Editing 1964 (section)

===March===
{{main|March 1964}}
* [[March 6]]
** [[Constantine II of Greece|Constantine II]] becomes King of Greece, upon the death of his father King [[Paul of Greece|Paul]].
** American boxer [[Cassius Clay]] announces the change of his name to Muhammad Ali.<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://slate.com/culture/2016/06/muhammad-ali-changed-his-name-in-1964-newspapers-called-him-cassius-clay-for-six-more-years.html|title=Muhammad Ali Changed His Name in 1964|first=Laura|last=Wagner|date=June 10, 2016|journal=Slate}}</ref>
* [[March 18]] – [[1964 Moscow protest]]: Approximately 50 Moroccan students break into the embassy of Morocco in the Soviet Union and stage an all-day [[sit-in]] protesting against sentencing of eleven people to death for the alleged assassination attempt of King [[Hassan II of Morocco]].
* [[March 20]]–[[June 6]] – The first [[United Nations Conference on Trade and Development]] takes place.
* [[March 20]] – The precursor of the [[European Space Agency]], [[ESRO]] (European Space Research Organization) is established per an agreement signed on June 14, 1962.
* [[March 21]] – ''Non ho l'età'' (music by [[Nicola Salerno]], text by [[Mario Panzeri]]), sung by [[Gigliola Cinquetti]], wins the [[Eurovision Song Contest 1964]] (staged in Copenhagen) for Italy.
* [[March 27]] ([[Good Friday]]) – The [[1964 Alaska earthquake|Great Alaskan earthquake]], the second-most powerful known (and the most powerful earthquake recorded in [[North America]]n history) at a [[moment magnitude scale|magnitude]] of 9.2, strikes [[Southcentral Alaska]], killing 125 people and inflicting massive damage to the city of [[Anchorage, Alaska|Anchorage]].<ref>{{cite web|title=M9.2 – The Great Alaska Earthquake and Tsunami of March 27, 1964|author=USGS|url=https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/events/alaska1964/|publisher=[[United States Geological Survey]]|access-date=August 28, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180101194746/https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/events/alaska1964/|archive-date=January 1, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[March 28]] – King [[Saud of Saudi Arabia]] abdicates.<ref>{{cite book|author=United States. Central Intelligence Agency|title=Daily Report, Foreign Radio Broadcasts|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IaHM5co7s6QC&pg=RA8-PA26|year=1964|pages=8}}</ref> His brother, [[Faisal of Saudi Arabia|Prince Faisal]], does not officially assume the throne until November.
* [[March 31]] – The military overthrows [[President of Brazil|Brazilian President]] [[João Goulart]] in a [[Brazilian military coup of 1964|coup]], starting 21 years of [[Brazilian military dictatorship|dictatorship]] in Brazil, lasting until [[1985]].