August 1964
The following events occurred in August 1964: August 1, 1964 (Saturday) * With the acceptance by voters of a new constitution, the former Belgian Congo officially changed its name from the "Republic of the Congo" to the "Democratic Republic of the Congo". Since 1960, both the former French Congo and the former Belgian Congo had referred to themselves as "Republic of the Congo" and had been distinguished as "Congo-Brazzaville" and "Congo-Léopoldville", respectively. * Emancipation Day was first celebrated in Barbados, Bermuda, Guyana, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, and Jamaica – as a celebration of the end of slavery during the British colonial era in the Caribbean. * The final Looney Tune cartoon, ''Señorella and the Glass Huarache'', was released. Jack L. Warner would subsequently shut down the Warner Bros. Cartoon Division. August 2, 1964 (Sunday) * The Gulf of Tonkin incident took place when the destroyer engaged three ...
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