Notable Historical Events - 1964
1964 Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
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 2 |
Failed assassination attempt on president Nkrumah of Ghana |
Jan 3 |
Jack Paar Show, shows a clip of the Beatles singing "She Loves You" |
Jan 5 |
Pope Paul VI visits Jordan & Israel |
Jan 5 |
San Diego Chargers win AFL-championship |
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 8 |
President Lyndon B. Johnson declares "War on Poverty" |
Jan 9 |
Anti-US rioting broke out in Panama Canal Zone |
Jan 10 |
Battles between moslems & 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 |
"She Loves Me" closes at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC after 302 perfs |
Jan 11 |
Beatles "I Want to Hold Your Hand" is #80 in US (Cashbox) |
Jan 11 |
Panama ends diplomatic relations with US |
Jan 11 |
1st government report warning by US Surgeon General Luther Terry reports that smoking may be hazardous |
Jan 12 |
NFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 31-17 |
Jan 12 |
Revolution overthrows Sultan of Zanzibar, 1 month after independence |
Jan 13 |
Karol Wojtyla becomes archbishop of Krakow |
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 |
14th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 111-107 at Boston |
Jan 14 |
Bapu Nadkarni 32-27-5-0 v England, 21 maiden overs in a row |
Jan 14 |
Jacqueline Kennedy's 1st public appearance (TV) since assassination |
Jan 15 |
Baseball agrees to hold a free-agent 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 |
Beatles 1st appear on Billboard Chart (I Want to Hold Your Hand-#35) |
Jan 18 |
Plans for World Trade Center announced (NYC) |
Jan 19 |
AFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 27-24 |
Jan 19 |
KFME TV channel 13 in Fargo, ND (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, Wisconsin |
Jan 23 |
24th Amendment to the United States Constitution ratified, barring poll tax in federal elections |
Jan 23 |
Arthur Miller's "After the Fall," premieres in NYC |
Jan 24 |
CBS purchases 1964 & 1965 NFL TV rights for $28.2 million |
Jan 24 |
Martin Kresses final comic strip of Eric the Viking |
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 |
Beatles 1st US #1, "I Want to Hold your Hand" (Cashbox) |
Jan 25 |
Echo 2, US communications satellite launched |
Jan 27 |
"Introducing the Beatles" album released in US |
Jan 27 |
Barlow & Graeme Pollock complete 341 stand at Adelaide Oval |
Jan 27 |
Margaret Chase Smith (Sen-R-Maine) tries for Republican Pres bid |
Jan 29 |
9th 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 |
Stanley Kubrick's "Dr Strangelove," premieres |
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 |
Jan 31 |
US report "Smoking & Health" connects smoking to lung cancer |
Feb 1 |
"Stop the World, I Want to..." closes at Shubert NYC after 556 perf |
Feb 1 |
Beatles' "I Want to Hold Your Hand," 1st #1 hit, stays #1 for 7 weeks |
Feb 1 |
Indiana Governor Mathew Walsh tries to ban "Louie Louie" for obscenity |
Feb 1 |
Suriname River dammed |
Feb 2 |
GI Joe, debuts as a popular American boy's toy |
Feb 2 |
Sjoukje Dijkstra (Neth) wins Olympic gold for figure skating |
Feb 2 |
Red Faber, Burleigh Grimes, Tim Keefe, Heinie Manush, John Montgomery Ward, & Miller Huggins are selected to Hall of Fame |
Feb 3 |
"Meet the Beatles" album goes Gold |
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 |
"Rugantino" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 28 performances |
Feb 6 |
France & Great-Britain sign accord over building channel tunnel |
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 |
Cassius Clay becomes a black Moslem |
Feb 7 |
Roger Sessions' 5th Symphony, premieres |
Feb 8 |
Peter Shaffer's "Royal Hunt of the Sun," premieres in London |
Feb 8 |
Rep Martha Griffiths address gets civil rights protection for women being added to the 1964 Civil Rights Act |
Feb 9 |
1st appearance of Beatles on "Ed Sullivan Show" (73.7 million viewers) |
Feb 9 |
9th Winter Olympic games close at 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 DC 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 |
End of Richie Benaud's 63-Test Cricket career |
Feb 12 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Peggy Fleming |
Feb 12 |
US male Figure Skating championship won by Scott Allen |
Feb 15 |
Beatles' "Meet the Beatles!," album goes #1 & stays #1 for 11 weeks |
Feb 15 |
Bill Bradley scores 51 points for Princeton |
Feb 16 |
"Foxy" opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC for 72 performances |
Feb 16 |
Beatles' 2nd appearance on "Ed Sullivan Show" |
Feb 17 |
101st member elected to baseball's hall of fame (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 25 |
Austrian chancellor Alfons Gorbach resigns |
Feb 25 |
Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay) TKOs Sonny Liston in 7 for his first world heavyweight championship title |
Feb 27 |
"What Makes Sammy Run?" opens at 84th St Theater NYC for 540 perfs |
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 |
Frank Rugani sets badminton shuttlecock distance record, 24.3 m |
Feb 29 |
LBJ reveals US secretly developed the A-11 jet fighter |
Feb 29 |
NC high school basketball teams play to 56-54 score in 13 overtime |
Mar 2 |
Beatles begin filming "Hard Days 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 |
Cassius Clay joins the Nation of Islam and its leader Elijah Muhammad renames him Muhammad Ali |
Mar 6 |
Tom O'Hara runs world record mile (3:56.4) |
Mar 8 |
Malcolm X resigns from the Nation of Islam |
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 12 |
6th Grammy Awards: Days of Wine & Roses, Striesand wins 2 |
Mar 12 |
Jimmy Hoffa sentenced to 8 years |
Mar 12 |
SN Behrmann's "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 perfs |
Mar 14 |
Dallas, Texas; Jack Ruby sentenced to death for Lee Harvey Oswald's murder |
Mar 15 |
LBJ asks for a War on Poverty |
Mar 15 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
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 19 |
Sean Connery's 1st day of shooting on "Goldfinger" |
Mar 20 |
ESRO established, European Space Research Organization |
Mar 21 |
26th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA beats Duke 98-83 |
Mar 21 |
Beatles' "She Loves You" single goes #1 & stays #1 for 2 weeks |
Mar 21 |
UCLA completes undefeated NCAA basketball season (30-0) |
Mar 22 |
Barbra Streisand appears on the cover of NY Times Magazine section |
Mar 22 |
Carol Mann wins LPGA Women's Western Golf Open Invitational |
Mar 23 |
UNCTAD 1 world conference opens in Geneva |
Mar 24 |
Kennedy half-dollar issued |
Mar 25 |
Britain sets memorial for the late President John F Kennedy |
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 |
Earthquake strikes Alaska, 8.4 on Richter scale, 118 die |
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 28 |
9.2 earthquake shakes Prince William Sound, Alaska |
Mar 30 |
Astronaut John Glenn withdraws from Ohio senate race |
Mar 31 |
Pres Jango Goulart of Brazil chased out of office by military |
Apr 1 |
10°F lowest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in April |
Apr 1 |
John Lennon is reunited with his father Freddie after 17 years |
Apr 1 |
Robert Lowell's "Benito Cereno" premieres in NYC |
Apr 2 |
Josef Klaus succeeds Alfons Gorbach as chancellor of Austria |
Apr 2 |
Military coup in Brazil by Gen Castello Branco, Pres 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 5 |
Mary Lena Faulk wins LPGA St Petersburg Women's Golf Open |
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 perfs |
Apr 12 |
28th Golf Masters Championship: Arnold Palmer wins, shooting a 276 |
Apr 12 |
Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Baton Rouge Ladies' Golf Open Invitational |
Apr 13 |
36th Academy Awards - "Tom Jones", Best Film, Sidney Poitier & Patricia Neal win Best Actor/Actress |
Apr 13 |
Ian D Smith becomes premier of Rhodesia |
Apr 13 |
New Zealand Colin Bosher shears a record 565 sheep in 1 work day |
Apr 14 |
Sandy Koufax throws his 9th complete game without allowing a walk |
Apr 15 |
Chesapeake Bay Bridge opens (world's longest) |
Apr 15 |
Ian Smith becomes premier of Rhodesia |
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 |
Apr 18 |
Artisans strike in Belgium ends |
Apr 18 |
Sandy Koufax is 1st to strike out the side on 9 pitches |
Apr 18 |
Van Joe Orton's "Entertaining Mr Sloane" |
Apr 19 |
Mickey Wright wins LPGA Peach Blossom Golf Invitational |
Apr 19 |
Rightist coup in Laos, Suvanna Phuma remains premier |
Apr 19 |
Roger Sessions' opera "Montezuma" premieres in West Berlin |
Apr 20 |
68th Boston Marathon won by Aurele Vandendriessche of Belgium in 2:19:59 |
Apr 20 |
86% of black students boycott Cleveland schools |
Apr 21 |
Pirates & Cubs combine for 9 HRs, Pirates win 8-5 |
Apr 22 |
World's Fair (Flushing Meadow, Corona Park, NY) opens |
Apr 23 |
James Baldwin's "Blues for Mr Charlie" premieres in NYC |
Apr 23 |
New York State Theater opens |
Apr 23 |
Houston Colt 45s Ken Johnson becomes 1st major league pitcher to lose a 9 inning no-hitter, Reds win 1-0 |
Apr 24 |
Mexico becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty. |
Apr 25 |
Stanley Cup: Toronto Maple Leafs beat Detroit Red Wings, 4 games to 3 |
Apr 26 |
18th NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat SF Warriors, 4 games to 1 |
Apr 26 |
Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship |
Apr 26 |
Tanganyika & Zanzibar form The United Republic of Tanganyika & Zanzibar |
Apr 27 |
John Lennon's "In His Own Write" is published in US |
Apr 28 |
Japan joins OECD |
Apr 29 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
May 1 |
1st BASIC program runs on a computer (Dartmouth) |
May 2 |
90th Kentucky Derby: Bill Hartack aboard Northern Dancer wins in 2:00 |
May 2 |
Beatles' "Beatles' 2nd Album" goes #1 & stays #1 for for 5 weeks |
May 2 |
Mad Dog Vachon beats Verne Gagne in Omaha, to become NWA champ |
May 2 |
First ascent of Shishapangma the fourteenth highest mountain in the world and the lowest of the Eight-thousanders. |
May 3 |
Mickey Wright wins LPGA Clifford Ann Creed Golf Invitational |
May 4 |
"Another World" premieres on TV in the US |
May 4 |
70 GATT-countries confer in Geneva |
May 4 |
KIII TV channel 3 in Corpus Christi, TX (ABC) begins broadcasting |
May 4 |
Pulitzer prize awarded to Richard Hofstadter (Anti-intellectualism) |
May 5 |
Separatists riot in Quebec |
May 6 |
Joe Orton's "Entertaining Mr Sloan" premieres in London |
May 9 |
Khrushchev visits Egypt |
May 9 |
Peter & Gordon release "World Without Love" |
May 10 |
Mickey Wright wins LPGA Squirt Ladies' Golf Open Invitational |
May 12 |
Manlio Brosio chosen as sec-gen of NATO |
May 14 |
Underground America Day is 1st observed |
May 15 |
Sporting Portugal wins 4th Europe Cup II at Antwerp |
May 15 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
May 16 |
90th Preakness: Bill Hartack aboard Northern Dancer wins in 1:56.8 |
May 16 |
USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
May 16 |
Verne Gagne beats Mad Dog Vachon in Omaha, to become NWA champ |
May 17 |
Mickey Wright wins LPGA Muskogee Civitan Golf Open Invitational |
May 17 |
Phillies triple play Houston Colt .45s |
May 18 |
David Frost interviews Paul McCartney on BBC |
May 18 |
Supreme Court rules unconstitutional to deprive naturalized citizens of citizenship if they return to home country for more than 3 years |
May 19 |
US diplomats find at least 40 secret microphones in Moscow embassy |
May 20 |
Buster Mathis defeats Joe Fraizer to qualify for US Olympic team |
May 21 |
1st nuclear-powered lighthouse begins operations (Chesapeake Bay) |
May 21 |
Fire in Belgium resort kills 19 |
May 21 |
US begin intelligence flights above Laos |
May 22 |
LBJ presents "Great Society" |
May 23 |
Dale Greig runs female marathon world record (3:27:45) |
May 24 |
18th Tony Awards: Luther & Hello Dolly win |
May 24 |
Beatles' 3rd appearance on Ed Sullivan Show |
May 24 |
Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open Invitational |
May 24 |
Longest HR (471') in Balt Memorial Stadium (Harmon Killebrew, Minn) |
May 24 |
Panic in Lima Peru soccer stadium, kills 300 |
May 25 |
16th Emmy Awards: Dick Van Dyke Show, Dick Van Dyke & Mary Tyler Moore win |
May 25 |
Frank Gilroy's "Subject is Roses" premieres in NYC |
May 25 |
Ground is broken for a new stadium in St Louis |
May 25 |
Supreme Court rules closing schools to avoid desegregation unconstitut |
May 26 |
"Fade Out-Fade In" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 199 perfs |
May 27 |
"From Russia With Love" premieres in US |
May 27 |
Inter Milan wins 9th Europe Cup 1 in Vienna |
May 28 |
Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 9th String quartet |
May 28 |
Jawaharlal Nehru cremated in New Dehli |
May 28 |
Palestine National Congress forms the PLO in Jerusalem |
May 28 |
Unmanned Apollo 2 Saturn test launched into Earth orbit |
May 30 |
"Beyond the Fringe" closes at John Golden Theater NYC after 673 perfs |
May 30 |
Beatles 1961 record of "Cry for a Shadow" is #1 in Australia |
May 30 |
Beatles' "Love Me Do" single goes #1 |
May 30 |
Giants sweep Mets 5-3 & 8-6 in 23 inn, records include elapsed time of 9:50, 47 strikeouts, 7:22 for 2nd game & NY's 22 K's in 2nd games |
May 30 |
Indianapolis 500: A.J. Foyt wins in 3:23:35.813 (237.137 km/h) |
May 31 |
Charles Schmid kills first Pied Piper victim |
May 31 |
Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open |
May 31 |
SF Giants beat NY Mets, 8-6, in 23 innings (2nd game) (7 hrs 32 mins) |
Jun 1 |
Kenya becomes a republic and Jomo Kenyatta its President |
Jun 2 |
"Follies Bergere" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 191 performances |
Jun 2 |
Lal Bahadur Sjastri elected premier of India |
Jun 2 |
Rolling Stones 1st US concert tour debuts in Lynn, Mass |
Jun 3 |
Ringo Starr collapses from tonsillitis & pharyngitis |
Jun 3 |
Rolling Stones begin 1st US tour (with Bobby Goldsboro & Bobby Vee) |
Jun 4 |
Beatles "World Tour" begins in Copenhagen Denmark |
Jun 4 |
LA Dodger Sandy Koufax 3rd no-hitter beats Phil Phillies, 3-0 |
Jun 4 |
Maldives adopts constitution |
Jun 4 |
Test Cricket debut of Geoff Boycott v Australia at Trent Bridge, 48 |
Jun 5 |
Davie Jones & King Bees debut "I Can't Help Thinking About Me"; group disbands but Davie Jones goes on to success as David Bowie |
Jun 6 |
96th Belmont: Manuel Ycaza aboard Quadrangle wins in 2:28.6 |
Jun 6 |
Beatles arrive in Netherlands |
Jun 6 |
Under a temporary order, the rocket launches at Cuxhaven, Germany, are terminated, though they never resume. |
Jun 7 |
Beatles travel canals of Amsterdam |
Jun 9 |
Jack Nicklaus wins British Open golf tournament |
Jun 10 |
Rolling Stones record their 12x5 album at Chess Studios in Chicago |
Jun 10 |
Southern filibuster on civil rights bill ends; cloture invoked |
Jun 11 |
Chicago police break up Rolling Stones press conference |
Jun 11 |
Manfred Mann record Do Wah Diddy Diddy Dum Diddy Do |
Jun 11 |
Queen Elizabeth orders Beatles to her birthday party, they attend |
Jun 11 |
West Germany seeks talks with Czechoslovakia |
Jun 12 |
Nelson Mandela is sentenced to life in prison in South Africa |
Jun 13 |
Basil Heatley runs world record marathon (2:13:55) |
Jun 14 |
Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open |
Jun 15 |
Last French troops leave Algeria |
Jun 16 |
Amnesty granted to 3,000 political prisoners |
Jun 16 |
Quake strikes Niigata Japan |
Jun 18 |
African Groundnut Council forms in Dakar |
Jun 19 |
Bob Dylan completes UK tour |
Jun 19 |
Cambuur Leeuwarden BVO soccer team forms in Leeuwarden |
Jun 19 |
Civil Rights Act of 1964 passes 73-27 |
Jun 20 |
64th US Golf Open: Ken Venturi shoots a 278 at Congressional CC MD |
Jun 21 |
Beckwith arrested for murder of Medger Evers, found guilty 30 yr later |
Jun 21 |
Mickey Wright wins LPGA Lady Carling Eastern Golf Open |
Jun 21 |
Phillies Jim Bunning pitches perfect game (Mets) on Fathers day, in 2nd game of DH, Mets get 3 hits, 3 being fewest hits in NL DH |
Jun 21 |
Three civil rights workers, Michael H Schwerner, Andrew Goodman & James E Chane, disappeared after release from a Mississippi jail |
Jun 23 |
Gen Maxwell Taylor appointed US ambassador in South Vietnam |
Jun 24 |
FTC rules health warnings must appear on all cigarette packages |
Jun 24 |
In South Africa, the 90-Days Act commences, providing for any person to be detained, without trial, for 90 days; further, the person could be re-arrested under the same law for another 90 days |
Jun 25 |
Prince A Taylor becomes 1st black methodist bishop (NJ) |
Jun 25 |
WMCA (NYC) plays Beatles' Hard Days Night Album (10 days prior to its scheduled release date), they decide to release it June 26th |
Jun 26 |
Beatles release "A Hard Day's Night" album |
Jun 26 |
Blacks & Whites riot over racial segregation in St Augustine |
Jun 26 |
Moise Tsjombe forms government in Congo |
Jun 27 |
"New Phil Silvers Show" last airs on CBS-TV |
Jun 27 |
"Sie Liebt Dich (She Loves You)" by Die Beatles peaks at #97 |
Jun 27 |
Jan & Dean release "Little Old Lady From Pasadena" |
Jun 28 |
Mickey Wright wins LPGA Waldemar Golf Open |
Jun 28 |
Organization for Afo-American Unity formed in NY by Malcolm X |
Jun 29 |
1st draft of Star Trek's pilot "Cage" released |
Jun 29 |
Civil Rights Act of 1964 passed after 83-day filibuster in Senate |
Jun 30 |
Centaur 3 launch vehicle fails to make Earth orbit |
Jun 30 |
Last UN troops leave Congo |
Jul 2 |
Cilla Black records Beatle's "Its For You", Paul McCartney plays piano |
Jul 2 |
Grand jury indicts Beckwith in murder of Medger Evers |
Jul 2 |
US President Johnson signs Civil Rights Act & Voting Rights Act into law |
Jul 3 |
78th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Roy Emerson beats Stolle (64 12-10 46 63) |
Jul 4 |
71st Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Maria Fraser beats Margaret Court (64 79 63) |
Jul 4 |
Beachboys' "I Get Around" reaches #1 |
Jul 6 |
Beatles' film "Hard Day's Night" premieres in London |
Jul 6 |
Malawi (formerly Nyasaland) declares independence from UK |
Jul 7 |
35th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-4 at Shea Stadium, New York |
Jul 7 |
All star MVP: John Callison (Philadelphia Phillies) |
Jul 10 |
Jesus Alou is 1st Giant in 40 years to get 6 hits in a game |
Jul 10 |
Moise Tsjombe becomes premier of Congo |
Jul 10 |
Moïse-Kapenda Tshombé, leader of the Confederation of Tribal Associations of Katanga, becomes the Prime Minister of the Congo |
Jul 12 |
19th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Mickey Wright |
Jul 14 |
Jacques Anquetil wins his 5th Tour de France |
Jul 14 |
Oriole Bob Johnson's 6th straight hit as a pinch hitter |
Jul 15 |
Barry M Goldwater (Sen-R-Az) nominated for president by Republicans |
Jul 16 |
Republicans convention selects Barry Goldwater as pres candidate |
Jul 17 |
Don Campbell sets record for turbine vehicle, 690.91 kph (429.31 mph) |
Jul 17 |
Great Britain performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site |
Jul 17 |
ANC leader Nelson Mandela, recently sentenced to life imprisonment, is awarded the Joliot Curie Gold Medal for Peace |
Jul 18 |
Race riot in Harlem (NYC); riots spread to Bedford-Stuyvesant (Bkln) |
Jul 19 |
46th PGA Championship: Bobby Nichols shoots a 271 at Columbus CC Ohio |
Jul 19 |
Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Yankee Women's Golf Open |
Jul 19 |
USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Jul 20 |
1st surfin' record to go #1-Jan & Dean's "Surf City" |
Jul 20 |
Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 10th String quartet |
Jul 21 |
Arnold Long takes 11 catches in the match for Surrey v Sussex |
Jul 21 |
Mildred Simpson runs female world record marathon (3:19:33) |
Jul 21 |
Last Dutch whaling ship Willem Barents Sea sold to Japan |
Jul 23 |
As' Bert Campaneris HRs on 1st pitch, hits a 2nd HR on 2nd at bat |
Jul 23 |
Egyptian munition ship "Star of Alexandria" explodes at dockside in Bone, Algeria. 100 die, 160 injured, $20 million damage |
Jul 24 |
-27) race riot in Rochester, New York, 4 killed |
Jul 25 |
"Here's Love" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 338 performances |
Jul 25 |
Beatles' album "A Hard Day's Night" goes #1 & stays #1 for 14 weeks |
Jul 25 |
Bob Simpson out for 311 at Old Trafford |
Jul 25 |
Race riot in Rochester NY |
Jul 26 |
Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Cosmopolitan Women's Golf Open |
Jul 26 |
Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa convicted of fraud & conspiracy |
Jul 26 |
Train from Povoa de Varzin, Portugal derails near Oporto, 94 die |
Jul 26 |
US union leader James Hoffa sentenced for fraud |
Jul 28 |
England all out 611 in reply to Australia's 8-656 Match a draw |
Jul 28 |
Ranger 7 launched toward the Moon; sent back 4308 TV pictures |
Jul 30 |
US naval fire on Hon Ngu/Hon Mo, North Vietnam |
Jul 31 |
Al Parker glides 644 miles without a motor |
Jul 31 |
Rolling Stone concert in Ireland halts after 12 minutes due to riot |
Jul 31 |
US Ranger 7 takes 4,316 pictures before crashing on Moon |
Aug 1 |
ALM (Antillian Airlines) begins operation |
Aug 1 |
Beatles' single "A Hard Day's Night" goes #1 & stays #1 for 2 weeks |
Aug 2 |
Dutch government gives Indonesia export guarantees |
Aug 2 |
Mickey Wright wins LPGA Milwaukee Jaycee Golf Open |
Aug 2 |
North Vietnam fires on a US destroyer in Gulf of Tonkin |
Aug 2 |
Race riot in Jersey City NJ |
Aug 4 |
Civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman & James E Chaney, bodies discovered in an earthen Mississippi dam |
Aug 4 |
North Vietnam torpedos US ships Gulf of Tonkin |
Aug 5 |
Beatles record "Leave My Kitten Alone" |
Aug 5 |
Congo rebellion: Christopher Gbenye/Pierre Mulele conquer Stanleyville |
Aug 5 |
Ford Frick says he will not run for another term as commissioner |
Aug 5 |
US begins bombing North Vietnam |
Aug 6 |
Pope Paul VI publishes encyclical Ecclesiam Suam |
Aug 6 |
Prometheus, the world's oldest tree, is cut down in Nevada US |
Aug 7 |
31st NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chicago 28, All-Stars 17 (65,000) |
Aug 7 |
Turkey begins air attack on Greek-Cypriots |
Aug 7 |
US Congress approves Gulf of Tonkin resolution |
Aug 8 |
"110 in the Shade" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 330 perfs |
Aug 8 |
Dutch Opera forms in Amsterdam |
Aug 8 |
Rolling Stones 1st Dutch concert |
Aug 9 |
1st Rolling Stones concert in Netherlands |
Aug 9 |
Shirley Englehorn wins LPGA Waterloo Women's Golf Open Invitational |
Aug 9 |
Bunning continues pitching perfectly to NY Mets until 2 outs in 5th, when Joe Christopher beats out a bunt. He totals 15 innings |
Aug 10 |
WJSP TV channel 28 in Columbus, GA (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Aug 11 |
Beatles' "A Hard Days Night" opens in NYC |
Aug 11 |
Race riot in Paterson NJ |
Aug 12 |
10th time Mantle switch-hits HR in a game, one goes 502 feet |
Aug 12 |
Mickey Mantle switch-hits HR record 10th & final time in a game |
Aug 12 |
Race riot in Elizabeth, NJ |
Aug 13 |
1st broadcast by Trans World Radio on Bonaire |
Aug 14 |
Bo Belinsky is suspended after attacking sportswriter Braven Dyer |
Aug 14 |
Egypt/Iraq/Jordan/Kuwait/Syria form common market |
Aug 15 |
Fred Trueman takes 300th Test Cricket wicket (Neil Hawke) |
Aug 15 |
Mayor Daley declares "Ernie Banks Day" in Chicago |
Aug 15 |
Phillies triple-play NY Mets |
Aug 15 |
Race riot in Dixmoor (Chicago suburb) Ill |
Aug 15 |
Ralph Boston of US, sets then long jump record at 27' 3½" |
Aug 16 |
Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Omaha Jaycee Golf Open Invitational |
Aug 16 |
St Louis Card Curt Flood gets 8 straight hits in a doubleheader |
Aug 17 |
Boycott scores his 1st Test Cricket century, 113 v Aust at the Oval |
Aug 18 |
Beatles arrive in SF, 2nd US visit |
Aug 18 |
Charles Helu elected president of Lebanon |
Aug 18 |
South Africa banned from Olympic Games because of apartheid policies |
Aug 18 |
USSR launch 3 Kosmos satellites |
Aug 19 |
Communication satellite Syncom 3 launched |
Aug 20 |
US President Johnson signs Economic Opportunity Act, an anti-poverty measure totaling nearly $1 billion |
Aug 20 |
Rex Sellers bowls 5-1-17-0 v India in only Test Cricket innings |
Aug 20 |
Yankee Phil Linz plays harmonica on bus despite Yogi Berra's orders |
Aug 22 |
Guinee, Liberia & Ivory Coast form joint market |
Aug 22 |
Supreme's "Where Did Our Love Go" reaches #1 |
Aug 23 |
Marilynn Smith wins Albuquerque Professional Amateur Golf Tournament |
Aug 23 |
St Louis Cards are 11 games back in NL, & win World Series |
Aug 24 |
2nd Mayor's Trophy Game, Yanks beat Mets 6-4 |
Aug 25 |
Singapore limits imports from Neth 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 28 |
WEWS-TV Channel 5's "Upbeat" debuts in Cleveland |
Aug 29 |
"Funny Thing Happened" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 965 perfs |
Aug 29 |
Walt Disney's "Mary Poppins" released |
Aug 29 |
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Aug 30 |
Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Riverside Ladies Golf Open |
Aug 31 |
Ground is broken for Anaheim Stadium, future home of Angels |
Sep 1 |
Masanori Murakami is 1st Japanese player in majors (NY Mets) |
Sep 2 |
Indonesian paratroopers lands in Malaysia |
Sep 2 |
Norman Manley scores 2-consecutive holes-in-one at Del Valley, Cal |
Sep 3 |
US attorney general robert kennedy resigns |
Sep 3 |
Wilderness Act signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson |
Sep 4 |
Eduardo Frei 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 7 |
Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Valhalla Golf Open |
Sep 9 |
German DR government allows short visits to West Germany |
Sep 9 |
John Osborne's "Inadmissable Evidence," premieres in London |
Sep 10 |
Palestinian Liberation Army (PLA) forms |
Sep 10 |
Rod Steward records his 1st single "Good Morning Little Schoolgirl" |
Sep 11 |
George Harrison forms Mornyork Ltd music publishing company |
Sep 11 |
Gillette's 20 year contract with Madison Square Garden & ABC to televise fights for free ends as Dick Tiger defeats Don Fullmer at Cleve Auditorium |
Sep 12 |
1st football game at Shea Stadium, Jets defeat Denver 30-6 |
Sep 12 |
Ralph Boston of US, sets then long jump record at 27' 4½" |
Sep 12 |
Canyonlands National Park is designated as a National Park. |
Sep 13 |
3rd sitting of 2nd Vatican council opens in Rome |
Sep 13 |
78th US Womens Tennis: Maria Fraser beats Carole Graebner (61 60) |
Sep 13 |
84th US Mens Tennis: Roy Emerson beats Frederick S Stolle (64 62 64) |
Sep 13 |
Mary Mills wins LPGA Eugene Ladies' Golf Open |
Sep 13 |
St Louis is 1st NL to score runs in every game since 1923, win 15-2 |
Sep 13 |
WKEF TV channel 22 in Dayton, OH (NBC) begins broadcasting |
Sep 14 |
WCVE TV channel 23 in Richmond, VA (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Sep 14 |
Walt Disney awarded Medal of Freedom at White House |
Sep 15 |
Beatles play at Public Auditorium in Cleveland |
Sep 15 |
Final edition of socialist British newspaper "Daily Herald" |
Sep 16 |
"Shindig" premieres on ABC-TV |
Sep 17 |
"Bewitched" premieres on ABC TV |
Sep 17 |
Beatles are paid a then record $150,000 for a concert (Kansas) |
Sep 17 |
Mickey Mantle gets hits #1999, 2000 & 2001 & his 450th HR |
Sep 17 |
Supremes release "Baby Love" |
Sep 18 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
Sep 18 |
"The Addams Family", starring John Astin, Carolyn Jones, Ted Cassidy, and Jackie Coogan, premieres on ABC |
Sep 20 |
Gunter Grass' "Die Plebejern proben den Aufstand," premieres in Berlin |
Sep 20 |
Paramount Theater (NYC) presented the Beatles with Steve & Eydie |
Sep 21 |
Constellation (US) beats Sovereign (England) in 20th America's Cup |
Sep 21 |
Reds Chico Ruiz steals home, beats Phillies 1-0. Phillies start a 10 game losing streak that gives Cards the pennant |
Sep 21 |
Malta becomes independent from the United Kingdom. |
Sep 21 |
The North American XB-70 Valkyrie, the world's first Mach 3 bomber, made its maiden flight from Palmdale, California. |
Sep 22 |
"Fiddler on the Roof" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 3242 perfs |
Sep 22 |
"Man from U.N.C.L.E," premieres on NBC-TV |
Sep 23 |
"Fiddler on the Roof" with Zero Mostel premieres in NYC |
Sep 24 |
"Munsters" premieres on TV |
Sep 24 |
1st Minuteman II ICBM was tested |
Sep 24 |
Ringo forms Brikley Building Company Ltd |
Sep 24 |
Willi Stoph succeeds Otto Great as premier of German DR |
Sep 25 |
Jens Otto Krag forms minority government in Denmark |
Sep 26 |
Braves (25) & Phillies (18) set record by using 43 players in 9 inn |
Sep 26 |
"Gilligan's Island", starring Bob Denver as Gilligan, debuts on CBS |
Sep 27 |
Despite 3 HRs by Johnny Callison, Phils are 14-8 losers to Braves |
Sep 27 |
Mickey Wright wins LPGA Visalia Ladies' Golf Open |
Sep 27 |
Phillies 7th straight loses sends them into 2nd place |
Sep 27 |
Findings of the Warren Commission into the assassination of President John Kennedy released, finds Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone |
Sep 28 |
53rd Davis Cup: Australia beats USA in Cleveland (3-2) |
Sep 28 |
Suriname governor A Currie resigns |
Sep 29 |
Greece & Bulgaria close boundaries |
Sep 30 |
"Oh What a Lovely War" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 125 perfs |
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 1 |
WSJU TV channel 18 in Carolina, PR begins broadcasting |
Oct 1 |
WTSJ TV channel 18 in San Juan, PR (NBC) begins broadcasting |
Oct 1 |
WWAY TV channel 3 in Wilmington, NC (ABC) begins broadcasting |
Oct 2 |
Phillies tie major league record with season's 3rd triple play (Reds) |
Oct 3 |
Yankees clinch their 5th straight pennant, & 29th in club's history |
Oct 4 |
-7] Hurricane Hilda, kills 38 in La, Miss & Ga |
Oct 4 |
10th LPGA Championship won by Mary Mills |
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 4 |
Patriots' Gino Cappelletti kicks 6-of-6 field goals against Broncos |
Oct 4 |
Phils bomb Reds 10-0 as both teams finish one game behind St Louis |
Oct 5 |
KIXE TV channel 9 in Redding, CA (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Oct 5 |
SF Fire Department Museum is dedicated |
Oct 6 |
"Cambridge Circus" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 23 performances |
Oct 7 |
NY Yankees make 14th appearance in last 16 & 29th in 61 World Series |
Oct 8 |
Gilroy Roberts becomes first US chief engraver to retire (than die) |
Oct 8 |
Ringo Starr takes & passes his driving test |
Oct 10 |
18th NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Toronto 3-2 at Toronto |
Oct 10 |
18th modern Olympic games opens in Tokyo |
Oct 11 |
Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Hillside House Ladies' Golf Open |
Oct 12 |
1st time 3 people in space |
Oct 12 |
KCSM TV channel 60 in San Mateo-SF, CA (PBS) begins |
Oct 12 |
Launch of Voskhod 1, first 3 man crew (Komarov, Feokistov, Yegorov) |
Oct 12 |
WSBK TV channel 38 in Boston, MA (IND/ABC/CBS/NBC) begin |
Oct 12 |
WUCM TV channel 19 in University Center, MI (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Oct 13 |
At Plesman airport, Curacao, 125.5 mm rainfalls (record) |
Oct 13 |
Voskhod 1 crew returns |
Oct 14 |
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. announced as winner of the Nobel Peace Prize |
Oct 14 |
Martin Walser's "Der Schwarze Schwan," premieres in Stuttgart |
Oct 14 |
Philips begins experimenting with color TV |
Oct 14 |
Roger Maris & Mickey Mantle hit HRs runs on back-to-back pitches |
Oct 14 |
Leonid Brezhnev & Alexei Kosygin replace Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev |
Oct 15 |
Craig Breedlove sets auto speed record of 846.97 kph |
Oct 15 |
St Louis Cardinals beat NY Yankees, 4 games to 3 in 61st World Series |
Oct 15 |
NY Yankees appears in 14 & win 9 of last 16 World Series |
Oct 16 |
China becomes world's 5th nuclear power |
Oct 16 |
Harold Wilson's Labour party wins British election |
Oct 16 |
Indians' directors vote to keep franchise in Cleveland, rejecting bids by Seattle, Oakland & Dallas |
Oct 17 |
Yanks fire Manager Yogi Berra |
Oct 18 |
Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Mickey Wright Golf Invitational |
Oct 20 |
"Golden Boy" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 569 performances |
Oct 20 |
Mad Dog Vachon beats Verne Gagne in Minneapolis, to become NWA champ |
Oct 20 |
Riot at Rolling Stones show in Paris (150 arrested) |
Oct 21 |
Abebe Bikila runs Olympic/World record marathon (2:12:11.2) |
Oct 21 |
Braves ask NL to allow them to leave Milwaukee for Atlanta |
Oct 22 |
EMI rejects audition by "High Numbers"; they go on to become The Who |
Oct 22 |
French philosopher/author Jean-Paul Sartre refuses Nobel prize |
Oct 22 |
US performs underground nuclear test at Hattiesburg, Miss |
Oct 23 |
Japanese beat Russian for 1st Olympic Gold in woman's volleyball |
Oct 23 |
Time Magazine uses term "op art" for 1st time |
Oct 24 |
"Cambridge Circus" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 23 perfs |
Oct 24 |
18th Olympic games close at Tokyo, Japan |
Oct 24 |
Belgian paratroops liberate 1,000 white hostages in Stanleyville |
Oct 24 |
Dr Kenneth David Kaunda becomes president of Zambia |
Oct 24 |
Zambia (formerly Northern Rhodesia) gains independence from Britain (National Day) |
Oct 24 |
Khalid "Billy" Ibadulla scores 166 on Cricket debut v Australia |
Oct 24 |
Test Cricket debut of Asif Iqbal, Majid Khan & Khalid Ibadulla v Aust |
Oct 25 |
Anton Geesink is 1st non-Japanese Olympic judo gold medal winner |
Oct 25 |
Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Phoenix Thunderbirds Ladies' Golf Open |
Oct 25 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
Oct 25 |
"The Wrong Way Run", Viking Jim Marshall runs 66 yards in wrong direction for a safety (NFL's #1 blooper) |
Oct 25 |
Rolling Stones appear on Ed Sullivan Show |
Oct 26 |
Eric Edgar Cooke becomes last person in Western Australia to be executed. |
Oct 27 |
"Ben Franklin in Paris" opens at Lunt Fontanne NYC for 215 perfs |
Oct 27 |
Congo rebel leader Christopher Gbenye holds 60 Americans/800 Belgians |
Oct 29 |
Bobby Simpson completes cricket century in each innings v Pakistan |
Oct 29 |
Karmi'el founded in Galilee |
Oct 29 |
Star of India & other jewels are stolen in NY |
Oct 29 |
Town of Karmiel 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 |
Oct 31 |
Barbra Streisand's "People" album goes #1 for 5 weeks |
Nov 1 |
George Blanda of Houston throws NFL-record 37 passes in 68 attempts |
Nov 1 |
KC Chief Len Dawson passes for 6 touchdowns vs Denver (49-39) |
Nov 1 |
Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Las Cruces Ladies' Golf Open |
Nov 1 |
Vietcong-assault on airport Bien Hoa at Saigon |
Nov 2 |
CBS purchases 80% of Yanks for $11,200,000, later buys remaining 20% |
Nov 2 |
Faisal succeeds Saud as king of Saudi Arabia |
Nov 3 |
LBJ (D) soundly defeats Barry Goldwater (R) for pres |
Nov 3 |
Phila voters approve $25 million to build a new sports stadium |
Nov 5 |
US launches Mariner 3 toward Mars; no data returned |
Nov 6 |
WEIQ TV channel 42 in Mobile, AL (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Nov 7 |
NL keeps Braves in Milwaukee in 1965, may move to Atlanta in 1966 |
Nov 8 |
IMF grants Great Britain credit of $1 billion |
Nov 8 |
KUPK TV channel 13 in Garden City, KS (ABC) begins broadcasting |
Nov 8 |
Mickey Wright wins LPGA Tall City Golf Open |
Nov 8 |
Orioles Frank Robinson unanimous choice as AL MVP |
Nov 9 |
"Comedy in Music-Opus 2" opens at John Golden NYC for 192 perfs |
Nov 9 |
Eisaku Sato becomes premier of Japan |
Nov 10 |
"Something More!" opens at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC for 15 perfs |
Nov 10 |
Braves sign a 25-year lease to play in the new Atlanta stadium |
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 |
Bob Petit (St Louis Hawks) becomes 1st NBAer to score 20,000 points |
Nov 13 |
Pope Paul VI gives tiara to poor |
Nov 14 |
"Fade Out-Fade In" closes at Mark Hellinger NYC after 199 perfs |
Nov 14 |
"Folies Bergere" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 191 perfs |
Nov 14 |
"Oliver!" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 774 performances |
Nov 14 |
Detroit Red Wings Gordie Howe sets NHL record 627th career goal |
Nov 15 |
Ajax soccer star Johan Cruijff debuts against GVAV |
Nov 15 |
KBYU TV channel 11 in Provo, UT (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Nov 15 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA San Antonio Civitan Golf Open |
Nov 15 |
Mickey Wright shoots a 62, lowest golf score for a woman pro |
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 18 |
Baltimore Oriole Brooks Robinson wins AL MVP |
Nov 18 |
J. Edgar Hoover describes Martin Luther King as "most notorious liar" |
Nov 20 |
Dmitri Sjostakovitch's 9th/10th String Quartet premiers in Moscow |
Nov 21 |
"Something More!" closes at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC after 15 perfs |
Nov 21 |
"Zizi" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 49 performances |
Nov 21 |
Pope Paul VI signs 3rd sitting of 2nd Vatican council |
Nov 21 |
World's longest suspension bridge "Verrazano Narrows" opens (NYC) |
Nov 22 |
Mickey Wright wins LPGA Mary Mills Miss Gulf Coast Golf Invitational |
Nov 22 |
WITF TV channel 33 in Harrisburg-Hershey, PA (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Nov 23 |
"Bajour" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 232 performances |
Nov 23 |
Beatles release "I Feel Fine" & "She's a Woman" |
Nov 23 |
Vatican abolished Latin as official language of Roman Catholic liturgy |
Nov 24 |
30th Heisman Trophy Award: John Huarte, Notre Dame (QB) |
Nov 24 |
Cards' 3rd baseman Ken Boyer is voted NL MVP |
Nov 24 |
For 1st time since 1800, residents of Washngton DC permitted to vote |
Nov 24 |
Rebellion ends in Zaire |
Nov 28 |
52nd CFL Grey Cup: BC Lions defeats Hamilton Tiger-Cats, 34-24 |
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 |
Houston Colt .45s change name to Astros |
Dec 1 |
Martin Lurther King speaks to J. Edgar Hoover about his slander campaign |
Dec 2 |
Ringo Starr's tonsils are removed |
Dec 3 |
KHQL (now KCAN) TV channel 8 in Albion, NB (ABC) begins broadcasting |
Dec 3 |
Police arrests 800 sit-in students at U of Cal at Berkeley |
Dec 4 |
Baseball approves a free-agent draft |
Dec 4 |
Beatles release "Beatles For Sale" album |
Dec 4 |
Commissioner's office given full powers in baseball disputes |
Dec 4 |
Test Cricket debut of Ian Chappell, v Pakistan MCG, 11, 0-49, 0-31 |
Dec 5 |
Vietnam War: for his heroism in battle earlier in the year, Captain Roger Donlon is awarded the first Medal of Honor of the war. |
Dec 6 |
"Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer" 1st airs on TV |
Dec 6 |
KTVR TV channel 13 in La Grande, OR (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Dec 6 |
President Segni of Italy resigns |
Dec 7 |
George Harrison changes his company's name from Mornyork to Harrisongs |
Dec 10 |
Nobel Peace Prize presented to Dr Martin Luther King Jr. in Oslo |
Dec 11 |
Che Guevara speaks at the United Nations General Assembly in New York City. An unknown terrorist fires a mortar shell at the building during the speech. |
Dec 12 |
Cleveland Browns' Frank Ryan sets club record of 5 TD passes |
Dec 12 |
Shooting starts for "Star Trek" pilot "The Cage" (Menagerie) |
Dec 13 |
Shirley Englehorn & Sam Snead wins Haig & Haig Mixed Foursome Golf |
Dec 13 |
In El Paso, Tx, LBJ & Mexican Pres Gustavo Diaz Ordaz set off an explosion diverting Rio Grande, to reshape US-Mexico border |
Dec 14 |
Michael Brown meets Rene Fladen, then writes "Walk Away Rene" |
Dec 15 |
1st time 4 people in space |
Dec 15 |
American Radio Relay League (organization for hams) founded |
Dec 15 |
Canada adopts maple leaf flag |
Dec 16 |
US performs nuclear test at Pacific Ocean |
Dec 18 |
"I Had a BaIl" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 199 performances |
Dec 18 |
"The Pink Panther" cartoon series premieres (Pink Phink) |
Dec 18 |
During services held for Sam Cooke fans caused damage to funeral home |
Dec 18 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Dec 20 |
Levi Eshkol forms Israeli government |
Dec 22 |
Lockheed SR-71 spy aircraft reaches 3,530 kph (record for a jet) |
Dec 22 |
Comedian Lenny Bruce is convicted of obscenity. |
Dec 22 |
First flight of the SR-71 (Blackbird). |
Dec 23 |
India & Ceylon hit by cyclone, about 4,850 killed |
Dec 24 |
Shooting begins on "The Cage" the pilot for Star Trek |
Dec 25 |
"Goldfinger" premieres in US |
Dec 25 |
George Harrison's girlfriend Patti Boyd attacked by female Beatle fans |
Dec 26 |
Beatles' "I Feel Fine," single goes #1 & stays #1 for 3 weeks |
Dec 26 |
Buffalo Bills beat San Diego Chargers 20-7 in AFL championship game |
Dec 26 |
Moors Murderers claim last victim |
Dec 27 |
Cleveland Browns beat Balt Colts 27-0 in NFL championship game |
Dec 28 |
Premier of Dmitri Sjostakovitch' Stefan Rasin |
Dec 28 |
Principal filming of "Dr Zhivago," begins |
Dec 30 |
Edward Albee's "Tiny Alice," premieres in NYC |
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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