1964

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Events edit

January 2 to March 28 - The 1964 East Pakistan riots take place.
March 14 - Jack Ruby is found guilty of murdering Lee Harvey Oswald and is sentenced to death.
May 2 - An explosion caused by Viet Cong commandos causes the escort carrier USS Card to sink in the port of Saigon, resulting in 5 civilian deaths.
June 3 - South Korean President Park Chung-hee declares martial law in Seoul, after 10,000 student demonstrators overpower police.
June 21 - Civil Rights activists James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner are abducted and murdered in Neshoba County, Mississippi by members of the Ku Klux Klan.
July 4 - Beginning of the Rhodesian Bush War.
July 10 - Joe Gaetjens (Haitian soccer player known for playing for the United States national team in the 1950 FIFA World Cup and scoring a goal against England) is kidnapped, tortured and probably murdered by François Duvalier's secret police.
August 2 - The 1964 Gulf of Tonkin incident takes place.
August 7 - The United States Congress passes the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, formally entering the Vietnam War.
August 11 - Spanish dictator Francisco Franco survives an assassination attempt in Madrid by Scottish anarchist Stuart Christie.
October 14 - Leonid Brezhnev is named General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, after Nikita Khrushchev is removed from power.
December 1 - Gustavo Díaz Ordaz of the Institutional Revolutionary Party is elected President of Mexico.
December 24 - The Brinks Hotel in Saigon, Vietnam is bombed by the Viet Cong, resulting in the deaths of two US soldiers and injuries to a further 60 people, including civilians.
Unknown - FARC is founded.

Births edit

Villain births edit

January 2 - Doug Mastriano
January 13 - Michael Charles Hayes
February 1 - Idelphonse Hategekimana
February 10 - Mir Aimal Kansi
March 7 - Mikhail Popkov
April 13 - Dokka Umarov
June 7 - Judith Neelley
June 18 - Uday Hussein
June 22 - Maria Kisito
June 28 - Tommy Lynn Sells
July 2 - Andrea Yates
August 25 - Azmin Ali
August 27 - Paul Bernardo
September 15 - Byron Looper
September 24 - Kadie Karen Diekmeyer
October 2 - Sam Bockarie
October 26 - Marc Lepine
October 29 - Donna Hylton
November 10 - Patrick Purdy & Gao Chengyong
November 17 - Moses Sithole

Victim births edit

January 12 - Graham Berkeley (9/11 Victim)
March 17 - Jacqueline "Jackie" Gilliam
April 21 - Anna Brandt
May 17 - Nancy Benoit
June 2 - Lisa Ann French
July 21 - Ron Helus
August 14 - Lesley Molseed
August 24 - Susan Smith
September 7 - Kenneth Vandever
September 27 - Francine Trimble
September 30 - Michael Logan
October 1 - Katherine Hayes and Carolyn Eaton
October 18 - Sandra Lee Long
December 28 - Blair Adams
Unknown - Christian Adams (9/11 Victim)

Deaths edit

Villain deaths edit

June 11 - Plaek Phibunsongkhram
September 27 - Adib Shishakli
October 21 - Margaret Gibson
November 12 - Heinz Jost

Victim deaths edit

January - Hannah Tailford
March 13 - Kitty Genovese
April 7 - Irene Lockwood
April 22 - Helen Barthelemy
June 21 - James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner
July 10 - Joe Gaetjens
July 11 - Maria Fleming
October 23 - Frances Brown
December 11 - Sam Cooke