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1964 Calendar Trivia

The next time you can reuse this calendar will be on year 2048. Both calendars will be exactly the same! This is assuming you are not interested in the dates for Easter and other irregular holidays that are based on a solar cycle.

April 4 (4/4), June 6 (6/6), August 8 (8/8), October 10 (10/10), December 12 (12/12), and the last day of February always fall on the same day of the week in any given year. This is called the ‘Doomsday rule’. Check these dates using the full 12-month calendar below to verify.

1964 Calendar

Historical Events Of 1964

• January 30, 1964 – In a bloodless coup, General Nguyễn Khánh overthrows General Dương Văn Minh’s military junta in South Vietnam.
• February 10, 1964 – Melbourne–Voyager collision: The aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne collides with and sinks the destroyer HMAS Voyager off the south coast of New South Wales, Australia, killing 82.
• February 13, 1964 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Dragon in Chinese astrology.
• March 14, 1964 – A jury in Dallas finds Jack Ruby guilty of killing Lee Harvey Oswald, the assumed assassin of John F. Kennedy.
• April 7, 1964 – IBM announces the System/360.
• May 7, 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.
• October 12, 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
• October 14, 1964 – Martin Luther King, Jr. received the Nobel Peace Prize for combating racial inequality through nonviolence.
• October 29, 1964 – The United Republic of Tanganyika and Zanzibar is renamed the United Republic of Tanzania.
• November 21, 1964 – Second Vatican Council: The third session of the Roman Catholic Church’s ecumenical council closes.

Who Were Born On 1964?

• February 29, 1964 – Dave Brailsford, English cyclist and coach
• March 7, 1964 – Andrew P. Mackenzie, British physicist
• March 27, 1964 – Jessica Soho, Filipino journalist
• April 19, 1964 – Gordon Marshall, Scottish footballer and coach
• April 22, 1964 – Estelle Asmodelle, Australian model and actress
• April 27, 1964 – Lisa Wilcox, American actress
• May 4, 1964 – Terje Isungset, Norwegian percussionist (Isglem, Ice Music Festival)
• June 5, 1964 – Lisa Cholodenko, American director and screenwriter
• November 15, 1964 – Mikhail Rusyayev, Russian footballer, coach, and manager (d. 2011)
• December 7, 1964 – Patrick Fabian, American actor