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1964 Calendar

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•  February 13, 1964 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Dragon in Chinese astrology.
•  March 14, 1964 – A jury in Dallas, Texas, finds Jack Ruby guilty of killing Lee Harvey Oswald, assumed assassin of John F. Kennedy.
•  April 13, 1964 – At the Academy Awards, Sidney Poitier becomes the first African-American male to win the Best Actor award for the 1963 film Lilies of the Field.
•  April 26, 1964 – Tanganyika and Zanzibar merge to form Tanzania.
•  September 4, 1964 – Scotland’s Forth Road Bridge near Edinburgh officially opens.
•  October 1, 1964 – The Free Speech Movement is launched on the campus of University of California, Berkeley.
•  October 10, 1964 – The opening ceremony at The 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, is broadcast live in the first Olympic telecast relayed by geostationary communication satellite.
•  October 14, 1964 – Leonid Brezhnev becomes the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and thereby, along with his allies - such as Alexei Kosygin - the leader of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), ousting the former monolithic leader Nikita Khrushchev, and sending him into retirement as a nonperson in the USSR.
•  October 22, 1964 – Canada: A Multi-Party Parliamentary Committee selects the design which becomes the new official Flag of Canada.
•  December 11, 1964 – Che Guevara speaks at the United Nations General Assembly in New York City.

•  March 30, 1964 – Dave Ellett, Canadian hockey player
•  May 15, 1964 – Digna Ochoa, Mexican politician
•  June 5, 1964 – Rick Riordan, American author
•  July 23, 1964 – Ed Forchion, American marijuana activist
•  August 4, 1964 – Andrew Bartlett, Australian politician and activist
•  October 14, 1964 – Olu Oguibe, American artist
•  November 5, 1964 – Helga van Niekerk, South African radio presenter
•  November 10, 1964 – Magnús Scheving, Icelandic athlete
•  November 11, 1964 – Anabel Alonso, Spanish actress
•  December 11, 1964 – David Schools, American musician (Widespread Panic)