WHAT ALL HAPPENED MAY TO NOVEMBER 1964
Find out what all happened May to November 1964

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

Second Vatican Council: The third session of the Roman Catholic Church's ecumenical council closes. (21. November 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)

World War II veteran Walter Seifert runs amok in an elementary school in Cologne, Germany, killing at least eight children and two teachers and seriously injuring several more with a home-made flamethrower and a lance. (11. June 1964)

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

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

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

King Saud of Saudi Arabia is deposed by a family coup, and replaced by his half-brother Faisal. (2. November 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)

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

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

Canyonlands National Park is designated as a National Park. (12. September 1964)

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

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)

Malawi declares its independence from the United Kingdom. (6. July 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 Verrazano-Narrows Bridge opens to traffic. (At the time it is the world's longest suspension bridge.) (21. November 1964)