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The
coldest tempeature
recorded in the northern hemisphere was not
within the arctic regions. A temperature of -71 degrees C (-96 deegres F.) was
recorded in Janurary 1964, in the village of Oymyakon in eastern Siberia. It is
320 kilometers south of the Arctic Circle.
In 1964, a
jury awarded
$50,000 to a woman who claimed a cable car accident in San Francisco had made
her into a nymphomaniac.
The original captain of
Star Trek's
starship 'Enterprise' was Jeffrey Hunter, not
William Shatner, as Christopher Pike in the pilot episode 'The cage' (1964).
The cast was quite different from that of the classic series except for Leonard
Nimoy as Spock. NBC rejected this pilot for being 'too cerebral and too good
for TV'.
The first official
world surfing championships
were held at Manly, Sydney, in 1964 and won by an Australian, Bernard 'Midget'
Farrelly.
Gilligan's Island
was premeired from 1964 - 1967, It then had
three movies all without the moviestar Ginger. There were 98 episodes. Part of
these episodes were in black and white.
The
Best Picture Award
at the Oscars in 1964 was give to the film Tom
Jones. Released in 1963, this film was screened for President John F. Kennedy
during a visit to Palm Beach, Florida on Sunday November 17, 1963. It was the
last film he ever saw.
The
Ford Mustang
first rolled off the assembly line on March 9,
1964. It was heavily advertised during the latter part of it's development. On
April 16, 1964, the day before it's release, Ford ran simultaneous commercials
at 9:30pm on all three major television networks, ABC, NBC, and CBS. The
following day April 17, 1964 people 'attacked' the Ford showrooms. Everyone was
in a frenzy to be one of the first to own the Mustang. Ford sold over 22,000
Mustangs the first day. By the end of the year, Ford had sold 263,434. By the
end of the Mustang's first anniversary, April 17, 1965, Ford had sold 418,812
Mustangs.
The Nobel Peace Prize
in 1964 was won by Martin Luther King, Jr. At
the age of thirty-five, he was the youngest man to have received the Nobel
Peace Prize. When notified of his selection, he announced that he would turn
over the prize money of $54,123 to the furtherance of the civil rights movement.
The Beatles
made their American debut on the Ed Sullivan show on February 7, 1964. Things
have never been the same musically since!
According to some reports, not a single juvenile
crime
is reported in New York City the night of the
Beatles' first appearance on the
Ed Sullivan Show
in February 1964.
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