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 1 50th Rose Bowl: #3 Illinois beats Washington, 17-7
• Jan 1 30th Sugar Bowl: #8 Alabama beats #7 Mississippi, 12-7
• Jan 1 30th Orange Bowl: #6 Nebraska beats #5 Auburn, 13-7

• Jan 3 Jack Paar Show, shows a clip of the Beatles singing "She Loves You"

• 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 as headline act (with Ronettes)
• 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 "Introducing the Beatles" released 1st Beatles album released in the US
• Jan 11 "She Loves Me" closes at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC after 302 performances
• Jan 11 The Beatles single "I Want to Hold Your Hand" reaches #80 in US (Cashbox)
• Jan 11 Panama ends diplomatic relations with US
• Jan 11 First government report by US Surgeon General Luther Terry warning that smoking may be hazardous

• 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 13 Australian Championships Women's Tennis: Australian Margaret Smith beats doubles partner Lesley Turner 6-3, 6-2 for her 5th Australian singles crown

• 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 "Hello, Dolly!" opens at St James Theater NYC for 2,844 performances
• Jan 16 AL owners vote 9-1 against Charlie Finley moving KC A's to Louisville
• Jan 18 The Beatles make their first appearance on US Billboard Chart with single "I Want to Hold Your Hand" at #45
• Jan 18 Plans for World Trade Center announced (NYC)
• Jan 19 3rd AFL All Star Game, Balboa Stadium, SD: Western Division beats Eastern Division, 27-24; MVPs: Keith Lincoln, LA Chargers, RB; Archie Matsos, Oakland Raiders, LB
• Jan 19 KFME TV channel 13 in Fargo, North Dakota (PBS) begins broadcasting
• Jan 20 "Meet The Beatles" album released in US
• Jan 21 Carl T Rowan named director of US Information Agency
• Jan 22 Kenneth Kaunda becomes premier 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 CBS purchases 1964 & 1965 NFL TV rights for $28.2 million
• Jan 24 Eric de Noorman, a Dutch comic strip by Hans G. Kresse, ends
• Jan 24 24th Amendment to US Constitution goes into effect & states voting rights could not be denied due to failure to pay taxes
• Jan 25 The Beatles get their first US #1, "I Want to Hold your Hand" (Cashbox)
• Jan 25 Echo 2, US communications satellite launched
• 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 Beatles record in German "Komm, Gib Mir Deine Hand" & "Sie Liebt Dich"
• 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 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
• Feb 1 "Stop the World, I Want to..." closes at Shubert NYC after 556 performances
• 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"
• Feb 1 Indiana Governor Mathew Walsh tries to ban "Louie Louie" for obscenity
• 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 2 GI Joe, debuts as a popular American boy's toy
• Feb 2 Sjoukje Dijkstra (Neth) 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 "Rugantino" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 28 performances

• 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 NY's JFK airport, for 1st US tour
• Feb 7 Roger Sessions' 5th Symphony premieres
• Feb 8 Peter Shaffer's musical "Royal Hunt of the Sun" premieres in London
• Feb 8 US Rep Martha Griffiths address gets civil rights protection for women being added to the 1964 Civil Rights Act

• Feb 9 IX Winter Olympic Games close in Innsbruck, Austria
• Feb 9 GI Joe character created
• Feb 9 Hanumant Singh scores 105 India v England on debut at Delhi
• 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; Washington, D.C. Coliseum


• Feb 11 Greek & Turks begin fighting in Limassol, Cyprus
• Feb 11 Taiwan drops diplomatic relations with France
• Feb 12 Beatles 1st NYC concert (Carnegie Hall)

• Feb 12 US female Figure Skating championship won by Peggy Fleming
• Feb 12 US male Figure Skating championship won by Scott Allen
• 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 16 "Foxy" opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC for 72 performances

• Feb 17 101st member elected to Baseball Hall of Fame, Chicago WS 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 The 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 A's in Kansas City

• 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 "What Makes Sammy Run?" opens at 84th St Theater NYC for 540 performances
• Feb 27 The government of Italy asks for help to keep the Leaning Tower of Pisa from toppling over.
• Feb 29 "Rugantino" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 28 performances
• 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

• Feb 29 Australian swimmer Dawn Fraser records the fastest 100m freestyle of her brilliant career; smashes her own world record 58.9s in Sydney; goes on to win her 3rd straight gold in the event at the Tokyo Olympics
• Mar 2 Beatles begin filming "A Hard Day's Night", Harrison meets Patti Boyd
• Mar 4 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 Constantine succeeds Paul I as king of Greece
• 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 Tom O'Hara runs world record mile (3:56.4)
• Mar 7 11th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: Duke beats Wake Forest, 80-59

• Mar 9 1st Ford Mustang produced
• Mar 9 Creighton's Paul Silas grabs Midwest record 27 rebounds against Okla
• Mar 9 Supreme Court issues NY Times vs Sullivan decision, public officials must prove malice to claim libel & recover damages
• Mar 10 US reconnaissance plane shot down over East Germany
• Mar 10 Simon and Garfunkel record the first version of "The Sound of Silence" at Columbia Studios in New York City

• Mar 12 Jimmy Hoffa sentenced to 8 years
• Mar 12 S. N. Behrman's play "But for Whom Charlie" premieres in NYC
• Mar 12 WKAB TV channel 32 in Montgomery, AL (ABC) begins broadcasting
• Mar 13 Turkey threatens Cyprus with armed attack
• Mar 14 "Girl Who Came to Supper" closes at Broadway NYC after 112 performances

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

• Mar 20 ESRO established, European Space Research Organization


• Mar 21 26th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA beats Duke, 98-83; Bruins first title in first title game; undefeated season (30-0)
• Mar 21 Beatles' single "She Loves You" goes #1 in the US & stays #1 for 2 weeks
• Mar 21 118th Grand National: Willie Robinson aboard American-owned 12-year-old Team Spirit wins at odds of 18/1
• Mar 21 9th Eurovision Song Contest: Gigliola Cinquetti for Italy wins singing "Non ho l'eta" in Copenhagen
• Mar 21 Wales draws 11-11 with France in Cardiff, whilst Scotland beats England, 15-6 at Murrayfield to leave the Five Nations Rugby Championship shared by Wales and Scotland on 6 competition points
• Mar 22 Barbra Streisand appears on the cover of NY Times Magazine section
• Mar 22 LPGA Western Open Women's Golf, Scenic Hills CC: Carol Mann her 1st of 2 major titles by 2 shots from Ruth Jessen and Judy Kimball
• 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 26 "Funny Girl" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 1,348 performances
• Mar 27 1st true Pirate Radio station, Radio Caroline (England)
• 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 Great Train Robbers sentenced to a total of 307 years behind bars
• Mar 27 UN troops arrive in Cyprus
• Mar 28 1st pirate radio station near England (Radio Caroline)

• Mar 31 President Jango Goulart of Brazil chased out of office by military
• Apr 1 10°F lowest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in April

• Apr 1 Robert Lowell's "Benito Cereno" premieres in NYC
• Apr 2 Military coup in Brazil by Gen Castello Branco, President Goulart ousted
• 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 "Anyone Can Whistle" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 9 performances
• Apr 4 Beatles' "Can't Buy Me Love" single goes #1 & stays #1 for 5 weeks
• Apr 5 1st driverless trains run on London Underground
• Apr 6 Egypt & Belgium restore diplomatic relations


• Apr 7 IBM announces the System/360.
• Apr 8 Unmanned Gemini 1 launched
• Apr 10 Demolition begins on Polo Grounds to clear way for housing project
• Apr 10 Iranian motor launch catches fire & sinks killing 113 (Persian Gulf)
• Apr 11 "Anyone Can Whistle" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 9 performances

• Apr 13 36th Academy Awards: "Tom Jones", Best Film, Patricia Neal and Sidney Poitier win Best Actor/Actress, Poitier first black actor to win
• 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 "Cafe Crown" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 3 performances
• Apr 17 "High Spirits" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 375 performances
• 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 "Cafe Crown" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 3 performances
• Apr 18 "Foxy" closes at Ziegfeld Theater NYC after 72 performances

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