The Year - 1964
The Family News..:

Dawn M. was born to Patricia (Farenga) & James Canty, in Chicago, on June 21.

The #1 Songs Were .....
Baby LoveThe Supremes
Can't Buy Me LoveThe Beatles
Chapel of Love The Dixie Cups
Come See About MeThe Supremes
Do Wah Diddy Diddy Manfred Mann
Everybody Loves SomebodyDean Martin
A Hard Day's NightThe Beatles
Hello, Dolly! Louis Armstrong & The All Stars
The House of the Rising SunThe Animals
I Feel Fine The Beatles
I Get AroundThe Beach Boys
I Want to Hold Your HandThe Beatles
Leader of the Pack The Shangri-Las
Love Me DoThe Beatles
Mr. Lonely Bobby Vinton
My GuyMary Wells
Oh, Pretty WomanRoy Orbison & The Candymen
Rag DollThe 4 Seasons
RingoLorne Greene
She Loves YouThe Beatles
There! I've Said It AgainBobby Vinton
Where Did Our Love GoThe Supremes
A World without LovePeter & Gordon


AT THE MOVIES....

My Fair Lady, Jack L. Warner, producer (Warner Bros.) ****Best Picture
Becket, Hal B. Wallis, producer (Paramount)
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, Stanley Kubrick, producer (Columbia)
Mary Poppins, Walt Disney and Bill Walsh, producers (Buena Vista)
Zorba the Greek, Michael Cacoyannis, producer (International Classics)

Acacamy Awards..:
Rex Harrison, My Fair Lady - Best Actor
Julie Andrews, Mary Poppins - Best Actress
Peter Ustinov, Topkapi - Supporting Actor
Lila Kedrova, Zorba the Greek - Supporting Actress
George Cukor, My Fair Lady - Directing

Music Song - "Chim Chim Cher-ee" Mary Poppins, Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman, music and Iyrics
Short Subjects Cartoon - The Pink Phink (Pink Panther Series) (Mirisch-Geoffrey Productions; United Artists)


IN THE NEWS . . . . .
U.S. Supreme Court rules that Congressional districts should be roughly equal in population (Feb. 17).
Jack Ruby convicted of murder in slaying of Lee Harvey Oswald; sentenced to death by Dallas jury (March 14)�conviction reversed Oct. 5, 1966; Ruby dies Jan. 3, 1967, before second trial can be held.
Three civil rights workers�Schwerner, Goodman, and Cheney�murdered in Mississippi (June). Twenty-one arrests result in trial and conviction of seven by federal jury.
Nelson Mandela sentenced to life imprisonment (June 11).
Congress approves Gulf of Tonkin resolution (Aug. 7).
President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy issues Warren Report concluding that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone.
The Beatles appear on The Ed Sullivan Show.

Last updated on February 17, 2000