1964 in History

Events 1 - 100 of 346

• Jan 1 Federation of Rhodesia & Nyasaland dissolved

• Jan 5 Pope Paul VI visits Jordan & Israel
• Jan 6 Charlie Finlay announces he wants to move KC A's to Louisville
• 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 11 Panama ends diplomatic relations with US
• Jan 11 1st government report warning by US Surgeon General Luther Terry 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 14 Bapu Nadkarni 32-27-5-0 v England, 21 maiden overs in a row

• 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 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 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 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 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 Indiana Governor Mathew Walsh tries to ban "Louie Louie" for obscenity
• Feb 1 Afobaka Dam is completed on the Suriname River
• Feb 2 GI Joe, debuts as a popular American boy's toy
• Feb 3 Black & Puerto Rican students boycott NYC public schools
• Feb 4 FAA begins 6 month test of reactions to sonic booms over Oklahoma City
• Feb 6 France & Great-Britain sign accord over building channel tunnel
• Feb 7 Baskin-Robbins introduces Beatle Nut ice cream


• Feb 8 Peter Shaffer's "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 GI Joe character created
• Feb 9 Hanumant Singh scores 105 India v England on debut at Delhi
• Feb 10 Australian destroyer HMAS Voyager sinks after colliding with aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne, killing 82
• Feb 11 Greek & Turks begin fighting in Limassol, Cyprus
• Feb 11 Taiwan drops diplomatic relations with France
• 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 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 18 Muriel Resnik's "Any Wednesday" premieres in NYC
• Feb 18 Papandreou government takes power in Greece
• Feb 23 Charlie Finley signs a 4 year lease to keep A's in Kansas City
• 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 US secretly developed the A-11 jet fighter
• Mar 4 Jimmy Hoffa convicted of jury tampering
• Mar 5 Emergency crisis proclaimed in Ceylon due to social unrest
• 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'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 13 Turkey threatens Cyprus with armed attack

• 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 20 ESRO established, European Space Research Organization
• 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 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 US & Panama agree to resume diplomatic relations
• 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 13 Ian Smith becomes Prime Minister of Rhodesia
• Apr 13 New Zealander Colin Bosher shears a record 565 sheep in 1 work day

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Birthdays 1 - 100 of 116

• Jan 2 Christopher John Gray, priest
• Jan 6 Anthony Scaramucci, American financier and White House Communications Director (2017-), born in Long Island, New York

• Jan 14 Shepard Smith, American news anchor, born in Holly Springs, Mississippi

• Jan 19 Janine Antoni, Bahamian artist, born in Freeport, Bahamas
• Jan 20 Kazushige Nojima, Japanese game scenario writer
• Feb 8 Trinny Woodall, British fashion guru
• Feb 10 Mir Aimal Kansi, Pakistani perpretrator of the 1993 shootings at CIA Headquarters, born in Quetta, Pakistan (d. 2002)
• Feb 10 Arthur Lenk, Israeli diplomat, born in Paterson, New Jersey
• Feb 11 Ken Shamrock, American martial artist
• Feb 11 Sarah Palin, American politician
• Feb 13 Ylva Johansson, Swedish politician, born in Huddinge Municipality, Sweden
• Feb 19 Dmitri Lipskerov, Russian writer
• Feb 21 Mark E Kelly, Lt USN/astronaut, born in Orange, New Jersey
• Feb 21 Jane Tomlinson, British cancer campaigner (d. 2007)

• Feb 29 James RB Ogilvy, son of English princess Alexandra
• Mar 7 Bret Easton Ellis, American writer
• Mar 7 Mikhail Popkov, Russian serial killer of 55 people, born in Angarsk, USSR
• Mar 9 Herbert Fandel, German football referee, born in Kyllburg, Germany

• Mar 10 David Faber, American television reporter
• Mar 19 Barbara Lynch, American restaurateur (The Barbara Lynch Gruppo), born in Boston, Massachusetts
• Mar 29 Michael A. Jackson, Maryland politician, born in Cheverly, Maryland
• Apr 3 Nigel Farage, British politician and leader of the UKIP who campaigned for Brexit, born in Downe, Kent
• Apr 6 Phil Gayle, British news presenter (DW News, The Big Breakfast), born in Birmingham, England
• Apr 16 Robert Kelker-Kelly, (Bo-Days of our Live), born in Wichita, Kansas
• Apr 17 Raye Hollit, American Gladiator (Zap)
• Apr 18 Niall Ferguson, British historian
• Apr 28 Helen Taylor [Windsor], English daughter of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, born in Iver
• Apr 28 Mark Steven Robinson, American director
• Apr 28 L'Wren Scott [Laura Bambrough], American fashion designer and partner of Mick Jagger, born in Salt Lake City, Utah (d. 2014)

• May 1 Ruth Picardie, journalist
• May 1 Sarah Armstrong-Jones, daughter of princess Margaret & Lord Snowdon
• May 4 Zsuzsa Mathe, Hungarian painter and visual artist, founder of transrealism
• May 7 Mustapha Zerqti, Moroccan/Neth writer (Ihtidaar hub fi el-mahd)
• May 13 Ronnie Coleman, American bodybuilder
• May 14 James M Kelly, Capt USAF/astronaut, born in Burlington, Iowa
• May 20 Earl Charles Spencer, Sandringham England, brother of Princess Diana
• May 20 Joseph Sinnott Edwards, murderer (FBI Most Wanted List), born in Chicago, Illinois
• May 20 Paul W Richards, astronaut, born in Scranton, Pennsylvania
• May 23 Ruth Metzler-Arnold, member of the Swiss Federal Council
• May 25 Ivan Bella, Slovak cosmonaut
• May 31 Leonard Asper, Canadian businessman
• Jun 14 Peter Gilliver, English lexicographer
• Jun 18 Uday Hussein, Iraqi leader (d. 2003)

• Jun 25 Greg Raymer, American professional poker player, born in Minot, North Dakota
• Jun 26 Zeng Jinlian, tallest woman known (2.46 m, 8'1"), born in Hunan, China (d. 1982)
• Jun 28 Tommy Lynn Sells, American serial killer, born in Oakland, California (d. 2014)
• Jul 2 Charles Robinson, American wrestling referee
• Jul 3 Joanne Harris, British author
• Jul 5 Mark H Lascells, grandson of English princess Mary
• Jul 8 Maryalice Demler, TV journalist and anchor, Miss New York (1991), born in North Tonawanda, New York
• Jul 11 Kyrill, Prince of Preslav, titular Bulgarian royal family
• Jul 18 Wendy Williams, radio host
• Jul 19 André A. Jackson, founder African Diamond Producers Association
• Jul 20 Terri Irwin, American naturalist; widow of Steve Irwin
• Jul 22 Don Van Natta, Jr., American journalist
• Jul 23 Ed Forchion, American marijuana activist (NJWeedman), born in Camden, New Jersey
• Jul 24 Banana Yoshimoto, Japanese author
• Jul 26 Anne Provoost, Belgian author (In the Shadow of the Ark), born in Poperinge, Belgium
• Jul 26 Ralf Metzenmacher, German painter and designer, born in Aachen, Germany
• Aug 3 Joan E Higginbotham, American engineer and NASA astronaut, born in Chicago, Illinois
• Aug 4 Gary King, British radio presenter
• Aug 7 John Birmingham, Australian author
• Aug 8 Anastasia Ashman, American writer and digital strategist (GlobalNiche), born in Berkeley, California
• Aug 8 Giuseppe Conte, Italian jurist and politician, Prime Minister of Italy (2018-), born in Volturara Appula, Italy
• Aug 9 Hoda Kotb, American television news anchor
• Aug 11 Jim Lee, Korean-born comic book artist
• Aug 14 Brannon Braga, American scriptwriter

• Aug 23 Kong Hee, Singaporean, Founder and Senior Pastor of the City Harvest movement in Asia
• Aug 24 Salizhan Sharipov, Kyrgyzstani cosmonaut (STS-89), born in Uzgen, Kyrgyzstan
• Aug 25 Timothy Nicholson, journalist
• Aug 25 Maxim Kontsevich, Russian mathematician, born in Khimki, Russia
• Aug 26 Daphne Caruana Galizia, Maltese journalist (Panama Papers), born in Sliema, Malta (d. 2017)
• Aug 30 Gavin Fisher, British engineer
• Aug 31 Raymond P. Hammond, American poet and editor
• Sep 3 Adam Curry, Internet entrepreneur
• Sep 4 René Pape, German bass
• Sep 4 Anthony Weiner, American politician (Rep-NY 1999-2011) and sex offender, born in NYC, New York
• Sep 8 Michael Johns, American business executive
• Sep 10 John E. Sununu, American politician
• Sep 13 Simegnew Bekele, Ethiopian dam engineer (Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam), born in Maksegnit, Ethiopia (d. 2018)
• Sep 15 Ryoko Kikuchi, Zama City, Kanagawa, Japanese cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-11) and reporter
• Sep 15 Róbert Fico, Slovak Prime minister
• Sep 16 Mary Coustas, Austalian entertainer
• Sep 18 Marco Masini, Italian entertainer
• Sep 25 Gary Ayles, British racing driver
• Sep 30 Stephen N Frick, Lt Cmdr USN/astronaut, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
• Oct 5 Malik Saidullaev Chechen businessman
• Oct 5 Warren E. Miller, Maryland politician
• Oct 7 Dan Savage, American sex-columnist and author
• Oct 13 Niè Hǎishèng, Chinese military pilot and CNSA astronaut, born in Zaoyang, Hubei, China
• Oct 14 Olu Oguibe, American artist
• Oct 15 Roberto Vittori, Italian air force officer and ESA astronaut, born in Viterbo, Lazio, Italy

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• Apr 29 Princess Irene marries Spanish prince Carel Hugo de Bourbon Parma
• Jul 31 George Lascelles marries Patricia Tuckwell

• Sep 18 Greek king Constantine II marries Danish princess Anne-Marie

Deaths 1 - 100 of 109

• Jan 1 Bechara El Khoury, President of Lebanon (b. 1890)
• Jan 6 Edgar Maass, German/American author (Verdun), dies at 67
• Jan 8 Arnoldus JC Krafft, theologist (Atlas of Netherlands Antilles), dies at 71
• Jan 8 Julius Raab, Austrian Chancellor (1953-61), dies at 72
• Jan 9 Halide Edib Adevar/Salih, Turkish feminist (Handan), dies at about 80
• Jan 10 A Marja, Dutch author (Man of Day & Night), dies at 46

• Jan 24 Stuart Davis, American modernist painter, dies at 71
• Jan 30 Berthold Altaner, German church historian, dies at 80
• Feb 3 Sir Albert Richardson, English architect (b. 1880)
• Feb 4 Siegfried T Bok, neurobiologist/anatomist (Cybernetica), dies at 71
• Feb 6 Sophocles Venizelos, premier of Greece (1944, 50-51), dies at 69

• Feb 7 Hermann A J Kees, German egyptologist, dies at 77
• Feb 8 Tom Terriss, English director (His Buddy's Wife, Sumuru), dies at 91
• Feb 10 Eugen Sänger, Austrian aerospace engineer (b. 1905)
• Feb 13 Werner Heyde, German psychiatrist, one of the main organizers of Nazi Germany's T-4 Euthanasia Program, dies at 61
• Feb 15 Robert L. Thornton, American businessman and politician (b. 1880)
• Feb 18 Joseph-Armand Bombardier, Quebec inventor and industrialist (b. 1907)
• Feb 24 Alexander Archipenko, Ukr sculptor/water colors painter, dies at 76
• Feb 25 Alexander Archipenko, sculptor, dies
• Feb 25 Grace Metalious, American writer (b. 1924)
• Feb 27 Orry-Kelly, Australian costume designer (b. 1897)
• Feb 28 Dirk Filarski, Dutch painter and lithographer (Bergen School), dies at 78se
• Feb 29 Victor van Straelen, Flemish biologist/paleontologist, dies at 74
• Mar 6 King Paul I, King of Greece (1947-64), dies at 62
• Mar 7 Franz Alexander, Hungarian/US psycho analyst, dies at 73
• Mar 9 Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, Prussian general and politician, dies at 93
• Mar 13 Catherine "Kitty" Genovese, stabbed to death in Queens; almost 40 witnesses but no rescuers
• Mar 18 Norbert Wiener, American mathematician (discovered cybernetics), dies at 69

• Mar 23 Vassily Vainonen, Russian ballet choreographer (Gayaneh), dies at 66
• Mar 30 Nellallitea "Nella" Larsen [Nellie Walker], African-American Harlem Renaissance novelist (Quicksand, Passing), dies at 72
• Apr 2 Josef Klaus, Chancellor of Austria (1966-70), dies at 90

• Apr 14 Tatyana Alexeyevna Afanasyeva, Russian/Dutch mathematician (b. 1876)
• Apr 18 Ben Hecht, playwright (Child of the Century), dies at 71
• Apr 24 Gerhard Domagk, German bacteriologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (declined) (b. 1895)
• Apr 26 Edwin John Pratt, Canadian poet (Towards the Last Spike), dies at 81
• Apr 26 Pieter van der Lijn, Dutch geologist (Boulder Book), dies at 93
• Apr 27 Georg Britting, writer, dies at 73
• Apr 28 Rolf de Maré, Swedish art collector (b. 1888)
• Apr 29 Albert Saverys, Flemish painter, dies at 77
• May 2 Nancy N Witcher Astor, US/Eng feminist/ex of Waldorf Astor, dies
• May 3 Diana Wynyard, dies at 58
• May 10 Mikhail Larionov, Russian painter (b. 1881)
• May 15 Cornelis H Edelman, Dutch geologist, dies at 61
• May 15 Vladko Maček, Kingdom of Yugoslavia deputy prime minister (b. 1879)
• May 17 Otto V. Kuusinen, Finnish politician (founder of the Finnish Communist Party), dies at 82
• May 21 James Franck, German-born physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1882)

• May 30 Leo Szilard, Hungarians/US nuclear physicst, dies at 66
• Jun 3 Frans Eemil Sillanpää, Finnish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
• Jun 4 Samuil Marshak, Russian poet (b. 1887)
• Jun 9 [William Maxwell] Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, Canadian British newspaper owner (Leatherhead), dies at 85
• Jun 21 Andrew Goodman, US civil rights activist, murdered at 20
• Jun 21 James Chaney, US civil rights activist, murdered at 21
• Jun 21 Michael Schwerner, American civil rights activist, murdered at 21
• Jun 22 Havank, [HF van der Kallen], detective writer (Shade), dies at 60
• Jun 25 Gerrit T Rietveld, Dutch architect (Sonsbeekpaviljoen), dies at 76
• Jun 26 Léo Dandurand, American-Canadian hockey executive, dies at 74
• Jul 11 Maurice Thorez, sec-general French communist party, dies at 64
• Jul 20 Anna Vyrubova, Russian lady-in-waiting, the best friend and confidante of Tsaritsa Alexandra Fyodorovna, dies at 80
• Jul 23 Jan de Vries, Dutch scholar of Germanic linguistics and Germanic mythology, dies at 74
• Jul 24 Erwin F Finlay-Freundlich, British astronomer, dies
• Aug 3 Flannery O'Connor, writer (Good Man is Hard to Find), dies at 39
• Aug 5 Moa Martinson, Swedish writer (My Mother Gets Married), dies at 73
• Aug 13 Peter Anthony Allen is the last person executed (for murder) in England and United Kingdom at Walton Prison, Liverpool
• Aug 21 Palmiro Togliatti, Italian politician and founder of the Communist Party of Italy, dies of a cerebral hemorrhage at 71
• Sep 2 Francisco Craveiro Lopes, 12th President of Portugal (1951-58), dies at 70
• Sep 2 Glenn Albert Black, American archaeologist, dies at 64
• Sep 2 Alvin York, American World War I soldier who led a famed attack on a German machine gun nest (Medal of Honor), dies at 76
• Sep 3 Stewart Holbrook, American author (b. 1893)
• Sep 4 W Bergengruen, writer, dies at 71
• Sep 16 Leo Weismantel, German writer (Das Totenliebespar), dies at 76
• Sep 18 Sean O'Casey, Irish playwright (The Plough and the Stars), dies at 84
• Sep 18 Clive Bell, English art critic, dies at 83
• Sep 18 J. Frank Dobie, American folklorist and newspaper columnist, dies at 75
• Sep 21 Jim Koethe, Dallas Times Herald reporter, killed by karate chop
• Sep 28 Nacio Herb Brown, dies
• Oct 6 Richard Scheibe, German sculptor (Adler mit Hakenkreuz), dies at 85
• Oct 7 Eugen Varga, Hungarian-Russian economist and politician, dies at 84
• Oct 8 Charles Hodge, NYU professor (Answers for Americans), dies at 69
• Oct 10 Konrad Bayer, writer, dies
• Oct 12 J Howard Frazer, USTA pres, dies in office
• Oct 19 Nettie Palmer, Australian poet and essayist (Henry Handel Richardson: A Study), dies at 79

• Oct 20 Miles WL Killearn of Killearn, baron/diplomat (Egypt), dies at 84
• Oct 22 Khawaja Nazimuddin, 2nd Prime Minister of Pakistan and President of Pakistan Muslim League, dies at 70
• Oct 26 Agnes Miegel, writer, dies
• Oct 27 Willi Bredel, German writer, dies at 63
• Oct 28 Reginald Horace Blyth, Zen teacher/scholar, dies in Japan at 66
• Oct 31 Theodore C Freeman, astronaut, dies at 34 in a T-38 jet air crash
• Nov 5 Lansdale Sasscer, U.S. Congressman for Maryland's 5th District (b. 1893)
• Nov 6 Hans von Euler-Chelpin, German-born Swedish biochemist who investigated the fermentation of sugar and enzymes (Nobel 1929), dies at 91
• Nov 11 H[enry] Beam Piper, American sci-fi author (4 Day Planet), dies at 60
• Nov 24 John Fabricius, playwright, dies at 55
• Nov 28 Jan Fabricius, Dutch/English playwright (Dolle Hans), dies at 93
• Nov 29 Anne de Vries, Dutch teacher/author (Bartje), dies at 60

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