America - 1964AD
In 1964AD:
Johnson was re-eelected as U.S. president; Humphrey became vice-president (1965).
The Warren Commission decided that Oswald was the sole assassin of John F. Kennedy.
The U.S. Surgeon General reported that cigarette smoking is a health hazard.
The U.S. Civil Rights Act prohibited discrimination in employment.
The Verrazano-Narrows Bridge opened in New York.
An earthquake in Alaska caused extensive damage and 114 fatalities.
The American Ranger 7 spacecraft transmitted photos of the surface of the Moon.
Physicists Murray Gell-Mann and George Zweig proposed the quark theory.
Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson discovered the existence of background radiation.
The SR-71 Blackbird reconnaissance aircraft was flown for the first time.
Architect Eero Saarinen's St. Louis Arch memorial was completed.
Craig Breedlove set a land speed record of 600 mph in a jet-powered vehicle.
Muhammad Ali defeated Sonny Liston for the heavyweight boxing championship.
Comedian Lenny Bruce was convicted for giving an obscene performance.
Beatlemania developed during the first U.S. tour of the Beatles pop group.
Black female group the Supremes recorded the hit song
Where Did Our Love Go
.
Clint Eastwood starred in Sergio Leone's "spaghetti western",
A Fistful of Dollars
.
Illustrator Maurice Sendak won a Caldecott Medal for Where the Wild Things Are.
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