57 events found for 1964
South Vietnamese Generals Lâm Văn Phát and Dương Văn Đức fail in a coup attempt against General Nguyễn Khánh.
Martin Luther King Jr. addresses a crowd of 20,000 West Berliners on Sunday, in Waldbühne.
The wedding of Constantine II of Greece and Princess Anne-Marie of Denmark takes place in Athens.
The first television adaptation of Charles Addams's "The Addams Family" premieres on ABC Television.
Malta gains independence from the United Kingdom, but remains in the Commonwealth.
The North American XB-70 Valkyrie, the world's fastest bomber, makes its maiden flight from Palmdale, California.
Typhoon Wilda, one of the strongest typhoons to ever strike Japan, makes landfall, causing at least 30 fatalities and…
The Mozambican War of Independence against Portugal begins.
The British TSR-2 aircraft XR219 makes its maiden flight.
The Free Speech Movement is launched on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley.
Japanese Shinkansen ("bullet trains") begin high-speed rail service from Tokyo to Osaka.
The Tokyo Summer Olympics opening ceremony is the first to be relayed live by satellites.
The Soviet Union launches the Voskhod 1 into Earth orbit as the first spacecraft with a multi-person crew, and the…
Martin Luther King Jr. receives the Nobel Peace Prize for combating racial inequality through nonviolence.
The Soviet Presidium and the Communist Party Central Committee each vote to accept Nikita Khrushchev's "voluntary"…
Leonid Brezhnev becomes leader of the Soviet Communist Party, while Alexei Kosygin becomes the head of government.