In history, year 1964 has its own importance and known for many memorable events like famous birthdays, inventions, natural disaster, treaties, change of rulers, special days etc. Find below a list of important historical events which happened during the year 1964.
| Date/Month | Event / Incidence / Incident |
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| 08 january | During his State of the Union address, U.S. President Lyndon B.Johnson declared a 'War on Poverty'. |
| 11 january | In a landmark report, U.S. Surgeon General Luther Terry issued the warning that smoking may be hazardous for one's health, concluding that it has a causative role in lung cancer, chronic bronchitis,emphysema, and other illnesses. |
| 12 january | Rebels led by John Okello overthrew Sultan Jamshid bin Abdullah, ending 200 years of Arab dominance in Zanzibar. |
| 16 january | The musical Hello, Dolly! opened at the St. James Theatre on Broadway, and would go on to win ten Tony Awards, a record that stood for 35 years. |
| 28 january | An unarmed US Air Force T-39 Sabreliner on a training missionwas shot down over Erfurt, East Germany, by a Soviet MiG-19, killing allthree aboard. |
| 29 january | US secretly developed jet fighter A-11 was finally revealed by Lyndon Baines Johnson. |
| 30 january | In a bloodless coup, General Nguyen Khanh overthrew GeneralDuong Van Minh's military junta in South Vietnam, less than three monthsafter Minh executed a bloody coup himself. |
| 09 february | English rock band The Beatles made their first appearance on American variety show The Ed Sullivan Show before a record-breaking audience, beginning a musical phenomenon known as the British Invasion. |
| 10 february | The Royal Australian Navy aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne Collided with and sank the destroyer HMAS Voyager in Jervis Bay,Australia, killing 82 of Voyager's personnel. |
| 17 february | Gabonese military officers overthrew President Léon M'ba, butFrance, honoring a 1960 treaty, forcibly reinstated M'ba the next day. |
| 29 february | US secretly developed jet fighter A-11 was finally revealed by Lyndon Baines Johnson. |
| 06 march | In a radio broadcast, Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammadannounced that American boxer Cassius Clay would change his name toMuhammad Ali. |
| 13 march | American Kitty Genovese was murdered, reportedly in view ofneighbors who did nothing to help her (later disproved), promptingresearch into the bystander effect. |
| 20 march | American physicists Robert Woodrow Wilson and Arno Penzias discovered cosmic microwave background radiation on May 20, 1964. Both of them earned the 1978 Nobel Prize in physics for this discovery which is of great importance because cosmic microwave is the thermal radiation left over from the Big Bang that means it is the oldest light in the universe. |
| 30 march | Jeopardy!, the popular American game show created by Merv Griffin, made its debut on the NBC television network. |
| 25 april | James Baldwin's 'Blues for Mr. Charlie,' premieres in New York City. |
| 26 april | Tanganyika and Zanzibar merged to form Tanzania with JuliusNyerere as its first president. |
| 07 may | Pacific Air Lines Flight 773 crashed on May 7, 1964 near San Ramon, California in the United States. It was the first case of Mass murder suicide in the history of United States. Francisco Paula Gonzales shot both the pilot and co-pilot before himself, all 44 passengers were killed in the crash. |
| 09 may | Ngô Ðình C?n, de facto ruler of central Vietnam under hisbrother President Ngô Ðình Di?m before the family's toppling, wasexecuted. |
| 20 may | American physicists Robert Woodrow Wilson and Arno Penzias discovered cosmic microwave background radiation on May 20, 1964. Both of them earned the 1978 Nobel Prize in physics for this discovery which is of great importance because cosmic microwave is the thermal radiation left over from the Big Bang that means it is the oldest light in the universe. |
| 27 may | Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru passed away at the age of 74. Jawaharlal Nehru was the first Prime Minister of India and a central figure in Indian politics for much of the 20th century. He was found dead in the office, cause of death is believed to be heart attack. |
| 21 june | Three civil rights workers were lynched by members of the KuKlux Klan near Philadelphia, Mississippi, US. |
| 02 july | U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Actinto law, out lawing segregation in schools, at the workplace, and other facilities that served the general public. |
| 06 july | Malawi announced its independence from United Kingdom. Malawi was formerly called Nyasaland. It was a colony of Britain. It is a landlocked country situated in southeast of African continent. it is one of the least developed countries. |
| 02 august | Three North Vietnamese torpedo boats blastoff torpedoes against The US Destroyer Maddox in the Gulf of Tonkin. On the 4th, North Vietnamese patrol boats again attack Maddox that formed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, which allowed US Forces to attack North Vietnamese basis as their response. |
| 04 august | American civil rights movement workers Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney are found dead in Mississippi after mysteriously disappearing on June 21. |
| 04 august | A second U.S. Navy destroyer wasreportedly attacked by North Vietnamese forces in the Gulf of Tonkin,leading Congress to authorize the use of military force in SoutheastAsia. |
| 06 august | American researcher Donald Currey had a bristlecone pine treeknown as Prometheus cut down, only to find that it was the oldest knownnon-clonal organism ever discovered, at least 4,862 years old at thetime. |
| 12 august | Due to the IOC conditions, including the refusal regarding demolishing its’ Apartheid Policies, South Africa are barred from the Olympic games in Tokyo. South Africa was not permitted into the Olympics in 1992 even after 28 years suspension. |
| 27 august | South Vietnamese junta leader Nguy?n Khánh entered into atriumvirate power-sharing arrangement with rival generals Tr?n Thi?nKhiêm and Duong Van Minh, who had both been involved in plots tounseat Khánh. |
| Date/Month | Name / Profession / Country |
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| 01 August | Augusta Read Thomas / Educator / United States of America |
| 03 April | Nigel Farage / Politician / United Kingdom |
| 05 May | Jean-François Copé / Politician / France |
| 06 December | Mall Nukke / Painter / Estonia |
| 06 April | Phil Gayle / Journalist / United Kingdom |
| 07 November | Dana Plato / Actress / United States of America |
| 08 May | Melissa Gilbert / Actress / United States of America |
| 11 May | Tim Blake Nelson / Actor / United States of America |
| 15 February | Leland D. Melvin / Engineer / United States of America |
| 15 September | Doyle Wolfgang von Frankenstein / Writer / United States of America |
| 20 December | Mark Coleman / Wrestler / United States of America |
| 20 April | Andy Serkis / Actor / United Kingdom |
| 24 April | Cedric the Entertainer / Actor / United States of America |
| 24 July | Urmas Kaljend / Footballer / Estonia |
| 25 May | David Shaw / Ice Hockey Player / United States of America |
| 25 August | Maxim Kontsevich / Academic / United States of America |
| 25 September | Joey Saputo / Business Man / Canada |
| 26 July | Anne Provoost / Author / Belgium |
| 27 November | Robin Givens / Actress / United States of America |
| 28 June | Bernie McCahill / Rugby Player / New Zealand |