In 1964, RK Auto Group was founded when Richard Kline purchased a small corner lot on what is now Virginia Beach Boulevard and Lynnhaven Parkway and set out to serve the community. Now let’s take a look back at what other events occurred in U.S. history that same year. Statistics
President: Lyndon B. Johnson
Vice President: none
Population: 191,888,791
Life expectancy: 70.2 years
Average yearly income: $7,336
Unemployment: 5.7%
Economics New home: $20,500
New car: $2,350
First-class stamp: $0.05
Gallon of gas: $0.30
Loaf of bread: $0.21
Gallon of milk: $0.95
U.S. Events* United States Surgeon General Luther Leonidas Terry reports that smoking may be hazardous to one's health (the first such statement from the U.S. government).
Meet the Beatles, the first Beatles album in the United States, is released.
The Beatles vault to the #1 spot on the U.S. singles charts for the first time, with "I Want to Hold Your Hand," forever changing the way rock-and-roll music sounds.
The Beatles make their first appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show.
Plans to build the World Trade Center are announced.
Jimmy Hoffa, President of the Teamsters, is convicted by a Federal jury of tampering with a Federal jury in 1962.
Malcolm X, suspended from the Nation of Islam, says in New York City that he is forming a black nationalist party.
A jury in Dallas, Texas finds Jack Ruby guilty of killing John F. Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald.
The Good Friday Earthquake, the most powerful earthquake in U.S. history at a magnitude of 9.2, strikes South Central Alaska, killing 125 people and inflicting massive damage to the city of Anchorage.
The 1964 Winter Olympics is held in Innsbruck, Austria and the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.
Three civil rights workers, Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman, and James Chaney, are murdered near Philadelphia, Mississippi, by local segregationist law enforcement officials.
President Lyndon Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law.
Vietnam War: 5,000 more U.S. military advisers are sent to South Vietnam, bringing the total number of United States forces in Vietnam to 21,000.
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).
American civil rights movement leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. becomes the youngest recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, which was awarded to him for leading non-violent resistance to end racial prejudice in the United States.
U.S. presidential election, 1964: Incumbent U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson defeats Republican challenger Barry Goldwater with over 60 percent of the popular vote.
*Source: www.wikipedia.org
