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United States (379 US 241 1964): The U.S. Supreme Court rules that, in accordance with the Civil Rights Act of 1964, establishments providing public accommodations must refrain from racial discrimination. December 15 – The Washington Post publishes an article about James Hampton, who had built a glittering religious throne out of recycled ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 4 December 2024. This article is about the year 1964. For other uses, see 1964 (disambiguation). 1964 January February March April May June July August September October November December Calendar year Millennium: 2nd millennium Centuries: 19th century 20th century 21st century Decades: 1940s 1950s 1960s ...
Senator Ted Kennedy presents Joseph P. Kennedy Award to President Johnson, 7 January 1964. January 8 – President Johnson delivers the 1964 State of the Union Address to a joint session of Congress. These remarks serve as the announcement of the legislation that will become known as the War on Poverty. [10]
1964 in the United States by state or territory (54 C) 1964 events in the United States by month (12 C) 1964 disestablishments in the United States (33 C, 12 P)
1964 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan United States wins the most gold medals (36) but the Soviet Union wins the most overall medals (96). This Olympic opening ceremony is first time of live Olympic telecast program by geostationary communication satellite.
The history of the United States from 1945 to 1964 was a time of high economic growth and general prosperity. It was also a time of confrontation as the capitalist United States and its allies politically opposed the Soviet Union and other communist states ; the Cold War had begun.
Maʿālim fī aṭ Ṭarīq, also Ma'alim fi'l-tareeq, (Arabic: معالم في الطريق, romanized: ma‘ālim fī t-tarīq) or Milestones, first published in 1964, is a short book written by the influential Egyptian Islamist author Sayyid Qutb, [1] in which he makes a call to action and lays out a plan to re-create the "extinct" Muslim ...
The 1964 election was a major transition point for the South, and an important step in the process by which the Democrats' former "Solid South" became a Republican bastion. Nonetheless, Johnson still managed to eke out a bare popular majority of 51–49% (6.307 to 5.993 million) in the eleven former Confederate states.