Historical Events in 1964

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• Jan 1 Federation of Rhodesia & Nyasaland dissolved
• Jan 1 KNMT TV channel 12 in Walker, MN (CBS) begins broadcasting
• Jan 1 KTVS TV channel 3 in Sterling, CO (CBS) begins broadcasting

• Jan 5 AFL Championship, Balboa Stadium, San Diego: San Diego Chargers beat Boston Patriots, 51-10; Chargers RB Keith Lincoln rushes for 206 yards, 2 TDs

• Jan 6 Charlie Finlay announces he wants to move KC A's to Louisville
• Jan 6 Rolling Stones' 1st tour of England as headline act: The Ronettes and The Swinging Blue Jeans open for them
• Jan 7 Bahamas becomes self-governing
• Jan 7 Dick Weber rolls highest bowling game in air (Boeing 707)

• Jan 9 Anti-US rioting broke out in Panama Canal Zone
• Jan 10 Battles between Muslims & Hindus in Calcutta
• Jan 10 Panama severs diplomatic relations with US
• Jan 10 US version of "That Was The Week That Was" premieres
• Jan 10 Vee-Jay Records releases "Introducing the Beatles", the 1st Beatles album released in the US
• Jan 11 First government report by US Surgeon General Luther Terry warning that smoking may be hazardous
• Jan 11 Panama ends diplomatic relations with US
• Jan 11 The Beatles single "I Want to Hold Your Hand" reaches #80 in US (Cashbox)
• Jan 12 Revolution overthrows Sultan of Zanzibar, 1 month after independence
• Jan 13 Hindu-Muslim rioting breaks out in the Indian city of Calcutta - now Kolkata - resulting in the deaths of more than 100 people.

• Jan 14 Bapu Nadkarni 32-27-5-0 v England, 21 maiden overs in a row

• Jan 15 MLB executives vote to hold a free agent amateur draft, officially known as Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft in NYC

• Jan 15 Teamsters negotiate 1st national labor contract
• Jan 16 AL owners vote 9-1 against Charlie Finley moving KC A's to Louisville
• Jan 18 Plans for World Trade Center announced (NYC)
• Jan 18 The Beatles make their first appearance on US Billboard Chart with single "I Want to Hold Your Hand" at #45
• Jan 19 KFME TV channel 13 in Fargo, North Dakota (PBS) begins broadcasting
• Jan 20 Capitol Records releases "Meet The Beatles" album by the Beatles, in US
• Jan 21 Carl Rowan named director of US Information Agency
• Jan 22 Kenneth Kaunda becomes the first President of Northern Rhodesia (Zambia)
• Jan 22 World's largest cheese (15,723 kg) manufactured in Wisconsin for New York's World Fair
• Jan 23 24th Amendment to the United States Constitution ratified, barring poll tax in federal elections

• Jan 24 24th Amendment to the US Constitution "The Elimination of Poll Taxes" goes into effect, removing states ability to deny voting rights due to failure to pay taxes
• Jan 24 CBS purchases 1964 and 1965 NFL TV rights for $28.2 million
• Jan 24 Dutch comic strip "Eric de Noorman" by Hans G. Kresse ends
• Jan 25 Echo 2, US communications satellite launched
• Jan 25 Nike athletics company founded in Oregon as Blue Ribbon Sports by University of Oregon track athlete Phil Knight and his coach, Bill Bowerman [1]
• Jan 25 The Beatles get their first US #1, "I Want to Hold your Hand" (Cashbox)
• Jan 27 Barlow & Graeme Pollock complete 341 stand at Adelaide Oval
• Jan 27 Margaret Chase Smith (Sen-R-Maine) tries for Republican President bid

• Jan 29 IX Winter Olympic Games open in Innsbruck, Austria
• Jan 29 Most lopsided high-school basketball score 211-29 (Louisiana)
• Jan 29 NBC purchases AFL 5 year (1965-69) TV rights for $36 million
• Jan 29 The Beatles record in German language versions of their hits "Komm, Gib Mir Deine Hand" ("I Want to Hold Your Hand") and "Sie Liebt Dich" (She Loves You") at EMI's Pathé Marconi Studios in Paris, France
• Jan 29 Unmanned Apollo 1 Saturn launcher test attains Earth orbit
• Jan 30 Military coup of Gen Nguyen Khanh in South Vietnam
• Jan 30 Ranger 6 launched; makes perfect flight to Moon, but cameras fail
• Jan 31 A rigged constitutional referendum in Ghana sees 99.91% vote in favor, turning the country into a one-party state and making Kwame Nkrumah president for life
• Feb 1 Afobaka Dam is completed on the Suriname River
• Feb 1 French sisters Christine Goitschel (gold) and Marielle Goitschel (silver) become first female siblings to win Olympic gold and silver in the same event when they dominate the slalom in Innsbruck
• Feb 1 Indiana Governor Mathew Walsh tries to ban "Louie Louie" for obscenity
• Feb 1 The Beatles' 1st #1 hit "I Want to Hold Your Hand," topped the Hot 100, stays #1 for 7 weeks before being replaced by "She Loves You", also by The Beatles

• Feb 2 GI Joe, debuts as a popular American boy's toy
• Feb 2 Sjoukje Dijkstra (Netherlands) wins Olympic gold for figure skating
• Feb 3 "Meet the Beatles" album goes Gold
• Feb 3 Black & Puerto Rican students boycott NYC public schools
• Feb 3 French sisters Marielle Goitschel (gold) and Christine Goitschel (silver) repeat (in reverse order) their top-2 finish in the slalom 2 days earlier, in the giant slalom at the Innsbruck Winter Olympics
• Feb 4 FAA begins 6 month test of reactions to sonic booms over Oklahoma City

• Feb 6 WCIU TV channel 26 in Chicago, IL (IND) begins broadcasting
• Feb 7 Baskin-Robbins introduces Beatle Nut ice cream
• Feb 7 Beatles land at New York's JFK airport, for 1st US tour

• Feb 8 US Rep Martha Griffiths address gets civil rights protection for women being added to the 1964 Civil Rights Act

• Feb 9 G.I. Joe “action figure” introduced at the American International Toy Fair in New York
• Feb 9 Hanumant Singh scores 105 India v England on debut at Delhi
• Feb 9 IX Winter Olympic Games close in Innsbruck, Austria
• Feb 9 NYC news anchor Jim Jenson's 1st appearance on WCBS-TV
• Feb 10 Australian destroyer HMAS Voyager sinks after colliding with aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne, killing 82
• Feb 10 WBGU TV channel 27 in Bowling Green, OH (PBS) begins broadcasting
• Feb 11 Beatles 1st live appearance in US, at the Washington Coliseum in Washington, D.C.
• Feb 11 Greek & Turks begin fighting in Limassol, Cyprus
• Feb 11 Taiwan drops diplomatic relations with France
• Feb 12 Beatles 1st NYC concerts, two shows at Carnegie Hall

• Feb 12 Fighting breaks out between Turks and Greeks over dispute islands in Cyprus and 16 are killed; the UN responds the following month by sending a peacekeeping force

• Feb 15 Beatles' "Meet the Beatles!" album goes #1 & stays #1 for 11 weeks

• Feb 17 101st member elected to Baseball Hall of Fame, Chicago White Sox shortstop Luke Appling
• Feb 17 US House of Representatives accept Law on the civil rights
• Feb 17 US Supreme Court rules - 1 man 1 vote (Westberry v Sanders)
• Feb 17 WMEM TV channel 10 in Presque Isle, ME (PBS) begins broadcasting
• Feb 18 Muriel Resnik's "Any Wednesday" premieres in NYC
• Feb 18 Papandreou government takes power in Greece
• Feb 19 UK flies ½ ton of Beatles wigs to the US
• Feb 21 UK flies 24,000 rolls of Beatles wallpaper to US
• Feb 22 Beatles arrive back in England after their 1st US visit

• Feb 23 Charlie Finley signs a 4 year lease to keep MLB A's in Kansas City
• Feb 23 The Beatles' 3rd appearance on "The Ed Sullivan Show", featuring 3 performances taped on February 9, prior to their live debut
• Feb 24 "My Heart Skips a Beat" single released by Buck Owens (Billboard No. 1 U.S. Hot Country Singles, 1964)
• Feb 25 Austrian chancellor Alfons Gorbach resigns

• Feb 27 The government of Italy asks for help to keep the Leaning Tower of Pisa from toppling over.

• Feb 29 LBJ reveals the US has secretly developed the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird, an advanced, long‐range high-speed and high-altitude reconnaissance airplane [1]
• Feb 29 NC high school basketball teams play to 56-54 score in 13 overtime

• Mar 4 Teamsters union leader Jimmy Hoffa convicted of jury tampering
• Mar 5 Atlanta Mayor Ivan Allen Jr, announces a baseball team is moving there
• Mar 5 Emergency crisis proclaimed in Ceylon due to social unrest
• Mar 6 Boxing legend Cassius Clay joins the Nation of Islam and changes his name to "Muhammad Ali", calling his former title a "slave name"
• Mar 6 Constantine succeeds Paul I as king of Greece
• Mar 6 Tom O'Hara runs world record mile (3:56.4)

• Mar 9 1st Ford Mustang produced
• Mar 9 Creighton University's Paul Silas grabs Midwest record 27 rebounds against Oklahoma State
• Mar 9 Supreme Court issues NY Times vs Sullivan decision: public officials must prove malice to claim libel and recover damages
• Mar 10 Simon and Garfunkel record the first version of "The Sound of Silence" at Columbia Studios in New York City
• Mar 10 US reconnaissance plane shot down over East Germany
• Mar 11 Gene Roddenberry brings together a 16-page pitch for the original Star Trek series

• Mar 12 S. N. Behrman's play "But for Whom Charlie" premieres in NYC
• Mar 12 Union leader Jimmy Hoffa sentenced to 8 years
• Mar 12 WKAB TV channel 32 in Montgomery, AL (ABC) begins broadcasting
• Mar 13 Turkey threatens Cyprus with armed attack

• Mar 15 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• Mar 16 KCOY TV channel 12 in Santa Maria, California (CBS) begins broadcasting
• Mar 16 LBJ asks Congress to pass Economic Opportunity Act as part of his War on Poverty
• Mar 16 Paul Hornung & Alex Karras reinstated in NFL after 1 year suspension

• Mar 20 ESRO established, European Space Research Organization
• Mar 21 Beatles' single "She Loves You" goes #1 in the US & stays #1 for 2 weeks
• Mar 22 Barbra Streisand appears on the cover of NY Times Magazine section

• Mar 23 UNCTAD 1 world conference opens in Geneva
• Mar 24 Kennedy half-dollar issued

• Mar 25 Egypt ends state of siege (1952-64)
• Mar 27 1st true Pirate Radio station, Radio Caroline (England)
• Mar 27 Great Train Robbers sentenced to a total of 307 years behind bars
• Mar 27 The Great Alaska Earthquake (9.2 magnitude) and resulting tsunami kill 139 people in the largest US earthquake and second largest ever recorded
• Mar 27 UN troops arrive in Cyprus
• Mar 28 1st pirate radio station near England (Radio Caroline)
• Mar 28 Discovery of Epstein-Barr virus, the first human tumor virus, identified by pathologists English Anthony Epstein and Yvonne Barr published in "Lancet" [1]

• Apr 1 10°F lowest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in April
• Apr 1 John Lennon is reunited with his father Freddie after 17 years
• Apr 1 Military coup in Brazil by General Castello Branco ousts President João Goulart
• Apr 1 Robert Lowell's "Benito Cereno" premieres in NYC
• Apr 2 USSR launches Zond 1 to Venus; no data returned
• Apr 3 Beatles hold top 6 spots on Sydney Australia record charts
• Apr 3 US & Panama agree to resume diplomatic relations
• Apr 4 Beatles' "Can't Buy Me Love" single goes #1 & stays #1 for 5 weeks
• Apr 4 Deposed President João Goulart leaves Brazil under threat of arrest, moves into life of exile in Uruguay, and later Argentina
• Apr 5 1st driverless trains run on London Underground
• Apr 6 Egypt & Belgium restore diplomatic relations
• Apr 7 IBM announces the System/360 mainframe computer
• Apr 8 Unmanned Gemini 1 launched
• Apr 10 Demolition begins in Upper Manhattan, New York City on Polo Grounds sports stadium (home to MLB Giants, 1891-1957, Mets, 1962-63, and NFL Jets, 1960-63) to clear way for housing project
• Apr 10 Iranian motor launch catches fire & sinks killing 113 (Persian Gulf)

• Apr 13 Ian Smith becomes Prime Minister of Rhodesia
• Apr 13 New Zealander Colin Bosher shears a record 565 sheep in 1 work day

• Apr 15 Chesapeake Bay Bridge opens (world's longest)
• Apr 16 9 men sentenced 25-30 years for Britain's 1963 "Great Train Robbery"
• Apr 17 1st game at Shea Stadium, NY Mets lose to Pittsburgh Pirates, 4-3
• Apr 17 Ford Mustang formally introduced ($2,368 base)
• Apr 17 Jerrie Mock becomes 1st woman to fly solo around the world
• Apr 18 Artisans strike in Belgium ends
• Apr 18 LA Dodgers pitcher Sandy Koufax strikes out the side on 9 pitches, for major league best third time in his career
• Apr 19 Rightist coup in Laos, Suvanna Phuma remains premier

• Apr 20 86% of black students boycott Cleveland schools
• Apr 21 Pirates & Cubs combine for 9 HRs, Pirates win 8-5
• Apr 22 World's Fair at Flushing Meadow, Corona Park, NY opens
• Apr 23 Houston Colt 45s Ken Johnson becomes 1st major league pitcher to lose a 9 inning no-hitter, Reds win 1-0
• Apr 23 New York State Theater opens
• Apr 24 Gene Roddenberry registers his Star Trek series with the Writers Guild of America
• Apr 24 Mexico becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty

• Apr 25 11th National Film Awards (India): "Shehar Aur Sapna" wins the Golden Lotus
• Apr 25 Stanley Cup Final, Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, ON: 3-peat for the Toronto Maple Leafs with a 4-0 Game 7 win over Detroit Red Wings for a 4-3 series victory

• Apr 26 Tanganyika & Zanzibar form The United Republic of Tanganyika & Zanzibar
• Apr 27 John Lennon's book of poetry and sketches "In His Own Write" is published in US
• Apr 28 Japan joins the OECD
• Apr 29 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• May 1 1st BASIC program runs on a computer (Dartmouth)
• May 2 First ascent of Shishapangma the fourteenth highest mountain in the world and lowest of the Eight-thousanders
• May 2 Mad Dog Vachon beats Verne Gagne in Omaha, to become NWA champ
• May 2 The Beatles' "The Beatles' Second Album" goes #1 & stays #1 for 5 weeks

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