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- Oct 9 Hurricane Flora ravages Cuba & Haiti, kills 6,000
- Oct 9 Vajont Dam disaster, landslide creates 50 million cubic metre wave killing around 2,000 in the Piave Valley in Northern Italy
From Russia With Love
Oct 10 "From Russia With Love" 2nd James Bond film based on a novel by Ian Fleming, starring Sean Connery and Daniela Bianchi, premieres in London
Nobel Peace Prize
Oct 10 American chemist and anti-nuclear weapons campaigner Linus Pauling wins the Nobel Peace Prize the same day the first nuclear test treaty comes into effect [1]
- Oct 10 France cedes control of the Bizerte naval base to Tunisia
- Oct 10 Netherlands population hits 12,000,000
The Twilight Zone
Oct 11 William Shatner stars in "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" episode of CBS anthology series "The Twilight Zone"
- Oct 12 Archaeological digs begin at Masada, Israel
- Oct 12 Final event at Polo Grounds, New York City; 14,235 attend 1st (and only) "Latino All-Star Game" - National League wins 5-2 over American League; festivities include a concert by Tito Puente [1]
- Oct 12 San Francisco's Oakland Bay Bridge converted to 1-way on each deck
- Oct 13 The term "Beatlemania" is coined after Beatles appear at the London Palladium
- Oct 14 Algeria & Morocco border conflict
- Oct 14 WGHP TV channel 8 in Greensboro-High Point, NC (ABC) begins
- Oct 15 Ludwig Erhard succeeds Konrad Adenauer as Chancellor of West Germany
- Oct 16 2 secret US military satellites launched from Cape Canaveral
- Oct 16 NY newspaper "Mirror" last edition
- Oct 17 The Beatles record "I Want to Hold Your Hand" at EMI Studios in London
- Oct 18 IOC votes Mexico City to host 1968 Olympics
Event of Interest
Oct 20 Alec Douglas-Home's Conservative Party forms British government
- Oct 20 France performs underground nuclear test at Ecker, Algeria
Event of Interest
Oct 20 South Africa begins trial of Nelson Mandela & 8 others on conspiracy charges
- Oct 20 WITV TV channel 7 in Charleston, South Carolina (PBS) begins broadcasting
- Oct 22 225,000 students boycot Chicago schools in Freedom Day protest
- Oct 22 BAC One-Eleven prototype airliner crashes on October 22 in UK with the loss of all on board.
Sports History
Oct 23 New York Yankees name Yogi Berra as manager, replacing Ralph Houk who becomes the team's general manager
- Oct 24 Dutch KRO-TV shows first episode of American western series "Bonanza"
Sports History
Oct 24 Sandy Koufax is unanimous winner of Cy Young Award
NHL Record
Oct 27 Detroit Red Wings right wing Gordie Howe scores 544th career goal in 6-4 loss to Montreal Canadiens, tying Maurice Richard's all-time NHL regular season record
- Oct 29 "Meet the Beatles" booklet is published
Event of Interest
Oct 29 Edgar Kaufmann Jr. deeds his family property Fallingwater (1935), designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, to the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy [1]
- Oct 30 Morocco & Algeria sign cease fire
- Oct 30 Sandy Koufax wins NL MVP award
The Beatles on Ed Sullivan
Oct 31 Ed Sullivan witnesses Beatlemania firsthand at London's Heathrow Airport as the Beatles are greeted by their fans upon returning from Sweden
Event of Interest
Oct 31 J. Edgar Hoover's last meeting with President John F. Kennedy
- Oct 31 Leaking propane gas explodes kills 64 at 'Holiday on Ice' in Indiana
Coup d'état
Nov 2 Ngô Đình Diệm, the President of South Vietnam, is overthrown and assassinated in a coup by the South Vietnamese Army
Music Concert
Nov 4 John Lennon utters his famous quip at a Royal Variety Performance "For our last number, I'd like to ask your help. The people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And for the rest of you, if you’ll just rattle your jewelry…" at the Prince of Wales Theatre in London
Event of Interest
Nov 5 US VP Lyndon B. Johnson visits Netherlands
Elston Howard AL MVP
Nov 7 New York Yankee catcher Elston Howard is first African-American to be voted AL MVP
- Nov 7 Wunder von Lengede: In Germany, eleven miners are rescued from a collapsed mine after 14 days.
- Nov 9 Coal-dust explosion and the resulting buildup of carbon monoxide kills 458 at Mitsui Miike Coal Mine in Omuta, Japan
- Nov 9 Tsurumi rail accident on Tōkaidō Main Line, two passenger trains collide with derailed freight train, killing 162 people. in Yokohama, Japan
- Nov 10 Detroit right wing Gordie Howe surpasses Maurice Richard as leading NHL all-time goal scorer with 545th career goal in a 3-0 Red Wings victory over Montreal Canadiens in Detroit
The Beatles
Nov 11 Brian Epstein and Ed Sullivan sign a 3 show contract for appearances by The Beatles
- Nov 15 Valium, created by chemist Leo Sternbach at Roche, approved by US Drug and Food Administration - most prescribed drug in the world 1969-1982 [1]
- Nov 16 Toledo, OH newspaper strike began
- Nov 18 Bell Telephone introduces the touch-tone telephone to customers in Pennsylvania
- Nov 18 Dartford-Purfleet tunnel under River Thames opens
J.F.K. Flies To Texas
Nov 21 US President John F. Kennedy flies to Texas (assassinated the next day)
- Nov 22 Lyndon B. Johnson sworn in as the 36th US President after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy
- Nov 22 The Beatles release their second album "With the Beatles" in UK
John F. Kennedy Assassinated
Nov 22 US President John F. Kennedy assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald while riding in an open-topped motorcade in Dallas, Texas
- Nov 23 Debut of "Doctor Who" the long-running British sci-fi series
- Nov 23 Following the protocol after Abraham Lincoln's death, JFK's body lies in repose in the East Room of the White House and viewed by officials and heads of state [1]
- Nov 23 Horatio Alger Society founded
- Nov 23 LBJ proclaims Nov 25 a day of national mourning after the assassination of JFK
- Nov 25 JFK laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery
- Nov 26 29th Heisman Trophy Award: Roger Staubach, Navy (QB)
- Nov 26 Explorer 18 spacecraft launched by NASA
- Nov 27 The Convention on the Unification of Certain Points of Substantive Law on Patents for Invention is signed at Strasbourg
- Nov 28 Crusher beats Verne Gagne in St Paul, to become NWA champ
- Nov 28 The Beatles "She Loves You" unusually, returns to #1 in UK record chart and reaches 1 million copies sold
- Nov 28 WHNT TV channel 19 in Huntsville, AL (CBS) begins broadcasting
- Nov 29 "I Want to Hold Your Hand" single released by the Beatles in the United Kingdom
- Nov 29 Trans-Canada Airlines Flight 831: A Douglas DC-8 carrying 118, crashes after taking-off from Dorval Airport near Montreal, Canada
- Nov 29 US President LBJ sets up the Warren Commission to investigate the assassination of US President John F. Kennedy
- Nov 30 Martin Walser's "Überlebensgross Herr Krott" premieres in Stuttgart
- Dec 1 Nagaland becomes a state of the Indian union
- Dec 1 Wendell Scott wins the Grand National Series Jacksonville 200 at Speedway Park in Jacksonville, Florida, becoming the first black driver to win a race at NASCAR's premier level
- Dec 2 1964 NFL Draft: Dave Parks from Texas Tech first pick by San Francisco 49ers
- Dec 2 First Dutch rocket launched, reaches height of 10 km
- Dec 2 MLB Rules Committee bans oversized catcher's mitts; rule effective only in 1965
Johnson's 31 Medal Recipients
Dec 6 President Lyndon B. Johnson confers Presidential Medal of Freedom on 31 recipients selected by JFK, including: contralto Marian Anderson; diplomat Ralph Bunche; cellist Pablo Casals; Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter; labor leader George Meaney; architect Mies van der Rohe; pianist Rudolf Serkin; writers E. B. White and Thorton Wilder; and painter Andrew Wyeth; as well as posthumously to JFK himself, and Pope John XXIII
- Dec 6 Test Cricket debut of Graeme Pollock at the Gabba
- Dec 6 The Beatles begin a tradition of releasing a Christmas record for fan club members
- Dec 7 First use of the instant replay machine invented by CBS in a US Army vs Navy football game
- Dec 7 Ian Meckiff no-balled for throwing against the South Africans
- Dec 8 Frank Sinatra, Jr is kidnapped at Harrah's Lake Tahoe (Nevada)
- Dec 8 Pan Am Flight 214 crashes outside Elkton, Maryland with 81 killed
Donny Osmond Debut
Dec 10 6-year old Donny Osmond's singing debut on Andy Williams Show
Chemistry Nobel to Ziegler and Natta
Dec 10 Karl Ziegler and Giulio Natta receive the 1963 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their work on the technology of high polymers
Kaddish
Dec 10 Leonard Bernstein premieres his Third Symphony "Kaddish" with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, in Tel Aviv, Israel
- Dec 10 Zanzibar gains independenence from Great Britain
Perón Extradition Request
Dec 12 Argentina asks for extradition of ex-President Juan Perón
- Dec 12 Frank Sinatra, Jr returned by kidnappersafter his father paid the $240,000 ransom demanded
- Dec 12 Kenya (formerly British East Africa) declares independence from the United Kingdom
- Dec 13 Capital records signs right of first refusal agreement with The Beatles
- Dec 14 Verne Gagne beats The Crusher in Minneapolis, to become NWA champ
- Dec 17 Ballon d'Or: Dynamo Moscow goalkeeper Lev Yashin wins award for best European football player; beats Milan midfielder Gianni Rivera and Tottenham striker Jimmy Greaves; first Russian national to win trophy
- Dec 17 Tsjoi Doo Sun forms government in South Korea
- Dec 17 West & East Berlin sign accord about travel rules
The Pink Panther
Dec 18 "The Pink Panther" film premieres, directed by Blake Edwards, and starring Peter Sellers and David Niven, with theme music composed by Henry Mancini
- Dec 18 Muskegon, Michigan gets 3' of snow
- Dec 18 Ron Clarke runs world record 10k (28:15.6)
"Contempt"
Dec 20 "Contempt" film directed by Jean-Luc Godard, starring Brigitte Bardot and Jack Palance, is released
- Dec 20 Berlin Wall opens for 1st time to West Berliners
- Dec 20 Massemba-Debate elected President of Congo-Brazzaville
- Dec 20 Trial against 21 camp guards of Auschwitz begins
- Dec 22 Cruise ship Lakonia burns 180 miles north of Madeira with the loss of 128 lives
- Dec 22 Oakland Raider Tom Flores passes for 6 touchdowns vs Houston (52-49)
- Dec 22 Official 30-day mourning period for President John F. Kennedy ends
- Dec 23 Fire on Greek ship Laconia, 128 die
- Dec 23 The Beach Boys 1st appearance on "Shindig"
- Dec 24 Greek & Turks riot in Cyprus
- Dec 25 Walt Disney's "The Sword in the Stone" is released
- Dec 26 The Beatles release "I Want To Hold Your Hand" and "I Saw Her Standing There" in the US
- Dec 26 US furnishes cereal to USSR
"Sing a Sad Song"
Dec 28 Merle Haggard's 1st appearance on country music chart with "Sing a Sad Song"
Clark 1st Scot to Win
Dec 28 Scottish Lotus driver Jim Clark wins his record 7th Grand Prix of the F1 season, the South African event at Prince George Circuit; first Scotsman to win the World Drivers Championship
- Dec 30 Congress authorizes Kennedy half dollar, in honor of John F. Kennedy
- Dec 30 TV game show "Let's Make A Deal," hosted by Monty Hall, debuts on NBC-TV
- Dec 31 Dear Abby show premieres on CBS radio (runs 11 years)
Garcia, Weir Play for First Time
Dec 31 Jerry Garcia and Bob Weir of The Grateful Dead play music together for the 1st time at Dana Morgan's Music Store in Palo Alto, California
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