“Beatlemania” sweeps the United States in 1964, with two million copies of the album Meet the Beatles sold in a single month. This is also the year that the Supremes, a Motown trio headed by Diana Ross, record a string of hits including “Baby Love,” “Stop in the Name of Love” and “Come See About Me.”

Also that year:

• The Senate invokes cloture to end a 75-day filibuster by Southern Senators trying to prevent the Civil Rights Act. Congress then passes the Act, which prohibits discrimination in public places for reasons of color, race, religion or national origin.

• The Warren Commission Report states that there was no conspiracy involved in the Kennedy assassination and that Oswald was a lone assassin.

• Johnson and Sen. Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota are elected 35th President and Vice President.

• Mary Poppins, starring Dick van Dyke and Julie Andrews, becomes the most successful Disney film to-date.

• The American satellite Ranger 7 crashes into the Moon after taking 4,316 photographs.

• A report, Smoking and Health, by the surgeon general’s special committee, strongly links cigarette smoking with cancer and calls for federal regulation.

• The 18th Olympic Games are held in Japan, with the US bringing home 36 gold medals, the Soviet Union bringing home 30, and Japan taking 16.