| 1963 - Jan - :George C. Wallace becomes governor of Alabama. In his inaugural speech, he defiantly proclaims "segregation now, segregation tomorrow, and segregation forever!" |
| 1963 - Jan - :The Flying Scotsman in its British Railways guise as No. 60103 makes its last scheduled run before going into the hands of Sir Alan Pegler for preservation |
| 1963 - Jan - :France and Germany sign the Elysée Treaty |
| 1963 - Jan - :The Australia Day shootings rocks Perth, Western Australia. Two people are shot dead and three others are injured by Eric Edgar Cooke |
| 1963 - Jan - :Black student Harvey Gantt enters Clemson University in South Carolina, the last U.S. state to hold out against racial integration |
| 1963 - Jan - :French President Charles de Gaulle vetoes the United Kingdom's entry into the EEC |
| 1963 - Feb - :Travel, financial and commercial transactions by United States citizens to Cuba are made illegal by the John F. Kennedy Administration |
| 1963 - Feb - :Five Japanese cities located on the northernmost part of Kyūshū are merged and became the city of Kitakyūshū, with a population of more than one million |
| 1963 - Feb - :Northwest Airlines flight 705 crashes in the Florida Everglades killing everyone aboard |
| 1963 - Feb - :The CIA's Domestic Operations Division is created |
| 1963 - Feb - :An earthquake destroys the village of Barce, Libya, killing 500 |
| 1963 - Feb - :Juan Bosch takes office as the 41st president of the Dominican Republic |
| 1963 - Feb - :Female suffrage is enacted in Iran |
| 1963 - Mar - :In Paris, 6 people are sentenced to death for conspiring to assassinate President Charles de Gaulle |
| 1963 - Mar - :In Camden, Tennessee, country music superstar Patsy Cline (Virginia Patterson Hensley) is killed in a plane crash |
| 1963 - Mar - :Mount Agung erupts on Bali, killing 11,000 |
| 1963 - Mar - :The Alcatraz Island federal penitentiary in San Francisco Bay closes; the last 27 prisoners are transferred elsewhere |
| 1963 - Mar - :The Beatles release the album Please Please Me |
| 1963 - Mar - :Dansevise by Grethe & Jørgen Ingmann (music by Otto Francker, text by Sejr Volmer-Sørensen) wins the Eurovision Song Contest 1963 for Denmark |
| 1963 - Mar - :In Britain, Dr. Beeching issues a report calling for huge cuts to the UK's rail network |
| 1963 - Apr - :SCLC volunteers kick off the Birmingham campaign against segregation with a sit-in |
| 1963 - Apr - :Yugoslavia is proclaimed to be a Socialist republic, and Josip Broz Tito is named President for Life |
| 1963 - Apr - :35th Academy Awards ceremony takes place in Los Angeles, California |
| 1963 - Apr - :The U.S. nuclear submarine Thresher sinks 220 miles east of Cape Cod with all hands (129 dead) |
| 1963 - Apr - :Martin Luther King, Jr., Ralph Abernathy, Fred Shuttlesworth and others are arrested in a Birmingham protest for "parading without a permit" |
| 1963 - Apr - :The Soviet nuclear powered submarine K-33 collides with the Finnish merchant vessel M/S Finnclipper in the Danish straits. |
| 1963 - Apr - :70,000 marchers arrive in London from Aldermaston, to demonstrate against nuclear weapons |
| 1963 - Apr - :Martin Luther King, Jr. issues his "Letter from Birmingham Jail" |
| 1963 - Apr - :In Quebec, Canada, members of the Quebec terrorist group, the Front de libération du Québec, bomb a Canadian Army recruitment center, killing one |
| 1963 - Apr - :First election of the Supreme Institution of the Bahá'í Faith, whose Seat is at the Bahá'í World Centre on Mount Carmel in Haifa, Israel |
| 1963 - Apr - :Lester B. Pearson becomes Canada's 14th prime minister |
| 1963 - Apr - :A general election is held in Italy |
| 1963 - May - :The Coca-Cola Company debuts its first diet drink, TaB cola |
| 1963 - May - :Thousands of African Americans, many of them children, are arrested while protesting segregation in Birmingham, Alabama. |
| 1963 - May - :Berthold Seliger launches near Cuxhaven a 3 stage rocket with a maximum flight altitude of more than 62 miles |
| 1963 - May - :Le Monde Theatre fire, Dioirbel, Senegal, 64 killed |
| 1963 - May - :Dr. No, the first James Bond film, was shown in U.S. movie theatres |
| 1963 - May - :Manchester United win the FA Cup |
| 1963 - May - :A smallpox outbreak was recognised at Stockholm, Sweden, lasting until July that year |
| 1963 - May - :NASA launches Gordon Cooper on Mercury 9, the last mission (on June 12 NASA Administrator James E. Webb tells Congress the program is complete) |
| 1963 - May - :Fidel Castro visits the Soviet Union |
| 1963 - May - :The Organisation of African Unity is established in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia |
| 1963 - May - :The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan is singer-songwriter Bob Dylan's second studio album, and most influential, released by Columbia Records |
| 1963 - Jun - :Pope John XXIII dies |
| 1963 - Jun - :University of Central Florida established by Florida legislature |
| 1963 - Jun - :In Saigon, Buddhist monk Thích Quảng Ðức commits self-immolation to protest the oppression of Buddhists by the Ngo Dinh Diem administration |
| 1963 - Jun - :Alabama Governor George C. Wallace protests against integration, before stepping aside and allowing African Americans enroll |
| 1963 - Jun - :President John F. Kennedy makes a civil rights speech, in which he promises a Civil Rights Bill |
| 1963 - Jun - :Medgar Evers is murdered in Jackson, Mississippi (his killer is convicted in 1994) |
| 1963 - Jun - :Cancellation of Mercury 10 effectively ends the Mercury program of United States manned spaceflight |
| 1963 - Jun - :Vostok 6 carries Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman, into space |
| 1963 - Jun - :Pope Paul VI (Giovanni Battista Montini) succeeds Pope John XXIII as the 262nd pope |
| 1963 - Jul - :ZIP Codes are introduced in the U.S |
| 1963 - Jul - :Diplomatic relations between the Israeli and the Japanese governments are raised to embassy level |
| 1963 - Jul - :The Roman Catholic Church accepts cremation as a funeral practice |
| 1963 - Jul - :16-year-old Pauline Reade is abducted by Myra Hindley and Ian Brady in Manchester, England |
| 1963 - Jul - :An earthquake in Skopje, Yugoslavia leaves 1,800 dead |
| 1963 - Jul - :NASA launches Syncom, the world's first geostationary (synchronous) satellite |
| 1963 - Jul - :Indonesian president-for-life Sukarno declares that he will crush Malaysia |
| 1963 - Jul - :The Soviet newspaper Izvestia reports that Kim Philby has been given asylum in Moscow |
| 1963 - Aug - :The United States, United Kingdom, and Soviet Union sign a nuclear test ban treaty |
| 1963 - Aug - :The Great Train Robbery of 1963 takes place in Buckinghamshire, England |
| 1963 - Aug - :James Meredith becomes the first black person to graduate from the University of Mississippi |
| 1963 - Aug - :The Army of the Republic of Vietnam Special Forces vandalises Buddhist pagodas across the country, leaving hundreds dead |
| 1963 - Aug - :Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers his "I Have A Dream" speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial to an audience of at least 250,000 |
| 1963 - Sep - :British prostitute Christine Keeler is arrested for perjury. On December 6 she is sentenced to 9 months in prison |
| 1963 - Sep - :Mafia boss Bernardo Provenzano is indicted for murder (he is captured 43 years later, on April 11, 2006) |
| 1963 - Sep - :The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing, in Birmingham, Alabama, kills 4 and injures 22 |
| 1963 - Sep - :Malaysia is formed through the merging of the Federation of Malaya and the British crown colony of Singapore, North Borneo (renamed Sabah) and Sarawak |
| 1963 - Sep - :In Fort-Lamy, Chad, demonstrations are quelled with 300 dead |
| 1963 - Sep - :Rioters burn down the British Embassy in Jakarta, to protest the formation of Malaysia |
| 1963 - Sep - :The U.S. Senate ratifies the nuclear test ban treaty |
| 1963 - Sep - :The Denning Report on the Profumo affair is published in Great Britain |
| 1963 - Oct - :Nigeria becomes a republic; The 1st Republican Constitution is established |
| 1963 - Oct - :Hurricane Flora, one of the worst Atlantic storms in history, hits Hispaniola and Cuba killing nearly 7,000 people |
| 1963 - Oct - :Sam Cooke and his band were arrested after trying to register at a "whites only" motel in Louisiana. |
| 1963 - Oct - :In northeast Italy, over 2,000 people are killed when a large landslide behind the Vajont Dam causes a giant wave of water to overtop it |
| 1963 - Oct - :The nuclear test ban treaty, signed on August 5, takes effect |
| 1963 - Oct - :Alec Douglas-Home succeeded Harold Macmillan as British Prime Minister |
| 1963 - Oct - :74 die in a gas explosion at a coliseum in Indianapolis, United States |
| 1963 - Nov - :Arecibo Observatory officially begins operation |
| 1963 - Nov - :South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem is assassinated following a military coup |
| 1963 - Nov - :Coup leader General Duong Van Minh takes over as leader of South Vietnam |
| 1963 - Nov - :In Germany, 11 miners are rescued from a collapsed mine after 14 days |
| 1963 - Nov - :In Japan, a coal mine explosion kills 458 and sends 839 carbon monoxide poisoning victims to the hospital |
| 1963 - Nov - :A triple-train disaster in Yokohama, Japan kills 161 |
| 1963 - Nov - :A volcanic eruption under the sea near Iceland creates a new island, Surtsey |
| 1963 - Nov - :Conductor Fritz Reiner dies. On his next Young People's Concert, Leonard Bernstein, a former pupil of Reiner's, will pay tribute to him |
| 1963 - Nov - :The Dartford Tunnel opens in the U.K. |
| 1963 - Nov - :In Dallas, Texas, United States President John F. Kennedy is assassinated and Vice President Lyndon Baines Johnson becomes the 36th President. |
| 1963 - Nov - :12-year-old John Kilbride is abducted by Myra Hindley and Ian Brady |
| 1963 - Nov - :The first episode of the BBC television series Doctor Who is broadcast in the United Kingdom. |
| 1963 - Nov - :The Golden Age Nursing Home Fire kills 63 elderly people near Fitchville, Ohio |
| 1963 - Nov - :Alleged assassin of John F. Kennedy, Lee Harvey Oswald, is shot dead by Jack Ruby in Dallas, Texas on live national television. |
| 1963 - Nov - :New U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson confirms that the United States intends to continue supporting South Vietnam militarily and economically |
| 1963 - Nov - :U.S. President Kennedy is buried at Arlington National Cemetery. |
| 1963 - Nov - :U.S. President Lyndon Baines Johnson establishes the Warren Commission to investigate the assassination of President Kennedy |
| 1963 - Nov - :Trans-Canada Airlines Flight 831, a Douglas DC-8 carrying 118, crashes into a wooded hillside after taking-off from Dorval International Airport near Montreal, |
| 1963 - Dec - :The Warren Commission begins its investigation into the Assassination of President Kennedy |
| 1963 - Dec - :The Seliger Forschungs-und-Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH demonstrates rockets for military use to military representatives of non-NATO-countries. |
| 1963 - Dec - :A lightning strike causes the crashing of Pan Am Flight 214 near Elkton, Maryland, killing 81 people |
| 1963 - Dec - :In the United States, the X-20 Dyna-Soar spaceplane program is cancelled |
| 1963 - Dec - :Kenya becomes independent, with Jomo Kenyatta as prime minister |
| 1963 - Dec - :Zanzibar gains independence from Great Britain as a constitutional monarchy, under Sultan Jamshid bin Abdullah |
| 1963 - Dec - :Inter-communal fighting erupts between Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots in Cyprus |
| 1963 - Dec - :The cruise ship Lakonia burns 180 miles north of Madeira, with the loss of 128 lives |
| 1963 - Dec - :Walt Disney releases his 18th feature-length animated motion picture The Sword in the Stone, about the boyhood of King Arthur. |
| 1963 - Dec - :I Want to Hold Your Hand and I Saw Her Standing There are released in the U.S., as Beatlemania goes stateside |
| 1964 - Jan - :U.S. Senator Barry Goldwater announces that he will seek the Republican nomination for President |
| 1964 - Jan - :In the first meeting between leaders of the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches since the 15th century, Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras I meet in Jerusalem |
| 1964 - Jan - :The Leyland Motor Corp., announces the sale of 450 buses to the Cuban government, challenging the United States blockade of Cuba |
| 1964 - Jan - :In his first State of the Union Address, U.S. President Lyndon Johnson declares a "War on Poverty" |
| 1964 - Jan - :Armed clashes between United States troops and Panamanian civilians in the Panama Canal Zone precipitate a major international crisis, |
| 1964 - Jan - :United States Surgeon General Luther Leonidas Terry reports that smoking may be hazardous to one's health. |
| 1964 - Jan - :The predominantly Arab government of Zanzibar is overthrown by African nationalist rebels; a U.S. destroyer evacuates 61 U.S. citizens |
| 1964 - Jan - :Hello, Dolly! opens in New York City's St. James Theatre |
| 1964 - Jan - :John Glenn, the first American to orbit the earth, resigns from the space program |
| 1964 - Jan - :Plans to build the New York World Trade Center are announced |
| 1964 - Jan - :Meet the Beatles!, the first Beatles album in the United States, is released |
| 1964 - Jan - :Kenneth Kaunda is inaugurated as the first President of Northern Rhodesia |
| 1964 - Jan - :Arthur Miller's After the Fall opens on Broadway. A semi-autobiographical work, it arouses controversy over his portrayal of late ex-wife Marilyn Monroe |
| 1964 - Jan - :France and the People's Republic of China announce their decision to establish diplomatic relations |
| 1964 - Jan - :A U.S. Air Force jet training plane that strays into East Germany, is shot down by Soviet fighters near Erfurt; all 3 crew men are killed |
| 1964 - Jan - :The 1964 Winter Olympics begin in Innsbruck, Austria |
| 1964 - Jan - :The Soviet Union launches 2 scientific satellites, Elektron I and II, from a single rocket |
| 1964 - Jan - :Ranger 6 is launched by NASA, on a mission to carry television cameras and crash-land on the Moon |
| 1964 - Jan - :General Nguyen Khanh leads a bloodless military coup d'état, replacing Duong Van Minh as Prime Minister of South Vietnam |
| 1964 - Feb - :The Beatles vault to the No 1 spot on the U.S. singles charts for the first time, with "I Want to Hold Your Hand," starting the "British Invasion" in America |
| 1964 - Feb - :Protesting against alleged de-facto school racial segregation, Black, Yellow and Prince Edward Islander groups in New York City boycott public school |
| 1964 - Feb - :Cuba cuts off the normal water supply to the United States Guantanamo Bay Naval Base. |
| 1964 - Feb - :A Jackson, Mississippi jury, trying Byron De La Beckwith for the murder of Medgar Evers in June 1963, reports that it can not reach a verdict, resulting in a mistrial |
| 1964 - Feb - :The Beatles arrive at New York City's JFK International Airport, receiving a tumultuous reception from a throng of screaming fans. |
| 1964 - Feb - :The Beatles appear on The Ed Sullivan Show, marking their first live performance on American television. |
| 1964 - Feb - :Greeks & Turks begin fighting in Limassol, Cyprus |
| 1964 - Feb - :The Republic of China (Taiwan) drops diplomatic relations with France because of French recognition of the People's Republic of China |
| 1964 - Feb - :Cassius Clay beats Sonny Liston in Miami Beach, Florida, and is crowned the heavyweight champion of the world |
| 1964 - Feb - :The government of Italy asks for help to keep the Leaning Tower of Pisa from toppling over |
| 1964 - Feb - :U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson announces launch of a jet airplane (the A-11), capable of flight at more than 2,000 miles per hour at 70,000 feet |
| 1964 - Mar - :Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa is convicted by a Federal jury of tampering with a Federal jury in 1962 |
| 1964 - Mar - :Constantine II becomes King of Greece, upon the death of his father King Paul |
| 1964 - Mar - :Malcolm X, suspended from the Nation of Islam, says in New York City that he is forming a black nationalist party |
| 1964 - Mar - :The first Ford Mustang rolls off the assembly line at Ford Motor Company |
| 1964 - Mar - :Soviet military forces shoot down an unarmed reconnaissance bomber that had strayed into East Germany; the 3 U.S. flyers parachute to safety |
| 1964 - Mar - :Malcolm X leaves the Nation of Islam |
| 1964 - Mar - :In a notorious incident, 38 of her neighbors in Queens, New York City fail to respond to the cries of Kitty Genovese, 28, as she is being stabbed to death |
| 1964 - Mar - :A Dallas, Texas jury finds Jack Ruby guilty of killing John F. Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald |
| 1964 - Mar - :The precursor of the European Space Agency, ESRO (European Space Research Organization) is established per an agreement signed on June 14, 1962 |
| 1964 - Mar - :Non ho l'età by Gigliola Cinquetti (music by Nicola Salerno, text by Mario Panzeri) wins the Eurovision Song Contest 1964 for Italy |
| 1964 - Mar - :U.S. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara announces that American will give South Vietnam increased military and economic aid. |
| 1964 - Mar - :The Good Friday Earthquake, with a magnitude of 9.2, strikes Alaska, killing 125 people and inflicting massive damage to the city of Anchorage, Alaska |
| 1964 - Mar - :Radio Caroline becomes England's first pirate radio station from a ship anchored just outside UK territorial waters |
| 1964 - Mar - :The military, backed by the USA, overthrow Brazilian President João Goulart in a coup, starting 21 years of dictatorship in Brazil |
| 1964 - Apr - :The Beatles hold the top 5 positions in the Billboard Top 40 singles in America, an unprecedented achievement. |
| 1964 - Apr - :Jigme Dorfi, Premier of the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, is shot dead by an unidentified assassin in Puncholing, near the Indian border |
| 1964 - Apr - :Gemini 1 is launched on the first unmanned test of the 2-man spacecraft |
| 1964 - Apr - :From Russia With Love is shown in U.S. movie theatres |
| 1964 - Apr - :The UN Security Council adopts by a 9-0 vote a resolution deploring a UK air attack on a fort in Yemen 12 days earlier, in which 25 persons were killed |
| 1964 - Apr - :The Brazilian Congress elects Field Marshal Humberto de Alencar Castello Branco as President of Brazil |
| 1964 - Apr - :In Detroit, Michigan, Malcolm X delivers a speech entitled "The Ballot or the Bullet." |
| 1964 - Apr - :The 36th Academy Awards ceremony takes place in Los Angeles, California |
| 1964 - Apr - :The Rolling Stones release their debut album, The Rolling Stones |
| 1964 - Apr - :Sentences totalling 307 years are passed on 12 Great Train Robbers |
| 1964 - Apr - :Shea Stadium opens in Flushing, New York |
| 1964 - Apr - :In Laos, the coalition government of Prince Souvanna Phouma is deposed by a right-wing military group, led by Brig. Gen. Kouprasith Abhay |
| 1964 - Apr - :U.S. President Lyndon Johnson in New York, and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev in Moscow, announce plans to cut back production of nuclear weapons |
| 1964 - Apr - :Nelson Mandela makes his "I Am Prepared to Die" speech at the opening of the Rivonia Trial, a classic of the anti-apartheid movement |
| 1964 - Apr - :BBC2 starts broadcasting in the UK |
| 1964 - Apr - :British businessman Greville Wynne, imprisoned in Moscow since 1963 for alleged spying, is exchanged for Soviet spy Gordon Lonsdale |
| 1964 - Apr - :Thieves steal the head of the Little Mermaid statue in Copenhagen, Denmark (Henrik Bruun confesses in 1997) |
| 1964 - Apr - :Tanganyika and Zanzibar merge to form Tanzania |
| 1964 - May - :At 4:00 a.m., John George Kemeny and Thomas Eugene Kurtz run the first program written in BASIC (Beginners' All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code). |
| 1964 - May - :Some 1,000 students march through Times Square, New York and another 700 in San Francisco, in the first student demonstration against the Vietnam War. |
| 1964 - May - :Henry Hezekiah Dee and Charles Eddie Moore, hitchhiking in Meadville, Mississippi, are kidnapped and beaten by members of the Ku Klux Klan. |
| 1964 - May - :Pacific Air Lines Flight 773 crashes near San Ramon, California, killing all 44 aboard - the pilot and co-pilot had been shot by a suicidal passenger |
| 1964 - May - :West Ham won The FA cup |
| 1964 - May - :Terence Conran opens the first Habitat store on London's Fulham Road |
| 1964 - May - :Mrs. Madeline Dassault, 63, is kidnapped while lparking in front of her Paris home; she is found unharmed the next day in a farmhouse 27 miles from Paris |
| 1964 - May - :Pablo Picasso paints his fourth 'Head of a Bearded Man' |
| 1964 - May - :The crowd at a football match in Lima, Peru riots over a referee's decision in the Peru versus Argentina game (319 dead, 500 injured) |
| 1964 - May - :Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru of India dies; he is succeeded by Lal Bahadur Shastri |
| 1964 - Jun - :Five million shares of stock in the Communications Satellite Corporation (Comsat) are offered for sale at $20 a share, and the issue is quickly sold out |
| 1964 - Jun - :South Korean President Park Chung Hee declares martial law in Seoul, after 10,000 student demonstrators overpower police |
| 1964 - Jun - :Greece rejects direct talks with Turkey over Cyprus |
| 1964 - Jun - :In Cologne, Germany, Walter Seifert attacks students and teachers in an elementary school with a flamethrower, killing 10 and injuring 21 |
| 1964 - Jun - :Nelson Mandela and 7 others are sentenced to life imprisonment in South Africa, and sent to the Robben Island prison |
| 1964 - Jun - :12-year-old Keith Bennett is abducted by Myra Hindley and Ian Brady |
| 1964 - Jun - :U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy, 32, is seriously injured in a private plane crash at Southampton, Massachusetts; the pilot is killed |
| 1964 - Jun - :Three civil rights workers are murdered near Philadelphia, Mississippi, by local segregationist law enforcement officials |
| 1964 - Jun - :Spain beats the Soviet Union 2-1 to win the 1964 European Nations Cup |
| 1964 - Jun - :The Vatican condemns the female combined oral contraceptive pill |
| 1964 - Jun - :Moise Tshombe returns to Congo from exile in Spain |
| 1964 - Jul - :President Lyndon Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law |
| 1964 - Jul - :Malawi declares its independence from the United Kingdom |
| 1964 - Jul - :U.S. military personnel announce that U.S. casualties in Vietnam have risen to 1,387, including 399 dead and 17 MIA |
| 1964 - Jul - :Six days of race riots begin in Harlem |
| 1964 - Jul - :Judith Graham Pool publishes discovery of cryoprecipitate, a substance that extended the lives of hemophiliacs around the world |
| 1964 - Jul - :At a rally in Saigon, South Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Khanh calls for expanding the war into North Vietnam |
| 1964 - Jul - :Viet Cong forces attack a provincial capital, killing 11 South Vietnamese military personnel and 40 civilians (30 of which are children) |
| 1964 - Jul - :Race riots begin in Singapore between ethnic Chinese and Malays |
| 1964 - Jul - :The U.S. sends 5,000 more military advisers to South Vietnam, bringing the total number of United States forces in Vietnam to 21,000 |
| 1964 - Jul - :Ranger 7 sends back the first close-up photographs of the moon (images are 1,000 times clearer than anything ever seen from Earth-bound telescopes) |
| 1964 - Aug - :The Final Looney Tune, "Senorella and the Glass Huarache", is released before the Warner Bros. Cartoon Division is shut down by Jack Warner |
| 1964 - Aug - :American civil rights movement: The bodies of murdered civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney are found |
| 1964 - Aug - :United States destroyers USS Maddox and USS C. Turner Joy are attacked in the Gulf of Tonkin. |
| 1964 - Aug - :Operation Pierce Arrow - Aircraft from carriers USS Ticonderoga and USS Constellation bomb North Vietnam in retaliation for strikes against U.S. destroyers. |
| 1964 - Aug - :The Simba rebel army in Congo captures Stanleyville, and takes 1,000 Western hostages |
| 1964 - Aug - :The United States Congress passes the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, giving U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson broad war powers in Vietnam |
| 1964 - Aug - :A Rolling Stones gig in Scheveningen gets out of control. Riot police end the gig after about 15 minutes, upon which spectators start to fight the riot police |
| 1964 - Aug - :Murderers Gwynne Owen Evans and Peter Anthony Allen become the last people to be executed in the United Kingdom |
| 1964 - Aug - :In a coup, General Nguyen Khanh replaces Duong Van Minh as South Vietnam's chief of state. |
| 1964 - Aug - :Walt Disney's Mary Poppins has its world premiere in Los Angeles. |
| 1964 - Sep - :Indian Hungry generation poets arrested on charges of conspiracy against the State and Obscenity in literature |
| 1964 - Sep - :The Forth Road Bridge opens over the Firth of Forth |
| 1964 - Sep - :The London Daily Herald ceases publication, replaced by The Sun |
| 1964 - Sep - :The James Bond classic, Goldfinger is released in UK cinemas |
| 1964 - Sep - :The island of Malta obtains independence from the United Kingdom |
| 1964 - Sep - :The Warren Commission Report concludes that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in the killing of Kennedy. |
| 1964 - Sep - :Mozambican War of Independence launched by The Liberation Front of Mozambique (FRELIMO) |
| 1964 - Oct - :Inauguration of the Shinkansen, high-speed rail system in Japan, for the first sector between Tokyo and Osaka |
| 1964 - Oct - :The Kinks release their first album, The Kinks |
| 1964 - Oct - :Twenty-three men and thirty-one women escape to West Berlin through a narrow tunnel under the Berlin Wall |
| 1964 - Oct - :The 1964 Summer Olympics begin in Tokyo |
| 1964 - Oct - :The Soviet Union launches Voskhod 1 into Earth orbit as the first spacecraft with a multi-person crew and the first flight without space suits. |
| 1964 - Oct - :American civil rights movement leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. becomes the youngest recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. |
| 1964 - Oct - :Nikita Khrushchev is deposed as leader of the Soviet Union; Leonid Brezhnev and Alexei Kosygin assume power |
| 1964 - Oct - :The Labour Party under Harold Wilson win the parliamentary elections in the United Kingdom, ending 13 years of Conservative Party rule |
| 1964 - Oct - :The People's Republic of China explodes an atomic bomb in Sinkiang |
| 1964 - Oct - :Former United States President Herbert Hoover dies in New York City |
| 1964 - Oct - :The film version of the hit Broadway stage musical My Fair Lady premieres in New York City. |
| 1964 - Oct - :A Federal Multi-Party Parliamentary Committee selects a design to become the new official Flag of Canada |
| 1964 - Oct - :Northern Rhodesia, a former British protectorate, becomes the independent Republic of Zambia, ending 73 years of British rule |
| 1964 - Oct - :Eric Edgar Cooke becomes the last man executed in Western Australia. |
| 1964 - Oct - :In Congo, rebel leader Christopher Gbenye takes 60 Americans and 800 Belgians hostage |
| 1964 - Oct - :A collection of irreplaceable gemstones, including the 565 carat (113 g) Star of India, is stolen from the American Museum of Natural History in New York City |
| 1964 - Nov - :Mortar fire from North Vietnamese forces kills 4 U.S. servicemen, wounding 72, and destroying 5 B-57 jet bombers and other planes |
| 1964 - Nov - :U.S. presidential election, 1964: Incumbent U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson defeats challenger Barry Goldwater with over 60 percent of the popular vote |
| 1964 - Nov - :The Bolivian government of President Victor Paz Estenssoro is overthrown by a military rebellion led by General Alfredo Ovando Candía. |
| 1964 - Nov - :Mariner 3, a U.S. space probe intended for Mars, is launched from Cape Kennedy but fails |
| 1964 - Nov - :The House of Commons votes to abolish the death penalty for murder in Britain |
| 1964 - Nov - :Australia partially reintroduces compulsory military service due to the Indonesian Confrontation |
| 1964 - Nov - :The Verrazano Narrows Bridge opens to traffic (the world's longest suspension bridge at this time) |
| 1964 - Nov - :Belgian paratroopers and mercenaries capture Stanleyville. |
| 1964 - Nov - :NASA launches the Mariner 4 space probe from Cape Kennedy toward Mars to take television pictures of that planet in July 1965 |
| 1964 - Nov - :United States National Security Council members, agree to recommend a plan for a two-stage escalation of bombing in North Vietnam |
| 1964 - Dec - :Gustavo Díaz Ordaz takes office as President of Mexico |
| 1964 - Dec - :Police arrest over 800 students at the University of California, Berkeley after the decision to forbid Vietnam War protests on U.C. property |
| 1964 - Dec - :Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway |
| 1964 - Dec - :Che Guevara addresses the UN General Assembly |
| 1964 - Dec - :The James Bond film Goldfinger begins its run in U.S. movie theatres. It will become one of the most successful and popular Bond films ever made |
| 1964 - Dec - :Comedian Lenny Bruce is sentenced to four months in prison, concluding a six-month obscenity trial |
| 1964 - Dec - :Wonderful Radio London commences transmissions with American top 40 format broadcasting, from a ship anchored off the south coast of England |
| 1964 - Dec - :10-year-old Lesley Ann Downey is abducted by Myra Hindley and Ian Brady |
