
January 20 – Meet the Beatles!, the first Beatles album from Capitol Records in the United States, is released ten days after Chicago's Vee-Jay Records releases Introducing.naval patrols of the South China Sea begin. Zanzibar Revolution: The predominantly Arab government of Zanzibar is overthrown by African nationalist rebels a United States Navy destroyer evacuates 61 U.S.January 11 – United States Surgeon General Luther Terry reports that smoking may be hazardous to one's health (the first such statement from the U.S.January 9 – Martyrs' Day: Armed clashes between United States troops and Panamanian civilians in the Panama Canal Zone precipitate a major international crisis, resulting in the deaths of 21 Panamanians and 4 U.S.January 6 – A British firm, the Leyland Motor Corp., announces the sale of 450 buses to the Cuban government, challenging the United States blockade of Cuba.January 5 – In the first meeting between leaders of the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches since the fifteenth century, Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras I of Constantinople meet in Jerusalem.January 1 – The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is dissolved.Main article: January 1964 January 8: U.S. Establishments and disestablishments categoriesġ964 in various calendars Gregorian calendar
