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.

The day after she graduated from high school in 1964, Parton moved to Nashville taking many traditional elements of folklore and popular music from East Tennessee with her.

In 1964, he became the first dean of the School of Environmental and Planetary Sciences at the University of Miami in 1964, the first school of its kind in the country, dedicated to space-age research.

The school officially opened September 23, 1964, it is still currently active and it is housed at 8 W. 8th Street, the site of the original Whitney Museum of American Art.

* 1964 – World War II veteran Walter Seifert runs amok in an elementary school in Cologne, Germany, killing at least eight children and two teachers and seriously injuring several more with a home-made flamethrower and a lance.

In 1964 the Grand Ducal Guard was organized into a HQ, three Platoons, a reinforcement Platoon and the NCO school.

Although numerous political references to the " Wizard " appeared early in the 20th century, it was in a scholarly article by Henry Littlefield, an upstate New York high school history teacher, published in 1964 that there appeared the first full-fledged interpretation of the novel as an extended political allegory of the politics and characters of the 1890s.

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In 1964 he graduated from the Judson School, a boarding school outside of Scottsdale, Arizona.

She married her high school sweetheart Robert Eldridge in 1963, and had four children: Yolanda ( b. 1958 ), Djuanna ( b. 1964 ), Robert Jr. ( b. 1965 ) and Xurry ( b. 1971 ).

Along with the new name, Michigan Technological University, the school gained new constitutional status in 1964.

With Cassady at the wheel of a school bus named Further, the Merry Pranksters traveled across the United States to celebrate the publication of Kesey's novel Sometimes a Great Notion and to visit the 1964 World's Fair in New York City.

By 1964, she ran and taught in a ballet school, having dropped out of American University, where she was majoring in drama.

“ The years 1964 – 70 were largely taken up with creating extra places in universities, polytechnics, technical colleges, colleges of education: preparing for the day when a new Act would make it the right of a student, on leaving school, to have a place in an institution of further education .”

A new old-school Nazi party was formed in 1964 by school teacher Franz Pfeiffer.

It spawned dozens of programs, among them the Job Corps, whose purpose was to help disadvantaged youth develop marketable skills ; the Neighborhood Youth Corps, established to give poor urban youths work experience and to encourage them to stay in school ; Volunteers in Service to America ( VISTA ), a domestic version of the Peace Corps, which placed concerned citizens with community-based agencies to work towards empowerment of the poor ; the Model Cities Program for urban redevelopment ; Upward Bound, which assisted poor high school students entering college ; legal services for the poor ; the Food Stamp Act of 1964 ( which expanded the federal food stamp program ); the Community Action Program, which initiated local Community Action Agencies charged with helping the poor become self-sufficient ; and Project Head Start, which offered preschool education for poor children.

In 1963 – 1964, Gudrun Ensslin earned her elementary school teacher's diploma.

In 1963 / 64, he was an American Field Service foreign exchange student in Watseka, Illinois, where he graduated from the local high school in June 1964.

In the 1964 – 65 season, the 76ers acquired the legendary Wilt Chamberlain from the Warriors ; Chamberlain had been a high school legend in Philadelphia and began his career with the Warriors while they still played in Philadelphia.

* In 1964 Ryun became the first high school runner to break four minutes for the mile, running 3: 59. 0 as a junior at East High School in Wichita, Kansas.

In 1964, America's Jim Ryun became the first high school runner to break four minutes for the mile, running 3: 59. 0 as a junior and a then-American record 3: 55. 3 as a senior in 1965.

From 1959 to 1964, black students in Prince Edward County had to go to school elsewhere or forgo their education altogether.

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.

In 1964, when Watterson was six years old, the family moved to Chagrin Falls, Ohio, where his mother, Kathryn Watterson, became a city council member.

While the scientific community was once divided between supporters of the Big Bang and those of alternative cosmological models, most scientists became convinced that some version of the Big Bang scenario best fit observations after the discovery of the cosmic microwave background radiation in 1964, and especially when its spectrum ( i. e., the amount of radiation measured at each wavelength ) was found to match that of thermal radiation from a black body.

His goals became a little less frequent, and indeed Jimmy Greaves, playing purely as a striker, would overtake Charlton's England tally in October 1964.

" After South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond switched his allegiance to the Republican Party in 1964, BJU faculty members became increasingly influential in the new state Republican party, and BJU alumni were elected to local political and party offices.

Chaplin's first major project after A King in New York, his memoirs My Autobiography ( 1964 ), also became a bestseller despite receiving mixed reviews.

In 2008 however Barack Obama became the first Democrat since 1964 to win Ormsby County / Carson City, defeating John McCain 49 % to 48 %, by 204 votes, a margin of under 1 %.

For example, despite continuous revision, the 14th edition became outdated after 35 years ( 1929 – 1964 ).

( 1964 ; originally published in French, 1947 ), became a standard scholarly definition of feudalism.

Socialist leader Otto Grotewohl ( 1894 – 1964 ) became prime minister until his death.

He became one of six national directors for Nelson Rockefeller's unsuccessful campaign to be nominated as the Republican candidate for the 1964 presidential election.

In the 1960s the use of joysticks became widespread in radio-controlled model aircraft systems such as the Kwik Fly produced by Phill Kraft ( 1964 ).

In 1964 Jan and Dean were signed to host what became the first multi-act Rock and Roll show that was edited into a motion picture designed for wide distribution.

Show became a seminal and original production-in essence one of the first rock videos-on its release in 1964.

In 1964 he became an honorary member to the American Philosophical Society, and in 1966 he moved to the United States to work at the Institute for Biomedical Research in Chicago.

In 1964 Kenya became a republic, and constitutional changes further centralized the government.

On 24 October 1964 he became the first President of an independent Zambia, appointing Reuben Kamanga as his Vice President.

Malawi became a fully independent member of the Commonwealth ( formerly the British Commonwealth ) on 6 July 1964.

Under its 1964 constitution, Malta became a parliamentary democracy within the Commonwealth.

The Arms Park rugby ground became the permanent home of the Wales national rugby union team in 1964.

Clement Greenberg became the voice of post-painterly Abstraction when he curated an influential exhibition of new painting that toured important art museums throughout the United States in 1964.

Around 1964 Fayed entered a close relationship with Francois Duvalier and became interested in the construction of a Fayed-Duvalier oil refinery in Haiti.

Billy Kidd, part Abenaki from Vermont, became the first American male to medal in alpine skiing in the Olympics, taking silver at age 20 in the slalom in the 1964 Winter Olympics at Innsbruck, Austria. Six years later at the 1970 World Championships, Kidd won the gold medal in the combined event and took the bronze medal in the slalom.

Following the ousting of voluntarist and erratic Khrushchev in 1964, another period of collective rule ensued, until Leonid Brezhnev became the leader.