"Well, now that we have seen each other,
said the Unicorn, "if you'll believe in me, I'll believe in you. Is that a bargain?"
Lewis Carrol, Through the Looking Glass
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
- 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 was deposed by the Soviet Union's Communist Party, to be replaced by Leonid Brezhnev
- The original pilot for the series (and franchise) that was to eventually become the Star Trek multiverse, was filmed
- Cassius Clay, later known as Muhammed Ali, beat Sonny Liston in six rounds to take the world heavyweight boxing title
- Jawaharlal Nehru, the founder of modern India and then Prime Minister, died
- Bonni was born in New York City, thus sparking Bonnimania and....
uhm.... no, wait, that's not right. She was born,and in New York, 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?
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