Rock band-'The Beatles' arrives at New York City's John F. Kennedy Airport. A crowd of over three thousand teenagers at the airport terminal cheer for them. Four singers of the band descend from Pan Am “Yankee Clipper” flight 101 passenger aircraft. The Beatles are interviewed by press. The Beatles visit Central Park in Manhattan. Press photographers take photos.
Traditional Mardi Gras in the French Quarter of New Orleans. A colorful carnival parade passes through the streets. Krewe participants in floats throw beads, doubloons, necklaces, and trinkets to spectators. The spectators on both sides of road, raise both hands to catch the Mardi Gras throws from passing floats. Pretty girls and grotesque floats on the roads in daytime and at night as well.
Upsets at various events of 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria. Canada's four men team during the bobsled race, wins gold medal beating Austrian team by margin of one second. In the men's slalom, Billy Kidd and Jimmy Heuga of USA, finish second and third. Austrian Josef Stieleger wins gold medal. Spectators watch the skiers. Figure skating competition. German competitor Manfred Schnelldorfer during his performance which yield him gold medal. Alain Calmet of France, silver. Scott Allen, a fourteen year old from United States gets bronze.
United Nations Security Council meeting at their headquarters in New York. The council votes to send troops of UN Peace Keeping Force on the Isalnd of Cyprus. General Secretory U Thant addresses the council. He says the thousands of men will be sent to control the situation arised due to strife betweeen Greeks and Turks.
United States President Lyndon B. Johnson attends funeral of Susan (Edwards) Wagner, wife of Mayor of New York City Robert F. Wagner. Scene is outside the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church (921 Madison Ave, New York, NY 10021, United States) in New York City. Roman Catholic Francis Joseph Cardinal Spellman attends the Presbyterian funeral service. President Johnson arrives by car at the church. The sidewalk is lined with New Yorkers paying their respects. The casket, completely covered in flowers, is carried into the church followed by Mrs. Susan Edwards, mother of the deceased, and Mayor Wagner and his two sons. After the funeral service, the casket is carried from the church as an honor guard of New York City policemen stand at attention. Mayor Wagner thanks President Johnson for attending and shakes his hand at the funeral. The funeral procession moves on.
Pilot successfully lands a B-52H (6-032) airplane with its vertical stabilizer tail torn off at Eaker AFB, Blytheville, Arkansas. The B-52 plane gets damaged during a test flight over northern New Mexico. The vertical stabilizer was ripped off due to buffeting stresses during turbulence (loss of structural integrity). Pilot Charles "Chuck" Fisher lands safely after five hours of flying without tail. Crew and ground support staff on the airfield look at the torn tail.
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