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.

Capp also lampooned popular recording idols of the day, such as Elvis Presley (" Hawg McCall ," 1957 ), Liberace (" Loverboynik ," 1956 ), the Beatles (" the Beasties ," 1964 )— and in 1944, Frank Sinatra.

With the ascendance of rock and roll, a watershed moment occurred between 1962 and 1964 when the Surfaris released " Wipe Out ," and when Ringo Starr of The Beatles played his Ludwig kit on American television ; events that motivated legions to take up the drums.

In 1964, he achieved that with the first live American appearance of The Beatles, on February 9, 1964, the most-watched program in TV history to that point and still one of the most-watched programs of all time.

* 1964 – The Beatles first arrived in the United States.

The Beatles introduced audiences to many of the major elements of the psychedelic sound during this period, with guitar feedback in " I Feel Fine " ( 1964 ), " Norwegian Wood " from their 1965 Rubber Soul album using a sitar, and the employment of reversed audio tapes on their 1966 B-side " Rain ".

Many groups moved towards the beat music of rock and roll and rhythm and blues from skiffle, like the Quarrymen who became The Beatles, producing a form of rock and roll revivalism that carried them and many other groups to national success from about 1963 and to international success from 1964, known in America as the British Invasion.

Lennon played this guitar for The Beatles ' famous 1964 debut on The Ed Sullivan Show ( as well as for their third Sullivan appearance, pre-taped the same day but broadcast two weeks later ).

Two new 325s were created for Lennon and were shipped to him while The Beatles were in Miami Beach, Florida, on the same 1964 visit to the US: a one-off custom 12-string 325 model and an updated six-string model with modified electronics and vibrato.

This instrument became a key part of the Beatles ' sound on their LP A Hard Day's Night and other Beatles songs through late 1964.

After the Beatles 1965 summer tour, Paul McCartney frequently used a left-handed 1964 4001S FG Rickenbacker bass, as its tone was better suited to recording than the lightweight Höfner basses he had used previously.

Scotland Yard was also briefly mentioned in the 1964 The Beatles movie Help !.

A key example of this is Phil Spector, who defined the gap between early rock and roll and the Beatles ( 1959 – 1964 ).

Alongside The Beatles and Martin, Wilson also pioneereed many production innovations-by 1964 he had developed Spector's techniques to a new level of sophistication, using multiple studios and multiple " takes " of instrumental and vocal components to capture the best possible combinations of sound and performance, and then using tape editing extensively to assemble a perfect composite performance from these elements.

The photographer following the band for the 1964 tour, Harry Benson, recalls in his book The Beatles in the Beginning, that " John was pleasant to Nicol, Paul was ambivalent, and George downright didn't like him and thought he was too pushy.

The " second wave " of Australian rock is said to have begun in about 1964, and followed directly on the impact of The Beatles.

LP on 20 January 1964, and the remaining that were not, featured on their next US album, The Beatles ' Second Album.

Beatles for Sale is the fourth studio album by the English rock band The Beatles, released on 4 December 1964 and produced by George Martin for Parlophone.

The Beatles began their first studio session for Beatles for Sale on 8 June 1964, only seven days after their last session for A Hard Day's Night.

When Beatles for Sale was being recorded, Beatlemania was just past its peak ; in early 1964, The Beatles had made waves with their television appearances in the United States, sparking unprecedented demand for their records.