Page 11: Historical Events In 1964

Jul 28   Ranger 7 launched toward the Moon; sent back 4308 TV pictures.   

Jul 31   Al Parker glides 644 miles without any motor.   

Jul 31   All-nuclear task force with USS Long Beach, USS Enterprise, and USS Bainbridge leaves Norfolk, VA to begin voyage, Operation Sea Orbit, to circle the globe without refueling. They returned on 3 October   

Jul 31   Jim Reeves, US country singer, dies in air crash at 39   

Jul 31   US Ranger 7 takes 4316 pictures before crashing on Moon.   

Aug 01   Beatles' "Hard Day's Night" single goes to #1 spot on the charts.   

Aug 01   Jack Kirkwood actor (Fibber McGee and Molly), dies at 69.   

Aug 01   Johnny Burnette, rocker, drowns at 30.   

Aug 01   North Vietnam fires on a US destroyer in Gulf of Tonkin and so it begins in earnest   

Aug 01   Race riot in Jersey City NJ   

Aug 02   North Vietnam fires on a US destroyer in Gulf of Tonkin and so it starts.   

Aug 02   US destroyer attacked by Vietnamese torpedo boats in Gulf of Tonkin   

Aug 03   Flannery O'Connor, writer (Good Man is Hard to Find), dies at 39   

Aug 04   Civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney are discovered buried inside an earthen dam in Mississippi   

Aug 04   Civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James E Chaney, bodies discovered in an earthen Mississippi dam   

Aug 05   Moa Martinson, writer, dies.   

Aug 05   US begins bombing North Vietnam   

Aug 06   Cedric Hardwicke, actor (Capt Hook-Peter Pan), dies at 71.   

Aug 06   In this year, Pope Paul VI publishes encyclical Ecclesiam Suam   

Aug 06   Sir Cedric Hardwicke actor (Capt Hook-Peter Pan), dies at 71   

Aug 09   1st Rolling Stones concert in Netherlands.   

Aug 11   Beatles' "A Hard Day's Night" opens in NYC.   

Aug 11   Race riot in Paterson NJ   

Aug 12   Ian L Fleming, British journalist/writer (James Bond), dies at 56   

Aug 12   Race riot in Elizabeth NJ   

Aug 13   1st broadcast by Trans World Radio on Bonaire.   

Aug 15   Race riot in Dixmoor (Chicago suburb) Ill.   

Aug 16   In this year, Ruth Jessen claims LPGA Omaha Jaycee Golf Open Invitational   

Aug 16   Jack Pennick, actor (Lady From Louisiana), dies at 68   

Aug 20   President Johnson signs Economic Opportunity Act (totaling nearly $1 billion).   

Aug 21   Canadian Bette Singer dives a record-setting 307 feet into Bahaman waters   

Aug 21   Palmiro Togliatti, founder (Communist Italian Party)/min of Just, dies   

Aug 23   Footbridge collapses over river gorge in Venezuela, and 29 people fall to their deaths in rapids below.   

Aug 24   Maurice Schoemaker, composer, dies at 73   

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Jan 02   Christopher john gray: Priest   

Jan 02   Pernell whitaker: Boxer (olympic-gold)   

Jan 02   Rumesh ratnayake: Cricketer (sri lankan pacer in 23 tests 1983-92)   

Jan 03   Cheryl miller: Riverside calif, basketball player (olympic-gold-1984)   

Jan 03   Bruce labruce: Canadian filmmaker   

Jan 04   Stephanie maxwell-pierson: Somerville nj, us rower (olympic-92)   

Jan 05   John erickson: Woodland hills calif, golfer (1991 windsor charity)   

Jan 05   Ted harris poley: Englewood nj, rocker (danger danger-screw it)   

Jan 01   Alf hall: Cricketer (s afr lefty quick took 40 wkts in 7 tests),    

Jan 04   Ralph dumke: Actor (movieland quiz),   

Jan 06   Edgar maass: German/us author (verdun),   

Jan 07   Colin c mcphee: Composer (h2o, mechanical princibles),    

Jan 08   Arnoldus jc krafft: Theologist (atlas of neth antilles),    

Jan 09   Halide edib adevar/salih: Turkish feminist (handan),    

Jan 10   A marja: Dutch author (man of day & night),    

Jan 12   C r browne: Cricket leg-spinner (wi in 4 tests, 6 wkts),