2006-12-02 12:58:05 · 8 answers · asked by dee_1120 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
I was born in 1964 too -- October to be exact. There's a book called October 1964 by David Halberstam. It's about the Yankees-Cardinals World Series of that year. In a review on Amazon.com, someone says this:
The 1964 World Series was won by the heroics of men that the Yankees didn't understand, by men who couldn't play for the Yankees, by virtue of who they were [because they were black]. The Yankees could accept being struck out 15 times by Sandy Koufax [in the 63 series], but when they struck out 13 times against Bob Gibson [in 64] -- on whom their sole scouting report was woefully inaccurate -- it was an outrage. Gibson wasn't supposed to have courage, or determination! Lou Brock wasn't supposed to get more hits in the Series than Mickey Mantle!
(The previous answer that lists 1964 as the year of the Yankees-Dodgers series is mistaken. That was in 1963.)
Also a list of everything that happened (news-wise) in 1964 can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964
2006-12-02 13:15:08 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
the world was still reeling from the death of John F. Kennedy.
We were in the midst of the cold war. the Viet Nam conflict was heating up.
The beatles came to america
and I was 5
2006-12-02 13:00:39 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Major Events of 1964
China Explodes A Bomb
Tanganyika and Zanzibar Merge
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Beatles in America
Civil Right Act of 1964
Warren Commission
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Receives Nobel Prize
President Election
Reports on Smoking
IBM- System 360
Verrazano Bridge
Sports
Olympics
NBA: Boston Celtics
NCAA Football: Alabama
Heisman Trophy: John Huarte
Stanley Cup: Toronto Maple Leafs vs. Detroit Red Wings Series: 4-1
US Open Golf: Julius Boros Score: 293 Course: The Country Club Location: Brookline, MA
World Series: Los Angeles Dodgers vs. NY Yankees Series: 4-0
Chart-Toppers: 1964
1."There! I've said It Again"...Bobby Vinton
2."I Want to Hold Your Hand"...The Beatles
3."She Loves You"...The Beatles
4."Can't Buy Me Love"...The Beatles
5."Hello, Dolly!"...Louis Armstrong
6."My Guy"...Mary Wells
7."Love Me Do"...The Beatles
8."Chapel of Love"...The Dixie Cups
9."A World Without Love"...Peter and Gordon
10."I Get Around"...Beach Boys
Top Movies of 1964
1. The Carpetbaggers
2. It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
3. The Unsinkable Molly Brown
4. Charade
5. The Cardinal
6. Move Over Darling
7. My Fair Lady
8. What a Way to Go
9. Good Neighbor Sam
10. The Pink Panther
Academy Awards
Best Picture: "My Fair Lady"
Best Director: George Cukor..."My Fair Lady"
Best Actor :Rex Harrison..." My Fair Lady"
Best Actress: Julie Andrews..."Mary Poppins"
Nobel Prizes
Chemistry
HODGKIN, DOROTHY CROWFOOT, Great Britain, Royal Society, Oxford University, Oxford, b. 1910, d. 1994:
"for her determinations by X-ray techniques of the structures of important
biochemical substances"
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Literature
SARTRE, JEAN-PAUL, France, b. 1905, d. 1980:
"for his work which, rich in ideas and filled with the spirit of freedom and
the quest for truth, has exerted a far-reaching influence on our age"
(Declined the prize.)
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Peace
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR., leader of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, campaigner for civil rights.
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PHYSIOLOGY or MEDICINE
The prize was awarded jointly to:
BLOCH, KONRAD, U.S.A., Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, b. 1912 (in
Neisse, Germany); and
LYNEN, FEODOR, Germany, Max-Planck-Institut f&Mac217;r Zellchemie, Munich, b. 1911, d. 1979:
"for their discoveries concerning the mechanism and regulation of the
cholesterol and fatty acid metabolism"
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Physics
The prize was divided, one half being awarded to:
TOWNES, CHARLES H., U.S.A., Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) ,
Cambridge, MA, b. 1915; and the other half jointly to:
BASOV, NICOLAY GENNADIYEVICH, USSR, Lebedev Institute for Physics, Akademija Nauk, Moscow, b. 1922; and
PROKHOROV, ALEKSANDR MIKHAILOVICH, USSR, Lebedev Institute for Physics, Akademija Nauk, Moscow, b. 1916:
"for fundamental work in the field of quantum electronics, which has led to
the construction of oscillators and amplifiers based on the maser-laser
principle"
Pulitzer Prizes
History: Sumner Chilton Powell..."Puritain Village"
International Reporting:Malcolm W. Browne..."Associated Press"
& David Halberstam...New York Times
National Reporting: Merriman Smith..."United Press International"
Public Service:
"St. Petersburg Times"
Most Popular Books
Fiction
1."The Spy Who Came in From the Cold" ... John Le Carre. Coward-McCann
2."Candy" ...Terry Southern and Mason Hoffenberg. Putnam
3."Herzog"...Saul Bellow. Viking Press
4."Armageddon"...Leon Uris. Doubleday
5."The Man"...Irving Wallace. Simon & Schuster
6."The Rector of Justin"...Louis Auchincloss. Houghton Mifflin
7."The Martyred"... Richard E. Kim. Braziller
8."You Only Live Twice"...Ian Fleming. New American Library
9."This Rough Magic" ...Mary Stewart. Morrow
10."Convention"...Fletcher Knebel and Charles W. Bailey, H. Harper & Row
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Nonfiction
1."Four Days"...American Heritage and United Press Internanational.
Simon & Schuster
2."1 Need All the Friends I Can Get"... Charles M. Schulz. Determined
Productions
3."Profiles in Courage: Memorial Edition"... John F. Kennedy. Harper & Row
4."In His Own Write"...John Lennon. Simon & Schuster
5."Christmas Is Together-Time"...Charles M. Schulz. Determined Productions
6."A Day in the Life of President Kennedy"... Jim Bishop. Random House
7."The Kennedy Wit"... compiled by Bill Adler. Citadel Press
8."A Moveable Feast"... Ernest Hemingway. Scribner
9."Reminiscences"... General Douglas MacArthur. McGraw-Hill
10."The John F. Kennedys"... Mark Shaw, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Most Popular Television Shows
1. Bonanza (NBC)
2. Bewitched (ABC)
3. Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. (CBS)
4. The Andy Griffith (CBS)
5. The Fugitive (ABC)
6. The Red Skelton Hour (CBS)
7. The Dick Van Dyke Show (CBS)
8. The Lucy Show (CBS)
9. Peyton Place II (ABC)
10. Combat (ABC)
2006-12-02 13:12:39 · answer #3 · answered by SD 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Try: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964
2006-12-02 13:14:24 · answer #4 · answered by Ace Librarian 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Hey!! Me too!
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Happy Birthday!!( 2 US!!)
2006-12-02 13:00:35 · answer #5 · answered by J. Charles 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Labor pains
2006-12-02 13:16:43 · answer #6 · answered by Funnel 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
the civil rights act
2006-12-02 13:01:40 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
president-lyndon b. johnson
2006-12-02 13:00:41 · answer #8 · answered by mightymite1957 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋