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1964 - General The Average Wage: £18.2s.2d
Donald Campbell captures land ( 403.10 m.p.h. ) and water ( 276.33 m.p.h. ) speed records in Australia John Surtees becomes the
only man to win world titles on both two and four wheels Construction of the Aswan Dam is commenced at Abu Simbel Lyndon B.Johnson wins presidential election and signs the Civil Rights Act and Anti-poverty Bill U.S. Congress passes the Gulf of Tonkin resolution to allow America to make war on Vietnam Nelson Mandela and 7 others are sentenced to life imprisonment for
treason
1st The first 'Top of the Pops' programme is broadcast from a disused church in Manchester 6th
The Rolling Stones start their
first tour as a headline act, supported by The Ronettes 20th The trial of the Great Train robbers starts 25th The launch of the Echo C spacecraft is the first joint U.S. / Soviet project 29th The 9th Winter Olympics open in Innsbruck 30th Actor Alan Ladd dies 3rd American spacecraft Ranger 6 crashes on the moon 6th Britain and France agree to build a Channel tunnel 7th Beatlemania hits the States as The Beatles arrive to start their first U.S. Tour 19th
Actor Edward Gargan dies 25th Cassius Clay beats Sonny Liston in 7th round to become World Heavyweight Boxing Champion 29th Princess Alexandra gives birth to James Ogilvy 29th The Lockheed SR-71 'Blackbird' 2,000mph warplane is first made public
Jack Ruby receives the death sentence for the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald Playwright Brendan Behan dies 6th King Paul I of Greece dies and is succeeded by Constantine 8th The Dave Clark Five make their debut on the Ed Sullivan show singing 'Glad All Over' 10th Prince Edward is born 14th The Dave Clark Five turn professional 23rd Actor Peter Lorre dies 28th Radio Caroline starts broadcasting, Britain's first 'pirate radio' station
The classic
'Ford Mustang' car is launched in America 5th American General Douglas MacArthur dies 16th The Great Train robbers receive a total of 307 years imprisonment 16th In West Germany Geraldine Mock completes the first round the world solo flight by a woman 21st BBC2 broadcasts its first programme - 'Play School' 28th Lady Helen Windsor is born to the Duchess of Kent
The first Habitat store opens in London at 77 Fulham Road 1st Lady Sarah Armstrong-Jones is born to Princess Margaret 9th Radio Atlanta ( later Caroline South ) begins broadcasting 17th Mods and Rockers clash in seafront riots at Brighton and Margate 27th Radio Sutch ( later Radio City ) begins broadcasting
2nd The Palestine Liberation Organisation is created in Jerusalem 2nd Nude cabaret artiste Phyllis Dixey dies, aged 50 4th The Blue Streak is used in a launch from Woomera, Australia 8th Christine Keeler is released from prison 9th Lord Beaverbrook, press Baron of Express newspapers, dies aged 85 12th A crowd of 300,000 greet The Beatles on arrival in Adelaide, Australia 14th Francois Duvalier is declared President for life in Haiti
ITV is off-air for five days due to strike action 275 BEA flights are cancelled at Heathrow due to strike action Footballer John White is killed by lightning on a golf course in Enfield Singer Tom Jones signs for the Decca record label 6th The Beatles film 'A Hard Day's Night' premieres at The Pavilion Theatre, London 14th Spacecraft Mariner IV gives the first close-up pictures of Mars 28th
Winston Churchill leaves the House of
Commons for the last time 29th The first family planning clinic opens 31st Jim Reeves dies in a plane crash near Beery Field airport, Nashville 31st Ranger 7 sends back the first close-up views of the surface of the moon Singer Johnny Burnette is drowned in a fishing accident The New York World Fair is held 6th Actor Cedric Hardwicke dies 12th Great Train robber Charles Wilson escapes from Winston Green prison 12th Ian Fleming, author of 13 James Bond books dies in Canterbury, aged 56 13th The last executions are carried out in Britain at Strangeways prison 15th Freddie Trueman becomes the first man to take 300 Test wickets in cricket 21st Three women are found guilty of indecency for wearing topless dresses in public 22nd The first 'Match of the Day' programme is broadcast, Kenneth Wolstenholme commentating 22nd Roger Hunt scores the first 'Match of the Day' goal as Liverpool beat Arsenal 3-2 24th Nimbus 1 is launched, first satellite to take good quality night pictures
3rd Robert Kennedy resigns as U.S. Attorney-General to run for Senate 14th The presses at 'The Sun' start rolling at 10 p.m. 17th Licences are granted to 22 applicants to drill for oil and gas in the North Sea 27th The TSR2 supersonic strike aircraft makes its maiden flight 28th Comedian Harpo Marx dies aged 70
Martin Luther King wins the Nobel Peace Prize 1st The Japanese 'Bullet' train runs for the first time 10th The 18th Olympic games open in Tokyo, Japan 10th Eddie Cantor dies 13th The first Soviet 3-man spacecraft completes a 24 hour mission 15th Musician Cole Porter dies 16th Harold Wilson becomes Prime Minister in U.K. general election won by the Labour Party 17th
Brezhnev succeeds Kruschev
as Soviet First Secretary 29th The TAMI show is filmed, showcasing The Rolling Stones 31st The Windmill Theatre, famous for its nude tableaux, closes down
2nd The first episode of television soap opera 'Crossroads' is broadcast 9th Judy Garland gives a concert jointly with daughter Liza Minelli in London 11th An economy budget raises income tax by 6% to pay for larger old age pensions 23rd The first British commercial radio station, Radio Manx, goes on air 30th The Soviet Zond 2 and American Mariner 4 head towards Mars Radio London, the American-backed pirate radio station begins broadcasting 6th Martin Luther King preaches a sermon in St. Paul's Cathedral 8th Lord Marks of Marks & Spencer dies aged 76 11th Singer Sam Cooke is shot dead in Los Angeles by motel manageress Bertha Lee Franklin 21st The House of Commons votes to abolish the death penalty in Britain 21st The General Dynamics F111 fighter makes its first flight 29th An East-end shooting incident is linked to the Kray brothers
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