MultiEducator · The 20th Century Almanac
HistoryCentral Est. 1996
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1964
The 20th Century Almanac · The Sixties

1964

Major Events · Sports · Music · Screen · Prizes

President Johnson signed the landmark Civil Rights Act and launched his War on Poverty, while the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution opened the door to wider war in Vietnam. The Beatles ignited Beatlemania in America, King won the Nobel Peace Prize, and My Fair Lady won Best Picture.

A Year in Review
Best Picture
My Fair Lady
Nobel · Literature
Sartre
World Series
No. 1 Song
Top TV
Bonanza (NBC)
Academy · Actor
Rex Harrison

Major Events of 1964

11 events
China Explodes A BombTanganyika and Zanzibar MergeTonkin Gulf ResolutionBeatles in AmericaCivil Right Act of 1964Warren CommissionDr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Receives Nobel PrizePresident ElectionReports on SmokingIBM- System 360Verrazano Bridge

Screen & Television

At the box office & on the air

Top Movies

  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

Top Television

  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) (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); © 1996-2025

Academy Awards

Honoring 1964
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 & Pulitzer Prizes

The year in letters & science

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" •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••
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.) ••••••••••••••••••••••••••
Peace
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR., leader of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, campaigner for civil rights. ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• PHYSIOLOGY or MEDICINE The prize was awar
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"