WHAT ALL HAPPENED APRIL TO MAY 1964
Find out what all happened April to May 1964

At the Academy Awards, Sidney Poitier becomes the first African-American male to win the Best Actor award for the 1963 film Lilies of the Field. (13. April 1964)

Pacific Air Lines Flight 773, a Fairchild F-27 airliner, crashes near San Ramon, California, killing all 44 aboard; the FBI later reports that a cockpit recorder tape indicates that the pilot and co-pilot had been shot by a suicidal passenger. (7. May 1964)

First ascent of Shishapangma the fourteenth highest mountain in the world and the lowest of the Eight-thousanders. (2. May 1964)

Vietnam War: An explosion sinks the USS Card while it is docked at Saigon. Viet Cong forces are suspected of placing a bomb on the ship. She is raised and returned to service less than 7 months later. (2. May 1964)

Tanganyika and Zanzibar merge to form Tanzania. (26. April 1964)

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

The Council of Europe declares May 5 as Europe Day. (5. May 1964)

Jerrie Mock becomes the first woman to circumnavigate the world by air. (17. April 1964)

The 1964-1965 New York World's Fair opens for its first season. (22. April 1964)

The Arab League meets in East Jerusalem to discuss the Palestinian question, leading to the formation of the Palestine Liberation Organization. (29. May 1964)

Ford Mustang is introduced to the North American market. (17. April 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)

The Palestine Liberation Organization is formed. (28. May 1964)

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

BBC Two launches with a power cut because of the fire at Battersea Power Station. (20. April 1964)

Ngo Dinh Can, de facto ruler of central Vietnam under his brother President Ngo Dinh Diem before the family's toppling, is executed. (9. May 1964)

The U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson announces the goals of his Great Society social reforms to bring an "end to poverty and racial injustice" in America. (22. May 1964)