1964 in the United States

1964
in
the United States

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Events from the year 1964 in the United States.

Incumbents

Federal Government

Events

January

  • January 3 Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona announces that he will seek the Republican nomination for president.
  • January 7 A British firm, the Leyland Motor Corp., announces the sale of 450 buses to the Cuban government, challenging the United States blockade of Cuba.
  • January 8 In his first State of the Union Address, U.S. President Lyndon Johnson declares a "War on Poverty".
  • January 9 Martyrs' Day: Armed clashes between United States troops and Panamanian civilians in the Panama Canal Zone precipitate a major international crisis, resulting in the deaths of 21 Panamanians and 4 U.S. soldiers.
  • January 10 Introducing...the Beatles is released by Chicago's Vee-Jay Records to get the jump on Capitol Records' release of Meet the Beatles!, scheduled for January 20. The two record companies fight in court over Vee-Jay's release of the album.
  • January 11 United States Surgeon General Luther Leonidas Terry reports that smoking may be hazardous to one's health (the first such statement from the U.S. government).
  • January 12
  • January 13 In Manchester, New Hampshire, 14-year-old Pamela Mason is murdered. Edward Coolidge is tried and convicted of the crime, but the conviction is set aside by the landmark Fourth Amendment case Coolidge v. New Hampshire (1971).
  • January 16
  • January 17 John Glenn announces that he will seek the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senator from Ohio.
  • January 18 Plans to build the World Trade Center in New York City are announced.
  • January 20 Meet the Beatles!, the first Beatles album in the United States, is released.
  • January 23
  • January 27 U.S. Senator Margaret Chase Smith, 66, announces her candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination.
  • January 28 A U.S. Air Force jet training plane that strays into East Germany is shot down by Soviet fighters near Erfurt; all 3 crew men are killed.
  • January 29 Ranger 6 is launched by NASA, on a mission to carry television cameras and crash-land on the Moon.

February

March

  • March 4 Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa is convicted by a federal jury of tampering with a federal jury in 1962.
  • March 8 Malcolm X, suspended from the Nation of Islam, says in New York City that he is forming a black nationalist party.
  • March 9
  • March 10
  • March 12 Malcolm X leaves the Nation of Islam.
  • March 13 It is falsely reported that 38 neighbors in Queens, New York City fail to respond to the cries of Kitty Genovese, 28, as she is being stabbed to death.
  • March 14 A Dallas, Texas jury finds Jack Ruby guilty of killing John F. Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald.
  • March 26 U.S. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara delivers an address that reiterates American determination to give South Vietnam increased military and economic aid, in its war against the Communist insurgency.
  • March 27 The Good Friday earthquake, the most powerful earthquake in U.S. history at a magnitude of 9.2, strikes South Central Alaska, killing 125 people and inflicting massive damage to the city of Anchorage, Alaska.
  • March 30 Merv Griffin's game show Jeopardy! debuts on NBC; Art Fleming is its first host.
  • March 31 The military, backed by the US, overthrows Brazilian President João Goulart in a coup, starting 21 years of dictatorship in Brazil.

April

  • April 2 Mrs. Malcolm Peabody, 72, mother of Massachusetts Governor Endicott Peabody, is released on $450 bond after spending 2 days in a St. Augustine, Florida jail, for participating in an anti-segregation demonstration there.
  • April 4 Three high school friends in Hoboken, N.J., open the first BLIMPIE on Washington Street.
  • April 8 Four of 5 railroad operating unions strike against the Illinois Central Railroad without warning, bringing to a head a 5-year dispute over railroad work rules.
  • April 12 In Detroit, Michigan, Malcolm X delivers a speech entitled "The Ballot or the Bullet."
  • April 13 The 36th Academy Awards ceremony is held; Tom Jones wins Best Picture. Sidney Poitier becomes the first black actor to win the award for Best Actor.
  • April 14 A Delta rocket's third-stage motor ignites prematurely in an assembly room at Cape Canaveral, killing 3.
  • April 17
  • April 20 U.S. President Lyndon Johnson in New York, and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev in Moscow, simultaneously announce plans to cut back production of materials for making nuclear weapons.
  • April 22 The 1964 New York World's Fair opens to celebrate the 300th anniversary of New Amsterdam being taken over by British forces under the Duke of York (later King James II) and being renamed New York in 1664. The fair runs until Oct. 18, 1964 and reopens April 21, 1965, finally closing October 17, 1965. (Not sanctioned, due to being within 10 years of the Seattle World's Fair in 1962, some countries decline, but many countries have pavilions with exotic crafts, art & food.)

May

  • May 2
    • Senator Barry Goldwater receives more than 75% of the votes in the Texas Republican Presidential primary.
    • Some 400–1,000 students march through Times Square, New York and another 700 in San Francisco, in the first major student demonstration against the Vietnam War. Smaller marches also occur in Boston, Seattle, and Madison, Wisconsin.
    • Henry Hezekiah Dee and Charles Eddie Moore, hitchhiking in Meadville, Mississippi, are kidnapped, beaten, and murdered by members of the Ku Klux Klan. Their badly decomposed bodies are found by chance in July during the search for missing activists Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner.
  • May 7 Pacific Air Lines Flight 773 crashes near San Ramon, California, killing all 44 aboard; the FBI later reports that a cockpit recorder tape indicates that the pilot and co-pilot had been shot by a suicidal passenger.
  • May 12 First draft-card burning: 12 young men in New York publicly burn their draft cards as an act of resistance to the Vietnam War.[2][3]
  • May 19 The United States Department of State says that more than 40 hidden microphones have been found embedded in the walls of the U.S. Embassy in Moscow.
  • May 26 Nelson Rockefeller defeats Barry Goldwater in the Oregon Republican primary, slowing but not stalling Goldwater's drive toward the presidential nomination.

June

July

  • July 2 President Lyndon Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law, abolishing racial segregation in the United States.
  • July 8 U.S. military personnel announce that U.S. casualties in Vietnam have risen to 1,387, including 399 dead and 17 MIA.
  • July 16 At the Republican National Convention in San Francisco, U.S. presidential nominee Barry Goldwater declares that "extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice", and "moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue".
  • July 27 Vietnam War: The U.S. sends 5,000 more military advisers to South Vietnam, bringing the total number of United States forces in Vietnam to 21,000.

August

September

  • September 4 The last execution in the U.S. for a crime other than murder occurs in Alabama, as James Coburn is put to death for robbery.
  • September 7 President Lyndon Johnson's re-election campaign airs the controversial and influential "Daisy" ad.[6]
  • September 12 Canyonlands National Park is established.
  • September 16 Shindig! premieres on ABC television, featuring the top musical acts of the decade.
  • September 17 Bewitched, starring Elizabeth Montgomery, premieres on ABC.
  • September 27 The Warren Commission Report, the first official investigation of the assassination of John F. Kennedy, is published.[4]

October

November

November 3: LBJ re-elected in a landslide

December

  • December 1 Vietnam War: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson and his top-ranking advisers meet to discuss plans to bomb North Vietnam (after some debate, they agree on a 2-phase bombing plan).
  • December 3 Berkeley Free Speech Movement: Police arrest about 800 students at the University of California, Berkeley, following their takeover of and massive sit-in at the Sproul Hall administration building. The sit-in most directly protested the U.C. Regents' decision to punish student activists for what many thought had been justified civil disobedience earlier in the conflict.
  • December 6 The 1-hour stop-motion animated special Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, based on the popular Christmas song, premieres on NBC. It becomes a beloved Christmas tradition, still being shown on television almost 55 years later, despite moving to CBS in 1972 due to poor viewing figures in 1971.
  • December 10 Martin Luther King, Jr. is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway.
  • December 11
  • December 14 Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States (379 US 241 1964): The U.S. Supreme Court rules that, in accordance with the Civil Rights Act of 1964, establishments providing public accommodations must refrain from racial discrimination.
  • December 15 The Washington Post publishes an article about James Hampton, who had built a glittering religious throne out of recycled materials.
  • December 18 In the wake of deadly riots in January over control of the Panama Canal, the U.S. offers to negotiate a new canal treaty.
  • December 27 The Cleveland Browns defeat the Baltimore Colts in the NFL Championship Game.

Undated

Ongoing

Births

Deaths

See also

References

  1. "Mission & History". National Museum of American History. Retrieved 2018-02-14.
  2. Flynn, George Q. (1993). The Draft, 1940–1973. Modern war studies. University Press of Kansas. p. 175. ISBN 0-7006-0586-X.
  3. Gottlieb, Sherry Gershon (1991). Hell no, we won't go!: resisting the draft during the Vietnam War. Viking. p. xix. ISBN 0-670-83935-3. 1964: May 12—Twelve students at a New York rally burn their draft cards...
  4. "On This Day", The New York Times, retrieved 25 August 2016
  5. Brown, Peter; Steven Gaines (2002). The Love You Make: An Insider's Story of the Beatles. NAL Trade. ISBN 0-451-20735-1.
  6. "Top 10 Campaign Ads: Daisy Girl". Time. 2008-09-22. Retrieved 2012-03-08.
  7. Moog, R. A. (1965). "Voltage-Controlled Electronic Music Modules". Journal of the Audio Engineering Society. 13 (3): 200–206.
  8. "MILESTONES: July 28, birthdays for Lori Loughlin, Scott Pelley, Manu Ginobili". Brooklyn Daily Eagle. 28 July 2017.
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