In the Year 1964:

• The Beatles appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show, thus sparking American Beatlemania
• Martin Luther King, Jr. was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace
• The Olympics took place in Tokyo
• President Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law the Civil Rights Act
• The Ford Motor Company released the Mustang
• U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law the Civil Rights Act
• Elizabeth Taylor married Richard Burton (for the first time)
• It was a Leap Year
• Gilligan's Island premiered (in black and white)
• It was the Chinese Year of the Dragon
• The World's Fair was held in New York City, for which the famous giant hollow metal globe sculpture known as the "Unisphere" was made
• Nikita Khruschev is deposed by the SOviet Union's Communist Party and is replaced by Leonid Brezhnev
• Cassius Clay, later known as Muhammed Ali, beat Sonny Liston in six rounds to take the world heavyweight boxing title
• Bonni was born in New York City, thus sparking Bonnimania and.... uhm.... no, wait, that's not right. She was born, but really, hardly anyone even noticed, let alone became maniacs over it.
• The rest of the stuff on this list is accurate, however,
• and there's lots more interesting stuff about 1964 at Wikipedia.

Who is Bonni, anyway?