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| 1964 |
| | | US author Saul Bellow publishes Herzog, a novel featuring a professor of history who is a compulsive sender of messages | |
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| 1964 |
| | | Martin Luther King wins the Nobel Peace Prize for leading non-violent resistance to racial discrimination in the USA | |
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| 1964 |
| | | Nikita Khrushchev is forced from office as Soviet leader by a conservative faction that includes Leonid Brezhnev | |
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| 1964 |
| | | The USSR enters a brief period of coalition leadership by Alexei Kosygin as prime minister and Leonid Brezhnev as Party First Secretary | |
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| 1964 |
| | | Harold Wilson becomes prime minister after Labour narrowly wins the UK general election | |
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| 1964 |
| | | Kenneth Kaunda becomes president of the independent republic of Zambia, previously Northern Rhodesia | |
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| 1964 |
| | | Ayatollah Khomeini, exiled by the shah from Iran, moves first to Turkey and then makes his base in Iraq | |
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| 1964 |
| | | The Second Vatican Council issues a decree recognizing the legitimacy and apostolic origins of many of the beliefs and practices of the Greek Orthodox church | |
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| 1964 |
| | | Lyndon B. Johnson is elected US president in his own right, winning decisively against Republican Barry Goldwater | |
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| 1964 |
| | | The Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, linking Brooklyn and Staten Island, is the world's longest suspension bridge with a main span of 4260 feet (1298m) | |
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