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| 1964 |
| | | Anthony Dowell and Antoinette Sibley begin a famous partnership in Ashton's The Dream | |
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| 1964 |
| | | Senior officers in Brazil seize power, alleging the threat of an imminent communist takeover | |
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| 1964 |
| | | Ian Smith, now prime minister of Rhodesia, arrests leading black politicians Joshua Nkomo and Robert Mugabe | |
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| 1964 |
| | | Tanganyika and Zanzibar merge as the United Republic of Tanzania | |
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| 1964 |
| | | Cassius Clay (later Muhammad Ali) becomes world heavyweight champion for the first time, defeating Sonny Liston | |
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| 1964 |
| | | Louis Leakey and his team discover in the Olduvai Gorge the first known speciment of the species Homo Habilis, named for its supposed tool-making abilities | |
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| 1964 |
| | | Roald Dahl publishes a fantasy treat for a starving child, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory | |
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| 1964 |
| | | US physicists Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson discover cosmic background radiation, lending strong support to the Big Bang theory | |
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| 1964 |
| | | US poet John Berryman's 77 Dream Songs introduce Henry, his alter ego | |
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| 1964 |
| | | Papa Doc Duvalier, ruling through the brutal Tontons Macoutes, makes himself president of Haiti for life | |
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