WHAT ALL HAPPENED APRIL TO JUNE 1964
Find out what all happened April to June 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 1964-1965 New York World's Fair opens for its first season. (22. April 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)

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

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

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)

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

DSV Alvin is commissioned. (5. June 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)