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Year (''' MCMLXIV ''') was a Leap Year Starting On Wednesday (link will display full calendar) of the 1964 Gregorian Calendar .
- January 11 - United States Surgeon General Luther Leonidas Terry reports that smoking may be hazardous to one's health (the first such statement from the U.S. government).
- January 12 - The predominantly Arab government of Zanzibar is overthrown by African nationalist rebels; a U.S. destroyer evacuates 61 U.S. citizens.
- January 12 - Routine U.S. naval patrols of the South China Sea begin.
- January 16 - '' Hello, Dolly! '' opens in New York City 's St. James Theatre.
- January 16 - John Glenn , the first American to orbit the Earth , resigns from the space program and announces the next day that he will seek the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senator from Ohio .
- January 18 - Plans to build the New York World Trade Center are announced.
- January 20 - '' Meet The Beatles '', the first Beatles album in the United States , is released.
- January 22 - Kenneth Kaunda is inaugurated as the first President of Northern Rhodesia .
- January 23 - Thirteen years after its proposal and nearly 2 years after its passage by the United States Senate , the 24th Amendment To The United States Constitution , prohibiting the use of Poll Tax es in national elections, is ratified.
- January 23 - Arthur Miller 's ''After the Fall'' opens on Broadway. A semi-autobiographical work, it arouses controversy over his portrayal of late ex-wife Marilyn Monroe.
- January 27 - France and the People's Republic Of China announce their decision to establish diplomatic relations.
- January 27 - U.S. Senator Margaret Chase Smith (R-ME), 66, announces her candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination.
- January 28 - A U.S. Air Force jet training plane that strays into East Germany , is shot down by Soviet fighters near Erfurt ; all 3 crew men are killed.
- January 29 - February 9 - The 1964 Winter Olympics are held in Innsbruck , Austria .
- January 29 - The Soviet Union launches 2 scientific Satellite s, Elektron I and II, from a single rocket.
- January 29 - Ranger 6 is launched by NASA , on a mission to carry Television cameras and crash-land on the Moon .
- January 30 - General Nguyen Khanh leads a bloodless military coup d'etat, replacing Duong Van Minh as Prime Minister of South Vietnam.
- February 1 - The Beatles vault to the #1 spot on the U.S. singles charts for the first time, with " I Want To Hold Your Hand ," forever changing the way rock-and-roll music sounds.
- February 3 - Protesting against alleged de-facto school Racial Segregation , Black and Puerto Rican groups in New York City boycott Public School .
- February 4 - The Government Of The United States authorized the Twenty-fourth Amendment outlawing the Poll Tax .
- February 6 - Cuba cuts off the normal water supply to the United States Guantanamo Bay Naval Base , in reprisal for the U.S. seizure 4 days earlier of 4 Cuban fishing boats off the coast of Florida .
- February 7 - A Jackson, Mississippi jury, trying Byron De La Beckwith for the murder of Medgar Evers in June 1963 , reports that it can not reach a verdict, resulting in a mistrial.
- February 7 - The Beatles arrive from England at New York City 's JFK International Airport , receiving a tumultuous reception from a throng of screaming fans, marking the first occurrence of " Beatlemania " in the United States.
- February 9 - The Beatles appear on '' The Ed Sullivan Show '', marking their first live performance on American television. Seen by an estimated 73 million viewers, the appearance becomes the catalyst for the mid-1960s " British Invasion " of American popular music.
- February 11 - Greeks & Turks begin fighting in Limassol , Cyprus .
- February 11 - The Republic Of China ( Taiwan ) drops diplomatic relations with France because of French recognition of the People's Republic Of China .
- rules that Congressional districts have to be approximately equal in population.
- February 25 - Cassius Clay beats Sonny Liston in Miami Beach, Florida , and is Crowned The Heavyweight Champion Of The World .
- February 26 - 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.
- February 27 - The government of Italy asks for help to keep the Leaning Tower Of Pisa from toppling over.
- February 29 - President Lyndon Johnson announces that the United States has developed a jet airplane (the A-11), capable of sustained flight at more than 2,000 MPH and of altitudes of more than 70,000 feet.
- March 4 - Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa is convicted by a Federal jury of tampering with a Federal jury in 1962 .
- March 6 - Constantine II becomes King of Greece , upon the death of his father King Paul .
- March 8 - Malcolm X , suspended from the Nation Of Islam , says in New York City that he is forming a black nationalist party.
- rules that under the First Amendment , speech criticizing political figures cannot be censored.
- March 9 - The first Ford Mustang rolls off the Assembly Line at Ford Motor Company .
- March 10 - Soviet military forces shoot down an unarmed reconnaissance bomber that had strayed into East Germany ; the 3 U.S. flyers parachute to safety.
- March 10 - Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. , Ambassador to South Vietnam , wins the New Hampshire Republican primary.
- March 12 - Malcolm X leaves the Nation Of Islam .
- March 13 - In a notorious incident, 38 of her neighbors in Queens, New York City fail to respond to the cries of Kitty Genovese , 28, as she is being stabbed to death.
- March 14 - A Dallas, Texas jury finds Jack Ruby guilty of killing John F. Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald .
- March 20 - The precursor of the European Space Agency , ESRO (European Space Research Organization) is established per an agreement signed on June 14 , 1962 .
- March 21 - ''Non ho l'età'' by Gigliola Cinquetti (music by Nicola Salerno, text by Mario Panzeri) wins the Eurovision Song Contest 1964 for Italy .
- March 26 - U.S. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara delivers an address that reiterates American determination to give South Vietnam increased military and economic aid, in its war against the Communist insurgency.
- March 27 - The Good Friday Earthquake , the most powerful earthquake in U.S. history at a Magnitude of 9.2, strikes South Central Alaska , killing 125 people and inflicting massive damage to the city of Anchorage, Alaska .
- March 29 - Radio Caroline becomes England 's first Pirate Radio station from a ship anchored just outside UK Territorial Waters .
- March 30 - Merv Griffin 's game show '' Jeopardy! '' debuts on NBC ; Art Fleming is its first host.
- March 31 - The military, backed by the USA, overthrow Brazilian President João Goulart in a Coup , starting 21 years of Dictatorship in Brazil .
- April 2 - Mrs. Malcolm Peabody, 72, mother of Massachusetts Governor Endicott Peabody , is released on $450 bond after spending 2 days in a St. Augustine, Florida jail, for participating in an anti-segregation demonstration there.
- April 4 - The Beatles hold the top 5 positions in the Billboard Top 40 singles in America, an unprecedented achievement. Due mostly to the explosive growth, fragmentation, and marketing of popular music since, this is certain to never happen again. The top songs in America as listed on April 4, in order, are: "Can't Buy Me Love," "Twist and Shout," "She Loves You," "I Want to Hold Your Hand," and "Please Please Me."
- April 4 - Three high school friends in Hoboken, N.J., open the first BLIMPIE on Washington St.
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- April 5 - General Douglas MacArthur dies at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, DC .
- April 5 - Jigme Dorfi, Premier of the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan , is shot dead by an unidentified assassin in Puncholing, near the Indian border.
- April 7 - IBM announces the System/360 .
- April 8 - Four of 5 Railroad operating Union s strike against the Illinois Central Railroad without warning, to bring to a head the 5-year dispute over railroad work rules.
- April 8 - '' Gemini 1 '' is launched on the first unmanned test of the 2-man spacecraft.
- April 8 - '' From Russia With Love '' was shown in US theaters.
- April 9 - 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.
- April 11 - The Brazilian Congress elects Field Marshal Humberto De Alencar Castello Branco as President of Brazil .
- April 12 - In Detroit, Michigan , Malcolm X delivers a speech entitled "The Ballot or the Bullet."
- April 14 - A Delta Rocket 's third stage motor ignites prematurely in an assembly room at Cape Canaveral , killing 3.
- April 16 - The Rolling Stones release their debut album, The Rolling Stones (album) .
- April 16 - Sentences totalling 307 years are passed on 12 men who stole £2.6m in used bank notes, after holding up the night mail train travelling from Glasgow to London in August of 1963 - a heist that became known as the Great Train Robbery .
- April 17 - In the United States , the Ford Mustang is officially unveiled to the public.
- April 17 - Shea Stadium opens in Flushing, New York .
- April 19 - In Laos , the coalition government of Prince Souvanna Phouma is deposed by a right-wing military group, led by Brig. Gen. Kouprasith Abhay .
- April 20 - U.S. President Lyndon Johnson in New York, and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev in Moscow , announce simultaneously plans to cut back production of materials for making Nuclear Weapon s.
- April 20 - Nelson Mandela makes his "I Am Prepared to Die" speech at the opening of the Rivonia Trial , a classic of the anti-apartheid movement.
- April 20 - BBC2 starts broadcasting in the UK .
- April 22 - British businessman Greville Wynne , imprisoned in Moscow since 1963 for alleged Spying , is exchanged for Soviet spy Gordon Lonsdale .
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- and Thomas Eugene Kurtz run the first program written in BASIC (Beginners' All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code), an easy to learn high level Programming Language which they have created. BASIC will eventually be included on many Computer s and even some games consoles.
- May 2 - Senator Barry Goldwater receives more than 75% of the votes in the Texas Republican Presidential primary.
- May 2 - Some 400-1,000 students march through Times Square , New York and another 700 in San Francisco , in the first major student demonstration against the Vietnam War. Smaller marches also occur in Boston, Seattle, and Madison, Wisconsin.
- May 2 - Two young men named Henry Hezekiah Dee and Charles Eddie Moore were hitchhiking in Meadville, Mississippi when they were kidnapped and beaten by members of the Ku Klux Klan . Their badly Decomposed bodies were found by chance two months later in July , during the search for three Civil Rights workers - Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner.
- May 7 - Pacific Air Lines Flight 773 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.
- May 7 - At a Mail Rockets demonstration by Gerhard Zucker on Hasselkopf Mountain near Braunlage (Lower Saxonia, Germany), 3 persons are killed by a rocket explosion.
- May 9 - South Korea n President Chung Hee Park reshuffles his Cabinet, after a series of student demonstrations against his efforts to restore diplomatic and trade relations with Japan .
- May 11 - Terence Conran opens the first Habitat store on London 's Fulham Road .
- May 19 - The United States State Department says that more than 40 hidden microphones have been found embedded in the walls of the U.S. Embassy in Moscow .
- May 23 - Mrs. Madeline Dassault, 63, wife of a French plane manufacturer and politician, is kidnapped while leaving her car in front of her Paris home; she is found unharmed the next day in a farmhouse 27 miles from Paris.
- May 23 - Pablo Picasso paints his fourth 'Head of a Bearded Man'.
- May 24 - May 25 - The crowd at a Football match in Lima , Peru riots over a referee's decision in the Peru- Argentina game (319 dead, 500 injured).
- May 26 - Nelson Rockefeller defeats Barry Goldwater in the Oregon Republican primary, slowing but not stalling Goldwater's drive toward the nomination.
- May 27 - Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru of India dies; he is succeeded by Lal Shastri .
- June 2 - Senator Barry Goldwater wins the California Republican Presidential primary, making him the overwhelming favorite for the nomination.
- June 2 - Five million shares of stock in the Communications Satellite Corporation (Comsat) are offered for sale at $20 a share, and the issue is quickly sold out.
- June 3 - South Korea n President Park Chung Hee declares Martial Law in Seoul , after 10,000 student demonstrators overpower police.
- June 6 - With a temporary order, the Rocket Launches At Cuxhaven are terminated.
- June 7 - The Beatles travel the canals of Amsterdam .
- June 9 - In Federal Court in Kansas City, Kansas , army deserter George John Gessner, 28, is convicted of passing United States secrets to the Soviet Union.
- June 10 - The U.S. Senate votes cloture of the Civil Rights Bill after a 75-day filibuster.
- June 11 - Greece rejects direct talks with Turkey over Cyprus .
- June 11 - In Cologne , Germany , Walter Seifert attacks students and teachers in an elementary school with a Flamethrower , killing 10 and injuring 21.
- June 12 - Pennsylvania Governor William Scranton announces his candidacy for the Republican Presidential nomination, as part of a 'stop-Goldwater' movement.
- June 12 - Nelson Mandela and 7 others are sentenced to life imprisonment in South Africa , and sent to the Robben Island prison.
- June 16 - 12-year-old Keith Bennett is abducted by Myra Hindley and Ian Brady
- June 19 - U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy , 32, is seriously injured in a private plane crash at Southampton, Massachusetts; the pilot is killed.
- June 21 - Three civil rights workers, Michael Schwerner , Andrew Goodman , and James Chaney , are murdered near Philadelphia, Mississippi , by local segregationist law enforcement officials.
- June 21 - Spain beats the Soviet Union 2-1 to win the 1964 European Nations Cup .
- June 25 - The Vatican condemns the female Combined Oral Contraceptive Pill .
- June 26 - Moise Tshombe returns to Congo from exile in Spain.
- July 2 - President Lyndon Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act Of 1964 into law.
- July 6 - Malawi declares its independence from the United Kingdom .
- July 8 - U.S. military personnel announce that U.S. casualties in Vietnam have risen to 1,387, including 399 dead and 17 MIA.
- July 16 - At the Republican National Convention in San Francisco , U.S. presidential nominee Barry Goldwater declares that "extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice", and "moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue".
- July 18 - Six days of Race Riot s begin in Harlem .
- , South Vietnam ese Prime Minister Nguyen Khanh calls for expanding the war into North Vietnam .
- forces attack a provincial capital, killing 11 South Vietnamese military personnel and 40 civilians (30 of which are children).
- July 21 - Race Riots begin in Singapore between ethnic Chinese and Malays.
- July 22 - The second meeting of the Organization Of African Unity is held.
- July 27 - Vietnam War : The U.S. sends 5,000 more military advisers to South Vietnam, bringing the total number of United States forces in Vietnam to 21,000.
- sends back the first close-up photographs of the moon (images are 1,000 times clearer than anything ever seen from Earth-bound Telescope s).
- July 31 - Country singer Jim Reeves (40) is killed when his private plane crashes in thunderstorm near Nashville Tennessee .
- August 1 - The Final Looney Tune , "Senorella and the Glass Huarache", is released before the Warner Bros. Cartoon Division is shut down by Jack Warner.
- workers Michael Schwerner , Andrew Goodman and James Chaney are found dead in Mississippi , after disappearing on June 21 .
- and USS ''C. Turner Joy'' are attacked in the Gulf Of Tonkin . Air support from the carrier USS ''Ticonderoga'' sinks 2, possibly 3 North Vietnamese gunboats.
- - Aircraft from carriers USS ''Ticonderoga'' and USS ''Constellation'' bomb North Vietnam in retaliation for strikes against U.S. destroyers in the Gulf Of Tonkin .
- August 5 - The Simba rebel army in Congo captures Stanleyville , and takes 1,000 Western hostages.
- , giving U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson broad war powers to deal with North Vietnamese attacks on U.S. forces.
- August 8 - A Rolling Stones Gig in Scheveningen gets out of control. Riot police end the gig after about 15 minutes, upon which spectators start to fight the riot police.
- August 13 - Murderers Gwynne Owen Evans and Peter Anthony Allen become the last people to be executed in the United Kingdom .
- , General Nguyen Khanh replaces Duong Van Minh as South Vietnam's chief of state and establishes a new Constitution , drafted partly by the U.S. Embassy.
- August 22 - Fannie Lou Hamer , civil rights activist and Vice Chair of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party , addresses the Credentials Committee of the Democratic National Convention , challenging the all-white Mississippi delegation.
- August 24 - August 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.
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