1964

Decades: 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s - 1960s - 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s?

Years: 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 - 1964 - 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969

Births

• January 7 - Nicolas Cage, actor
• July 24 - Barry Bonds, baseball player
• November 11 - Calista Flockhart (actress: Ally McBeal)

Deaths

• October 15 - [Cole Porter]?, American composer
• Gerrit Rietveld, Dutch architect

Events

• February 11 - The Beatles have their 1st live appearance in US in the Washington DC Coliseum.
• February 11 - Greeks & Turks begin fighting in Limassol?, Cyprus.
• February 11 - Taiwan drops diplomatic relations with France.
• April 7 - IBM announces the System/360.
• Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan.

Technology

• [John George Kemeny]? and [Thomas Eugene Kurtz]? create BASIC (Beginners' All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code), an easy to learn, high level computer language that has popped up on just about every computer and even games console out there

Nobel Prizes

• Physics - [Charles Hard Townes]?, [Nicolay Gennadiyevich Basov]?, [Aleksandr Mikhailovich Prokhorov]?
• Chemistry - [Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin]?
• Medicine - Konrad Bloch, [Feodor Lynen]?
• Literature - Jean-Paul Sartre
• Peace - Martin Luther King Jr