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events of canada and the world in 1964
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8th - President Lyndon B Johnson declares "War on Poverty”
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Jan 11th - US Surgeon General Luther Terry reports that smoking may be hazardous
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Feb 9th- 1st appearance of Beatles on "Ed Sullivan Show" (73.7 million viewers)
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March 26 – The White Paper on Defence is tabled.
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March 27 – Several towns in coastal British Columbia , including Prince Rupert, Tofino, Port Alberni and Zeballos, suffer damage from tsunamis associated with thegood friday earthquake in Alaska. Overall damage is estimated at $10 million
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april– Canadians are issued social insurance cards for the first time
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Oct 16th- china detonates first atomic bomb
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October 22 – The flag committee makes its final selection of the design that will become the national flag.
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-Nov 18th - J Edgar Hoover describes Martin Luther King as "most notorious liar"
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-Nov 28th - France performs underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria
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-DEC 10th - Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Dr Martin Luther King Jr
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Dec 15th - Canada adopts maple leaf flag
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22 December -First flight of the SR-71 (Blackbird). Lockheed SR-71 spy aircraft reaches 3,530 kph (record for a jet)
