The series of speed increases — later in 1955, in 1956, in 1957, in 1958, in 1959 — peaked on 31 December 1964 at Dumbleyung Lake, Western Australia when he reached ; he remains the world's most prolific breaker of water speed records.

After more delays, he finally achieved his seventh WSR at Lake Dumbleyung near Perth, Western Australia, on the last day of 1964, at a speed of.

* 1964 – Eric Edgar Cooke becomes last person in Western Australia to be executed.

On 29 April 1964 Menzies was presented with the honorary degree of a Doctor of Letters ( DLitt ) by the University of Western Australia.

The Colts did well under Shula, losing to the Cleveland Browns in the 1964 NFL Championship Game and, in 1965, losing in overtime to the Green Bay Packers in a tiebreaking game to decide the NFL Western Division championship.

Leone's Dollars Trilogy ( 1964 – 1967 ) was neither the entirety nor the beginning of the " spaghetti Western " cycle in Italy, but for Americans Leone's films represented the true beginning of the Italian invasion of their privileged cultural form.

* Christensen, Dieter, Old Musical Styles in the Ellice Islands, Western Polynesia, Ethnomusicology, 8: 1 ( 1964 ), 34-40.

Between summer 1964 and spring 1965, it was seen in virtually every major Western European city.

In 1964, the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway ( C & O ) and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad ( B & O ) jointly filed for permission to acquire control of the Western Maryland Railway with the Interstate Commerce Commission ( ICC ).

The United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia ordered Frederick County schools desegregated ( including those serving Stephens City ) in Brown v. County School Board ( 1964 ).

* 1964: Blue Streak, and Paddlewheel Excursions ( formerly called Western Cruise ) open

In 1964, Western Union initiated a transcontinental microwave system to replace land lines.

Field Marshal Plaek Phibunsongkhram (; ; alternatively transcribed as Pibulsongkram or Pibulsonggram ; July 14, 1897-June 11, 1964 ), contemporarily known as Luang Pibulsonggram, often as Phibunsongkhram ( Pibul Songgram ) or simply Phibun ( Pibul ) in Western, was Prime Minister and virtual military dictator of Thailand from 1938 to 1944 and 1948 to 1957.

A short-range surface-to-surface rocket, it was in active service with the U. S. Army in West Germany from June 1958 to June 1964 as part of NATO's Cold War defense of Western Europe.

The Academy of Country Music ( ACM ) was founded in 1964 in Los Angeles, California as the Country & Western Music Academy.

: Western regular season championships: 12 — 1963, 1964, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1987, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2011.

: Western Division Championships: 10 — 1963, 1964, 1983, 1985, 1988, 1994, 2000, 2004, 2006, 2011.

Prior to the launch of Major League Soccer in 1996, teams from Los Angeles played in the Western American Soccer League, the North American Soccer League and the American Soccer League / A-League, winning ten league championships ( 1955, 1957, 1958, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1974, 1976 ), seven Lamar Hunt US Open Cups ( 1958, 1964, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1978, 1981 ), four regional championships ( 1955, 1956, 1958, 1961 ) and one international championship ( 1975 ).

Ed McVaney originally trained as an engineer at the University of Nebraska, and in 1964 was employed by Western Electric, then by Peat Marwick, and moved to Denver, Colorado in 1968, and later became a partner at Alexander Grant where he hired Jack Thompson and Dan Gregory.

For three years they co-existed on the same site, but by 1964 the secondary school had moved to a new site in Western Springs and eventually became Western Springs College.

In 1964, the Grammy for Best Country and Western Album was awarded to Roger Miller's Dang Me / Chug-a-Lug, which had several novelty songs.

The road was constructed between 1964 and 1970 to relieve congestion at Shepherd's Bush caused by traffic from Western Avenue struggling to enter central London on roads of insufficient capacity.

Rashomon was also remade as The Outrage ( 1964 ), and inspired films with " Rashomon effect " storytelling methods, such as Andha Naal ( 1954 ), The Usual Suspects ( 1995 ) and Hero ( 2002 ).

The 1964 remake of W. Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage was a failure, as was The Outrage ( 1964 ), director Martin Ritt's remake of Akira Kurosawa's classic Rashomon, despite the presence of Paul Newman.

* 1964 The Outrage

* The Outrage ( 1964 )

Ritt's 1964 film The Outrage, is an American retelling of the Kurosawa film Rashomon, and stars Laurence Harvey, Paul Newman, Claire Bloom, Edward G. Robinson, Howard Da Silva, and William Shatner.

* The Outrage ( 1964 )

* The Outrage, a 1964 film directed by Martin Ritt

the maximum amount of such payments which may be made on account of such sales made during the calendar year 1964 shall not exceed $4,000,000 ; ;

It affords similar protections against discrimination to Americans with disabilities as the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which made discrimination based on race, religion, sex, national origin, and other characteristics illegal.

Mueller agreed, and Phillips managed Apollo from January 1964, until it achieved the first manned landing in July 1969, after which he returned to Air Force duty.

In 1964, the functions of the Admiralty were transferred to a new Admiralty Board, which is a committee of the tri-service Defence Council of the United Kingdom and part of the Ministry of Defence.

* 1964 Brazilian coup d ' état: President João Goulart is removed from office, leading to a military dictatorship which lasted until 1985.

In addition to popularizing the bikini swimming suit, Bardot has also been credited with popularizing the city of St. Tropez and the town of Armação dos Búzios in Brazil, which she visited in 1964 with her boyfriend at the time, Brazilian musician Bob Zagury.

Other important Beech planes are the King Air / Super King Air line of twin-engine turboprops, in production since 1964, the Baron, a twin-engine variant of the Bonanza, and the Beechcraft Model 18, originally a business transport and commuter airliner from the late 1930s through the 1960s, which remains in active service as a cargo transport.

* In 1964 Burroughs had also completed the D830 which was another variation of the D825 designed specifically for real-time applications, such as airline reservations.

Corral ( 1957 ), The Devil's Disciple ( 1959 ), The List of Adrian Messenger ( 1963 ), Seven Days in May ( 1964 ), Victory at Entebbe ( 1976 ) and Tough Guys ( 1986 ) which fixed the notion of the pair as something of a team in the public imagination.

In 1964 IBM introduced its System / 360 computer architecture which was used in a series of computers that could run the same programs with different speed and performance.

Finally in 1964 – 65, Walter Kohn, Pierre Hohenberg and Lu Jeu Sham proposed the density functional theory which gave realistic descriptions for bulk and surface properties of metals.

Stanisław Lem has also studied the same idea in his novel The Invincible ( 1964 ), in which the crew of a spacecraft landing on a distant planet finds non-biological life-form, which is the product of long, possibly of millions of years of mechanical evolution.

In 1964 there was only a one-day march, partly because of the events of 1963 and partly because the logistics of the march, which had grown beyond all expectation, had exhausted the organisers.

From 1964 to 1968, the Carnegie Foundation funded Wedemeyer's Articulated Instructional Media Project ( AIM ) which brought in a variety of communications technologies aimed at providing learning to an off-campus population.

In 1895 and 1896 another Joint Anglo-Russian Boundary Commission agreed on the frontier boundary to the far northeast of Afghanistan, which bordered Chinese territory ( although the Chinese did not formally accept this as a boundary between the two countries until 1964.

When American physicist Harvey Einbinder detailed its failings in his 1964 book, The Myth of the Britannica, the encyclopaedia was provoked to produce the 15th edition, which required 10 years of work.

The other large producer of flux emeralds was Pierre Gilson Sr., which has been on the market since 1964.

The only other known case of triple Leap Day babies is a family in Norway, which logged Feb. 29 births in 1960, 1964 and 1968, according to the Guinness World Records press office.

During the years of 1964 – 1985 several changes took place in Fortaleza which made the city a central region for industries.

Awareness of the brand was spread in Britain by the satirical political magazine " Private Eye " which ran a cartoon series " The Adventures of Barry McKenzie ", featuring a bumbling Foster's swilling Australian expatriate, from about 1964 onwards.

* On 22 August 1964, Guadeloupe was ravaged by Hurricane Cleo, which killed 14 people.

* On 22 August 1964, Guadeloupe was ravaged by Hurricane Cleo, which killed 14 people.

which began in 1964 and the original version of The Match Game first aired in 1962.

In 1964 Hawks made his final comedy, Man's Favorite Sport ?, which starred Rock Hudson ( since Cary Grant felt he was too old for the role ) and Paula Prentiss.