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Semenovich  Bongo, Albert-Bernard  Brambell, Wilfrid  Branco, Humberto Castelo  Brezhnev, Leonoid Ilych  Brosio, Manilo  Brown, George  Callaghan, James  Cand¡a, Alfredo Ovando  Chaskalson, Arthur  Chi-Minh, Ho  Clarke, Michael  Constantine II  Crosby, David Van Cortland  Crossman, Richard  Daltrey, Roger  Davies, David Russell Gordon  Davis, Ivor  Dertinger, Georg  de Wet, Quartus  Douglas-Home, Alexander Frederick  Dubcek, Alexander  Dury, Ian  Elizabeth II  Entwistle, John  Eshkol, Levi  Evren, Kenan  Faisal I  Fanon, Frantz  Foot, Dingle  Frazier, Joseph William  Frei-Montalva, Eduardo  Gandhi, Indira Nehru  Gardiner, Gerald  Gaulle, Charles Andre Marie Joseph de  Golding, William  Goldwater, Barry Morris  Gorbach, Alfons  Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich  Gordon-Walker, Patrick  Goulart, Joao  Grimmond, Jo  Guanhua, Qiao  Harrison, George  Healey, Denis  Hillman, Chris  Hodgkin, Dorothy Crowfoot  Holdorf, Willi  Holt, John  Howe, Geoffrey  Hoyle, Fred  Hurst, Geoffrey Charles  Hussein, Saddam  Hussein I  Ikeda, Hayato  Jeffrey, Joel  Jenkins, Roy  Johnson, Lyndon Baines  Kantor, James  Kathrada, Ahmed  Kaunda, Kenneth  Kenyatta, Jomo  Khan, Mohammad Daud  Khanh, Nguyen  Khomeini, Ruhollah  Khruschev, Nikita Sergeyevich  King  Klaus, Josef  Kosygin, Aleksei Nikolaevich  Kuanda, Kenneth David  Lennon, John Winston  Leoni, Raul  Liston, Sonny  Lodge, Henry Cabot  Lubbers, Rudolph Franz Marie  MacArthur, Douglas  MacMillan, Maurice Harold  Mandela, Nelson Rolihlahla  Mansur, Hassan Ali  Marcuse, Herbert  Mason, Roy  Maudling, Reginald  Mayfield, Julian  Mazurov, Kirill Trofimovich  Mbeki, Govan  Mboya, Thomas Joseph  McCartney, Paul  McGuinn, Roger  McIntosh, Lorraine  McLuhan, Herbert Marshall  McNamara, Robert  Meaden, Peter  Merzagora, Cesare  Mhlaba, Raymond  Mikoyan, Anastas  Mlangeni, Andrew  Mlynar, Zdenek  Moi, Daniel Toroitich arap  Molotov, Vyacheslav Mikhailovich  Moon, Keith  Moore, Bobby  Morrison, James Douglas "Jim"  Most, Mickie  Motsoaledi, Elias  Mugabe, Robert Gabriel  Nehru, Jawaharlal  Nguyen, Nguyen  Nyerere, Julius Kambarage  Ochab, Edward  Ortu¤o, Ren‚ Barrientos  Oswald, Lee Harvey  Papandreou, George  Pardoe, John  Paul I  Paul VI  Pitney, Gene  Podgorny, Nikolai Viktorovich  Powell, John Enoch  Prokhorov, Alexander  P'u-i  Quaife, Peter  Roberto, Holden Alvaro  Ruby, Jack  Sadat, Anwar  Saragat, Giusepe  Sato, Eisaku  Sellars, Peter  Sharp, Jnr, Grant  Shastri, Lal Bahadur  Sisulu, Walter  Smith, Ian Douglas  Soskice, Frank  Stefano, Alfred Di  Stein, John "Jock"  Stoph, Willi  Swart, Charles Robberts  Tanaka, Kakuei  Taylor, Maxwell  Terry, Luther  Teshigahara, Hiroshi  Thatcher, Margaret Hilda  Townshend, Pete  Trautman, Bernhard Carl "Bert"  Tse-Tung, Mao  Tshombe, Moise-Kapenda  Vance, Cyrus  Walker, Gordon  Warren, Earl  Westmoreland, William  Wet, Quartus de  Wheeler, Earle  Williams, Marcia  Wilson, James Harold  Win, Ne  X, Malcolm  Yutar, Percy  Zhen, Peng  Zimmerman, Robert Allen Places  Aswan Dam 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Alliance   Ball, George   24th May   Asks the NSC to authorize the request of Laos & Sth Vietnam for armed forces    Ambassador   Taylor, Maxwell      Appointed Ambassador to Sth Vietnam    Animals, The   Most, Mickie      Discovers The Animals playing at Newcastle's Club A-Go-Go, offers to produce their first single called "Baby Let Me Take You Home" which reaches Number 21 on the UK charts      The Animas' follow up single "House of the Rising Sun", becomes a worldwide Number 1 hit, Most then wins the "Producer of the Year" award at the 1964 Grammy Awards    Anniversary   Gaulle, Charles Andre Marie Joseph de    Paris   Refuses to attend the 20th anniversary because tpp few French troops partake    Arrest   Hussein, Saddam    Oct   Arrested for a 2nd time    Oct   Arrested for conspiring against President Aref    Arrest   Mandela, Nelson Rolihlahla   2nd Feb   President de Klerk announces his intention to release Nelson Mandela    Arrest   Mbeki, Govan      Arrested with Nelson Mendella    Assassination   Johnson, Lyndon Baines      Just before the 1964 presidential election, President Johnson orders the Warren Commission documentation to be sealed against public availability for 75 years (until 2039)    Assassination   Oswald, Lee Harvey   12th April Dallas   The Warren Commission concludes that lee Harvey Oswald assassinated Kennedy    Sep   The Warren Commission finds that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in the murder of Kennedy, and that Jack Ruby acted alone in the murder of Oswald    Assassination   Ruby, Jack    Sep   The Warren Commission finds that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in the murder of Kennedy, and that Jack Ruby acted alone in the murder of Oswald    Assassination   Warren, Earl    Sep   In late September 1964, after a 10 month investigation, the Warren Commission Report is published    Sep   The Warren Commission finds that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in the murder of Kennedy, and that Jack Ruby acted alone in the murder of Oswald    Aswan Dam   Khruschev, Nikita Sergeyevich   14th May Aswan Dam   Khruschev opens the Aswan Dam    Award Order of Merit   Hodgkin, Dorothy Crowfoot      Only the 2nd woman to win the order of merit, the 1st was Florence Nightingale    Battle of Tonkin Gulf   Johnson, Lyndon Baines   2nd Aug Tonkin Gulf   A class that triggers USAbombing against Nth Vietnam   2nd Aug Tonkin Gulf   Claims USS Maddox was attacked 30 miles offsore not 13 miles claimed by nth Vietnam   2nd Aug Tonkin Gulf   The Tonkin Gulf incident is used to escalate the war in Vietnam   2nd Aug Tonkin Gulf   USS Turner Joy & Maddox report they have been attacked by Nth Vietnamese torpedo boats   5th Aug Tonkin Gulf   Orders the bombing of North Vietnamese bases in retaliation for the Tonkin Gulf attack    Beatles, The   Davis, Ivor      Daily Express journalist who ghost writes George Harris on's column on the Beatles ' tour of America    Beatles, The   Lennon, John Winston   11th Feb   The Beatles begin their first USAtour at the Coliseum in Washington, D.C   26th June   The Beatles release "A Hard Day's Night" album   6th July London   The world premiere of The Beatles ' 'A Hard Day's Night' takes place in London    Beatles, The   McCartney, Paul   11th Feb   The Beatles begin their first USAtour at the Coliseum in Washington, D.C   26th June   The Beatles release "A Hard Day's Night" album   6th July London   The world premiere of The Beatles ' 'A Hard Day's Night' takes place in London    Birth   Benn, Nigel   22nd Jan   Birth of Nigel Benn    Birth   Elizabeth II   10th Mar London   Birth of Edward, gives birth to Prince Edward    Birth   McIntosh, Lorraine   13th May   Birth of Lorraine McIntosh, singer with Deacon Blue    Bombing of Vietnam   Khanh, Nguyen   4th May   Requests the USAAmbassador Henry Lodge to bomb North Vietnam    Budget   Callaghan, James   11th Nov London   Announces increases in social benefits & the introduction of capital gains tax    Burial   Biryuzov, Sergei Semenovich      Buried in the Kremlin wall    Byrds, The   Clarke, Michael    Los Angeles   Founder Member of The Byrds    Byrds, The   Crosby, David Van Cortland