Field Marshal
Mohammad Ayub Khan, president of
Pakistan, visited
Kabul briefly, where he met King
Mohammad Zahir. For the first time in several years, relations between Afghanistan and Pakistan were relatively amicable following the decision of the government of Afghanistan to deal with the
Pakhtunistan dispute only through diplomatic negotiations, and to carry on normal relations with Pakistan in other respects.
In an event at the Bislett stadium in
Oslo, Norwegian athlete
Terje Pedersen broke the
Men's javelin world record.[1] Pedersen's throw of 285 feet 10 inches (87.12 m) broke the record of 284 feet 7 inches (86.74 m) set by
Carlo Lievore of Italy on June 1, 1961.[2]
Clemson Agricultural College of South Carolina adopted its current name,
Clemson University.[3]
Born:Bernard Laporte, French rugby union player and head coach of the French national team from 1999 to 2007; in
Rodez,
Aveyron[4]
U.S. President
Lyndon Johnson signed the
Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law, abolishing
racial segregation in the United States in public schools, public accommodations and travel, and in voting registration.[6] The move came hours after the U.S. House of Representatives voted 289 to 126 to approve the bill as amended by the U.S. Senate. Of the 126 against, 91 were Democrats (88 from the Deep South) and 35 were Republicans.
Charles L. Weltner of Georgia was the only southern Democrat to vote for the bill, saying, "We must not remain forever bound to another lost cause."[7] The law took effect at 6:45 in the evening Eastern time when President Johnson signed the bill at a White House ceremony in the East Room, commenting that "Years ago I realized a sad truth. To the extent that black people were imprisoned by racial segregation, so was I."[8]
After watching the signing of the bill on national television, two African-American men in
Jacksonville,
Florida, became the first to put the desegregation law to a test. Robert Ingraham and Prince McIntosh "went to a cafeteria where they previously had been arrested when they previously sought service" and were asked "May I help you?" by a white employee behind the counter.[9] The manager of the
Morrison's Cafeteria told a reporter, "We decided to go along and obey the law of the land. There were no incidents."[10]
The
National Labor Relations Board decertified the Independent Metal Workers Union as a collective bargaining agent for the
Hughes Tool Company (and effectively for any other companies whose employees were members of the IMWU) because of the union's policy of racial segregation and because the union "had failed to fairly represent all workers at the company and systematically discriminated against African Americans" on matters of wages and benefits.[11][12]
Born:Jose Canseco, Cuban-born American major league baseball player from 1985 to 2001 who was twice the home run leader (in 1988 and 1991), along with his twin brother, MLB player
Ozzie Canseco; in
Havana[13]
Following the successful mating of its modules,
Gemini spacecraft No. 2 began the second phase of Spacecraft Systems Tests (SST) at
McDonnell. SST continued through
September 1964. During
August and September 1964, test operations alternated with the receipt and installation of a number of flight items in the
spacecraft. Vibration testing of the spacecraft and systems was successfully conducted August 20–24. No
altitude chamber tests were performed on spacecraft No. 2 because the
Gemini 2 mission was to be uncrewed. Phase II mated SST concluded with the Simulated Flight Test September 3–15. The spacecraft acceptance review was held September 17–18, after which it was flown to
Cape Kennedy September 21.[15]
On the day after the passing of the Civil Rights Act in the United States:
Two 12-year-old African American girls in
Bogalusa, Louisiana, sat down at the lunch counter in the local
Woolworth department store, which had previously been able to limit sit-down service to white people. Despite protests by a group of white customers, the two children were served.[16]
Georgia politician
Lester Maddox, a future governor of Georgia, along with white customers carrying axe handles, forced three African-Americans out of Maddox's Pickrick restaurant in Atlanta. The
U.S. Department of Justice would join in[clarification needed] a lawsuit filed by the three men. Maddox would later be elected.[17]
The French Quarter of New Orleans quietly integrated, along with most other public accommodations in the city with "near total compliance.[18]
Fifteen of the 49 crewmen of the Spanish tanker MV Bonifaz were killed when their ship collided with the French ship MV Fabiola off
Cape Finisterre in a fog. The Bonfiaz caught fire and sank.[20] Six of her 50 crew were rescued by the West German ship MV Sloman Malaga.[21]Bonifaz was also carrying six passengers. The Dutch ship MV Setas picked up 22 crew and three passengers. Four of the crew would subsequently die of their injuries.[22]
A group of demonstrators, organized by pacifist
David Dellinger, stood outside the White House and conducted the first American public protest against U.S. involvement in the
Vietnam War.[23]
South of Atlanta,
Alabama governor
George Wallace gave a speech condemning the
Civil Rights Act, claiming that it would threaten individual liberty, free enterprise and private property rights and adding: "The liberal left-wingers have passed it. Now let them employ some pinknik social engineers in Washington, D.C., to figure out what to do with it."[26] The event, coming two days after the Civil Rights Act became law, included
Mississippi governor
Ross Barnett, and would degenerate into violence after members of the
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) began booing and were attacked by angry audience members; the negative publicity from the event was such that Wallace, who had done better than expected in northern states in the 1964 presidential primaries, would withdraw from the race on July 19.[27][28]
The
Rhodesian Bush War, which would last more than 15 years until the white minority government of
Rhodesia relinquished control of the southern African nation to the black majority, began in the first violent attack by the
Zimbabwe African National Liberation Army (ZANLA) against a white target. Petrus Oberholzer, a white farmer, was ambushed and murdered near
Umtali.[29]
The
Universal City Tour, where paying customers were driven around the
backlot of Universal Pictures movie studio in special trams, was inaugurated after a four-million-dollar renovation of the California location.[30] The tour and its concession stands were the original features of what would become the
Universal Studios Hollywood theme park.
Viet Cong guerrillas attacked an American training camp in
South Vietnam at Polei Krong, in an action apparently timed to coincide with the American 4th of July holiday.[31]
In the
1964 elections in Mexico,
Gustavo Díaz Ordaz was elected
President without significant opposition.[34][35] Diaz, of the ruling
Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) received 8,368,446 votes, or 88% of those cast, while his opponent, José González Torres of the
Partido Acción Nacional (PAN), got 1,034,337.[36] In addition, the PRI won all 64 seats in the Mexican Senate, and 175 of the 210 seats in the Chamber of Deputies. PAN won 20 seats, the Popular Socialist Party 10, and the Authentic Party got five.
For the first time in the 20th century, hotels in
Mississippi were integrated and admitted African-American guests. In the state capital at Jackson, the Heidelberg Hotel, the King Edward Hotel, and the Sun-N-Sand Motel accepted 14 members of the NAACP.[37]
The Sunday Times linked mercenaries, involved in the
North Yemen Civil War, to former RAF pilot Tony Boyle.[38]
Died: Turkish Army Colonel
Talat Aydemir, 47, was hanged after two attempted coups d'etat in 1962 and 1963. His collaborator, Fethi Gürcan, had been put to death on June 27.[39][40]
The
Battle of Nam Dong, the first in the
Vietnam War to have numerous American casualties, began at 2:26 in the morning in
South Vietnam when an 800-man contingent of the
Viet Cong began firing mortar rounds at a South Vietnamese Army (
ARVN) camp at
Nam Dong, near South Vietnam's border with Laos. The outnumbered group of 311 ARVN soldiers, along with 12 members of the
U.S. Army Special Forces (the
Green Berets) and one Australian adviser, defended the camp for ninety minutes until air support could arrive. When the battle ended by dawn, 53 South Vietnamese, two Americans and the Australian, Kevin Conway, were dead; 65 were wounded, including U.S. Army Captain
Roger Donlon, who would be awarded the
Medal of Honor for annihilating an enemy demolition team, dragging wounded men to safety, and directing the defenders despite multiple shrapnel wounds.[41]
The African nation of
Malawi, formerly the British protectorate of
Nyasaland, received its independence from the
United Kingdom one minute after midnight.[42] At
Blantyre, the national capital, Prince Philip of the United Kingdom and representatives of other 80 other nations watched the hoisting of the new red, green and black Malawian flag after the Union Jack had been lowered a minute before midnight.[43]Hastings Kamuzu Banda continued as Prime Minister, and the former Nyasaland governor, Sir
Glyn Smallwood Jones, became the first (and last) Governor-General of Malawi. In 1966, Banda would become the first President of Malawi.
Demanihi Tepa of
Tahiti was rescued alive after 155 days drifting in a boat across the South Pacific Ocean. Tepa and his friend, Natua Faioho, had set off from the island of
Maupiti on February 2 on what was supposed to be a short trip to the island of
Bora Bora, but the outboard motor had broken down. The boat drifted more than 1,400 miles (2,300 km) westward over the next five months. Two weeks after Faioho died, Tepa's boat washed ashore on the island of
Ta‘ū, part of
American Samoa.[44]
The Beatles' first feature film, A Hard Day's Night, premiered in the United Kingdom before 1200 ticketholders at the London Pavilion.[45] It would be released in the United States on August 11.[46] The
movie soundtrack would be released on July 10 in the UK.
In
Biloxi, Mississippi, U.S. District Judge Sidney Mize ordered the first integration of public schools anywhere in the state, directing the school districts in Biloxi,
Jackson and
Leake County to desegregate starting with the 1964–1965 school year.[48][49][50]
An avalanche, on
Mont Blanc in the French Alps, killed 14 mountain climbers, including former world champion slalom skier
Charles Bozon, 31.[51]
In
Haiti, that nation's secret police force, the Tonton Macoutes, arrested
Joe Gaetjens, a Haitian soccer football player who had been on the U.S. National Team in the 1950 World Cup, who was never seen in public again. Gaetjens, whose family opposed the dictatorship of
Francois Duvalier, was taken to the prison at
Fort Dimanche, tortured and, presumably, killed.[55]
A
U.S. Department of Defense spokesman announced that American casualties in Vietnam had risen to 1387 "since American forces became fully involved in the jungle war in 1961", a number broken down as "152 killed in action, 96 deaths not related to combat, 971 wounded in action, 151 non-battle injuries and 17 missing in action."[56]
In
Alabama, Circuit Judge
James Hare issued "an injunction that almost destroyed Alabama's civil rights movement", prohibiting members of organizations favoring or opposing civil rights from gathering together. Specifically named in the order were the
NAACP, the
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, the
Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the
Dallas County Voters League (in
Selma, Alabama), as well as various
Ku Klux Klan groups and the
American Nazi Party. Forty-one civil rights leaders were specifically named, including
Martin Luther King Jr. of the SCLC and
John Lewis of the SNCC. Under the order, if three or more people from the named organizations, or the specific individuals, gathered together, they would be subject to arrest and jail for contempt of court, with enforcement at the discretion of local law enforcement. "Hare's injunction was ruinous," a historian would later note. "Mass meetings and rallies disappeared in Alabama and voter applications declined to their lowest number in years."[58]Daniel H. Thomas, the federal judge whose district included Judge Hare's circuit, would delay a ruling on a motion to dismiss the injunction until 1965.
Francis Russell, a historian, announced that he had found 250 love letters that had been written by
Warren G. Harding and said that they were the first confirmation of speculation that Harding, the 29th President of the United States, had had an extramarital affair prior to taking office. The letters and postcards, written by Harding to
Carrie Fulton Phillips between 1905 and 1920, had been found in a locked closet at Mrs. Phillips' home in
Marion, Ohio, after her death in 1960. One of the last letters showed that Mrs. Phillips had demanded $5000 a year in a blackmail scheme.[59] Harding's heirs would sue to prevent the release of the letters, or their description in Russell's upcoming biography of Harding. In 1971, the suit would be settled with the provision that the letters would be presented, under seal, to the
Library of Congress, and not to be released until July 29, 2014.[60]
All 39 people on board
United Airlines Flight 823 were killed after an uncontrollable fire broke out inside the Viscount turbo-jet, which crashed two miles northeast of
Parrottsville, Tennessee.[61] The plane had originated in
Philadelphia and was on its way to a stop in
Knoxville with a final destination in
Huntsville, Alabama with 35 passengers and a crew of four.[62] The fire had originated below the passenger floor and eventually entered the passenger cabin. One passenger attempted to abandon the aircraft through an escape window prior to impact but did not survive the free-fall. The fire eventually burned through the cockpit and it was likely the crew was unconscious by that time. The exact cause of the fire remains unknown.
Ahmed bin Abdullah, the
Sultan of Fadhli on the
Gulf of Aden, was deposed by a vote of the Supreme Council of the
Federation of South Arabia for attempting to pull Fadhli out of membership in the British-protected federation. On July 11, the Federation Council would elect his brother, Nasser bin Abdullah as his successor.[63] Three years later, Britain would withdraw from the Aden region and all of the sultanates within the South Arabian Federation would be abolished.
The Parliament of France approved a reorganization of its national subdivisions to take effect in 1968, with the increase in the number of Départements of metropolitan France from 90 to 95. The two départements around
Paris and its metro area were divided, to be replaced by seven new départements over the next four years.
Seine (governed by Paris) was split into the new départements of Paris and
Seine-Saint-Denis, while
Seine-et-Oise (governed from
Versailles) was split into
Essonne,
Val-d'Oise, and
Yvelines. Parts of both the old départements were used to create
Hauts-de-Seine and
Val-de-Marne.[65]
Manager
Charles W. Mathews reported that the Gemini Program Office had been reviewing and evaluating plans for Gemini-Titan (GT) missions
4 through
7. GT-4 would be a four-day mission using battery power.
GT-5 would include
radar and a rendezvous evaluation pod for
rendezvous exercises early in the flight. The duration of this mission would be open-ended for a period of seven days, contingent upon the availability of
fuel cells.
GT-6 would be a standard rendezvous mission of perhaps two days' duration. GT-7 would be a long-duration mission with an open-ended potential of 14 days.[15]
An anti-war petition, circulated by the
National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy, and signed by more than 5000 university and college professors, was presented to the
U.S. Department of State for delivery to President Johnson, asking that the United States not enlarge its involvement in the Vietnam War and proposing international mediation to declare North Vietnam and South Vietnam neutral. "The administration was not listening," a historian would note later, and would send more than 5000 American troops before the end of the month.[66]
Despite having once led an attempt to secede from the former
Belgian Congo,
Moïse Tshombe was named as the new Congolese Prime Minister by his former enemy, President
Joseph Kasavubu, who fired Premier
Cyrille Adoula, who fled into exile. Tshombe, brought in to halt a mutiny in the Katanga region, would serve for more than a year, until President Kasavubu dismissed him on October 13, 1965.[67] Tshombe's first act was to order several thousand Katangese gendarmes to come back to the Congo in order to receive amnesty.[68]
Lemuel A. Penn, an African-American who was the Assistant Superintendent of the Washington, D.C., public schools and a Lieutenant Colonel in the
United States Army Reserve, was shot and killed while on his way back to Washington from annual training in
Fort Benning, Georgia.[70] As his car approached
Colbert, Georgia, on state highway 172, Penn was shot by two Klansmen who passed his car. The two men, Howard Sims and Cecil Myers, would be acquitted of murder by an all-white jury in spite of a signed confession. In 1966, the two killers would become the first people tried in federal court under the new
Civil Rights Act of 1964 for the crime of violating a person's civil rights. Each would serve six years in prison for the killing.[71]
Nine spectators were killed, and 14 more injured, while they were watching the 19th stage of the
Tour de France, when a police truck crashed into them.[72] The victims were standing along a bridge at the village of Port-de-Couze within the commune of
Lalinde; three of them were children. What was "the worst disaster in the 61-year-old history of the annual classic" happened in the departement of
Dordogne when the brakes failed on the truck. The driver jumped free, and the vehicle plowed into the crowd. Enraged residents attempted to lynch the driver, before he was rescued by other police officers.
Twenty-two people died, and 128 became seriously ill, when they were accidentally poisoned during a memorial service in the Greek village of Stylia, 40 miles (64 km) from the city of
Patras. The victims were attending a mnemósynon, an
orthodox memorial service for the late Grigorios Apostolopoulos, and were served koliva, a traditional food associated with the service. The widow had accidentally put a powdered insecticide on the dish of wheat and raisins while preparing it, after having mistaken it for powdered sugar.[75]
Appeals by Lennie Field and the unrelated Brian Field, implicated in the previous year's
Great Train Robbery, against the charges of conspiracy to rob were allowed by a court. Their sentences were thus effectively reduced to five years. The next day, the court allowed appeals by Roger Cordrey and Bill Boal and quashed their convictions for conspiracy to rob, leaving only the charges of receiving stolen property. Justice
Fenton Atkinson concluded that a
miscarriage of justice would result if Boal's charges were upheld, given that his age, physique and temperament made him an unlikely train robber. Cordrey would also be later deemed to be innocent of the conspiracy because his prints were not found at Leatherslade Farm.[77]
Jacques Anquetil won the
Tour de France for the fifth time, for his fourth championship in a row. Anquetil outsprinted
Raymond Poulidor on the final stage of the 2,719-mile (4,376 km) bicycle race, arriving at the
Parc des Princes Stadium in Paris after his departure from Versailles.[78] Anquetil's lead over Poulidor had narrowed to only 14 seconds by the 20th stage on Sunday, and he would win the race by only 55 seconds overall.[79]
The first ever
Operation Sail (OpSail) was held off the coast of New York in conjunction with the 1964 World's Fair, with a race between 11 Class A
tall ships, and another race with 12 Class B ships. The event would be held on five other occasions: 1976 to celebrate the American bicentennial; 1986 to commemorate the centennial of the Statue of Liberty; 1992 for the 500th anniversary of the voyage of Christopher Columbus;[80] 2000 for the Millennium Celebration; and 2012 for the bicentennial of the War of 1812 and the Star Spangled Banner.
Abdul Salam Arif, the
President of Iraq, announced that all of the Middle Eastern republic's political parties would be merged into one legal organization, the
Iraqi Arab Socialist Union. At the same time, President Arif announced the nationalization of all banks and insurance companies, and 32 other industrial concerns.[81] The Bank of the Middle East (a British bank) and the Eastern Bank were taken over, leaving the government-operated
Rafidain Bank, and banks devoted to industry, agriculture, estates and mortgages.[82]
A study submitted to NASA by
Douglas Aircraft Company concluded that a six-person space research station, capable of orbiting for one year, could be orbiting the Earth within five years. The crew, serving on a staggered schedule, would travel to and from the station on modified Gemini or
Apollo spacecraft. The station would provide a small degree of
artificial gravity by rotating slowly and would include a
centrifuge to simulate
reentry forces.[83]
Mao Zedong, the Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party and de facto leader of the
People's Republic of China, authorized the publication of an essay in the Party journal Red Flag. The treatise, "On Khrushchev's Phony Communism and Historical Lessons for the World", faulted the Soviet Union for its "revisionist" policies and urged a reform that contained the justification for what would turn out to be the
Cultural Revolution.[84]
At
Geneva, American moderator
Dean Acheson submitted a six-point peace proposal that would have allowed
Cyprus to become part of
Greece, with the exception of the
Karpass Peninsula at the far eastern part of the island, which would become part of
Turkey.[54]
Leonid Brezhnev stepped down from the ceremonial job of head of state of the Soviet Union at the request of Prime Minister and Communist Party First Secretary
Nikita Khrushchev, who explained to the 1443 members of the USSR Parliament, the Supreme Soviet, that Brezhnev needed to devote full time to Party matters. The Supreme Soviet voted unanimously to accept Brezhnev's resignation and then, three minutes later, voted unanimously to approve Khrushchev's recommendation to elect first deputy premier
Anastas Mikoyan as the new President.[85] The shuffling of positions led Western observers to conclude that Brezhnev was being prepared as Khrushchev's eventual successor,[86] something which would happen three months later.
The "
topping out" ceremony was held to mark the completion of what was, at the time, the tallest building in the United Kingdom, the
Post Office Tower (officially, the British Telecommunications Tower or BT Tower) in
London. It would not begin operation until October 8, 1965.[87][88] With 34 floors, the main structure is 177 metres (581 ft) high; including antennae on the top, it is 191 metres (627 ft). It would be exceeded two years later by a
taller BT Tower in
Birmingham; the tallest building in the UK now is
The Shard, 95 stories and 310 metres (1,017 ft).
U.S. Senator
Barry Goldwater of Arizona received 883 delegate votes on the first ballot of the Republican National Convention in San Francisco to become the Republican Party's nominee for President of the United States. Goldwater's chief challenger, Governor
William Scranton of Pennsylvania, received 214 votes, and other candidates combined got 211.[89] Other candidates getting votes were
Nelson Rockefeller (114);
George Romney (41);
Margaret Chase Smith (27);
Walter Judd (22);
Hiram Fong (5); and
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (2).[90]
Dr.
Sam Sheppard who had been serving a life sentence in prison after being convicted in 1954 of the murder of his wife, was ordered released after ten years with the posting of $10,000
bail. U.S. District Judge
Carl Weinman of
Dayton, Ohio held that Sheppard's trial for murder had been a "mockery of justice" and that the doctor had been denied his constitutional right to a fair proceeding. Judge Weinman directed that Ohio authorities had 60 days to determine whether to try Dr. Sheppard again.[91]
Eighteen firemen in
Tokyo were killed by an explosion while attempting to fight a blaze in warehouses along the Tokyo harbor. The city sent 1500 firefighters and 180 fire engines to combat the spread of the fire, and the effort had gone on for more than three hours when the flames set off a stockpile of
nitrocellulose. The blast injured 46 other people in the area, including reporters, cameramen, nearby residents and other firefighters.[92]
Intermetall, an international organization to coordinate the quality and quantity of iron and steel production in the Communist nations of Eastern Europe, was founded by agreement of
Czechoslovakia,
Hungary and
Poland. By the end of the year, the
Soviet Union,
Bulgaria and
East Germany would become party to the agreement as well.[93]
The
European Court of Justice issued a landmark decision, Costa v ENEL, holding that for the six member nations of the
European Communities (France, West Germany, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg) Community law had to be given precedence over individual national laws if the two conflicted.[94]
Accepting his party's nomination at the
1964 Republican National Convention, U.S. Senator
Barry Goldwater rejected criticisms that his conservative views were too extreme to win the upcoming presidential election and made the statement for which he would be most remembered. "I would remind you," Senator Goldwater told the delegates and a national television audience, "that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice." He added, "And let me remind you also that 'moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue'".[95] Prior to Goldwater's keynote address, convention delegates approved his pick of an obscure U.S. Representative,
William E. Miller of New York, as the nominee for Vice-President of the United States, marking the first time that the Republican Party had nominated someone of the Roman Catholic faith for national office.[96]
The SNCC held "Freedom Day" proceedings throughout
Mississippi as part of the
Freedom Summer project to transport African-Americans to the courthouse to register to vote, under the protection of the new Civil Rights Act. In
Greenwood, the police chief told marchers, "You are free to go and register. No one will interfere with you if you want to stand here and register but we will not allow any picketing." After giving picketers two minutes to disperse, city police began arrests. In
Greenville and
Cleveland, registration and picketing proceeded without interference.[97] By August 2,
United Press International would report that more than 500,000 African-American citizens had been added to the voter registration list.[98]
On July 16 and 17, Flight Crew Support Division objected to McDonnell procedures for conducting Gemini
ejection seat sled tests because they were not adequate to give confidence in human use of the seats. The dummies were being rigged with extreme restraint-harness tensions and highly torqued joints which could not be achieved with human subjects. McDonnell was requested to review the situation and prepare a report for Gemini Program Office.[15]
The African-American section of New York City, was triggered after NYPD officer Thomas Gilligan shot and killed a 15-year-old boy, James Powell,
causing a riot in Harlem.[99] Two days later, the NYPD response to protests would lead to the outbreak of rioting.
Subscription Television (STV) telecast its first major league baseball game as a closed-circuit cable network available to anyone in California willing to pay five dollars to install a converter, one dollar a month for the service, and $1.50 for a televised
Los Angeles Dodgers or
San Francisco Giants home game. The first offering was a Dodgers game, a 3–2 win over the visiting Chicago Cubs and "the first color baseball telecast ever seen in Southern California".
Frank Sims called the action, and
Fresco Thompson provided the commentary. Unfortunately for STV, movie theater owners and television networks objected and, in November, voters would vote in favor of Proposition 15 to ban pay television.[100]
The combination of a minor earthquake in the
Sea of Japan near the
Niigata Prefecture was followed by torrential rains that crumbled structures and hillsides that had been weakened by the quake. Nearly 150 bridges collapsed and dikes cracked in 200 different places. By the end of the next day, 108 people were killed, 233 were injured and over 44,000 were homeless.[101]
Six days of rioting began in
Harlem when a crowd of 4000 protesters assembled outside the Harlem precinct police station to demonstrate against police brutality and the shooting of teenager James Powell.[99] When the protest leaders were arrested by NYPD officers, other members of the crowd began throwing bricks and
Molotov cocktails at the station, and others began vandalizing and looting neighborhood businesses and office buildings. Over the next six days, 140 people were injured and one died; 520 people were arrested; and over 500 structures were destroyed.[103] The outbreak was followed, for the first time in the United States in the 20th Century, by a "chain reaction of riots" that would strike seven other major American cities for the next six weeks "before ending in Philadelphia on the last day of August."[104]
Judith Graham Pool published her discovery of
cryoprecipitate, a frozen blood clotting product made from plasma primarily to treat
hemophiliacs around the world. The paper, "High Potency Antihemophiliac Concentrate Prepared from Cryoglobulin Precipitate", appeared in the 18 July issue of Nature.[105]
Siw Malmkvist became the first singer from Sweden to have a hit on the U.S. Billboard chart.[106] Her song "Sole Sole Sole" would reach number 58 on Billboard's "Hot 100" chart. The same year, she had a #1 hit in West Germany with "Liebeskummer lohnt sich nicht" ("Lovesick Isn't Worth It").
During a reception in
Moscow for visiting Hungarian leader
János Kádár, Soviet Premier
Nikita Khrushchev gave a speech indicating, for the first time, that he was aware that Soviet dictator
Joseph Stalin had been poisoned in 1953 by Internal Affairs Minister
Lavrenti Beria, who was later executed. According to one historian, Leonid Brezhnev and his allies within the Politburo were alarmed by the statement and "decided that in revealing Kremlin secrets Khrushchev was behaving irrationally and that he should be removed from power."[107]
Alabama Governor
George C. Wallace abandoned his bid to become a third-party candidate in the 1964 U.S. presidential election, and declined to support either President Johnson or Republican challenger Goldwater.[108] The day before, Wallace had gotten on to the ballot in North Carolina as a candidate for the Constitution Party, after qualifying to run in Alabama and Louisiana, and said that he would stand as a candidate in 16 states altogether.
Zond 1, the Soviet space probe launched on April 2 for a flyby of the planet
Venus, passed within 96,500 kilometres (60,000 mi) of that planet,[109] but no data could be received because of a failure of its transmitters in
May and in
June. Because of the failure of the second component of Zond 1, no further trajectory corrections could be received after June.[110]
At a rally in
Saigon,
South Vietnam Prime Minister
Nguyen Khanh called for expanding the war into
North Vietnam. Before a crowd of 100,000 people, General Khanh led the rallying cry "Bac thien!" ("To the North!") and called on volunteers not only to defend South Vietnam, but to liberate
North Vietnam.[111]
China launched its first
biomedical rocket, placing four white rats, four white mice and 12 test tubes of fruit flies in the nose cone of one of its
T-7 rockets. The rocket traveled into the
mesosphere, reaching an altitude of 70 kilometres (43 mi), while films were taken of the animals' reaction.[112]
Born:
Teresa Edwards, American women's basketball player in the ABL and WNBA professional leagues between 1996 and 2004 and four-time Olympic gold medalist (1984, 1988, 1996 and 2000); in
Cairo, Georgia[113]
In
Colombia, guerrilla leader
Manuel Marulanda, nicknamed "Tirofijo" chose the South American nation's independence day to proclaim the manifesto of his organization, the Bloque Sur, with the adoption of seven goals that formed what called the National Agrarian Policy. In addition to the division of large farm estates and their redistribution to the peasant sharecroppers who worked on them,[114] the manifesto also promised peasants credit, seeds and technical advice on farming, and pledged that Colombia's indigenous peoples would be able to observe their traditions on their ancestral lands.[115]
Ion propulsion was used for the first time in a space launch into Earth orbit, as
SERT-1 (the Space Electric Rocket Test) was sent up by NASA's the
Wallops Island facility, off the coast of Virginia, by a
Scout rocket.[116]
Commenting on Republican Presidential candidate Barry Goldwater's views on the space program, Warren Burkett, science writer for the Houston Chronicle, observed that a great deal of research being conducted as part of NASA's
Apollo program could be of direct value to the military services. Burkett contended that an orbital laboratory using Apollo-developed components could be used for such military applications as patrol and orbital interception. He suggested that, with Apollo, NASA was generating an inventory of "off-the-shelf" space hardware suitable for military use if needed.[83]
A race riot began in
Singapore between ethnic Chinese and Malays. To celebrate the traditional day marking the birthday of the Muhammad, a crowd of 20,000 Moslem Malay residents marched in a parade.[117] At about 5:00 p.m., some of the younger marchers began to leave the procession, and a Chinese Singaporean policeman told them (in the
Malay language) to return. A crowd of Malay Singaporeans surrounded the officer, and when more police arrived to assist, they were attacked by 50 of the Malays.[118] Over the next three days, 23 people were killed and 454 injured.[119]
Meeting in the capital of
Egypt, representatives of the member nations of the
Organisation of African Unity signed the
Cairo Declaration, effectively recognizing the 19th-century colonial division of Africa by pledging to respect "the borders existing on the achievement of national independence."[120]
Born:Ross Kemp, English journalist and former daytime television actor; in
Barking,
Essex
Died:
Paddy McLogan, 65, Northern Irish politician and activist,
Leader of Sinn Féin political party between 1950 and 1962, was found dead in the garden of his home in
Blanchardstown, the victim of a gunshot wound to the head. His Walther 9mm pistol was found by his side, along with a spent cartridge; a coroner's inquest concluded that the cause of death was an accident resulting from falling while carrying a loaded weapon, rather than a suicide or a homicide.[121][122]
John White, 27, Scottish soccer football player for
Tottenham Hotspur and for the Scottish national team, was killed when he was struck by lightning while playing a round of golf at the
Crews Hill golf course outside London.[123]
The U.S. Air Force made its first successful test of the uncrewed glider
ASSET (Aerothermodynamic Elastic Structural Systems Environmental Tests) "in the preview of the way future explorers will return to the earth". The outside of the arrow-shaped craft reached temperatures of 2,200 °C (4,000 °F) as it reached a speed of 19,000 kilometres (12,000 mi) per hour during its glide down to the ocean from an altitude of 70 kilometres (43 mi).[124]
Representatives of
Iran,
Pakistan and
Turkey issued a joint statement from
Istanbul, establishing the RCD (Regional Cooperation for Development).[125]
In
Boardman, Ohio, a suburb of Youngstown, brothers Forrest Raffel and Leroy Raffel opened the first
Arby's fast food restaurant. According to the company's history, the operators of the restaurant supply company Raffel Brothers, Inc., originally wanted to call the chain "Big Tex", but were unsuccessful in negotiating with the Akron businessman who owned the rights to the name. Forrest Raffel would say later, "We came up with Arby’s®, which stands for R.B., the initials of Raffel Brothers, although I guess customers might think the initials stand for roast beef”.[127]
Four men, who had been feared dead after their motorboat disappeared in the Atlantic Ocean on July 14, were rescued alive by an American merchant ship, the Maiden, after their raft was spotted by a
U.S. Navy plane about 420 miles (680 km) off the United States coast. The men, all from Connecticut, had been aboard a yacht, the Gooney Bird, before being forced to abandon ship.[128]
Three white employees of a plumbing firm in
Greenwood, Mississippi, became the first people to be arrested under the new Civil Rights Act, and were criminally charged with violating the civil rights of an African American man when they beat him up for trying to enter a local movie theater.[129]
U.S. President Johnson and his challenger in the upcoming November presidential election, Barry Goldwater, met in the White House at Goldwater's request, and agreed that both sides should avoid making "racial tensions" (between white and black Americans) an issue in the campaign.[130] According to Goldwater, the two men also agreed that the U.S. policy regarding Vietnam would not be an issue during the campaign either, and both honored the agreement as candidates.[131]
Frederick John Harris, a white member of the terrorist group
African Resistance Movement, planted a time bomb inside a suitcase which he left at the "whites only" railroad platform at the
Johannesburg Park Station in
South Africa. The explosion injured 24 people. One of them, 77-year-old Ethel Rhys, would die of her injuries a month later. On April 1, 1965, Harris would be executed.[132]
At a press conference, President Johnson publicly revealed the existence of the
Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird spy plane, which he said could fly at three times the speed of sound, at altitudes of more than 80,000 feet (24,000 m) and could "provide worldwide reconnaissance ability" to the United States.[133]
The Egyptian cargo ship SS Star of Alexandria exploded and sank in the harbor at
Annaba, Algeria, killing at least twenty people and injuring at least 165 others.[134][135]
Barry Bonds, American Major League Baseball player who holds the record for most home runs in a season (73 in 2001) and most home runs in a career (762); in
Riverside, California
Hanoi Radio charged in a broadcast that American ships had fired upon North Vietnamese fishing craft, making the first assertion of United States aggression against North Vietnam.[137]
Ninety-four passengers on the Automara express train in
Portugal were killed in an accident near
Custóias, when their overcrowded
railroad car became uncoupled from the rest of the train, and hurtled down an embankment. The group was returning home to
Oporto from the beach resort at
Póvoa de Varzim, and had only a few minutes left on their trip when disaster struck. The car they were in was supposed to carry no more than 70 people, and more than twice that many (161) had been on board.[138][139]
In an apparent retaliation for the bombing of the Johannesburg railroad station three days earlier, a newly-constructed refugee center in
Francistown in neighboring Bechuanaland (now
Botswana) was destroyed by a bomb on the eve of its dedication ceremony. Nobody was injured in the bombing, which was believed to have been carried out by the
South African Bureau of State Security, but the building was a total loss.[140]
Member nations of the
Organization of American States, with the exception of
Mexico agreed to avoid any trade with
Cuba (other than food and medical supplies) in response to Cuban support of guerrilla operations in South America.[141][142]
AstronautsJames A. McDivitt and
Edward H. White II were named as command pilot and pilot, respectively, for the
Gemini 4 mission scheduled for the first quarter of 1965. The backup crew for the mission would be
Frank Borman, command pilot, and
James A. Lovell, Jr., pilot. The mission was scheduled for up to four days' duration. At a
press conference on July 29 at Manned Spacecraft Center, Deputy Gemini Program Manager
Kenneth S. Kleinknecht said that on the second crewed Gemini
space flight an astronaut would first be exposed to the hazards of
outer space without full spacecraft protection. Although he first said that the experiment would involve "
stepping into space," he later modified this by saying that it might involve nothing more than opening a hatch and standing up.[15]
Sir
Winston Churchill attended a meeting of the House of Commons for the last time, 63 years after he had made his first appearance as a Member of Parliament. The 89-year-old, former leader of the Conservative Party and twice
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, would be voted a resolution of thanks the next day, and would pass away six months later.[143]
The first
comic book convention to feature well-known artists was held as a one-day event at the Workman's Circle Building in New York City, after being organized by readers Bernie Bubnis and Ron Fradkin. The New York Comicon attracted 50 people in its first outing.[144]
The United States made plans to send 5,000 more American troops to South Vietnam, bringing the total number of United States forces in Vietnam to 21,000.[145]
Sir
Winston Churchill retired from the
House of Commons at the age of 89 after 64 years as a Member of Parliament. Labour and Liberal MPs joined those of Churchill's Conservative Party in honoring the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. A resolution in praise of Churchill was passed unanimously; the only other such honor had been accorded in a vote of thanks to the Duke of Wellington. Prime Minister and fellow Tory
Alec Douglas-Home spoke of "the luster the right honourable gentleman, the member for
Woodford" had brought to Commons. Opposition Leader and future Prime Minister
Harold Wilson, speaking for Labour, said, "In our darkest hour of 1940, Churchill was the choice of the nation"; and Liberal leader
Jo Grimond praised Churchill for having led the UK "with immense power, through crisis, without weakening democracy" and former Prime Minister
Harold Macmillan said, "He is the greatest member of Parliament of this, or any other age."[148]
Republican nominee Barry Goldwater challenged his Democratic Party rival, incumbent U.S. President Johnson, to a series of
televised presidential debates in the same format as the
Kennedy–Nixon debates of 1960.[149] With nothing to gain, President Johnson declined to meet Goldwater on television, and no presidential debates would take place until 1976.
The destroyer
USS Maddox was sent into the
Gulf of Tonkin on a mission to conduct surveillance of North Vietnam communications, and would clash with a North Vietnamese ship one week later.[150]
Ranger 7 was successfully launched toward the Moon from
Cape Kennedy in the first successful test of the Atlas rocket.[151][152]
North American conducted the first tow test vehicle (TTV) captive-flight test required by the Paraglider Landing System Program. A
helicopter towed the TTV to 2,600 feet (790 m). After about 20 minutes of total flight time, the
test pilot brought the TTV to a smooth three-point landing. The tow cable was released immediately after touchdown, the wing about four seconds later. This highly successful flight was followed on August 7 by a free-flight test that was much less successful. After the TTV was towed by helicopter to 15,500 feet (4,700 m) and released, it went into a series of uncontrolled turns, and the pilot was forced to bail out. North American then undertook a test program to isolate the malfunction and correct it, including 14 radio-controlled, half-scale TTV test flights between August 24 and December 13. Two highly successful radio-controlled, full-scale TTV free flights on December 15 and 17 justified another attempted pilot-controlled flight on December 19, with excellent results.[15]
In New York City, "the leaders of the six major Negro organizations in the United States" signed a statement agreeing to "a broad curtailment, if not total moratorium, on all mass marches, mass picketing, and mass demonstrations until after election day, next November 3" and to concentrate instead on working to defeat Barry Goldwater in the presidential election.
Roy Wilkins of the
NAACP;
Martin Luther King Jr. of the
SCLC;
John Lewis of the
SNCC;
A. Philip Randolph of the Negro-American Labor Council;
Whitney Young of the
National Urban League; and
James Farmer of the
Congress of Racial Equality signed for their respective organizations.[154][155]
Flight Crew Support Division personnel visited
Langley Research Center for a simulation of the Gemini optical rendezvous maneuver. The simulation projected a flashing target against a background of stars inside a 40-foot (12 m) diameter
radome, representing the view from the command pilot station and window port. During the demonstration, a lighted window reticle was found to be useful in the line-of-sight control task.[15]
In response to a request from
NASA Headquarters, Gemini Program Office (GPO) provided a study for Gemini missions beyond the 12 originally planned. "The
Advanced Gemini Missions Conceptual Study" described 16 further missions, including a
space station experiment, a satellite chaser mission, a lifeboat rescue mission, and both a
circumlunar and
lunar orbiting mission. On February 28, 1965, GPO reported that a preliminary proposal for Gemini follow-on missions to test the land landing system had not been approved. Spare Gemini launch vehicles 13, 14, and 15 were canceled, and there were no current plans for Gemini missions beyond the approved 12-flight program.[15]
In the British protectorate of
Northern Rhodesia, still three months away from becoming independent as the
Republic of Zambia, government troops captured the stronghold of the 75,000-member
Lumpa Church and brought a temporary halt to their attacks on rural villages in the Northern Province. In the previous week, the sect's members had killed more than 200 people. When the heavily-armed government troops surrounded the headquarters at Sione, the sect's leader,
Alice Lenshina, had escaped. Rather than surrender, the tribesmen charged at the government soldiers with spears; 65 of the sect members died in the gunfire, and two of the soldiers were slightly injured.[157]
The United Kingdom agreed to grant independence to
The Gambia, its "first and last colonial possession in West Africa", effective February 18, 1965. Sir
Dawda Jawara, Prime Minister of the British protectorate, had led a delegation for an eight-day conference in London to ask for independence in
February 1965, while former Chief Minister
Pierre Sarr N'Jie had asked for a
December 1965 date so that new voters could be registered before elections could be held.[158]
The Central Committee of the Soviet Union's Communist Party addressed a letter to the Chinese Communist Party and expressed concern over the differences that had arisen between the two parties in the previous four years. A proposal was advanced for Chinese representatives to come to Moscow on December 15. The Chinese would issue a hostile reply on August 30.[159]
Patrol boats from the
Republic of Vietnam Navy (South Vietnam) moved into the
Gulf of Tonkin on an American-funded
covert mission, and attacked two islands off
North Vietnam, Hon Me and Hon Ngu.[137][160] A retaliatory attack by the North Vietnamese on an American gunboat, on August 2, would become the basis for American escalation in the
Vietnam War.
Born:
Jürgen Klinsmann, manager of the U.S. national soccer team (2011–2016) and the German national team (2004–2006), and striker for the West German national team; in
Göppingen, West Germany
The U.S. lunar orbiter
Ranger 7 sent back "history's first close-up photographs of the moon", with images 1000 times more clear than anything ever seen from Earth-bound
telescopes.[161] In all, the orbiter transmitted 4316 photographs to the
Jet Propulsion Laboratory in
Pasadena, California before impacting at the Mare Nubium at 1325:49 UTC.[162] At 1308:36 UTC (5:08 a.m. at the JPL in California), the camera began transmitting its first images, with the final one 3/10ths of a second before it became the first American spacecraft to "land" on the Moon.[163]
The first "all-nuclear task force" began
Operation Sea Orbit, departing from
Gibraltar on a voyage around the world without refueling. The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier
USS Enterprise, and the guided missile cruisers
USS Long Beach, and
USS Bainbridge were powered solely by nuclear reactors, and would travel 30,565 nautical miles in 65 days before completing their mission on October 1.[164]
Died:Jim Reeves, 40, American country singer, was killed when the small plane he was piloting encountered a violent thunderstorm while flying over
Brentwood, Tennessee. Reeves and a friend, piano player Dean Manuel, were returning to Nashville from
Batesville, Arkansas.[165] After a two day search, the light plane would be found in a thickly wooded area.[166]
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Field Marshal
Mohammad Ayub Khan, president of
Pakistan, visited
Kabul briefly, where he met King
Mohammad Zahir. For the first time in several years, relations between Afghanistan and Pakistan were relatively amicable following the decision of the government of Afghanistan to deal with the
Pakhtunistan dispute only through diplomatic negotiations, and to carry on normal relations with Pakistan in other respects.
In an event at the Bislett stadium in
Oslo, Norwegian athlete
Terje Pedersen broke the
Men's javelin world record.[1] Pedersen's throw of 285 feet 10 inches (87.12 m) broke the record of 284 feet 7 inches (86.74 m) set by
Carlo Lievore of Italy on June 1, 1961.[2]
Clemson Agricultural College of South Carolina adopted its current name,
Clemson University.[3]
Born:Bernard Laporte, French rugby union player and head coach of the French national team from 1999 to 2007; in
Rodez,
Aveyron[4]
U.S. President
Lyndon Johnson signed the
Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law, abolishing
racial segregation in the United States in public schools, public accommodations and travel, and in voting registration.[6] The move came hours after the U.S. House of Representatives voted 289 to 126 to approve the bill as amended by the U.S. Senate. Of the 126 against, 91 were Democrats (88 from the Deep South) and 35 were Republicans.
Charles L. Weltner of Georgia was the only southern Democrat to vote for the bill, saying, "We must not remain forever bound to another lost cause."[7] The law took effect at 6:45 in the evening Eastern time when President Johnson signed the bill at a White House ceremony in the East Room, commenting that "Years ago I realized a sad truth. To the extent that black people were imprisoned by racial segregation, so was I."[8]
After watching the signing of the bill on national television, two African-American men in
Jacksonville,
Florida, became the first to put the desegregation law to a test. Robert Ingraham and Prince McIntosh "went to a cafeteria where they previously had been arrested when they previously sought service" and were asked "May I help you?" by a white employee behind the counter.[9] The manager of the
Morrison's Cafeteria told a reporter, "We decided to go along and obey the law of the land. There were no incidents."[10]
The
National Labor Relations Board decertified the Independent Metal Workers Union as a collective bargaining agent for the
Hughes Tool Company (and effectively for any other companies whose employees were members of the IMWU) because of the union's policy of racial segregation and because the union "had failed to fairly represent all workers at the company and systematically discriminated against African Americans" on matters of wages and benefits.[11][12]
Born:Jose Canseco, Cuban-born American major league baseball player from 1985 to 2001 who was twice the home run leader (in 1988 and 1991), along with his twin brother, MLB player
Ozzie Canseco; in
Havana[13]
Following the successful mating of its modules,
Gemini spacecraft No. 2 began the second phase of Spacecraft Systems Tests (SST) at
McDonnell. SST continued through
September 1964. During
August and September 1964, test operations alternated with the receipt and installation of a number of flight items in the
spacecraft. Vibration testing of the spacecraft and systems was successfully conducted August 20–24. No
altitude chamber tests were performed on spacecraft No. 2 because the
Gemini 2 mission was to be uncrewed. Phase II mated SST concluded with the Simulated Flight Test September 3–15. The spacecraft acceptance review was held September 17–18, after which it was flown to
Cape Kennedy September 21.[15]
On the day after the passing of the Civil Rights Act in the United States:
Two 12-year-old African American girls in
Bogalusa, Louisiana, sat down at the lunch counter in the local
Woolworth department store, which had previously been able to limit sit-down service to white people. Despite protests by a group of white customers, the two children were served.[16]
Georgia politician
Lester Maddox, a future governor of Georgia, along with white customers carrying axe handles, forced three African-Americans out of Maddox's Pickrick restaurant in Atlanta. The
U.S. Department of Justice would join in[clarification needed] a lawsuit filed by the three men. Maddox would later be elected.[17]
The French Quarter of New Orleans quietly integrated, along with most other public accommodations in the city with "near total compliance.[18]
Fifteen of the 49 crewmen of the Spanish tanker MV Bonifaz were killed when their ship collided with the French ship MV Fabiola off
Cape Finisterre in a fog. The Bonfiaz caught fire and sank.[20] Six of her 50 crew were rescued by the West German ship MV Sloman Malaga.[21]Bonifaz was also carrying six passengers. The Dutch ship MV Setas picked up 22 crew and three passengers. Four of the crew would subsequently die of their injuries.[22]
A group of demonstrators, organized by pacifist
David Dellinger, stood outside the White House and conducted the first American public protest against U.S. involvement in the
Vietnam War.[23]
South of Atlanta,
Alabama governor
George Wallace gave a speech condemning the
Civil Rights Act, claiming that it would threaten individual liberty, free enterprise and private property rights and adding: "The liberal left-wingers have passed it. Now let them employ some pinknik social engineers in Washington, D.C., to figure out what to do with it."[26] The event, coming two days after the Civil Rights Act became law, included
Mississippi governor
Ross Barnett, and would degenerate into violence after members of the
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) began booing and were attacked by angry audience members; the negative publicity from the event was such that Wallace, who had done better than expected in northern states in the 1964 presidential primaries, would withdraw from the race on July 19.[27][28]
The
Rhodesian Bush War, which would last more than 15 years until the white minority government of
Rhodesia relinquished control of the southern African nation to the black majority, began in the first violent attack by the
Zimbabwe African National Liberation Army (ZANLA) against a white target. Petrus Oberholzer, a white farmer, was ambushed and murdered near
Umtali.[29]
The
Universal City Tour, where paying customers were driven around the
backlot of Universal Pictures movie studio in special trams, was inaugurated after a four-million-dollar renovation of the California location.[30] The tour and its concession stands were the original features of what would become the
Universal Studios Hollywood theme park.
Viet Cong guerrillas attacked an American training camp in
South Vietnam at Polei Krong, in an action apparently timed to coincide with the American 4th of July holiday.[31]
In the
1964 elections in Mexico,
Gustavo Díaz Ordaz was elected
President without significant opposition.[34][35] Diaz, of the ruling
Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) received 8,368,446 votes, or 88% of those cast, while his opponent, José González Torres of the
Partido Acción Nacional (PAN), got 1,034,337.[36] In addition, the PRI won all 64 seats in the Mexican Senate, and 175 of the 210 seats in the Chamber of Deputies. PAN won 20 seats, the Popular Socialist Party 10, and the Authentic Party got five.
For the first time in the 20th century, hotels in
Mississippi were integrated and admitted African-American guests. In the state capital at Jackson, the Heidelberg Hotel, the King Edward Hotel, and the Sun-N-Sand Motel accepted 14 members of the NAACP.[37]
The Sunday Times linked mercenaries, involved in the
North Yemen Civil War, to former RAF pilot Tony Boyle.[38]
Died: Turkish Army Colonel
Talat Aydemir, 47, was hanged after two attempted coups d'etat in 1962 and 1963. His collaborator, Fethi Gürcan, had been put to death on June 27.[39][40]
The
Battle of Nam Dong, the first in the
Vietnam War to have numerous American casualties, began at 2:26 in the morning in
South Vietnam when an 800-man contingent of the
Viet Cong began firing mortar rounds at a South Vietnamese Army (
ARVN) camp at
Nam Dong, near South Vietnam's border with Laos. The outnumbered group of 311 ARVN soldiers, along with 12 members of the
U.S. Army Special Forces (the
Green Berets) and one Australian adviser, defended the camp for ninety minutes until air support could arrive. When the battle ended by dawn, 53 South Vietnamese, two Americans and the Australian, Kevin Conway, were dead; 65 were wounded, including U.S. Army Captain
Roger Donlon, who would be awarded the
Medal of Honor for annihilating an enemy demolition team, dragging wounded men to safety, and directing the defenders despite multiple shrapnel wounds.[41]
The African nation of
Malawi, formerly the British protectorate of
Nyasaland, received its independence from the
United Kingdom one minute after midnight.[42] At
Blantyre, the national capital, Prince Philip of the United Kingdom and representatives of other 80 other nations watched the hoisting of the new red, green and black Malawian flag after the Union Jack had been lowered a minute before midnight.[43]Hastings Kamuzu Banda continued as Prime Minister, and the former Nyasaland governor, Sir
Glyn Smallwood Jones, became the first (and last) Governor-General of Malawi. In 1966, Banda would become the first President of Malawi.
Demanihi Tepa of
Tahiti was rescued alive after 155 days drifting in a boat across the South Pacific Ocean. Tepa and his friend, Natua Faioho, had set off from the island of
Maupiti on February 2 on what was supposed to be a short trip to the island of
Bora Bora, but the outboard motor had broken down. The boat drifted more than 1,400 miles (2,300 km) westward over the next five months. Two weeks after Faioho died, Tepa's boat washed ashore on the island of
Ta‘ū, part of
American Samoa.[44]
The Beatles' first feature film, A Hard Day's Night, premiered in the United Kingdom before 1200 ticketholders at the London Pavilion.[45] It would be released in the United States on August 11.[46] The
movie soundtrack would be released on July 10 in the UK.
In
Biloxi, Mississippi, U.S. District Judge Sidney Mize ordered the first integration of public schools anywhere in the state, directing the school districts in Biloxi,
Jackson and
Leake County to desegregate starting with the 1964–1965 school year.[48][49][50]
An avalanche, on
Mont Blanc in the French Alps, killed 14 mountain climbers, including former world champion slalom skier
Charles Bozon, 31.[51]
In
Haiti, that nation's secret police force, the Tonton Macoutes, arrested
Joe Gaetjens, a Haitian soccer football player who had been on the U.S. National Team in the 1950 World Cup, who was never seen in public again. Gaetjens, whose family opposed the dictatorship of
Francois Duvalier, was taken to the prison at
Fort Dimanche, tortured and, presumably, killed.[55]
A
U.S. Department of Defense spokesman announced that American casualties in Vietnam had risen to 1387 "since American forces became fully involved in the jungle war in 1961", a number broken down as "152 killed in action, 96 deaths not related to combat, 971 wounded in action, 151 non-battle injuries and 17 missing in action."[56]
In
Alabama, Circuit Judge
James Hare issued "an injunction that almost destroyed Alabama's civil rights movement", prohibiting members of organizations favoring or opposing civil rights from gathering together. Specifically named in the order were the
NAACP, the
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, the
Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the
Dallas County Voters League (in
Selma, Alabama), as well as various
Ku Klux Klan groups and the
American Nazi Party. Forty-one civil rights leaders were specifically named, including
Martin Luther King Jr. of the SCLC and
John Lewis of the SNCC. Under the order, if three or more people from the named organizations, or the specific individuals, gathered together, they would be subject to arrest and jail for contempt of court, with enforcement at the discretion of local law enforcement. "Hare's injunction was ruinous," a historian would later note. "Mass meetings and rallies disappeared in Alabama and voter applications declined to their lowest number in years."[58]Daniel H. Thomas, the federal judge whose district included Judge Hare's circuit, would delay a ruling on a motion to dismiss the injunction until 1965.
Francis Russell, a historian, announced that he had found 250 love letters that had been written by
Warren G. Harding and said that they were the first confirmation of speculation that Harding, the 29th President of the United States, had had an extramarital affair prior to taking office. The letters and postcards, written by Harding to
Carrie Fulton Phillips between 1905 and 1920, had been found in a locked closet at Mrs. Phillips' home in
Marion, Ohio, after her death in 1960. One of the last letters showed that Mrs. Phillips had demanded $5000 a year in a blackmail scheme.[59] Harding's heirs would sue to prevent the release of the letters, or their description in Russell's upcoming biography of Harding. In 1971, the suit would be settled with the provision that the letters would be presented, under seal, to the
Library of Congress, and not to be released until July 29, 2014.[60]
All 39 people on board
United Airlines Flight 823 were killed after an uncontrollable fire broke out inside the Viscount turbo-jet, which crashed two miles northeast of
Parrottsville, Tennessee.[61] The plane had originated in
Philadelphia and was on its way to a stop in
Knoxville with a final destination in
Huntsville, Alabama with 35 passengers and a crew of four.[62] The fire had originated below the passenger floor and eventually entered the passenger cabin. One passenger attempted to abandon the aircraft through an escape window prior to impact but did not survive the free-fall. The fire eventually burned through the cockpit and it was likely the crew was unconscious by that time. The exact cause of the fire remains unknown.
Ahmed bin Abdullah, the
Sultan of Fadhli on the
Gulf of Aden, was deposed by a vote of the Supreme Council of the
Federation of South Arabia for attempting to pull Fadhli out of membership in the British-protected federation. On July 11, the Federation Council would elect his brother, Nasser bin Abdullah as his successor.[63] Three years later, Britain would withdraw from the Aden region and all of the sultanates within the South Arabian Federation would be abolished.
The Parliament of France approved a reorganization of its national subdivisions to take effect in 1968, with the increase in the number of Départements of metropolitan France from 90 to 95. The two départements around
Paris and its metro area were divided, to be replaced by seven new départements over the next four years.
Seine (governed by Paris) was split into the new départements of Paris and
Seine-Saint-Denis, while
Seine-et-Oise (governed from
Versailles) was split into
Essonne,
Val-d'Oise, and
Yvelines. Parts of both the old départements were used to create
Hauts-de-Seine and
Val-de-Marne.[65]
Manager
Charles W. Mathews reported that the Gemini Program Office had been reviewing and evaluating plans for Gemini-Titan (GT) missions
4 through
7. GT-4 would be a four-day mission using battery power.
GT-5 would include
radar and a rendezvous evaluation pod for
rendezvous exercises early in the flight. The duration of this mission would be open-ended for a period of seven days, contingent upon the availability of
fuel cells.
GT-6 would be a standard rendezvous mission of perhaps two days' duration. GT-7 would be a long-duration mission with an open-ended potential of 14 days.[15]
An anti-war petition, circulated by the
National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy, and signed by more than 5000 university and college professors, was presented to the
U.S. Department of State for delivery to President Johnson, asking that the United States not enlarge its involvement in the Vietnam War and proposing international mediation to declare North Vietnam and South Vietnam neutral. "The administration was not listening," a historian would note later, and would send more than 5000 American troops before the end of the month.[66]
Despite having once led an attempt to secede from the former
Belgian Congo,
Moïse Tshombe was named as the new Congolese Prime Minister by his former enemy, President
Joseph Kasavubu, who fired Premier
Cyrille Adoula, who fled into exile. Tshombe, brought in to halt a mutiny in the Katanga region, would serve for more than a year, until President Kasavubu dismissed him on October 13, 1965.[67] Tshombe's first act was to order several thousand Katangese gendarmes to come back to the Congo in order to receive amnesty.[68]
Lemuel A. Penn, an African-American who was the Assistant Superintendent of the Washington, D.C., public schools and a Lieutenant Colonel in the
United States Army Reserve, was shot and killed while on his way back to Washington from annual training in
Fort Benning, Georgia.[70] As his car approached
Colbert, Georgia, on state highway 172, Penn was shot by two Klansmen who passed his car. The two men, Howard Sims and Cecil Myers, would be acquitted of murder by an all-white jury in spite of a signed confession. In 1966, the two killers would become the first people tried in federal court under the new
Civil Rights Act of 1964 for the crime of violating a person's civil rights. Each would serve six years in prison for the killing.[71]
Nine spectators were killed, and 14 more injured, while they were watching the 19th stage of the
Tour de France, when a police truck crashed into them.[72] The victims were standing along a bridge at the village of Port-de-Couze within the commune of
Lalinde; three of them were children. What was "the worst disaster in the 61-year-old history of the annual classic" happened in the departement of
Dordogne when the brakes failed on the truck. The driver jumped free, and the vehicle plowed into the crowd. Enraged residents attempted to lynch the driver, before he was rescued by other police officers.
Twenty-two people died, and 128 became seriously ill, when they were accidentally poisoned during a memorial service in the Greek village of Stylia, 40 miles (64 km) from the city of
Patras. The victims were attending a mnemósynon, an
orthodox memorial service for the late Grigorios Apostolopoulos, and were served koliva, a traditional food associated with the service. The widow had accidentally put a powdered insecticide on the dish of wheat and raisins while preparing it, after having mistaken it for powdered sugar.[75]
Appeals by Lennie Field and the unrelated Brian Field, implicated in the previous year's
Great Train Robbery, against the charges of conspiracy to rob were allowed by a court. Their sentences were thus effectively reduced to five years. The next day, the court allowed appeals by Roger Cordrey and Bill Boal and quashed their convictions for conspiracy to rob, leaving only the charges of receiving stolen property. Justice
Fenton Atkinson concluded that a
miscarriage of justice would result if Boal's charges were upheld, given that his age, physique and temperament made him an unlikely train robber. Cordrey would also be later deemed to be innocent of the conspiracy because his prints were not found at Leatherslade Farm.[77]
Jacques Anquetil won the
Tour de France for the fifth time, for his fourth championship in a row. Anquetil outsprinted
Raymond Poulidor on the final stage of the 2,719-mile (4,376 km) bicycle race, arriving at the
Parc des Princes Stadium in Paris after his departure from Versailles.[78] Anquetil's lead over Poulidor had narrowed to only 14 seconds by the 20th stage on Sunday, and he would win the race by only 55 seconds overall.[79]
The first ever
Operation Sail (OpSail) was held off the coast of New York in conjunction with the 1964 World's Fair, with a race between 11 Class A
tall ships, and another race with 12 Class B ships. The event would be held on five other occasions: 1976 to celebrate the American bicentennial; 1986 to commemorate the centennial of the Statue of Liberty; 1992 for the 500th anniversary of the voyage of Christopher Columbus;[80] 2000 for the Millennium Celebration; and 2012 for the bicentennial of the War of 1812 and the Star Spangled Banner.
Abdul Salam Arif, the
President of Iraq, announced that all of the Middle Eastern republic's political parties would be merged into one legal organization, the
Iraqi Arab Socialist Union. At the same time, President Arif announced the nationalization of all banks and insurance companies, and 32 other industrial concerns.[81] The Bank of the Middle East (a British bank) and the Eastern Bank were taken over, leaving the government-operated
Rafidain Bank, and banks devoted to industry, agriculture, estates and mortgages.[82]
A study submitted to NASA by
Douglas Aircraft Company concluded that a six-person space research station, capable of orbiting for one year, could be orbiting the Earth within five years. The crew, serving on a staggered schedule, would travel to and from the station on modified Gemini or
Apollo spacecraft. The station would provide a small degree of
artificial gravity by rotating slowly and would include a
centrifuge to simulate
reentry forces.[83]
Mao Zedong, the Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party and de facto leader of the
People's Republic of China, authorized the publication of an essay in the Party journal Red Flag. The treatise, "On Khrushchev's Phony Communism and Historical Lessons for the World", faulted the Soviet Union for its "revisionist" policies and urged a reform that contained the justification for what would turn out to be the
Cultural Revolution.[84]
At
Geneva, American moderator
Dean Acheson submitted a six-point peace proposal that would have allowed
Cyprus to become part of
Greece, with the exception of the
Karpass Peninsula at the far eastern part of the island, which would become part of
Turkey.[54]
Leonid Brezhnev stepped down from the ceremonial job of head of state of the Soviet Union at the request of Prime Minister and Communist Party First Secretary
Nikita Khrushchev, who explained to the 1443 members of the USSR Parliament, the Supreme Soviet, that Brezhnev needed to devote full time to Party matters. The Supreme Soviet voted unanimously to accept Brezhnev's resignation and then, three minutes later, voted unanimously to approve Khrushchev's recommendation to elect first deputy premier
Anastas Mikoyan as the new President.[85] The shuffling of positions led Western observers to conclude that Brezhnev was being prepared as Khrushchev's eventual successor,[86] something which would happen three months later.
The "
topping out" ceremony was held to mark the completion of what was, at the time, the tallest building in the United Kingdom, the
Post Office Tower (officially, the British Telecommunications Tower or BT Tower) in
London. It would not begin operation until October 8, 1965.[87][88] With 34 floors, the main structure is 177 metres (581 ft) high; including antennae on the top, it is 191 metres (627 ft). It would be exceeded two years later by a
taller BT Tower in
Birmingham; the tallest building in the UK now is
The Shard, 95 stories and 310 metres (1,017 ft).
U.S. Senator
Barry Goldwater of Arizona received 883 delegate votes on the first ballot of the Republican National Convention in San Francisco to become the Republican Party's nominee for President of the United States. Goldwater's chief challenger, Governor
William Scranton of Pennsylvania, received 214 votes, and other candidates combined got 211.[89] Other candidates getting votes were
Nelson Rockefeller (114);
George Romney (41);
Margaret Chase Smith (27);
Walter Judd (22);
Hiram Fong (5); and
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (2).[90]
Dr.
Sam Sheppard who had been serving a life sentence in prison after being convicted in 1954 of the murder of his wife, was ordered released after ten years with the posting of $10,000
bail. U.S. District Judge
Carl Weinman of
Dayton, Ohio held that Sheppard's trial for murder had been a "mockery of justice" and that the doctor had been denied his constitutional right to a fair proceeding. Judge Weinman directed that Ohio authorities had 60 days to determine whether to try Dr. Sheppard again.[91]
Eighteen firemen in
Tokyo were killed by an explosion while attempting to fight a blaze in warehouses along the Tokyo harbor. The city sent 1500 firefighters and 180 fire engines to combat the spread of the fire, and the effort had gone on for more than three hours when the flames set off a stockpile of
nitrocellulose. The blast injured 46 other people in the area, including reporters, cameramen, nearby residents and other firefighters.[92]
Intermetall, an international organization to coordinate the quality and quantity of iron and steel production in the Communist nations of Eastern Europe, was founded by agreement of
Czechoslovakia,
Hungary and
Poland. By the end of the year, the
Soviet Union,
Bulgaria and
East Germany would become party to the agreement as well.[93]
The
European Court of Justice issued a landmark decision, Costa v ENEL, holding that for the six member nations of the
European Communities (France, West Germany, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg) Community law had to be given precedence over individual national laws if the two conflicted.[94]
Accepting his party's nomination at the
1964 Republican National Convention, U.S. Senator
Barry Goldwater rejected criticisms that his conservative views were too extreme to win the upcoming presidential election and made the statement for which he would be most remembered. "I would remind you," Senator Goldwater told the delegates and a national television audience, "that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice." He added, "And let me remind you also that 'moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue'".[95] Prior to Goldwater's keynote address, convention delegates approved his pick of an obscure U.S. Representative,
William E. Miller of New York, as the nominee for Vice-President of the United States, marking the first time that the Republican Party had nominated someone of the Roman Catholic faith for national office.[96]
The SNCC held "Freedom Day" proceedings throughout
Mississippi as part of the
Freedom Summer project to transport African-Americans to the courthouse to register to vote, under the protection of the new Civil Rights Act. In
Greenwood, the police chief told marchers, "You are free to go and register. No one will interfere with you if you want to stand here and register but we will not allow any picketing." After giving picketers two minutes to disperse, city police began arrests. In
Greenville and
Cleveland, registration and picketing proceeded without interference.[97] By August 2,
United Press International would report that more than 500,000 African-American citizens had been added to the voter registration list.[98]
On July 16 and 17, Flight Crew Support Division objected to McDonnell procedures for conducting Gemini
ejection seat sled tests because they were not adequate to give confidence in human use of the seats. The dummies were being rigged with extreme restraint-harness tensions and highly torqued joints which could not be achieved with human subjects. McDonnell was requested to review the situation and prepare a report for Gemini Program Office.[15]
The African-American section of New York City, was triggered after NYPD officer Thomas Gilligan shot and killed a 15-year-old boy, James Powell,
causing a riot in Harlem.[99] Two days later, the NYPD response to protests would lead to the outbreak of rioting.
Subscription Television (STV) telecast its first major league baseball game as a closed-circuit cable network available to anyone in California willing to pay five dollars to install a converter, one dollar a month for the service, and $1.50 for a televised
Los Angeles Dodgers or
San Francisco Giants home game. The first offering was a Dodgers game, a 3–2 win over the visiting Chicago Cubs and "the first color baseball telecast ever seen in Southern California".
Frank Sims called the action, and
Fresco Thompson provided the commentary. Unfortunately for STV, movie theater owners and television networks objected and, in November, voters would vote in favor of Proposition 15 to ban pay television.[100]
The combination of a minor earthquake in the
Sea of Japan near the
Niigata Prefecture was followed by torrential rains that crumbled structures and hillsides that had been weakened by the quake. Nearly 150 bridges collapsed and dikes cracked in 200 different places. By the end of the next day, 108 people were killed, 233 were injured and over 44,000 were homeless.[101]
Six days of rioting began in
Harlem when a crowd of 4000 protesters assembled outside the Harlem precinct police station to demonstrate against police brutality and the shooting of teenager James Powell.[99] When the protest leaders were arrested by NYPD officers, other members of the crowd began throwing bricks and
Molotov cocktails at the station, and others began vandalizing and looting neighborhood businesses and office buildings. Over the next six days, 140 people were injured and one died; 520 people were arrested; and over 500 structures were destroyed.[103] The outbreak was followed, for the first time in the United States in the 20th Century, by a "chain reaction of riots" that would strike seven other major American cities for the next six weeks "before ending in Philadelphia on the last day of August."[104]
Judith Graham Pool published her discovery of
cryoprecipitate, a frozen blood clotting product made from plasma primarily to treat
hemophiliacs around the world. The paper, "High Potency Antihemophiliac Concentrate Prepared from Cryoglobulin Precipitate", appeared in the 18 July issue of Nature.[105]
Siw Malmkvist became the first singer from Sweden to have a hit on the U.S. Billboard chart.[106] Her song "Sole Sole Sole" would reach number 58 on Billboard's "Hot 100" chart. The same year, she had a #1 hit in West Germany with "Liebeskummer lohnt sich nicht" ("Lovesick Isn't Worth It").
During a reception in
Moscow for visiting Hungarian leader
János Kádár, Soviet Premier
Nikita Khrushchev gave a speech indicating, for the first time, that he was aware that Soviet dictator
Joseph Stalin had been poisoned in 1953 by Internal Affairs Minister
Lavrenti Beria, who was later executed. According to one historian, Leonid Brezhnev and his allies within the Politburo were alarmed by the statement and "decided that in revealing Kremlin secrets Khrushchev was behaving irrationally and that he should be removed from power."[107]
Alabama Governor
George C. Wallace abandoned his bid to become a third-party candidate in the 1964 U.S. presidential election, and declined to support either President Johnson or Republican challenger Goldwater.[108] The day before, Wallace had gotten on to the ballot in North Carolina as a candidate for the Constitution Party, after qualifying to run in Alabama and Louisiana, and said that he would stand as a candidate in 16 states altogether.
Zond 1, the Soviet space probe launched on April 2 for a flyby of the planet
Venus, passed within 96,500 kilometres (60,000 mi) of that planet,[109] but no data could be received because of a failure of its transmitters in
May and in
June. Because of the failure of the second component of Zond 1, no further trajectory corrections could be received after June.[110]
At a rally in
Saigon,
South Vietnam Prime Minister
Nguyen Khanh called for expanding the war into
North Vietnam. Before a crowd of 100,000 people, General Khanh led the rallying cry "Bac thien!" ("To the North!") and called on volunteers not only to defend South Vietnam, but to liberate
North Vietnam.[111]
China launched its first
biomedical rocket, placing four white rats, four white mice and 12 test tubes of fruit flies in the nose cone of one of its
T-7 rockets. The rocket traveled into the
mesosphere, reaching an altitude of 70 kilometres (43 mi), while films were taken of the animals' reaction.[112]
Born:
Teresa Edwards, American women's basketball player in the ABL and WNBA professional leagues between 1996 and 2004 and four-time Olympic gold medalist (1984, 1988, 1996 and 2000); in
Cairo, Georgia[113]
In
Colombia, guerrilla leader
Manuel Marulanda, nicknamed "Tirofijo" chose the South American nation's independence day to proclaim the manifesto of his organization, the Bloque Sur, with the adoption of seven goals that formed what called the National Agrarian Policy. In addition to the division of large farm estates and their redistribution to the peasant sharecroppers who worked on them,[114] the manifesto also promised peasants credit, seeds and technical advice on farming, and pledged that Colombia's indigenous peoples would be able to observe their traditions on their ancestral lands.[115]
Ion propulsion was used for the first time in a space launch into Earth orbit, as
SERT-1 (the Space Electric Rocket Test) was sent up by NASA's the
Wallops Island facility, off the coast of Virginia, by a
Scout rocket.[116]
Commenting on Republican Presidential candidate Barry Goldwater's views on the space program, Warren Burkett, science writer for the Houston Chronicle, observed that a great deal of research being conducted as part of NASA's
Apollo program could be of direct value to the military services. Burkett contended that an orbital laboratory using Apollo-developed components could be used for such military applications as patrol and orbital interception. He suggested that, with Apollo, NASA was generating an inventory of "off-the-shelf" space hardware suitable for military use if needed.[83]
A race riot began in
Singapore between ethnic Chinese and Malays. To celebrate the traditional day marking the birthday of the Muhammad, a crowd of 20,000 Moslem Malay residents marched in a parade.[117] At about 5:00 p.m., some of the younger marchers began to leave the procession, and a Chinese Singaporean policeman told them (in the
Malay language) to return. A crowd of Malay Singaporeans surrounded the officer, and when more police arrived to assist, they were attacked by 50 of the Malays.[118] Over the next three days, 23 people were killed and 454 injured.[119]
Meeting in the capital of
Egypt, representatives of the member nations of the
Organisation of African Unity signed the
Cairo Declaration, effectively recognizing the 19th-century colonial division of Africa by pledging to respect "the borders existing on the achievement of national independence."[120]
Born:Ross Kemp, English journalist and former daytime television actor; in
Barking,
Essex
Died:
Paddy McLogan, 65, Northern Irish politician and activist,
Leader of Sinn Féin political party between 1950 and 1962, was found dead in the garden of his home in
Blanchardstown, the victim of a gunshot wound to the head. His Walther 9mm pistol was found by his side, along with a spent cartridge; a coroner's inquest concluded that the cause of death was an accident resulting from falling while carrying a loaded weapon, rather than a suicide or a homicide.[121][122]
John White, 27, Scottish soccer football player for
Tottenham Hotspur and for the Scottish national team, was killed when he was struck by lightning while playing a round of golf at the
Crews Hill golf course outside London.[123]
The U.S. Air Force made its first successful test of the uncrewed glider
ASSET (Aerothermodynamic Elastic Structural Systems Environmental Tests) "in the preview of the way future explorers will return to the earth". The outside of the arrow-shaped craft reached temperatures of 2,200 °C (4,000 °F) as it reached a speed of 19,000 kilometres (12,000 mi) per hour during its glide down to the ocean from an altitude of 70 kilometres (43 mi).[124]
Representatives of
Iran,
Pakistan and
Turkey issued a joint statement from
Istanbul, establishing the RCD (Regional Cooperation for Development).[125]
In
Boardman, Ohio, a suburb of Youngstown, brothers Forrest Raffel and Leroy Raffel opened the first
Arby's fast food restaurant. According to the company's history, the operators of the restaurant supply company Raffel Brothers, Inc., originally wanted to call the chain "Big Tex", but were unsuccessful in negotiating with the Akron businessman who owned the rights to the name. Forrest Raffel would say later, "We came up with Arby’s®, which stands for R.B., the initials of Raffel Brothers, although I guess customers might think the initials stand for roast beef”.[127]
Four men, who had been feared dead after their motorboat disappeared in the Atlantic Ocean on July 14, were rescued alive by an American merchant ship, the Maiden, after their raft was spotted by a
U.S. Navy plane about 420 miles (680 km) off the United States coast. The men, all from Connecticut, had been aboard a yacht, the Gooney Bird, before being forced to abandon ship.[128]
Three white employees of a plumbing firm in
Greenwood, Mississippi, became the first people to be arrested under the new Civil Rights Act, and were criminally charged with violating the civil rights of an African American man when they beat him up for trying to enter a local movie theater.[129]
U.S. President Johnson and his challenger in the upcoming November presidential election, Barry Goldwater, met in the White House at Goldwater's request, and agreed that both sides should avoid making "racial tensions" (between white and black Americans) an issue in the campaign.[130] According to Goldwater, the two men also agreed that the U.S. policy regarding Vietnam would not be an issue during the campaign either, and both honored the agreement as candidates.[131]
Frederick John Harris, a white member of the terrorist group
African Resistance Movement, planted a time bomb inside a suitcase which he left at the "whites only" railroad platform at the
Johannesburg Park Station in
South Africa. The explosion injured 24 people. One of them, 77-year-old Ethel Rhys, would die of her injuries a month later. On April 1, 1965, Harris would be executed.[132]
At a press conference, President Johnson publicly revealed the existence of the
Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird spy plane, which he said could fly at three times the speed of sound, at altitudes of more than 80,000 feet (24,000 m) and could "provide worldwide reconnaissance ability" to the United States.[133]
The Egyptian cargo ship SS Star of Alexandria exploded and sank in the harbor at
Annaba, Algeria, killing at least twenty people and injuring at least 165 others.[134][135]
Barry Bonds, American Major League Baseball player who holds the record for most home runs in a season (73 in 2001) and most home runs in a career (762); in
Riverside, California
Hanoi Radio charged in a broadcast that American ships had fired upon North Vietnamese fishing craft, making the first assertion of United States aggression against North Vietnam.[137]
Ninety-four passengers on the Automara express train in
Portugal were killed in an accident near
Custóias, when their overcrowded
railroad car became uncoupled from the rest of the train, and hurtled down an embankment. The group was returning home to
Oporto from the beach resort at
Póvoa de Varzim, and had only a few minutes left on their trip when disaster struck. The car they were in was supposed to carry no more than 70 people, and more than twice that many (161) had been on board.[138][139]
In an apparent retaliation for the bombing of the Johannesburg railroad station three days earlier, a newly-constructed refugee center in
Francistown in neighboring Bechuanaland (now
Botswana) was destroyed by a bomb on the eve of its dedication ceremony. Nobody was injured in the bombing, which was believed to have been carried out by the
South African Bureau of State Security, but the building was a total loss.[140]
Member nations of the
Organization of American States, with the exception of
Mexico agreed to avoid any trade with
Cuba (other than food and medical supplies) in response to Cuban support of guerrilla operations in South America.[141][142]
AstronautsJames A. McDivitt and
Edward H. White II were named as command pilot and pilot, respectively, for the
Gemini 4 mission scheduled for the first quarter of 1965. The backup crew for the mission would be
Frank Borman, command pilot, and
James A. Lovell, Jr., pilot. The mission was scheduled for up to four days' duration. At a
press conference on July 29 at Manned Spacecraft Center, Deputy Gemini Program Manager
Kenneth S. Kleinknecht said that on the second crewed Gemini
space flight an astronaut would first be exposed to the hazards of
outer space without full spacecraft protection. Although he first said that the experiment would involve "
stepping into space," he later modified this by saying that it might involve nothing more than opening a hatch and standing up.[15]
Sir
Winston Churchill attended a meeting of the House of Commons for the last time, 63 years after he had made his first appearance as a Member of Parliament. The 89-year-old, former leader of the Conservative Party and twice
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, would be voted a resolution of thanks the next day, and would pass away six months later.[143]
The first
comic book convention to feature well-known artists was held as a one-day event at the Workman's Circle Building in New York City, after being organized by readers Bernie Bubnis and Ron Fradkin. The New York Comicon attracted 50 people in its first outing.[144]
The United States made plans to send 5,000 more American troops to South Vietnam, bringing the total number of United States forces in Vietnam to 21,000.[145]
Sir
Winston Churchill retired from the
House of Commons at the age of 89 after 64 years as a Member of Parliament. Labour and Liberal MPs joined those of Churchill's Conservative Party in honoring the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. A resolution in praise of Churchill was passed unanimously; the only other such honor had been accorded in a vote of thanks to the Duke of Wellington. Prime Minister and fellow Tory
Alec Douglas-Home spoke of "the luster the right honourable gentleman, the member for
Woodford" had brought to Commons. Opposition Leader and future Prime Minister
Harold Wilson, speaking for Labour, said, "In our darkest hour of 1940, Churchill was the choice of the nation"; and Liberal leader
Jo Grimond praised Churchill for having led the UK "with immense power, through crisis, without weakening democracy" and former Prime Minister
Harold Macmillan said, "He is the greatest member of Parliament of this, or any other age."[148]
Republican nominee Barry Goldwater challenged his Democratic Party rival, incumbent U.S. President Johnson, to a series of
televised presidential debates in the same format as the
Kennedy–Nixon debates of 1960.[149] With nothing to gain, President Johnson declined to meet Goldwater on television, and no presidential debates would take place until 1976.
The destroyer
USS Maddox was sent into the
Gulf of Tonkin on a mission to conduct surveillance of North Vietnam communications, and would clash with a North Vietnamese ship one week later.[150]
Ranger 7 was successfully launched toward the Moon from
Cape Kennedy in the first successful test of the Atlas rocket.[151][152]
North American conducted the first tow test vehicle (TTV) captive-flight test required by the Paraglider Landing System Program. A
helicopter towed the TTV to 2,600 feet (790 m). After about 20 minutes of total flight time, the
test pilot brought the TTV to a smooth three-point landing. The tow cable was released immediately after touchdown, the wing about four seconds later. This highly successful flight was followed on August 7 by a free-flight test that was much less successful. After the TTV was towed by helicopter to 15,500 feet (4,700 m) and released, it went into a series of uncontrolled turns, and the pilot was forced to bail out. North American then undertook a test program to isolate the malfunction and correct it, including 14 radio-controlled, half-scale TTV test flights between August 24 and December 13. Two highly successful radio-controlled, full-scale TTV free flights on December 15 and 17 justified another attempted pilot-controlled flight on December 19, with excellent results.[15]
In New York City, "the leaders of the six major Negro organizations in the United States" signed a statement agreeing to "a broad curtailment, if not total moratorium, on all mass marches, mass picketing, and mass demonstrations until after election day, next November 3" and to concentrate instead on working to defeat Barry Goldwater in the presidential election.
Roy Wilkins of the
NAACP;
Martin Luther King Jr. of the
SCLC;
John Lewis of the
SNCC;
A. Philip Randolph of the Negro-American Labor Council;
Whitney Young of the
National Urban League; and
James Farmer of the
Congress of Racial Equality signed for their respective organizations.[154][155]
Flight Crew Support Division personnel visited
Langley Research Center for a simulation of the Gemini optical rendezvous maneuver. The simulation projected a flashing target against a background of stars inside a 40-foot (12 m) diameter
radome, representing the view from the command pilot station and window port. During the demonstration, a lighted window reticle was found to be useful in the line-of-sight control task.[15]
In response to a request from
NASA Headquarters, Gemini Program Office (GPO) provided a study for Gemini missions beyond the 12 originally planned. "The
Advanced Gemini Missions Conceptual Study" described 16 further missions, including a
space station experiment, a satellite chaser mission, a lifeboat rescue mission, and both a
circumlunar and
lunar orbiting mission. On February 28, 1965, GPO reported that a preliminary proposal for Gemini follow-on missions to test the land landing system had not been approved. Spare Gemini launch vehicles 13, 14, and 15 were canceled, and there were no current plans for Gemini missions beyond the approved 12-flight program.[15]
In the British protectorate of
Northern Rhodesia, still three months away from becoming independent as the
Republic of Zambia, government troops captured the stronghold of the 75,000-member
Lumpa Church and brought a temporary halt to their attacks on rural villages in the Northern Province. In the previous week, the sect's members had killed more than 200 people. When the heavily-armed government troops surrounded the headquarters at Sione, the sect's leader,
Alice Lenshina, had escaped. Rather than surrender, the tribesmen charged at the government soldiers with spears; 65 of the sect members died in the gunfire, and two of the soldiers were slightly injured.[157]
The United Kingdom agreed to grant independence to
The Gambia, its "first and last colonial possession in West Africa", effective February 18, 1965. Sir
Dawda Jawara, Prime Minister of the British protectorate, had led a delegation for an eight-day conference in London to ask for independence in
February 1965, while former Chief Minister
Pierre Sarr N'Jie had asked for a
December 1965 date so that new voters could be registered before elections could be held.[158]
The Central Committee of the Soviet Union's Communist Party addressed a letter to the Chinese Communist Party and expressed concern over the differences that had arisen between the two parties in the previous four years. A proposal was advanced for Chinese representatives to come to Moscow on December 15. The Chinese would issue a hostile reply on August 30.[159]
Patrol boats from the
Republic of Vietnam Navy (South Vietnam) moved into the
Gulf of Tonkin on an American-funded
covert mission, and attacked two islands off
North Vietnam, Hon Me and Hon Ngu.[137][160] A retaliatory attack by the North Vietnamese on an American gunboat, on August 2, would become the basis for American escalation in the
Vietnam War.
Born:
Jürgen Klinsmann, manager of the U.S. national soccer team (2011–2016) and the German national team (2004–2006), and striker for the West German national team; in
Göppingen, West Germany
The U.S. lunar orbiter
Ranger 7 sent back "history's first close-up photographs of the moon", with images 1000 times more clear than anything ever seen from Earth-bound
telescopes.[161] In all, the orbiter transmitted 4316 photographs to the
Jet Propulsion Laboratory in
Pasadena, California before impacting at the Mare Nubium at 1325:49 UTC.[162] At 1308:36 UTC (5:08 a.m. at the JPL in California), the camera began transmitting its first images, with the final one 3/10ths of a second before it became the first American spacecraft to "land" on the Moon.[163]
The first "all-nuclear task force" began
Operation Sea Orbit, departing from
Gibraltar on a voyage around the world without refueling. The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier
USS Enterprise, and the guided missile cruisers
USS Long Beach, and
USS Bainbridge were powered solely by nuclear reactors, and would travel 30,565 nautical miles in 65 days before completing their mission on October 1.[164]
Died:Jim Reeves, 40, American country singer, was killed when the small plane he was piloting encountered a violent thunderstorm while flying over
Brentwood, Tennessee. Reeves and a friend, piano player Dean Manuel, were returning to Nashville from
Batesville, Arkansas.[165] After a two day search, the light plane would be found in a thickly wooded area.[166]
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