1964 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1964?
- January 13, 1964 – Anti-Muslim riots break out in Calcutta – resulting in 100 deaths.
- January 30, 1964 – In a bloodless coup, General Nguyen Khanh overthrows General Duong Van Minh’s military junta in South Vietnam.
- February 10, 1964 – Melbourne-Voyager collision: The aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne collides with the destroyer HMAS Voyager off the south coast of New South Wales, Australia.
- February 13, 1964 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Dragon in Chinese astrology.
- February 25, 1964 – North Korean Prime Minister Kim Il-sung calls for the removal of feudalistic land ownership aimed at turning all cooperative farms into state-run ones.
- May 9, 1964 – Ngo Dinh Can, de facto ruler of central Vietnam under his brother President Ngo Dinh Diem before the family’s toppling, is executed.
- June 28, 1964 – Malcolm X forms the Organization of Afro-American Unity.
- July 31, 1964 – Ranger program: Ranger 7 sends back the first close-up photographs of the moon, with images 1,000 times clearer than anything ever seen from earth-bound telescopes.
- August 1, 1964 – The Belgian Congo is renamed the Republic of the Congo.
- August 2, 1964 – Vietnam War: Gulf of Tonkin incident – North Vietnamese gunboats allegedly fire on the U.S. destroyers USS Maddox and USS Turner Joy.
- August 6, 1964 – Prometheus, a bristlecone pine and the world’s oldest tree, is cut down.
- August 12, 1964 – Charlie Wilson, one of the Great Train Robbers, escapes from Winson Green Prison in Birmingham, England.
- September 13, 1964 – South Vietnamese Generals Lam Van Phat and Duong Van Duc fail in a coup attempt against General Nguyen Khanh.
- October 12, 1964 – The Soviet Union launches the Voskhod 1 into Earth orbit as the first spacecraft with a multi-person crew and the first flight without space suits
- October 16, 1964 – Soviet leaders Leonid Brezhnev and Alexei Kosygin are inaugurated as General Secretary of the CPSU and Premier, respectively and the collective leadership is established.
- November 21, 1964 – The Verrazano-Narrows Bridge opens to traffic (at the time it is the world’s longest suspension bridge).
- November 28, 1964 – Mariner program: NASA launches the Mariner 4 probe toward Mars.
- December 1, 1964 – Malawi, Malta and Zambia join the United Nations.
- December 24, 1964 – Vietnam War: Viet Cong operatives bomb the Brinks Hotel in Saigon to demonstrate they can strike an American installation in the heavily guarded capital.
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