Editing 1964 (section)

===October===
{{main|October 1964}}
[[File:Tokyo 1964 Summer Olympics logo.svg|140px|thumbnail|right|October 10–24: The 1964 Summer Olympics begins]]
* October – [[Robert Moog]] demonstrates the prototype [[Moog synthesizer]].<ref>{{cite journal|last=Moog|first=R. A.|year=1965|title=Voltage-Controlled Electronic Music Modules|journal=Journal of the Audio Engineering Society|volume=13|issue=3|pages=200–206}}</ref>
* [[October 1]]
** Three thousand student activists at the [[University of California, Berkeley]], surround and block a police car from taking a [[Congress of Racial Equality|CORE]] volunteer arrested for not showing his ID, when he violated a ban on outdoor activist card tables. This protest eventually explodes into the [[Berkeley Free Speech Movement]].
** The ''[[Shinkansen]]'' [[high-speed rail]] system, the world's first such system, is inaugurated in Japan, for the first sector between Tokyo and [[Osaka]].
* [[October 5]]
** Twenty-three men and thirty-one women escape to [[West Berlin]] through a narrow tunnel under the [[Berlin Wall]].
** [[Elizabeth II]] and [[Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh|The Duke of Edinburgh]] begin an 8-day visit to Canada.
* [[October 10]]–[[October 24|24]] – The [[1964 Summer Olympics]] are held in Tokyo, Japan, the first in an Asian country.
* [[October 12]] – The Soviet Union launches ''[[Voskhod 1]]'' into Earth [[orbit]] as the first spacecraft with a multi-person crew and the first flight without [[space suit]]s. The flight is cut short and lands again on [[October 13]] after 16 orbits.
* [[October 14]] – American civil rights movement leader [[Martin Luther King Jr.]] becomes the youngest recipient of the [[Nobel Peace Prize]], which is awarded to him for leading non-violent resistance to end [[racism|racial prejudice]] in the United States.
* [[October 14]]–[[October 15|15]] – [[Nikita Khrushchev]] is deposed as leader of the Soviet Union; [[Leonid Brezhnev]] and [[Alexei Kosygin]] assume power.
* [[October 15]] &ndash; [[1964 United Kingdom general election]]: The [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]] wins a narrow victory over Sir [[Alec Douglas-Home]]'s [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative Party]], which has been in power for 13 years. The new prime minister is [[Harold Wilson]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/vote_2005/basics/4393293.stm|title=1964: Labour scrapes through|work=[[BBC News]]|publisher=[[BBC]]|date=2005-04-05|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160213202904/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/vote_2005/basics/4393293.stm|archive-date=2016-02-13|access-date=2016-02-13}}</ref>
* [[October 17]] &ndash; [[596 (nuclear test)]]: The People's Republic of China explodes an [[atomic bomb]] in [[Xinjiang|Sinkiang]].
* [[October 22]]
** Canada: A Federal Multi-Party Parliamentary Committee selects a design to become the new official [[Flag of Canada]].
** A 5.3 [[kiloton]] nuclear device is detonated at the Tatum Salt Dome, {{convert|21|mi|km}} from [[Hattiesburg, Mississippi]], as part of the [[Vela Uniform]] program. This test is the Salmon phase of the Atomic Energy Commission's Project Dribble.
* [[October 24]] – Northern [[Rhodesia]], a former British protectorate, becomes the independent Republic of [[Zambia]], ending 73 years of British rule.
* [[October 26]] – [[Eric Edgar Cooke]] becomes the last man executed in Western Australia, for murdering 8 citizens in [[Perth]] between [[1959]] and [[1963]].
* [[October 27]] – In the [[Democratic Republic of the Congo]], rebel leader Christopher Gbenye takes 60 Americans and 800 Belgians [[hostage]].
* [[October 29]] – A collection of irreplaceable [[gemstone]]s, including the {{convert|565|carat|g|adj=on}} [[Star of India (gem)|Star of India]], is stolen from the [[American Museum of Natural History]] in New York City.