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Dem Sen candidate Kennedy backs direct election of dist loaders, Bronx and statewide, int; move puts him on reformers' side and in direct opposition to Bronx Dem leader Buckley; reformers jubilant; Mayor Wagner, Dem reform Cong candidates Bingham and Scheuer hail move; Sen Keating backs move; Buckley comments
Chou En-lai asks world summit conf to outlaw nuclear weapons, message to Johnson; State Dept rejects it
Drs rept success in treating hyaline membrane disease, of which he died
Khrushchev disagreement with colleagues on agr policies, disclosed by him last Aug, deemed 1 of series of rifts leading to his ouster; D S Polyansky reptdly scored his policies at recent party Central Com conf which ousted Khrushchev
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 21, 1964, covering October 22, 1964.
The Beatles
Barbra Streisand
Dean Martin
The Beatles
Nancy Wilson
1964Dražen Petrović, Croatian basketball player (died 1993)[†]
Dražen Petrović was a Yugoslav and Croatian professional basketball player. A shooting guard, he initially achieved success playing professional basketball in Europe in the 1980s with Cibona and Real Madrid before joining the National Basketball Association (NBA) in 1989.
1964TobyMac, American singer-songwriter and producer[†]
Kevin Michael McKeehan, better known by his stage name TobyMac, is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, and record producer. His road band is known as Diverse City. Widely regarded as one of the most influential Christian artists of all time, he was as a member of the Christian rap-rock trio DC Talk, staying with them from 1987 until they went on hiatus in 2000. He has since continued a successful solo career with the release of ten studio albums: Momentum (2001), Welcome to Diverse City (2004), Portable Sounds (2007), Tonight (2010), Christmas in Diverse City (2011), Eye on It (2012), This Is Not a Test (2015), The Elements (2018), Life After Death (2022), Heaven On My Mind (2025) as well as five remixed albums: Re:Mix Momentum (2003), Renovating Diverse City (2005), Dubbed and Freq'd: A Remix Project (2012), Eye'm All Mixed Up (2014) and The St. Nemele Collab Sessions (2019). He became the third Christian artist to have a No. 1 debut on Billboard 200 chart with Eye on It.
1964Jean-Paul Sartre is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, though he does not accept the prize.[†]
Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre was a French philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary critic, considered a leading figure in 20th-century French philosophy and Marxism. Sartre was one of the key figures in the philosophy of existentialism. His work has influenced sociology, critical theory, post-colonial theory, and literary studies. He was awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature despite attempting to refuse it, saying that he always declined official honors and that "a writer should not allow himself to be turned into an institution."
In 1964, the world population was approximately 3,264,487,339 people[†]