It’s nice to take a trip down memory lane isn’t it?  A bit of nostalgia feels good.  It brings back happy memories, takes you back to another time and place, and fills you with a lovely content feeling.  For this reason, I’ve decided to start a series of posts called:

“I remember when …” 

and the ‘…’ will be replaced with words that will differ from post to post.  This post though is a little different in that it sets the scene for the year of my birth – 1964.  Of course I don’t remember anything from this year but it’s so interesting isn’t it to get a good feel of the year of your birth and be aware of what was occurring at that time? 

People Born in 1964

Baby Min – 1964

• Dan Brown, Novelist, The De Vinci Code – 22 June 1964
• Sandra Bullock, Actress, The Lake House – 26 July 1964
• Nicolas Cage, Actor, Moonstruck – 7 January 1964
• Tracy Chapman, Singer, Fast Car – 30 March 1964
• Courteney Cox, Actress (Monica on Friends) – 15 June 1964
• Russell Crowe, Actor, A Beautiful Mind – 7 April 1964
• Matt Dillon, Actor, Drugstore Cowboy – 18 February 1964
• Prince Edward, ROYALTY, The Earl of Wessex – 10 March 1964
• Calista Flockhart, Actress, Ally McBeal – 11 November 1964
• Melinda Gates – Philanthropist – Married to Bill Gates – 15 August 1964
• Melissa Gilbert – Actress – Little House on the Prairie – 8 May 1964
• Wynonna Judd, Country Musician – 30 May 1964
• Lenny Kravitz, Musician, Wants to fly away yeah – 26 May 1964
• Courtney Love, Singer (Curt Cobain’s widow) – 9 July 1964
• Rob Lowe, Actor, Brat-packer, Sam on The West Wing – 17 March 1964
• Michelle Obama, Former USA First Lady, Wife of Barack Obama – 17 January 1964
• Keanu Reeves, Actor, Dude – 2 September 1964
• And then there is MY birthday – 31 May 1964

As you can see, 1964 was a very good year as I was born into it along with a lot of other awesome people and of course these are but a few! 

A selection of events that occurred during 1964

• 29 January to 9 February – The Winter Olympic Games are held in Innsbruck, Austria.
• 3 February – The first double-decker carriages begin trial runs on the Sydney rail network.
• 4 February – Cyclone Dora strikes north-west Queensland.
• 14 March – Jack Ruby is convicted of the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald, the alleged assassin of President Kennedy.
• 15 March – Elizabeth Taylor married Richard Burton for the first time in Montreal.

• June – Macquarie University is founded.
• 12 June – Nelson Mandela and seven others are sentenced on June 12th to life imprisonment in South Africa.
• 12–30 June – The Beatles tour Australia and New Zealand.

• 2 July – The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson.
• 6 July – Warrant Officer Class 2, Kevin Conway of the Australian Army Training Team died; he was Australia’s first Vietnam War battle casualty.
• August – Three North Vietnamese torpedo boats attack the US Destroyer Maddox in the Gulf of Tonkin. US Congress authorizes war against North Vietnam Gulf of Tonkin Resolution.
• August – South Africa are barred from the Olympic Games in Tokyo due to their Apartheid Policies.
• 21 September – Malta gains independence from the UK.
• 27 September – Warren Commission report on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy concludes Lee Harvey Oswald had acted alone.
• 10 – 24 October – The Summer Olympics are held in Tokyo, Japan.
• 14 October – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr receives the Nobel Peace Prize. 
• 27 October – The Boston Strangler Albert DeSalvo is captured.
• 10 November – Prime Minister Robert Menzies announces the reintroduction of National Service.
• 28 November – The Mariner 4 spacecraft is launched by NASA. 
• 10 December – The Queensland government declares a state of emergency in an attempt to end the Mount Isa Mines dispute.
• 16 December – Melbourne’s La Trobe University is founded.
• Swimmer Dawn Fraser is named Australian of the Year.

As you can see, it was a busy year with quite a few iconic events and the list above does not include them all!

Fashion in 1964

Here’s a slideshow gallery of pics, including some of my favourite celebrities, that provide a taste of 1964 fashion trends.

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Top 5 most popular movies

• Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
• A Shot in the Dark
• Mary Poppins
• Goldfinger
• My Fair Lady

My ‘Remember When … ‘ posts will be ad hoc – whenever the mood takes me.  Better to be a bit spontaneous and free than structured and caged I say!  Stay tuned for some trips down memory lane, that will probably cover the 60’s, 70’s, 80’s and 90’s. 

Were you born in the 1960’s too?  Are you a fellow 1964’er?   

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