Events in History in 1964 (Part 2)

Events 201 - 343 of 343

• Aug 1 ALM (Antillian Airlines) begins operation
• Aug 2 Dutch government gives Indonesia export guarantees

• Aug 2 North Vietnam fires on a US destroyer in the Gulf of Tonkin incident which would eventually escalate US involvement in the Vietnam War
• Aug 2 Race riot in Jersey City, New Jersey
• Aug 4 Bodies of civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James E. Chaney discovered in an earthen Mississippi dam
• Aug 4 North Vietnam torpedoes US ships in the Gulf of Tonkin
• Aug 5 Congo rebellion: Christopher Gbenye/Pierre Mulele conquer Stanleyville
• Aug 5 US begins bombing North Vietnam

• Aug 6 Prometheus, the world's oldest tree aged at least 4,862 years old, is accidentally cut down in Nevada, USA
• Aug 7 Turkey begins air attack on Greek Cypriots
• Aug 7 US Congress approves Gulf of Tonkin resolution
• Aug 11 Race riot in Paterson NJ
• Aug 12 10th time Mantle switch-hits HR in a game, one goes 502 feet
• Aug 12 Race riot in Elizabeth, NJ
• Aug 13 1st broadcast by Trans World Radio on Bonaire


• Aug 14 Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait and Syria form common market
• Aug 15 Race riot in Dixmoor (Chicago suburb) Ill
• Aug 16 St Louis Card Curt Flood gets 8 straight hits in a doubleheader
• Aug 18 Charles Helu elected president of Lebanon
• Aug 18 USSR launch 3 Kosmos satellites
• Aug 19 Communication satellite Syncom 3 launched

• Aug 22 Guinee, Liberia & Ivory Coast form joint market

• Aug 25 Singapore limits imports from Netherlands due to Indonesian aggression
• Aug 26 Italian Communist Party selects Luigi Longo as chairman
• Aug 26 LBJ nominated at Democratic convention in Atlantic City, NJ
• Aug 28 Race riot in Philadelphia
• Aug 28 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• Aug 28 US weather satellite Nimbus 1 launched
• Aug 30 Electric designer Norman Manley records back-to-back holes-in-one on the 7th & 8th holes at Del Valle in Saugus, California; Guinness BWR' best
• Aug 31 Ground is broken for Anaheim Stadium, future home of Angels
• Sep 2 Indonesian paratroopers lands in Malaysia

• Sep 3 Wilderness Act signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson


• Sep 3 2nd incident that year of race riots in Singapore between Chinese and Malay, 13 people killed, 106 injured
• Sep 4 Eduardo Frei Montalva elected President of Chile
• Sep 4 Scottish Forth Road Bridge opens (then the longest in Europe)
• Sep 4 NASA launches its 1st Orbital Geophysical Observatory (OGO-1)
• Sep 9 German DR government allows short visits to West Germany
• Sep 9 John Osborne's "Inadmissible Evidence" premieres in London
• Sep 10 Palestinian Liberation Army (PLA) forms
• Sep 12 1st football game at Shea Stadium, Jets defeat Denver 30-6
• Sep 12 Canyonlands National Park is designated as a National Park.
• Sep 13 3rd sitting of 2nd Vatican council opens in Rome
• Sep 13 St Louis is 1st NL to score runs in every game since 1923, win 15-2

• Sep 15 Final edition of socialist British newspaper "Daily Herald"
• Sep 18 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR

• Sep 21 Malta becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
• Sep 21 The North American XB-70 Valkyrie, the world's first Mach 3 bomber, makes its maiden flight from Palmdale, California
• Sep 23 "Fiddler on the Roof" with Zero Mostel premieres in NYC
• Sep 24 "The Munsters" premieres on TV
• Sep 24 1st Minuteman II ICBM was tested

• Sep 24 Willi Stoph succeeds Otto Great as premier of German DR
• Sep 25 Jens Otto Krag forms minority government in Denmark

• Sep 28 Suriname governor A Currie resigns
• Sep 29 Greece & Bulgaria close boundaries
• Oct 1 1st official broadcast of Trans World Radio on Bonaire
• Oct 1 2nd Dutch televisienet begins broadcastings
• Oct 1 Free Speech Movement launched at University of California, Berkley
• Oct 1 San Francisco cable cars declared a national landmark
• Oct 4 -7] Hurricane Hilda, kills 38 in La, Miss & Ga
• Oct 4 3 cars of a commuter train derails in South Africa killing 81
• Oct 4 Italian Autostrada del Sol opens at Milan-Naples
• Oct 5 San Francisco Fire Department Museum dedicated
• Oct 8 Gilroy Roberts becomes first US chief engraver to retire (than die)
• Oct 8 Ringo Starr passes his driving test
• Oct 12 Launch of Voskhod 1, first time 3 people in space (Komarov, Feokistov, Yegorov)
• Oct 13 At Plesman airport, Curacao, 125.5 mm rainfalls (record)
• Oct 13 Voskhod 1 crew returns

• Oct 14 Martin Walser's "Der Schwarze Schwan," premieres in Stuttgart
• Oct 14 Philips begins experimenting with color TV

• Oct 15 Craig Breedlove sets auto speed record of 846.97 kph
• Oct 16 China becomes world's 5th nuclear power

• Oct 16 Indians' directors vote to keep franchise in Cleveland, rejecting bids by Seattle, Oakland & Dallas
• Oct 20 Mad Dog Vachon beats Verne Gagne in Minneapolis, to become NWA champ

• Oct 22 US performs underground nuclear test at Hattiesburg, Mississippi
• Oct 23 Time Magazine uses term "op art" for 1st time
• Oct 24 Belgian paratroops liberate 1,000 white hostages in Stanleyville
• Oct 24 Zambia (formerly Northern Rhodesia) gains independence from Britain (National Day) with Kenneth Kaunda becoming President
• Oct 25 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• Oct 26 Eric Edgar Cooke becomes last person in Western Australia to be executed.


• Oct 27 Congo rebel leader Christopher Gbenye holds 60 Americans & 800 Belgians
• Oct 29 Star of India & other jewels are stolen in NY
• Oct 29 Town of Karmi'el founded in Galilee
• Oct 29 The United Republic of Tanganyika & Zanzibar renamed The United Republic of Tanzania
• Oct 30 Tran Van Huong appointed premier of South Vietnam

• Nov 1 Vietcong-assault on airport Bien Hoa at Saigon

• Nov 3 Lyndon B. Johnson is elected President of the United States in a landslide, defeating Republican candidate Barry Goldwater
• Nov 3 For 1st time since 1800, residents of Washington, D.C. permitted to vote
• Nov 5 US launches Mariner 3 toward Mars; no data returned
• Nov 8 IMF grants Great Britain credit of $1 billion
• Nov 9 Eisaku Sato becomes premier of Japan
• Nov 11 Murray Schisgal's "Luv" premieres in NYC
• Nov 12 Jean becomes Grand Duke of Luxembourg
• Nov 12 Paula Murphy sets female land speed record 226.37 MPH
• Nov 13 Pope Paul VI gives tiara to poor
• Nov 15 Sudan Premier Ibrahim Abbud resigns
• Nov 16 Radio CJCX Sydney Nova Scotia (Canada) starts shortwave transmission
• Nov 16 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
• Nov 17 British Labour Party installs weapon embargo against South Africa

• Nov 21 Pope Paul VI signs 3rd sitting of 2nd Vatican council
• Nov 21 Verrazano-Narrows suspension bridge opens in New York City, then the world's longest
• Nov 24 Rebellion ends in Zaire
• Nov 28 France performs underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria
• Nov 28 Mariner 4 launched; 1st probe to fly by Mars
• Nov 29 Roman Catholic Church in US replaces Latin with English
• Nov 30 USSR launches Zond 2 towards Mars; no data returned
• Dec 1 Martin Luther King Jr. speaks to J. Edgar Hoover about his slander campaign


• Dec 2 Ringo Starr's tonsils are removed
• Dec 3 Police arrests 800 sit-in students at University of California at Berkeley
• Dec 5 Captain Roger Donlon is awarded the first Medal of Honor of the Vietnam War for successfully repelling a large Viet Cong attack
• Dec 6 "Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer" 1st airs on TV
• Dec 6 President Antonio Segni of Italy resigns
• Dec 10 Nobel Peace Prize presented to Dr Martin Luther King Jr. in Oslo

• Dec 13 In El Paso, Texas, LBJ & Mexican President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz set off an explosion diverting Rio Grande, to reshape US-Mexico border
• Dec 14 Michael Brown meets Renee Fladen, then writes "Walk Away Renee"
• Dec 15 1st time 4 people in space
• Dec 15 Canada's House of Commons votes 163 to 78 to approve the red Maple Leaf Flag
• Dec 16 US performs nuclear test at Pacific Ocean
• Dec 18 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• Dec 20 Levi Eshkol forms 12th Israeli government
• Dec 22 First flight of the US aircraft Lockheed SR-71, reaches 3,530 kph (record for a jet)
• Dec 23 India & Ceylon hit by cyclone, about 4,850 killed
• Dec 26 Moors Murderers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley claim last victim

• Dec 31 Donald Campbell (UK) sets world water speed record (276.33 mph)
• Dec 31 Indonesia proclaims expelled from the UN

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