page_title: October 1964
section_title: October 24, 1964 (Saturday)
hierarchical_section_title: October 1964 / October 24, 1964 (Saturday)
context_page_description: The following events occurred in October 1964:
context_section_description: The Republic of Zambia became independent at 12:01 a.m. local time (2201 UTC October 23) after having been the British protectorate of Northern Rhodesia, ending 73 years of British rule.  At 11:56 p.m., the Union Jack had been lowered at Independence Stadium in Lusaka by the last Governor, Sir Evelyn Hone, who was accompanied by Commonwealth Secretary Arthur Bottomley, and by Victoria Alexandra, Princess Royal, who was appearing on behalf of her niece, Queen Elizabeth II. Kenneth Kaunda, who had been Prime Minister of Northern Rhodesia for ten months after the breakup of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, was inaugurated as the first President of Zambia.
  Cambodia shot down an American C-123 cargo plane that was part of a convoy of three U.S. Air Force transports flying over the Cambodian border village of Dak Dam in the Mondulkiri Province.  All eight crew members on board were killed.   The action came four days after the neutral nation's leader, Prince Norodom Sihanouk, had protested to the United Nations about the bombing of a Cambodian village by a South Vietnamese airplane.
  The 1964 Summer Olympics came to an end in Tokyo.
caption: Zambia