
1964
- Nikita Krushchev ousted, replaced by Leonid Breshnev
- Nelson Mandela sentenced to life imprisonment
- Chinese detonate their 1st atomic bomb
- Aswan Dam completed in Egypt
- Ravi Shankar performs in New York
- Lyndon B. Johnson elected President of US
- Lyndon Johnson's "War on Poverty" starts
- The Beatles appear on The Ed Sullivan Show
- Civil Rights Act of 1964 adopted in U.S.
- Berkeley Free Speech Movement gains momentum
- Martin Luther King, Jr. awarded Nobel Peace Prize
- Willie Shoemaker rides to his 5,000th victory
- Art Arfons sets new land speed record - 536.71 mph
- The Rolling Stones perform on "The Ed Sullivan Show"
- "Whiskey-a-Go-Go" opens - 1st disco in US
- Cassius Clay (Muhammed Ali) wins his 1st heavyweight boxing title
- Ford introduces the "Mustang"
- Hemingway's A Moveable Feast
- Marshall McLuhan's Understanding Media
- 1st home TV recorder demonstrated
- Acrylic paint
- Permanent-press fabric
- Touch-tone phones
- Song and dance crazes - "The Swim", "The Watusi"
- Songs - "I Want To Hold Your Hand", "Where Did Our Love Go", "Walk On By",
"Dancing in the Street"
- G.I. Joe action figures (they're NOT dolls!)
- Broadway - "Hello, Dolly", "Fiddler on the Roof"
- Sidney Poitier becomes the 1st African American to win an Oscar for "Best
Actor (for "Lillies in the Field")
- Films - "A Hard Day's Night", "My Fair Lady", "Mary Poppins"
- TV - "Bewitched", "Gilligan's Island", "The Addams Family", "The Man From
U.N.C.L.E."
- Bonnie Blair, José Canseco, Tracy Chapman, Dwight Gooden, Darci Kistler
born
- Rachel Carson, Jawaharlal Nehru, Ian Fleming, Gracie Allen, Sgt. Alvin York,
Harpo Marx, Cole Porter, and Herbert Hoover die
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