Zenith: The Album

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Our playlist of the best-selling 45rpm singles of 1964, compiled from the Top 3 hits of each week in the year.

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Today in 1964

Europe

ROMANIA: Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, the dictator of the eastern European country, breaks off diplomatic relations with the USSR and demands that the KGB leave

Media

NEW YORK: The film My Fair Lady premieres, with its first showing being in Broadway's Criterion Theater

Sport

TOKYO: Abebe Bikila wins the Olympic Marathon for the second time. He had had his appendix removed just 40 days ago

Tonight's TV choice

Ulster: Sculpture or Scrap? Ulster reactions to modern sculpture

Tonight's Z-Cars episode

'Charity Begins...' (BBC-1) - "'What's all the fuss, then?' asks Fancy Smith, when he and Jock Weir are called to a case of shoplifting. 'Cause maybe there's something else too' replies Jock. And, as the men of Z Victor One quickly discover, something else, something more sinister, there most certainly is." - Radio Times

Zenith: The Album

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