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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.
•  April 20, 1964 – BBC Two launches with a power cut because of the fire at Battersea Power Station.
•  June 11, 1964 – World War II veteran Walter Seifert runs amok in an elementary school in Cologne, Germany, killing at least eight children and two teachers and seriously injuring several more with a home-made flamethrower and a lance.
•  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.
•  July 31, 1964 – Ranger program: Ranger 7 sends back the first close-up photographs of the moon, with images 1,000 times clearer than anything ever seen from earth-bound telescopes.
•  October 16, 1964 – Soviet leaders Leonid Brezhnev and Alexei Kosygin are inaugurated as General Secretary of the CPSU and Premier, respectively and the collective leadership is established.
•  October 22, 1964 – Canada: A Multi-Party Parliamentary Committee selects the design which becomes the new official Flag of Canada.
•  November 28, 1964 – Vietnam War: National Security Council members agree to recommend that U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson adopt a plan for a two-stage escalation of bombing in North Vietnam.
•  December 11, 1964 – Che Guevara speaks at the United Nations General Assembly in New York City.
•  December 14, 1964 – American Civil Rights Movement: Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States – The United States Supreme Court rules that the U.S. Congress can use the Constitution’s Commerce Clause power to fight discrimination.

•  February 15, 1964 – Leland D. Melvin, NASA astronaut
•  May 30, 1964 – Wynonna Judd, American country singer
•  June 9, 1964 – Wayman Tisdale, American basketball player and smooth jazz bassist (d. 2009)
•  June 27, 1964 – Stephan Brenninkmeijer, Dutch film producer and director
•  August 22, 1964 – Tom Gibis, American voice actor
•  October 11, 1964 – Michael J. Nelson, American actor
•  November 7, 1964 – Li Nanxing, Singaporean actor
•  November 16, 1964 – Dwight Gooden, American baseball player
•  November 25, 1964 – Bert van Vlaanderen, Dutch long-distance runner
•  December 16, 1964 – Georgie Parker, Australian actress