1964

1964 opened with a series of riotsover the sovereignty of the Panama Canal zone, which ended with the involvement of the U.S. Army and was a significant factor in the United States’ decision to transfer control of the Canal to Panama in the 70’s.

Another important event in South America that year is the military coup against President João Goulart of Brazil, establishing a 21-year-long military dictatorship.

The United States are going through a rocky time against the backdrop of the Vietnam War. The first student demonstrations against the war occur concurrently in New York City and San Francisco on May 2nd. That same month, young men protest the war by burning their draft cards, the first such demonstration to occur.

President Lyndon Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964, officially abolishing racial segregation in the country, although tensions between racial groups remain.

In sports, the 1964 Winter Olympics were held in Austria and Cassius Clay, who became Muhammad Ali in March of 1964, wins the title of Heavyweight Champion of the World on February 25th.

In the arts, the British Invasion of the United States begins when the Beatles, having released their first U.S. single a few weeks before, perform on the Ed Sullivan show for about 73 million viewers. The Rolling Stones and the Kinks, two other famous British bands, released their first albums in April and October, respectively.

In movies, actor Sydney Poitier became the first African-American to win the Oscar for Best Actor for his leading role in Lilies in the Field. That same year, the movie version of My Fair Lady wins eight Oscars. Notable births in 1964 include American actress Courteney Cox of Friends fame, Italian actress Monica Bellucci, First Lady of the United States Michelle Obama and Prince Edward, Earl of Essex.

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Oscar Winners

All Academy Awards Prize winners of the 37th edition of the Oscar ceremony

Best picture

My Fair Lady

Best director

George Cukor

Best actor

Rex Harrison

Best actress

Julie Andrews

Best supporting actor

Peter Ustinov

Best supporting actress

Lila Kedrova

Time Person of the Year

Who was the person of the year of 1964?

Lyndon B. Johnson

Johnson was elected in his own right as President of the United States in 1964, before securing the passage of the Civil Rights Act, declaring a War on Poverty and escalating U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War.

Books

Which were the most popular books released in 1964 ?
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Nobel Prizes

All Nobel Prize winners of 1964

Peace Prize

Martin Luther King Jr.

Physics

Charles Hard Townes
Nikolay Basov
Alexander Prokhorov

Literature

Jean-Paul Sartre

Physiology or Medicine

Konrad Emil Bloch
Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen

Chemistry

Dorothy Hodgkin

Music charts

Which were the top hits of 1964?

Top #1 songs in the USA

Louis Armstrong - Hello, Dolly!
The Beatles - I Want To Hold Your Hand
The Beatles - She Loves You
The Supremes - Where Did Our Love Go
The Beach Boys - I Get Around
Manfred Mann - Do Wah Diddy Diddy
Roy Orbison - Oh, Pretty Woman
The Supremes - Baby Love
The Beatles - A Hard Day's Night
The Animals - The House Of The Rising Sun

Top #1 songs in the UK

The Honeycombs - Have I The Right?
Billy J Kramer & The Dakotas - Little Children
Roy Orbison - Oh Pretty Woman
The Swinging Blue Jeans - Hippy Hippy Shake
Jim Reeves - I Won't Forget You
Roy Orbison - It's Over
Cilla Black - Anyone Who Had A Heart
The Rolling Stones - It's All Over Now
Herman's Hermits - I'm Into Something Good
The Bachelors - I Believe

Movies

Which were the most popular Movies released in those months?
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Popular names

Which were the top popular names given to babies born in 1964 in the USA ?

Top #10 male names

Top #10 female names

World Population

Demographic statistics of the year 1964

Population statistics

Total population: 3.3 billion (3,273,978,338 to be precise!)
Urban population: 1.1 billion, that is 35.0% of the total population of 1964 lives in cities
Yearly change: +62.9 million, corresponding to a percentage increase of +1.96%
Average density: 22.0 persons per km²

Historical Events

Which were the important events of 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 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.
01 Feb 1964 Stop the World, I Want to... closes at Shubert NYC after 556 performances
02 Feb 1964 Red Faber, Burleigh Grimes, Tim Keefe, Heinie Manush, John Montgomery Ward, and Miller Huggins are selected to Hall of Fame.
03 Feb 1964 Black and Puerto Rican students boycott New York City public schools.
04 Feb 1964 Amendment 24 outlaws poll tax
05 Feb 1964 Kashmir Day On February 5, 1964, India backed out of its promise to hold plebiscite in disputed territory of Kashmir. Instead, in March 1965, the Indian Parliament passed a bill, declaring Kashmir a province of India. In 1948, India had taken the issue of Kashmir to the United Nations Security Council and offered to hold a plebiscite in the held Kashmir under UN supervision.
06 Feb 1964 Rugantino opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 28 performances
07 Feb 1964 Cassius Clay becomes a black Moslem
08 Feb 1964 Representative Martha Griffiths' address gets civil rights protection for women added to the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
09 Feb 1964 1st appearance of Beatles on Ed Sullivan Show
10 Feb 1964 Australian destroyer Voyager sinks in collision, killing 82
11 Feb 1964 Beatles 1st live appearance in US; Washington DC Coliseum
12 Feb 1964 Beatles 1st NYC concert
15 Feb 1964 Bill Bradley scores 51 points for Princeton.
16 Feb 1964 Foxy opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC for 72 performances
17 Feb 1964 US House of Reps accept Law on the civil rights
18 Feb 1964 Papandreou government takes power in Greece.
21 Feb 1964 UK flies 24,000 rolls of Beatle wallpaper to US
22 Feb 1964 Beatles arrive back in England after their 1st US visit
23 Feb 1964 hrysler's Second Generation HEMI racing engine (426 Cubic Inches with Hemispherical Head design) debuts at the Daytona 500. The HEMI powered Plymouth of Richard Petty (#43) wins. HEMI powered Plymouths finish 1-2-3.
24 Feb 1964 Cassius Clay defeated Sonny Liston for the heavyweight boxing title
25 Feb 1964 Austrian chancellor Alfons Gorbach resigns.
26 Feb 1964 U.S. politician John Glenn slips on a bathroom rug in his Columbus, Ohio apartment and hits his head on the bathtub, injuring his left inner ear, and prompting him (later that week) to withdraw from the race for the Democratic Party Senate nomination.
27 Feb 1964 What Makes Sammy Run? opens at 84th St. Theater NYC for 540 performances
29 Feb 1964 Rugantino closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 28 performances
01 Mar 1964 Villarrica Volcano begins a strombolian eruption causing lahars that destroy half of the town of Conaripe.
02 Mar 1964 Beatles begin filming Hard Days Night, Harrison meets Patti Boyd
04 Mar 1964 Jimmy Hoffa, President of the Teamsters, is convicted by a Federal jury of tampering with a Federal jury.
05 Mar 1964 Emergency crisis proclaimed in Ceylon due to social unrest.
06 Mar 1964 Elijah Muhammad renames Cassius Clay, Muhammad Ali
08 Mar 1964 Malcolm X leaves Black Muslim Movement
09 Mar 1964 1st Ford Mustang produced
10 Mar 1964 US reconnaissance plane shot down over East Germany.
12 Mar 1964 Jimmy Hoffa sentenced to 8 years
13 Mar 1964 Turkey threatens Cyprus with armed attack.
14 Mar 1964 Girl Who Came to Supper closes at Broadway NYC after 112 performances
15 Mar 1964 LBJ asks for a War on Poverty
16 Mar 1964 KCOY TV channel 12 in Santa Maria, CA (CBS) begins broadcasting
20 Mar 1964 ESRO established, European Space Research Organization
21 Mar 1964 UCLA completes undefeated NCAA basketball season (30-0).
22 Mar 1964 Barbra Streisand appears on the cover of New York Times Magazine section
23 Mar 1964 UNCTAD 1 world conference opens in Geneva, Switzerland.
24 Mar 1964 Kennedy half-dollar issued
25 Mar 1964 Britain sets memorial for the late President John F Kennedy
26 Mar 1964 Funny Girl with Barbra Streisand opens at Winter Garden Theater in New York City for 1,348 performances.
27 Mar 1964 1st true Pirate Radio station, Radio Caroline
28 Mar 1964 1st pirate radio station near England
30 Mar 1964 US Astronaut John Glenn withdraws from Ohio senate race.
31 Mar 1964 President Jango Goulart of Brazil chased out of office by military.
01 Apr 1964 John Lennon is reunited with his father Freddie after 17 years
02 Apr 1964 USSR launches Zond 1 to Venus; no data returned
03 Apr 1964 US and Panam� agree to resume diplomatic relations.
04 Apr 1964 Anyone Can Whistle opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 9 performances
06 Apr 1964 Egypt and Belgium restore diplomatic relations.
07 Apr 1964 IBM introduces the IBM System/360 mainframe computer.
08 Apr 1964 Unmanned Gemini 1 launched.
09 Apr 1964 The United Nations Security Council adopts by a 9–0 vote a resolution deploring a British air attack on a fort in Yemen 12 days earlier, in which 25 persons were reported killed.
10 Apr 1964 Demolition begins on Polo Grounds to clear way for housing project
11 Apr 1964 Anyone Can Whistle closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 9 performances
12 Apr 1964 28th Golf Masters Championship: Arnold Palmer wins, shooting a 276.
13 Apr 1964 36th Academy Awards - Tom Jones, Sidney Poitier, and Patricia Neal win.
14 Apr 1964 Sandy Koufax throws his 9th complete game without allowing a walk.
15 Apr 1964 Chesapeake Bay Bridge opens (Bridge-Tunnel measures 17.6 miles (28.4 km) and is considered the world's largest bridge-tunnel complex).
16 Apr 1964 Geraldine Mock of US is 1st woman to fly solo round the world
17 Apr 1964 Cafe Crown opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 3 performances
18 Apr 1964 Cafe Crown closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 3 performances
19 Apr 1964 Rightist coup in Laos, Suvanna Phuma remains premier.
20 Apr 1964 86 percent of black students boycott Cleveland, Ohio schools.
21 Apr 1964 Pirates and Cubs combine for 9 HRs, Pirates win 8-5
22 Apr 1964 Tanganyika andZanzibar form Republic Tanzania
23 Apr 1964 New York State Theater opens.
24 Apr 1964 Treasury Secretary C. Douglas Dillon removes all restrictions on ownership of gold certificates.
25 Apr 1964 Thieves steal the head of the Little Mermaid statue in Copenhagen, Denmark (Henrik Bruun confesses in 1997).
26 Apr 1964 Tanganyika andZanzibar form United Republic of Tanganyika andZanzibar
28 Apr 1964 Japan joins OECO.
29 Apr 1964 Princess Irene marries Spanish Prince Carel Hugo de Bourbon Parma.
01 May 1964 1st BASIC program runs on a computer
02 May 1964 90th Kentucky Derby: Bill Hartack aboard Northern Dancer wins in 2:00.
03 May 1964 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Clifford Ann Creed Golf Invitational.
04 May 1964 Another World andAs the World Turns premieres on TV
05 May 1964 Separatists riot in QuTbec, Canada.
07 May 1964 Pacific Air Lines Flight 773, a Fairchild F-27 airliner, crashes near San Ramon, California, killing all 44 aboard; the FBI later reports that a cockpit recorder tape indicates that the pilot and co-pilot had been shot by a suicidal passenger.
09 May 1964 Khrushchev visits Egypt
12 May 1964 Manlio Brosio chosen as secretary-general of NATO.
14 May 1964 Underground America Day is first observed.
15 May 1964 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
16 May 1964 Verne Gagne beats Mad Dog Vachon in Omaha, to become NWA champion.
17 May 1964 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Muskogee Civitan Golf Open Invitational.
18 May 1964 David Frost interviews Paul McCartney on BBC
19 May 1964 US diplomats find at least 40 secret microphones in the Moscow embassy.
20 May 1964 Buster Mathis defeats Joe Frazier to qualify for US Olympic team.
21 May 1964 First nuclear-powered lighthouse begins operations (Chesapeake Bay).
22 May 1964 LBJ presents Great Society
23 May 1964 Dale Greig runs female marathon world record (3:27:45).
24 May 1964 18th Tony Awards: Luther and Hello Dolly win.
25 May 1964 16th Emmy Awards: Dick Van Dyke Show, Dick Van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore
26 May 1964 Fade Out-Fade In opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 199 performances
27 May 1964 From Russia With Love premieres in US
28 May 1964 Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 9th String quartet
30 May 1964 Beyond the Fringe closes at John Golden Theater NYC after 673 performances
31 May 1964 Charles Schmid kills first Pied Piper victim
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
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
01 Aug 1964 ALM (Antillian Airlines) begins operation
02 Aug 1964 Dutch government gives Indonesia export guarantees
04 Aug 1964 North Vietnamese torpedos US ships Gulf of Tonkin
05 Aug 1964 Actress Anne Bancroft and comedian Mel Brooks wed
06 Aug 1964 Pope Paul VI publishes encyclical Ecclesiam Suam
07 Aug 1964 31st NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chicago 28, All-Stars 17
08 Aug 1964 110 in the Shade closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 330 performances
09 Aug 1964 1st Rolling Stones concert in the Netherlands
10 Aug 1964 WJSP TV channel 28 in Columbus, Georgia (PBS) begins broadcasting
11 Aug 1964 Race riot in Paterson, New Jersey, USA.
12 Aug 1964 Mickey Mantle switch-hits HR record 10th and final time in a game
13 Aug 1964 1st broadcast by Trans World Radio on Bonaire
14 Aug 1964 Bo Belinsky is suspended after attacking sportswriter Braven Dyer
15 Aug 1964 Mayor Daley declares Ernie Banks Day in Chicago
16 Aug 1964 Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Omaha Jaycee Golf Open Invitational
17 Aug 1964 Margaret Harshaw, Metropolitan Opera soprano, sings the role of Turandot in Puccini's opera ''Turandot'' at the New York World's Fair.
18 Aug 1964 Beatles arrive in SF, 2nd US visit
19 Aug 1964 Communication satellite Syncom 3 launched
20 Aug 1964 LBJ signs anti-poverty measure totaling nearly $1 billion
23 Aug 1964 Marilynn Smith wins Albuquerque Professional Amateur Golf Tournament
24 Aug 1964 27 – The Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City nominates incumbent President Lyndon B. Johnson for a full term, and U.S. Senator Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota as his running mate.
25 Aug 1964 Singapore limits imports from Netherlands due to Indonesian aggression
26 Aug 1964 Italians CP selects Luigi Longo as chairman
27 Aug 1964 Buena Vista premieres Disney's live-action and animated film Mary Poppins at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood, USA. The film is based on the Mary Poppins books by P.L. Travers.
28 Aug 1964 US weather satellite Nimbus 1 launched
29 Aug 1964 Funny Thing Happened closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 965 performances
30 Aug 1964 Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Riverside Ladies Golf Open
31 Aug 1964 Ground is broken for Anaheim Stadium, future home of Angels
01 Sep 1964 Masanori Murakami is 1st Japanese player in majors
02 Sep 1964 Indonesian paratroopers lands in Malaysia
03 Sep 1964 US attorney general Robert Kennedy resigns
04 Sep 1964 Eduardo Frei elected President of Chile
07 Sep 1964 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Valhalla Golf Open
09 Sep 1964 German DR government allows short visits to West Germany
10 Sep 1964 Palestinian Liberation Army (PLA) forms
11 Sep 1964 George Harrison forms Mornyork Ltd music publishing company
12 Sep 1964 Typhoon Gloria strikes Taiwan killing 330, causing $17.5 million damage.
13 Sep 1964 3rd sitting of 2nd Vatican council opens in Rome
14 Sep 1964 WCVE TV channel 23 in Richmond, VA (PBS) begins broadcasting
15 Sep 1964 Beatles play at Public Auditorium in Cleveland
16 Sep 1964 Shindig premieres on ABC-TV
17 Sep 1964 Bewitched premieres on ABC TV
18 Sep 1964 Greek King Constantine II marries Danish Princess Anne-Marie
20 Sep 1964 Paramount Theater (NYC) presented the Beatles with Steve and Eydie
21 Sep 1964 Reds Chico Ruiz steals home, beats Phillies 1-0. Phillies start a 10 game losing streak that gives Cards the pennant
22 Sep 1964 Fiddler on the Roof opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 3242 performances
23 Sep 1964 Fiddler on the Roof with Zero Mostel premieres in New York City
24 Sep 1964 Munsters premieres on TV
25 Sep 1964 Jens Otto Krag forms minority government in Denmark
26 Sep 1964 Braves (25) and Phillies (18) set record by using 43 players in 9 inn
27 Sep 1964 Despite 3 HRs by Johnny Callison, Phils are 14-8 losers to Braves
28 Sep 1964 53rd Davis Cup: Australia beats USA in Cleveland
29 Sep 1964 Greece and Bulgaria close boundaries
30 Sep 1964 Oh What a Lovely War opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 125 performances
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.
01 Nov 1964 Vietcong-assault on airport Bien Hoa at Saigon
02 Nov 1964 CBS purchases 80% of Yanks for $11,200,000, later buys remaining 20%
03 Nov 1964 LBJ (D) soundly defeats Barry Goldwater (R) for President
05 Nov 1964 US launches Mariner 3 toward Mars; no data returned.
06 Nov 1964 WEIQ TV channel 42 in Mobile, AL (PBS) begins broadcasting
08 Nov 1964 IMF grants Great Britain credit of $1 billion
09 Nov 1964 Comedy in Music-Opus 2 opens at John Golden NYC for 192 performances
10 Nov 1964 Braves sign a 25-year lease to play in the new Atlanta stadium
12 Nov 1964 Jean becomes Grand Duke of Luxembourg
13 Nov 1964 Pope Paul VI gives tiara to poor
14 Nov 1964 Fade Out-Fade In closes at Mark Hellinger NYC after 199 performances
15 Nov 1964 Ajax soccer star Johan Cruijff debuts against GVAV
16 Nov 1964 Radio CJCX Sydney Nova Scotia (Canada) starts shortwave transmission
17 Nov 1964 British Labour Party installs weapon embargo against South Africa
18 Nov 1964 Baltimore Oriole Brooks Robinson wins AL MVP
19 Nov 1964 The United States Department of Defense announces the closing of 95 military bases and facilities, including the Brooklyn Navy Yard, the Brooklyn Army Terminal, and Fort Jay, New York.
21 Nov 1964 Zizi opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 49 performances
22 Nov 1964 Lyndon Baines Johnson sworn in as 36th US President
23 Nov 1964 Bajour opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 232 performances
24 Nov 1964 30th Heisman Trophy Award: John Huarte, Notre Dame
27 Nov 1964 Cold War: Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru appeals to the United States and the Soviet Union to end nuclear testing and to start nuclear disarmament, stating that such an action would ''save humanity from the ultimate disaster''.
28 Nov 1964 52nd CFL Grey Cup: BC Lions defeats Hamilton Tiger-Cats, 34-24
29 Nov 1964 Roman Catholic Church in US replaces Latin with English.
30 Nov 1964 USSR launches Zond 2 towards Mars; no data returned
01 Dec 1964 Houston Colt .45s change name to Houston Astros.
03 Dec 1964 Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer 1st airs on TV
04 Dec 1964 Baseball approves a free-agent draft
06 Dec 1964 KTVR TV channel 13 in La Grande, OR (PBS) begins broadcasting
10 Dec 1964 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Dr Martin Luther King Jr.
11 Dec 1964 Sam Cooke, American singer ("You Send Me", "Sad Moon"), slain at a motel at age 33.
12 Dec 1964 Shooting starts for Star Trek pilot The Cage
13 Dec 1964 In El Paso, Texas, US President Lyndon Johnson and Mexican President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz set off an explosion diverting Rio Grande, to reshape US-MTxico border.
14 Dec 1964 Michael Brown meets Rene Fladen, then writes Walk Away Rene
15 Dec 1964 Canada adopts maple leaf flag
16 Dec 1964 US performs nuclear test in the Pacific Ocean.
18 Dec 1964 I Had a BaIl opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 199 performances
19 Dec 1964 The South Vietnamese military junta of Nguyen Khanh dissolved the High National Council and arrested some of the members.
20 Dec 1964 Levi Eshkol forms Israeli government.
21 Dec 1964 The James Bond film ''Goldfinger'' begins its run in U.S. theaters. It becomes one of the most successful and popular Bond films ever made.
22 Dec 1964 Lockheed SR-71 spy aircraft reaches 3,530 kph (record for a jet).
23 Dec 1964 India and Ceylon hit by cyclone, about 4,850 killed.
24 Dec 1964 Shooting begins on The Cage the pilot for Star Trek
25 Dec 1964 Goldfinger premieres in US
26 Dec 1964 Moors Murderers claim last victim
27 Dec 1964 Cleveland Browns beat Baltimore Colts 27-0 in NFL championship game.
28 Dec 1964 Principal filming of Dr Zhivago, begins
30 Dec 1964 United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) established as a permanent organ of the UN General Assembly.
31 Dec 1964 Indonesia proclaims expelled from the UN

1964

Your place in the Universe on 1964

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Oscar Winners

Best picture

My Fair Lady

My Fair Lady

Best director

George Cukor

My Fair Lady

Best actor

Rex Harrison

My Fair Lady

Best actress

Julie Andrews

Mary Poppins

Best supporting actor

Peter Ustinov

Topkapi

Best supporting actress

Lila Kedrova

Zorba the Greek

Time Person of the Year

Books

A Day In The Life Of President Kennedy

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

Profiles In Courage

The Naked Society

The Wapshot Scandal

Have a look at the old UK newspapers from 1964 and get them!

Do you remember those beautiful old magazines?

Nobel Prizes

Peace Prize

Physics

Literature

Physiology or Medicine

Chemistry

Music charts

Top #1 songs in the USA

Top #1 songs in the UK

Movies

Woman in the Dunes

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

Hamlet

Dosti

Nothing But a Man

1964 Chinese Zodiac and Horoscope

Popular names

Top #10 male names

Top #10 female names

World Population

Population statistics

Historical Events

Events