It was followed closely in popularity by the Komeito ( Clean Government Party ), founded in 1964 as the political arm of the Soka Gakkai ( Value Creation Society ), until 1991 a lay organization affiliated with the Nichiren Shoshu Buddhist sect.

In 1964, just days before Hoover testified in the earliest stages of the Warren Commission hearings, President Lyndon B. Johnson waived the then-mandatory U. S. Government Service Retirement Age of seventy, allowing Hoover to remain the FBI Director " for life.

* Heads of Government of Kenya ( 12 December 1963 to 12 December 1964 )

Founded in 1964 by the New South Wales Government, it was the third university to be established in the metropolitan area of Sydney.

Category: Government agencies established in 1964

The territories constitution is the Local Government Ordinance of 1964.

The 1965 campaign against the Labor Government ( lead since April 1964 by Jack Renshaw ), a government widely perceived to be tired and devoid of ideas, was notable for being one of Australia's first " presidential-style " campaigns, with Askin being the major focus of campaigning and a main theme of " With Askin You'll Get Action ".

The Air Ministry was a department of the British Government with the responsibility of managing the affairs of the Royal Air Force, that existed from 1918 to 1964.

Responding on the calls of Welsh devolution, in 1964 the Labour Government gave effect to these proposals establishing the unelected Welsh Office () and Secretary of State for Wales.

Government intervention in industry was greatly enhanced, with the National Economic Development Office greatly strengthened, with the number of “ little Neddies ” was increased, from eight in 1964 to twenty-one in 1970.

During the six years of the First Wilson Government, spending on social services rose much faster than real personal incomes, and from 1964 to 1969, spending on social services rose from 14. 6 % to 17. 6 % of GNP, an increase of nearly 20 %.

Overseas aid, however, bore a major brunt of the austerity measures introduced by the First Wilson Government in its last few years in office, with British aid as a percentage of GNP falling from 0. 53 % in 1964 to 0. 39 % in 1969.

In the Labour Government of 1964 – 1970 he served first as Postmaster General, where he oversaw the opening of the Post Office Tower, and later as a notably " technocratic " Minister of Technology.

He attributed this political shift to his experience as a Cabinet Minister in the 1964 – 1970 Labour Government.

He acted at the Piccadilly Theatre in 1959 and was with the Royal Shakespeare Company in the 1962 Arts Theatre Experimental season ( Nil Carborundum and Afore Night Come ) 1964 ' Dirty Plays ' season Night Come, Victor and the premiere productions of The Marat Sade and the revival of Afore Night Come ), in 1965 at Stratford where he appeared in The Comedy of Errors, Timon of Athens, The Jew of Malta, Love's Labour's Lost, and Peter Hall's outstanding production of The Government Inspector at the Aldwych Theatre with Paul Scofield, Eric Porter, Donald Burton, Stanley Lebor, Bruce Condell, John Corvin and Tim Wylton among others.

During the Labour Government 1964 – 1970, the office of First Secretary of State was preferred to that of Deputy Prime Minister.

On 1 June 1964, Kenyatta became President when he successfully had Parliament amend the Constitution to make Kenya a republic with his office becoming executive President: the head of State, head of Government, and Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces.

A ministerial system was introduced in 1961, and the colony achieved Self Government status in 1964.

1955, and, by 1964, the political party Kōmeitō (" Clean Government Party ") was founded.

Although some in the Conservative party agreed with Wilson ( and Jo Grimond, the Liberal leader ) that the Conservatives would have won the 1964 election if Butler had been Prime Minister, The Times observed, " it should not be overlooked that in October 1963 Home took over a Government whose morale was shattered and whose standing in the opinion polls was abysmal.

Ernest Marples, previously the Postmaster General, was made Transport Minister two weeks later in a cabinet reshuffle of the Conservative Government 1957 – 1964 ; Marples was described by some as ' cocky ', ' flash ', ' slick ' and as a ' construction tycoon ', and Macmillan noted that the Northern working-class boy who had won a scholarship to a grammar school was one of only two " self-made men " in his cabinet.

The General election in October 1964 returned the Labour Government 1964 – 1970 under Prime Minister Harold Wilson after 13 years of Conservative government.

Some of his awards and scholarships include: a West German fellowship for sculpture ( 1956-7 ); Bavarian State Foreign Students Sculpture Prize ( 1958 ); Italian Government Scholarship for sculpture ( 1959 – 60 ); the Arts Council of Ireland Sculpture prizes ( 1962 and 1964 ); and the Royal Hibernian Academy Award for Sculpture of Distinction in Bronze ( 1991 ).

( Harold Wilson did manage a total of almost eight year as prime minister, but it was across two different spells between 1964 and 1976.

He lived to see Labour return to power under Harold Wilson in 1964, but also to see his old constituency of Walthamstow West fall to the Conservatives in a by-election in September 1967.

With Raymond Williams and Stuart Hall, he was one of the editors of the 1967 May Day Manifesto, one of the key left-wing challenges to the 1964 – 70 Labour government of Harold Wilson.

* The expression of the " Gnomes of Zürich ", Swiss bankers pictured as diminutive creatures hoarding gold in subterranean vaults, was coined in 1956 by Harold Wilson and gained currency in the 1960s ( OED notes the New Statesman issue of 27 November 1964 as earliest attestation ).

* 1888 – Harold Hitz Burton, American politician and lawyer, 45th Mayor of Cleveland ( d. 1964 )

From 1930, until his retirement in 1964, Reverend Father Harold Clear Butler said Roman Mass every day, and celebrated High Mass and Benediction on Sundays.

Harold Wilson – the subject of an enthusiastic campaign biography by Foot published by Robert Maxwell's Pergamon Press in 1964 – offered Foot a place in his first government, but Foot turned it down.

His next was at the 1964 General Election when he stood in Harold Wilson's Huyton constituency.

In 1964, the new British government under Harold Wilson announced their intention to hand over power to the Federation of South Arabia in 1968, but that the British military would remain.

** Following a hung parliament in the UK general election, Conservative prime minister Edward Heath resigns and is succeeded by Labour's Harold Wilson, who previously led the country from 1964 to 1970.

His Labour predecessor as prime minister, Harold Wilson, had inherited an unemployment count of around 400, 000 at the time of his general election win of October 1964 but seen unemployment peak at 631, 000 during the spring of 1967, though it had fallen to 582, 000 by the time Heath seized power in June 1970.

Wilson's 1964 election campaign was aided by the Profumo Affair, a 1963 ministerial sex scandal that had mortally wounded the Conservative government of Harold Macmillan and was to taint his successor Sir Alec Douglas-Home, even though Home had not been involved in the scandal.

Harold Wilson in 1964.

In October 1964, Conservative Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home ( who had only been in power for 12 months since the resignation of Harold Macmillan ) called a general election.

Dead Ringer ( 1964 ) was a crime drama in which she played twin sisters and Where Love Has Gone ( 1964 ) was a romantic drama based on a Harold Robbins novel.

He held his first government posts under Harold Macmillan as a Lord of the Treasury ( government whip ) between 1961 and 1962 and under Macmillan and then Sir Alec Douglas-Home as Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Labour between 1962 and 1964.

Macmillan initially refused a peerage and retired from politics in September 1964, a month before the 1964 election which the Conservatives narrowly lost to Labour, now led by Harold Wilson.

* The Right Honourable Harold Macmillan, MP ( November 1945 – 15 September 1964 )

* The Right Honourable Harold Macmillan ( 15 September 1964 – 2 April 1976 )

Harold Macmillan was the MP for Bromley from 1945 until his retirement in 1964, when he was succeeded by John Hunt.

As a politician he was parliamentary secretary in the House of Lords to the Minister of Technology from 1964 to 1966 in the Labour administration of Harold Wilson.

He sat on the Conservative benches in the House of Lords and held political office under his uncle Harold Macmillan and later Sir Alec Douglas-Home from 1960 to 1964.