October 1964 calendar

Events

• 01 Oct 1964 1st official broadcast of Trans World Radio on Bonaire
• 02 Oct 1964 The Kinks release their first album, ''The Kinks''.
• 03 Oct 1964 First Buffalo Wings are made at the Anchor Bar in Buffalo, New York.
• 04 Oct 1964 10th LPGA Championship won by Mary Mills
• 05 Oct 1964 KIXE TV channel 9 in Redding, CA (PBS) begins broadcasting
• 06 Oct 1964 Cambridge Circus opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 23 performances
• 07 Oct 1964 New York Yankees make 14th appearance in last 16 and 29th in 61st World Series.
• 08 Oct 1964 Ringo Starr takes and passes his driving test
• 10 Oct 1964 18th modern Olympic games opens in Tokyo
• 12 Oct 1964 1st time 3 people in space
• 13 Oct 1964 At Plesman airport, Curacao, 125.5 mm rainfalls
• 14 Oct 1964 Philips begins experimenting with color TV
• 15 Oct 1964 Dr Martin Luther King Jr awarded Nobel Peace Prize
• 16 Oct 1964 Brezhnev and Kosygin replace Khrushchev as head of Russia
• 17 Oct 1964 Yanks fire Manager Yogi Berra
• 18 Oct 1964 Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Mickey Wright Golf Invitational
• 20 Oct 1964 Golden Boy opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 569 performances
• 21 Oct 1964 Abebe Bikila runs world / olympic record marathon
• 22 Oct 1964 EMI rejects audition by High Numbers, they go on to become The Who
• 23 Oct 1964 Time Magazine uses term op art for 1st time
• 24 Oct 1964 Cambridge Circus closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 23 performances
• 25 Oct 1964 Anton Geesink is 1st non-Japanese Olympic judo gold medal winner
• 26 Oct 1964 Rolling Stones appear on Ed Sullivan Show
• 27 Oct 1964 Ben Franklin in Paris opens at Lunt Fontanne NYC for 215 performances
• 28 Oct 1964 Vietnam War: U.S. officials deny any involvement in bombing North Vietnam.
• 29 Oct 1964 Town of Karmiel founded in Galilee
• 30 Oct 1964 Tran Van Huong appointed Premier of South Vietnam
• 31 Oct 1964 President Lyndon Johnson signs the Federal Food Stamp Act as Public Law 88-525.

Famous Birthday

• Clive Owen

  British actor.

• Cristina Cordula
• Marco van Basten

  Dutch soccer star (Ajax, AC Milan).

• Valérie Maurice
• Yasmin Le Bon

  British model.

• Nathalie Simon

  French TV host.

• Drazen Petrovic

  Croatian-American basketball star of the New Jersey Nets, a huge hero to the people of Croatia, his homeland, as well as to basketball fans...

• Guillermo Del Toro
• Agnès Jaoui

  French screenwriter, film director, and actress-singer, of Tunisian Jewish descent.

• Robert Trujillo

  Bassist.

• Frédéric Anton
• Mouss Diouf

  French-Senegalese actor and humorist.

• Petra Morzé
• Manuel Legris

  Frenchd dancer and choreographer, named "danseur étoile" by Rudolf Nureyev in 1986.

• Christopher Judge

  American actor and producer.

• Serge Ayoub
• Louis Hamlin

  American homicide; his story was told by Peter Meyer in "Death of Innocence.

• Lionel Abelanski
• Sarah Lancashire

  English actress and director.

• Camilla Henemark

  Swedish photographic model and later the talent manager of models.

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Famous Deaths

• Eddie Cantor

  American entertainer who, as a star of stage, radio, TV and movies, was a singer and comedian known for tears-and-laughter comedy and...

• Sammee Tong

  Actor (Bachelor Father, Mickey), dies at 63.

• Richard Scheibe

  German Sculptor (Adler mit Hakenkreuz), dies at 85.

• Eugen Varga

  Hungarian / Russian economist / politician, dies at 84.

• Charles Hodge

  NYU Professor (Answers for Americans), dies at 69.

• Frantisek Picha

  Composer, dies at 71.

• Russ Case

  Orchestra leader (Julius La Rosa Show), dies at 52.

• J Howard Frazer

  USTA pres, dies in office.

• Miles WL Killearn of Killearn

  Baron / diplomat (Egypt), dies at 84.

• Belle Montrose

  Actress (Mrs Harrison-Hathaways), dies at 78.

• Agnes Miegel

  Writer.

• Reginald Horace Blyth

  Zen teacher / scholar, dies in Japan at 66.

• Theodore C Freeman

  astronaut, dies at age 34 in a T-38 jet air crash.

• Toni Kinshofer

  German mountaineer (Born 1931).

• Willi Bredel

  German writer and president of the Akademie der Künste (Academy of Arts).

• Cole Porter

  American composer of popular music and many successful musical comedies, as well as music for the movies.

• Maurice Gosfield

  Actor (Doberman-Phil Silvers Show), dies at 51.

• Heinrich Neuhaus

  Ukrainian-Russian pianist and educator (d. 1964).

• Nettie Palmer

  Australian poet and essayist (Born 1885).

• Ernst Toch

  Austrian-American composer and songwriter (d. 1964).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Roy Orbison - Oh, Pretty Woman
2. Manfred Mann - Do Wah Diddy Diddy
3. The Supremes - Baby Love
4. Martha & the Vandellas - Dancing In The Street
5. The Newbeats - Bread And Butter

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. The Kinks - You Really Got Me
2. Roy Orbison - Oh Pretty Woman
3. The Honeycombs - Have I The Right?
4. Herman's Hermits - I'm Into Something Good
5. Sandie Shaw - (There's) Always Something There To Remind Me