* 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.

At Francis C. Hammond High School in Alexandria, Virginia, he did poorly academically, having little interest in school work, but was popular with other students, and after leaving decided that he wanted to study painting at college, thereby beginning his studies at School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in 1964, where he was a roommate of Peter Wolf.

At the 1964 Congress in Tel Aviv, a subcommittee was formed to propose changes to the regulations.

At the 1964 / 1965 World's Fair in New York, the Parker Pen pavilion provided a computer pen pal matching service.

At independence in 1964, Zambia's economy grew the British South Africa Company ( BSAC, originally setup by the British imperialist Cecil Rhodes ) retained commercial assets and mineral rights that it acquired from a concession signed with the Litunga of Barotseland in 1892 ( the Lochner Concession ).

At the 1964 Democratic National Convention, Johnson kept the three likely vice presidential candidates, Connecticut Senator Thomas Dodd, fellow Minnesota Senator Eugene McCarthy, and Humphrey, as well as the rest of the nation in suspense before announcing Humphrey as his running-mate with much fanfare, praising Humphrey's qualifications for a considerable amount of time before announcing his name.

At Fort Knox, he was a platoon guide and graduated from United States Army Basic Training January 18, 1964, one week before his marriage to Karolyn.

At Leningrad 1963, the site of the 31st Soviet final, Spassky tied for first with Stein and Ratmir Kholmov, with Stein winning the playoff, which was held in 1964.

At the 1964 Summer Olympics, in Tokyo, Hayes had his finest hour as a sprinter.

At the 6th Party Congress of the KDP in July 1964, representatives from the Ahmad-Talabani faction were promptly arrested upon arrival.

At the age of 19 he married Hilda Amelia Bredt ( 1858 – 1964 ), the 17-year-old daughter of prominent feminist and socialist Bertha Bredt.

At the same time, he was hearing of The Beatles ( whose first American tour would commence in February 1964 ), and wondering how Beatlemania might affect folk music.

At the city's incorporation in 1964, a council-manager form of government was created.

At the 1964 Venice Film Festival, The Gospel According to St. Matthew was screened in competition for the Golden Lion, and won the OCIC Award and the Special Jury Prize.

At the end of the 1964 racing season, the Cobra was being outclassed in sports car racing by Ferrari.

At that time, the 1964 federal Civil Rights Act had ended legal racial segregation of public schools.

At the age of 15, in 1964, he joined the Conservative party.

At Roosevelt High School, Jackson attended accelerated programs in both math and science, and graduated in 1964 as valedictorian.

At the Aldwych Theatre, London, in January 1964, he again played Henry VI in the complete The Wars of the Roses history cycle ( 1964 ).

At the Aldwych in October 1964, he was cast as Valentine Brose in the play Eh?

At her 3 September 1964 Prom Concert, she performed the Elgar concerto as well as the world premiere of Priaulx Rainier's Cello Concerto.

At the 1964 Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City, New Jersey, she welcomed the president by serenading him with a parody of Hello, Dolly, which was sung as Hello, Lyndon.

At the end of that season the club won the Cheshire League, beginning a nine year period in which they won three league titles and finished no lower than fifth, and in 1964 won the Cheshire League by a record equalling thirteen point margin.

In 1964, when the committee of the New West End Synagogue wanted to reappoint Jacobs as their rabbi, Brodie again vetoed his appointment on the same grounds.

West Ham won the FA Cup in 1964 with Hurst scoring the second equaliser in a tight and exciting 3 – 2 victory over Preston North End at Wembley.

Orton offered the play to Codron in October 1964 and it underwent sweeping rewrites before it was judged fit for the West End ( for example, the character of " Inspector Truscott " had a mere eight lines in the initial first act.

* The End of the Innocence: The 1964 – 1965 New York World's Fair.

Talmy wanted the successful sounds of The Kinks ' 1964 hits " You Really Got Me ", " All Day and All of the Night " and " Till the End of the Day " to be copied by The Who.

Sherman's " The End of a Symphony ," spotlighting Arthur Fiedler's Boston Pops Orchestra, reached # 113 on the " Bubbling Under " chart in 1964, but did not make the Hot 100.

In 1956 he was cast as the irresponsible Alfred P. Doolittle in My Fair Lady, a role that he played on Broadway, the West End and in the film version in 1964.

In 1964, Solomon brought in a large group of singers and musicians from an off-Broadway show and christened them the Au Go Go Singers, to rival the Bitter End Singers across the street at The Bitter End Cafe.

In 1962, they signed with Dot Records and recorded a series of stereo albums until 1964, both re-recordings of earlier hits, as well as new material, including " I Left My Heart In San Francisco ", " Still ", " The End of the World ", " Puff the Magic Dragon ", " Sailor ", " Satin Doll ", the theme from Come September, and the theme from A Man and a Woman.

He starred as Spike Milligan's straight man in the West End hit " Son of Oblomov " in 1964.

In the 1960s, Richardson appeared successfully as Sir Peter Teazle in Gielgud's production of The School for Scandal, as the Father in Six Characters in Search of an Author ( 1963 ), a return to Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream ( 1964 ) and the original production of Joe Orton's controversial farce What the Butler Saw in the West End at the Queen's Theatre in 1969 with Stanley Baxter, Coral Browne and Hayward Morse.

( 1962 ) ( the song Far Away produced another hit for Shirley Bassey ) and Maggie May ( 1964 ), had respectable West End runs ( Blitz !, at the time London's most expensive musical ever, had a run of 568 performances ), but Twang!

The " Swinging London " scene was aptly reflected in his Box of Pin-Ups ( 1964 ): a box of poster-prints of 1960s celebrities including Terence Stamp, The Beatles, Mick Jagger, Jean Shrimpton, PJ Proby, Cecil Beaton, Rudolf Nureyev, Andy Warhol and notorious East End gangsters the Kray twins ( see photo ).

* Loevy, Robert D. ( 1990 ), To End All Segregation: The Politics of the Passage of The Civil Rights Act of 1964, Lanham, MD: University Press of America.

* Hill End ( 1899 – 1964 )

( 1964 ), The Faith Healer ( 1979 ) and Dancing at Lughnasa ( 1990 ); Tom Murphy's A Whistle In the Dark ( 1961 ) and The Gigli Concert ( 1983 ); and Hugh Leonard's Da ( 1973 ) and A Life ( 1980 ), helped raise the Abbey's international profile through successful runs in the West End in London, and on Broadway in New York City.

Mackintosh's involvement in the development of the 1964 musical adaptation led to his producing both the 2004 West End and 2006 Broadway productions, at the Prince Edward Theatre and the New Amsterdam Theatre, respectively along with Schumacher.

Following the inauguration of scheduled services between Land's End in Cornwall and St Mary's in the Isles of Scilly in 1947, BEA continued serving this route with Dragon Rapides due to a lack of a suitable fixed-wing alternative until BEA Helicopters took it over on 2 May 1964.

Following retirement of BEA's Dragon Rapides, BEA Helicopters took over the scheduled service between Land's End and the Isles of Scilly on 2 May 1964.

He joined Midland Bank in 1964 before joining the Metropolitan Police Service in 1965, after his Hendon Police College training he worked in the West End of London, leaving the force in 1969 to sell life insurance for Equitable Life.

The capacity at closure was 9, 500, but hosted United's record crowd of 22, 750 against Preston North End in an FA Cup sixth-round match on 29 February 1964.

' Reclining figure in Bronze ' sculpture dating from 1964 by Thomas Bayliss Huxley-Jones outside Hornsey Library in Crouch End

Peters played only five games in his first season with West Ham and although he played 32 league games in season 1963 – 4 he played no part in their FA Cup run and was not selected for the FA Cup final of 1964 at Wembley, in which West Ham beat Preston North End 3 – 2.