1st January » The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is divided into the independent republics of Zambia and Malawi, and the British-controlled Rhodesia.
8th January » President Lyndon B. Johnson declares a "War on Poverty" in the United States.
11th January » Surgeon General of the United States Dr. Luther Terry, M.D., publishes the landmark report 'Smoking and Health: Report of the Advisory Committee to the Surgeon General of the United States' saying that smoking may be hazardous to health, sparking national
12th January » Rebels in Zanzibar begin a revolt known as the Zanzibar Revolution and proclaim a republic.
13th January » Anti-Muslim riots break out in Calcutta, resulting in 100 deaths.
13th January » Karol Wojtyla, the future Pope John Paul II, is appointed archbishop of Kraków named Kraków, Poland.
16th January » Hello, Dolly! (musical) starring Carol Channing opened on Broadway, beginning a run of 2,844 performances.
23rd January » The Twenty-fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution called 24th Amendment to the United States Constitution, prohibiting the use of poll taxes in national elections, is ratified.
28th January » An unarmed United States Air Force USAF T-39 Sabreliner on a training mission is T-39 Aircraft Incident shot down over Erfurt, East Germany, by a Soviet Air Forces Soviet MiG-19.
30th January » Ranger program: Ranger 6 is launched.
1st February » The Beatles have their first number one hit in the United States with I Want to Hold Your Hand
7th February » The Beatles first arrive in the United States. Their performance on 'The Ed Sullivan Show' two days later would mark the beginning of the British Invasion.
9th February » The Beatles make their first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, performing before a "record-busting" audience of 73 million viewers.
10th February » Melbourne-Voyager collision: The aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne R21 6 collides with and sinks the destroyer HMAS Voyager D04 6 off the south coast of New South Wales, Australia, killing 82.
11th February » Greece or Greeks and Turkey or Turks begin fighting in Limassol, Cyprus.
17th February » In 'Wesberry v. Sanders' the Supreme Court of the United States rules that Congress of the United States e.g congressional districts have to be approximately equal in population.
25th February » North Korean Prime Minister Kim Il-sung calls for the removal of Feudalism called feudalistic land ownership aimed at turning all cooperative farms into state-run ones.
25th February » U.S. Air Force launches a satellite employing a US Air Force Atlas/Agena combination from Vandenberg AFB Space Launch Complex 4 known as Point Arguello (LC-2-3) in California and from Cape Kennedy in Florida.
27th February » The Government of Italy asks for help to keep the Leaning Tower of Pisa from toppling over.
29th February » In Sydney, Australian swimmer Dawn Fraser sets a new world record in the 100-meter freestyle swimming (sport) known as swimming competition (58.9 seconds).
1st March » Villarrica (volcano) or Villarrica Volcano begins a strombolian eruption causing lahars that destroy half of the town of Coñaripe.
6th March » Constantine II of Greece named Constantine II becomes King of Greece.
14th March » A jury in Dallas finds Jack Ruby guilty of killing Lee Harvey Oswald, the assumed assassin of John F. Kennedy.
20th March » The wiktionary:Precursor named precursor of the European Space Agency, ESRO (European Space Research Organization) is established per an agreement signed on June 14, 1962.
27th March » The Good Friday Earthquake, the most powerful earthquake in U.S. history at a moment magnitude scale named magnitude of 9.2 strikes South Central Alaska, killing 125 people and inflicting massive damage to the city of Anchorage, Alaska known as Anchorage.
30th March » 'Jeopardy!', hosted by Art Fleming debuts.
4th April » The Beatles occupy the top five positions on the Billboard Hot 100 known as 'Billboard' Hot 100 pop chart.
7th April » International Business Machines e.g IBM announces the IBM System/360 called System/360.
8th April » Gemini 1 (unamanned test flight) launched.
13th April » At the Academy Awards, Sidney Poitier becomes the first African-American male to win the Academy Award for Best Actor or Best Actor award for the 1963 film 'Lilies of the Field (1963 film) called Lilies of the Field'.
15th April » The first Ford Mustang rolls off the show room floor, two days before it is set to go on sale nationwide.
17th April » Jerrie Mock becomes the first woman to circumnavigate the world by air.
17th April » Ford Mustang is introduced to the North American market.
20th April » BBC Two launches with a power cut because of the fire at Battersea Power Station.
21st April » A Transit (satellite) Transit-5bn satellite fails to reach orbit after launch; as it re-enters the atmosphere, convert 2.1 lb of radioactive plutonium in its Systems Nuclear Auxiliary Power Program SNAP Radioisotope thermoelectric generator RTG power sour
26th April » Tanganyika and Zanzibar merge to form Tanzania.
2nd May » Vietnam War: An explosion sinks the USS Card CVE-11 6 while it is docked at Ho Chi Minh City Saigon. Viet Cong forces are suspected of placing a bomb on the ship. She is raised and returned to service less than seven months later.
2nd May » First ascent of Shishapangma the fourteenth highest mountain in the world and the lowest of the Eight-thousanders.
5th May » The Council of Europe declares May 5 as Europe Day.
7th May » Pacific Air Lines Flight 773, a Fairchild (aircraft manufacturer) or Fairchild F-27 airliner, crashes near San Ramon, California, killing all 44 aboard; the Federal Bureau of Investigation named FBI later reports that a cockpit recorder tape indicates tha
20th May » Discovery of the cosmic microwave background radiation by Robert Woodrow Wilson and Arno Penzias.
22nd May » The U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson announces the goals of his Great Society social reforms to bring an "end to poverty and racial injustice" in America.
28th May » The Palestine Liberation Organization is formed.
29th May » The Arab League meets in East Jerusalem to discuss the Palestinian question, leading to the formation of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
5th June » DSV Alvin or DSV 'Alvin' is commissioned.
6th June » Under a temporary order, the Rocket experiments in the area of Cuxhaven named rocket launches at Cuxhaven, Germany are terminated. They never resume.
10th June » United States Senate breaks a 75 day filibuster against the Civil Rights Act of 1964, leading to the bills passage.
11th June » 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.
12th June » Anti-apartheid activist and African National Congress e.g ANC leader Nelson Mandela is Nelson Mandela Arrest and Rivonia trial named sentenced to life in prison for sabotage in South Africa.
19th June » The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is approved after surviving an 83-day filibuster in the United States Senate.
21st June » Three African-American Civil Rights Movement (1955–1968) known as civil rights workers, Andrew Goodman, James Chaney and Mickey Schwerner, Mississippi civil rights workers murders named are murdered in Neshoba County, Mississippi, United States, by member
28th June » Malcolm X forms the Organization of Afro-American Unity.
2nd July » President of the United States called U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964 meant to prohibit segregation in public places.
6th July » Malawi declares its independence from the United Kingdom.
19th July » Vietnam War: at a rally in Ho Chi Minh City known as Saigon, South Vietnamese Prime minister named Prime Minister Nguyễn Khánh calls for expanding the war into North Vietnam.
20th July » Vietnam War: Viet Cong forces attack the capital of Dinh Tuong Province, Cai Be, killing 11 South Vietnamese military personnel and 40 civilians (30 of which are children).
27th July » Vietnam War: Five thousand more American military advisers are sent to South Vietnam bringing the total number of United States forces in Vietnam to 21,000.
31st July » 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.
1st August » The former Belgian Congo is renamed the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
2nd August » Vietnam War: Gulf of Tonkin incident North Vietnamese gunboats allegedly fire on the United States U.S. destroyer USS Maddox DD-731 6.
4th August » African-American Civil Rights Movement (1955–1968) known as American civil rights movement: Civil and political rights e.g Civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney are found dead in Mississippi after disappearing on June 21.
4th August » Gulf of Tonkin incident: U.S. destroyers USS Maddox DD-731 6 and USS Turner Joy DD-951 6 report coming under attack in the Gulf of Tonkin.
5th August » Vietnam War: Operation Pierce Arrow: United States American aircraft from carriers USS Ticonderoga CV-14 6 and USS Constellation CV-64 6 bomb North Vietnam in retaliation for strikes against U.S. destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin.
7th August » Vietnam War: The United States Congress named U.S. Congress passes the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution giving U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson broad war powers to deal with North Vietnamese attacks on American forces.
12th August » Charlie Wilson, one of the Great Train Robbery (1963) Great Train Robbers, escapes from Birmingham (HM Prison) Winson Green Prison in Birmingham Birmingham, England, United Kingdom.
13th August » Peter Allen and Gwynne Evans are hanged for the Murder of John Alan West becoming the last people Capital punishment in the United Kingdom named executed in the United Kingdom.
19th August » Syncom 3, the first Geostationary orbit e.g geostationary communication satellite, was launched.
27th August » Army of the Republic of Vietnam known as South Vietnamese junta leader Nguyễn Khánh enters into a triumvirate power-sharing arrangement with rival generals Trần Thiện Khiêm and Dương Văn Minh, who had both been involved in plots to unseat Khánh.
28th August » The 1964 Philadelphia race riot known as Philadelphia race riot begins.
12th September » Canyonlands National Park is designated as a National Park.
13th September » Army of the Republic of Vietnam called South Vietnamese Generals Lâm Văn Phát and Dương Văn Đức fail in a September 1964 South Vietnamese coup attempt e.g coup attempt against General Nguyễn Khánh.
18th September » Constantine II of Greece marries Queen Anne-Marie of Greece e.g Danish princess Anne-Marie.
18th September » North Vietnamese Army begins infiltration of South Vietnam.
21st September » Malta becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
25th September » The Mozambican War of Independence against Portugal begins.
27th September » The British BAC TSR-2 e.g TSR-2 aircraft XR219 makes its maiden flight from Boscombe Down in Wiltshire.
29th September » The Argentina or Argentine comic strip Mafalda is published for the first time.
1st October » The Free Speech Movement is launched on the campus of University of California, Berkeley.
1st October » Japanese 'Shinkansen' ("bullet trains") begin high-speed rail service from Tokyo to Osaka.
10th October » The opening ceremony of the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, is broadcast live in the first Olympic telecast relayed by geostationary communication satellite.
12th October » The Soviet Union launches the Voskhod 1 into Earth orbit as the first spacecraft with a multi-person crew and the first flight without space suits
14th October » Leonid Brezhnev becomes the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union known as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and thereby, along with his allies - such as Alexei Kosygin - the leader of the Union of Soviet
16th October » China detonates its first 596 (nuclear test) named nuclear weapon.
17th October » Prime Minister of Australia Robert Menzies opens the artificial Lake Burley Griffin in the middle of the capital Canberra.
22nd October » Jean-Paul Sartre is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, but turns down the honor.
22nd October » Canada: A Multi-Party Parliamentary Committee selects the design which becomes the new official Flag of Canada.
24th October » Northern Rhodesia gains independence from the United Kingdom and becomes the Zambia called Republic of Zambia (Southern Rhodesia remained a colony until the next year, with the Unilateral Declaration of Independence)
26th October » Eric Edgar Cooke becomes last person in Western Australia to be executed.
27th October » Ronald Reagan delivers a speech on behalf of Republican candidate for president, Barry Goldwater. The speech launched his political career and came to be known as "A Time for Choosing".
28th October » Vietnam War: U.S. officials deny any involvement in bombing North Vietnam.
29th October » The United Republic of Tanganyika and Zanzibar is renamed the Tanzania named United Republic of Tanzania.
29th October » A collection of irreplaceable gemstone gems, including the 565 carat (113 g) Star of India (gem) Star of India, is stolen by a group of thieves (among them is Jack Roland Murphy "Murph the surf") from the American Museum of Natural History in New York Cit
2nd November » King Saud of Saudi Arabia is deposed by a family coup, and replaced by his half-brother Faisal of Saudi Arabia e.g Faisal.
3rd November » Washington D.C. residents are able to vote in a presidential election for the first time.
28th November » Mariner program: NASA launches the Mariner 4 probe toward Mars.
28th November » Vietnam War: United States National Security Council known as National Security Council members agree to recommend that President of the United States known as U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson adopt a plan for a two-stage escalation of bombing in North Vi
1st December » Vietnam War: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson and his top-ranking advisers meet to discuss plans to bomb North Vietnam.
1st December » Malawi, Malta and Zambia join the United Nations.
5th December » Vietnam War: For his heroism in battle earlier in the year, Captain Roger Donlon is awarded the first Medal of Honor of the war.
11th December » Che Guevara speaks at the United Nations General Assembly in New York City called New York, New York.
12th December » Prime Minister Jomo Kenyatta becomes the first Heads of State of Kenya named President of the Kenya named Republic of Kenya.
19th December » The Army of the Republic of Vietnam known as South Vietnamese military junta of Nguyễn Khánh December 1964 South Vietnamese coup called dissolve the High National Council and arrest some of the members.
22nd December » The first test flight of the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird e.g SR-71 (Blackbird) took place at Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, California.
24th December » Vietnam War: Viet Cong operatives 1964 Brinks Hotel bombing or bomb the Brinks Hotel in Ho Chi Minh City known as Saigon, South Vietnam to demonstrate they can strike an American installation in the heavily guarded capital.