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Thant makes pub pact with Cyprus on UN force role and relation to Cyprus security forces; details
Pact for S Vietnamese troops to strike inside Laos against Vietnamese guerrilla bases and supply routes reptdly reached in Phoumi Nosavan-Nguyen Khanh talks in Dalat; map
White House study group repts that by '75 it will be economically feasible for huge nuclear powerplants to produce up to 800 million gals of desalted water a day as well as cheap electricity
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 1, 1964, covering April 2, 1964.
The Beatles
The Beatles
Al Hirt
Original Cast
Barbra Streisand
1964Pete Incaviglia, American baseball player and coach[†]
Peter Joseph Incaviglia is an American professional baseball coach and former left fielder who is currently the manager for the Cleburne Railroaders of the American Association of Professional Baseball. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for 12 seasons (1986–1998), for six different big league teams, and also spent one year in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). Incaviglia was drafted in the first round by the Montreal Expos in the 1985 Major League Baseball draft out of Oklahoma State University, then was traded later that same year to the Texas Rangers. He debuted in the major leagues on April 8, 1986, without having spent any time in the minor leagues. His last MLB game was on September 27, 1998.
1964Jonathon Sharkey, American wrestler[†]
Jonathon Tepes Sharkey is an American former professional wrestler, and has been a candidate in multiple elections for public office.
1964The Soviet Union launches Zond 1.[†]
Zond 1 was a spacecraft of the Soviet Zond program. It was the second Soviet research spacecraft to reach Venus, although communications had failed by that time. It carried a 90-centimetre (35 in) spherical landing capsule, containing experiments for chemical analysis of the atmosphere, gamma-ray measurements of surface rocks, a photometer, temperature and pressure gauges, and a motion/rocking sensor in case it landed in water. An experimental Ion thruster was also carried for evaluation.
In 1964, the world population was approximately 3,264,487,339 people[†]