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| 1964 |
| | | The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) is founded at a congress in East Jerusalem, then part of Jordan | |
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| 1964 |
| | | Robert Lowell's For the Union Dead takes its title from the last poem, about modern disregard for a Civil War monument | |
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| 1964 |
| | | Sergio Leone directs A Fistful of Dollars, the first of his three 'spaghetti westerns' starring Clint Eastwood | |
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| 1964 |
| | | Nelson Mandela is sentenced to life imprisonment and is sent to a gaol on Robben Island | |
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| 1964 |
| | | In a match at the Oval, England cricketer Freddie Trueman becomes the first bowler to take 300 Test wickets | |
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| 1964 |
| | | Fiddler on the Roof, based on a novel by Sholom Aleichem, opens on Broadway with Zero Mostel playing Tevye the Milkman | |
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| 1964 |
| | | President Johnson pushes through a Civil Rights Act against strong Senate opposition | |
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| 1964 |
| | | English author A.S. Byatt publishes her first novel, Shadow of a Sun | |
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| 1964 |
| | | The Beijing ballet company goes political with The Red Detachment of Women, supervised by Mao Zedong's wife, Jiang Qing | |
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| 1964 |
| | | Hastings Banda is prime minister of the newly independent nation of Malawi, formerly Nyasaland | |
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| 1964 |
| | | A reported incident in the Gulf of Tonkin triggers US intervention against North Vietnam, in a significant step towards the Vietnam War | |
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| c. 1964 |
| | | Two men are hanged in Britain, in the last use of capital punishment before its abolition in 1965 | |
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| 1964 |
| | | The Beatles reach number one in both the UK and the US with their single 'Can't Buy Me Love' | |
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| 1964 |
| | | Peter Sellers plays three different roles in Stanley Kubrick's film Dr Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb | |
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| 1964 |
| | | New Zealand poet Fleur Adcock publishes her first collection, The Eye of the Hurricane | |
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| 1964 |
| | | US author Joyce Carol Oates publishes her first novel, With Shuddering Fall | |
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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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| 1964 |
| | | A military junta seizes power in Bolivia, ending the 12-year left-wing regime of Paz Estenssoro | |
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| 1964 |
| | | Canadian author Marshall McLuhan declares, in Understanding Media, that 'the medium is the message' | |
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| 1964 |
| | | The immediate introduction of comprehensive schools in Britain, in place of grammar schools, is Labour party policy | |
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| 1964 |
| | | Surgeons Michael Bakey in the USA and Vasilii Kolesov in the USSR pioneer coronary bypass surgery, using the patient's mammary artery | |
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| 1965 |
| | | A royal proclamation formally establishes the new national flag of Canada | |
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| 1965 |
| | | US President Lyndon Johnson launches a regular bombing campaign against North Vietnam | |
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| 1965 |
| | | Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev dance together in the premiere of Kenneth MacMillan's Romeo and Juliet | |
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| 1965 |
| | | Winston Churchill dies, and lies in state in London's ancient Westminster Hall | |
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| 1965 |
| | | David Lean directs Omar Sharif and Julie Christie in a film of Pasternak's Dr Zhivago | |
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| 1965 |
| | | The General Assembly of the UN asks Argentina and Britain to enter negotiations on their long-running dispute over the Falklands | |
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