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.

Full enfranchisement was realized in 1965 with the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the ratification of the 24th Amendment in 1964.

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* Pancho's Hideaway ( 24th October 1964 )

* December 10 — Byron Ingemar Johnson, politician and 24th Premier of British Columbia ( d. 1964 )

Byron Ingemar " Boss " Johnson ( December 10, 1890 – January 12, 1964 ), born Björn Ingimar " Bjössi " Jónsson, to family of Icelandic Immigrants, he served as the 24th Premier of the province of British Columbia, Canada, from 1947 to 1952.

*( For federal elections ) " By reason of failure to pay any poll tax or other tax "-( 24th Amendment, 1964 )

" In contrast, Johnson's Republican opponent, Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona, voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964, believing it gave too much power to the federal government ( Goldwater did in fact support civil rights in general ; for example the 1957 and 1960 Civil Rights Acts as well as the 24th Amendment banning the poll tax.

In June 1964 Jacobs and Joslyn Halls were the last two original OU buildings at 24th & Pratt Streets to be demolished.

As a result of the Civil Rights Movement challenging the restrictions and discrimination practiced against blacks exercise of constitutional rights, a series of US Supreme Court cases, beginning with Brown v. Board of Education in 1954, the 24th Amendment, and federal legislation: the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 had overturned the most controversial aspects of the 1902 Constitution – the provisions restricting voting by African Americans and mandating school segregation.

In 1964 it was the 24th most popular boys name.

He later commanded the 24th Engineer Battalion, 4th Armored Division, in Germany ( 1964 – 65 ) and the 159th Engineer Group in Vietnam ( 1969 – 70 ).

** New York Times Co. v Sullivan ( 376 US 254 1964 ): The United States Supreme Court rules that under the First Amendment, speech criticizing political figures cannot be censored.

Amendment 23 marks the start of partial re-enfranchisement status for the 1964 Presidential Election.

When the Supreme Court, ruling in Griffin v. County School Board of Prince Edward County, agreed in May 1964 in a 9-0 ruling, deciding in a unanimous decision that Prince Edward County's move violated the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment, county and state supervisors gave in rather than risk prosecution and prison, ending the era of Massive Resistance in Virginia.

in Texas had failed to desegregate its school system in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Title II of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 generally revived the ban on discrimination in public accommodations that was in the Civil Rights Act of 1875, but under the Commerce Clause of Article I instead of the 14th Amendment ; the Court held it to be constitutional in Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States,.

" For example, in the 1964 case Jacobellis v. Ohio, involving whether Ohio could ban the showing of a French film called Les Amants ( French for The Lovers ), the Court ruled that the film was protected by the First Amendment, but could not agree as to a rationale, yielding four different opinions from the majority, with none garnering the support of more than two justices, as well as two dissenting opinions.

When the Law School denied admission to Barbara Grutter, a female Michigan resident with a 3. 8 GPA and 161 LSAT score, she filed this suit, alleging that respondents had discriminated against her on the basis of race in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment, Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and 42 U. S. C.

It has been deliberately and almost wholly created by the Communists patiently building up to this present stage for more than forty years .” The society opposed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, claiming it violated the Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution and overstepped individual states ' rights to enact laws regarding civil rights.

Ratification in 1964 of the Twenty-fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibited the use of poll taxes in federal elections, but some states continued to use them in state elections.

Stewart believed that the majority on the Warren Court had adopted readings of the First Amendment Establishment Clause ( Engel v. Vitale ( 1962 ), Abington School District v. Schempp ( 1963 )), the Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination ( Miranda v. Arizona ( 1966 )), and Fourteenth Amendment guarantee of Equal Protection with regard to voting rights ( Reynolds v. Sims ( 1964 )) went beyond the framers ' intention.

In addition, Kennedy supported the anti-poll tax amendment, which cleared Congress in September 1962 ( although it was not ratified until 1964 as the Twenty-fourth Amendment ).

Ten years later, in 1964, Holland sponsored the Twenty-fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibiting the poll tax.

* Aguilar v. Texas, 378 U. S. 108 ( 1964 ), U. S. Supreme Court decision interpreting and applying the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution

In 2009 The Georgia NAACP filed a lawsuit that claims the University System of Georgia and Board of Regents have methodically shortchanged its three public black colleges and has violated the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the 14th Amendment.

Jacobellis v. Ohio,, was a United States Supreme Court decision handed down in 1964 involving whether the state of Ohio could, consistent with the First Amendment, ban the showing of a French film called The Lovers ( Les Amants ) which the state had deemed obscene.

In 1964, the Twenty-Fourth Amendment prohibited poll taxes, which were then being used in some states to discriminate against African-Americans without explicit racial provisions.

Although there were forms of what is now called affirmative action during the Reconstruction ( most of which were implemented by the same persons who framed the Fourteenth Amendment ) the modern history of affirmative action began with the Kennedy administration and started to flourish during the Johnson administration, with the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and two executive orders.

* The Man by Irving Wallace ( 1964 ): The Vice President had died of a heart attack, and the office is vacant ( the 25th Amendment had not yet been written ).