Editing 1964 (section)

===December===
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* [[December 1]] – [[Gustavo Díaz Ordaz]] takes office as [[President of Mexico]].
* [[December 3]]
** [[Berkeley Free Speech Movement]]: Police arrest about 800 students at the [[University of California, Berkeley]], following their takeover of and massive sit-in at the Sproul Hall administration building. The sit-in most directly protested the U.C. Regents' decision to punish student activists for what many thought had been justified civil disobedience earlier in the conflict.<ref>{{cite book|author=Gene Sharp|title=The Politics of Nonviolent Action: The methods of nonviolent action|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2NojAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA373|year=1973|publisher=P. Sargent Publisher|isbn=978-0-87558-071-5|pages=373}}</ref>
** The Danish football club [[Brøndby IF]] is founded as a merger between the two local clubs Brøndbyøster Idrætsforening and Brøndbyvester Idrætsforening. The club wins the national championship [[Danish Superliga]] 10 times, and the [[Danish Cup]]s six times, after joining the Danish top-flight football league in 1981.
* [[December 5]] – [[Australian Senate election, 1964]]: The [[Liberal Party of Australia|Liberal]]/[[National Party of Australia|Country]] [[Coalition (Australia)|Coalition]] [[Menzies Government (1949-66)|Government]] led by [[Prime Minister of Australia|Prime Minister]] [[Robert Menzies]] hold their status quo, while the [[Australian Labor Party|Labor Party]] led by [[Arthur Calwell]] lose one seat to the [[Democratic Labor Party (Australia, 1955)|Democratic Labor Party]], who hold the balance of power in the [[Australian Senate|Senate]] alongside independent [[Reg Turnbull]].
* [[December 10]] – Dr. [[Martin Luther King Jr.]] is awarded the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] in [[Oslo]], Norway.<ref>{{cite book|author=Alice Mulcahey Fleming|title=Martin Luther King, Jr: A Dream of Hope|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YamfeoGeHpsC&pg=PP6|year=2008|publisher=Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.|isbn=978-1-4027-5803-4|pages=6}}</ref>
* [[December 11]] – [[Che Guevara]] addresses the [[United Nations General Assembly]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Guevara|first1=Ernesto Che|author-link=Che Guevara|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ierlWAqZ_8cC|title=Che: The Diaries of Ernesto Che Guevara|chapter=Chronology of Ernesto Che Guevara|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ierlWAqZ_8cC&pg=PA6|location=[[North Melbourne, Victoria]], Australia |publisher=Ocean Press|year=2009|page=6|isbn=978-1920888930|access-date=2016-02-13}}</ref> A [[bazooka]] attack is launched at the [[Headquarters of the United Nations]] in New York City.
* [[December 12]] – [[Jamhuri Day]]: [[Kenya]] becomes a republic, with [[Jomo Kenyatta]] as its first [[President of Kenya|President]].
* [[December 14]] – ''[[Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States]]'' (379 US 241 1964): The U.S. Supreme Court rules that, in accordance with the [[Civil Rights Act of 1964]], establishments providing public accommodation must refrain from racial discrimination.
* [[December 18]] – The [[Christmas flood of 1964]] begins in the United States, affecting the Pacific Northwest and some of Northern California. It will continue until January 7, resulting in 19 deaths, serious damage to buildings, roads and bridges, and the loss of 4,000 head of livestock.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nwp.usace.army.mil/pa/docs/wrdb/2000/lowercolumbia.pdf |title=Lower Columbia River Basin |publisher=United States Army Corps of Engineers |access-date=December 31, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110616105833/http://www.nwp.usace.army.mil/pa/docs/wrdb/2000/lowercolumbia.pdf |archive-date=June 16, 2011}}</ref>
* [[December 21]] – The [[General Dynamics F-111]] Aardvark supersonic attack aircraft, developed for the U.S. Air Force, makes its first flight, at [[Carswell Air Force Base]], Texas.<ref>{{citation |editor-last=Eden |editor-first=Paul |title=Encyclopedia of Modern Military Aircraft |chapter=General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark/EF-111 Raven |location= London |publisher=Amber Books |date=2004 |isbn=1-904687-84-9|page=197}}</ref>
* [[December 22]]
** A cyclone in the [[Palk Strait]] destroys the Indian town of [[Dhanushkodi]], killing 1800 people.<ref>{{cite book|author=United States. Naval Oceanographic Office|title=Sailing Directions for the Bay of Bengal: Point Calimere to Laem Pak Phra and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qNlHAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA56|year=1966|pages=56}}</ref>
** The [[Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird]] makes its first flight at [[Palmdale, California]].
* [[December 24]] – [[1964 Brinks Hotel bombing|The Brinks Hotel]] in Saigon, Vietnam, is bombed by the [[Viet Cong]], resulting in the deaths of two US soldiers and injuries to a further 60 people, including civilians.<ref>{{cite book|title=Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1954–1965|first=Mark|last=Moyar|author-link=Mark Moyar |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2006 |isbn=0-521-86911-0 |location=New York|page=347}}</ref>
* [[December 30]] – The [[United Nations Conference on Trade and Development]] (UNCTAD) is established as a permanent organ of the [[UN General Assembly]].<ref>{{cite book|author=United States Department of State|title=The Department of State Bulletin|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4R13dJvs0yIC&pg=PA458|year=1965|publisher=Office of Media Services, Bureau of Public Affairs|pages=458}}</ref>