1964
Centuries: Year in Review 20th Century (19th century - 20th century - 21st century)
Decades: 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s - 1960s - 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s
Years: 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 - 1964 - 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969
Births
- January 7 - Nicolas Cage, actor
- July 24 - Barry Bonds, baseball player
- November 11 - Calista Flockhart (actress: Ally McBeal)
Deaths
- June 25 - Gerrit Rietveld, Dutch architect
- October 15 - Cole Porter, American composer
Events
- February 11 - The Beatles have their 1st live appearance in US in the Washington DC Coliseum.
- February 11 - Greeks & Turks begin fighting in Limassol, Cyprus.
- February 11 - Taiwan drops diplomatic relations with France.
- April 7 - IBM announces the System/360.
- Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan.
- September 14 - Opening of third period of Second Vatican Council
- November 21 - Closing of third period of Second Vatican Council
Technology
- John George Kemeny and Thomas Eugene Kurtz create BASIC (Beginners' All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code), an easy to learn, high level computer language that has popped up on just about every computer and even games console out there
- First Moog synthesizer designed by Robert Moog