July 1964 calendar

Events

• 02 Jul 1964 Grand jury indicts Beckwith in murder of Medger Evers
• 03 Jul 1964 78th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Roy Emerson beats Stolle
• 04 Jul 1964 71st Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Maria Fraser beats M Court
• 06 Jul 1964 Malawi (formerly Nyasaland) declares independence from the UK
• 07 Jul 1964 35th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-4 at Shea Stadium, New York
• 08 Jul 1964 U.S. military personnel announce that U.S. casualties in Vietnam have risen to 1,387, including 399 dead and 17 MIA.
• 10 Jul 1964 Jesus Alou is 1st Giant in 40 years to get 6 hits in a game
• 14 Jul 1964 Jacques Anquetil wins his 5th Tour de France
• 15 Jul 1964 Barry M Goldwater (Sen-R-Az) nominated for President by Republicans
• 16 Jul 1964 Republicans convention selects Barry Goldwater as Presidential Candidate
• 17 Jul 1964 Don Campbell sets record for turbine vehicle, 690.91 km/h
• 18 Jul 1964 Race riot in Harlem, New York City; riots spread to Bedford-Stuyvesant (Brooklyn).
• 19 Jul 1964 46th PGA Championship: Bobby Nichols shoots a 271 at Columbus Country Club - Ohio
• 20 Jul 1964 Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 10th String quartet
• 21 Jul 1964 Arnold Long takes 11 catches in the match for Surrey vs. Sussex
• 22 Jul 1964 Steve Ballesteros wins the Britsh Golf Open.
• 23 Jul 1964 Egyptian munition ship Star of Alexandria explodes at dockside in Bone, Algeria. 100 die, 160 injured, $20 million damage
• 25 Jul 1964 Bob Simpson out for 311 at Old Trafford
• 26 Jul 1964 US union leader James Hoffa sentenced for fraud
• 27 Jul 1964 Vietnam War: 5,000 more American military advisers are sent to South Vietnam bringing the total number of United States forces in Vietnam to 21,000.
• 28 Jul 1964 Ranger 7 launched toward the Moon; sent back 4308 TV pictures
• 30 Jul 1964 US naval fire on Hon Ngu / Hon Mo, North Vietnam
• 31 Jul 1964 Al Parker glides 644 miles without any motor

Famous Birthday

• Sandra Bullock

  American actress and producer.

• Courtney Love

  American musician who reinvented herself several times, first as the vocalist and lead of her band "Hole," second as the wife of the...

• Chris Cornell

  American musician (Soundgarden, Audioslave).

• Wendy Williams

  TV Show Host.

• David Spade

  American actor and comedian, one of the hot new writer-performers who emerged from the television comedy series, "Saturday Night Live,"...

• Peyton Reed

  Director.

• Vivica A Fox

  American actress.

• Gianluca Vialli

  Italian football player and coach.

• Jürgen Klinsmann

  German footballer and manager.

• Elie Saab

  Lebanese fashion designer.

• John Leguizamo

  Colombian actor.

• Bernard Laporte

  French rugby player, a member of the French rugby team 1999.

• Lori Loughlin

  American actress.

• Kevin Levrone
• José Canseco
• Miguel Indurain

  Spanish cyclist.

• Bonnie Langford

  British actress who started as a bubbly, precocious child star from the age of six, making her debut in the talent show, "Opportunity...

• Barry Bonds

  American athlete, record-setting professional baseball player for the San Francisco Giants, son of another remarkable baseball player, Bobby...

• C C Catch
• Micke Spreitz
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Famous Deaths

• Jim Reeves

  American country western singer, known for his velvety smooth baritone.

• Maurice Thorez

  French politician and longtime leader of the French Communist Party (PCF) from 1930 until his death on 11 July 1964.

• Erwin F Finlay-Freundlich

  British astronomer.

• Lillian Copeland

  American discus thrower (Born 1904).

• Glenn "Fireball" Roberts

  biggest NASCAR money winner, dies in crash.

• Henry (Hank) Sylvern

  American radio personality (Born 1908).

• Carol Veazie

  Actress (Maude-Norby), dies at 69.

• Fireball Roberts

  American race car driver (Born 1929).

• Pierre Monteux

  French / US conductor (Concert Bldg Orch), dies at 89.

• Vean Gregg

  American baseball player (Born 1885).

• Francis Curzon

  5th Earl Howe English race car driver and politician (d. 1964).

• Claude V Ricketts

  United States naval admiral (Born 1906).

• Jan PML de Vries

  Dutch germanist / folklorist, dies at 74.

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. The Beach Boys - I Get Around
2. The 4 Seasons - Rag Doll
3. The Beatles - A Hard Day's Night
4. Millie Small - My Boy Lollipop
5. Johnny Rivers - Memphis

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Roy Orbison - It's Over
2. The Rolling Stones - It's All Over Now
3. Cilla Black - You're My World
4. The Animals - House Of The Rising Sun
5. Brian Poole & The Tremeloes - Someone, Someone