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1964 in science
The year 1964 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed below.
See also: 1963 in science, other events of 1964, 1965 in science, and the list of years in science.
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Astronomy and space exploration
- March 20 - The precursor of the European Space Agency, ESRO (European Space Research Organization) is established per an agreement signed on June 14, 1962.
- July 31 - Ranger program: Ranger 7 sends back the first close-up photographs of the moon (images are 1,000 times clearer than anything ever seen from earth-bound telescopes).
- October 12 - The Soviet Union launches the Voskhod 1 into Earth orbit as the first spacecraft with a multi-person crew and the first flight without space suits.
Computer science
- April 7 - IBM announces the System/360.
- John George Kemeny and Thomas Eugene Kurtz create BASIC (Beginners' All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code), an easy to learn high level programming language that has been included on many computers and even some games consoles.
Medicine
- January 11 - United States Surgeon General Luther Terry reports that smoking may be hazardous for one's health. First such statement from US government.
- Jerome Horowitz synthesizes AZT, an antiviral drug that would come to be used in treating HIV.
Awards
Births
- August 25 - Maxim Kontsevich, Russian mathematician
Deaths
- December 1 - J. B. S. Haldane, British geneticist
- December 17 - Victor Franz Hess, US physicist
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