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1964
 
Narrative history in HistoryWorld    
A military junta seizes power in Bolivia, ending the 12-year left-wing regime of Paz Estenssoro      
1964
 
     
Canadian author Marshall McLuhan declares, in Understanding Media, that 'the medium is the message'        
1964
 
   
The immediate introduction of comprehensive schools in Britain, in place of grammar schools, is Labour party policy      
1964
 
     
Surgeons Michael Bakey in the USA and Vasilii Kolesov in the USSR pioneer coronary bypass surgery, using the patient's mammary artery        
Coronary artery bypass graft
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1965
 
   
A royal proclamation formally establishes the new national flag of Canada      
1965
 
    
US President Lyndon Johnson launches a regular bombing campaign against North Vietnam       
1965
 
     
Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev dance together in the premiere of Kenneth MacMillan's Romeo and Juliet        
1965
 
    
Winston Churchill dies, and lies in state in London's ancient Westminster Hall       
1965
 
     
David Lean directs Omar Sharif and Julie Christie in a film of Pasternak's Dr Zhivago        
1965
 
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The General Assembly of the UN asks Argentina and Britain to enter negotiations on their long-running dispute over the Falklands