Historical Events In 1964

Feb 04 24th Amendment abolishes Poll tax

Feb 11 Beatles first live appearance in US; Washington DC Coliseum

Feb 18 Papandreou government takes power in Greece

Feb 08 Representative Martha Griffiths address gets civil rights protection for women being added to the 1964 Civil Rights Act

Feb 10 Destroyer Voyager sinks off Australia after colliding with aircraft carrier Melbourne

Feb 24 Cassius Clay beats Sonny Liston for heavyweight boxing championship

Feb 01 Indiana Governor Mathew Walsh tries to ban "Louie Louie" for obscenity

Feb 09 The premier appearance of Beatles on "Ed Sullivan Show" (73.7 million viewers)

Feb 07 Cassius Clay becomes a Muslim & adopts the name Muhammad Ali

Feb 29 North Carolina high school basketball teams play to 56-54 score in 13 overtime

Feb 02 Sjoukje Dijkstra (Netherlands) win Olympics gold for figure skating

Feb 08 Peter Shaffer's "Royal Hunt of the Sun," premieres in London

Apr 17 Ford Mustang formally introduced ($2368 base)

Apr 20 86% of black students boycott Cleveland schools

Apr 22 World's Fair (Flushing Meadow, Corona Park, NY) opens

Apr 26 Tanganyika & Zanzibar unite to form Tanzania (Tanzanian Union Day)

Apr 05 Mary Lena Faulk wins LPGA St Petersburg Women's Golf Open

Apr 01 John Lennon is reunited with his father Freddie after 17 years

Apr 04 Beatles' "Can't Buy Me Love", single goes #1 & stays #1 for 5 weeks

Apr 09 Unmanned Gemini 1 launched

Apr 17 Jerrie Mock becomes first woman to fly solo around the world

Apr 05 First driverless trains run on the London Underground

Apr 04 Beatles' "Can't Buy Me Love," single goes #1 &stays #1 for 5 weeks

Apr 03 US and Panama agree to resume diplomatic relations

Apr 02 USSR launches Zond 1 to Venus; no data returned

Apr 26 Tanzania formed with the merger of two countries

Apr 18 Ben Hecht playwright (Child of the Century), dies at 71

Apr 10 Iranian motor launch catches fire &sinks killing 113 (Persian Gulf)

Apr 13 Sidney Poitier became first black man to win Oscar for best actor

Apr 04 "Anyone Can Whistle" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 9 performances

Apr 03 Beatles hold the top 6 spots on the Sydney Australia record charts

Apr 25 Toronto Maple Leafs beat Detroit Red Wings 4 games to 3 for the Stanley Cup

Apr 03 US & Panam agree to resume diplomatic relations

Apr 08 John Lennon is reunited with his father Freddie after 17 years

Apr 27 John Lennon's "In His Own Write" is published in the US

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