* 1964 – A Transit-5bn satellite fails to reach orbit after launch ; as it re-enters the atmosphere, of radioactive plutonium in its SNAP RTG power source is widely dispersed.

In 1964 Kourou was chosen to be launch site for rockets, largely due to its favourable location near the equator.

After launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 12 the protective shroud covering Mariner 4 was jettisoned and the Agena D / Mariner 4 combination separated from the Atlas D booster at 14: 27: 23 UTC on November 28, 1964.

The 360's commercial release was piloted by another of Watson's lieutenants John R. Opel who managed the launch of IBM ’ s System 360 mainframe family in 1964.

After much heated debate over several months about the selection of the crew between Nikolai Kamanin and Sergei Korolev, Komarov was named as prime crew commander on October 4, 1964, by the State Commission ; just eight days before its scheduled launch.

Syncom 3 was the first geostationary communication satellite, launched on August 19, 1964 with the Delta D # 25 launch vehicle from Cape Canaveral.

Between it and the previous Luna 4, there were two launch failures ( Luna 1964A on 21 March 1964 ; and Luna 1964B on 20 April 1964 ) and one partial failure ( Cosmos 60, launched on 12 March 1965, which reached Earth orbit but failed to leave for the Moon ).

Its rival Pepsi had no such qualms, and after the long-term success of its sugar-free Diet Pepsi ( launched in 1964 ) became clear, Coca-Cola decided to launch a competing sugar-free brand under the Coca-Cola name, which could be marketed more easily than Tab.

Introduced early on April 17, 1964, dubbed as a " 1964½ " model by Mustang fans, the 1965 Mustang was the automaker's most successful launch since the Model A.

Stephen Dunwell, the project manager who became a scapegoat when Stretch failed commercially, pointed out soon after the phenomenally successful 1964 launch of System / 360 that most of its core concepts were pioneered by Stretch.

In early 1964 she attended a Rolling Stones launch party with John Dunbar and met Andrew Loog Oldham, who discovered her.

From its launch in 1964, sales of the car and its popularity continued to grow dramatically in the following years.

In 1964, Anderson chose Constitution Hall as the place to launch her farewell American tour.

It is believed that Zond 3 was initially designed as a companion spacecraft to Zond 2 to be launched to Mars during the 1964 launch window.

Prior to the close of the sale, WGN-TV was one of two Chicago commercial television stations ( not counting network-owned stations ) to have never been involved in an ownership transaction ( WCIU is the other, having been owned by Weigel Broadcasting since its launch in 1964 ).

Volynov was assigned as one of two possible commanders training for Voskhod 1 in 1964, but he and his fellow crewmembers Georgi Katys and Boris Yegorov were dumped three days before the scheduled launch date despite being the prime crew.

As commander of the Vientiane Military Region, he collaborated with Generals Ouane Rattikone and Siho Lamphouthakoun to launch a right-wing coup d ' état on April 19, 1964.

In late 1963 and 1964 competition finally arrived with the launch of all-transistor models such as the Friden EC-130, IME 84, and Sharp CS-10A.

It was later renamed BBC TV until the launch of sister channel BBC2 in 1964, whereupon it was known as BBC1, with the current spelling adopted in 1997.

It was retired by the U. S. in 1964, though in 1967 a surplus Redstone helped launch Australia's first satellite.

In turn the term Point Yankee derived from the launch point for " Yankee Team " aerial reconnaissance missions over Laos conducted in 1964.

In 1964, Latin America's first space launch site was constructed in Rio Grande do Norte ; Barreira do Inferno ( Hell's Barrier ), which was often referred to as the " Brazilian NASA ".

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 ).

Notable made-for-television productions of Hamlet include those starring Christopher Plummer ( 1964 ), Richard Chamberlain ( 1970 ; Hallmark Hall of Fame ), Derek Jacobi ( 1980 ; Royal Shakespeare Company, BBC ), Kevin Kline ( 1990 ), Campbell Scott ( 2000 ) and David Tennant ( 2009 ; Royal Shakespeare Company, BBC ).

In 1963 the BBC paid £ 65 for the radio play The Ruffian on the Stair broadcast on 31 August 1964.

In 1964, the BBC filmed a 6-episode TV adaptation under the title Smuggler's Bay, starring future Doctor Who stars Frazer Hines and Patrick Troughton as John Trenchard and Ratsey, respectively.

After retiring from playing in 1964, Benaud turned to full-time cricket journalism and commentary, dividing his time between Britain ( where he worked for the BBC for many years before joining Channel 4 in 1999 ), and Australia ( for the Nine Network ).

Two series were made in 1963 and 1964 and ( presumably because it was shot on 35mm film rather than video ) the entire series has reportedly been preserved in the BBC archives.

* BBC Panorama ( 1964 ) episode produced for the last night of the Windmill Theatre in 1964.

When Beyond Our Ken came to an end in 1964, the BBC commissioned a replacement series, Round the Horne, on similar lines, from Barry Took and Marty Feldman.

He is perhaps best known as the formal announcer on Beyond Our Ken ( 1958 – 1964 ), its more famous successor Round the Horne ( 1965 – 1968 ) and the short-lived Stop Messing About ( 1969 – 1970 ), where his ' BBC accent ' was used to comic effect.

This was followed by a 1964 dramatision of The Caves of Steel for the BBC series Story Parade and then four episodes of the BBC television series Out of the Unknown, based on " Satisfaction Guaranteed " ( 1966 ), " Reason ( in an episode titled " The Prophet ", 1967 ), " Liar!

Subsequently, Caine's agent got him cast in the BBC production Hamlet at Elsinore ( 1964 ) as Horatio in support of Christopher Plummer's Hamlet.

* BBC Wales feature on tramps as gentlemen of the road from 1964

Other major screen roles include the obsessed Nazi Colonel in The Train ( 1964 ), Strether in a 1977 TV adaptation of Henry James's novel The Ambassadors, Tobias in A Delicate Balance ( 1973 ), Professor Moroi in the film of János Nyíri's If Winter Comes ( 1980 ), for BBC Television, Mark Van Doren in Robert Redford's film Quiz Show ( 1994 ), and Thomas Danforth in Nicholas Hytner's film adaptation ( 1996 ) of Arthur Miller's The Crucible.

Ray Galton and Alan Simpson wrote for him from 1964 to 1966 when he worked for the BBC and also for a one-off show for Thames, Frankie Howerd meets the Bee Gees, shown on 20 August 1968.

* 1964 BBC TV Personality of the Year

* 1964: The Count of Monte Cristo, BBC television serial starring Alan Badel and Natasha Parry

The reason given by the BBC was that 1964 was an election year, and it was felt the show's political material could compromise the corporation's impartiality.

Twenty episodes were broadcast by the BBC, in three series, between 16 December 1964 and 23 July 1966.

He also was the " voice " of Lloyd-George in the seminal BBC documentary The Great War ( 1964 ).

After 1964 the BBC SO was the only one of the five London symphony orchestras that was not self-governed, and some musicians felt that the BBC SO's constitution as a body of salaried employees, with no say in the management or repertory of the orchestra, attracted an unadventurous type of player.

Notable television performances include narration for The Great War ( 1964 ), a history of the First World War using stills and ' stretched ' archive film, and the less successful Lost Peace series ( BBC Television, 1964 and 1966 ).