WHAT ALL HAPPENED MARCH TO OCTOBER 1964
Find out what all happened March to October 1964

South Africa is banned from the Olympic Games due to the country's racist policies. (12. August 1964)

IBM announces the System/360. (7. April 1964)

Scotland's Forth Road Bridge near Edinburgh officially opens. (4. September 1964)

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is approved after surviving an 83-day filibuster in the United States Senate. (19. June 1964)

The Free Speech Movement is launched on the campus of University of California, Berkeley. (1. October 1964)

A Transit-5bn satellite fails to reach orbit after launch; as it re-enters the atmosphere, 2.1 pounds (0.95 kg) of radioactive plutonium in its SNAP RTG power source is widely dispersed. (21. April 1964)

Malcolm X forms the Organization of Afro-American Unity. (28. June 1964)

The precursor of the European Space Agency, ESRO (European Space Research Organization) is established per an agreement signed on June 14, 1962. (20. March 1964)

The North American XB-70 Valkyrie, the world's first Mach 3 bomber, makes its maiden flight from Palmdale, California. (21. September 1964)

The Beatles occupy the top five positions on the Billboard Hot 100 pop chart. (4. April 1964)

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

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

Under a temporary order, the rocket launches at Cuxhaven, Germany are terminated. They never resume. (6. June 1964)

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

Soviet leaders Leonid Brezhnev and Alexei Kosygin are inaugurated as General Secretary of the CPSU and Premier, respectively and the collective leadership is established. (16. October 1964)

DSV Alvin is commissioned. (5. June 1964)

The Philadelphia race riot begins. (28. August 1964)

Three civil rights workers, Andrew Goodman, James Chaney and Mickey Schwerner, are murdered in Neshoba County, Mississippi, United States, by members of the Ku Klux Klan. (21. June 1964)

North Vietnamese Army begins infiltration of South Vietnam. (18. September 1964)