Editing 1964 (section)

===June===
{{main|June 1964}}
* [[June 3]] – South Korean President [[Park Chung Hee]] declares [[martial law]] in [[Seoul]], after 10,000 student demonstrators overpower police.
* [[June 11]]
** Greece rejects direct talks with [[Turkey]] over [[Cyprus]].
** [[Cologne school massacre]]: In [[Cologne]], West Germany, [[Cologne school massacre#Perpetrator|Walter Seifert]] attacks students and teachers in an elementary school with a [[flamethrower]], killing 10 and injuring 21.
* [[June 12]] – [[Nelson Mandela]] and 7 others are sentenced to [[life imprisonment in South Africa]], and sent to the [[Maximum Security Prison, Robben Island|Robben Island prison]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Irwin Abrams|title=Peace 1991–1995|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Oz1lOfTnqywC&pg=PA65|year=1999|publisher=World Scientific|isbn=978-981-02-2723-4|pages=65}}</ref>
* [[June 14]] – [[Freedom Summer]], a volunteer Civil Rights project in the [[United States]] intended to promote [[voter registration]] for as many [[African American]]s as possible in [[Mississippi]], begins with orientation sessions for the 300 volunteers at [[Western College for Women]], [[Oxford, Ohio]].<ref>Later part of Miami University. {{cite book|first=Bruce|last=Watson|title=Freedom Summer: The Savage Season of 1964 That Made Mississippi Burn and Made America a Democracy|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IZ4bX0aNX9YC|year=2020|publisher=Penguin Books|isbn=978-0-143-11943-2|pages=16}}</ref>
* [[June 20]] – The [[Ford GT40]] makes its first appearance at the [[1964 24 Hours of Le Mans|24 Hours of Le Mans]]. Its first victory will come 2 years later in [[1966 24 Hours of Le Mans|1966]].
* [[June 21]] – [[Spain men's national football team|Spain]] beats the [[USSR national football team|Soviet Union]] 2–1 to win the [[1964 UEFA European Football Championship|1964 European Nations Cup]].
* [[June 26]] – [[Moise Tshombe]] returns to the [[Democratic Republic of the Congo]] from exile in Spain.