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1964
Nikita Khrushchev
Nikita Khrushchev is dismissed from all positions on October 14th.
Martin Luther King
Martin Luther King is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Lyndon B. Johnson shows reporters the Victory Sign
Lyndon B. Johnson , American President since Kennedy's assassination the year before, won the November presidential election with the largest majority (61.1 percent) in US history.
The baby boom in Germany reached its peak with 1,357,304 live births.
The baby boom in Germany reached its peak with 1,357,304 live births.
1964 in other calendars
From urbe condita 2717
Armenian calendar 1412-1413
Ethiopian calendar 1956-1957
Badi calendar 120-121
Bengali calendar 1370-1371
Berber calendar 2914
Buddhist calendar 2508
Burmese calendar 1326
Byzantine calendar 7472-7473
Chinese calendar
 - era 4660-4661 or
4600-4601
 - 60 year cycle

Water Hare ( 癸卯 , 40) -
Wooden Dragon ( 甲辰 , 41)

French
revolutionary calendar
CLXXII - CLXXIII
172-173
Hebrew calendar 5724-5725
Hindu calendar
 - Vikram Sambat 2020-2021
 - Shaka Samvat 1886-1887
Iranian calendar 1342-1343
Islamic calendar 1383-1384
Japanese calendar
 - Nengō (era): Shōwa 39
 - Kōki 2624
Coptic calendar 1680-1681
Korean calendar
 - Dangun era 4297
 - Juche era 53
Minguo calendar 53
Modern Olympics XVIII
Seleucid calendar 2275-2276
Thai solar calendar 2507

Events

Politics and world events

science and technology

economy

Culture

society

religion

Sports

For entries of athletics world records, see under the respective discipline under athletics .

Disasters

  • March 27 : A severe earthquake with 9.2 magnitude and several tsunami waves occurred in Alaska. The Good Friday quake in 1964 , also known as the "Great Alaska Quake", was the strongest earthquake in US history to date.
  • May 24th : 328 people die and around 500 are injured in a mass panic in the national stadium in Lima . When the referee did not recognize a goal by the Peruvian soccer team in the Olympic qualifying match against Argentina shortly before the end of the game , tumult broke out. The firing of tear gas by the police at the football fans causes thousands of spectators to flee, but the exits are still closed.
  • July 23 : The Egyptian freighter Star of Alexandria , loaded with ammunition, explodes in the port of the Algerian city of Bône . The serious accident claims over 100 dead and around 160 injured. The damage is estimated at $ 20 million.

Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Catastrophe .

Born

January

February

March

April

Claudia Jung , 2012

May

June

Michael Gross

July

Joachim Llambi

August

September

October

Nicole, 2008

November

December

Heike Drechsler, 1984
Ben Becker , 2008

Day unknown

Died

January

Halide Edip Adivar
Julius Raab , 1961

February

March

Nella Larsen

April

Rachel Carson

May

Jawaharlal Nehru and Gandhi, 1929

June

Hans Moser , 1902

July

August

Marie Baum

September

Otto Grotewohl († September 21)

October

Cole Porter († October 15)

November

Heinrich von Brentano († November 14)

December

Edith Sitwell

Day unknown

Nobel Prizes

music

Web links

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