January 12 » The National Trust is founded in the United Kingdom.
March 22 » Before the Société pour L'Encouragement à l'Industrie, brothers Auguste and Louis Lumière demonstrate movie film technology publicly for the first time.
April 24 » Joshua Slocum, the first person to sail single-handedly around the world, sets sail from Boston, Massachusetts aboard the sloop "Spray".
June 28 » The United States Court of Private Land Claims rules James Reavis’s claim to Barony of Arizona is "wholly fictitious and fraudulent."
October 8 » Korean Empress Myeongseong is assassinated by Japanese infiltrators.
November 5 » George B. Selden is granted the first U.S. patent for an automobile.
Day of death May 1, 1964
The temperature on May 1, 1964 was between 7.2 °C and 12.3 °C and averaged 9.0 °C. There was 2.8 mm of rain during 2.6 hours. There was 2.8 hours of sunshine (19%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
February 1 » The Beatles have their first number one hit in the United States with "I Want to Hold Your Hand".
April 11 » Brazilian Marshal Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco is elected President by the National Congress.
June 11 » World War II veteran Walter Seifert attacks an elementary school in Cologne, Germany, killing at least eight children and two teachers and seriously injuring several more with a home-made flamethrower and a lance.
August 7 » Vietnam War: The U.S. Congress passes the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution giving U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson broad war powers to deal with North Vietnamese attacks on American forces.
September 25 » The Mozambican War of Independence against Portugal begins.
October 14 » Martin Luther King Jr. received the Nobel Peace Prize for combating racial inequality through nonviolence.
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