January 28 » Walter Arnold of East Peckham, Kent, becomes the first person to be convicted of speeding. He was fined one shilling, plus costs, for speeding at 8mph (13km/h), thereby exceeding the contemporary speed limit of 2mph (3.2km/h).
February 21 » An Englishman raised in Australia, Bob Fitzsimmons, fought an Irishman, Peter Maher, in an American promoted event which technically took place in Mexico, winning the 1896 World Heavyweight Championship in boxing.
May 18 » Khodynka Tragedy: A mass panic on Khodynka Field in Moscow during the festivities of the coronation of Russian Tsar Nicholas II results in the deaths of 1,389 people.
August 27 » Anglo-Zanzibar War: The shortest war in world history (09:02 to 09:40), between the United Kingdom and Zanzibar.
November 1 » A picture showing the bare breasts of a woman appears in National Geographic magazine for the first time.
December 10 » Alfred Jarry's Ubu Roi premieres in Paris. A riot breaks out at the end of the performance.
Day of death March 14, 1964
The temperature on March 14, 1964 was between 1.8 °C and 6.6 °C and averaged 3.8 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 2.0 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
March 14 » Jack Ruby is convicted of killing Lee Harvey Oswald, the assumed assassin of John F. Kennedy.
April 7 » IBM announces the System/360.
June 21 » Three civil rights workers, Andrew Goodman, James Chaney and Michael Schwerner, are murdered in Neshoba County, Mississippi, United States, by members of the Ku Klux Klan.
September 13 » Martin Luther King Jr. addresses a crowd of 20,000 West Berliners on Sunday, in Waldbühne.
October 12 » The Soviet Union launches the Voskhod 1 into Earth orbit as the first spacecraft with a multi-person crew, and the first flight without pressure suits.
November 21 » The Verrazano-Narrows Bridge opens to traffic. At the time it is the world's longest bridge span.
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