A political history of the civil war in Angola, 1964 – 1990.

* 1964 – Phil Gayle, English news anchor

* 1888 – Heinrich Neuhaus, Soviet pianist ( d. 1964 )

* 1894 – Francisco Craveiro Lopes, Portuguese politician and soldier, 13th President of Portugal ( d. 1964 )

* 1964 – Amy Ray, American singer-songwriter ( Indigo Girls )

* 1964 – Tony Fernandes, Malaysian entrepreneur

* 1964 – Ian Healy, Australian cricketer

* 1964 – Kent James, American singer-songwriter, actor, and actvist

* 1964 – Barrington Levy, Jamaican singer and musician

* 1964 – Paul Bernardo, Canadian serial killer and rapist

* 1964 – Robert Bogue, American actor

* 1964 – Prometheus, a bristlecone pine and the world's oldest tree, is cut down.

* 1880 – Hans Moser, Austrian actor ( d. 1964 )

* 1964 – Moosie Drier, American actor and director

* 1964 – Gary Valenciano, Filipino singer-songwriter, producer, and actor

* 1964 – Brett Hull, Canadian-American ice hockey player

* 1964 – Hoda Kotb, American journalist

* 1964 – Peter Allen and Gwynne Evans are hanged for the Murder of John Alan West becoming the last people executed in the United Kingdom.

* 1964 – Jay Buhner, American baseball player

* 1964 – Hank Cheyne, American actor

* 1964 – Debi Mazar, American actress

The tempo of the play changed over the next four series in the 1960s, held in 1962 – 63, 1964, 1965 – 66 and 1968.

Australia had lost 2 – 1 during a tour of the West Indies in 1964 – 65, the first time they had lost a series to any team other than England.

When the BDG appeared likely to win the election by default, the Gabonese military toppled M ' Ba in a bloodless coup on 18 February 1964.

When the BDG appeared likely to win the election by default, the Gabonese military toppled M ' Ba in a bloodless coup on February 18, 1964.

Faced with reports of tension between the government and the National Assembly, even though 70 % of it were BDG members, the Gabonese president dissolved the legislature on 21 January 1964 as an " economy measure ".

From the night of 17 February to the early morning of 18 February 1964, 150 Gabonese military personnel, headed by Lieutenant Jacques Mombo and Valére Essone, arrested President of the National Assembly Louis Bigmann, French commanders Claude Haulin and Major Royer, On Radio Libreville, the military announced to the Gabonese people that a coup d ' état had taken place, and that they required technical assistance and told the French not interfere in this matter.

Faced with reports of tension between the government and the National Assembly, even though 70 % of its composition were BDG members, the Gabonese president dissolved the legislature on 21 January 1964 as an " economy measure ".

During the night of 17 February and the early morning of 18 February 1964, 150 members of the Gabonese military, gendarmerie, and police, headed by Lieutenant Jacques Mombo and Valére Essone, seized the presidential palace.

In retirement, the former president did not completely retreat from political life ; he spoke at the 1964 Republican National Convention and appeared with Barry Goldwater in a Republican campaign commercial from Gettysburg.

The man behind the Frisbee's phenomenal success, however, was Edward " Steady Ed " Headrick ( Pasadena, Cal., June 28, 1924 — La Selva Beach, Cal., August 12, 2002 ), hired in 1964 as Wham-O's new general manager and vice president in charge of marketing.

From 1957 to 1964, Robinson was the vice president for personnel at Chock full o ' Nuts ; he was the first black person to serve as vice president of a major American corporation.

* 1964 – Ronald Reagan delivers a speech on behalf of Republican candidate for president, Barry Goldwater.

Somali president Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, a decorated war hero that participated in the 1964 border conflict and later led the Somali National Army's ( SNA ) southern front in the Ogaden War.

His son, Thomas Jr., later served as National president of the Boy Scouts of America from 1964 to 1968.

On 1950, Venezuela was the world's 4th largest wealthiest nation per capita However, from 1958 / 1959 onward, Romulo Betancourt ( president from 1959 to 1964 ) inherited an enormous internal and external debt caused by rampant public spending during the dictatorship.

* In 1964, a successful coup against the democratically elected government of Brazilian president João Goulart, initiates a military dictatorship of over 20 years of oppression.

** Jamestown: The president directs the fort to be strengthened and armed against the many attacks of the natives: " Hereupon the President was contented the Fort should be pallisadoed, the ordinance mounted, his men armed and exercised, for many were the assaults and Ambuscadoes of the Savages ..." Smith, Proceedings ( Barbour 1964 )

# Harvey A. Neville ( 1961 – 1964 ), the only faculty member ever elected president

" Later in 1964, Nasser was made president of the Non-Aligned Movement ( NAM ) and held the second conference of the organization in Cairo that same year.

* 1964 – Military coup in Brazil overthrows the elected government of president João Goulart with support from the US government.

Tsinghua alumni include the current CPC General secretary, Chinese president Hu Jintao, who graduated with a degree in hydraulic engineering in 1964, and the current Chinese vice president, Xi Jinping, who graduated with a degree in chemical engineering in 1979.

His younger brother, Arthur Hugh Bunker ( July 29, 1895-May 19, 1964 ), was also a noted businessman, chairman of the executive committee of the War Production Board ( 1941 – 1945 ) during World War II, and president and then board chairman of American Metal Climax ( AMAX ).

A change of president at the end of 1964 heralded the most successful period in the Carlton Football Club's history.

The period of success began when George Harris replaced Lew Holmes as president of the club, after the 1964 season.

In August 1964, Erhard resigned his position in Arlington over a dispute with the company president and returned to his previous position in San Francisco.

He was Senate minority floor leader, 1960 ; executive vice president, LP 1954 – 1961 ; president, Liberal Party, 1961 – 1964 ; Senate President, 1959 – 1965.

When the previous Philippine president, Macapagal, suggested in 1964 – 1965 to send troops it had been Marcos who had led the opposition against this plan on both legal and moral grounds.

In 1964 the United States Congress authorized and requested the president to proclaim October 9 of each year as " Leif Erikson Day ".

He was director of the Electronic Defense Laboratories of Sylvania / GTE in California from 1954 to 1964, and from 1964 to 1977 president of ESL, Incorporated, an electronics firm that he helped found.