The World of 1964
World Events
Nelson Mandela sentenced to life imprisonment in South Africa
Khrushchev is deposed; Kosygin becomes premier and Brezhnev becomes first secretary of the Communist Party
China detonates its first atomic bomb.
U.S. Events
President: Lyndon B. Johnson
Vice President: none
Population: 191,888,791
Life expectancy: 70.2 years
Violent Crime Rate (per 1,000):
23.9
Property Crime Rate (per 1,000):
22.0
Homicide Rate (per 100,000):
5.1
US GDP (1998 dollars):
$663 billion
Federal spending: $118.53 billion
Federal debt: $316.1 billion
Consumer Price Index: 31
Unemployment: 5.7%
Cost of a first-class stamp:
$0.05
 US Supreme Court rules that Congressional districts should be roughly equal in population (Feb. 17).
 Three civil rights workers—Schwerner, Goodman, and Cheney—murdered in Mississippi (June). Background: Civil Rights
 President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy issues Warren Report concluding that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone.
 Jack Ruby convicted of murder in slaying of Lee Harvey Oswald.
World Series
St. Louis Cardinals d. NY Yankees (4-3)
NBA Championship
Boston d. SF Warriors (4-1)
Stanley Cup
Toronto d. Detroit (4-3)
Wimbledon
Women: Maria Bueno d. M. Smith (6-4 7-9 6-3)
Men: Roy Emerson d. F. Stolle (6-4 12-10 4-6 6-3)
Kentucky Derby Champion
Northern Dancer
NCAA Basketball Championship
UCLA d. Duke (98-83)
NCAA Football Champions
Alabama (AP, UPI), (10-1-0); Arkansas (FW), (11-0-0) & Notre Dame (NFF), (9-1-0)
Folk musician Bob Dylan becomes increasingly popular during this time of social protest with songs expressing objection to the condition of American society.
Psychedelic bands such as The Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane enjoy great success with songs celebrating the counterculture of the '60s.
Peyton Place premieres on ABC and is the first prime-time soap opera. Color television makes its way into U.S. homes.
The Beatles appear on The Ed Sullivan Show.
Academy Award, Best Picture: Tom Jones, Tony Richardson, producer (United Artists-Lopert Pictures)
Nobel Prize for Literature:
Jean-Paul Sartre (France) (declined)
Record of the Year:
"The Days of Wine and Roses," Henry Mancini
Album of the Year:
The Barbra Streisand Album, Barbra Streisand (Columbia)
Song of the Year:
"The Days of Wine and Roses," Henry Mancini and Johnny Mercer, composers
Miss America:
Donna Axum (AR)
Movies
 Red Desert, Dr. Strangelove, My Fair Lady, Mary Poppins, Zorba the Greek, Becket
Ranger VII takes 4,316 high-resolution pictures of the moon.
US Surgeon General Luther Terry affirms that cigarette smoking causes cancer.
Deaths
 Herbert Clark Hoover
 Douglas MacArthur
 Harpo Marx
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