WHAT ALL HAPPENED SEPTEMBER TO OCTOBER 1964
Find out what all happened September to October 1964

South Vietnamese Generals Lam Van Phat and Duong Van Duc fail in a coup attempt against General Nguyen Khanh. (13. September 1964)

The United Republic of Tanganyika and Zanzibar is renamed the United Republic of Tanzania. (29. October 1964)

The North American XB-70 Valkyrie, the world's first Mach 3 bomber, makes its maiden flight from Palmdale, California. (21. September 1964)

North Vietnamese Army begins infiltration of South Vietnam. (18. September 1964)

Canada: A Multi-Party Parliamentary Committee selects the design which becomes the new official Flag of Canada. (22. October 1964)

Eric Edgar Cooke becomes last person in Western Australia to be executed. (26. October 1964)

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

Ronald Reagan delivers a speech on behalf of Republican candidate for president, Barry Goldwater. The speech launched his political career and came to be known as "A Time for Choosing". (27. October 1964)

First Buffalo Wings are made at the Anchor Bar in Buffalo, New York. (3. October 1964)

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

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

China detonates its first nuclear weapon. (16. October 1964)

Constantine II of Greece marries Danish princess Anne-Marie. (18. September 1964)

The opening ceremony of the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, is broadcast live in the first Olympic telecast relayed by geostationary communication satellite. (10. October 1964)

Vietnam War: U.S. officials deny any involvement in bombing North Vietnam. (28. October 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)

Japanese Shinkansen ("bullet trains") begin high-speed rail service from Tokyo to Osaka. (1. October 1964)

Jean-Paul Sartre is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, but turns down the honor. (22. October 1964)

A collection of irreplaceable gems, including the 565 carat (113 g) Star of India, is stolen by a group of thieves (among them is "Murph the surf") from the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. (29. October 1964)