22 January 1964Birth of Nigel BennNigel Benn
Birth of Nigel Benn
Historical records for Great Britain in 1964, rendered directly from the World History Database and ordered by month, day and event.
Birth of Nigel Benn
The DC5 unseat the Beatles "I Want to Hold Your Hand" from its number one spot in the British singles charts with "Glad All Over
Produces The Kinks debut single Long Tall Sally.
The Beatles begin their first US tour at the Coliseum in Washington, D.C
The Beatles begin their first US tour at the Coliseum in Washington, D.C
George Harrison meets Patti Boyd for the first time on the set of "A Hard Days Night"
Birth of Edward, gives birth to Prince Edward
John Lennons first book, In His Own Write, is published and becomes an instant best-seller
Appointed Manager of Hibernian
Lays out a programme for Parliament including further nationalization
The Rolling Stones release their debut UK album.
The Kinks release You Still Want Me.
A National Opinion Poll shows Wilson with a commanding lead, 71% "brilliant"
Replaces Doug Sandom and completes the classic line-up.
Scores West Ham's second equaliser in the 3-2 FA Cup final victory over Preston North End.
Captains West Ham United to a 3-2 FA Cup final victory over Preston North End.
Birth of Lorraine McIntosh, singer with Deacon Blue
The modern Bull Ring shopping centre opens as a major city-centre redevelopment.
Releases Liza Jane under the name Davie Jones with the King Bees, his first commercial single.
The Beatles release "A Hard Days Night" album
The Beatles release "A Hard Days Night" album
The Rolling Stones release It's All Over Now, their first UK number one single.
The world premiere of The Beatles A Hard Days Night takes place in London
The world premiere of The Beatles A Hard Days Night takes place in London
Malta is given independence after 73 years of British colonial rule
Malta is given independence after 73 years of British colonial rule
Produces A Hard Day's Night, combining soundtrack work with a full Beatles studio album.
Returns to Liverpool with the Beatles for a civic reception.
Great Britain performs nuclear Test at Nevada test Site
The Resale Price Maintenance is abolished
The Resale Price Maintenance is abolished
The Resale Price Maintenance is abolished
Release Zoot Suit under the High Numbers name.
The Kinks release You Really Got Me.
Creates the distorted guitar sound on You Really Got Me.
You Really Got Me reaches number one in Britain.
George Harrison forms his own publishing company called Mornyork Ltd, later to become Harrisongs
Malta is given independence after 140 years of British colonial rule
Malta is given independence after 140 years of British colonial rule
The Kinks release their debut album Kinks.
The Conservatives win 43.4% of votes cast & 304 MPs
The Liberals win 2 seats from the Conservatives in Scotland. The Liberals win 11% of the vote & return 9 Members of Parliament
Contests Finchley against Margaret Thatcher but loses by 9,000 votes
Stands unsuccesfully for the leadership of the Conservative Party, wins 15 votes
The Labour Party wins the general election by 4 seats. The Labour Party wins 44.1 percent of votes cast & 317 MPs
Is re-elected as Member of Parliament for Huyton while leading Labour to national victory.
Defeats Alec Douglas-Home's Conservatives and ends thirteen years of Conservative government.
Leads Labour to 317 Commons seats against 304 for the Conservatives and 9 for the Liberals.
Leads Labour to a narrow general election victory.
Retains Coventry East as Labour returns to government.
Retains Birmingham Stechford as Labour returns to government under Harold Wilson.
Elected Member of Parliament
Returns to opposition after Labour wins the 1964 general election.
Healey enters Harold Wilson's cabinet as Secretary of State for Defence.
Healey joins Harold Wilson’s Cabinet as Secretary of State for Defence.
Appointed Foreign Minister
Appointed Minister of Housing and Local Government in Harold Wilson's first government.
Wilson enters office and reviews inherited nuclear policy including Polaris
Appointed Prime Minister of Great Britain, first term
Appointed Home Secretary
Joins Harold Wilson's government as Minister of State at the Ministry of Aviation.
The Kinks release All Day and All of the Night.
Appointed shadow spokesman on pensions
Brown was appointed to the newly created Department of Economic Affairs and Deputy Prime Minister in October 1964 hoping to institute long-term economic planning and remove some of the power of the Treasury
Brown was told that the budget deficit for the coming year was forecast at pounds 800 million, double what the Labour Party had predicted as the worst possible figure before the election, leading economic ministers were presented with three options, including devaluation of the pound sterling, to meet the crisis, they decide on a temporary surcharge on imported goods
Brown was appointed to the newly created Department of Economic Affairs and Deputy Prime Minister in October 1964 hoping to institute long-term economic planning and remove some of the power of the Treasury
Brown was told that the budget deficit for the coming year was forecast at pounds 800 million, double what the Labour Party had predicted as the worst possible figure before the election, leading economic ministers were presented with three options,
including devaluation of the pound sterling, to meet the crisis, they decide on a temporary surcharge on imported goods.
Announces increases in social benefits & the introduction of capital gains tax
A sterling crisis
Produces The Who's recording of I Can't Explain.
Death of Henry Maitland Wilson, 1st Baron Wilson
Scores West Ham United's late winner in the 3-2 final against Preston North End.
Directs The 3rd Secret
A run on the pound causes Wilson to ask Johnson for an International Monetary Fund loan, Johnson is non-committal
Sellers returns as Inspector Clouseau in A Shot in the Dark.
The Animals follow up single "House of the Rising Sun", becomes a worldwide Number 1 hit, Most then wins the "Producer of the Year" award at the 1964 Grammy Awards. Discovers The Animals playing at Newcastles Club A-Go-Go, offers to produce their first single called "Baby Let Me Take You Home" which reaches Number 21 on the UK charts
Produces Anyone Who Had a Heart for Cilla Black, extending his success beyond the Beatles.
Publishes his acclaimed biography of Liberal Prime Minister H. H. Asquith.
Only the 2nd woman to win the order of merit, the 1st was Florence Nightingale
Daily Express journalist who ghost writes George Harrisons column on the Beatles tour of America
Stars in Becket
Reginald Maudling presents the 1964 Budget to the House of Commons as Chancellor of the Exchequer.
The 1964 Budget under Reginald Maudling sets out the Government's taxation, expenditure and borrowing plans.
Begins dictating a detailed ministerial diary onto tape, often at his Oxfordshire home.
First Carry on Film, Carry On Spying
Appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer
Southampton is granted a Royal Charter & granted city status
The success of Steptoe and Son made Brambell a high profile figure on British television, and earns him the major role of Paul McCartneys grandfather in The Beatles first film, "A Hard Days Night"
"Im Sorry, Ill Read That Again" is broadcast on the radio, 1964-1973, Cleese is a cast member & writer & Idle and Chapman are writers
"Im Sorry, Ill Read That Again" is broadcast on the radio, 1964-1973, Cleese is a cast member & writer & Idle and Chapman are writers
"Im Sorry, Ill Read That Again" is broadcast on the radio, 1964-1973, Cleese is a cast member & writer & Idle and Chapman are writers
Handles aviation issues during early British and French Concorde development.
Reviews Britain's participation in the Anglo-French Concorde aircraft programme.
Continental Shelf Act 1964 provides legal control over petroleum and mineral rights on the continental shelf
Convinces the US that a labour Government would not be anti US
Hoyle and Richard Tayler argued that stellar processes alone could not explain the observed cosmic helium abundance.
A sterling crisis. Cromer, Governor of the Bank of England, raises $3,000 million to protect sterling
Wilson founds the Central Statistical Office
The DC5 unseat the Beatles "I Want to Hold Your Hand" from its number one spot in the British singles charts with "Glad All Over. The Dave Clark Five are the first British Invasion band to follow the Beatles to America, where they achieved 15 consecutiv Top 20 hits
Death of William Maxwell Aitken
Releases a cover of the Beatles song I'll Cry Instead as his debut solo single.
Signs a solo recording contract with Decca Records.
Forced to apologise to the American Ambassador for a drunken speech about Kennedy
Sellers performs the title character, the eccentric nuclear strategist Dr. Strangelove.
Sellers plays RAF officer Group Captain Lionel Mandrake in Dr. Strangelove.
Sellers portrays United States President Merkin Muffley in Dr. Strangelove.
Sellers is originally intended to play Major Kong in Dr. Strangelove, but the fourth role is reassigned to Slim Pickens.
A run on the pound causes Wilson to ask Johnson for an International Monetary Fund loan, Johnson is non-committal
Dury wins a place at the Royal College of Art where he is taught by the eminent British artist Peter Blake
Plays an important part in advising Wilson about Labours campaign strategy in the general election, it is decided that Wilson would make only a limited number of major campaign speeches outside London, while Brown would tour the country speaking in all the marginal seats (his main theme was predicting an imminent economic crisis)
After Labour won the 1964 election Healey serves throughout the Government as Secretary of State for Defence.
Stands unsuccesfully as a leader of the Conservative Party
Main author of the Labour Party manifesto for the 1964 general election
Selected to fight the safe seat of Stepney in the election, which he easily retained
Defeated at the Smethwick election to a Conservative candidate who campaigns with the slogan, "If you want a nigger neighbour, vote Labour"
A National Opinion Poll shows Wilson with a commanding lead, 71% "brilliant". Launches a campaign in the Spring, convinced there will be a general election in May
Campaigns to return Labour to government after thirteen years in opposition.
Presents Labour as a modernising party committed to science, planning and economic renewal.
Emergency Laws Re-enactments and Repeals Act 1964 regularises selected emergency legislation and repeals obsolete powers
The EFTA objection to import surcharges convinces Wilson Britain needs to join the EC. Imposes import tax on everything except food, raw materials & tobacco
Roger Penrose proves that an imploding star will necessarily produce a singularity once it has formed an event horizon
Named the Football Writers Association Footballer of the Year
Laine helps form the Moody Blues from Birmingham rhythm-and-blues musicians.
Directs Goldfinger
The Animals follow up single "House of the Rising Sun", becomes a worldwide Number 1 hit, Most then wins the "Producer of the Year" award at the 1964 Grammy Awards
The publishing company is reorganised under the Haymarket name after investment by its printer.
Healey reassesses Britain’s global defence commitments while seeking substantial reductions in military expenditure.
Most has instant success with Manchester band Hermans Hermits after being approached by their manager Harvey Lisberg, their first Most production, "Im Into Something Good", goes straight to #1
Developed the idea that particles were massless when the universe began, acquiring mass a fraction of a second later, as a result of interacting with a theoretical field now known as the Higgs field
Higgs postulates that the Higgs field permeates space, giving all elementary subatomic particles that interact with it their mass.
In quantum field theory, the Higgs Mechanism is a way that the massless gauge bosons in a gauge theory acquire a mass by interacting with a background Higgs field.
Proposed in 1964 by Robert Brout and Francois Englert, independently by Peter Higgs and by Gerald Guralnik, C. R. Hagen, and Tom Kibble.
The Higgs mechanism, which gives mass to vector bosons, is theorized in 1964 by Francois Englert and Robert Brout ("boson scalaire") & at the ssame time by Higgs. The Higgs field was postulated to confer mass on quarks and leptons.
The standard model of particle physics uses the Higgs mechanism to give all the elementary particles masses.
After bringing out one failed single ("Im the Face/Zoot Suit"), Meaden is dropped & they are signed on by two new managers, Chris Stamp and Kit Lambert, who had paired up with the intention of finding new talent and creating a documentary about them
After bringing out one failed single ("Im the Face/Zoot Suit"), Meaden is dropped & they are signed on by two new managers, Chris Stamp and Kit Lambert, who had paired up with the intention of finding new talent and creating a documentary about them
After bringing out one failed single ("Im the Face/Zoot Suit"), Meaden is dropped & they are signed on by two new managers, Chris Stamp and Kit Lambert, who had paired up with the intention of finding new talent and creating a documentary about them
Joins Long John Baldry's Hoochie Coochie Men during the British blues boom.
Housing Act 1964 reforms housing improvement, local authority powers, and housing finance
Sets out to increase national housebuilding and strengthen local authority construction programmes.
Publication of "How Children Fail"
Develops an alternative theory of gravitation with Jayant Narlikar addressing inertia and cosmology.
Produces I Want to Hold Your Hand, a single central to the Beatles' American breakthrough.
Visits the USA & addresses the Chamber of Commerce. Visits Kennedy, differences on nuclear weapons but supports the Nassau agreement
Joins The Kinks as drummer.
Banks has some domestic success when Leicester beat Stoke City 4-3 in the League Cup final over two legs
Appointed Lord Chancellor
Uses the Hoyle-Narlikar theory to incorporate Mach's principle into gravitation.
Takes over The Who's management with Chris Stamp.
Manages The Who with Kit Lambert.
Main author of the Labour Party manifesto for the 1964 general election
Makes her feature-film breakthrough playing the title character in the musical fantasy Mary Poppins.
Elected Member of Parliament for Woking
Chronicles Liverpool's pop scene through the Mersey Beat newspaper.
Appointed Minister of Aviation
Appointed Minister of the Department of Economic Affairs
Enters the Cabinet as the first Minister for Overseas Development, in so doing becoming only the fourth woman in British history ever to hold position in a Cabinet
Appointed Minister of State at the Board of Trade
Hoyle and Fowler studied neutrino losses, pair formation, and late evolutionary stages of massive stars.
Hoyle and Narlikar published a gravitational theory incorporating Machian ideas about inertia.
Maintains support for the US alliance while refusing to send British troops to Vietnam
Uses x-rays to examine the structure of penicillin, insulin, cholesterol & vitamin b12
After only a short time on the backbenches, Wilson chose Shore to be Parliamentary Private Secretary, responsible for liaising between the Prime Minister and Labour MPs, though Denis Healey termed him "Harold's lapdog"
After only a short time on the backbenches, Wilson chose Shore to be Parliamentary Private Secretary, responsible for liaising between the Prime Minister and Labour MPs, though Denis Healey termed him "Harolds lapdog"
Announces an immediate ban on arms shipments to South Africa
Healey is responsible for defence policy as the Labour Government continues the Polaris programme.
Police Act 1964 reforms police organisation and police authority arrangements in England and Wales
Appointed Postmaster General
"Purpose in Politics", edits a collection of Harold Wilson's speeches
Sees The Who perform at the Railway Hotel.
Discovers The Who with Kit Lambert.
The Board of Admiralty is taken over by the Ministry of Defence
Hoyle joined Geoffrey and Margaret Burbidge and William Fowler in analysing compact objects and relativistic astrophysical processes.
Resale Prices Act 1964 restricts resale price maintenance and reforms competition policy
The Conservative Government continues planning for a Royal Navy Polaris submarine force before the 1964 election
Makes a drunken tribute on TV to Kennedy after his assassination
Healey is appointed Shadow Secretary of State for Defence.
Appointed Solicitor General
Forms the Spencer Davis Group, part of Birmingham’s rhythm and blues scene.
Healey prepares the reduction of permanent British military commitments east of Suez.
Publication of "The Burning World"
The Detours renamed themselves The Who
Sings with The Dimensions, one of his early rhythm and blues groups.
Peter Meaden manages The Who briefly as The High Numbers.
Peter Meaden manages The Who briefly as The High Numbers.
Becomes a founding member of The Kinks.
Becomes a founding member of The Kinks.
Becomes a founding member of The Kinks.
Laine fronts the Moody Blues as the Birmingham group gains national attention.
Publication of "The Spire"
Stars in, "The Train"
The Detours rename themselves The Who.
The Who line-up is completed after Keith Moon replaces Doug Sandom.
For a short period, under the management of Peter Meaden, The Who change their name to The High Numbers, during which time they release Zoot Suit/I'm the Face, a single designed to appeal to their mostly mod fans.
The Who are taken on by a mod publicist named Peter Meaden who convinces them to change their name to The High Numbers.
The Who line-up is completed after Keith Moon replaces Doug Sandom.
The Who line-up is completed after Keith Moon replaces Doug Sandom.
Sellers plays concert pianist Henry Orient in The World of Henry Orient.
Hoyle and Narlikar linked time-symmetric electrodynamics with the cosmological arrow of time.
Signs for West Brom for a fee of œ25,000
Wilson & Walker visit Khrushchev & reach a "friendly understanding" except for Berlin
Wilson & Walker visit Khrushchev & reach a "friendly understanding" except for Berlin
Greenwood ends the tournament with West Ham United on top after the 3-2 final against Preston North End.
Joins Bertrand Russell's committee questioning the official account of Kennedy's assassination.
After bringing out one failed single ("Im the Face/Zoot Suit"), Meaden is dropped & they are signed on by two new managers, Chris Stamp and Kit Lambert, who had paired up with the intention of finding new talent and creating a documentary about them
After bringing out one failed single ("Im the Face/Zoot Suit"), Meaden is dropped & they are signed on by two new managers, Chris Stamp and Kit Lambert, who had paired up with the intention of finding new talent and creating a documentary about them
Drummer Doug Sandom is replaced by Keith Moon
After bringing out one failed single ("Im the Face/Zoot Suit"), Meaden is dropped & they are signed on by two new managers, Chris Stamp and Kit Lambert, who had paired up with the intention of finding new talent and creating a documentary about them
Zulu is directed by blacklisted American screenwriter Cy Endfield and produced by Stanley Baker
Composes the theme tune for Zulu
Caine enters the public eye as the upper class British Army officer Gonville Bromhead VC in the 1964 film Zulu
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