1964 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1964?
- January 9, 1964 – Martyrs’ Day: Several Panamanian youths try to raise the Panamanian flag on the U.S.-controlled Panama Canal Zone, leading to fighting between U.S. military and Panamanian civilians.
- January 30, 1964 – Ranger program: Ranger 6 is launched.
- February 11, 1964 – Greeks and Turks begin fighting in Limassol, Cyprus.
- February 13, 1964 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Dragon in Chinese astrology.
- February 29, 1964 – In Sydney, Australian swimmer Dawn Fraser sets a new world record in the 100-meter freestyle swimming competition (58.9 seconds).
- March 1, 1964 – Villarrica Volcano begins a strombolian eruption causing lahars that destroy half of the town of Coñaripe.
- March 14, 1964 – A jury in Dallas, Texas, finds Jack Ruby guilty of killing Lee Harvey Oswald, assumed assassin of John F. Kennedy.
- March 20, 1964 – The precursor of the European Space Agency, ESRO (European Space Research Organization) is established per an agreement signed on June 14, 1962.
- March 21, 1964 – In Copenhagen, Denmark, Gigliola Cinquetti wins the ninth Eurovision Song Contest for Italy singing “Non ho l'età” (“I'm not old enough”).
- March 31, 1964 – A coup d'état in Brazil establishes a military government, under the aegis of general Castello Branco.
- April 20, 1964 – BBC Two launches with a power cut because of the fire at Battersea Power Station.
- May 29, 1964 – The Arab League meets in East Jerusalem to discuss the Palestinian question, leading to the formation of the Palestinian Liberation Organization.
- July 27, 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.
- September 12, 1964 – Canyonlands National Park is designated as a National Park.
- September 18, 1964 – Constantine II of Greece marries Danish princess Anne-Marie.
- September 29, 1964 – The Argentine comic strip Mafalda is published for the first time.
- 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.
- October 29, 1964 – The United Republic of Tanganyika and Zanzibar is renamed the United Republic of Tanzania.
- November 2, 1964 – King Saud of Saudi Arabia is deposed by a family coup, and replaced by his half-brother King Faisal.
- November 21, 1964 – The Verrazano-Narrows Bridge opens to traffic (at the time it is the world’s longest suspension bridge).
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