1964

From Wikipedia

Centuries: Year in Review 20th Century (19th century - 20th century - 21st century)

Decades: 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s - 1960s - 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s

Years: 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 - 1964 - 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969

Births

January 7 - Nicolas Cage, actor
July 24 - Barry Bonds, baseball player
November 11 - Calista Flockhart (actress: Ally McBeal)

Deaths

October 15 - Cole Porter, American composer
Gerrit Rietveld, Dutch architect

Events

February 11 - The Beatles have their 1st live appearance in US in the Washington DC Coliseum.
February 11 - Greeks & Turks begin fighting in Limassol, Cyprus.
February 11 - Taiwan drops diplomatic relations with France.
April 7 - IBM announces the System/360.
Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan.

Technology

John George Kemeny and Thomas Eugene Kurtz create BASIC (Beginners' All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code), an easy to learn, high level computer language that has popped up on just about every computer and even games console out there

Nobel Prizes

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