Born in 1964
Turns 62 in 2026
Gifts for someone born in 1964
1964 Front PageTheir name. The news from their year.Unframed from £21.50Add their name
Their birth chartThe sky as astrology reads it, cast for one birth.Unframed from £21.50
The Years We Were BornThe whole family, together in years.Unframed from £21.50
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BACK TO 1964 · United Kingdom
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The compact cassette entered early public use as a small, enclosed format for recording and playback. Syncom III relayed television pictures of the Tokyo Olympics to the United States, while the Beatles’ February visit brought their music to American television, crowds and press.
What happened in 1964?
The compact cassette puts a tape deck in reach
Philips introduced the compact cassette in 1963, and 1964 marked the format’s early public life as a practical consumer technology.
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Syncom III carries Tokyo Olympics pictures to America
Syncom III relayed television pictures of the Tokyo Olympics to the United States in October 1964.
Radio Research Laboratories Journal, Japan (now NICT) · NASA History Office
The Beatles arrive to a new American frenzy
The Beatles’ February 1964 American visit transformed a successful British group into a global pop phenomenon.
Tokyo stages the first Olympic Games in Asia
Tokyo hosted the first Olympic Games in Asia, bringing athletes from 93 countries together in 1964.
Japanese Olympic Committee · International Olympic Committee Historical Archives
Firsts and new ideas
IBM unveils a compatible family of mainframe computers
IBM announced System 360 on April 7, 1964 at its company auditorium in Poughkeepsie, New York.
A faint microwave hiss reveals the early universe
In 1964, Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson identified a microwave signal filling the sky.
Number ones and music in 1964
Chart positions belong to the country and chart named in each record.
The Animals take “Rising Sun” to No. 1
The Animals reshaped the traditional “House of the Rising Sun” as an electric 1964 recording. The English group took it to No. 1 in the U.K. and U.S., carrying an old folk song into a new rock sound.
Official Charts Company · Fred Bronson / Billboard Books, scan hosted by World Radio History
A Hard Day’s Night turns fame into film
A Hard Day’s Night put the Beatles on screen, mixing their songs with quick comedy during the height of Beatlemania.
Prices and everyday money in 1964
United Kingdom figures in the money of the time. Units and sources matter: these are not today's prices.
| Item or measure | Then | Unit and source |
|---|---|---|
| Average weekly earnings per person in the United Kingdom (Bank of England series) | £11 18s per week | GBP per week Bank of England (series republished by Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis FRED) |
| sugar (October average) | 10d | equivalent 1 lb (calculated from ONS per kg) Office for National Statistics |
| flour (October average) | 1s 3d | equivalent 2 lb (calculated from ONS per 1.5 kg) Office for National Statistics |
| bread (October observation) | 8d | equivalent 1 lb (calculated from ONS 800 g source measure; not historical loaf size) Office for National Statistics |
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