Timeline June 1964

Events in June 1964 6

• 1964 Palestine Liberation Organization founded Established at the first Palestinian National Council Palestinian delegates meeting in Jerusalem founded the PLO to represent the Palestinian people and pursue the goal of an independent Palestinian state. It would later become the internationally recognised representative of the Palestinian national movement.
• 1964 French Open 1964 Men: Manuel Santana · Women: Margaret Smith
• 1964 Moved to Nashville Moved to Nashville the day after graduating from Sevier County High School, becoming the first in her family to receive a high school diploma. She began writing songs for other artists, including the hit Put It Off Until Tomorrow for Bill Phillips.
• 1964 Nelson Mandela sentenced to life imprisonment Rivonia Trial verdict in Pretoria Mandela and seven co-defendants were convicted of sabotage against the apartheid state and sentenced to life imprisonment. The trial made Mandela an internationally recognised symbol of resistance to apartheid, though he would not be released for another 26 years.
• 1964 – 1982 Mandela arrives on Robben Island Prisoner 466/64, in a cell seven feet square Hard labour in the lime quarry damaged his eyes permanently. He studied and taught for eighteen years.
• 1964 Freedom Summer murders of civil rights workers Chaney, Goodman and Schwerner killed in Mississippi Three civil rights workers registering Black voters in Mississippi were abducted and murdered by Ku Klux Klan members with the involvement of local police. Their deaths, and the search for their bodies, drew national attention to violent resistance against the civil rights movement.