June 1964

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The following events occurred in June 1964:

June 1, 1964 (Monday)

• The Kenyan Air Force is established.
• An Act of Parliament proposed by Jean Chrétien changes the name of Trans-Canada Air Lines to "Air Canada", with effect from 1 January 1965.

June 2, 1964 (Tuesday)

• US Senator Barry Goldwater wins the California Republican Presidential primary, making him the overwhelming favorite for the nomination.
• Five million shares of stock in the Communications Satellite Corporation (Comsat) are offered for sale at $20 a share, and the issue is quickly sold out.

June 3, 1964 (Wednesday)

• South Korean President Park Chung Hee declares martial law in Seoul, after 10,000 student demonstrators overpower police.
• Belgian collier ship Poseidon 3 collides with Bencruachan in the Scheldt at Hansweert, Netherlands, and sinks, with the loss of one life.
• Born: James Purefoy, English actor, in Taunton
• Died: Frans Eemil Sillanpää, 75, Finnish writer, Nobel Prize laureate

June 4, 1964 (Thursday)

• The first Soviet communications satellite, Molniya-1 No.2, is launched at 05:00 UTC, on a Molniya 8K78 carrier rocket, from Site 1/5 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome. A motor circuit in the servo controlling the core stage throttle failed 104 seconds into the flight, resulting in the throttle becoming jammed closed and the fuel supply to the engines being stopped. Prior to the release of information about its mission, NASA had incorrectly identified the launch of Molniya-1 No.2 as a failed attempt to launch a Zond spacecraft on a circumlunar technology demonstration mission, and assigned it the placeholder designation Zond 1964A.
• The failing Rolls Razor company's account with Barclays Bank is overdrawn by £485,000; despite this, John Bloom, managing director of persuades the company's board of directors to pay out dividends to the value of £209,719.
• The United Nations Security Council passes Resolution 189, condemning military incursions into Cambodia.

June 5, 1964 (Friday)

• The deep-ocean research submersible DSV Alvin is commissioned by the United States Navy.

June 6, 1964 (Saturday)

• With a temporary order, the rocket launches at Cuxhaven are terminated.
• Over Laos, Pathet Lao antiaircraft artillery shoots down a U.S. Navy RF-8A Crusader photographic reconnaissance aircraft piloted by Lieutenant Charles F. Klusmann. It is the first U.S. Navy aircraft and first American fixed-wing aircraft lost over Indochina in the Vietnam War era.
• The Rolling Stones make their American TV debut on The Hollywood Palace.
• Silver City Airways announces that it has airlifted its one millionth car between the UK and continental Europe.
• Died: Guy Banister, FBI agent cited during the 1967 Trial of Clay Shaw as part of the conspiracy to kill John F. Kennedy.

June 7, 1964 (Sunday)

• The Taça das Nações football tournament, held in Brazil to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Brazilian Football Confederation, ends in victory for Argentina.
• Died: Violet Attlee, Countess Attlee, 68, wife of former British PM Clement Attlee (cerebral haemorrhage); Charlie Llewellyn, 87, first non-white South African Test cricketer

June 8, 1964 (Monday)

• An anonymous caller rings Malcolm X's home and tells Betty Shabazz to "tell him he's as good as dead."
• Born: Fabrizio Cassol, Belgian saxophonist, first to use the aulochrome, in Ougrée

June 9, 1964 (Tuesday)

• Lal Bahadur Shastri becomes Prime Minister of India.
• In a US Federal Court at Kansas City, Kansas, army deserter George John Gessner, 28, is convicted of passing United States secrets to the Soviet Union.
• Died: Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, 85, Canadian-born newspaper publisher and politician

June 10, 1964 (Wednesday)

• The U.S. Senate votes cloture of the Civil Rights Bill after a 75-day filibuster.

June 11, 1964 (Thursday)

• Greece rejects direct talks with Turkey over Cyprus.
• In Cologne, Germany, Walter Seifert attacks students and teachers in an elementary school with a flamethrower, killing 10 and injuring 21.
• Lal Bahadur Shastri, the new Prime Minister of India, broadcasts to the nation, saying: "There comes a time in the life of every nation when it stands at the cross-roads of history and must choose which way to go. But for us there need be no difficulty or hesitation, no looking to right or left. Our way is straight and clear—the building up of a socialist democracy at home with freedom and prosperity for all, and the maintenance of world peace and friendship with all nations."

June 12, 1964 (Friday)

• Pennsylvania Governor William Scranton announces his candidacy for the Republican Presidential nomination, as part of a 'stop-Goldwater' movement.
• Nelson Mandela and 7 others are sentenced to life imprisonment in South Africa, and sent to the Robben Island prison.
• An FBI informant reports getting an anonymous telephone call saying "Malcolm X is going to be bumped off."

June 13, 1964 (Saturday)

• Born: Kathy Burke, English actress, comedian, playwright and theatre director, in London

June 14, 1964 (Sunday)

• The 1964 Belgian Grand Prix motor race, held at the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, is won by Jim Clark.

June 15, 1964 (Monday)

• The 2000-series rapid transit cars (2001–2180), built by the Pullman Car Company of Chicago, Illinois, are placed in service on the Chicago 'L' rail system. These cars represent the first generation of the Chicago Transit Authority High Performance Family.
• Born: Courteney Cox, US actress, in Birmingham, Alabama; Michael Laudrup, Danish footballer and manager, in Frederiksberg

June 16, 1964 (Tuesday)

• Keith Bennett, 12, is abducted by Myra Hindley and Ian Brady. Bennett vanished on his way to his grandmother's house in Longsight. Hindley lured him into her Mini pick-up, in which Brady was sitting, by asking for help in loading some boxes, after which she said she would drive the boy home. She drove to a lay-by on Saddleworth Moor, and Brady went off with Bennett, supposedly looking for a lost glove. Hindley kept watch, and after about 30 minutes Brady reappeared, alone and carrying a spade that he had hidden there earlier. When Hindley asked how he had killed Bennett, Brady said that he had sexually assaulted the boy and strangled him with a piece of string.

June 17, 1964 (Wednesday)

• A missing persons investigation is launched in Fallowfield, Manchester, as police search for twelve-year-old Keith Bennett, who went missing on the previous evening. The boy's stepfather, Jimmy Johnson, becomes a suspect; in the two years following Bennett's disappearance, Johnson was taken for questioning on four occasions. Detectives searched under the floorboards of the Johnsons' house, and on discovering that the houses in the row were connected, extended the search to the entire street.
• Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters begin cross-country bus trip in Further (bus)

June 18, 1964 (Thursday)

• Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev arrives in Copenhagen, in the course of a five-day official visit to Denmark.
• Died: Giorgio Morandi, 73, Italian painter and printmaker

June 19, 1964 (Friday)

• U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy, 32, and Senator Birch Bayh, 36, are seriously injured in a private plane crash at Southampton, Massachusetts; the pilot is killed.
• United States President Lyndon B. Johnson presides over the groundbreaking ceremonies for Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART).

June 20, 1964 (Saturday)

• Civil Air Transport Flight B-908, a Curtiss C-46-CU run by the Taiwanese airline Civil Air Transport, crashes near the village of Shenkang in western Taiwan, killing all 57 people aboard. Among the dead are 20 Americans, one Briton, and members of the Malaysian delegation to the 11th Film Festival in Asia, including businessman Loke Wan Tho and his wife Mavis.

June 21, 1964 (Sunday)

• Spain beats the Soviet Union 2–1 to win the 1964 European Nations Cup.
• Jim Bunning pitches a perfect game for the Philadelphia Phillies, the first in the National League since 1880.
• Danish Chess Grandmaster Bent Larsen finished in a four-way tie for first at the Chess interzonal held in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Also finishing in a tie with Larsen were former world champions Vassily Smyslov and Mikhail Tal plus future world champion Boris Spassky.
• Died: Three civil rights workers, white Americans Michael Schwerner, 24, and Andrew Goodman, 20, and African-American James Chaney, 21, are murdered by gunshot near Philadelphia, Mississippi, by local Klansmen, police officers, and a sheriff. The men's bodies remain undiscovered for nearly two months.

June 22, 1964 (Monday)

• Cooper v. Pate: U.S. Supreme Court rules that state prison inmates have standing in federal courts.
• Born: Dan Brown, US author, in Exeter, New Hampshire

June 23, 1964 (Tuesday)

• The second test match in the Ashes series between England and Australia at Lord's Cricket Ground ends in a draw, despite a score of 120 by John Edrich in England's first innings.
• US President Lyndon Johnson spends the day in Mississippi, talking to local officials and relatives of the three missing civil rights workers.

June 24, 1964 (Wednesday)

• The 1964 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup Final is won by Real Zaragoza.

June 25, 1964 (Thursday)

• A lunar eclipse is visible from South America and Africa, seen as rising over North America, and setting over Europe and Western Asia.
• At the conclusion of the Swazi parliamentary election, the Imbokodvo National Movement claims the majority of seats.
• Died: Princess Auguste of Bavaria, 89; Gerrit Rietveld, 76, Dutch architect and designer

June 26, 1964 (Friday)

• Moise Tshombe returns to the Democratic Republic of the Congo from exile in Spain.

June 27, 1964 (Saturday)

• On completion of a series of exhumations at the former Jasenovac concentration camp in Croatia, it is estimated that the grounds of Donja Gradina hold the remains of 366,000 victims of anti-Serbian extermination practices during the Second World War. In 1989 Serbian anthropologist Srboljub Živanović would publish what he claimed were the full results of the 1964 studies, which in his words had been "suppressed by Tito's government in the name of brotherhood and unity, in order to put less emphasis on the crimes of the Croatian Ustaše".

June 28, 1964 (Sunday)

• Australian steam locomotive 3801 makes a non-stop run from Sydney to Newcastle, New South Wales. Just failing to break the two-hour barrier, this remains the fastest journey from Sydney to Newcastle by rail (2 hours 1 minute 51 seconds).
• A body found in woods near Bracknell, UK, leads to a significant case in the history of the use of entomology to assist criminal investigations. By studying the maggots found on the body, forensic entomologist Professor Keith Simpson was able to establish the date of death at around 16 June 1964. Missing persons records for that date led the police to believe that the body was that of Peter Thomas, who had gone missing from his home in Lydney. William Brittle, a business partner of Peter Thomas is subsequently convicted of the murder.
• The 1964 French Grand Prix is held at the Rouen-Les-Essarts circuit and is won by Jim Clark.
• Malcolm X, now known as El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, delivers "by any means necessary" speech announcing the creation of the Organization of Afro-American Unity.
• Died: Eduards Kalniņš, 87, Latvian general

June 29, 1964 (Monday)

• The Filipino destroyer escort Rajah Soliman is sunk while tied up at the dock by Typhoon Winnie/Dading. It was later raised and sold for scrap.
• Manx Radio commences broadcasting from Douglas, Isle of Man after receiving its first Low power broadcast licence from the United Kingdom's General Post Office.

June 30, 1964 (Tuesday)

• End of regularly scheduled steam locomotive service on the narrow gauge White Pass and Yukon Route.