Martin Luther King Jr. addresses a crowd of 20,000 West Berliners on Sunday, in Waldbühne. Date: September 13, 1964 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on September 13 📅 Events on this day in 1964 📅 On This Day (Today)
South Vietnamese Generals Lâm Văn Phát and Dương Văn Đức fail in a coup attempt against General Nguyễn Khánh. Date: September 13, 1964 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on September 13 📅 Events on this day in 1964 📅 On This Day (Today)
Scotland's Forth Road Bridge near Edinburgh officially opens. Date: September 4, 1964 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on September 4 📅 Events on this day in 1964 📅 On This Day (Today)
The Philadelphia race riot begins. Date: August 28, 1964 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on August 28 📅 Events on this day in 1964 📅 On This Day (Today)
South Vietnamese junta leader Nguyễn Khánh enters into a triumvirate power-sharing arrangement with rival generals Trần Thiện Khiêm and Dương Văn Minh, who had both been involved in plots to unseat Khánh. Date: August 27, 1964 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on August 27 📅 Events on this day in 1964 📅…
Syncom 3, the first geostationary communication satellite, is launched. Two months later, it would enable live coverage of the 1964 Summer Olympics. Date: August 19, 1964 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on August 19 📅 Events on this day in 1964 📅 On This Day (Today)
Vietnam War: A coup d'état replaces Dương Văn Minh with General Nguyễn Khánh as President of South Vietnam. A new constitution is established with aid from the U.S. Embassy. Date: August 16, 1964 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on August 16 📅 Events on this day in 1964 📅 On This Day…
Peter Allen and Gwynne Evans are hanged for the murder of John Alan West becoming the last people executed in the United Kingdom. Date: August 13, 1964 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on August 13 📅 Events on this day in 1964 📅 On This Day (Today)
South Africa is banned from the Olympic Games due to the country's racist policies. Date: August 12, 1964 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on August 12 📅 Events on this day in 1964 📅 On This Day (Today)
Vietnam War: The U.S. Congress passes the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution giving U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson broad war powers to deal with North Vietnamese attacks on American forces. Date: August 7, 1964 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on August 7 📅 Events on this day in 1964 📅 On This Day…