What Happened On The Year You Were Born?

[super jumbe]

For me it was the year Our Lady Diana was born.

Parents told me UK had the happiest that day.

[barrowmanandrew]

exocorsist on at the pictures and pink floyd dark side of the moon in the charts....

not a bad year...

[Canker_Canison]

exocorsist on at the pictures and pink floyd dark side of the moon in the charts....

not a bad year...

The best selling book was by Richard Bach, but they don't tell you that Richard Bach is really Stephen King.

[Shady]

January 3rd Apple was incorporated
January 6th EMI sacks The Sex Pistols
January 19th Snow falls in Miami Florida


February 18th 2000AD launches

March 27th, 2 planes collide in Tenerife killing 583 people


April 8th The Clashs debut album is released
April 22nd Optical fibre used to carry telephone traffic

May 3rd HMS Invincible is launched
May 25th Star Wars opens

June 6th-9th Queens Jubilee celebrations are held across uk

July 13th, New York loses power for 25 hours

August 10 Son of Sam David Berkowitz is caught
August 16th Elvis dies

September 3rd, Commodore Pet launched
September 8th Interpol issues a resolution against the piracy of video tapes and other material, which is still cited in warnings on opening pre-credits of videocassettes and DVDs today.
September 16th Marc Bolan dies

October 14th Atari 2600 released
October 28th Never mind the bollo**s heres the sex pistols released

November 22nd flights between London and New York start on Concorde
TCP/IP test succeeds connecting 3 ARPANET nodes (of 111), in what eventually becomes the Internet protoco

December 1st Nickeloden tv channel launches as the The Pinwheel Network

[lagerland]

1964 as the war in Vietnam and US Congress Authorizes war against N Vietnam more American servicemen were dying, and after three civil rights workers were murdered in Mississippi the president signed the Civil Rights act of 1964 but this did not stop the violence as it continued to increase in many American Cities. Lyndon Johnson was also returned to power after a landslide victory. This was also the year The Beatles took the world and America by storm and Beatlemania went into overdrive as they released a series of number one hits including "I want to hold your hand" , "All my Loving" . Other British groups also found success including The Rolling Stones and The Animals and together with the American Talent of The Supremes and Bob Dylan many say this was one of the greatest years for music in the last century. Also one young loud talented boxer by the name of Cassius Clay won the Boxing World heavyweight championship from Sonny Liston.




Cost of Living 1964

How Much things cost in 1964
Yearly Inflation Rate USA 1.28%
Yearly Inflation Rate UK 3.5%
Year End Close Dow Jones Industrial Average 874
Average Cost of new house $13,050.00
Average Income per year $6,000.00
Gas per Gallon 30 cents
Average Cost of a new car $3,500.00
Loaf of bread 21 cents
United States Postage Stamp 5 cents
Average Monthly Rent $115.00
Ticket to the movies $1.25
Below are some Prices for UK guides in Pounds Sterling

Average House Price 3,360




What Events Happened in 1964

UK

• The abolition of the death penalty in UK

Vietnam

• Three North Vietnamese torpedo boats attack the US Destroyer Maddox in the Gulf of Tonkin</STRONG>

U.S.

• US Congress Authorizes war against N Vietnam Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

U.S.

• President Lyndon Johnson declares a War On Poverty Campaign.

U.S.

• Warren Commission report on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy concludes Lee Harvey Oswald had acted alone

U.S.

• Students storm the administration building and stage sit in at the University of California 800 are arrested.

U.S.

• James H. Meredith, an African American and a former serviceman in the U.S. Air Force begins his degree at the white only University of Mississippi in Oxford, Mississippi.

Malta

• Malta gains independence from the UK

U.S.

• Cassius Clay Beats Sonny Liston on February 25thfor World Heavyweight championship

U.S.

• The Boston Strangler is captured

Egypt

• Work Begins on The Aswan Dam by diverting the Nile to a manmade canal.

UK

• The British and French Governments announce commitment to build a tunnel under the English Channel

Scotland

• The Queen opens the Forth Road Suspension Bridge connecting Edinburgh to Fife

U.S.

• The first Ford Mustang from Ford Motor Company is made.

U.S.

• Verrazano Narrows Bridge is opened joining Staten Island and Brooklyn

U.S.

• The 24th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States is Ratified which removed the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax or other types of tax. Available as a downloadable image on our Public Domain Images Page

U.S.

• Washington D.C. residents are able to vote in a presidential election for the first time.

U.S.

• The most powerful earthquake in U.S. history at a magnitude of 9.2, strikes South Central Alaska

U.S.

• Race Riots in Harlem New York, Elizabeth, NJ, Paterson, NJ, Jersey City, NJ, Rochester, New York, Dixmoor, Chicago, Ill, Philadelphia,

U.S.

• The Poll Tax becomes illegal in all US states as it been used as a blunt tool for barring poverty-stricken African-Americans and whites from participating in the electoral process.

UK

• The so called BRAIN DRAIN of UK Scientists from UK to USA

UK

• Easter and Whitsun outbreak of Mods and Rockers on 18th MayFights and disturbances on British Seaside Resorts

South Africa

• Nelson Mandela and seven others are sentenced to life imprisonment in South Africa

South Africa

• South Africa are barred from the Olympic Games in Tokyo due to their Apartheid Policies

U.S.

• Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr receives the Nobel Peace Prize,

Palestine

• The PLO Palestinian Liberation Organisation is established with Yasser Arafat as the head

UK

• The UK Interest Rate is Raised to 7%

UK

• UK Report expects population to explode over next 20 years and plans for 3 new towns including Milton Keynes

U.S.

• Three civil rights field workers disappear after investigating the burning of an African American church by the Ku Klux Klan.

U.S.

• The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is signed into law by President Johnson.

U.S.

• James Hoffa is found guilty and sentenced to eight years on bribery charges

U.S.

• World's Fair held in New York

U.S.

• U.S. Surgeon General reports that smoking may lead to lung cancer

U.S.

• Star Of India sapphire stolen from American Museum of Natural History in New York

Cyprus

• Civil War breaks out in Cyprus between Greeks and Turks

• Tanzania Gains Independence From Great Britain and combines the former Tanganika and the Island of Zanzibar

Malawi

• Malawi Gains Independence From Great Britain

Peru

• A riot during a soccer match between Peru and Argentina ends with the loss of 300 fans dead.

UK

• Great Train Robbers get 30 years each

Malta

• Malta Gains Independence From Great Britain

Brazil

• A military coup d'?tat in Brazil led by Gen. Humberto Castello Branco

U.S.

• Jack Ruby is convicted of the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald, the alleged assassin of President Kennedy

Japan

• The Summer Olympics are held in Tokyo, Japan

Austria

• The Winter Olympic Games are held in Innsbruck, Austria
  

[digitalfan]

LOL,nothing happened

[bobwill]

The dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four is published,the following was invented The Pocket Calculator. The Transistor. The Polaroid Camera. O J Simpson and Stephen King was born

[fireblade1]

Dunno wah happend when i was born will have a think and get back to yous

fireblade

[johnboy1974]

1971 a sad year for music, we lost hendrix, joplin and morrisson.

[Lainie]

1966 - think some team a lot of your guys support won some big cup!!!

[johnboy1974]

1966 - think some team a lot of your guy support won some big cup!!!

Lainie please dont get them started again.

[happy_highlander]

The best selling book was by Richard Bach, but they don't tell you that Richard Bach is really Stephen King.

So is dean *****z try again *****z maybe this time c o o n t z

[MrFug]

The best selling book was by Richard Bach, but they don't tell you that Richard Bach is really Stephen King.

You had me confused there for a while, canker, since I was certain Richard Bach was a real author - and he is - Richard Bachman was a pseudonym used by Stephen King.

[Canker_Canison]

My mistake, but I was close.

~~~~in' confusing, I have books by King, Bach & Bachman.

[fireblade1]

in 1987 Supernova is observed, the first "naked-eye" supernova since 1604.


fireblade.