Editing 1964

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== Events ==
* January 2 to March 28 - The [[1964 East Pakistan riots]] take place.
* March 14 - [[Jack Ruby]] is found guilty of [[murder]]ing [[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 [[Freedom Summer murders|abducted]] and [[murder]]ed 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 ==
=== Villain births ===
* 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 and Gertrude Mukangango|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]]
* November 17 - [[Moses Sithole]]

=== Victim births ===
* 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 ==

=== Villain deaths ===
* June 11 - [[Plaek Phibunsongkhram]]
* September 27 - [[Adib Shishakli]]
* October 21 - [[Margaret Gibson]]
* November 12 - [[Heinz Jost]]

=== Victim deaths ===
* 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