Timeline Wednesday 14 October 1964

Events on Wednesday 14 October 1964 4

• 1953 – 1964 Khrushchev in power De-Stalinisation and the Space Race — 1953 to 1964 Khrushchev emerged as Soviet leader after Stalin's death in 1953. He denounced Stalin in his 1956 "Secret Speech", launched Sputnik and Gagarin into space, built the Berlin Wall, and nearly brought the world to nuclear war in the Cuban Missile Crisis. He was deposed in a bloodless coup in October 1964.
• 1964 – 1982 Brezhnev in power Era of stagnation — 1964 to 1982 Brezhnev ruled the Soviet Union for 18 years. His doctrine justified Soviet intervention in socialist countries. He oversaw détente with the West, signed SALT arms treaties, hosted the 1980 Moscow Olympics — boycotted by 65 countries — and invaded Afghanistan in 1979.
• 1964 Martin Luther King Jr. awarded the Nobel Peace Prize Recognised for nonviolent civil rights leadership King received the prize for his leadership of the nonviolent campaign against racial segregation in the United States, becoming the youngest laureate at the time. He donated the prize money to the civil rights movement.
• 1964 Nikita Khrushchev removed from power Ousted by the Soviet Politburo Khrushchev was forced to resign as First Secretary of the Communist Party and Premier following a coordinated move by senior colleagues, who cited erratic policymaking and the failures of the Cuban Missile Crisis and agricultural reforms. Leonid Brezhnev succeeded him as party leader.