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World Events
U.S. Events
U.S. Statistics
President: Lyndon B. JohnsonVice President: none Population: 191,888,791 Life expectancy: 70.2 years Violent Crime Rate (per 1,000): 23.9 Property Crime Rate (per 1,000): 22.0 Homicide Rate (per 100,000): 5.1 More U.S. Statistics...
Economics
US GDP (1998 dollars): $663 billion
Federal spending: $118.53 billion
Federal debt: $316.1 billion
Consumer Price Index: 31
Unemployment: 5.7%
Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.05
Sports
World SeriesSt. Louis Cardinals d. NY Yankees (4-3)NBA ChampionshipBoston d. SF Warriors (4-1)Stanley CupToronto d. Detroit (4-3)WimbledonWomen: Maria Bueno d. M. Smith (6-4 7-9 6-3)
Men: Roy Emerson d. F. Stolle (6-4 12-10 4-6 6-3)Kentucky Derby ChampionNorthern DancerNCAA Basketball ChampionshipUCLA d. Duke (98-83)NCAA Football ChampionsAlabama (AP, UPI), (10-1-0); Arkansas (FW), (11-0-0) & Notre Dame (NFF), (9-1-0)
Entertainment
Entertainment Awards
Oscars awarded in 1964
Academy Award, Best Picture: Tom Jones, Tony Richardson, producer (United Artists-Lopert Pictures) Nobel Prize for Literature: Jean-Paul Sartre (France) (declined) 1964 Emmy Awards 1964 Tony Awards Grammys awarded in 1964
Record of the Year: "The Days of Wine and Roses," Henry Mancini
Album of the Year: The Barbra Streisand Album, Barbra Streisand (Columbia)
Song of the Year: "The Days of Wine and Roses," Henry Mancini and Johnny Mercer, composers Miss America: Donna Axum (AR) More Entertainment Awards...
Events- Folk musician Bob Dylan becomes increasingly popular during this time of social protest with songs expressing objection to the condition of American society.
- Psychedelic bands such as The Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane enjoy great success with songs celebrating the counterculture of the '60s.
- Peyton Place premieres on ABC and is the first prime-time soap opera. Color television makes its way into U.S. homes.
- The Beatles appear on The Ed Sullivan Show.
Movies- Red Desert, Dr. Strangelove, My Fair Lady, Mary Poppins, Zorba the Greek, Becket
Books- Donald Barthelme, Come Back, Dr. Caligari
- John Berryman, 77 Dream Songs
- John Cheever, The Wapshot Scandal
- James Dickey, Helmets, Two Poems of the Air
- John Hawkes, Second Skin
- Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast
- Katherine Anne Porter, Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter
- Hubert Selby, Last Exit to Brooklyn
Science
Nobel Prizes in Science
Chemistry: Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin (UK), for determining structure of compounds needed in combatting pernicious anemia Physics: Charles Hard Townes (US), Nikolai G. Basov, and Aleksandr M. Prochorov (both USSR), for developing maser and laser principle of producing high-intensity radiation Physiology or Medicine: Konrad E. Bloch (US) and Feodor Lynen (Germany), for research on mechanism and regulation of cholesterol and fatty-acid metabolism
Deaths
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