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 – Ronan Rafferty, Northern Irish golfer

The fastest time ever run in the Derby ( at its present distance ) was set in 1973 at 1 minute 59 2 / 5 seconds when Secretariat broke the record set by Northern Dancer in 1964.

Independence came to Northern Rhodesia in 1964.

Before 1964, the name " Rhodesia " had referred to the territory consisting of Southern Rhodesia and Northern Rhodesia which formed the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland.

However, after the former colony of Northern Rhodesia renamed itself Zambia on independence in 1964, and Nyasaland renamed itself Malawi in 1964, the colony of Southern Rhodesia changed its name to simply " Rhodesia ", also in 1964.

On 31 December 1963, the federation was dissolved, and Northern Rhodesia became the Republic of Zambia on 24 October 1964.

Zambia ( formerly Northern Rhodesia ) became a republic immediately upon attaining independence in October 1964.

The New York National Guard were ordered by Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller to respond to the Rochester 1964 race riot in July of that year, the first such use of the Guard in a Northern city since the Civil War.

Northern Dancer won the American Eclipse Award as Three-Year Old Male Champion of 1964 and the Sovereign Award for Horse of the Year.

He was from the second crop of foals sired by the Northern Dancer, the winner of the 1964 Kentucky Derby who went on to become one of the most influential sires of the 20th century.

The most famous horse from Canada is generally considered to be Northern Dancer, who after winning the Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Queen's Plate in 1964 went on to become the most successful Thoroughbred sire of the 20th century ; his two-minute-flat Derby was the fastest on record until Secretariat in 1973.

Since 1964 there had also been a growing campaign for equality reforms in Northern Ireland.

Clubs from Northern Norway were allowed into the Norwegian cup in 1963, and Tromsø IL participated for the first time in 1964, advancing to the second round after beating FK Mjølner.

Other stations were Dewsbury Central on the Great Northern Railway which closed in 1964 and Dewsbury Market Place on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway which closed in 1930 ; a fourth goods-only station was built in the early 20th century at Savile Town by the Midland Railway.

In 1964, Northern Rhodesia became the independent state of Zambia and Southern Rhodesia was thereafter known simply as Rhodesia.

Ernest Marples, previously the Postmaster General, was made Transport Minister two weeks later in a cabinet reshuffle of the Conservative Government 1957 – 1964 ; Marples was described by some as ' cocky ', ' flash ', ' slick ' and as a ' construction tycoon ', and Macmillan noted that the Northern working-class boy who had won a scholarship to a grammar school was one of only two " self-made men " in his cabinet.

St Albans — a bridge ( opened in 1868 ) carrying the Midland Railway over Great Northern Line ( closed in 1964 ).

Gary Barwin ( born 1964 in Belfast, Northern Ireland ) is a Canadian writer, composer, and performer who lives in Hamilton, Ontario.

From 1953 to 1964 Nyasaland was united with Northern Rhodesia and Southern Rhodesia in the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland.

* Northern Rhodesia ( 1924 – 1964 )

* 1964 – 65 Northern Rugby Football League season / 1965 – 66 Northern Rugby Football League season