January 1 » The first American college football bowl game, the Rose Bowl between Michigan and Stanford, is held in Pasadena, California.
January 30 » The first Anglo-Japanese Alliance is signed in London.
May 8 » In Martinique, Mount Pelée erupts, destroying the town of Saint-Pierre and killing over 30,000 people. Only a handful of residents survive the blast.
June 24 » King Edward VII of the United Kingdom develops appendicitis, delaying his coronation.
July 17 » Willis Carrier creates the first air conditioner in Buffalo, New York.
August 22 » Cadillac Motor Company is founded.
Day of death November 20, 1964
The temperature on November 20, 1964 was between 9.0 °C and 11.3 °C and averaged 10.0 °C. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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".
March 14 » Jack Ruby is convicted of killing Lee Harvey Oswald, the assumed assassin of John F. Kennedy.
May 2 » First ascent of Shishapangma, the fourteenth highest mountain in the world and the lowest of the Eight-thousanders.
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.
October 14 » Martin Luther King Jr. received the Nobel Peace Prize for combating racial inequality through nonviolence.
December 1 » Vietnam War: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson and his top-ranking advisers meet to discuss plans to bomb North Vietnam.
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