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1964 Historical Event(s)
February 13, 1964
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Dragon in Chinese astrology.
February 17, 1964
– Gabonese president Leon M'ba is toppled by a coup and his rival, Jean-Hilaire Aubame, is installed in his place.
February 25, 1964
– North Korean Prime Minister Kim Il-sung calls for the removal of feudalistic land ownership aimed at turning all cooperative farms into state-run ones.
April 7, 1964
– IBM announces the System/360.
May 2, 1964
– Vietnam War: An explosion sinks the USS Card while docked at Saigon. Viet Cong forces are suspected of placing a bomb on the ship.
June 21, 1964
– Three civil rights workers, Andrew Goodman, James Chaney and Mickey Schwerner, are murdered in Neshoba County, Mississippi, United States, by members of the Ku Klux Klan.
August 1, 1964
– The Belgian Congo is renamed the Republic of the Congo.
August 7, 1964
– Vietnam War: the U.S. Congress passes the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution giving US President Lyndon B. Johnson broad war powers to deal with North Vietnamese attacks on American forces.
August 12, 1964
– Charlie Wilson, one of the Great Train Robbers, escapes from Winson Green Prison in Birmingham, England.
December 3, 1964
– Berkeley Free Speech Movement: Police arrest over 800 students at the University of California, Berkeley, following their takeover and sit-in at the administration building in protest at the UC Regents’ decision to forbid protests on UC property.
Who Were Born On 1964?
January 14, 1964
– Shepard Smith, American news anchor
April 5, 1964
– Christopher “Kid” Reid, American rapper (Kid 'n Play)
May 17, 1964
– David Eigenberg, American actor
June 5, 1964
– Lisa Cholodenko, American filmmaker
July 20, 1964
– Terri Irwin, American naturalist; widow of Steve Irwin
September 23, 1964
– Koshi Inaba, Japanese singer (B'z)
November 7, 1964
– Dana Plato, American actress and child actor (d. 1999)
November 22, 1964
– Robbie Slater, Australian footballer
November 24, 1964
– Brad Sherwood, American comedian
December 4, 1964
– Jonathan Goldstein, American actor