Events 1 - 200 of 602
- Jan 1 G Woods succeeds Eugene Black as president of the World Bank
- Jan 1 WTEV (now WLNE) TV channel 6 in Providence RI begins broadcasting
- Jan 1 49th Rose Bowl: #1 Southern California beats #2 Wisconsin, 42-37
- Jan 1 29th Sugar Bowl: #3 Mississippi beats #6 Arkansas, 17-13
- Jan 1 29th Orange Bowl: #5 Alabama beats #8 Oklahoma, 17-0
- Jan 3 WOUB TV channel 20 in Athens, OH (PBS) begins broadcasting
- Jan 4 Soviet Luna (4) reaches Earth orbit but fails to reach Moon
- Jan 5 "Camelot" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 873 performances
- Jan 5 "Carnival!" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 719 performances
- Jan 6 "Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom" with Marlin Perkins begins on NBC
- Jan 6 "Oliver!" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 774 performances
- Jan 7 1st class postage raised from 4 cents to 5 cents
Event of Interest
Jan 7 The rift between Cleveland Browns owner Art Modell and head coach Paul Brown reaches a boiling point, and Brown is fired

Paul Brown
- Jan 8 "Mona Lisa", on loan, unveiled in America's National Gallery of Art
Event of Interest
Jan 8 Dmitri Shostakovich' Katharina Ismailova premieres in Riga

Dmitri Shostakovich
Event of Interest
Jan 9 Mao Zedong writes his poem "Reply to Comrade Kuo Mo-jo"

Mao Zedong
- Jan 11 Beatles release "Please Please Me" & "Ask Me Why"
- Jan 12 "Go Away Little Girl" by Steve Lawrence peaks at #1
- Jan 12 Spin bowler Bobby Simpson takes 5-57 for Australia v England
- Jan 13 2nd AFL All Star Game, Balboa Stadium, SD: Western Division beats Eastern Division, 21-14; MVPs: Curtis McClinton, Dallas Texans, RB; Earl Faison, LA Chargers, DE
NFL Pro Bowl
Jan 13 13th NFL Pro Bowl, LA Memorial Coliseum: Eastern Conference beats Western Conference, 30-20; MVPs: Jim Brown, Cleveland Browns, RB; Eugene Lipscomb, Pittsburgh Steelers, DT

Jim Brown
Event of Interest
Jan 14 George Wallace sworn in as Governor of Alabama, his address states "segregation now; segregation tomorrow; segregation forever!"

George Wallace
- Jan 14 "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Path is published by Heinemann in the UK, the author commits suicide a month later
Event of Interest
Jan 16 Khrushchev claims to have a 100-megaton nuclear bomb

Nikita Khrushchev
Event of Interest
Jan 16 Tennessee Williams' "Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore" premieres

Tennessee Williams
NBA All-Star Game
Jan 16 13th NBA All-Star Game, LA Memorial Sports Arena: East beats West, 115-108; MVP: Bill Russell, Boston Celtics, C

Bill Russell
Event of Interest
Jan 17 Wilt Chamberlain of NBA SF Warriors scores 67 points vs LA

Wilt Chamberlain
- Jan 18 Reinier Paping wins Dutch 11-Cities Skating Race (10:59)
- Jan 19 Australian Championships Women's Tennis: Margaret Court beats Jan Lehane O'Neill for 4th consecutive year 6-2, 6-2
Australian Men's Tennis Open
Jan 19 Australian Championships Men's Tennis: Roy Emerson wins 1st of 5 straight Australian titles; beats countryman Ken Fletcher 6-3, 6-3, 6-1

Roy Emerson
Treaty of Interest
Jan 22 Elysée treaty of cooperation between France and Germany signed by Charles de Gaulle and Konrad Adenauer

Charles de Gaulle
- Jan 26 "Milk & Honey" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 543 performances
- Jan 26 Major League Rules Committee votes to expand strike zone
- Jan 27 Yevgeni Grishin skates world record 500m in 39.6 sec
- Jan 27 Sam Rice, Eppa Rixey, Elmer Flick, & John Clarkson elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
- Jan 28 -34°F (-37°C), Cynthiana, Kentucky (state record)
- Jan 28 "Still" single released by Bill Anderson (Billboard no. 1 U.S. Hot Country Singles 1963)
Hall of Fame
Jan 29 Jim Thorpe, Red Grange & George Halas elected to football Hall of Fame
Event of Interest
Jan 30 Ivan Sutherland submits a thesis containing his Sketchpad program, a forerunner to modern-day graphic user interfaces and computer-aided design programs

Ivan Sutherland
Music Recording
Jan 31 Tony Sheridan & Beat Brothers record "What'd I Say" & "Ruby Baby"

Tony Sheridan
- Feb 1 Nyasaland (now Malawi) becomes self-governing under Hastings Banda
- Feb 2 Helen Shapiro begins tour (Beatles are part of undercard)
- Feb 5 Maarten Schmidt discovers enormous red shifts in quasars
- Feb 5 Soviet lunar probe failure
- Feb 8 1st transmission of Clandestine Voice of Iraqi People (Communist)
- Feb 8 AFL's Dallas Texans become KC Chiefs
- Feb 8 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Feb 9 1st flight of Boeing 727 jet
- Feb 9 7th largest snowfall in NYC history (42.4 cm, 16.7")
- Feb 10 US female Figure Skating championship won by Lorraine Hanlon
- Feb 10 US male Figure Skating championship won by Thomas Litz
- Feb 11 Beatles tape 10 tracks for their 1st album
- Feb 11 CIA Domestic Operations Division created
- Feb 11 American chef Julia Child's show "The French Chef" premieres
Event of Interest
Feb 12 Argentina requests the extradition of ex-president Juan Perón

Juan Perón
- Feb 14 US launches communications satellite Syncom 1
Film Release
Feb 14 "8½" film directed by Federico Fellini, starring Marcello Mastroianni and Claudia Cardinale, is released (Academy Awards Best Foreign Language Film 1964)

Federico Fellini
- Feb 15 1st US female world figure skating champ (Tenley Albright)
- Feb 15 Ken Lynch records "Misery," 1st Lennon-McCartney song by someone else
- Feb 16 1st round-trip swim of Strait of Messina, Italy (Mary Revell of US)
- Feb 16 Beatles top British rock charts with "Please, Please Me"
- Feb 16 C & A Building in Amsterdam burns down
NBA Record
Feb 16 North Carolina forward Billy Cunningham grabs a record 27 rebounds in a game vs Clemson

Billy Cunningham
'The Banality of Evil'
Feb 16 Philosopher Hannah Arendt's controversial account of the trial of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann is first published in "The New Yorker"
Learn More- Feb 17 Toru Terasawa runs world record marathon (2:15:15.8
Event of Interest
Feb 19 Robert Frost wins Bollingen Prize

Robert Frost

John F. Kennedy
Historic Publication
Feb 19 "The Feminine Mystique" by Betty Friedan, widely credited as the start of second-wave feminism, is published

Betty Friedan
- Feb 20 End of the Test Cricket careers of Neil Harvey & Alan Davidson
Baseball Record
Feb 20 Willie Mays (SF Giants) signs a record $100,000 per year contract

Willie Mays
Event of Interest
Feb 23 Luciano Pavarotti makes his debut at the Vienna State Opera in "La traviata"

Luciano Pavarotti
Contract of Interest
Feb 27 Mickey Mantle of NY Yankees sign a baseball contract worth $100,000

Mickey Mantle
- Mar 1 200,000 French mine workers strike
- Mar 2 10th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament, Reynolds Coliseum, Raleigh, NC: Duke beats Wake Forest, 68-57
- Mar 3 Senegal adopts a new constitution
- Mar 3 American blues musician "Mississippi" John Hurt 're-discovered' by musicologist Tom Hoskins in Avalon, Mississippi [1]
- Mar 5 Beatles record "From Me to You" & "Thank You Girl"
Golden Globes
Mar 5 20th Golden Globes: "Lawrence of Arabia", Gregory Peck, & Geraldine Page win
Event of Interest
Mar 7 John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman recorded their self-titled album "John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman" at Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey

John Coltrane
- Mar 10 Wilt Chamberlain of NBA SF Warriors scores 70 points vs Syracuse
- Mar 11 Somalia drops diplomatic relations with Great Britain
Event of Interest
Mar 11 US Defense Secretary Robert MacNamara orders the adoption by the US military of the M16 assault rifle, originally designed as the AR-15 by Eugene Stoner

Eugene Stoner
Event of Interest
Mar 12 Beatles perform as a trio, John Lennon is ill with a cold

John Lennon
- Mar 13 Two Russian reconnaissance flights over Alaska
Music Premiere
Mar 13 Paul Hindemith and Thornton Wilder's opera "Long Christmas Dinner" premieres in NYC

Paul Hindemith

Thornton Wilder
- Mar 13 Indonesia & Netherlands reinstate diplomatic relations
- Mar 14 San Francisco Guy Rogers ties NBA record with 28 assists
- Mar 15 WFAN TV channel 14 in Washington, D.C. (IND) begins broadcasting
- Mar 16 England edges Scotland, 10-8 at Twickenham, London to win its 17th Five Nations Rugby Championship
- Mar 17 Elizabeth Ann Seton of NY beatified (canonized in 1975)
- Mar 17 Eruptions of Mount Agung on Bali, kills 1,900 Balinese
- Mar 18 "Tovarich" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 264 performances
- Mar 18 France performs underground nuclear test at Ecker, Algeria
- Mar 18 WGSF TV channel 31 in Newark, OH (PBS) begins broadcasting
- Mar 20 1st "Pop Art" exhibition (NYC)
- Mar 21 David Hendon & Douglas Cross' musical premieres in London
- Mar 22 Beatles release 1st album, "Please Please Me"
- Mar 22 British Minister of War John Profumo denies having sex with Christine Keeler
- Mar 23 25th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Loyola-Chicago beats Cincinnati, 60-58 (OT); Ramblers' first title in first title game
- Mar 23 Rolf Hochhuth's play "Der Stellvertreter" (The Representative) premieres in Berlin
- Mar 23 8th Eurovision Song Contest: Grethe and Jorgen Ingmann for Denmark win singing "Dansevise" in London
- Mar 25 KWHY TV channel 22 in Los Angeles, CA (IND) begins broadcasting
- Mar 27 Beeching axe: Dr. Richard Beeching issues a report calling for huge cuts to the United Kingdom's rail network.
- Mar 28 AFL's NY Titan's become the NY Jets
- Mar 29 Final episode of soap opera "Young Doctor Malone"
- Mar 30 France performs underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria
- Mar 30 117th Grand National: 19-year old jockey Pat Buckley aboard 66/1 outsider Ayala wins by 3/4 of a length from Carrickbeg
- Mar 31 LA ends streetcar service after 90 years
- Apr 1 NY Mets purchase future Baseball Hall of Fame outfielder Duke Snider from the LA Dodgers for $40,000; Snider had starred for the Brooklyn Dodgers 1947-57
- Apr 1 NYC's newspapers resume publishing after a 114 day strike
- Apr 1 American television soap opera premieres: "General Hospital" (ABC) & "Doctors" (NBC)
- Apr 2 Explorer 17 attains Earth orbit (254/914 km)
- Apr 2 USSR launches Luna 4; missed Moon by 8,500 km
- Apr 5 Beatles receive their 1st silver disc (Please Please Me)
- Apr 5 Susuga Malietoa Tanumafili II becomes chief of Western Samoa
US Masters Golf
Apr 7 27th US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: 23 year old Jack Nicklaus wins the first of his record 6 Green Jackets with a 3-foot par putt on the final hole to finish 1 stroke ahead of Tony Lema

Jack Nicklaus
Academy Awards
Apr 8 35th Academy Awards: "Lawrence of Arabia", Anne Bancroft & Gregory Peck win
Event of Interest
Apr 8 Tigers claim young pitcher Denny McLain from the White Sox for $25,000

Denny McLain
Event of Interest
Apr 9 Winston Churchill becomes 1st honorary US citizen

Winston Churchill
Catholic Encyclical
Apr 11 Pope John XXIII publishes encyclical "Pacem in terris", that peace between all peoples must be based on truth, justice, love and freedom

John XXIII
- Apr 11 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Apr 11 Milwaukee Braves future Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Warren Spahn beats NY Mets, 6-1 for his 328th win; most by a left-hander in MLB history
- Apr 12 Beatles "From Me to You" is released in UK
- Apr 12 Police in Birmingham, Alabama, use dogs & cattle prods on peaceful demonstrators
- Apr 13 Pete Rose triples for his 1st major league base hit
- Apr 13 Pirate's Bob Friend balks 4 times in a game
Event of Interest
Apr 14 George Harrison is impressed by unsigned group "Rolling Stones"

George Harrison
- Apr 15 "Sophie" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 8 performances
- Apr 15 67th Boston Marathon won by Aurèle Vandendriessche of Belgium in race record 2:18:58
- Apr 18 Dr James Campbell performed the 1st human nerve transplant
- Apr 18 Stanley Cup Final, Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, ON: Toronto Maple Leafs go back-to-back with a 3-1 Game 5 win over Detroit Red Wings for a 4-1 series victory
- Apr 19 "Hot Spot" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 43 performances
Music Single
Apr 19 Johnny Cash releases his single "Ring Of Fire" written by his future wife June Carter and Merle Kilgore

Johnny Cash

June Carter Cash
Event of Interest
Apr 21 Beatles meet The Rolling Stones for the 1st time

Charlie Watts
- Apr 21 The Universal House of Justice of the Bahá'í Faith is elected for the first time
Event of Interest
Apr 22 Lester B. Pearson is sworn in as the 14th Prime Minister of Canada

Lester B. Pearson
Event of Interest
Apr 27 Cuban premier Fidel Castro arrives in Moscow

Fidel Castro
- Apr 28 17th Tony Awards: "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" and "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" win
Golf Tournament
Apr 29 LPGA Titleholders Championship Women's Golf, Augusta CC: Marilynn Smith beats Mickey Wright by 1 shot in 18-hole playoff

Mickey Wright
- Apr 29 KRE-AM in Berkeley CA changes call letters to KPAT
- May 1 1st American (James Whittaker) conquers Mount Everest
- May 1 Indonesia takes control of Irian Jaya (west New Guinea) from Neth
- May 1 First one-day cricket competition is played (Gillette Cup); Lancashire beats Leicestershire by 101 at Old Trafford
Event of Interest
May 1 Gloria Steinem's expose on Playboy bunny working conditions published in "Show" magazine

Gloria Steinem
Event of Interest
May 2 Children's crusade begins in Birmingham, Alabama. More than 600 African American school children arrested for marching against segregation, organised by James Bevel and the SCLC

James Bevel
- May 3 Leslie Narum is only Baltimore Oriole to homer on his 1st at bat
- May 3 Birmingham officials turn high pressure hoses and dogs on children's crusade protest against segregation prompting widespread condemnation
- May 4 89th Kentucky Derby: Braulio Baeza aboard Chateaugay wins in 2:01.8
- May 4 Pitcher Bob Shaw sets record of 5 balks in a game
- May 6 Pulitzer prize awarded to Barbara Tuchman (Guns of August)
- May 7 Bruno Sammartino becomes WWF champ
- May 7 SETC Telstar 2 launched (apogee 6,700 miles (10,800 km))
- May 8 "Dr No" premieres in US
- May 8 JFK offers Israel assistance against aggression
- May 9 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- May 10 Decca signs Rolling Stones on advice of Beatle George Harrison
- May 11 "Puff (The Magic Dragon)" by Peter, Paul & Mary hits #2
Event of Interest
May 11 LA Dodgers pitcher Sandy Koufax throws his second career no-hitter; beats Juan Marichal and the SF Giants, 8-0

Sandy Koufax
- May 11 Racial bomb attacks in Birmingham Alabama
Event of Interest
May 12 Bob Dylan walks out of the "Ed Sullivan Show"

Bob Dylan

Ed Sullivan
- May 12 Race riot in Birmingham, Alabama
- May 14 Kuwait is 111th member of the United Nations
- May 15 Last Project Mercury flight, L Gordon Cooper in Faith 7, launched
- May 15 Peter, Paul & Mary win their 1st Grammy (If I Had a Hammer)
- May 15 Tottenham Hotspur of England win 3rd European Cup winner's Cup against Atlético Madrid of Spain 5-1 at Rotterdam
Grammy Awards
May 15 5th Grammy Awards: I Left My Heart In San Francisco, Robert Goulet wins

Robert Goulet
- May 16 "Beast in Me" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 4 performances
- May 16 Gordon Cooper completes 22 orbits in Faith 7, ends US Proj Mercury
- May 17 Bruno Sammartino beats Buddy Rogers in NY, to become WWF champ
- May 17 Houston Colt .45's Don Notterbart no-hits Phillies, 4-1
- May 17 US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
- May 18 "Beast in Me" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 4 performances
- May 18 "If You Wanna Be Happy" by Jimmy Soul hits #1
- May 18 88th Preakness: Bill Shoemaker aboard Candy Spots wins in 1:56.2