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World's timeline 1964
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1964 Jan 1, Fatah, the Palestinian guerrilla group founded by Yasser Arafat, made its 1st armed attack against Israel. The annual celebration of this day came to be known as Fatah Day.
(SFC, 1/2/01, p.A8)
1964 Jan 3, Barry Goldwater announced that he was a candidate for the U.S. Presidency. Later that year he lost ... big time! Lyndon B. Johnson: 43,126,506; Goldwater: 27,176,799.
(440 Int'l. 1/3/99)
1964 Jan 7, Nicolas Cage, [Coppola], actor (Moonstruck, Racing with the Moon), was born.
(MC, 1/7/02)
1964 Jan 8, President Johnson declared a "War on Poverty" in his State of the Union address.
(AP, 1/8/08)
1964 Jan 9, Anti-U.S. rioting broke out in the Panama Canal Zone, resulting in the deaths of 21 Panamanians and three U.S. soldiers. U.S. forces killed six Panamanian students protesting in the canal zone. Violent clashes between Panamanians and American soldiers, which resulted in the deaths of 21 Panamanians and four American soldiers, began when U.S. students’ attempted to raise the American flag at the Canal Zone high school. An order banning the flying of any flags in front of Canal Zone schools had been issued on December 30, 1963, because of Panamanian sensitivity to U.S. control of the Zone. These events led to attempts to renegotiate the Canal Zone’s status.
(HN, 1/9/98)(AP, 1/9/99)(HNQ, 6/10/99)
1964 Jan 10, Pres. Johnson held a meeting with Sec. of Defense Robert McNamara after which he approved covert operations against North Vietnam [see Jan 16].
(SFEC, 8/17/97, BR p.9)
1964 Jan 10, Panama broke ties with the U.S. and demanded a revision of the canal treaty.
(HN, 1/10/99)
1964 Jan 10, Battles took place between Muslims & Hindus in Calcutta.
(MC, 1/10/02)
1964 Jan 11, Some of Pablo Picasso works that have never been seen before went on exhibit in Toronto.
(HN, 1/11/99)
1964 Jan 11, U.S. Surgeon General Luther Terry issued the first major government report saying smoking may be hazardous to one's health. The US surgeon-general announced that smoking contributes substantially to mortality.
(TMC, 1994, p.1964)(WSJ, 4/12/96, p.A-12)(AP, 1/11/98)(WSJ, 1/27/04, p.A1)
1964 Jan 12, Leftist rebels in Zanzibar, soon joined with Tanganyika to form Tanzania, began their successful revolt against the government. The socialist uprising unseated Sultan Jamshid and was fatal to thousands of Indian and Arabian gentry.
(AP, 1/12/98)(SSFC, 6/9/02, p.C12)
1964 Jan 16, The musical "Hello, Dolly!," starring Carol Channing, opened on Broadway at the St. James Theater, beginning a run of 2,844 performances.
(AP, 1/16/98)
1964 Jan 16, Pres. Johnson approved OPLAN 34A-64, calling for stepped up infiltration and covert operations against North Vietnam to be transferred from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to the military."
(http://millercenter.org/academic/americanpresident/lbjohnson)
1964 Jan 17, The PLO charter was put together with articles that proclaimed Israel an illegal state and pledged "the elimination of Zionism in Palestine." The PLO was founded in Egypt. Fatah became the core group of the PLO.
(SFC, 12/11/98, p.A18)(SFC, 4/30/02, p.A8)(SFC, 11/11/04, p.18)
1964 Jan 18, Beatles 1st appeared on Billboard Chart at #35 for "I Want to Hold Your Hand."
(MC, 1/18/02)
1964 Jan 18, Plans were disclosed for the World Trade Center in NYC. It was commissioned in 1962 to Minoru Yamasaki.
(HN, 1/18/99)(WSJ, 12/2/03, p.D10)
1964 Jan 21, Carl T. Rowan was named the director of the United States Information Agency (USIA).
(HN, 1/21/99)
1964 Jan 22, World's largest cheese (15,723 kg) was manufactured in Wisconsin.
(MC, 1/22/02)
1964 Jan 23, Arthur Miller's "After the Fall," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 1/23/02)
1964 Jan 23, The 24th amendment to the Constitution, eliminating the poll tax in federal elections, was ratified.
(AP, 1/23/98)
1964 Jan 25, Beatles 1st US #1, "I Want to Hold your Hand."
(MC, 1/25/02)
1964 Jan 26, Eighty-four people were arrested in a segregation protest in Atlanta.
(HN, 1/26/99)
1964 Jan 28, The Soviets downed a U.S. jet over East Germany killing three.
(HN, 1/28/99)
1964 Jan 30, The United States launched Ranger 6 from Cape Canaveral. It was an unmanned spacecraft carrying six television cameras that was to crash-land on the moon.
(AP, 1/30/98)(HN, 1/30/99)
1964 Jan 31, A US report, "Smoking & Health," connected smoking to lung cancer.
(MC, 1/31/02)
1964 Jan, The Beatles made their North America TV debut on the Jack Paar Show. [see Feb 9, 1964]
(SFC, 1/28/04, p.A1)
1964 Jan, Bob Dylan released his 3rd album "The Times They Are A-Changing." In 1996 he sold rights to the Bank of Montreal for its marketing campaign.
(SFC, 10/18/96, C12)(SFEC, 9/28/97, p.A3)
1964 Jan, A huge storm hit California. [This scenario was repeated in 1997 when a Jan. storm in California was followed by heavy flooding in the Ohio Valley in March]
(SFC, 1/10/97, p.A21)
1964 Feb 1, Top hits included: Anyone Who Had a Heart: Dionne Warwick; Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um: Major Lance; Stop and Think It Over: Dale and Grace.
(440 Int'l, 2/1/1999)
1964 Feb 1, Indiana Governor Mathew Walsh tried to ban "Louie Louie" for obscenity.
(MC, 2/1/02)
1964 Feb 1, President Lyndon B. Johnson rejected Charles de Gaulle's plan for a neutral Vietnam.
(HN, 2/1/99)
1964 Feb 2, The G.I. Joe action figure debuted as a popular American toy.
(MC, 2/2/02)(SFC, 7/10/04, p.F11)
1964 Feb 3, "Meet the Beatles" album went Gold.
(MC, 2/3/02)
1964 Feb 6, Cuba blocked the water supply to Guantanamo Naval Base in rebuke of the United State's seizure of four Cuban fishing boats and fines on Cuban fishermen near Florida. The US imposed water rationing and built desalination plants in response.
(HN, 2/6/99)(SSFC, 1/20/02, p.A7)
1964 Feb 6, Paris and London agreed to build a rail tunnel under the English Channel.
(HN, 2/6/99)
1964 Feb 6, The WSJ reported that a group at Wayne State Univ. had begun a movement to "stamp out the Beatles." The group was actually from the Univ. of Detroit.
(WSJ, 2/5/99, p.B1)
1964 Feb 7, The British band The Beatles began their first American tour as they arrived at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport, where they were greeted by 25,000 screaming fans.
(SFEM, 3/9/96, p.35)(AP, 2/7/97)(HN, 2/7/99)
1964 Feb 7, Baskin-Robbins introduced Beatle Nut ice cream.
(MC, 2/7/02)
1964 Feb 8, Peter Shaffer's "Royal Hunt of the Sun," premiered in London.
(MC, 2/8/02)
1964 Feb 9, The Beatles made their first live American television appearance on "The Ed Sullivan Show." [see Jan, 1964]
(AP, 2/9/99)
1964 Feb 9, The U.S. embassy in Moscow was stoned by Chinese and Vietnamese students.
(HN, 2/9/97)
1964 Feb 9, In Britain Maria Callas sang in a live production of Puccini's Tosca produced at Covent Garden by Franco Zeffirelli. It was later made available on video.
(SFEC, 5/23/99, DB p.58)
1964 Feb 11, Sarah Palin, later governor of Alaska, was born in Sandpoint, Idaho. After 3 months her family moved to Alaska. In 2008 Sen. John McCain named her as his vice-presidential running mate.
(SFC, 8/30/08, p.A6)
1964 Feb 11, The Beatles 1st live appearance in US was in the Washington, DC Coliseum. It was filmed by CBS.
(SFC, 3/6/04, p.D17)
1964 Feb 11, Cambodian Prince Sihanouk blamed the U.S. for a South Vietnamese air raid on a village in his country.
(HN, 2/11/97)
1964 Feb 12, The Beatles played 2 shows at Carnegie Hall.
(SFC, 3/6/04, p.D17)
1964 Feb 15, Beatles' "Meet the Beatles!," album went #1 & stayed #1 for 11 weeks.
(440 Int’l., 2/15/99)
1964 Feb 15, Bill Bradley scored 51 points for Princeton.
(440 Int’l., 2/15/99)
1964 Feb 15, Goethe Link Observatory discovered asteroid #2417 McVittie & #3717.
(440 Int’l., 2/15/99)
1964 Feb 16, The Beatles made their 2nd appearance on the "Ed Sullivan Show" from the Deauville Hotel in Miami.
(SFC, 3/6/04, p.D17)
1964 Feb 17, The Supreme Court ruled in Westberry vs. Sanders that congressional districts within each state had to be roughly equal in population.
(AP, 2/17/98)
1964 Feb 18, Muriel Resnik's "Any Wednesday," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 2/18/02)
1964 Feb 18, The Beatles visited Cassius Clay in training for his match with heavyweight champion Sonny Liston.
(SFC, 3/6/04, p.D17)
1964 Feb 18, The U.S. cut military aid to five nations in reprisal for having trade relations with Cuba.
(HN, 2/18/98)
1964 Feb 23, The Beatles' 3rd TV appearance on the Ed Sullivan show, taped in NYC 2 weeks earlier, aired.
(SFC, 3/6/04, p.D17)
1964 Feb 23, The U.S. and Britain recognized the new Zanzibar government.
(HN, 2/23/98)
1964 Feb 25, Cassius Clay (later Muhammad Ali) became world heavyweight boxing champion by defeating Sonny Liston in Miami Beach.
(AP, 2/25/04)
1964 Feb 26, Lyndon B. Johnson signed a tax bill with $11.5 billion in cuts. It was initially proposed by Pres. Kennedy in Dec, 1962. It slashed the top marginal income tax rate to 70% in 1965 from 91% in 1963.
(WSJ, 5/30/96, p.A14)(HN, 2/26/98)(WSJ, 12/12/03, p.W15)
1964 Feb 27, "What Makes Sammy Run?" opened at 84th St Theater in NYC for 540 performances.
(MC, 2/27/02)
1964 Feb 29, President Lyndon B. Johnson revealed that the U.S. secretly developed the Lockheed A-11 jet fighter.
(HN, 2/29/00)
1964 Feb, Yuri Nosenko (1927-2008), Soviet KGB officer, defected under CIA guidance in Geneva. He had begun passing information in June, 1962. He was incarcerated for his first 3 years in the US and settled there under a new name in 1969.
(Econ, 9/6/08, p.101)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Nosenko)
1964 Mar 2, Beatles began filming "A Hard Day's Night."
(SC, 3/2/02)
1964 Mar 4, Jimmy Hoffa was convicted of jury tampering.
(SC, 3/4/02)
1964 Mar 8, Malcolm X left the Black Muslim Movement. [see Mar 12]
(MC, 3/8/02)
1964 Mar 9, The US Supreme Court, in its New York Times v. Sullivan decision, ruled that public officials who charged libel could not recover damages for defamatory statements related to their official duties unless they proved actual malice on the part of the news organization.
(AP, 3/9/04)
1964 Mar 9, A group of 5 Lakota (Sioux) Native Americans occupied Alcatraz Island in a peaceful protest. They declared that it should be a Native American cultural center and university.
(SFC, 5/19/96,City Guide, p.7)(G, Summer ‘97, p.4)
1964 Mar 9, The first Ford Mustang rolled off the Ford assembly line.
(HN, 3/9/98)
1964 Mar 12, Malcolm X resigned from Nation of Islam. [see Mar 8]
(MC, 3/12/02)
1964 Mar 13, In a notorious case, 38 residents of a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens failed to respond to the cries of Kitty Genovese, 28, as she was being stabbed to death.
(AP, 3/13/97)
1964 Mar 14, A jury in Dallas found Jack Ruby guilty of murdering Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin of President Kennedy, the previous November.
(AP, 3/14/97)
1964 Mar 15, Actress Elizabeth Taylor married actor Richard Burton in Montreal; it was her fifth marriage, his second.
(AP, 3/15/97)
1964 Mar 15, LBJ asked for a War on Poverty and for Congress to ensure everybody's right to vote. [see Mar 16]
(MC, 3/15/02)
1964 Mar 15, Cambodia was receiving military aid from Communist China.
(HN, 3/15/98)
1964 Mar 16, LBJ submitted a $1billion war on poverty program to Congress. [see Mar 15]
(HN, 3/16/98)
1964 Mar 20, Brendan Behan (41), Irish writer, poet, died.
(MC, 3/20/02)
1964 Mar 21, Beatles' "She Loves You," single went #1 and stayed #1 for 2 weeks.
(MC, 3/21/02)
1964 Mar 23, The UNCTAD 1 world conference opened in Geneva.
(SS, 3/23/02)
1964 Mar 23, Peter Lorre (59), actor (Casino Royale), died.
(SS, 3/23/02)
1964 Mar 24, Kennedy half-dollar was issued.
(MC, 3/24/02)
1964 Mar 25, Egypt ended a state of siege (1952-64).
(MC, 3/25/02)
1964 Mar 26, The Broadway hit musical "Funny Girl" premiered with Barbara Streisand as singer Fanny Brice. Jule Styne and Bob Merrill produced the show, which ran at Winter Garden Theater in NYC for 1,348 performances
(AP, 3/26/97)(SS, 3/26/02)(SSFC, 1/18/04, p.A1)
1964 Mar 26, Pres. Johnson signed a document that accepted "pre-delegation authority." It authorized senior military commanders to use nuclear weapons if the US was attacked by nuclear weapons and the president could not be reached. It continued a policy begun by Eisenhower in 1957.
(SFC, 3/21/98, p.A2)
1964 Mar 27, Great Train Robbers were sentenced to a total of 307 years behind bars.
(MC, 3/27/02)
1964 Mar 27-1964 Mar 28, Good Friday, Valdez, Alaska, in Prince William Sound was rocked by an 8.6 [8.4] earthquake, the largest ever recorded in North America. In 1977 seismologists pegged the quake at 9.2. It lasted 4 minutes and was followed by tsunamis and fires and 131 people were killed. Survivors moved 4 miles west to solid bedrock and rebuilt the town. Much of Crescent City, Ca., was demolished by a resulting tsunami.
(AP, 3/27/97)(SFEC, 2/8/98, p.T5)(SFEC, 4/5/98, Z1 p.8)(SFEC, 10/17/99, p.A3)(SFC, 11/26/99, p.C21)(WSJ, 9/13/01, p.B11)(SFC, 2/15/02, p.G8)
1964 Mar 27, In a cable to the US State Department Lincoln Gordon, US ambassador to Brazil, requested a naval task force and deliveries of fuel and arms to the coup plotters "to help avert a major disaster here." US documents declassified in 2004 showed the extent of American willingness to provide aid to Brazil's generals during a coup that ushered in 21 years of often bloody military rule.
(AP, 4/3/04)
1964 Mar 28, First pirate radio station began to broadcast off the coast of England. Radio Caroline debuted with a combination of rock music and lively disk jockey who's patter played to a huge audience in Great Britain. British authorities, tried unsuccessfully, to shut down the radio station ship. Radio Caroline had become competition to the staid and usually dull British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). [see Dec 23]
(MC, 3/28/02)
1964 Mar 29, The U.S. planned to add $50 million a year for aid to South Vietnam.
(HN, 3/29/98)
1964 Mar 30, Tracy Chapman, US singer, songwriter (Freedom Now, I Got a Fast Car), was born.
(MC, 3/30/02)
1964 Mar 30 John Glenn withdrew from the Ohio race for U.S. Senate because of injuries suffered in a fall.
(AP, 3/30/97)
1964 Mar 30, The original version of the TV game show "Jeopardy!" premiered on NBC. Merv Griffin (1925-2007) created the TV game show “Jeopardy.” He sold the rights for the show to Coca-Cola for $250 million in 1986. The show was hosted by Art Fleming until 1975. It resurfaced in syndication in 1984 with Alex Trebek as host.
(SFC, 8/13/07, p.A1)(WSJ, 8/15/07, p.D12)(AP, 3/30/08)
1964 Mar 31, In Brazil a coup was put in motion and was over by April 4, when Pres. Goulart fled to exile in Uruguay. The entire episode was bloodless.
(AP, 4/3/04)
1964 Mar, George E. Reedy (d.1999) replaced Pierre Salinger as press secretary to Pres. Johnson. Reedy published a memoir on Johnson in 1982.
(SFC, 3/22/99, p.22)
1964 Spring, Heavy flooding hit along the valley of the Ohio River.
(IS, 3/6/97, p.A12)
1964 Apr 2, A military coup in Brazil by Gen. Humberto Castello Branco ousted Pres. Joao Goulart and altered the traditional power structure. Gen'l. Golbery do Couto e Silva was a leader in the coup. Business interests led by Jorge Oscar de Mello Flores (d.2000 at 88) supported the military coup.
(WSJ, 12/4/95, p.A-9)(WSJ, 7/7/99, p.A17)(SFC, 8/3/00, p.D2)(MC, 4/2/02)
1964 Apr 5, Army Gen. Douglas MacArthur (b.1880) died in Washington, D.C. In 1978 William Manchester authored: "American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur." In 2006 Robert Harvey authored “American Shogun: A Tale of Two Cultures,” which includes a biography of Japan’s Emp. Hirohito in parallel with MacArthur.
(AP, 4/5/97)(BS, 5/3/98, p.13E)(WSJ, 8/3/06, p.D5)
1964 Apr 5, 1st driverless trains ran on the London Underground.
(MC, 4/5/02)
1964 Apr 7, IBM introduced its innovative System/360, the company's first line of compatible mainframe computers that gave customers the option of upgrading from lower-cost models to more powerful, expensive ones.
(AP, 4/7/04)
1964 Apr 11, The Bangladesh Observer (East Pakistan) reported that as many as 500 people may have died as a tornado destroyed villages in the Narail and Magura regions of Jessore.
(www.tornadoproject.com/alltorns/bangladesh.htm)
1964 Apr 13, Sidney Poitier became the first black performer in a leading role to win an Academy Award Oscar for best actor for the movie "Lilies of the Field." In the 36th Academy Awards "Tom Jones," Sidney Poitier & Patricia Neal won.
(AP, 4/13/97)(HN, 4/13/98)(MC, 4/13/02)
1964 Apr 13, Ian D. Smith became premier of Rhodesia. Smith was Premier of the British Colony of Southern Rhodesia (13 Apr 1964 - 11 Nov 1965) and Prime Minister of the Republic of Rhodesia (11 Nov 1965 - 1 Jun 1979).
(SFC, 5/15/00, p.A14)(MC, 4/13/02)
1964 Apr 14, Rachel L. Carson (56), American biologist, author (Silent spring), died. She raised public awareness of environmental pollution and ecological issues with a number of best-selling books--notably Silent Spring (1962). In 1997 Linda Gear wrote the biography: "Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature."
(SFEC, 9/14/97, BR p.3)(HNQ, 4//01)(MC, 4/14/02)
1964 Apr 15, Chesapeake Bay Bridge opened as the world's longest bridge.
(MC, 4/15/02)
1964 Apr 17, Ford Motor Company unveiled its new Mustang model at the New York World’s Fair. The base price was $2,368. Donald Frey (d.2010 at 86), spearheaded the design and development of the car. Industry experts in 1996 picked the 1964 Mustang as the number 1 favorite car.
(AP, 4/17/97)(WSJ, 6/19/96, Adv. Supl)(SFC, 3/30/10, p.C3)
1964 Apr 17, Jerrie Mock of Columbus, Ohio, became the first woman to complete a solo airplane flight around the world.
(AP, 4/17/97)(HN, 4/17/98)
1964 Apr 18, Joe Orton's "Entertaining Mr. Sloane" staged in England. [see may 6]
(MC, 4/18/02)
1964 Apr 18, Ben Hecht (71), playwright (Child of the Century), died.
(MC, 4/18/02)
1964 Apr 19, There was a rightist coup in Laos. Suvanna Phuma remained premier.
(MC, 4/19/02)
1964 Apr 20, August Sander (b.1876), German photographer, died. He attempted to make a complete portrait survey of 20th century German society. His “Face of Our Time,” a volume of 60 photographs, was published in 1929.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Sander)(WSJ, 6/3/04, p.D8)(Econ, 8/29/09, p.74)
1964 Apr 22, President Johnson opened the 1964-1965 New York World's Fair in Queens. It featured the futuristic Unisphere and a house made of formica. Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters drove to the fair in a 1939 bus with Neal Cassidy driving. The trip immortalized in "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" by Tom Wolfe in 1968.
(TMC, 1994, p.1964)(AP, 4/22/97)(SFEM, 2/22/98, p.34)(WSJ, 1/22/99, p.W10)
1964 Apr 22, The islands of Zanzibar and Pemba joined the former British colony of Tanganyika to form the republic of Tanzania. Zanzibar consists of the Pemba and Unguja islands. It has its own president and legislation but also votes in the Tanzanian presidential and National Assembly elections.
(WSJ, 12/13/96, p.A1)(WUD, 1994, p.1453)(SFC, 11/7/00, p.B2)(MC, 4/22/02)
1964 Apr 23, Houston Colt 45s Ken Johnson became the 1st major league pitcher to lose a 9 inning no-hitter, Reds win 1-0.
(MC, 4/23/02)
1964 Apr 26, Popular music of the day included: "Can’t Buy Me Love" by The Beatles; "Twist and Shout" by The Beatles; Do You Want to Know a Secret" by The Beatles; and "Understand Your Man" by Johnny Cash.
(440 Int’l. Internet, 4/26/97, p.1)
1964 Apr 26, The Boston Celtics won an unprecedented 6th consecutive NBA championship. They ran the string to 8 over the next 2 years.
(440 Int’l. Internet, 4/26/97, p.2)
1964 Apr, In San Francisco demonstrators waged sit-ins at automobile showrooms and 226 were arrested. The SF sit-ins spread to 50 major cities across the US. A pact was reached between the NAACP and the Motor Car Dealer’s Association to accelerate the hiring of Negroes.
(SFEM, 11/17/96, p.29)
1964 May 1, The 1st BASIC program ran on a computer at Dartmouth.
(MC, 5/1/02)
1964 May 2, In Mississippi Charles Moore (19) and Henry Dee (19) were beaten and killed by local members of the Ku Klux Klan. Their mutilated bodies were later found in the Mississippi River while federal authorities searched for civil rights workers Goodman, Chaney and Schwerner. Charles Marcus Edwards and James Ford Seale were arrested for the crime, but neither was tried. In 2007 James Ford Seale (71) was arrested and charged with two counts of kidnapping and one count of conspiracy to commit kidnapping. In 2008 an appeals court ruled that the statue of limitations had expired overturning Seale’s conviction.
(SFC, 7/15/05, p.A5)(AP, 1/25/07)(AP, 1/26/07)(www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26633038/)
1964 May 5, Separatists rioted in Quebec.
(MC, 5/5/02)
1964 May 6, Joe Orton's "Entertaining Mr. Sloan," premiered in London. [see Apr 18]
(MC, 5/6/02)
1964 May 7, A disturbed man entered the cockpit of a Pacific Airlines flight and killed pilot Ernie Clark (52). All 44 people aboard the Fairchild F-27A died as the plane crashed in San Ramon, Ca.
(SFC, 10/9/09, p.D12)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Air_Lines_Flight_773)
1964 May 9, Khrushchev visited Egypt.
(MC, 5/9/02)
1964 May 14, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev joined United Arab Republic President Gamel Abdel Nasser in setting off charges, diverting the Nile River from the site of the Aswan High Dam project.
(AP, 5/14/04)
1964 May 18, David Frost interviewed Paul McCartney on the BBC.
(SC, 5/18/02)
1964 May 18, The US Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional to deprive naturalized citizens of citizenship if they return to home country for more than 3 years.
(SC, 5/18/02)
1964 May 19, The State Department announced the U.S. embassy in Moscow had been bugged. A network of more than 40 microphones embedded in the walls had been found.
(AP, 5/19/97)(DTnet, 5/19/97)
1964 May 21, The 1st nuclear-powered lighthouse began operations in the Chesapeake Bay.
(MC, 5/21/02)
1964 May 22, Pres. Johnson (LBJ) presented his “Great Society” speech at the Univ. of Mich.
(www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/johnson/archives.hom/speeches.hom/640522.asp)
1964 May 25, In the16th Emmy Awards the winners included the Dick Van Dyke Show, Dick Van Dyke & Mary Tyler Moore.
(SC, 5/25/02)
1964 May 25, Frank Gilroy's "Subject is Roses" premiered in NYC.
(SC, 5/25/02)
1964 May 25, Ground was broken for a new stadium in St Louis.
(SC, 5/25/02)
1964 May 25, Supreme Court ruled that closing schools to avoid desegregation is unconstitutional.
(SC, 5/25/02)
1964 May 25, Vasily Andreyevich Zolotaryov (92), composer, died.
(SC, 5/25/02)
1964 May 27, "From Russia With Love" premiered in US.
(MC, 5/27/02)
1964 May 27, Independent India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, died. In 2003 Judith M. Brown authored "Nehru: A Political Life."
(AP, 5/27/97)(Econ, 10/18/03, p.82)
1964 May 28, Palestine National Congress formed the PLO in Jerusalem.
(MC, 5/28/02)
1964 May 28, John Finley Williamson (76), conductor (Westminster Choir), died.
(MC, 5/28/02)
1964 May 30, Leo Szilard (66), Hungarian-US nuclear physicist, died.
(MC, 5/30/02)
1964 May, Pres. Johnson told his national security advisor McGeorge Bundy that he had strong reservations about involvement in the Vietnam war: "It’s just the biggest damned mess that I ever saw."
(SFC, 10/6/97, p.A2)
1964 May, Gertrude Kavesh Jones (43) went missing in Mill Valley, Ca. Bruce Jones, her husband (d.1987), reported her missing and soon showed up with a new wife from Tahiti. In 2008 DNA testing identified her bones, found in a shallow grave near her home.
(SFC, 4/10/08, p.B1)
1964 Jun 1, The Beatles released the single "Sweet Georgia Brown"/"Take Out Some Insurance On Me Baby."
(DTnet, 6/1/97)
1964 Jun 1, The Rolling Stones arrived in the U.S. for the first time, landing at Kennedy Airport in New York. Their first date was at a high school stadium in MA.
(DTnet, 6/1/97)
1964 Jun 1, Dolly Parton spent her first day in Nashville in search of a record deal.
(DTnet, 6/1/97)
1964 Jun 2, Rolling Stones made their 1st US concert tour debut in Lynn, Mass.
(SC, 6/2/02)
1964 Jun 8, The US Supreme Court ruling in J.I. Case v. Borak allowed private citizens to sue companies to ensure compliance with federal proxy-statement rules.
(WSJ, 1/14/08, p.R2)(www.oyez.org/cases/1960-1969/1963/1963_402/)
1964 Jun 9, W. Maxwell Aitken (85), Lord Beaverbrook, English Minister of Info, died.
(MC, 6/9/02)
1964 Jun 10, The U.S. Senate voted to limit further debate on a proposed civil rights bill, shutting off a filibuster by Southern states.
(AP, 6/10/97)
1964 Jun 15, The last French troops left Algeria.
(HN, 6/15/98)
1964 Jun 15, The Group of 77 (G-77) was established by 77 developing countries signatories of the "Joint Declaration of the Seventy-Seven Countries" issued at the end of the first session of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in Geneva.
(www.g77.org/main/main.htm)
1964 Jun 18, Georgio Morandi (b.1890), reclusive Italian painter, died in Bologna.
(WSJ, 11/11/08, p.D7)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgio_Morandi)
1964 Jun 19, The Beatles release the EP "Long Tall Sally."
(DTnet, 6/19/97)
1964 Jun 19, The Civil Rights Act of 1964 survived an 83-day filibuster in the US Senate, and was approved by a vote of 73-27. Pres. Johnson passed the Civil Rights Act that guaranteed the vote for everyone and that prohibited segregation in public places. Sex was added to Title VII of the Civil Rights Act and outlawed discrimination on the basis of sex in the labor market.
(TMC, 1994, p.1964)(LSA, Spg/97, p.19)(AP, 6/19/06)
1964 Jun 20, General William Westmoreland succeeded General Paul Harkins as head of the U.S. forces in Vietnam.
(HN, 6/20/98)
1964 Jun 21, Three young civil rights workers, Andrew Goodman 20, Michael Schwerner 24, and James Chaney 21, disappeared near Meridian, Mississippi. Their car was found burning late in the day. 40 days later their bodies were found buried in an earthen dam near Philadelphia, Miss. 8 Klansman went to prison on federal conspiracy charges but none served more than 6 years, and murder charges were never filed. The event inspired the 1988 film Mississippi Burning. In 2005 Edgar Ray Killen (80) was arrested in Philadelphia, Miss., and convicted of manslaughter in the abduction and killing of the 3 voter-registration volunteers. He was sentenced to three 20-year terms. Billy Wayne Posey (73), a key suspect in the killings, died in 2009.
(SFEC, 2/16/97, p.A12)(AP, 6/21/97)(HN, 6/21/01)(SFC, 6/22/05, p.A1)(WSJ, 6/24/05, p.A1)(SSFC, 8/16/09, p.A9)
1964 Jun 23, Henry Cabot Lodge resigned as the U.S. envoy to Vietnam and was succeeded by Maxwell Taylor.
(HN, 6/23/98)
1964 Jun 24, The Federal Trade Commission announced that starting in 1965, cigarette manufactures will be required to include warnings on their packaging about the harmful effects of smoking.
(HN, 6/24/98)
1964 Jun 25, President Lyndon Johnson ordered 200 naval personnel to Mississippi to assist in finding three missing civil rights workers.
(HN, 6/25/98)
1964 Jun 26, Beatles released "A Hard Day's Night" album.
(MC, 6/26/02)
1964 Jun 28, Malcolm X founded the Organization for Afro American Unity to seek independence for blacks in the Western Hemisphere.
(HN, 6/28/98)
1964 Jun 29, Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed after 83-day filibuster in Senate. [see Jul 2]
(MC, 6/29/02)
1964 Jun, Some 700 young Americans began descending on Mississippi to teach in “freedom schools” and register black voters. In 2010 Bruce Watson authored “Freedom Summer: The Savage Season that made Mississippi Burn and Made America a Democracy.”
(Econ, 6/12/10, p.92)
1964 Jun, In South Africa Nelson Mandela, convicted of treason in the Rivonia Trial, was moved into a jail cell on Robben Island. He stayed there until Apr 1982.
(SFC, 12/19/96, p.C1)(SFC, 7/6/02, p.A19)
1964 Jun, It was agreed that the Federation of South Arabia (Aden-South Yemen) would gain independence from Britain in 1968.
(www.atlapedia.com/online/countries/yemen.htm)
1964 The Summer Olympic games were held in Tokyo, Japan.
(Jap. Enc., BLDM, p. 216)(StuAus, April '95, p.95)(WSJ, 7/19/96, p.R6)
1964 Bob Hayes (d.2002 at 59), sprinter, won gold medals at the Tokyo Olympics in the 100 meters and 4x100 relay.
(WSJ, 9/20/02, p.A1)(NW, 9/30/02, p.15)
1964 Jul 1, Pierre Monteux (89), French-US conductor (Concert Bldg Orch), died.
(MC, 7/1/02)
1964 Jul 2, Dave Parsons rocker (Transvision Vamp, Sham 69-That's Life), was born.
(SC, 7/2/02)
1964 Jul 2, Celia Black recorded Beatle's "Its For You" with McCartney on piano.
(SC, 7/2/02)
1964 Jul 2, President Johnson signed into law a sweeping civil rights bill passed by Congress. It guaranteed voting rights and equal access to public accommodations and education.
(AP, 7/2/97)(SSFC, 6/9/02, p.F5)
1964 Jul 2, Glenn "Fireball" Roberts, biggest NASCAR money winner, died in crash.
(SC, 7/2/02)
1964 Jul 4, The song "I Get Around" by the Beach Boys topped the charts and stayed there for 2 weeks. Sales went on to exceed a million records.
(DataDragon)(Maggio, 98)(SFEC, 2/8/98, p.D8)
1964 Jul 6, Beatles' film "Hard Day's Night" premiered in London.
(MC, 7/6/02)
1964 Jul 6, Malawi, a former British protectorate and part of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, gained independence.
(WUD, 1994, p.867)
1964 Jul 10, The Four Tops released "Baby I Need Your Loving" on the Motown label. In 1967 Johnny Rivers also recorded a hit version.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_I_Need_Your_Loving)
1964 Jul 11, (Jun 11), Queen Elizabeth ordered Beatles to her birthday party and they attended.
(MC, 7/11/02)
1964 Jul 14, The United States sent 600 more troops to Vietnam.
(HN, 7/14/98)
1964 Jul 15, The Republican National Convention was held at the Cow Palace in Daly City, Ca. It elected Barry Goldwater as its presidential candidate. John Chancellor was ejected from the convention for blocking an aisle during a demonstration by the delegates. Here Goldwater proclaimed "Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice."
(SFC, 7/13/96, p.A5)(WSJ, 8/5/96, p.A10)(AP, 7/15/97)
1964 Jul 16, In accepting the Republican presidential nomination in San Francisco, Barry M. Goldwater said "extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice" and that "moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue."
(AP, 7/16/97)
1964 Jul 18, Riots erupted in the African American communities of NYC and Rochester, NY. The NYC race riot began in Harlem and spread to Bedford-Stuyvesant in Brooklyn.
(SSFC, 6/9/02, p.F5)(MC, 7/18/02)
1964 Jul 22, David Spade, an American actor, comedian and television personality, was born in Birmingham, Michigan. He first became famous in the 1990s as a cast member on Saturday Night Live, and from 1997 until 2003 starred as Dennis Finch on Just Shoot Me!.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Spade)
1964 Jul 24-27, A race riot took place in Rochester, New York, and 4 people were killed.
(MC, 7/24/02)
1964 Jul 25, Beatles' "Hard Day's Night, A," album went #1 and stayed #1 for 14 weeks.
(SC, 7/25/02)
1964 Jul 25, There was a race riot in Rochester, NY.
(SC, 7/25/02)
1964 Jul 26, Teamsters president Jimmy Hoffa and six others were convicted of fraud and conspiracy in the handling of a union pension fund. During the trial a man burst into the courtroom and shot Hoffa 3 times with an air pistol before he [Hoffa?] managed to punch the gunman.
(AP, 7/26/97)(SFC, 5/16/98, p.A21)
1964 Jul 27, President Lyndon Johnson sent an additional 5,000 advisers to South Vietnam.
(HN, 7/27/98)
1964 Jul 28, Ranger 7 was launched toward the Moon. It sent back 4308 TV pictures.
(SC, 7/28/02)
1964 Jul 30, US Naval fired on Hon Ngu and Hon Mo in North Vietnam.
(MC, 7/30/02)
1964 Jul 31, The American space probe Ranger 7 transmitted pictures of the moon's surface.
(AP, 7/31/97)
1964 Aug 1, Beatles' "Hard Day's Night" single went #1.
(MC, 8/1/02)
1964 Aug 1, Arthur Ashe became the first African-American to play on the U.S. Davis Cup tennis team.
(HN, 8/1/98)
1964 Aug 2, The Pentagon reported the first of two attacks on U.S. destroyers by North Vietnamese torpedo boats in the Gulf of Tonkin. U.S. destroyer Maddox was reportedly attacked by North Vietnamese patrol boats. Later evidence supported claims that the Tonkin Gulf incident was deliberately provoked or was in reaction to American covert operations.
(AP, 8/2/97)(www.usni.org/navalhistory/articles99/nhandrade.htm#tx17)
1964 Aug 2, There was a race riot in Jersey City, NJ.
(MC, 8/2/02)
1964 Aug 3, Flannery O'Connor (b.1925), novelist and short story writer, died in Georgia of lupus, an incurable, autoimmune disease. In 2009 Brad Gooch authored “Flannery: A Life of Flannery O’Connor.”
(www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-498)(Econ, 2/28/09, p.89)
1964 Aug 4, Pres. Johnson ordered an immediate retaliation for the Aug 2 attack on the US destroyer Maddox in the Gulf of Tonkin off North Vietnam.
(SSFC, 6/9/02, p.F5)
1964 Aug 4, The destroyers U.S.S. Maddox and Turner Joy allegedly exchanged fire with supposed North Vietnamese patrol boats. At the time it was taken as evidence that Hanoi was raising the stakes against the United States. The destroyers were in effect shooting at false radar contacts. In 2005 it was reported that a secret 2001 report had concluded that the NSA officers deliberately distorted the Aug 4 data to support the belief that North Vietnamese ships attacked American destroyers 2 days after a previous clash.
(www.usni.org/navalhistory/articles99/nhandrade.htm#tx17)(SFC, 10/31/05, p.A3)
1964 Aug 4, The bodies of missing civil rights workers Michael H. Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James E. Chaney were found buried in an earthen dam in Nashoba County, Mississippi. Schwerner and Goodman were Jewish-Americans from Pelham and New York City respectively and Chaney was a Black from Meridian, Mississippi. The three civil rights workers had disappeared from Philadelphia, Mississippi, on June 21, 1964, not long after they had been held for six hours in the Neshoba County, Mississippi jail on charges of speeding. Their burned car was discovered on June 23rd, prompting a search by the FBI for the three young men. Their story became the basis for the movie Mississippi Burning, starring Gene Hackman, Willem Defoe and Frances McDormand in 1988. In 2005, on the forty-first anniversary of the crime, Edgar Ray Killen (80) an ordained Baptist minister, was found guilty of three counts of manslaughter.
(AP, 8/4/97)(WSJ, 1/16/98, p.A12)
1964 Aug 5, US began bombing North Vietnam. Lt. Everett Alvarez Jr. was shot down and captured at Ha Long Bay in Vietnam. Alvarez became the first naval aviator captured by the North Vietnamese and spent eight-and-one-half years in captivity. Alvarez later co-authored two books, writing of his prisoner of war experiences in “Chained Eagle” and “Code Of Conduct.”
(www.pownetwork.org/bios/a/a038.htm)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everett_Alvarez_Jr.)
1964 Aug 6, In Eastern Nevada a bristlecone pine tree, Pinus longaeva, near Wheeler Peak was cut down for scientific study of its age. The tree had been named Prometheus (WPN-114) for its age which turned out to be about 4,900 years.
(SFEC, 8/23/98, Z1 p.1,4)
1964 Aug 7, Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin resolution, giving President Johnson broad powers in dealing with reported North Vietnamese attacks on U.S. forces. It allowed the president to use unlimited military force to prevent attacks on U.S. forces. U.S. Senators Wayne Morse of Oregon and Ernest Gruening of Alaska share the distinction of casting the only votes against the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution on August 7, 1964. The resolution supported President Lyndon Johnson's military actions against North Vietnam in retaliation for its attack on a U.S. spy ship in the Tonkin Gulf. The resolution passed in the House 414-0 and the Senate 88-2. The resolution, which amounted to a declaration of war, was repealed by Congress on January 13, 1971.
(AP, 8/7/97)(HNQ, 6/24/98)(HN, 8/7/98)
1964 Aug 7, Turkey began an air attack on Greek-Cypriots.
(MC, 8/7/02)
1964 Aug 8, Bob Dylan released his 4th album "Another Side of Bob Dylan."
(SFC, 9/26/05, C3)(www.ddg.com/LIS/glenn/DYLANWEB.HTM)
1964 Aug 11, Beatles' "A Hard Days Night" opened in NYC.
(MC, 8/11/02)
1964 Aug 11, There was a race riot in Paterson, NJ.
(MC, 8/11/02)
1964 Aug 12, Charles Ogle, land investor, vanished after flying out of Oakland, Ca., en route to Reno, Nevada.
(SFC, 9/10/07, p.A1)
1964 Aug 12, There was a race riot in Elizabeth, NJ.
(SC, 8/12/02)
1964 Aug 12, Ian L. Fleming (56), British spy, journalist, writer (James Bond), died. He had recently sold a 51% share of the copyright of his books to Sir Jock Campbell, who chaired the Booker Brothers. In 2000 Fleming’s heirs bought back the copyright to the books.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Fleming)(Econ, 5/31/08, p.90)
1964 Aug 15, A race riot took place in Dixmoor, a suburb of Chicago, Ill.
(MC, 8/15/02)
1964 Aug 18, South Africa was banned from Olympic Games because of apartheid policies.
(MC, 8/18/02)
1964 Aug 19, The Beatles performed a concert at the Cow Palace in Daly City, Ca. They returned there for another concert in 1965.
(www.rarebeatles.com/photopg7/sf81964.htm)
1964 Aug 20, President Johnson signed the Economic Opportunity Act, a nearly $1 billion anti-poverty measure.
(AP, 8/20/07)
1964 Aug 25, Singapore limited imports from Netherlands due to Indonesian aggression.
(chblue.com, 8/25/01)
1964 Aug 26, President Johnson was nominated for a term of office in his own right at the Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City, N.J.
(AP, 8/26/97)
1964 Aug 27, Gracie Allen, comedian (Burns & Allen), died at 62.
(MC, 8/27/01)
1964 Aug 28, Race riots took place in Philadelphia.
(MC, 8/28/01)
1964 Aug 29, "Funny Thing Happened" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 965 performances.
(MC, 8/29/01)
1964 Aug 29, Walt Disney’s "Mary Poppins" released.
(MC, 8/29/01)
1964 Sep 2, Keanu Reeves, film actor, was born. His films included Chain Reaction, Johnny Mnemonic, Speed, Little Buddha, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, My Own Private Idaho, Parenthood, Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure, Dangerous Liaisons.
(MC, 9/2/01)
1964 Sep 2, Indonesian paratroopers landed in Malaysia.
(MC, 9/2/01)
1964 Sep 3, Pres. Johnson signed the Wilderness Act and designated 9 million acres as an area "where the Earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain." It allowed for roadless federal lands to qualify for wilderness protection. In 1999 the act sheltered over 100 million acres. Conservationists stopped a dam in Echo Park in Dinosaur National Monument and persuaded Congress to pass the Wilderness Act to provide permanent protection to wilderness areas.
(NG, May 1985, p.669)(SFC, 8/6/93, p.C4)(SFEC, 8/29/99, Z1 p.6)
1964 Sep 3, US attorney general Robert Kennedy resigned.
(MC, 9/3/01)
1964 Sep 4, "Gilligan’s Island," a TV tale of 7 castaways, began its 98-show run on CBS.
(MC, 9/4/01)(SFC, 5/5/03, p.B4)
1964 Sep 9, John Osborne's "Inadmissible Evidence," premiered in London.
(MC, 9/9/01)
1964 Sep 10, Palestinian Liberation Army (PLA) formed.
(MC, 9/10/01)
1964 Sep 12, Typhoon Gloria struck Taiwan killing 330, with $17.5 million damage.
(MC, 9/12/01)
1964 Sep 14, UC Berkeley officials announced a new policy prohibiting political action at the campus entrance at Bancroft Way and Telegraph.
(SSFC, 6/9/02, p.F5)
1964 Sep 14, Pope Paul VI opened the third session of the Second Ecumenical Council of the Vatican, also known as Vatican Two.'' The session closed two months later.
(AP, 9/14/06)
1964 Sep 14, Vasily Grossman (b.1905), Ukraine-born journalist and writer, died, His work included the novel “Life and Fate,” a chronicle of the Battle of Stalingrad, which wasn’t published until 1980.
(WSJ, 5/5/07, p.P16)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasily_Grossman)
1964 Sep 16-1964 Oct 20, French Pres. Charles de Gaulle visited South America with stops in Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay and Brasil. He was the 1st head of state from outside Latin America to visit Paraguay.
(http://gaullisme.free.fr/GEChronologie.htm)(Econ, 10/1/05, p.36)
1964 Sep 17, The situation comedy "Bewitched" premiered on ABC-TV.
(AP, 9/17/99)
1964 Sep 18, U.S. destroyers fired on hostile targets in Vietnam.
(HN, 9/18/98)
1964 Sep 18, Sean O'Casey, Irish playwright (Playboy of Western World), died at 84.
(MC, 9/18/01)
1964 Sep 21, Malta became an independent member of the British Commonwealth.
(AP, 9/21/97)(Econ, 7/14/07, p.57)(www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/5382.htm)
1964 Sep 22, The musical "Fiddler on the Roof" opened at Imperial Theater on Broadway, beginning a run of 3,242 performances.
(AP, 9/22/97)
1964 Sep 22, "Man from U.N.C.L.E," premiered on NBC-TV.
(AP, 9/22/04)
1964 Sep 22, McGeorge Bundy, the national security advisor, warned Pres. Johnson that a campaign speech was open to a charge of deception. Johnson sought to portray Goldwater as an extremist and claimed strict presidential control of the nuclear arsenal.
(SFC, 9/2/98, p.A5)
1964 Sep 24, The TV situation comedy "Munsters" premiered on CBS with Al Lewis (d.2006) as the family patriarch.
(AP, 9/24/04)(SSFC, 2/5/06, p.A2)
1964 Sep 25, The TV show “Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.” debuted with Jim Nabors as Gomer Pyle. The show was directed by Aaron Ruben (1914-2010) and continued to run to 1969.
(SFC, 2/5/10, p.C7)(www.imdb.com/title/tt0057752/)
1964 Sep 27, The Warren Commission, investigating the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, announced that according to its findings Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone as did Jack Ruby in the assassination. Later evidence indicated a Mafia contract killing. In 1965 Harold Weisberg (d.2002) authored "Whitewash: The Report on the Warren Report."
(WSJ, 5/17/95, p.A-18)(AP, 9/27/97)(HN, 9/27/98)(HC)(SFC, 2/25/02, p.B6)
1964 Sep 28, Harpo [Arthur] Marx, comedian (Marx Bros), died at 75.
(MC, 9/28/01)
1964 Sep 30, Ingrid Thais, historical and genealogical researcher, was born in New York.
(MC, 9/30/01)
1964 Sep, The Joint Chiefs of Staff organized a was game called SIGMA II which attempted to predict how Hanoi and the Viet Cong would react to the Johnson policy of "graduated pressure." It predicted that escalation would erode public support in the US.
(SFEC, 8/17/97, BR p.9)
1964 Oct 1, The Free Speech Movement was launched at the University of California at Berkeley. Mario Savio (1943-1996), UC Berkeley physics student, began the Free Speech Movement to fight prohibitions against students distributing political brochures and other materials such as civil rights. The incident began when police arrested Jack Weinberg for setting up an unauthorized table in Sproul Plaza. Students surrounded the police car in a standoff that lasted 32 hours. In 1998 a Free Speech Movement Cafe was planned. In 2002 Robert Cohen and Reginald E. Zelnik edited "The Free Speech Movement: Reflections on Berkeley in the 1960s."
(SFC, 11/6/96, p.B2)(AP, 10/1/97)(SFC, 4/30/98, p.A18)(SSFC, 12/29/02, p.M5)
1964 Oct 1, Ernst Toch (b.1887), Vienna-born composer, died in Los Angeles. He authored “The Shaping Forces in Music.” His last stage work “The Last Tale” (1962), was adapted from the well-known plot of One Thousand and One Nights (Arabian Nights).
(www.operaworld.com/special/lasttale.shtml)
1964 Oct 1, Japan’s Shinkansen Bullet Train began operation.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C5%8Dkaid%C5%8D_Shinkansen)(SFEC, 10/1/00, p.T5)
1964 Oct 2, Scientists announced findings that smoking can cause cancer.
(HN, 10/2/98)
1964 Oct 3-1964 Oct 4, East Berliners dug a 470-foot tunnel, Tunnel 57, to the West and 57 people escaped.
(SFEC, 6/20/99, p.T5)(SSFC, 6/24/01, p.A27)
1964 Oct 5, Egon Shultz, an East German border soldier, was shot to death at the site of the escape tunnel. A 1994 report said he was inadvertently killed by another border soldier.
(SSFC, 6/24/01, p.A27)
1964 Oct 6, Richard Scheibe, German sculptor (Adler mit Hakenkreuz), died at 85.
(MC, 10/6/01)
1964 Oct 12, Mary Meyer, lover to John F. Kennedy up to his assassination, was brutally murdered on a walking path by the Potomac River. Her story is told in a 1996 book by John Davis "JFK and Mary Pinchot Meyer: A Tale of Two Murdered Lovers." In 1998 Nina Burleigh authored "A Very Private Woman: The Life and Unsolved Murder of Presidential Mistress Mary Meyer.
(SFC, 6/12/96, p.E2)(SFEC, 12/13/98, BR p.4)
1964 Oct 12, The Soviet Union launched a Voskhod space capsule with a three-man crew on the first manned mission involving more than one crew member. Spaceship designer Konstantin Feoktistov (1926-2009), the only non-Communist space traveler in the history of the Soviet space program, traveled aboard the Voskhod as part of the first group space flight in history.
(AP, 10/12/97)(AP, 11/22/09)
1964 Oct 14, Civil rights leader Rev. Martin Luther King was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for advocating a policy of non-violence.
(SFC, 10/3/96, p.C6)(AP, 10/14/97)(HN, 10/14/98)
1964 Oct 14, Philips began experimenting with color TV.
(MC, 10/14/01)
1964 Oct 15, St. Louis Cardinals in their home park beat the New York Yankees in game 7 of Baseball’s World Series (7-5). In 1994 David Halberstam authored “October 1964,” an account centered on the series.
(www.baseball-almanac.com/ws/yr1964ws.shtml)(WSJ, 9/24/05, p.P12)
1964 Oct 15, Cole Porter (73), renowned lyricist and composer, died. His work included "Still of the Night," "I've Got You Under My Skin," and hundreds of other classics. Cole Porter music crossed all musical style and format boundaries throughout his long and rich career.
(MC, 10/15/01)
1964 Oct 15, It was announced that Soviet leader Nikita S. Khrushchev had been removed from office. He was succeeded as premier by Alexei N. Kosygin and as Communist Party secretary by Leonid I. Brezhnev.
(TMC, 1994, p.1964)(AP, 10/15/97)
1964 Oct 16, The New York Yankees fired manager Yogi Berra one day after their World Series loss to the St. Louis Cardinals.
(http://www.baseball-almanac.com/ws/yr1964ws.shtml)
1964 Oct 16, Harold Wilson of the Labor Party assumed office as prime minister of Great Britain, succeeding Conservative Sir Alec Douglas-Home. Wilson’s Labor government took over from Harold MacMillan’s Conservatives.
(AP, 10/16/99)(WSJ, 7/26/00, p.A26)
1964 Oct 16, Red China detonated its first atomic bomb, codenamed "596," on the Lop Nur Test Ground, and became the world's 4th nuclear power.
(TMC, 1994, p.1964)(AP, 10/16/07)
1964 Oct 20, Herbert Hoover (b.1874), the 31st president of the United States (1929-1933), died in New York at age 90.
(AP, 10/20/97)(AH, 12/02, p.20)
1964 Oct 21, The movie musical "My Fair Lady," starring Audrey Hepburn and Rex Harrison, had its world premiere at the Criterion Theater in NYC.
(AP, 10/21/04)
1964 Oct 22, Jean Paul Sartre (1905-1980), French philosopher and novelist, declined the Nobel Prize for Literature.
(WUD, 1994 p.1269)(HN, 10/22/00)
1964 Oct 22, EMI rejected an audition by "High Numbers," a group that went on to become "The Who."
(MC, 10/22/01)
1964 Oct 24, Belgian paratroopers liberated 1,000 white hostages in Stanleyville (Kisangani, Congo).
(MC, 10/24/01)
1964 Oct 24, Zambia (N. Rhodesia) gained independence from Britain (National Day). Pres. Kenneth Kaunda was in charge. The country had fewer than 100 university graduates.
(SFC, 5/22/96, p.A9)(SFC, 7/1/97, p.A9)(www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/2359.htm)
1964 Oct 27, Singers Sonny and Cher wed. Cher wore bell-bottoms.
(MC, 10/27/01)
1964 Oct 27, Congo rebel leader Christopher Gbenye held 60 Americans and 800 Belgians.
(MC, 10/27/01)
1964 Oct 29, Thieves made off with the 565-carat Star of India and the 100-carat DeLong ruby along with other gems and jewels from the American Museum of Natural History in New York. The Star and most of the other gems were recovered; three men were convicted of stealing them.
(AP, 10/29/97)(HN, 10/29/98)
1964 Oct, The 547-foot USS Horne, built at the Hunter’s Point naval shipyard in SF, was launched. It was named after Adm. Frederick J. Horne (d.1959), who played a major role in directing the Navy’s efforts in WW II. It was decommissioned in 1994. In 2008 it was scheduled to be sunk in the Pacific following target practice.
(SFC, 6/26/08, p.B1)
1964 Nov 1, The Vietcong assaulted the Bien Hoa airport at Saigon, South Vietnam.
(MC, 11/1/01)
1964 Nov 2, Faisal ibn Abdul Aziz Al Saud succeeded his older brother Saud bin Abdul Aziz as king of Saudi Arabia.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faisal_of_Saudi_Arabia)
1964 Nov 3, President Johnson soundly defeated Republican challenger Barry Goldwater to win a White House term as the 36th president. Johnson won over 61% of the vote with 486 electoral votes to Goldwater’s 52.
(AP, 11/3/97)(SFC, 5/30/98, p.A3)(HN, 11/3/98)
1964 Nov 3, Robert Kennedy was elected senator from New York.
(HN, 11/3/98)
1964 Nov 3, Philadelphia voters approved $25 million to build a new sports stadium.
(MC, 11/3/01)
1964 Nov 4, Lenny Bruce (d.1966), stand up comic, was arrested in NYC at the Cafe au Go Go on obscenity charges for his "bad language." In 2003 Gov. George Pataki granted Bruce a posthumous pardon.
(WSJ, 5/29/03, p.D8)(SFC, 12/24/03, p.A1)
1964 Nov 5, The Mariner 3 was launched. It failed to reach a trajectory around Mars and ended up in distant orbit around the sun.
(SFC, 12/8/99, p.A19)
1964 Nov 10, Australia began a draft to fulfill its commitment in Vietnam.
(HN, 11/10/98)
1964 Nov 11, Murray Schisgal's "Luv," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 11/11/01)
1964 Nov 13, Pope Paul VI gave a tiara to the poor.
(MC, 11/13/01)
1964 Nov 14, "Oliver!" closed at Imperial Theater NYC after 774 performances.
(MC, 11/14/01)
1964 Nov 14, The U.S. First Cavalry Division battled with the North Vietnamese Army in the Ia Drang Valley, the first ground combat for American troops.
(HN, 11/14/98)
1964 Nov 16, Albert Hay Malotte (69), composer, died.
(MC, 11/16/01)
1964 Nov 18, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover described civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. as "the most notorious liar in the country" for accusing FBI agents in Georgia of failing to act on complaints filed by blacks.
(AP, 11/18/04)
1964 Nov 21, The upper level of New York's Verrazano Narrows Bridge, which connected Brooklyn and Staten Island, was opened. Designed by Swiss émigré Othmar Ammann, it was the world's longest suspension bridge at the time. It was.
(AP, 11/21/07)(WSJ, 6/5/03, p.D8)
1964 Nov 23, "Bajour" opened at the Shubert Theater, NYC, for 232 performances.
(MC, 11/23/01)
1964 Nov 23, Vatican abolished Latin as the official language of Roman Catholic liturgy.
(MC, 11/23/01)
1964 Nov 24, Residents of Wash DC were permitted to vote for the 1st time since 1800.
(MC, 11/24/01)
1964 Nov 25, Eleven nations gave a total of $3 billion to rescue the value of the British currency.
(HN, 11/25/98)
1964 Nov 28, Willie Nelson made his debut performance at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville.
(DTnet, 11/28/97)
1964 Nov 28, "Leader Of The Pack" by The Shangri-Las peaked at #1 on the pop singles chart; it was parodied into "Leader Of The Laundromat" by The Detergents.
(DTnet, 11/28/97)
1964 Nov 28, "You Really Got Me" by The Kinks peaked at #7 on the pop singles chart.
(DTnet, 11/28/97)
1964 Nov 28, "Ask Me" by Elvis Presley peaked at #12 on the pop singles chart.
(DTnet, 11/28/97)
1964 Nov 28, The US Mariner IV space probe was launched from Cape Kennedy on a course to Mars. It later flew by Mars in Jul 1965 and saw craters but no canals.
(SFEC, 9/28/97, p.A14)(AP, 11/28/97)
1964 Nov 29, The US Roman Catholic Church instituted sweeping changes in the liturgy, including the use of English instead of Latin. [see Nov 23]
(AP, 11/29/04)
1964 Nov 30, The Russian ZOND 2 Flyby lost contact enroute to Mars.
(SFC, 11/19/96, p.B1)
1964 Nov, The US HONETOL committee was formed to look into the question of a mole in the CIA, based on information from Soviet defector Anatoly Golitsin. It was in existence to April 1965, and consisted of James Jesus Angleton, Newton S. Miler and Bruce Solie from the CIA's Office of Security, FBI domestic intelligence chief William C. Sullivan, FBI CIA liaison Sam Papich and two others. The investigations damaged many careers including that of case officer Richard Kovich (1926-2006). In 1992 David Wise authored “Molehunt: The Secret Search for Traitors that Shattered the CIA.”
(http://tinyurl.com/lqo6j)(SFC, 2/27/06, p.B5)
1964 Dec 1, M.L. King spoke to J. Edgar Hoover about his slander campaign.
(MC, 12/1/01)
1964 Dec 2, Mario Savio made a speech on behalf of the Free Speech Movement that caused hundreds of students to take over Sproul Hall in Berkeley. Gov. Pat Brown ordered police to arrest students occupying Sproul Hall. Police moved in the next day and arrested 780, which prompted a student strike. "There comes a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can’t take part, you can’t even passively take part. And you’ve got to put your bodies on the gears, and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you’ve go to make it stop."
(SFC, 12/3/97, p.A21)(SSFM, 4/29/01, p.13)(SSFC, 6/9/02, p.F5)
1964 Dec 2, Brazil sent Juan Peron back to Spain, foiling his efforts to return to his native land.
(HN, 12/2/98)
1964 Dec 3, "Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer" 1st aired on TV.
(MC, 12/3/01)
1964 Dec 3, Police arrested 824 students at the University of California at Berkeley, one day after the students stormed the administration building and staged a massive sit-in as part of the Free Speech Movement. It was the largest mass arrest in US history.
(AP, 12/3/98)(SSFC, 12/29/02, p.M5)
1964 Dec 4, Some 10,000 people attended a protest rally at Sproul Hall, UC Berkeley, and speakers included Willie Brown and John Burton.
(SSFC, 6/9/02, p.F4)
1964 Dec 7, UC Pres. Clark Kerr held an unprecedented campus-wide meeting at the Greek Theater to propose a compromise that fell short of campus free speech demands.
(SSFC, 6/9/02, p.F4)
1964 Dec 8, The UC Academic Senate passed resolutions that affirmed the rights of students to participate in political activity.
(SFC, 11/7/96, p.A15)
1964 Dec 9, Dame Edith Sitwell (d.1964), English poet, died. "Good taste is the worst vice ever invented." A book of her collected poems was published in 2006.
(AP, 11/1/00)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Sitwell)(WSJ, 7/22/06, p.P10)
1964 Dec 10, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. received the Nobel Peace Prize during ceremonies in Oslo, Norway.
(AP, 12/10/97)
1964 Dec 11, Frank Sinatra Jr. was returned to his parents home after being kidnapped for the ransom amount of $240,000.
(HN, 12/11/98)
1964 Dec 12, Kenya formally became a republic.
(SFC, 9/4/97, p.A10)(HN, 12/12/98)
1964 Dec 12, Three Buddhist leaders began a hunger strike to protest the government in Saigon, South Vietnam.
(HN, 12/12/98)
1964 Dec 13, In El Paso, Texas, President Johnson and Mexican President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz set off an explosion that diverted the Rio Grande, reshaping the U.S.-Mexican border and ending a century-old dispute.
(AP, 12/13/04)
1964 Dec 15, Canada's House of Commons approved dropping the "Red Ensign" flag in favor of a new design.
(AP, 12/15/97)
1964 Dec 18, The UC Regents affirmed that university rules should follow the US Supreme Court decisions on free speech.
(SSFC, 6/9/02, p.F4)
1964 Dec 21, Britain’s House of Commons voted to ban the death penalty. Parliament voted to abolish the death penalty. The vote was in part due to the country’s unease over the 1953 Bentley hanging
(SFC, 7/31/98, p.A16) (HN, 12/21/98)
1964 Dec 23, India and Ceylon were hit by a cyclone and 4,850 were killed.
(MC, 12/23/01)
1964 Dec 23, Rock 'n' Roll Radio- in the guise of Pirate Radio- came to England where one had to listen to the BBC or nothing at all. Pirate Radio was a gallant effort to broadcast commercial radio, which was illegal in Great Britain at that time.
(MC, 12/23/01)
1964 Dec 24, The U.S. headquarters in Saigon, South Vietnam, was hit by a bomb. Two officers were killed.
(HN, 12/24/98)
1964 Dec 28, The principal filming of "Dr Zhivago," began.
(MC, 12/28/01)
1964 Dec 30, Edward Albee's "Tiny Alice," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 12/30/01)
1964 Dec 31, The DJIA ended at 874.1.
(Econ, 10/18/08, p.86)
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