Editing 1964 (section)

===July===
{{main|July 1964}}
* [[July 2]] – The United States [[Civil Rights Act of 1964]] is enacted.
* [[July 6]] – [[Malawi]] receives its independence from the United Kingdom.<ref>{{cite book|author=United States. Department of State|title=Department of State News Letter|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rQmEPFsz7BgC&pg=RA7-PA27|year=1964|publisher=Bureau of Administration|pages=7}}</ref>
* [[July 18]]
** Six days of [[race riot]]s begin in [[Harlem]], New York, United States, apparently prompted by the shooting of a teenager.<ref>{{cite book|author=Edward C. Banfield|title=The Unheavenly City Revisited|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xoFCAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA219|year=1974|publisher=Little, Brown|isbn=978-0-316-08013-2|pages=219}}</ref>
** [[Judith Graham Pool]] publishes her discovery of [[cryoprecipitate]], a frozen blood clotting product made from plasma primarily to treat [[hemophilia]]cs around the world.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie|author2=Joy Dorothy Harvey|title=The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: L-Z|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LTSYePZvSXYC&pg=PA1040|year=2000|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-0-415-92040-7|pages=1040}}</ref>
* [[July 19]] – [[Vietnam War]]: At a rally in [[Ho Chi Minh City|Saigon]], [[South Vietnam]]ese Prime Minister and military leader [[Nguyễn Khánh]] calls for expanding the war into [[North Vietnam]].<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,871317,00.html|title=South Viet Nam: Toward the Showdown?|date=August 7, 1964|magazine=Time|access-date=February 11, 2021}}</ref>
* [[July 20]]
** Vietnam War: [[Viet Cong]] forces attack a provincial capital, killing 11 South Vietnamese military personnel and 40 civilians (30 of which are children).
** The [[National Movement of the Revolution]] is established in the [[Republic of the Congo]], becoming the country's sole legal [[political party]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Yearbook on Human Rights for ...|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FSzCbZRAhZ0C|year=1964|publisher=United Nations|page=77}}</ref>
* [[July 21]] – [[1964 race riots in Singapore|Race riots]] begin in [[Singapore]] between ethnic Chinese and Malays.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Cheng|first=Adeline Low Hwee|date=2001|title=The past in the present: Memories of the 1964 'racial riots' in Singapore|journal=Asian Journal of Social Science|volume=29 |issue=3|pages=431–455|doi=10.1163/156853101X00181}}</ref>
* [[July 22]] – The second meeting of the [[Organisation of African Unity]] is held.
* [[July 24]] – A minor [[criticality accident]] takes place at a United Nuclear Corporation Fuels recovery plant in [[Wood River Junction, Rhode Island]], United States, causing the death of one worker.
* [[July 27]] – [[Vietnam War]]: The U.S. sends 5,000 more military advisers to South Vietnam, bringing the total number of United States forces in Vietnam to 21,000.
* [[July 31]] – [[Ranger program]]: [[Ranger 7]] sends back the first close-up photographs of the Moon (images are 1,000 times clearer than anything ever seen from Earth-bound [[telescope]]s).