1964

Events

• January 2 to March 28 - The 1964 East Pakistan riots take place.
• 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.
• 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.
• October 14 - Leonid Brezhnev is named General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, after Nikita Khrushchev is removed from power.
• Unknown - FARC is founded.

Births

Villain births

• January 13 - Michael Charles Hayes
• February 1 - Idelphonse Hategekimana
• February 10 - Mir Aimal Kansi
• 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
• October 2 - Sam Bockarie
• October 26 - Marc Lepine
• November 10 - Patrick Purdy

Victim births

• May 17 - Nancy Benoit
• October 18 - Sandra Lee Long

Deaths

Villain deaths

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

Victim deaths

• March 13 - Kitty Genovese
• June 21 - James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner
• December 11 - Sam Cooke