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