Historical Events In 1964

Mar 27 Earthquake strikes Anchorage AK, 9.2 on Richter scale, 131 die from earthquake and resulting tsunami; this is the most violent eathquake in US history

Mar 14 Jack Ruby found guilty of killing Lee Harvey Oswald, and sentenced to death

Mar 24 Kennedy half-dollar issued

Mar 17 The Canadian Government introduces Canada Pension Plan Bill in House of Commons

Mar 06 Elijah Muhammad renames Cassius Clay, Muhammad Ali

Mar 19 Cape Whittle Quebec, over 100 cm of snow falls at Cape Whittle; Quebec's greatest one-day snowfall

Mar 27 On the island of Cyprus the first Canadians troops start duties with UN peacekeeping force

Mar 15 LBJ asks for a War on Poverty

Mar 04 Jimmy Hoffa convicted of jury tampering

Mar 06 Tom O'Hara runs world record mile (3 :6.4)

Mar 31 President Jango Goulart of Brazil chased out of office by military

Mar 19 Sean Connery's first day of shooting on "Goldfinger"

Mar 23 Two Marine helicopter crews of VMO-1 rescued 11 sick, injured and wounded members of a road engineering party that had survived attacks by hostile Indians in the dense jungle of the Amazon basin near Iquitos, Peru.

Mar 15 Liz Taylor's 5th marriage (Richard Burton more to come)

Mar 06 Tom O'Hara runs world record mile (3 6.4)

Mar 10 US reconnaissance plane shot down over East Germany

Mar 26 "Funny Girl" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 1,348 performances

Mar 29 Supermodel Elle MacPherson born this day.

Mar 16 Paul Hornung &Alex Karras reinstated in NFL after 1 year suspension

Mar 27 UN troops arrive on Cyprus

Mar 29 The first true Pirate Radio station, Radio Caroline (England)

Mar 12 6th Grammy Awards: Days of Wine &Roses, Streisand win

Mar 06 Constantine succeeds Paul I as king of Greece

Mar 05 Emergency crisis proclaimed in Ceylon due to social unrest

Mar 30 Astronaut John Glenn withdraws from Ohio senate race

Mar 19 Sergeant Major Walter Leja awarded George Medal for heroic conduct while dismantling FLQ bombs in Montreal

Mar 06 Liz Taylor's 4th divorce (Eddie Fisher)

Mar 13 Turkey threatens Cyprus with armed attack

Mar 27 Great Train Robbers sentenced to a total of 307 years behind bars

Mar 28 Near Merriman, Nebraska a 5.1 quake is one of the largest historical earthquakes in Nebraska .

Mar 12 Jimmy Hoffa sentenced to 8 years

Mar 20 ESRO established, European Space Research Organization

Mar 28 In the Prince William Sound, Alaska a quake measuring 9.2 occurs one of the 10 Largest Earthquakes in the World,

Mar 02 Beatles begin filming "A Hard Day's Night", George Harrison meets Patti Boyd

Mar 22 Barbra Streisand appears on the cover of New York Times Magazine section

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