WHAT ALL HAPPENED OCTOBER TO DECEMBER 1964
Find out what all happened October to December 1964

The 1964-1965 New York World's Fair closes for its first season after a six-month run. (18. October 1964)

First Buffalo Wings are made at the Anchor Bar in Buffalo, New York. (3. October 1964)

Leonid Brezhnev becomes the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and thereby, along with his allies - such as Alexei Kosygin - the leader of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), ousting the former monolithic leader Nikita Khrushchev, and sending him into retirement as a nonperson in the USSR. (14. October 1964)

A collection of irreplaceable gems, including the 565 carat (113 g) Star of India, is stolen by a group of thieves (among them is "Murph the surf") from the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. (29. October 1964)

The first test flight of the SR-71 (Blackbird) took place at Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, California. (22. December 1964)

Vietnam War: U.S. officials deny any involvement in bombing North Vietnam. (28. October 1964)

Prime Minister of Australia Robert Menzies opens the artificial Lake Burley Griffin in the middle of the capital Canberra. (17. October 1964)

Prime Minister Jomo Kenyatta becomes the first President of the Republic of Kenya. (12. December 1964)

Mariner program: NASA launches the Mariner 4 probe toward Mars. (28. November 1964)

The United Republic of Tanganyika and Zanzibar is renamed the United Republic of Tanzania. (29. October 1964)

Vietnam War: For his heroism in battle earlier in the year, Captain Roger Donlon is awarded the first Medal of Honor of the war. (5. December 1964)

The opening ceremony of the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, is broadcast live in the first Olympic telecast relayed by geostationary communication satellite. (10. October 1964)

Northern Rhodesia gains independence from the United Kingdom and becomes the Republic of Zambia (Southern Rhodesia remained a colony until the next year, with the Unilateral Declaration of Independence) (24. October 1964)

Eric Edgar Cooke becomes last person in Western Australia to be executed. (26. October 1964)

China detonates its first nuclear weapon. (16. October 1964)

Free Speech Movement: Police arrest over 800 students at the University of California, Berkeley, following their takeover and sit-in at the administration building in protest of the UC Regents' decision to forbid protests on UC property. (3. December 1964)

The Soviet Union launches the Voskhod 1 into Earth orbit as the first spacecraft with a multi-person crew and the first flight without space suits (12. October 1964)

Washington D.C. residents are able to vote in a presidential election for the first time. (3. November 1964)

Che Guevara speaks at the United Nations General Assembly in New York, New York. (11. December 1964)

Vietnam War: Viet Cong operatives bomb the Brinks Hotel in Saigon, South Vietnam to demonstrate they can strike an American installation in the heavily guarded capital. (24. December 1964)