WHAT ALL HAPPENED JUNE TO SEPTEMBER 1964
Find out what all happened June to September 1964

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

Ranger program: Ranger 7 sends back the first close-up photographs of the moon, with images 1,000 times clearer than anything ever seen from earth-bound telescopes. (31. July 1964)

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

Charlie Wilson, one of the Great Train Robbers, escapes from Winson Green Prison in Birmingham, England, United Kingdom. (12. August 1964)

Malta becomes independent from the United Kingdom. (21. September 1964)

Vietnam War: Gulf of Tonkin incident – North Vietnamese gunboats allegedly fire on the U.S. destroyer USS Maddox. (2. August 1964)

North Vietnamese Army begins infiltration of South Vietnam. (18. September 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 Belgian Congo is renamed the Democratic Republic of the Congo. (1. August 1964)

U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964 meant to prohibit segregation in public places. (2. July 1964)

American civil rights movement: civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney are found dead in Mississippi after disappearing on June 21. (4. August 1964)

Malcolm X forms the Organization of Afro-American Unity. (28. June 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 Walt Disney musical film Mary Poppins is released. (27. August 1964)

Peter Allen and Gwynne Evans are hanged for the Murder of John Alan West becoming the last people executed in the United Kingdom. (13. 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)

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

DSV Alvin is commissioned. (5. June 1964)

Malawi declares its independence from the United Kingdom. (6. July 1964)

The Argentine comic strip Mafalda is published for the first time. (29. September 1964)