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.

The first woman to fly solo around the world and return home safely was the American amateur pilot Jerrie Mock, who did so in 1964.

* 1964 – At the Academy Awards, Sidney Poitier becomes the first African-American male to win the Best Actor award for the 1963 film Lilies of the Field.

* 1964 – Constantine II becomes King of Greece.

In particular, on 2 December 1964 on the steps of Sproul Hall Mario Savio gave a speech: " There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious — makes you so sick at heart — that you can't take part.

* 1964 – Northern Rhodesia gains independence from the United Kingdom and becomes the Republic of Zambia ( Southern Rhodesia remained a colony until the next year, with the Unilateral Declaration of Independence )

* 1964 – Eric Edgar Cooke becomes last person in Western Australia to be executed.

* 1964 – Leonid Brezhnev becomes the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and thereby, along with his allies-such as Alexei Kosygin-the leader of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics ( USSR ), ousting the former monolithic leader Nikita Khrushchev, and sending him into retirement as a nonperson in the USSR.

* 1964 – Canada: A Multi-Party Parliamentary Committee selects the design which becomes the new official Flag of Canada.

* 1964 – Malta becomes independent from the United Kingdom.

** The deadly Christmas flood of 1964 begins ; It becomes one of the most destructive weather events to affect Oregon in the 20th century.

* 1964: 1 – 3 September: German Daisy Voog becomes the first woman to reach the summit via the face ( with Werner Bittner ).

The Kobe works becomes Mitsubishi Heavy Industries-Kobe Shipyard & Machinery Works in 1964.

This depiction, which remains the same from his first appearance in 1941 until the mid-1950s, slowly transforms from 1955 to 1964 until he finally becomes a full-fledged member of the team who not only wears a Blackhawk Squadron uniform but also pilots his own plane.

* 1964 Stockholms Superfosfat Fabriks becomes Fosfatbolaget.

* 1964 – Jacqueline Kennedy becomes a client.

In 1963, the territory was united to Jalilabad Rayon, and since 1964, it becomes independent rayon again.

** 25px 32nd Tank Regiment in Cordenons ( becomes operational 1 March 1964 )

* 1964 – Karsten Andersen becomes principal conductor

Mycologists Alexander H. Smith and Harry D. Thiers, in their 1964 monograph on the bolete genus Suillus, proposed the term " false veil " to account for those species of Suillus that have a " conspicuous cottony roll " of tissue that originates from the cap margin ( especially in young specimens ) and never becomes integrated with the stem tissue.