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27 May 1964 at a glance
- Day of the week
- 27 May 1964 was a Wednesday.
- UK Number One
- The UK Number One single was “You're My World” by Cilla Black.
- Top Film of 1964
- The highest-grossing film worldwide released in 1964 was My Fair Lady.
- Star sign
- The star sign for 27 May is Gemini.
- Chinese zodiac
- In the Chinese zodiac, 27 May 1964 fell in the Year of the Dragon.
- Birthstone
- The birthstone for May is Emerald.
- Moon phase
- The moon phase on 27 May 1964 was Full Moon.
On this day: 27 May
- 1958 First flight of the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II.
- 1960 In Turkey, a military coup removes President Celâl Bayar and the rest of the democratic government from office.
- 1962 The Centralia mine fire is ignited in the town's landfill above a coal mine.
- 1967 Australians vote in favor of a constitutional referendum granting the Australian government the power to make laws to benefit Indigenous Australians and to count them in the national census.
- 1967 The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy is launched by Jacqueline Kennedy and her daughter Caroline.
Famous people born on 27 May
- Christopher Lee, English actor (1922–2015)
- Paul Bettany, English actor (born 1971)
- Henry Kissinger, German-American political scientist and politician, 56th United States Secretary of State, Nobel Prize laureate (1923–2023)
- João Cancelo, Portuguese footballer (born 1994)
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Events of 1964 in the United Kingdom
A selection from Wikipedia's '1964 in the United Kingdom'. Not a complete list.
- 22 January – The film Zulu is released.
- 5 May – Granada Television airs the first in what will become a series of documentary interviews with a generation of children, Seven Up!
- 6 July – Malawi gains its independence.
Life in 1964
Prime Minister
Alec Douglas-Home
Monarch
Elizabeth II
Pint of Beer
13p
Loaf of Bread
8p
Average House
£3,360
Weekly Wage
£18.35
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Famous Faces Born in the 1960s
Well-known people born in the same decade as you, not on your birthday.
Guy Ritchie10 September 1968FilmmakerView their day →Diana, Princess of Wales1 July 1961Member of the British royal familyView their day →Nigella Lawson6 January 1960Food writer & television cookView their day →Jason Statham26 July 1967ActorView their day →Catherine Zeta-Jones25 September 1969ActressView their day →Charles Spencer, 9th Earl Spencer20 May 1964Peer & authorView their day →Kenneth Branagh10 December 1960Actor & filmmakerView their day →George Michael25 June 1963SingerView their day →Sources: Wikidata and Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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