January 1964 calendar

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 USAF 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.

Famous Birthday

• Michelle Obama

  American lawyer and noted spouse of Democratic Party nominee for President in 2008, Barack Obama.

• Jeff Bezos

  American entrepreneur.

• Nicolas Cage

  American actor and noted family, the son of August Coppola, a professor of comparative literature and dancer Joy Vogelsang.

• Mariska Hargitay

  American actress and noted family, one of three kids of actress Jayne Mansfield and her husband Mickey Hargitay, along with two...

• Bridget Fonda

  American actress and member of the famous theatrical Fonda family, the daughter of Peter and Susan Fonda, granddaughter of Henry and niece...

• Evelyne Thomas
• Penelope Ann Miller
• Jeff Hanneman

  Guitarist.

• Christian Louboutin

  French luxury footwear and fashion designer.

• Gérald Passi

  French international football player, midfielder, son of Senegalese Camille Passi.

• Roddy Frame

  Scottish singer, songwriter, guitarist and founder of the group, Aztec Camera, in 1981.

• Ricardo Arjona

  World Music Singer.

• Carole Merle

  French alpine skier, she was gold medalist in the giant slalom (World championships Morioka 1993).

• Martha MacCallum

  American journalist.

• Jamy Gourmaud
• Stojko Vrankovic

  Croatian-American basketball player: center, Clippers.

• Blanca Li

  Spanish dancer, choreographer, film director, and actress.

• Mark Addy

  British actor.

• Brady Anderson

  American baseball player, a left-handed outfielder who played for the Boston Red Sox (1988), Baltimore Orioles (1988–2001), and Cleveland...

• Jack Haley

  American basketball player: center, Nets.

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Famous Deaths

• Jack Teagarden

  American bandleader, trombonist and vocalist of blues and jazz.

• TH White

  British-Indian author who is best known for his multi-volume chronicles of King Arthur and his court, from "The Sword In The Stone," 1938 to...

• Marc Blitzstein

  Philadelphia, Pennsylvania -- Composer (Cradle Will Rock).

• A Marja

  Dutch Author (Man of Day & Night), dies at 46.

• Jan Rychlik

  Composer, dies at 47.

• Louis Horst

  Composer, dies at 80.

• Lieb Glantz

  Composer, dies at 65.

• Terence Hanbury White

  Novelist (England Have My Bones), dies at 57.

• Bechara El Khoury

  President of Lebanon (Born 1890).

• Cyril Davies

  English musician (Born 1932).

• Edgar Maass

  German/US author (Verdun), dies at age 67.

• Colin C McPhee

  composer (H2O, Mechanical Principles), dies at age 62.

• Arnoldus JC Krafft

  theologist (Atlas of Netherlands Antilles), dies at age 71.

• Halide Edib Adevar/Salih

  Turkish feminist (Handan), dies at about age 80.

• Weldon John "Jack" Teagarden

  US jazz trombonist/singer, dies at age 58.

• Berthold Altaner

  German church historian, dies at age 80.

• Alan Ladd

  American film producer and the former president of 20th Century Fox, where he was the unsung hero beyond "Star Wars," helping to usher in...

• Firmin Lambot

  Belgian cyclist (Born 1886).

• Julius Raab

  Austrian engineer and politician 19th Chancellor of Austria (d. 1964).

• Otto Emanuel Olsson

  Composer, dies at 84.

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Bobby Vinton - There! I've Said It Again
2. The Beatles - I Want To Hold Your Hand
3. The Kingsmen - Louie Louie
4. Lesley Gore - You Don't Own Me
5. The Singing Nun - Dominique

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. The Beatles - I Want To Hold Your Hand
2. Dave Clark Five - Glad All Over
3. The Beatles - She Loves You
4. The Swinging Blue Jeans - Hippy Hippy Shake
5. Dusty Springfield - I Only Want To Be With You