page_title: December 1964
section_title: December 2, 1964 (Wednesday)
hierarchical_section_title: December 1964 / December 2, 1964 (Wednesday)
caption_attribution_description: English: Juan Peron speaks
context_page_description: The following events occurred in December 1964:
context_section_description: Mario Savio addressed a crowd of 5,000 students at the University of California in Berkeley, delivering what would be a famous speech now known as the "Bodies Upon the Gears" speech, guiding them to occupy the university's administration building, Sproul Hall.  More than 1,000 walked into the building to begin a sit-in; UC officials estimated that 814 of the occupiers were arrested and "that most of those who sat in and were jailed were students"  "There is a time," Savio said, "when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart that you can't take part; and you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop.  And you've got to indicate to the people who own it, that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all."  The Free Speech Movement would expand from Berkeley to other university and college campuses in America and beyond.
  Juan Perón, the former President of Argentina who had been overthrown in 1955, attempted to secretly return from exile in Spain and to take power again as the Argentine dictator.  When his flight from Madrid stopped in Brazil at Rio de Janeiro, Brazilian authorities boarded the aircraft and ordered Perón to disembark.  Argentine union leader Augusto Vandor, who had organized "Operation Return" and had accompanied Perón on the flight from Spain, was allowed to continue to Argentina.  Perón, however, was sent back on the Iberia DC-8 jet on its return flight from Rio to Madrid. Peron's Iberia Airlines flight had been scheduled to land in Montevideo in Uruguay, where Peron had planned to travel by land to Paraguay nad then back to Argentina.  Peron would finally return to Argentina in 1973 and would serve as President until his death in 1974.
caption: Perón
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