1964 Ballon D'Or
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The 1964 Ballon d'Or, given to the best
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player in Europe as judged by a panel of sports journalists from
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member countries, was awarded to
Denis Law Denis Law (24 February 1940 – 17 January 2025) was a Scottish footballer who played as a forward. His career as a football player began at Second Division Huddersfield Town in 1956. After four years at Huddersfield, he was signed by Manchest ...
on 22 December 1964. He was the first Scotsman to win the honour.


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1964 Events January * January 1 – The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is dissolved. * January 5 – In the first meeting between leaders of the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches since the fifteenth century, Pope Paul VI and Patria ...
1964–65 in European football