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.

* 1964 – Vietnam War: Gulf of Tonkin incident – North Vietnamese gunboats allegedly fire on the U. S. destroyers and.

* 1964 – Vietnam War: the U. S. Congress passes the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution giving U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson broad war powers to deal with North Vietnamese attacks on American forces.

* 1964 – Vietnam War: Operation Pierce Arrow – American aircraft from carriers and bomb North Vietnam in retaliation for strikes against U. S. destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin.

*** 1964 – In direct response to the minor naval engagement known as the Gulf of Tonkin incident which occurred on August 2, 1964, the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, a joint resolution of the U. S. Congress, was passed on August 10, 1964.

Prior United States military involvement in Vietnam intensified following the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution in 1964.

Johnson expanded the numbers and roles of the American military following the Gulf of Tonkin Incident ( less than three weeks after the Republican Convention of 1964, which had nominated Barry Goldwater for President ).

" The August 2 and August 4, 1964, clash in the Tonkin Gulf between naval units of the U. S. and North Vietnamese Navy initiated America's highly classified UAVs into their first combat missions of the Vietnam War.

The second Tonkin Gulf incident was originally claimed by the U. S. National Security Agency to have occurred on August 4, 1964, as another sea battle, but instead may have involved " Tonkin Ghosts " ( false radar images ) and not actual NVN torpedo boat attacks.

* Robert J. Hanyok, " Skunks, Bogies, Silent Hounds, and the Flying Fish: The Gulf of Tonkin Mystery, 2 – 4 August 1964 " Cryptologic Quarterly, Winter 2000 / Spring 2001 Edition, Vol.

Ellsberg served in the Pentagon from August 1964 under Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara ( and, in fact, was on duty on the evening of the Gulf of Tonkin incident, reporting the incident to McNamara ).

U. S. involvement escalated after the Gulf of Tonkin incidents in August 1964, involving a falsely reported attack on two U. S. destroyers by North Vietnamese naval vessels.

* Inspired Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Steven Stucky ’ s evening-long concert drama August 4, 1964, which was based on the tragic events of that date 44 years ago: the discovery in Mississippi of the bodies of three recently murdered young civil rights workers and a spurious “ attack ” on two American warships in the Gulf of Tonkin.

That same year, the Bremerton Historic Ships Association opened the destroyer USS Turner Joy ( DD-951 ) to public tours at the end of the boardwalk ; the ship was built in the Puget Sound area in 1958, commissioned in 1959 and had played a back-up role in the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin Incident that further escalated U. S. involvement in the Vietnam War with the Congressional passage of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, allowing President Lyndon B. Johnson to send fighting troops in addition to the " advisors " already on the ground in Vietnam.

" Major American military involvement began in 1964, after Congress provided President Lyndon B. Johnson with blanket approval for presidential use of force in the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution.

America officially entered the Vietnam War as a result of the Tonkin Gulf Incident on 4 August 1964.

In August 1964, as a result of the Gulf of Tonkin Incident, in which U. S. naval vessels claimed to have been attacked by North Vietnamese patrol boats, President Johnson ordered retaliatory air strikes ( Operation Pierce Arrow ) launched against the north.

On 4 August 1964, United States President Lyndon B. Johnson erroneously claimed that North Vietnamese forces had twice attacked American destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin.

In October, 2005 the New York Times reported that Robert J. Hanyok, a historian for the U. S. National Security Agency, had concluded that the NSA deliberately distorted the intelligence reports that it had passed on to policy-makers regarding the August 4, 1964 incident.

When three civil rights workers Mickey Schwerner, James Chaney, and Andrew Goodman went missing in Mississippi on June 21, 1964, he reportedly told President Lyndon Johnson that the incident was a hoax and there was no Ku Klux Klan in the state, surmising that the three had gone to Chicago :< ref >

In another incident in 1964 two people died.

The statement made by " Mayor Tilman " to the FBI agents is paraphrased from a quote by U. S. Senator James Eastland, who reportedly said that when the three civil rights workers ( Mickey Schwerner, James Chaney, and Andrew Goodman ) went missing in Mississippi on June 21, 1964, " the incident is a hoax and there is no Ku Klux Klan in the state ; the three have gone to Chicago ", and that it was staged by the three young men to call attention to their cause.

" Yet the incident disappeared so quickly from the political scene that Theodore H. White, surveying the 1964 election campaign, assessed its impact this way: " Perhaps the most amazing of all events of the campaign of 1964 is that the nation faced the fact fully — and shrugged its shoulders.

He was nearly expelled from the party over the incident and in 1964 he moved to Zagreb to work as a manager for the company " Univerzal ".

In 1964, using evidence drawn from a close reading and analysis of published accounts, Stone was the only American journalist to challenge President Lyndon B. Johnson's account of the Gulf of Tonkin incident.

Though the incident had profound physical and psychological effects, Hamer returned to Mississippi to organize voter registration drives, including the " Freedom Ballot Campaign ", a mock election, in 1963, and the " Freedom Summer " initiative in 1964.

In response to what has become known as the Gulf of Tonkin incident in 1964, Tactical Air Command pilots and support personnel found themselves deployed from the CONUS to PACAF bases such as Da Nang Air Base and Phan Rang AB in South Vietnam.

In response to what has become known as the Gulf of Tonkin incident in 1964, Tactical Air Command pilots and support personnel found themselves deployed to places like Da Nang, Takhli, Korat and Phan Rang.

In 1964 LaPaz was also involved peripherally in the investigation of the famous Socorro UFO incident, in which a Socorro policeman named Lonnie Zamora claimed to have seen a small egg-shaped object land, saw two humanoid figures near the object, and then when he approached to within, the object blasted off and rapidly disappeared.

But Belinsky was 9 – 7 with a career-best 2. 86 ERA in August 1964 when came the incident that ended his days with the Angels: a hotel room fight with elderly Los Angeles Times sportswriter Braven Dyer.

Weinstein had been described as having a " ruthless killer instinct " for chess in a February 1964 British Chess Magazine article, before the incident took place.

Following the Gulf of Tonkin incident in August 1964, all air materiel areas began supporting Southeast Asia on a 24-hour basis.