June 1964 calendar

Events

• 02 Jun 1964 Follies Bergere opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 191 performances
• 03 Jun 1964 Ringo Starr collapses from tonsillitis and pharyngitis
• 04 Jun 1964 Maldives adopts constitution
• 05 Jun 1964 DSV Alvin is commissioned.
• 06 Jun 1964 96th Belmont: Manuel Ycaza aboard Quadrangle wins in 2:28.6
• 07 Jun 1964 The Beatles travel the canals of Amsterdam.
• 09 Jun 1964 Jack Nicklaus wins British Open golf tournament
• 10 Jun 1964 Rolling Stones record their 12x5 album at Chess Studios in Chicago
• 11 Jun 1964 Chicago police break up Rolling Stones press conference
• 12 Jun 1964 Nelson Mandela is sentenced to life in prison in South Africa
• 13 Jun 1964 Basil Heatley runs world record marathon
• 14 Jun 1964 Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open
• 15 Jun 1964 Last French troops leave Algeria
• 16 Jun 1964 Amnesty granted to 3,000 political prisoners
• 18 Jun 1964 African Groundnut Council forms in Dakar
• 19 Jun 1964 Bob Dylan completes UK tour
• 20 Jun 1964 64th US Golf Open: Ken Venturi shoots a 278 at Congressional Country Club - Maryland
• 21 Jun 1964 3 civil rights workers-Michael H Schwerner Andrew Goodman and James E Chaney-disappeared after release from a Mississippi jail
• 23 Jun 1964 Gen Maxwell Taylor appointed US ambassador in South Vietnam
• 24 Jun 1964 FTC rules health warnings must appear on all cigarette packages
• 25 Jun 1964 Prince A Taylor becomes 1st black Methodist Bishop
• 26 Jun 1964 Blacks and Whites riot over racial segregation in St. Augustine
• 27 Jun 1964 New Phil Silvers Show, last airs on CBS-TV
• 28 Jun 1964 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Waldemar Golf Open
• 29 Jun 1964 US Civil Rights Act of 1964 passes after 83-day filibuster in Senate.
• 30 Jun 1964 Centaur 3 launch vehicle fails to make Earth orbit

Famous Birthday

• Jean-Luc Delarue

  French television producer and presenter, he began his television career as a copywriter.

• Courteney Cox

  American actress.

• Sabrina Ferilli

  Italian actress seen in films that are light and fun, such as "The Sky is Always Blue," and "August Holliday.

• Boris Johnson

  British Conservative Party politician, who has served as Mayor of London since 2008.

• Vincent Pérez

  Swiss actor and director.

• Dan Brown

  American author of the bestselling "Da Vinci Code" made into a movie starring Tom Hanks and Audrey Tatou.

• Zeng Jinlian
• Jean Alesi

  Italian-French race car driver.

• James Purefoy

  English actor.

• Joss Whedon

  American producer, director, and screenwriter.

• Kerry King

  American musician (Slayer).

• Doug Savant

  American actor; known primarily for playing one of the first openly gay TV characters on prime-time, the role of Matt Fielding in the...

• Amy Brenneman

  American actress best known for portraying strong, unpredictable women.

• David Morrissey

  British actor.

• Marie Sara
• Gloria Reuben

  Canadian-American actress singer and producer.

• Michael Gross

  German competitive swimmer who is 201 centimetres (6 ft 7 in) tall, and thus nicknamed "The Albatross" for his especially long arms that...

• Frédéric Seillier
• Linda Davidson

  Canadian-British actress, dancer, and businesswoman.

• Rick Riordan

  Young Adult Author.

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Famous Deaths

• Edgar Barrier

  New York, United States -- Actor (Cobra Woman, Macbeth, Rocky, Cornered).

• Rutkowski Bronislaw

  Composer, dies at 66.

• W Maxwell Aitken

  Lord Beaverbrook, English Minister of Info, dies at 85.

• Louis Gruenberg

  Composer, dies at 79.

• [Hei]ko E Arnoldi

  Actor / director (3 Drops of Water), dies at 81.

• Gerrit T Rietveld

  Dutch Architect (Sonsbeekpaviljoen), dies at 76.

• Daniel Lazarus

  Composer, dies at 65.

• Milenko Zivkovic

  Composer, dies at 63.

• Robert Warwick

  Actor (Konga, Zorro, Lady Godiva), dies at 85.

• King Calder

  Actor (Lt Grey-Martin Kane Private Eye), dies at 64.

• Havank [HF van der Kallen]

  Detective writer (Shade), dies at 60.

• Leo Dandurand

  American-born Canadian sports executive (Born 1889).

• Eric Dolphy

  American jazz musician, he played saxophone, clarinet and flute.

• Havank

  Dutch journalist and author (d. 1964).

• Max Aitken

  Lord Beaverbrook Canadian-English businessman and politician Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (d. 1964).

• James Chaney

  American civil rights activist (Born 1943).

• Gerrit Rietveld

  Dutch architect designed the Rietveld Schröder House (d. 1964).

• Samuil Marshak

  Russian author and poet (d. 1964).

• Michael Schwerner

  American civil rights activist (Born 1939).

• Andrew Goodman

  American civil rights activist (Born 1943).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. The Dixie Cups - Chapel Of Love
2. Peter and Gordon - A World Without Love
3. The Beatles - Love Me Do
4. The Beach Boys - I Get Around
5. Mary Wells - My Guy

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Cilla Black - You're My World
2. Roy Orbison - It's Over
3. Chuck Berry - No Particular Place To Go
4. Brian Poole & The Tremeloes - Someone, Someone
5. The Four Pennies - Juliet