1964 @ Nostalgia Central

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01 - In Britain, the first edition of Top of the Pops screens on the BBC. Host Jimmy Saville introduces The Rolling Stones, Dusty Springfield, The Hollies, The Swinging Blue Jeans and The Dave Clark Five

14 - Arab League countries decide to set up a unified military command

27 - Actress Bridget Fonda is born

29 - Roddy Frame of Aztec Camera is born

03 - Double-decker carriages introduced on Sydney railway in Australia

06 - British and French governments agree to build a Channel Tunnel

08 - The Beatles receive a rapturous reception on their first visit to New York

09 - The Beatles appear on the Ed Sullivan Show

10 - In Australia, HMAS Melbourne slices HMAS Voyager in half. 82 die

12 - Civil war erupts in independent Cyprus between Greek and Turkish Cypriots

25 - Boxer Cassius Clay becomes heavyweight champion of the world, defeating the legendary Sonny Liston, and later changes his name to Muhammad Ali

02 - The Beatles begin filming their first feature film - A Hard Day's Night

10 - US reconnaissance plane is downed after accidentally crossing into East German airspace. The plane's three pilots are eventually released

10 - Singer Neneh Cherry is born

10 - Prince Edward (of England) is born

14 - Jack Ruby, the killer of Lee Harvey Oswald (the man accused of assassinating JFK), is found guilty of murder

15 - Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton are married in Montreal

28 - Radio Caroline, Britain's first pirate radio station, begins broadcasting illegally from a ship in the North Sea

29 - Mods and Rockers fight a battle on the beaches of Clacton, Essex (UK)

30 - US entertainer Tracy Chapman is born

05 - General Douglas MacArthur dies

13 - Ian Smith is elected PM of Southern Rhodesia

15 - Ten British Great Train robbers found guilty

21 - BBC2 goes on the air in the UK - Its first program is Play School

22 - 1964/1965 New York World's Fair opens at Flushing Meadows Park in Queens, New York

25 - Andy Bell of UK group Erasure is born

25 - The head of the 'little mermaid' statue in Copenhagen Harbor is sawn off and stolen

27 - Zanzibar merges with Tanganyika to form Republic of Tanganyika and Zanzibar (renamed Tanzania on Oct 29)

02 - Death of Britain's first woman MP, Nancy Astor

18 - Mods and Rockers clash at Brighton in England

19 - 40 hidden microphones are uncovered in the US Embassy in Moscow

26 - Entertainer Lenny Kravitz is born

27 - India's PM and statesman since 1947, Jawaharlal 'Pandit' Nehru dies

01 - The Rolling Stones arrive at JFK Airport in New York on flight number 506 for their first US tour. A minor riot ensues as waiting fans stampede through a police cordon

12 - Macquarie University founded at North Ryde, Sydney, Australia

13 - Beatlemania hits Australia as Fab Four tour down-under

14 - Nelson Mandela is sentenced to life imprisonment for treason, sabotage, violent conspiracy and plotting to overthrow the South African government

26 - Moise Tshombe, leader of the Katangan province, is recalled from exile to join the Congolese government

02 - LBJ signs sweeping Civil Rights Act and racial discrimination is banned

06 - The Beatles' debut film, A Hard Day's Night, premiers at the London Pavilion cinema in Piccadilly Circus. Thousands of fans cause traffic chaos in the West End

15 - In Australia, News Limited launches The Australian, the first national daily newspaper, in Canberra

31 - First detailed photographs of the Moon are sent back from Ranger 7

31 - Entertainer Jim Reeves dies

01 - Rockabilly star Johnny Burnette drowns in a boating accident in California

02 - US Navy ships are attacked off Vietnam coast by North Vietnamese patrol boats. The attack (later revealed to have been provoked by the US Navy) caused Congress to pass the Tonkin Bay Resolution, enabling President Johnson to take extensive military action in Southeast Asia

04 - Three young Civil Rights workers, missing since June 21st, are discovered murdered and buried on a farm outside Philadelphia, Mississippi

07 - LBJ commits large forces to US intervention in Vietnam

20 - Former US President Herbert Hoover dies

24 - The first Catholic Mass is said in English rather than Latin

26 - Lyndon Johnson nominated for re-election by the Democrats

03 - State of emergency declared in Malaysia

21 - Malta becomes an independent state within the Commonwealth

23 - Richard Walsh, Richard Neville and Martin Sharp sentenced to prison after Sydney magistrate rules OZ magazine to be obscene

27 - The Warren Commission releases its report on the Kennedy assassination. The report concludes that there was no conspiracy, either domestic or international, to assassinate the president, and that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. Over 50 books are published about the assassination by the end of the year, many of them disputing the Commission's findings

28 - Harpo, the silent Marx Brother, dies

02 - Sydney's Gladesville Bridge opens. It is the world's largest single concrete arch, with a span of 1,000 feet

05 - 57 people escape from East Berlin by crawling through a tunnel

10 - XVIIIth Olympic Games open in Tokyo

14 - Martin Luther King receives the Nobel Peace Prize

14 - Nikita Khrushchev is deposed while on holiday. Leonid Brezhnev is appointed new Communist Party leader and Alexei Kosygin as Prime Minister

14 - Charlie Watts of The Rolling Stones marries Shirley Shepherd in Bradford, Yorkshire

15 - Harold Wilson wins power by a whisker in the first British Labour victory in 13 years

15 - Cole Porter dies

24 - Northern Rhodesia becomes independent as Zambia with Kenneth Kaunda as president

25 - British PM Harold Wilson warns Southern Rhodesian that a unilateral declaration of independence would lead to economic sanctions

02 - King Saud of Saudi Arabia is deposed and Prince Faisal becomes king

03 - LBJ wins election and sends Senator Goldwater packing

09 - Australian Prime Minister Menzies reintroduces conscription

21 - Verrazano Narrows Bridge over New York Harbor is officially opened. It becomes the longest suspension bridge in the world

27 - Life Magazine's cover story on Vietnam reports that the crisis is worsening

11 - Soul singer Sam Cooke is shot and killed at a Los Angeles motel, The Hacienda, by its manageress Bertha Franklin who claimed Cooke had tried to rape a young woman. The coroner returned a verdict of justifiable homicide

16 - La Trobe University established

21 - Capital punishment ends in Britain

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