Princess Margaret honors her mother Queen Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon with a Degree of Doctor at Keele University during a ceremony in England. Princess Margaret, the Chancellor of Keele University, arrives with her mother Queen Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon. Princess Margaret confers a Degree of Doctor of Letters to Queen as other scholars and dignitaries applaud. The Queen Mother and her daughter walk out of the ceremony followed by others.
Autumn storm hits Europe. Storm surf waves roll over the coast. Ships and boats struck in the storm and beached offshore. Liberian freighter Ping An stuck off the coast of Ter Heijde, in the Netherlands. Rescue operations underway for the crew of the Ping An, as citizens look on from the shore. Lifeboats from the Ping An reach shore with 49 crewmen happy to be safely on shore. A Dutch coast guard carries an Asian crewman on his back to the shore.
Children and adults buy gifts and toys during Christmas celebrations in New York. Children enjoy colorful and lighted swings in shops. Views of a "wedding in India" theme in a Manhattan shop window, featuring animatronic characters. Children with their mothers watch various toys and artistic puppet shows from windows of a shop. Lighting on skyscrapers and roads of New York City. Lighting on items kept on display in various shops including Saks Fifth Avenue. Tourists watch the lighting and decoration on Christmas tree at Radio City Plaza (Rockefeller Plaza). Ice skaters at the Rockefeller Center ice rink skate by an illuminated Christmas tree.
Democratic Lyndon Baines Johnson elected as the President of United States for his second term in the presidential elections of 1964. A large crowd raises posters of Lyndon B Johnson and cheers in his support. Voters cast their votes during the elections. President Johnson and his Vice President Hubert Humphrey wave towards the crowd after Johnson defeats Republican Barry Goldwater.
Change of leadership in countries like England and Soviet Union during the year 1964. A large crowd of people gather awaiting the results of elections in England. Outgoing Prime Minister Lord Douglas Home receives farewell from 10 Downing Street residence. Newly elected Labor Prime Minister Harold Wilson waves his supporters as he arrives to his new office. Scene changes to Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union, where Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev bids goodbye as he departs from his office with his wife. Khrushchev addresses the meeting of the United Nations Security Council. New Soviet Communist Party leader Nikolai Brezhnev takes oath.
Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India dies in New Delhi, India. Flashback scene from 1947 as thousands of people assemble and listen to Nehru speak from the Red Fort as India achieves Independence. View of Nehru talking with U.S. President John F Kennedy while walking in a garden in the early 1960s. Indian national flag lowered to mourn for his death. A large crowd gathered to witness his funeral according to Hindu rituals. A woman joins hands towards the dead body of Nehru and weeps.
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