1964 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1964?
- January 28, 1964 – An unarmed USAF T-39 Sabreliner on a training mission is shot down over Erfurt, East Germany, by a Soviet MiG-19.
- February 13, 1964 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Dragon in Chinese astrology.
- 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.
- April 4, 1964 – The Beatles occupy the top five positions on the Billboard Hot 100 pop chart.
- April 13, 1964 – At the Academy Awards, Sidney Poitier becomes the first African-American male to win the Best Actor award for the 1963 film Lilies of the Field.
- April 17, 1964 – Jerrie Mock becomes the first woman to circumnavigate the world by air.
- July 2, 1964 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964 meant to prohibit segregation in public places.
- 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.
- September 29, 1964 – The Argentine comic strip Mafalda is published for the first time.
- October 3, 1964 – First Buffalo Wings are made at the Anchor Bar in Buffalo, New York.
- October 17, 1964 – Prime Minister of Australia Robert Menzies opens the artificial Lake Burley Griffin in the middle of the capital Canberra.
- October 29, 1964 – The United Republic of Tanganyika and Zanzibar is renamed the United Republic of Tanzania.
- November 21, 1964 – The Verrazano-Narrows Bridge opens to traffic (at the time it is the world’s longest suspension bridge).
- December 3, 1964 – Berkeley Free Speech Movement: Police arrest over 800 students at the University of California, Berkeley, following their takeover and sit-in at the administration building in protest at the UC Regents’ decision to forbid protests on UC property.
- December 5, 1964 – Vietnam War: For his heroism in battle earlier in the year, Captain Roger Donlon is awarded the first Medal of Honor of the war.
- December 11, 1964 – Che Guevara speaks at the United Nations General Assembly in New York City.
- December 12, 1964 – Prime Minister Jomo Kenyatta becomes the first President of the Republic of Kenya.
- December 22, 1964 – The first test flight of the SR-71 (Blackbird) took place at Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, Calif.
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