May 1964 May 1st - 1st BASIC program runs on a computer (Dartmouth) May 2nd - 90th Kentucky Derby: Bill Hartack aboard Northern Dancer wins in 2:00 May 2nd - Beatles Beatles 2nd Album goes #1 & stays #1 for for 5 weeks May 2nd - Mad Dog Vachon beats Verne Gagne in Omaha, to become NWA champ May 2nd - First ascent of Shishapangma the fourteenth highest mountain in the world and the lowest of the Eight-thousanders. May 3rd - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Clifford Ann Creed Golf Invitational May 4th - Another World & As the World Turns premieres on TV May 4th - 70 GATT-countries confer in Geneva May 4th - KIII TV channel 3 in Corpus Christi, TX (ABC) begins broadcasting May 4th - Pulitzer prize awarded to Richard Hofstadter (Anti-intellectualism) May 5th - Separatists riot in Quebec May 6th - Joe Ortons Entertaining Mr Sloan premieres in London First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Nikita Khrushchev May 9th - Khrushchev visits Egypt May 9th - Peter & Gordon release World Without Love May 10th - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Squirt Ladies Golf Open Invitational May 12th - Manlio Brosio chosen as sec-gen of NATO May 14th - Underground America Day is 1st observed May 15th - Sporting Portugal wins 4th Europe Cup II at Antwerp May 15th - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site May 16th - 90th Preakness: Bill Hartack aboard Northern Dancer wins in 1:56.8 May 16th - USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR May 16th - Verne Gagne beats Mad Dog Vachon in Omaha, to become NWA champ May 17th - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Muskogee Civitan Golf Open Invitational May 17th - Phillies triple play Houston Colt .45s May 18th - David Frost interviews Paul McCartney on BBC May 18th - Supreme Court rules unconstitutional to deprive naturalized citizens of citizenship if they return to home country for more than 3 years May 19th - US diplomats find at least 40 secret microphones in Moscow embassy May 20th - Buster Mathis defeats Joe Fraizer to qualify for US Olympic team May 21st - 1st nuclear-powered lighthouse begins operations (Chesapeake Bay) May 21st - Fire in Belgium resort, kills 19 May 21st - US begin intelligence flights above Laos 36th US President Lyndon B. Johnson May 22nd - LBJ presents Great Society May 23rd - Dale Greig runs female marathon world record (3:27:45) May 24th - 18th Tony Awards: Luther & Hello Dolly win May 24th - Beatles 3rd appearance on Ed Sullivan May 24th - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open Invitational May 24th - Longest HR (471) in Balt Memorial Stadium (Harmon Killebrew, Minn) May 24th - Panic in Lima Peru soccer stadium, kills 300 May 25th - 16th Emmy Awards: Dick Van Dyke Show, Dick Van Dyke & Mary Tyler Moore win May 25th - Frank Gilroys Subject is Roses, premieres in NYC May 25th - Ground is broken for a new stadium in St Louis May 25th - Supreme Court rules closing schools to avoid desegregation unconstitut May 26th - Fade Out-Fade In opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 199 perfs May 27th - From Russia With Love premieres in US May 27th - Inter Milan wins 9th Europe Cup 1 in Vienna May 28th - Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 9th String quartet Actress Mary Tyler Moore May 28th - Jawaharlal Nehru cremated in New Dehli May 28th - Palestine National Congress forms the PLO in Jerusalem May 28th - Unmanned Apollo 2 Saturn test launched into Earth orbit May 30th - Beyond the Fringe closes at John Golden Theater NYC after 673 perfs May 30th - Beatles 1961 record of Cry for a Shadow is #1 in Australia May 30th - Beatles Love Me Do, single goes #1 May 30th - Giants sweep Mets 5-3 & 8-6 in 23 inn, records include elapsed time of 9:50, 47 strikeouts, 7:22 for 2nd game & NYs 22 Ks in 2nd games May 30th - Indianapolis 500: A.J. Foyt wins in 3:23:35.813 (237.137 km/h) May 31st - Charles Schmid kills first Pied Piper victim May 31st - Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open May 31st - SF Giants beat NY Mets, 8-6, in 23 innings (2nd game) (7 hrs 32 mins)
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