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August 1964

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August 1964

The following events occurred in August 1964:

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August 1, 1964 (Saturday)

  • The final Looney Tune cartoon, "Señorella and the Glass Huarache", is released before the Warner Bros. Cartoon Division is shut down by Jack L. Warner.
  • Emancipation Day in Barbados, Bermuda, Guyana, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, and Jamaica – celebration of the end of slavery in these former and continuing British colonies in the Caribbean.

    • August 2, 1964 (Sunday)

  • Gulf of Tonkin incident: The destroyer USS Maddox, while performing a signals intelligence patrol as part of DESOTO operations, engages three North Vietnamese Navy torpedo boats of the 135th Torpedo Squadron. A sea battle results, in which the Maddox expends over two hundred and eighty 3-inch and 5-inch shells, and in which four USN F-8 Crusader jet fighter bombers strafe the torpedo boats. One US aircraft is damaged, one 14.5 mm round hits the destroyer, three North Vietnamese torpedo boats are damaged, and four North Vietnamese sailors were killed and six wounded.
  • The 1964 German Grand Prix is won by John Surtees.
  • The wreckage of a plane piloted by popular singer Jim Reeves is found near Brentwood, Tennessee, 42 hours after it crashed. The bodies of Reeves and his manager Dean Manuel are found in the wreckage of the aircraft.
  • Died: Namdeo Jadav, Indian VC recipient, 42

    • August 3, 1964 (Monday)

  • Born: Lucky Dube, South African reggae musician, in Ermelo (died 2007)
  • Opened: Vale Park Primary School, in South Australia

    • August 4, 1964 (Tuesday)

  • American civil rights movement: The bodies of murdered civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney are found.
  • Vietnam War: United States destroyers USS Maddox and USS C. Turner Joy are attacked in the Gulf of Tonkin. Air support from the carrier USS Ticonderoga sinks 1 gunboat, while the other 2 leave the battle.

    • August 5, 1964 (Wednesday)

  • Vietnam War: Operation Pierce Arrow – Aircraft from carriers USS Ticonderoga and USS Constellation bomb North Vietnam in retaliation for strikes against U.S. destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin.
  • The Simba rebel army in the Democratic Republic of the Congo captures Stanleyville, and takes 1,000 Western hostages.
  • Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft marry at New York City Hall, with a passer-by as witness.
  • Andrew Pixley breaks into a room at the Wort Motor Hotel in Jackson, Wyoming, where Illinois Circuit Court Judge Robert McAuliffe and his family are staying. McAuliffe and his wife returned to their room in the early hours of the morning to find Pixley lying on the floor. Their older daughters, Debbie, 12, and Cindy, 8, had been sexually assaulted and murdered. Pixley was later executed for the crime.

    • August 6, 1964 (Thursday)

  • The first North Vietnamese Air Force jet fighter unit, Fighter Regiment No. 921 (the "Red Star Squadron"), arrives in North Vietnam after training in the People's Republic of China, bringing 36 MiG-17 and MiG-19 fighters to Phúc Yên Air Base near Hanoi.
  • Pope Paul VI issues the encyclical Ecclesiam suam, identifying the Catholic Church with the Body of Christ.
  • The British coaster Guernsey Coast collides with Liberian ship SS Catcher 30 nautical miles (56 km) off Cherbourg, France, and sinks. One crewman is reported missing.

    • August 7, 1964 (Friday)

  • Vietnam War: The United States Congress passes the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, giving U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson broad war powers to deal with North Vietnamese attacks on U.S. forces.
  • The Turkish Air Force begins strikes on Greek positions in Cyprus.

    • August 8, 1964 (Saturday)

  • A Rolling Stones gig in Scheveningen, Netherlands, gets out of control. Riot police end the gig after about 15 minutes, upon which spectators start to fight the riot police.
  • Members of North Carolina’s congressional delegation approach Sargent Shriver, asking that civil rights campaigner Adam Yarmolinsky should not be appointed to a senior post in the Office of Economic Opportunity, due to be set up under the Economic Opportunity Act.

    • August 9, 1964 (Sunday)

  • Archbishop Makarios III, President of Cyprus, asks Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou for aerial assistance against Turkey. The Greeks respond by sending four planes.
  • The Beatles' 1964 world tour: The Beatles appear in concert at the Futurist Theatre, Scarborough.

    • August 10, 1964 (Monday)

  • Logan Martin Lake, a reservoir on the Coosa River, Alabama, US, is put into service.

    • August 11, 1964 (Tuesday)

  • The Beatles return to the studio and record the first track of the Beatles for Sale album.

    • August 12, 1964 (Wednesday)

  • 32-year-old Charlie Wilson, serving a 30-year prison sentence for his role in the Great Train Robbery, escapes from Winson Green Prison in Birmingham, UK, apparently with the aid of three accomplices.
  • Died: Ian Fleming, British intelligence officer and "James Bond" novelist, 56 (heart attack)

    • August 13, 1964 (Thursday)

  • Murderers Gwynne Owen Evans and Peter Anthony Allen become the last people to be executed in the United Kingdom.
  • Madam Margaret Kyeremaah of Dormaa-Ahenkro, Ghana was born.

    • August 14, 1964 (Friday)

  • Muhammad Ali marries cocktail waitress Sonji Roi, a month after their first meeting.

    • August 15, 1964 (Saturday)

  • Dr Martin Luther King, Jr., arrives in Amsterdam to attend a conference of the European Baptist Federation.

    • August 16, 1964 (Sunday)

  • Vietnam War: In a coup, General Nguyen Khanh replaces Duong Van Minh as South Vietnam's chief of state and establishes a new constitution, drafted partly by the U.S. Embassy.

    • August 17, 1964 (Monday)

  • Margaret Harshaw, Metropolitan Opera soprano, sings the title role in Puccini's opera Turandot at the New York World's Fair.
  • Died: Keiji Sada, 37, Japanese actor (car accident)

    • August 18, 1964 (Tuesday)

  • South Africa is banned from future participation in the Olympic Games after failing to respond to an ultimatum from the International Olympic Committee over its apartheid policy.
  • Play is rained off on the final day of the 5th test in Australia's cricket tour of England, with the result that the game ends in a draw. Australia win the series 1-0 and retain The Ashes.
  • Died: Hildegard Trabant, 37, shot by East German border guards while attempting to cross into West Berlin.

    • August 19, 1964 (Wednesday)

  • Died: Hans Peter Luhn, 68, German computer scientist

    • August 20, 1964 (Thursday)

  • US President Lyndon Johnson signs the Economic Opportunity Act into law.
  • The Harmonica Incident: A confrontation between manager Yogi Berra and utility infielder Phil Linz over the latter's playing a harmonica on the New York Yankees team bus following a four-game sweep by the Chicago White Sox becomes national sports news..

    • August 21, 1964 (Friday)

  • Died: Palmiro Togliatti, Italian Communist politician, 71

    • August 22, 1964 (Saturday)

  • Fannie Lou Hamer, civil rights activist and Vice Chair of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, addresses the Credentials Committee of the Democratic National Convention, challenging the all-white Mississippi delegation.
  • Goalkeeper Derek Foster of Sunderland becomes the youngest-ever player in the English Football League, aged 15 years and 185 days.
  • Born: Mats Wilander, Swedish tennis player, in Växjö

    • August 23, 1964 (Sunday)

  • Greek Air Force F-4 Phantom IIs are recalled while en route to attack Turkish military positions.
  • The Beatles perform at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, California, one of the two concerts that were compiled as the live album The Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl.

    • August 24, 1964 (Monday)

  • The Anglican Church of India is founded by a group of Anglicans withdrawing from the Church of South India.

    • August 25, 1964 (Tuesday)

  • The British tug Kenya collides with the Dutch ship SS Maarshaven and sinks at Tilbury, Essex, United Kingdom. It is later raised and beached.

    • August 26, 1964 (Wednesday)

  • Died: Laurent Barré, 78, Quebec politician

    • August 27, 1964 (Thursday)

  • The Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City comes to an end, having nominated incumbent President Lyndon B. Johnson for a full term, and U.S. Senator Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota as his running mate.
  • Walt Disney's Mary Poppins has its world première in Los Angeles. It will go on to become Disney's biggest moneymaker, and winner of 5 Academy Awards, including a Best Actress Oscar for Julie Andrews, who accepted the part after she was passed over for the leading role of Eliza Doolittle in the film version of My Fair Lady. Mary Poppins is the first Disney film to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture.
  • Died: Gracie Allen, American actress and comedian, 69 (heart attack)

    • August 28, 1964 (Friday)

  • Start of Philadelphia 1964 race riot: Tensions between African American residents and police lead to 341 injuries and 774 arrests.
  • Bob Dylan introduces The Beatles to marijuana during their first tour of the United States.

    • August 29, 1964 (Saturday)

  • The Beatles play at Forest Hills, NY

    • August 30, 1964 (Sunday)

  • The first Clásico Joven match between two Mexico City football clubs, Club América and Cruz Azul, takes place.

    • August 31, 1964 (Monday)

  • Died: Peter Lanyon, English painter, 46 (gliding accident)

    • References

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