Editing 1964 (section)

===April===
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[[File:Gemini 1.jpg|thumb|110px|right|April 8: Gemini 1 launched]]
* [[April 8]] – The U.S. [[Gemini 1]] is launched, the first unmanned test of the 2-man spacecraft.
* [[April 9]] – The [[United Nations Security Council]] adopts by a 9–0 vote a resolution deploring a British air attack on a fort in [[Yemen]] 12 days earlier, in which 25 persons were reported killed.
* [[April 11]] – The Brazilian Congress elects Field Marshal [[Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco]] as President of [[Brazil]].
* [[April 13]] &ndash; At the [[36th Academy Awards]] ceremony, [[Sidney Poitier]] becomes the first African-American to win an [[Academy Award]] in the category [[Best Actor in a Leading Role]] in ''[[Lilies of the Field (1963 film)|Lilies of the Field]]''.<ref>{{cite book|author=Carol Bergman|title=Sidney Poitier|publisher=Melrose Square Publishing Company|year=1990|page=124}}</ref>
* [[April 16]] – In the Assize Court at Buckingham, England, sentences totalling 307 years are passed on twelve men who stole £2,600,000 in used bank notes, after holding up the night train from [[Glasgow]] to [[London]] in August 1963 – a heist that becomes known as the [[Great Train Robbery (1963)|Great Train Robbery]].<ref name="Goldman2013">{{cite book|author=Lawrence Goldman|title=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 2005–2008|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nbGcAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA367|date=7 March 2013|publisher=OUP Oxford|isbn=978-0-19-967154-0|pages=367–}}</ref>
* [[April 17]] – [[Jerrie Mock]] completes the first around-the-world airplane flight by a woman. Her solo flight in the ''[[Spirit of Columbus]]'', which took 29 1/2 days, took off and landed at the [[Port Columbus International Airport]] in Ohio.
* [[April 19]] – In [[Laos]], the coalition government of Prince [[Souvanna Phouma]] is deposed by a right-wing military group, led by Brig. Gen. [[Kouprasith Abhay]]. Not supported by the United States, the coup is ultimately unsuccessful, and Souvanna Phouma is reinstated, remaining as Prime Minister until [[1975]].
* [[April 20]]
** U.S. President [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] in New York, and Soviet Premier [[Nikita Khrushchev]] in Moscow, simultaneously announce plans to cut back production of materials for making [[nuclear weapon]]s.
** [[Nelson Mandela]] makes his "I Am Prepared to Die" speech at the opening of the [[Rivonia Trial]], a key event for the [[Internal resistance to South African apartheid|anti-apartheid]] movement.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/apr/23/nelsonmandela|title=An ideal for which I am prepared to die|website=The Guardian|date=April 23, 2007|access-date=July 10, 2021}}</ref>
** In the UK, [[BBC Two]] television starts broadcasting for the first time.<ref>{{cite book|author=Asa Briggs|title=The History of Broadcasting in the United Kingdom: Volume V: Competition|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0pRGjVGtUvwC&pg=PA412|date=23 March 1995|publisher=OUP Oxford|isbn=978-0-19-215964-9|pages=412}}</ref>
** British businessman [[Greville Wynne]], imprisoned in [[Moscow]] since 1963 for [[spying]], is exchanged for Soviet spy [[Gordon Lonsdale]].<ref>{{cite book|author1=David Wise|author2=Thomas B. Ross|title=The Espionage Establishment|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HpbeAAAAMAAJ|year=1968|publisher=Cape|isbn=978-0-224-61398-9|page=112}}</ref>
* [[April 25]] – Thieves steal the head of the ''[[The Little Mermaid (statue)|Little Mermaid]]'' statue in [[Copenhagen]], Denmark. Although the attack is attributed to [[Jørgen Nash]], the Danish media blame painter Henrik Bruun, who never confesses to the crime.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://alt.obituaries.narkive.com/2uceRUrl/joergen-nash-artist-who-beheaded-little-mermaid-statue|title=Joergen Nash; artist who beheaded Little Mermaid statue|website=alt.obituaries.narkive.com}}</ref>
* [[April 26]] – [[Tanganyika (1961–1964)|Tanganyika]] and [[Zanzibar]] merge to form [[Tanzania]].<ref>{{cite book|author=United States. Central Intelligence Agency|title=The World Factbook|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YXdYvDAPRjkC&pg=PA616|year=2009|publisher=Central Intelligence Agency|isbn=978-0-16-084587-1|pages=616}}</ref>