January 13 » Émile Zola's J'accuse…! exposes the Dreyfus affair.
February 27 » King George I of Greece survives an assassination attempt.
June 27 » The first solo circumnavigation of the globe is completed by Joshua Slocum from Briar Island, Nova Scotia.
August 12 » The Hawaiian flag is lowered from ʻIolani Palace in an elaborate annexation ceremony and replaced with the flag of the United States to signify the transfer of sovereignty from the Republic of Hawaii to the United States.
August 24 » Count Muravyov, Foreign Minister of Russia presents a rescript that convoked the First Hague Peace Conference.
September 10 » Empress Elisabeth of Austria is assassinated by Luigi Lucheni.
Day of death February 22, 1964
The temperature on February 22, 1964 was between -7.1 °C and 3.2 °C and averaged -1.1 °C. There was 5.8 hours of sunshine (56%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. Source: KNMI
February 27 » The Government of Italy asks for help to keep the Leaning Tower of Pisa from toppling over.
August 27 » South Vietnamese junta leader Nguyễn Khánh enters into a triumvirate power-sharing arrangement with rival generals Trần Thiện Khiêm and Dương Văn Minh, who had both been involved in plots to unseat Khánh.
August 28 » The Philadelphia race riot begins.
November 21 » Second Vatican Council: The third session of the Roman Catholic Church's ecumenical council closes.
November 28 » Vietnam War: National Security Council members agree to recommend that U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson adopt a plan for a two-stage escalation of bombing in North Vietnam.
December 11 » Che Guevara speaks at the United Nations General Assembly in New York City.
Day of burial February 25, 1964
The temperature on February 25, 1964 was between 6.8 °C and 15.1 °C and averaged 10.1 °C. There was 1.5 hours of sunshine (14%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
April 21 » A Transit-5bn satellite fails to reach orbit after launch; as it re-enters the atmosphere, 2.1 pounds (0.95kg) of radioactive plutonium in its SNAP RTG power source is widely dispersed.
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.
June 19 » The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is approved after surviving an 83-day filibuster in the United States Senate.
July 31 » Ranger program: Ranger 7 sends back the first close-up photographs of the moon, with images 1,000 times clearer than anything ever seen from earth-bound telescopes.
August 1 » The former Belgian Congo is renamed the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
August 12 » South Africa is banned from the Olympic Games due to the country's racist policies.
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