May 1964
The following events occurred in May 1964:
May 1, 1964 (Friday)
May 2, 1964 (Saturday)
- Some 400–1,000 students march through Times Square, New York, and another 700 through San Francisco, in the first major student demonstration against the Vietnam War. Smaller marches also occur in Boston, Seattle, and Madison, Wisconsin.
- West Ham United win the FA Cup for the first time in their history, beating Preston North End 3-2 at Wembley Stadium.
- Queen Elizabeth II and The Duke of Edinburgh's seven-week-old son is christened Edward Antony Richard Louis – today he is The Earl of Wessex.[1]
- Senator Barry Goldwater receives more than 75% of the vote in the Texas Republican Presidential primary.
- A North Vietnamese frogman sinks the U.S. Navy aviation transport USNS Card (T-AKV-40) - formerly the escort aircraft carrier USS Card (CVE-11) - pierside while she unloads helicopters at Saigon, South Vietnam.[2] The ship is soon refloated and repaired.
- Died: Henry Hezekiah Dee and Charles Eddie Moore, hitchhiking in Meadville, Mississippi, are kidnapped and beaten by members of the Ku Klux Klan. Their badly decomposed bodies are found by chance two months later in July, during the search for three civil rights workers – Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner.
May 3, 1964 (Sunday)
- At the conclusion of the Lebanese general election, Independent candidates are found to have won the majority of seats, on a voter turnout of 53.0%.[3]
May 4, 1964 (Monday)
May 5, 1964 (Tuesday)
May 6, 1964 (Wednesday)
May 7, 1964 (Thursday)
- Pacific Air Lines Flight 773 crashes near San Ramon, California, killing all 44 aboard; the FBI later reports that a cockpit recorder tape indicates that the pilot and co-pilot had been shot by a suicidal passenger. Francisco Paula Gonzales shot both the pilot and co-pilot before turning the gun on himself. The crash is believed to be the first instance in the United States of an airliner's pilots being shot by a passenger as part of a mass murder/suicide.
- At a mail rockets demonstration by Gerhard Zucker on Hasselkopf Mountain near Braunlage (Lower Saxonia, Germany), 3 people are killed by a rocket explosion.
May 8, 1964 (Friday)
May 9, 1964 (Saturday)
- South Korean President Chung Hee Park reshuffles his Cabinet, after a series of student demonstrations against his efforts to restore diplomatic and trade relations with Japan.
- The steam engine GWR 4073 Class 7029 Clun Castleruns between Plymouth to Bristol Temple Meads non-stop in a record time of 133 minutes and 9 seconds. Restricted to 80 mph down Whiteball bank near Wellington, it could have improved on the time.[5]
May 10, 1964 (Sunday)
May 11, 1964 (Monday)
May 12, 1964 (Tuesday)
- Twelve young men in New York City publicly burn their draft cards to protest against the Vietnam War, the first public act of resistance in the history of this particular war.[6][7]
May 13, 1964 (Wednesday)
May 14, 1964 (Thursday)
May 15, 1964 (Friday)
May 16, 1964 (Saturday)
May 17, 1964 (Sunday)
May 18, 1964 (Monday)
- Litunga Mwanawina III, King of Barotseland, and Kenneth Kaunda, Prime Minister of Northern Rhodesia, sign the Barotseland Agreement establishing Barotseland's position within Zambia in place of the earlier agreement between Barotseland and the British Government.
- US radio station WBEM goes on air for the first time.
- Died: Hereward Kesteven, 83, Australian medical scientist
May 19, 1964 (Tuesday)
May 20, 1964 (Wednesday)
May 21, 1964 (Thursday)
May 22, 1964 (Friday)
May 23, 1964 (Saturday)
- Mrs. Madeline Dassault, 63, wife of a French plane manufacturer and politician, is kidnapped while getting out of her car in front of her Paris home; she is found unharmed the next day in a farmhouse 27 miles (43 km) from Paris.
- Pablo Picasso paints his fourth Head of a Bearded Man.
May 24, 1964 (Sunday)
May 25, 1964 (Monday)
May 26, 1964 (Tuesday)
May 27, 1964 (Wednesday)
May 28, 1964 (Thursday)
May 29, 1964 (Friday)
May 30, 1964 (Saturday)
May 31, 1964 (Sunday)
References
- ↑ "Announcement of the christening of Lady Louise Windsor". The British Monarchy. 8 April 2004. Retrieved 2010-10-05.
- ↑ Chinnery, Philip D., Vietnam: The Helicopter War, Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1991, ISBN 978-1-55750-875-1, p. 35.
- ↑ Nohlen, D, Grotz, F & Hartmann, C (2001) Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume I, p184 ISBN 0-19-924958-X
- ↑ Banham, Martin (1995). The Cambridge Guide to Theatre. Cambridge University Press. p. 827. ISBN 0-521-43437-8.
- ↑ Cadge, Richard (general ed.) (1985). Portrait of a record-breaker: the story of GWR No. 7029 "Clun Castle". Birmingham Railway Museum.
- ↑ Flynn, George Q. (1993). The Draft, 1940–1973. Modern war studies. University Press of Kansas. p. 175. ISBN 0-7006-0586-X.
- ↑ Gottlieb, Sherry Gershon (1991). Hell no, we won't go!: resisting the draft during the Vietnam War. Viking. p. xix. ISBN 0-670-83935-3.
1964: May 12—Twelve students at a New York rally burn their draft cards...
- ↑ Tucker, Spencer C. (2000). Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War. Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO. pp. 526–533. ISBN 1-57607-040-9.
- ↑ Polmar, Norman, "Historic Aircraft: The Last Photo Plane," Naval History, October 2010, p. 64.
- ↑ "Radio Sutch & City in Pictures & Audio Part 1". Bob Le-Roi. 31 March 2010. Retrieved 2011-08-23.
- ↑ BBC ON THIS DAY | 27 | 1964: Light goes out in India as Nehru dies. BBC News. Retrieved 17 March 2011.
- ↑ Helena Cobban, The Palestinian Liberation Organisation(Cambridge University Press, 1984) p.30