On this day
Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
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ONE of the happiest things about a vacation —for a motion picture critic, anyhow—is that it gives him an opportunity to rest his eyes and get his feet on the ground. This is a precious salvation for one who has been straining his orbs and unsettling his intellectual balance for the past ten months or so.
cartoon on Communist Chinese efforts to subvert small states
Dealers in foreign stocks and bonds in Wall Street are down in the dumps as a result of the passage of the new market “reform” law.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 5, 1964, covering August 9, 1964.
The Beatles
Stan Getz And Joao Gilberto Featuring Antonio Carlos Jobim
Louis Armstrong
Original Cast
Barbra Streisand
1964Brett Hull, Canadian-American ice hockey player and manager[†]
Brett Andrew Hull is a Canadian–American former ice hockey player and general manager, and currently an executive vice president of the St. Louis Blues of the National Hockey League (NHL). He played for the Calgary Flames, St. Louis Blues, Dallas Stars, Detroit Red Wings, and Phoenix Coyotes between 1986 and 2005. His career total of 741 goals is fifth highest in NHL history, and he is one of five players to score 50 goals in 50 games. He was a member of two Stanley Cup winning teams — 1999 with the Dallas Stars and 2002 with the Detroit Red Wings. In 2017, Hull was named one of the 100 Greatest NHL Players in history.
1964Hoda Kotb, American journalist and television personality[†]
Hoda Kotb is an American broadcast journalist, television personality, and author. She was the main co-anchor of the NBC News morning show Today from 2018 to 2025, and co-host of its entertainment-focused fourth hour from 2007 to 2025. Kotb also formerly served as a correspondent for the television news magazine program Dateline NBC.
In 1964, the world population was approximately 3,264,487,339 people[†]