WHAT HAPPENED IN 1964.
Look what happened the 1964.

Malta becomes independent from the United Kingdom. (21. 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 British TSR-2 aircraft XR219 makes its maiden flight from Boscombe Down in Wiltshire. (27. September 1964)

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

The Free Speech Movement is launched on the campus of University of California, Berkeley. (1. October 1964)

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

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

The Soviet Union launches the Voskhod 1 into Earth orbit as the first spacecraft with a multi-person crew and the first flight without space suits (12. 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)

China detonates its first nuclear weapon. (16. 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)

Prime Minister of Australia Robert Menzies opens the artificial Lake Burley Griffin in the middle of the capital Canberra. (17. October 1964)

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

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

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

Northern Rhodesia gains independence from the United Kingdom and becomes the Republic of Zambia (Southern Rhodesia remained a colony until the next year, with the Unilateral Declaration of Independence) (24. October 1964)

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

Vietnam War: U.S. officials deny any involvement in bombing North Vietnam. (28. October 1964)