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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.
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.

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 * 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]].
+* 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.