1964 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1964?
- February 13, 1964 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Dragon in Chinese astrology.
- February 17, 1964 – In Wesberry v. Sanders the Supreme Court of the United States rules that congressional districts have to be approximately equal in population.
- March 1, 1964 – Villarrica Volcano begins a strombolian eruption causing lahars that destroy half of the town of Coñaripe.
- March 6, 1964 – Nation of Islam’s Elijah Muhammad officially gives boxing champion Cassius Clay the name Muhammad Ali.
- March 13, 1964 – American Kitty Genovese is murdered, reportedly in view of neighbors who did nothing to help her, prompting research into the bystander effect.
- April 4, 1964 – The Beatles occupy the top five positions on the Billboard Hot 100 pop chart.
- May 22, 1964 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson announces the goals of his Great Society social reforms to bring an “end to poverty and racial injustice” in America.
- May 28, 1964 – The Palestine Liberation Organization is formed.
- June 6, 1964 – Under a temporary order, the rocket launches at Cuxhaven, Germany, are terminated, though they never resume.
- June 11, 1964 – World War II veteran Walter Seifert runs amok in an elementary school in Cologne, Germany, killing at least eight children and two teachers and seriously injuring several more with a home-made flamethrower and a lance.
- July 2, 1964 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964 meant to prohibit segregation in public places.
- 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.
- August 7, 1964 – Vietnam War: the U.S. Congress passes the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution giving US President Lyndon B. Johnson broad war powers to deal with North Vietnamese attacks on American forces.
- August 12, 1964 – South Africa is banned from the Olympic Games due to the country’s racist policies.
- August 16, 1964 – Vietnam War: A coup d'état replaces Duong Van Minh with General Nguyen Khanh as President of South Vietnam. A new constitution is established with aid from the U.S. Embassy.
- September 4, 1964 – Scotland’s Forth Road Bridge near Edinburgh officially opens.
- October 24, 1964 – Northern Rhodesia gains independence from the United Kingdom and becomes the Republic of Zambia (Southern Rhodesia remained a colony until the next year, with the Unilateral Declaration of Independence)
- November 3, 1964 – Washington D.C. residents are able to vote in a presidential election for the first time.
- November 28, 1964 – Mariner program: NASA launches the Mariner 4 probe toward Mars.
- December 12, 1964 – Prime Minister Jomo Kenyatta becomes the first President of the Republic of Kenya.
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