The Beginning of a New Era - 1964

Ephemerides

• Beatlemania is all the rage. The British quartet lands in the United States and crowds go wild. It is a consecration for the four young musicians from Liverpool.
• Following the signature of the Civil Rights Act outlawing discrimination against Blacks, riots are repressed violently in major cities in the United States.
• In the Soviet Union, Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev, leader of the Soviet government and Communist party, is dismissed.
• Opening of the 13th modern era Olympic Games in Tokyo.
• Resolutely opposed to any form of recognition, French writer and philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre refuses the Nobel Prize for literature.