▸ the year you arrived
1964
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You will be 62 this year — a child of the '60s.
The song that ruled the year you arrived
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Top 10 of 1964
- 1
I Want to Hold Your Hand
The Beatles
- 3
Hello, Dolly!
Louis Armstrong
- 4
Oh, Pretty Woman
Roy Orbison
- 5
I Get Around
The Beach Boys
- 6
Everybody Loves Somebody
Dean Martin
- 7
My Guy
Mary Wells
- 8
We'll Sing In the Sunshine
Gale Garnett
- 9
Last Kiss
J. Frank Wilson & The Cavaliers
- 10
Where Did Our Love Go
The Supremes
- 11
People
Barbra Streisand
Your stats
Your generation
Baby Boomer
1964 belonged to
The Beatles
7 year-end chart hits
🔙 The world you were born into
The world around the music — what was on screen, and what was on the shelf.
📰 Headlines
- Civil Rights Act signed
- Beatles on Ed Sullivan
- Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
- MLK wins Nobel Peace Prize
- Warren Commission report
💡 Tech & Firsts
- IBM System/360 mainframe
- BASIC programming language
- Ford Mustang debuts
- First word processor (IBM MT/ST)
- Picturephone shown at World's Fair
🏆 Sports
- Cardinals win the World Series
- Browns win the NFL title
- Celtics win the NBA Finals
- Maple Leafs win the Stanley Cup
- Cassius Clay beats Liston
🤪 Crazes & fads
- Beatlemania hits America
- G.I. Joe action figure
- The Frug dance
- British Invasion mania
- Slot cars peak
👖 Clothes
- Mod miniskirts
- Bell-bottoms emerge
- Go-go boots
- Beatle boots
- Mop-top haircuts
💵 What it cost
- Gas: 30¢/gal
- Stamp: 5¢
- Gallon of milk: ~49¢
- New car avg: ~$3,500
- Median home: ~$13,050
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💬 Memories from 1964
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