National Convention in Atlantic City nominates incumbent President Lyndon B. Johnson for a full term, and U.S. Senator Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota as his running mate. August 27 – Walt Disney's Mary Poppins has its world premiere in Los Angeles. It will go on to become Disney's biggest moneymaker, and winner of 5 Academy Awards, including a Best Actress. It is the first Disney film to be nominated for Best Picture. August 28 – 30 – Philadelphia 1964 race riot: Tensions between African American residents and police lead to 341 injuries and 774 arrests. September September 2 – Indian Hungry generation poets, including Malay Roy Choudhury, are arrested on charges of conspiracy against the state and obscenity in literature. September 4 – The Forth Road Bridge opens over the Firth of Forth in Scotland. September 10 – The African Development Bank (AfDB) is founded. September 11 – In Jacksonville, Florida, during a tour of the United States, John Lennon announces that the Beatles will not play to a segregated audience. September 14 The third period of the Second Vatican Council opens. The London Daily Herald ceases publication, replaced by The Sun. September 18 – In Athens, King Constantine II of Greece marries Princess Anne-Marie of Denmark, who becomes Europe's youngest Queen at age 18 years, 19 days. September 21 – The island of Malta obtains independence from the United Kingdom. September 24 – The Warren Commission, the first official investigation of the assassination of United States President John F. Kennedy, submits its written report. September 25 – The Mozambican War of Independence is launched by FRELIMO. October October – Dr. Robert Moog demonstrates the prototype Moog synthesizer. October 1 Three thousand student activists at the University of California, Berkeley, surround and block a police car from taking a CORE volunteer arrested for not showing his ID, when he violated a ban on outdoor activist card tables. This protest eventually explodes into the Berkeley Free Speech Movement. The Shinkansen high-speed rail system, the world's first such system, is inaugurated in Japan, for the first sector between Tokyo and Osaka. October 5 Twenty-three men and thirty-one women escape to West Berlin through a narrow tunnel under the Berlin Wall. Elizabeth II and The Duke of Edinburgh begin an 8-day visit to Canada. October 10 – 24 – The 1964 Summer Olympics are held in Tokyo, Japan, the first in an Asian country.