) begins broadcasting
02 Jan 1964 Failed assassination attempt on President Nkrumah of Ghana.
03 Jan 1964 Jack Paar Show, shows a clip of the Beatles singing She Loves You
05 Jan 1964 San Diego Chargers win AFL-championship.
06 Jan 1964 Charlie Finlay announces he wants to move Kansas City Athletics to Louisville.
07 Jan 1964 Bahamas becomes self-governing
08 Jan 1964 European Parliament accepts Mansholt Plan.
09 Jan 1964 Anti-US rioting breaks out in the Panam� Canal Zone.
10 Jan 1964 Panama severs diplomatic relations with US
11 Jan 1964 Beatles I Want to Hold Your Hand is #80 in US
12 Jan 1964 Revolution overthrows Sultan of Zanzibar, one month after independence.
13 Jan 1964 Karol Wojtyla, the future Pope John Paul II, is appointed archbishop of Krakow, Poland.
14 Jan 1964 Bapu Nadkarni 32-27-5-0 versus England, 21 maiden overs in a row.
15 Jan 1964 Teamsters negotiate first national labor contract.
16 Jan 1964 Hello, Dolly! starring Carol Channing, opens at Saint James Theater in New York City, New York for 2,844 performances.
17 Jan 1964 John Glenn announces that he will seek the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senator from Ohio.
18 Jan 1964 Plans for the World Trade Center announced (New York City, New York, USA).
19 Jan 1964 KFME TV channel 13 in Fargo, ND (PBS) begins broadcasting
21 Jan 1964 Carl T Rowan named director of US Information Agency.
22 Jan 1964 Kenneth Kaunda becomes premier of North-Rhodesia (Zambia).
23 Jan 1964 24th Amendment ratified, barring poll tax in federal elections
24 Jan 1964 Martin Kresses final comic strip of Eric the Viking
25 Jan 1964 Echo 2 US communications satellite launched.
26 Jan 1964 The annual telecasts of ''The Wizard of Oz'' resume after being temporarily discontinued in 1963. The reason for the film's not being shown that year is not made public, but it is possible that it was because of the recent assassination of President John F. Kennedy. If the then-established pattern of Christmas-season showings of the film had continued in 1963, the movie would have had to be shown in early December, only two weeks after the President's death.
27 Jan 1964 Margaret Chase Smith (Senator-Republican-Maine) tries for US Republican Presidential bid.
28 Jan 1964 An unarmed United States Air Force T-39 Sabreliner on a training mission is shot down over Erfurt, East Germany, by a Soviet MiG-19.
29 Jan 1964 Beatles record in German Komm, Gib Mir Diene Hand andSie Leibt Dich
30 Jan 1964 Ranger 6 launched; makes perfect flight to Moon, but cameras fail.
31 Jan 1964 US report Smoking and Health connects smoking to lung cancer.
08 Jan 1964 President Lyndon B. Johnson declares a "War on Poverty" in the United States.