Editing 1964 (section)

===May===
{{main|May 1964}}
* [[May 1]] – At 4:00&nbsp;a.m., [[John George Kemeny]] and [[Thomas Eugene Kurtz]] run the first computer program written in [[BASIC programming language|BASIC]] (Beginners' All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code), an easy to learn high level [[programming language]] which they have created.<ref>{{cite book|author=Brigham Narins|title=Notable Scientists from 1900 to the Present|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ACQvAQAAIAAJ|year=2001|publisher=Gale Group|isbn=978-0-7876-1754-7|page=1205}}</ref> BASIC is eventually included on many [[computer]]s and even some games consoles.
* [[May 2]]
** [[Vietnam War]]: [[Attack on USNS Card|Attack on USNS ''Card'']] – An explosion caused by [[Viet Cong]] commandos causes carrier [[USS Card|USNS ''Card'']] to sink in the port of [[Saigon]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Sealift|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iolZDM3vGWUC&pg=RA21-PA21|year=1963|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|pages=21}}</ref>
** Some 400–1,000 students march through [[Times Square]], New York, and another 700 in [[San Francisco]], in the first major student demonstration against the Vietnam War. Smaller marches also occur in Boston, Seattle, and Madison, WI.
** [[Henry Hezekiah Dee]] and [[Charles Eddie Moore]], hitchhiking in [[Meadville, Mississippi]], are kidnapped, beaten and murdered by members of the [[Ku Klux Klan]]. Their badly [[Decomposition|decomposed]] bodies are found by chance in July during the search for [[Murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner|missing activists Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner]].
* [[May 7]]
** [[Pacific Air Lines Flight 773]] crashes near [[San Ramon, California]], killing all 44 aboard; the [[FBI]] later reports that a cockpit recorder tape indicates that the pilot and co-pilot had been shot by a suicidal passenger.
** At a [[Rocket mail|mail rockets]] demonstration by [[Gerhard Zucker]] on Hasselkopf Mountain near [[Braunlage]] (Lower Saxonia, Germany), three people are killed by a rocket explosion.
* [[May 9]] – South Korean President [[Park Chung Hee]] reshuffles his Cabinet, after a series of student demonstrations against his efforts to restore diplomatic and trade relations with [[Japan]].
* [[May 12]] – Twelve young men in New York City publicly [[Draft-card burning|burn their draft cards]] to protest against the Vietnam War, the first such act of war resistance.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Flynn|first1=George Q.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ArLuAAAAMAAJ|title=The Draft, 1940–1973|series=Modern War Studies|location=Lawrence|publisher=[[University Press of Kansas]]|year=1993|page=175|isbn=978-0700605866|access-date=2016-02-13}}</ref>
* [[May 23]] – Madeline Dassault, 63, wife of a French plane manufacturer and politician, is kidnapped while leaving her car in front of her Paris home; she is found unharmed the next day in a farmhouse {{convert|27|mi|km}} from Paris.<ref>{{cite book|author=Richard Deacon|title=The French Secret Service|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rJVIAAAAYAAJ|year=1990|publisher=Grafton|isbn=978-0-586-20673-7|page=203}}</ref>
* [[May 24]]–[[May 25|25]] – The crowd at a [[soccer|football]] match in [[Lima]], [[Peru]], [[1964 Lima football riot|riots]] over a referee's decision in the Peru-[[Argentina]] game; 319 are killed, 500 injured.
* [[May 27]] – The ongoing [[Colombian conflict]] starts, with an assault by 1,000 Colombian soldiers, backed by fighter planes and helicopters, against about 50 guerrillas in the community of Marquetalia.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.insightcrime.org/investigations/the-farc-1964-2002-from-ragged-rebellion-to-military-machine|title=The FARC 1964-2002: From Ragged Rebellion to Military Machine|date=May 26, 2014|author=James Bargent|website=InSight Crime|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160927220044/http://www.insightcrime.org/investigations/the-farc-1964-2002-from-ragged-rebellion-to-military-machine |access-date=September 13, 2024|archive-date=September 27, 2016 }}</ref>
* [[May 28]] – The Charter of the [[Palestine Liberation Organization]] (PLO) is released by the [[Arab League]].
* [[May 29]] – Having [[January 1964 South Vietnamese coup|deposed them in a January coup]], South Vietnamese leader [[Nguyen Khanh]] has rival Generals [[Tran Van Don]] and [[Le Van Kim]] convicted of "lax morality".<ref name="nyttrial">{{cite news|work=[[New York Times]] |date= 1964-05-31|page=2 |title=Khanh Releases 4 Rival Generals; Key Men in Diem's Ouster Are Freed in Vietnam}}</ref>