WHAT ALL HAPPENED MARCH TO JUNE 1964
Find out what all happened March to June 1964

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

Ford Mustang is introduced to the North American market. (17. April 1964)

Constantine II becomes King of Greece. (6. March 1964)

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

DSV Alvin is commissioned. (5. June 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)

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)

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)

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)

Villarrica Volcano begins a strombolian eruption causing lahars that destroy half of the town of Coñaripe. (1. March 1964)

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

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

A coup d'état in Brazil establishes a military government, under the aegis of general Castello Branco. (31. March 1964)

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

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

A jury in Dallas finds Jack Ruby guilty of killing Lee Harvey Oswald, the assumed assassin of John F. Kennedy. (14. March 1964)

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

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)