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| 1964 |
| | | The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) is founded at a congress in East Jerusalem, then part of Jordan | |
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| 1964 |
| | | Robert Lowell's For the Union Dead takes its title from the last poem, about modern disregard for a Civil War monument | |
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| 1964 |
| | | Sergio Leone directs A Fistful of Dollars, the first of his three 'spaghetti westerns' starring Clint Eastwood | |
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| 1964 |
| | | Nelson Mandela is sentenced to life imprisonment and is sent to a gaol on Robben Island | |
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| 1964 |
| | | In a match at the Oval, England cricketer Freddie Trueman becomes the first bowler to take 300 Test wickets | |
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| 1964 |
| | | Fiddler on the Roof, based on a novel by Sholom Aleichem, opens on Broadway with Zero Mostel playing Tevye the Milkman | |
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| 1964 |
| | | President Johnson pushes through a Civil Rights Act against strong Senate opposition | |
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| 1964 |
| | | English author A.S. Byatt publishes her first novel, Shadow of a Sun | |
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| 1964 |
| | | The Beijing ballet company goes political with The Red Detachment of Women, supervised by Mao Zedong's wife, Jiang Qing | |
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| 1964 |
| | | Hastings Banda is prime minister of the newly independent nation of Malawi, formerly Nyasaland | |
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