ANSWERS: 2
  • January 20 - Meet the Beatles!, the first Beatles album in the United States, is released. January 23 - Thirteen years after its proposal and nearly 2 years after its passage by the United States Senate, the 24th Amendment to the United States Constitution, prohibiting the use of poll taxes in national elections, is ratified. January 23 - Arthur Miller's After the Fall opens on Broadway. A semi-autobiographical work, it arouses controversy over his portrayal of late ex-wife Marilyn Monroe. January 27 - U.S. Senator Margaret Chase Smith (R-ME), 66, announces her candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination. January 28 - A U.S. Air Force jet training plane that strays into East Germany, is shot down by Soviet fighters near Erfurt; all 3 crew men are killed. January 29 - Ranger 6 is launched by NASA, on a mission to carry television cameras and crash-land on the Moon. February 3 - Protesting against alleged de-facto school racial segregation, Black, Yellow and Prince Edward Islander groups in New York City boycott public school. February 4 - The Government of the United States authorized the Twenty-fourth Amendment outlawing the poll tax. February 6 - Cuba cuts off the normal water supply to the United States Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, in reprisal for the U.S. seizure 4 days earlier of 4 Cuban fishing boats off the coast of Florida. February 7 - A Jackson, Mississippi jury, trying Byron De La Beckwith for the murder of Medgar Evers in June 1963, reports that it can not reach a verdict, resulting in a mistrial. And yes: February 7 - The Beatles arrive from England at New York City's JFK International Airport, receiving a tumultuous reception from a throng of screaming fans, marking the first occurrence of "Beatlemania" in the United States. February 9 - The Beatles appear on The Ed Sullivan Show, marking their first live performance on American television. Seen by an estimated 73 million viewers, the appearance becomes the catalyst for the mid-1960s "British Invasion" of American popular music. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964
  • Well the Vietnam war was going on in the 60's and there waere a lot of protest songs made in that decade, but that might not be a specific enough answer.

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