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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

• February 13, 1964 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Dragon in Chinese astrology.
• March 1, 1964 – Villarrica Volcano begins a strombolian eruption causing lahars that destroy half of the town of Coñaripe.
• March 31, 1964 – A coup d'état in Brazil establishes a military government, under the aegis of general Castelo Branco.
• April 22, 1964 – The 1964-1965 New York World’s Fair opens for its first season.
• July 2, 1964 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964 meant to prohibit segregation in public places.
• August 4, 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.
• August 12, 1964 – South Africa is banned from the Olympic Games due to the country’s racist policies.
• September 27, 1964 – The British TSR-2 aircraft XR219 makes its maiden flight from Boscombe Down in Wiltshire.
• October 14, 1964 – Martin Luther King, Jr. received the Nobel Peace Prize for combating racial inequality through nonviolence.
• November 28, 1964 – Mariner program: NASA launches the Mariner 4 probe toward Mars.

Who Were Born On 1964?

• January 22, 1964 – Nigel Benn, English-Australian boxer
• April 4, 1964 – Riduan Isamuddin, Indonesian terrorist
• April 13, 1964 – Caroline Rhea, Canadian-American actress, producer, and screenwriter
• May 5, 1964 – Heike Henkel, German high jumper
• May 7, 1964 – Leslie O'Neal, American football player
• May 28, 1964 – Armen Gilliam, American basketball player and coach (d. 2011)
• June 23, 1964 – Lou Yun, Chinese gymnast
• July 24, 1964 – Banana Yoshimoto, Japanese author
• September 10, 1964 – John E. Sununu, American engineer and politician
• October 13, 1964 – Nie Haisheng, Chinese general, pilot, and astronaut