Events Date 1964 March | History by KabAstro

Music History

Mar 2 Beatles begin filming "A Hard Day's Night", George Harrison meets future wife Pattie Boyd

Model, Photographer and Author Pattie Boyd

Mar 4 Teamsters union leader Jimmy Hoffa convicted of jury tampering
Mar 5 Atlanta Mayor Ivan Allen Jr, announces a baseball team is moving there
Mar 5 Emergency crisis proclaimed in Ceylon due to social unrest

Muhammad Ali

Mar 6 Boxing legend Cassius Clay joins the Nation of Islam and changes his name to "Muhammad Ali", calling his former title a "slave name"

Mar 6 Constantine succeeds Paul I as king of Greece
Mar 6 Tom O'Hara runs world record mile (3:56.4)
Mar 7 11th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: Duke beats Wake Forest, 80-59

Event of Interest

Mar 8 Malcolm X resigns from the Nation of Islam

African American Muslim Minister and Civil Rights Activist Malcolm X

Mar 9 1st Ford Mustang produced
Mar 9 Creighton University's Paul Silas grabs Midwest record 27 rebounds against Oklahoma State
Mar 9 Supreme Court issues NY Times vs Sullivan decision: public officials must prove malice to claim libel and recover damages
Mar 10 Simon and Garfunkel record the first version of "The Sound of Silence" at Columbia Studios in New York City
Mar 10 US reconnaissance plane shot down over East Germany

Golden Globes

Mar 11 21st Golden Globes: The Cardinal, Sidney Poitier, & Leslie Caron win

Film & TV History

Mar 11 Gene Roddenberry brings together a 16-page pitch for the original Star Trek series

Screenwriter and Creator of Star Trek Gene Roddenberry

Grammy Awards

Mar 12 6th Grammy Awards: Days of Wine & Roses, Barbra Streisand wins 2

Singer-Songwriter and Actress Barbra Streisand

Mar 12 S. N. Behrman's play "But for Whom Charlie" premieres in NYC
Mar 12 Union leader Jimmy Hoffa sentenced to 8 years
Mar 12 WKAB TV channel 32 in Montgomery, AL (ABC) begins broadcasting
Mar 13 Turkey threatens Cyprus with armed attack

Murder of Interest

Mar 14 Dallas, Texas; Jack Ruby sentenced to death for Lee Harvey Oswald's murder

Former Soldier and Assassin Lee Harvey Oswald

Music History

Mar 14 Noël Coward's musical "Girl Who Came to Supper", starring Florence Henderson and José Ferrer, closes at the Broadway Theatre, NYC, after 112 performances and one Tony Award

Playwright, Director and Singer Noël Coward

Mar 15 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
Mar 16 KCOY TV channel 12 in Santa Maria, California (CBS) begins broadcasting

Economic Opportunity Act

Mar 16 LBJ asks Congress to pass Economic Opportunity Act as part of his War on Poverty

Mar 16 Paul Hornung & Alex Karras reinstated in NFL after 1 year suspension

Film & TV History

Mar 19 Sean Connery's 1st day of shooting on James Bond film "Goldfinger"

Mar 20 ESRO established, European Space Research Organization
Mar 21 118th Grand National: Willie Robinson aboard American-owned 12-year-old Team Spirit wins at odds of 18/1
Mar 21 26th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA beats Duke, 98-83; Bruins first title in first title game; undefeated season (30-0)
Mar 21 9th Eurovision Song Contest: Gigliola Cinquetti for Italy wins singing "Non ho l'eta" in Copenhagen
Mar 21 Beatles' single "She Loves You" goes #1 in the US & stays #1 for 2 weeks
Mar 21 Wales draws 11-11 with France in Cardiff, whilst Scotland beats England, 15-6 at Murrayfield to leave the Five Nations Rugby Championship shared by Wales and Scotland on 6 competition points
Mar 22 Barbra Streisand appears on the cover of NY Times Magazine section

Sports History

Mar 22 LPGA Western Open Women's Golf, Scenic Hills CC: Carol Mann her 1st of 2 major titles by 2 shots from Ruth Jessen and Judy Kimball

In His Own Write

Mar 23 "In His Own Write", a book of short stories, poems and drawings by John Lennon is published

Mar 23 UNCTAD 1 world conference opens in Geneva
Mar 24 Kennedy half-dollar issued

Event of Interest

Mar 25 Britain sets memorial for the late President John F. Kennedy

Mar 25 Egypt ends state of siege (1952-64)
Mar 26 Jule Styne and Bob Merrill's musical "Funny Girl", starring Barbra Streisand as Fanny Brice, opens at Winter Garden Theater, New York City; runs for 1,348 performances
Mar 27 1st true Pirate Radio station, Radio Caroline (England)
Mar 27 Great Train Robbers sentenced to a total of 307 years behind bars
Mar 27 The Great Alaska Earthquake (9.2 magnitude) and resulting tsunami kill 139 people in the largest US earthquake and second largest ever recorded
Mar 27 UN troops arrive in Cyprus
Mar 28 1st pirate radio station near England (Radio Caroline)
Mar 28 Discovery of Epstein-Barr virus, the first human tumor virus, identified by pathologists English Anthony Epstein and Yvonne Barr published in "Lancet" [1]