World Events World StatisticsPopulation: 3.276 billionpopulation by decade Nobel Peace Prize:Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (US)More World Statistics... ·        Nelson Mandela sentenced to life imprisonment in South Africa (June 11). ·        Congress approves Gulf of Tonkin Resolution after North Vietnamese torpedo boats allegedly attack US destroyers (Aug. 7). Background: Vietnam War ·        Khrushchev is deposed; Kosygin becomes premier and Brezhnev becomes first secretary of the Communist Party (October). Background: Rulers of Russia since 1533 ·        China detonates its first atomic bomb. Background: nuclear weapons More History... U.S. Events  U.S. StatisticsPresident: Lyndon B. Johnson Vice President: none Population: 191,888,791Life expectancy: 70.2 years Violent Crime Rate (per 1,000): 23.9Property Crime Rate (per 1,000): 22.0 Homicide Rate (per 100,000): 5.1More U.S. Statistics... ·        US Supreme Court rules that Congressional districts should be roughly equal in population (Feb. 17). ·        Three civil rights workers—Schwerner, Goodman, and Cheney—murdered in Mississippi (June). Background: Civil Rights ·        President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy issues Warren Report concluding that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. ·        Jack Ruby convicted of murder in slaying of Lee Harvey Oswald. Economics US GDP (1998 dollars):   $663 billion Federal spending:   $118.53 billion Federal debt:   $316.1 billion Consumer Price Index:   31 Unemployment:   5.7% Cost of a first-class stamp:   $0.05 Sports Sports Links Pro Football Through the Years Pro Basketball Through the Years Pro Baseball Through the Years World Series St. Louis Cardinals d. NY Yankees (4-3) NBA Championship Boston d. SF Warriors (4-1) Stanley Cup Toronto d. Detroit (4-3) Wimbledon Women: Maria Bueno d. M. Smith (6-4 7-9 6-3) Men: Roy Emerson d. F. Stolle (6-4 12-10 4-6 6-3) Kentucky Derby Champion Northern Dancer NCAA Basketball Championship UCLA d. Duke (98-83) NCAA Football Champions Alabama (AP, UPI), (10-1-0); Arkansas (FW), (11-0-0) & Notre Dame (NFF), (9-1-0) 1964 Summer Olympics 1964 Winter Olympics Entertainment  Entertainment Awards Oscars awarded in 1964 Academy Award, Best Picture: Tom Jones, Tony Richardson, producer (United Artists-Lopert Pictures) Nobel Prize for Literature: Jean-Paul Sartre (France) (declined) 1964 Emmy Awards1964 Tony Awards Grammys awarded in 1964 Record of the Year: "The Days of Wine and Roses," Henry Mancini Album of the Year: The Barbra Streisand Album, Barbra Streisand (Columbia)Song of the Year: "The Days of Wine and Roses," Henry Mancini and Johnny Mercer, composers Miss America: Donna Axum (AR)More Entertainment Awards... Events ·        Folk musician Bob Dylan becomes increasingly popular during this time of social protest with songs expressing objection to the condition of American society. ·        Psychedelic bands such as The Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane enjoy great success with songs celebrating the counterculture of the '60s. ·        Peyton Place premieres on ABC and is the first prime-time soap opera. Color television makes its way into U.S. homes. ·        The Beatles appear on The Ed Sullivan Show. Movies ·        Red Desert, Dr. Strangelove, My Fair Lady, Mary Poppins, Zorba the Greek, Becket Books ·        Donald Barthelme, Come Back, Dr. Caligari ·        John Berryman, 77 Dream Songs ·        John Cheever, The Wapshot Scandal ·        James Dickey, Helmets, Two Poems of the Air ·        John Hawkes, Second Skin ·        Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast ·        Katherine Anne Porter, Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter ·        Hubert Selby, Last Exit to Brooklyn Science Nobel Prizes in Science Chemistry: Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin (UK), for determining structure of compounds needed in combatting pernicious anemia Physics: Charles Hard Townes (US), Nikolai G. Basov, and Aleksandr M. Prochorov (both USSR), for developing maser and laser principle of producing high-intensity radiation Physiology or Medicine: Konrad E. Bloch (US) and Feodor Lynen (Germany), for research on mechanism and regulation of cholesterol and fatty-acid metabolism ·        Ranger VII takes 4,316 high-resolution pictures of the moon. Background: US Unstaffed Planetary and Lunar Programs ·        US Surgeon General Luther Terry affirms that cigarette smoking causes cancer. Background: nuclear energy Deaths ·        Herbert Clark Hoover 10/20/1964 ·        Douglas MacArthur ·        Harpo Marx