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* 1964 – The Good Friday Earthquake, the most powerful earthquake in U. S. history at a magnitude of 9. 2 strikes South Central Alaska, killing 125 people and inflicting massive damage to the city of Anchorage.
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* 1964 – Peter Allen and Gwynne Evans are hanged for the Murder of John Alan West becoming the last people executed in the United Kingdom.
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.
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He is well known as a player in the original Twilight Zone ( 1959 to 1964 ), especially in the episode " It's a Good Life " ( November 1961 ), where he played a child who terrorizes his town with his psychic powers.
The best-known Spaghetti westerns were directed by Sergio Leone and scored by Ennio Morricone: the " Dollars Trilogy " ( A Fistful of Dollars ( 1964 ), For a Few Dollars More ( 1965 ), and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly ( 1966 )) and Once Upon a Time in the West ( 1968 ).
A more detailed argument was put forward in 1964 by Richard Hosley, who suggested that the main source could have been the anonymous ballad A Merry Jest of a Shrewde and Curste Wyfe, Lapped in Morrell's Skin, for Her Good Behavyour.
Port Lions was built to house the inhabitants of Ag ' waneq from the neighboring island of Afognak and Port Wakefield from Raspberry Island, after their villages were destroyed by the Good Friday Earthquake in 1964.
The original village of Chenega, located on Chenega Island, was destroyed in 1964 by a tsunami from the Good Friday Earthquake, which killed a third of the 68 people who then lived there.
In 1945, work had begun to convert the CR & NW railroad line, from Cordova to Kennicott, into a highway, but work halted with the 1964 Good Friday Earthquake, leaving a significant gap between Chitina and the Million Dollar Bridge near Cordova.
In spite of releasing mostly singles, he released a well received blues-inflected LP in 1963, Night Beat, and his most critically acclaimed studio album Ain't That Good News, which featured five singles, in 1964.
A brief stint in Hollywood included an appearance in Good Neighbor Sam ( 1964 ) a comedy with Jack Lemmon, while What's New Pussycat?
Their first hit was a cover of Earl Jean's " I'm Into Something Good " ( written by Gerry Goffin and Carole King ), which reached No. 1 in the UK Singles Chart and No. 13 in the US in late 1964.
In 1964, a tsunami generated by the Good Friday Earthquake destroyed the Chugach village of Chenega, Alaska.
A 1964 tsunami, a result of the Good Friday Earthquake, killed a number of Chugach villagers in the coastal village of Chenega, as well as destroying the town of Valdez.
Large area landsliding can also occur on rather gentle slopes as was seen in the " Good Friday Earthquake " in Anchorage, Alaska, March 28, 1964.
The 1964 Alaskan earthquake, also known as the Great Alaskan Earthquake, the Portage Earthquake and the Good Friday Earthquake, was a megathrust earthquake that began at 5: 36 P. M. AST on Good Friday, March 27, 1964.
In 1964, The Gems released a local hit, I Can't Help Myself, and their last single, He Makes Me Feel So Good, was released in 1965.
Under the production of Good, Proby scored a string of exuberantly-styled UK top 20 hits in 1964 and 1965 including " Hold Me ", " Together " ( featuring session guitarists Big Jim Sullivan and Jimmy Page ), " Somewhere " and " Maria " ( the latter two taken from the musical West Side Story ).
Good Friday TsunamiIn 1964, Port Alberni was hit by two tsunamis ( called tidal waves in 1964 ) during the Good Friday Earthquake.
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