Timeline November 1964

Events in November 1964 7

• 1925 – 1964 Yukio Mishima Japanese novelist Mishima explored beauty, death, and tradition in modern Japan through highly stylized literary works.
• 1964 Marvin Gaye releases How Sweet It Is Top ten How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You) becomes a standard.
• 1964 The Jet Set become the Byrds Five-piece With Chris Hillman and Michael Clarke, they sign with Columbia.
• 1964 Van Morrison and Them release Gloria Garage rock standard A B-side that becomes one of the most covered rock songs.
• 1964 Lyndon Johnson wins US presidential election Landslide victory over Barry Goldwater Johnson won a full term in his own right in one of the largest landslides in American electoral history, defeating conservative Republican senator Barry Goldwater. The result gave Johnson a mandate to pursue his Great Society domestic agenda.
• 1964 Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge opens Longest suspension bridge span in the world at the time The bridge connecting Staten Island and Brooklyn opened to traffic, holding the record for the longest suspension span in the world for 17 years. It remains a key crossing for New York City.
• 1964 The Cage — unaired pilot Gene Roddenberry's original pilot for Star Trek, starring Jeffrey Hunter as Captain Christopher Pike, is filmed and submitted to NBC. The network rejects it as "too cerebral" but unusually commissions a second pilot — the only time in NBC history this has happened. The footage is later incorporated into the two-part episode "The Menagerie" (1966).